Our Most anticipated Films of Summer Movie Season 2013
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Lines for Summer blockbusters will be forming soon at a theater near you. |
#10: The Wolverine, July 26th, Directed by: James Mangold
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Hopefully The Wolverine will restore Hugh Jackman's version of Logan to it's former glory! |
Before Darren Aronofsky left what was looking like a potentially R-rated Wolverine film this one would have been higher up on our the list. As it stands now it barley cracks our top 10 (Speak for yourself- EDITOR). Aside from his cameo in X-Men: First Class, since the last two Wolverine film appearances (X-men 3, Wolverine Orgins) have been a bit of a dud, Wolvie fans are left wondering what to expect from director James Mangold's take on arguably Marvel's most popular character. At this point Hugh Jackman is Wolverine in the eyes of audiences, so as always his performance will probably yield some classic Wolverine action moments and one liners, but one has to wonder if Wolverine's journey to Japan will amount to much more than that.
#9: Pacific Rim, July 12, Directed by: Guillermo Del Toro
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This could be as close as we get to seeing a Megazord on screen, people! |
This film will at least compete for the title of most original film this summer. The movie centers around manned giant mech robots that defend their respective nations against a group of giant monsters that have risen from the sea. Some believe Guillermo Del Toro will give us the closest thing we will ever see to a Power Rangers Megazord on film; others believe this movie could potentially be this generation’s Godzilla. The only thing that is worrisome about this film is while it could be potentially Epic, I don't know if it can reach wide audiences. We could once again have "Sucker Punch Syndrome" on our hands, meaning a certain niche of people may believe Pacific Rim is the best film they have ever seen while general audiences are like "WTF"! None the less, it will be very interesting to see how this unconventional film fairs with both critics and audiences.
#8: The Hangover Part 3, May 24th, Directed by: Todd Phillips
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The Wolfpack is back! |
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Nothing rings in the 4th of July better than an overly patriotic disaster film! |
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By the end of the Summer, at least we will know who the hell this is! |
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It doesn't get much more EPIC than Jim Carrey as Colonel Stars and Stripes! |
Watching the development and evolution of the Kick-Ass franchise in both the world of comics and film has been a fun ride. A ride that on the film side of things has launched and cemented the careers of both director Matthew Vaughn and probably the best young actress in Hollywood today, Chloe Grace Mortez. With Vaughn not returning to direct because he is taking on the film adaptation of another Mark Millar book, The Secret Service, it has been left to Never Back Down director Jeff Waldow to fill the director’s chair to the sequel of a film that has become somewhat of a cult classic. What makes the Kick-Ass franchise work are it’s hard R-rating mainly because of the sheer violence and language of the Hit-Girl character and the fact that fan boys and girls get to see their fantasies of becoming a “realistic” super hero play out on film. Since both Mark Millar’s Hit-Girl series and his actual Kick-Ass 2 series are being used as the basis for this film, maintaining those aspects of the series and then some shouldn’t be a problem, because both the Hit-Girl and Kick-Ass 2 comic series are vastly more violent than their predecessor. Combine that with fact that we get to see Jim Carrey as Colonel Star as Stripes and Christopher Mintz-Plasse evolve into the “M-fer”,and as long as Waldow give fans the core elements of the series and stays true to the source material there is no reason Kick-Ass 2 cannot be a truly epic sequel.
#4: This is the End, July 12th, Directed by: Seth Roegn
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Who wouldn't mind spending the end of the world with these guys? |
#3:Elysium, August 9th, Directed by: Neill Blomkamp
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Elysium has all the makings of a science fiction classic! |
#2: Man of Steel, June 14th, Directed by:Zack Snyder,
Story by:Chrisopher Nolan (Executive Producer) and David S. Goyer
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Is the world truly ready for a good Superman movie? |
#1: Iron Man 3, May 2nd, Directed by: Shane Black
Once again, probably the best film of the summer will be the first movie of the summer. The hype and anticipation going into Iron Man is different from that of any other standalone Marvel film to date because it is the first post Avengers Marvel movie. Once again, Marvel will trust Shell Head to lay the ground work for another phase of their cinematic universe. In addition to all of that, this the first non Jon Favreau directed Iron Man film with brilliant film writer and now film maker Shane Black stepping into the director’s chair, and it looks like Shane Black has chosen one EPIC story to start off with.
The Extremis story is one of the most iconic and beloved Iron Man stories of all time, despite only first being published in 2005 and 2006. Extremis deals with Iron Man taking on Nanotech powered foes; to combat them, Tony Stark must inject himself with a part of the Extremis nano tech. In doing so Stark fuses parts of his body with the inner layer of his suit which can now be stored in his skin. The Extremis allows Tony to control his new lighter weight armor with his mind, as we have seen him doing in parts of the trailer as he suits up mentally so to speak. In addition to that, Stark is able now plug his central nervous system into things like satellites and cell phones and he also has a bit of a healing factor and added strength essentially making him a superhuman cyborg. Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 will not be a straight adaptation of Warren Ellis and Adi Granov’s Extremis story but the Extremis storyline will serve as the film's primary source material.
The Extremis story is one of the most iconic and beloved Iron Man stories of all time, despite only first being published in 2005 and 2006. Extremis deals with Iron Man taking on Nanotech powered foes; to combat them, Tony Stark must inject himself with a part of the Extremis nano tech. In doing so Stark fuses parts of his body with the inner layer of his suit which can now be stored in his skin. The Extremis allows Tony to control his new lighter weight armor with his mind, as we have seen him doing in parts of the trailer as he suits up mentally so to speak. In addition to that, Stark is able now plug his central nervous system into things like satellites and cell phones and he also has a bit of a healing factor and added strength essentially making him a superhuman cyborg. Shane Black’s Iron Man 3 will not be a straight adaptation of Warren Ellis and Adi Granov’s Extremis story but the Extremis storyline will serve as the film's primary source material.
While Black chose a great story he also chose a great villain, choosing to finally put Tony Stark up against his all-time arch nemesis the Mandarin, played by Ben Kingsley. Rather than having Mandarin be a magical character like in the comics, in which he gets his power from ten magical rings, Black chose to make Mandarin a pure terrorist who leads the terrorist organization "The Ten Rings" that kidnapped Stark in the first Iron Man. It will be refreshing to see Iron Man finally face off against a non repulsor based villain!
In Iron Man 3 it looks like Shane Black will use aspects like Tony’s newly discovered love for Pepper Potts to finally evolve the Tony Stark character above his narcissism complex into the truly well rounded character he eventually becomes in the comics. The utter hell that Iron Man will face in this third installment should finally elevate Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Strak/Iron Man into the kind of man capable of leading not only the Avengers, but potentially one day SHIELD, which is why it is our most anticipated film of the Summer!
While this Summer doesn’t offer blockbusters that had years’ worth of anticipation leading up to them like last Summer’s The Avengers or The Dark Knight Rises, overall Summer 2013 does offer a pretty consistently EPIC looking line up at the box office with a vast array of high quality choices across multiple genres. This Summer looks like it will be one that offers something “Good” to “Great” every single week, rather than a month of “EH” to “Good” movies with 1 or 2 “Epic” films along the way.
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Try to at least experience one summer movie at the drive in this Summer! |
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