It’s the middle of March and the warm is beginning to arrive. I’ve started to get ancy for the outdoor swimming pool and being able to grill. I won’t miss the cold nor welcome its willing replacement, the heat. However I do eagerly look forward to the summer movie season, when the studios fire off as many of their big time fireworks as they can.
Before the summer officially gets underway in May the remaining weeks that make up March and April bring a few exciting flicks for the preseason warm up. Sean Penn, Javier Bardem, and once potential 007 Idris Elba team up for the action thriller The Gunman. Following in early April Furious 7 comes roaring into cinemas. Fast & Furious 6 was easily the best film of summer 2013 for me and like a fine wine this franchise has benefited from time. No doubt there will be others to see in the preseason but those two I look forward to the most.
Opening night this year will be Avengers: Age of Ultron. YES THERE WILL BE A MIDNIGHT SHOWING. Yes I have tickets and am planning the event to mark the occasion. (As a side note midnight showings have been a thing or rarity being replaced by the earlier, more aggravating ten or so pm showings. I am a fan of the superhero genre but it breaks my heart that there is a strong chance that the November release of Spectre, the latest 007 entry, won’t have a midnight release.)
Summer season 2015 looks like it will have its normal bombardment of sequels. Jurassic World, Terminator: Genisys (aka Terminator: The Greatest Hits), Ted 2, Mission Impossible 5, and the creepfest Insidious Chapter 3 rank among this years sequels that excite me.
More exciting to me are the two major animation releases this summer, Minions and Inside Out. Minions being a spin off of Despicable Me and will follow the little yellow guys in their first big screen feature solo outing. Inside Out is the latest from Pixar. Pixar Studios have never made a bad film and it will be two years since their last release, Monsters University, was released for my viewing pleasure.
On the subject of family fair, Pan looks like it could be a fantastic movie. The movie looks to serve as an origin story for Peter Pan and will feature Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard.
I’ll see Ant Man. I’m kind of on the fence about it because I don’t know a whole lot about the character nor this comic in particular. I had a very similar mind set to last year’s Guardians of the Galaxy. That movie reminded me how much fun I have going to the movies and for that reason I look forward to seeing Ant Man.
Aloha looks like a nice main stream alternative to the big action spectacles, not to mention a really exciting cast. I’m sure there will be some indy films that will provide the same kind of excitement for me when they are released.
I end my ramble with a question: Why is it necessary to release a remake of Poltergeist? The first one was pretty damn near perfect as it stands now.
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