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9/04/2023
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
4/26/2023
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.
9/08/2022
2022 Summer Movie Awards
Movies Seen : Sonic 2, Doctor Strange Multiverse of Madness, Top Gun Maverick, Jurassic World 3, Lightyear, Thor : Love and Thunder, Hustle, Prey, Secret Headquarters, Elvis
Yet to see : Bullet Train
Best Flick : Top Gun Maverick
Best Dude : Austin Butler – Elvis Presley – Elvis : Tom Hanks - Col Tom Parker - Elvis
Best Dudette : Elizabeth Olson – Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch – Doctor Strange 2 : Olson's 3rd win
Best Scene : The Illuminati – Doctor Strange 2 : I mean John Krasinski as Reed Richards from the Fantastic Four and Patrick Stewart back as Charlies Xavier BUT live action 90s X-Men Cartoon. And you get a little bit of the X-Men tune.
Best Fight : The climax of Top Gun Maverick, all the jet action scenes with the Hornets and then breaking out the Tomcat! Really built up a lot of tension all along the way. Some things were foreshadowable but it was all filmed great.
Biggest Dud : Jurassic World 3 - It's better than JW2 but really how many more stories are there like this to tell? Humans make stupid choices again and let a predator loose. It was cool to see the 2 cast's interact together.
Anticipated Sequel : Obviously anything in the MCU, with Doctor Strange 3 more Thor or whatever piece of the MCU story this goes too with She Hulk and Wakanda Forever.
5/18/2022
5/02/2022
2022 Summer Movie Awards Watch List
The popcorn movies are back! The pandemic is mostly over and we can get back to getting the Summer Blockbusters on the big screen. They are starting earlier more and more each year, or at least I stretch this awards season out more each year with flicks I want to see.
So what's on tap? Again the summer is full of Sequels and Super Heroes and well usually a combination of both. Here's what is on our radar this year.