First Summer Movie Casualty

Looks like the first Big Summer Movie to crash and burn is going to be "Speed Racer" and for that we can be thankful. My local movie theater was promoting the heck out of this movie all last month on their "Pre-Trailers" show - yes I am taking to you Regal Cinemas - and this movie looked like a steaming pile of doo from the get go.

I really do hate Summer Movies. To date it looks like of the heavily hyped movies, I will see "Prince Caspian" and "Wanted" and the Indiana Jones flick. All the rest can become a huge mass of rotting celluloid in my book.

"Iron Man" taking all that money was a huge disappointment, because all that is doing is encouraging studios to continue in their total bankruptcy of ideas and letting them MAKE MORE COMIC BOOK MOVIES.

Aaaaaarrgghhhhh!!!!!! They are all the same......

A misfit is transformed into a hero.
The female lead screams a lot.
The misfit hero triumphs over whoever the bad guy is.
The misfit hero's identity is somehow revealed, but strangely it isn't.
Some aspect of the movie ( escape of principal villain or promotion of villain's sidekick and/or relative ) points the way to next year's sequel.

Holy crap! This stuff writes itself.


This weekend I will probably go see "Fugitive Pieces" with the lovely Rosamund Pike.