The summer movie season now officially begins in early May, thanks to last year's blockbuster May releases: Spider-Man 3, Shrek The Third and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. This May, there are no fewer than 23 movies coming out, including "tentpole" films Iron Man, Speed Racer, Narnia and Indiana Jones. And the schedule is overcrowded with wannabe blockbusters all summer long, raising the chances that we'll see some high-profile flops. [Variety]
The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever
3:30 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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And least we forget, Uwe Boll's Postal is opening against Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (hereafter abreviated as "KOCS"). And, according to Dr. Boll, Postal will soundly trounce KOCS at the box office because nobody wants to see grandaddy Ford crack a whip anymore.
It must be true, because The Boll Said So.
If "The Love Guru" makes money, there is no hope for mankind.
And how in the hell they can consider "Midnight Meat Train" a potential blockbuster is beyond my comp.
That's the first time in print I've seen someone delicately handle the "gender issues" of Larry Wachowski. Instead of saying Speed Racer is from the Wachowski brothers, they say the "Wachowski siblings". I've seen the stories go back and forth on the sex change, if he actually had it or not. Since after the last Matrix movie, there were postings about "Lana Wachowski" showing up at events. Joel Silver recently said it's all untrue, but who knows.
More to the point, who cares? :)
It'll be interesting to see The Happening battle The Hulk.
@Plague: How in the hell "Movie Trailer Voice Guy" managed to actually say Midnight Meat Train without cracking up is beyond me.
"This summer terror rides Midnight Meat bwahahhaha, sorry almost did it that time."
"Take 45, go"
@AZTriGuy: I just call them the Wachowskis, it's shorter. And saves valuable time I could be spending making fun of John Goodman's mustache in Speed Racer.
@Bluecell: Hulk smash puny Shyamalan!!
@Charlie Jane Anders: I had to laugh at that one too. Hell, it's too hard to even type Wachowski, I did a copy/paste and just changed the "siblings" to "brothers" when I needed to :)
@RusM: Maybe Boll can challenge Spielberg to a boxing match for true supremacy on that weekend.
@Garrison Dean: Midnight Meat Train is the absolute funniest trailer I've ever seen, just because of the title. I spit out a mouthful of coke! Good thing I was watching Rambo and the theater was empty!
thanks to last year's summer movie season my standards for this summer are deplorably low.
@AZTriGuy: I'm actually sorta curious to see how the Wachowskis are credited on Speed Racer. They were credited as "The Wachowski Brothers" on the Matrix flicks, so I consider the credit on Speed Racer to be their final answer to the rumors.
The Simpsons RULE!!!!!
meh,*walks away*
I saw the trailer for "Midnight Meat Train" at the theater on Saturday, and when the title was shown, half the people in the theater said "wow, what an incredibly stupid title".
@tetracycloide: You and me both buddy. I didn't enjoy a single summer movie last year except for Transformers, and I'm part of the crowd that expected it to be what it was.
For the past few years I've looked at the list of releases and thought "this is going to be the most awesome summer ever" only to be sadly disappointed.
Last summer I only bothered to see The Simpsons Movie.
@Discrete-Daniel: Me too.
I have an advance review for all of this:
Craptastic!
Midnight Meat Train is not really a silly name for a movie about a train in which:
1) A no-tongue butcher who slaughter and dresses sleeping passengers
2) A guy who sees this, fights off the character, kills him
3) Said guy falls into service for 'Old Ones' who live in the deep underground black heart of New York City anf feed them also
Which was taken from Barker's story (Books Of Blood): Midnight Meat Train.
Wall*E will wipe the floor with the lot of 'em.
"The summer movie season now officially begins in early May, thanks to last year's blockbuster May releases:"
Last year is when May became the start of the summer movie season? Okay?!
Hasn't May been the month the Summer Movie Season begins since like forever? At least as early as May 1997 when The Lost World: Jurassic Park (or you could even say as early as the May releases of the original Star Wars trilogy in the late 70s early 80s) came out, has the "Summer Movie Season" started in May. In 1999 box office followers and industry types were looking at releasing "smaller blockbuster" type movies as early as April when The Matrix pulled in huge numbers, thus beginning the "blockbuster/summer season" even earlier. Now look at last year; Hollywood is loving March, after the huge opening of 300 and deciding to try a similar approach with 10,000 BC this year, because of the fact. Hollywood also has its "blockbuster sense" tingling for January (normally a dumping ground for dance films, bad genre flicks and family comedies) but Cloverfield showed that people will show up for a big flick in the middle of winter too.
So when does the "Summer Movie Season" begin? Not in May anymore and not because of Spider-man 3.
@Discrete-Daniel: and it RULED!!!!
@Simpsons-Movie-ruled:
OMG! We get it.
Y'all know the whole Sex-Change thing for Larry Wachowski was a hoax right? Joel Silver, the producer of Speed Racer said that fanboys just made it up because they don't do interviews.
@Plague: Dude, "The Love Guru" was made. I lost hope in mankind when I saw that trailer.
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