Tonight's Entertainment Times 2

Part 1 : Disney's Cruella

Part 2 : Mitchell's vs the Machines

2012 Summer Movie Awards

It’s been a summer of box office blockbusters and also some box office duds.  I started out with a list of 10 movies I wanted to try to see, one of those movies got its release date moved to March (GI Joe) and I’ve been able to so far see 6 summer movies, pretty tame for my summer movie viewing record.  So let’s get it going with my 2012 Summer Movie Awards.  The movies viewed so far American Reunion, The Avengers, The Amazing Spiderman, The Dark Knight Rises, Total Recall, The Bourne Legacy and Battleship.

BEST FLICK

The Avengers

BEST DUDE

Robert Downey Jr : IronMan : The Avengers

Tom Hiddleston : Loki : The Avengers

BEST DUDETTE

Emma Stone : Gwenn Stacey : The Amazing Spiderman

BEST SCENE

Thor talking to the crew on the Shield hellicarrier and talking about Loki then ending it with "He's Adopted"

--Honorable Mention--

-Iron Man and Loki in Stark Tower talking about who Loki all pissed off and stating, "We have a Hulk"

-Hulk smashing Loki through Stark Tower.  Loki proclaiming to him "I am a God" and then Hulk just smashing the hell out of him

-Peter Parker and Gwenn Stacey in the hallway at high school with Peter trying to ask her out

-The final sequence in The Dark Knight Rises

-Drunk Jim’s Dad at Stifler’s Party

BEST FIGHT

Iron Man vs Captain America vs Thor : The Avengers

Batman vs Bane (second fight) : The Dark Knight Rises

BIGGEST DUD

The Dark Knight Rises
- Now I loved the movie, ranked it 8/10, but it didn't leave me feeling full.  Some of it felt choppy, unlike the Dark Knight.  I also really want to see the Riddler in the world Nolan built.  So please don't get me wrong, really enjoyed it but didn't leave me feel complete.

ANTICIPATED SEQUEL

Avengers 2 / Iron Man 3 / Thor 2 / Captain America 2

SUMMER MOVIE NOT SEEN THAT I WANT TO

Expendables 2

The Amazing Spiderman

This afternoon I went and checked out The Amazing Spiderman.  The reboot of the series after the Sami Rami/Tobey Maguire 3.  Now the comics have a couple "history" lines of the way superheroes came about and there is the Amazing Spiderman, Spiderman, the Sensational Spiderman.  All with little twists and turns of the way the web crawler came to be and who he is today.  


This is where this movie goes right.  Its not a Superman Returns type movie that is basically Superman 1 all over again.  It's a new take on Spidey.  


The first thing I liked is that in this movie where they are trying to build the background of Spidey is they didn't pit him vs his main arch nemesis such as the first one with Tobey did with the Green Goblin.  This gives us time to learn about Peter and Spidey, and along with him how he is going to grow with Gwen Stacey and Aunt Bea.  It's kind of reminiscent of the Nolan Batman series where the Joker is teased in Batman Begins at the end and then is the main villain in The Dark Knight. 


So introduce the Lizard as the bad guy.  He wasn't in the previous series as the villain.  He tests Spidey and his new found abilities and also gives us a tragedy.  


With out giving the film away at all that's all I'll go in on the plot.  The actors I though were great.  Andrew Garfield was a great Peter Parker and Emma Stone was almost the opposite of Kirsten Dunst.  Sally Field and Martin Sheen and Dennis Leary were cast great too, and the Lizard was creepy as Doc Connors.


Overall this is one of the best Spidey flicks made, if not the best its up there with Spiderman 2, and I'm excited where the direction is going.  


7/10 Stars