8/25/2023

2023 Summer Movie Awards

Movies Seen : Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Super Mario Brothers, Fast X, The Flash, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Transformers Rise of the Beasts, Into the Spider-Verse Part 1, Oppenheimer, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, The Little Mermaid

Yet to see : , Mission Impossible : Dead Reckoning Part 1, Barbie

Best Flick : The Flash - Say what you want to say about Ezra Miller, he's not done great things, so watching this had a little bit of that hanging over.  But this flick as just a DC story was the best DC movie since The Dark Knight, and really a lot of credit goes to the story and not gonna lie Michael Keaton.  It has a lot of fun little easter eggs all over.  It nails what a summer popcorn movie is.


Honorable Mention : Oppenheimer : It was fantastic and could've should've won too. And I'm sure it will win some golden statues come next March.  

Best Dude : Jason Momoa : Fast X :   -  Heath Ledger's Joker on NOS. Dang he was a good bad guy in this flick.  The lines, the action and execution.  Nailed it! 


Best Dudette : Halle Bailey : & Melissa McCarthy : Little Mermaid -  These two had an impossible task taking on these roles that were iconic from the animated movie.  They nailed it. Halle with everything from singing and movements.  Melissa disappears into this role.  


Best Scene :  The Flash : Yea, I'm Batman : Basically anything Michael Keaton is gold here but when the Barry's infiltrate the batcave and Keaton walks out. It's chills back from 1989 all over again.



Best Fight :  Super Mario vs Donkey Kong - this wins for a few reasons.  The Easter Eggs that this brought back was just all the fuzzies you want Easter Eggs to be; and second a lot of the fights in the super hero movies, transformer movies are getting repetitive, sadly,


Biggest Dud : Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - Maybe since it was the end of this arch and group of space misfits I was thinking more of an Endgame moment than what we got. Marvel has dropped the ball a few times here lately. Let's get it rolling again.

Transformers : Rise of the Beasts - Outside of the first film and Bumblebee it followed the same story line as all the others.  Then did what was terrible in Rise of the Fallen with mass numbers of bad robots no one cares about.  ALSO more human interactions.  Yes I get we are on Earth but we dont want stories about humans.  We want Transformers.  Robots.  

Anticipated Sequel : Fast 11 - I need more Momoa villainy