<![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever - io9 Comments]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever - io9 Comments]]> http://io9.com Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:58:08 PDT Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:58:08 PDT http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c5231622 @Plague: Dude, "The Love Guru" was made. I lost hope in mankind when I saw that trailer.

Luana Arrrr

]]> 8:366070:c5231622 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:58:08 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c5230471 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.

Byronotron

]]> 8:366070:c5230471 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:38:12 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4650655 @Simpsons-Movie-ruled:

OMG! We get it.

icarusprime

]]> 8:366070:c4650655 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:45:12 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4649596 @Discrete-Daniel: and it RULED!!!!

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

]]> 8:366070:c4649596 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:40:07 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4648782 "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.

icarusprime

]]> 8:366070:c4648782 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:59:34 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4643020 Wall*E will wipe the floor with the lot of 'em.

orbital1

]]> 8:366070:c4643020 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:15:21 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4642345 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.

radio1

]]> 8:366070:c4642345 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:52:29 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4640048 @Discrete-Daniel: Me too.

I have an advance review for all of this:

Craptastic!

victheremin

]]> 8:366070:c4640048 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:40:39 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4634969 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

]]> 8:366070:c4634969 Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:17:09 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4631231 @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.

PriorMarcus

]]> 8:366070:c4631231 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:44:53 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4631046 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".

TripAZ

]]> 8:366070:c4631046 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:30:48 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4630733 The Simpsons RULE!!!!!
meh,*walks away*


Simpsons-Movie-ruled

]]> 8:366070:c4630733 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:07:25 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4630664 @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.

extracrispy

]]> 8:366070:c4630664 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:02:09 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4629339 thanks to last year's summer movie season my standards for this summer are deplorably low.

tetracycloide

]]> 8:366070:c4629339 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:31:13 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4629290 @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!

DCI Gene Hunt

]]> 8:366070:c4629290 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:28:42 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4629176 @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 :)

AZTriGuy

]]> 8:366070:c4629176 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:20:49 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4629008 @Bluecell: Hulk smash puny Shyamalan!!

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> 8:366070:c4629008 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:09:40 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4628998 @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.

Charlie Jane Anders

]]> 8:366070:c4628998 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:09:14 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4628899 @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"

Garrison Dean, King Awesome

]]> 8:366070:c4628899 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:03:10 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4628874 It'll be interesting to see The Happening battle The Hulk.

Bluecell

]]> 8:366070:c4628874 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:01:22 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4628846 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? :)

AZTriGuy

]]> 8:366070:c4628846 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:00:25 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4628596 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.

Plague

]]> 8:366070:c4628596 Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:48:52 PDT <![CDATA[The Biggest (And Longest) Movie Summer Ever]]> http://io9.com/366070/the-biggest-and-longest-movie-summer-ever#c4628588 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.

Rus

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