Which of these summer movies are you interested in seeing?

Hmm, we seem to have about the same tastes. Now, Maleficent was worth watching for the fantastic Jolie and the great special effects in fairyland, but the plot was meh.

X-Men had good acting and action, but time travel is a VERY bad thing to base a film on.

Edge of Tomorrow: Groundhog Day meets Starship Troopers. Had moments.

How to Train Your Dragon 2: Looking forward to this, the first was great fun. Fantastic animation.

Earth to Echo= ET Phone…your lawyer, this is a rip-off.

Sin City was a bit too sick for me to really enjoy it, and Jessica Alba can really ruin any film.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes- the whole re-boot is just too stupid for words.

That would be The Signal, which I saw after work yesterday. The lead actor is Brenton Thwaites, who you just saw briefly in Maleficent as the young Prince Phillip (“True love’s kiss”). I liked The Signal, but it’s not blockbuster material and shouldn’t be judged as such. It’s a very very very small movie, in budget and scope. It doesn’t look like a small budget movie though. I thought it was very tense and was (figuratively) on the edge of my seat through the whole thing, but then, I went in not having seen a trailer or reading a synopsis. I had no idea what the movie was about and it carried me along.

Edit to add, sorry, that was DrDeth who saw Maleficent.

Transformers: Age of Extinction is getting 18% positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes – ouch!

Some sci-fi action thing with Chris Evans called Snowpiercer is getting 92% but it isn’t playing here. It seems to be some kind of Hunger Games-type dystopia where the wealthy people sit at the front of a train and Chris and the others slave away in the back of the train, and they plan an assault or escape. The trailer looks interesting.

Something called Begin Again with Keira Knightley being charming and delightful is getting 69%.

They Came Together with Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler is getting 65%.

Oh and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has been pushed up to July 11th (was the 18th).

I like KK in just about anything, so I just might see it: Begin Again (film) - Wikipedia

Sin City. Yep, that’s one I will see in the theater.

“The Invisible List.”

I’m sitting here, trying to figure out what to do during the long weekend, so I looked up the movie listings for the weekend. I was disappointed to see no big blockbusters opening on the holiday weekend. There’s Earth to Echo, but it seems aimed at kids, as do several other movies already open. I’m surprised that none of the studios are opening a big movie this weekend.

Well here’s the latest info I have from Rotten Tomatoes:

98% positive reviews for Life Itself, the documentary about film critic Roger Ebert’s life.

95% for a movie called Gabrielle, which has something to do with a developmentally challenged young woman who wants her independence.

95% for a movie called Wrinkles, an animated comedy about men in a retirement home, described as “poignant” and “thoughtful.”

63% for a movie called Me and You, which is an Italian drama about a lonely teenager and his older sister.

54% for Earth to Echo, the weekend’s big-name release, a “found footage” movie about some kids who find and communicate with an E.T.

Only 50% for something called Premature, which has been described as “Groundhog Day meets American Pie,” about a teenager who is forced to repeat the same embarrassing, crucial day over and over until he gets it right. Go and look at the trailer and tell me this doesn’t sound interesting. Of course it isn’t playing here. :confused:

34% - Deliver Us from Evil - Eric Bana is wasted in an exorcism-themed horror movie.

27% - Tammy - A woman and her grandmother hit the road.

17% - America - Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary about America.

I have four other titles that are or were supposed to be released this weekend, but I can’t find out any information about them:

A Brony Tale - a documentary about the “brony” phenomenon: adult men who are way into My Little Pony stuff.

The Girl on the Train - a sort of film noir about a chance encounter with a mysterious young woman. On a train.

Heatstroke - a survival thriller about a man, his girlfriend and his daughter who are attacked while on safari in Africa by men who are out to get him for some reason.

Mutual Friends - a group of thirtysomethings in New York have a surprise party and things happen.

The first three of these last are going to be on DVD in August anyway.

Is a film about a world in which the US never gained independence a “documentary”? Because I see it constantly marketed as such.

What film is that?

That “America” movie mentioned by a35362.

I dunno: it is marked as a documentary in the IMDb but there are actors playing characters in the listing, like George Washington and Hernan Cortez.

Oh, you’re not the only one calling it a documentary. So does IMDB. But it’s a documentary of a hypothetical situation, which, in my mind, makes it fiction.

I guess it’s what Andy Ihnatko calls a “filmed essay,” like what Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock do.

Haven’t seen any of the movies released thus far, so I voted Guardians of the Galaxy. I’ll probably buy the X-Men movie when it comes out on Blu-Ray, but that’s about it for this summer’s movies.

cough I enjoyed Transformers *cough

It wasn’t high art, but it kept my attention and my interest, which is more than Dark Knight did. :smiley:

Now that Jupiter Rising has been pushed back, the only movie I have much interest in is “Lucy.” I want to see what Scarlet Johansen does when she uses more than five percent of her brain – though I’d rather see what happens when she uses 100 percent of her body … but nobody wants to make a movie about THAT!

(Well, no one has made a movie about that … yet.)

While I am looking forward to Lucy if only because I like SJ, I am disappointed by the use of the “we’re using only 10% of our brains” meme. I had hoped we’d gotten past this one by now. Also I don’t particularly care for movies where high intelligence is some supernatural force. Woo, scary. :dubious:

No offense, but I question your tastes.