
Yes I know, Summer's not actually over, but with all the big, hyped, expensive movies dissapearing from the teather I think it'll interesting to share our opinions about this season, for me it's quite dissapinting but anyway here're my top 5.
The Best
5.- Kick-Ass: This’s actually a quite fun movie and even if didn’t met the hype generated at the Comicon it did quite well for the kind of movie it is. It fun, fast and violet with a great amount of humor. I really like Hit Girl character and still find funny how people complain a lot about her costume and less about the violence.
4.- Scott Pilgrim Vs the World: The poor performance of this movie at the box office has sparkled such a buzz on the internet, forums are filled with anger, youtube users encourage people to watch this movie, other asks Twilight fans to support Scott Pilgrim. Anyway I think it’s a good and fun movie but I understand why so many people let it pass, it’s packed with lots of specific pop-culture refernces, the characters are unlikable and the music is something that doesn’t fit in a general audience. But it’s different and touch a sweet spot for an audience that grow up playing 8-bit games and watching anime and kung fu movies. It’s going to be a cult movie but probably not as popular as other cult classics.
3.- Winter's Bone: It’s unusual to see this kind of movies in summer, but this one get a limited release this season and some teathers are still playing it. It’s freacking awesome, it’s a gritty drama with a suprisinf optimistic feeling about a teen looking for her absent father wich also is a meth cooker. The movie feels very natural, the dialogue, the characters, everything is really well done.
2.- Inception: Honestly I wasn't really excited about this movie. I love Christopher Nolan job but I didn't get the appeal for Leonardo Dicaprio. Thankfully the movie was different, full of action and really interesting, one of those movie that keep you in the seat the whole time.
1.- Toy Story 3: My favorite movie of this season. It has everything I love about movies, good pacing, sympathetic characters, nice story, it was fun to watch and close Andy's story in a great way. Pixar still has the magic and this movie is prove of that.
The Worst
5.- Shrek Forever After: I really hope Dreamworks is done with Shrek, alter 2 good movies the juice is gone, the third was bad and this one is actually worse I don’t think this story can do more, is not funny anymore.
4.- Eclipse: The movie you were forced to watch with your girlfriend. Oh yes, an unlikeable girl being the reason of a war between vampires and werewolves (yes I know they’re not exactly that) I don’t get the appeal of this series, but it doesn’t matter the fans’ll continue supporting this no matter what.
3.- Clash of the Titans: I can can resume this movie in one phrase “Go and watch the original with the beautiful Ray Harryhausen effects”. Clash of the Titans is an example of all the devils about CG, and special effects; specially the horrible “3D” effects.
2.- Iron Man 2: Ok, this one is not the worst movie of the summer but for me it was the most dissapointing. Verything that was cool about the first one is absent from this lously sequel, the end is nice but most of this movie feels like filler, plus I don’t understand why Marvel insists so much about using War Machine, it feels like a pointless character, well maybe they just want to sell more action figures.
1.- Last Airbender: My God, every single frame, second, word, piece of music and set of this movie is just a disaster. The story is cramped, the script is boring, these young actors are completly lost, the fighting are laughable, the music is just there, the pacing is terrible, the overall design is horrible (just look at this hair), bottom line this movie belong to the valhalla of bad movies just like Manos, thanks Mr Shyamalan, you gave us a great lesson about “What not to do” in movie making.














