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 

2023 Summer Movie Awards - Watch List

 It's that season again, break out the popcorn!  Summer movie season is already in session with Super Mario Brothers blowing up box offices like Mario shooting fireballs at a Hammer Brother.  Again Hollywood is following the moneyball script of Superhero, Sequels and a few new blockbusters.  

Below is a handful of the movies on the Summer Movie Awards watch list.

  

     

    

    

  

2016 Summer Movie Awards

Movies Seen : Batman v Superman ; Captain America Civil War ; Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Out of the Shadows ; X-Men Apocalypse ; Now You See Me 2 ; Finding Dory ; Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates ; Ghostbusters ; Star Trek Beyond ; Jason Bourne ; Suicide Squad

Best Flick : Captain America : Civil War – This movie is AMAZING.  I really enjoyed Winter Soldier and the Russo’s made a great flick here too.  This put the dudness I had with Age of Ultron away and puts DC in the corner with their Batman and Superman flick. 

Best Dude :  Robert Downey Jr – Tony Stark – Captain America Civil War : Going to just rename this the RDJ award.  Is there a better role for a better actor ever?  (Minus Harrison Ford Indy & Solo)

Best Dudette : Aubrey Plaza – Tatiana – Mike & Dave Need Wedding Dates : Playing on the other side of Anna Kendrick, and then vs Adam Devine and Zack Efron, I thought she nailed a lot of this movie and was up there with the guys as just as funny.

Best Scene : Tony Stark in Queens, NY talking to Peter Parker  and the awkwardness of a teenage SpiderMan and cockiness of Tony Stark.  Also add in the Aunt May – Tony Stark conversation and RDJ-Tomei effect.  - Captain America Civil War

                       : Charles and Erik talking at the end of X-Men Apocalypse, stating their same lines from the very first XMen in 2000 : X-Men Apocalypse

Magneto: Does it ever wake you in the middle of the night? The feeling that one day they will come for you? And your children?

Prof. Charles Xavier: It does, indeed.

Magneto: What do you do, when you wake up to that?

Prof. Charles Xavier: I feel a great swell of pity for the poor soul who comes to that school... looking for trouble.

Best Fight : #TeamIronMan vs #TeamCaptAmerica : Captain America Civil War – It was like Hogan vs the Warrior at WrestleMania.  Huge fight scene with all these characters we were given in origin stories.  Spidey is the best since Spider-Man 2 in the film, the Black Panther is awesome, Ant-Man and Iron Man and the rest are all great too.  Marvel seriously is rolling.

                    : IronMan vs Captain America & Winter Soldier : Captain America Civil War – As good as the fight was with all the heroes, this fight is INTENSE!  2 vs 1 and the blows that are landed and hit are amazing. 

Biggest Dud : Batman v Superman – To preface this, I’m not a Superman fan, wasn’t blown away with Man of Steel, and Batman and this world has A LOT to live up to with the world that Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale built.  I don’t mind Batfleck and think he did a decent job, a lot better than George Clooney, but this movie just didn’t seem to hit that Dark Knight – Dark Knight Rises DC worldish.  That being said, I think that Suicide Squad will be a redeemer for the DC World.

Anticipated Sequel : Spiderman Homecoming, Avengers Infinity War, Black Panther, Ant-Man & Wasp and Iron Man 4.

Summer Movies Not Seen Yet :

Neighbors 2
Independence Day : Resurgence
The Jungle Book

Suicide Squad

 

Friday, I hit the anti hero flick Suicide Squad, DC's bad guy team up flick to try and build into their cinematic universe.  Earlier in the year they gave us Batman v Superman which was a dud, so I'm hoping this was going to break the curse.  Critics lately have ripped it pretty well and I'm not sure if they have BvS hangover or what, but it wasn't as bad as was graded. 

I tried to go into this flick with an open mind after the mess of BvS and also clear eyes on Jared Leto's Joker compared to Heath Ledger's take on the character.  And I thought they did a lot of good things.  The film focused more on Deadshot, Harley Quinn, the Joker and Amanda Waller.   Which they were played by the bigger stars, so I think that's why the focus went there.  Both Margot Robbie and Will Smith nailed their characters and I'm sure we will see more of them in a Batman spin off, and Viola Davis will have a role in the DC universe to come. 

I really wish we could have seen more of Katana and Killer Croc and really liked Diablo and how they really gave his backstory.  Leto's Joker really had some good moments BUT he's not Ledger.  It was almost a mix between Ledger's Joker and Nicholson's Joker. 

Overall the film didn't flow great, thought it was really choppy, but its filled with some really great action and some good one liners.  They had some snip-its from trailers that didn't make the flick which I think was an editing mistake, and it nailed the mid-scene credit.  Overall not terrible, not great, its DC. 

6/10 Stars #werethebadguys