2017 Summer Movies Awards Watch List

Back for a 9th year, the (kinda in my own mind) prestigious Summer Movie Awards….Preview.  Ok maybe I haven’t done the preview for 9 years but this hopefully gets everyone ready for the ever growing Summer Movie Season, which I’m extending to include Power Rangers and the last week of March for the second year in a row.

This year’s slate is full of sequels, some reboots or reboots, a few newcomers, cartoons (for the kids), the Rock with a shirtless Zac Efron, and old faces in familiar places.  Also have a bunch of one offs that look like some nice escapes from reality and a few that could provide some laughs.  This year, more so than others, its almost every week that something new looks entertaining through the end of July.  August looks to cool off, but there could be some sneaky there and end the watch list ends with action.  

The SMA watch list:

Power Rangers (Mar 24)

Wilson (Mar 24)

Chips (Mar 24)

Smurfs: The Lost Village (Apr 7)

Going in Style (Apr 7)

Fast 8 (Apr 14)

Free Fire (Apr 21)

The Circle (Apr 21)

Guardians of the Galaxy (May 5)

Pirates of the Caribbean : Dead Men Tell No Tales (May 26)

Baywatch (May 26)

Wonder Woman (June 2)

Captain Underpants (June 2)

The Mummy (June 9)

Cars 3 (June 16)

Transformers : The Last Knight (June 23)

Despicable Me 3 (June 30)

Spiderman Homecoming (July 7)

War for the Planet of the Apes (July 14)

Dunkirk (July 21)

Renegades (Sept 1)

Of this list, Disney/Marvel I think will be the big winner with Cars, GOTG2, Spiderman, and Pirates all coming out.  Wonder Woman I think could be sneaky good and a dark horse for Best Flick, and I’m thinking that Spiderman Or Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is the front runner right now.  The Mummy reboot with Tom Cruise looks like Suicide Squad & Mission Impossible together.  

Transformers, the first one was 2 hours of awesomeness, but every other one has been a disappointment, and there are 14 MORE in the pipe.  14!  How much more can Gru do, and curious to the end of the Cars trilogy.  2 focused so much on Mater, and he’s not been in any trailer.