So was it just me or did this summer kind of suck for movies?
The high point was the opener: Iron Man 3 but I liked that movie a lot because I enjoy Tony Stark. There really was not much Iron Man in Iron Man 3.
Further, walking out of the Theater, I thought Man of Steel and Star trek Into Darkness were okay but time is lessening my opinion of them all the time. The fact that Superman made not even a token attempt to save lives in Smallville and Metropolis really is unforgivable given that character. And the Fan Service on top of Fan Service a la Star Trek 2 in STID really didn’t age well.
The rest just varied between “Okay but not great” (Pacific Rim, The Purge, World War Z and The Wolverine) to “kinda disappointing” (This Is The End, Elysium, and Kick Ass 2).
I just don’t remember any recent summer as disappointing as this one (2010 comes close but it had Toy Story 3 and Inception and others and had the fallout of the 2008 Writers’ Strike as an excuse).
this is the first post-Avengers summer…there was bound to be disappointment.
Despite that, Pacific Rim was brilliant, and the high point of the summer season for me. Iron Man III was a close second, with everything else straggling in behind or best left forgotten.
I saw Pacific Rim yesterday and I was surprised at how bad it was. A lot of people are praising it and I felt it was barely mediocre. And that’s putting it against other movies in its genre.
I may be easier to please, but I thoroughly enjoyed the summer movies. Iron Man III, Elysium, Star Trek, Man of Steel and *Oblivion *were all great. Pacific Rim wasn’t as good as I hoped, but still pretty cool. The Wolverine and *Riddick *were pretty much what I expected, fun and vaguely empty. Those are what I caught in the theaters, and there’s still quite a few to catch on Blu-Ray.
Yeah, a lot of mediocrity in the movies I saw this summer. Off the top of my head, I think I saw World War Z, ST Into Darkness, Iron Man 3, and This Is The End. Of those, the only one I’d bother to watch again was This Is The End. I wasn’t expecting to be blown away by it, but it pretty much delivered the good dumb fun I was expecting from it. Not sure if The World’s End qualifies as a “summer movie” - not really in the mold of the blockbusters with huge box office expectations. But I enjoyed the hell out of that one.