Kicking off with the ass kicking bad-assery of 300, followed by the too lame to even rent Ghost Rider, and the personally disapointing Spiderman-3, summer movie season 2007 was kind of a letdown for me. There were a lot of great moments spread out across a lot of mediocre films, and only a few actually put together a wholly great movie experience. Hell, I never even went to see Pirates 3 because I wasn't about to sit there for 3 hours needing to piss.
I was looking forward to 28 Weeks Later, which was okay, but not as good as the first, yet had a better final act. Fantastic 4 II got such bad press I'm waiting for the DVD. Transformers looked fabulous, but I really kind of hoped everyone would just die in the end.
Not that any of these were actually horrible (except SM3, that sucked), they just didn't live up to my expectations based on what we had seen of them prior to hitting the theatres. My top two would be 300 and Harry Potter and the OOTP, and having to admit I liked the latter in itself makes me kind of sad for the state of movies these days.
I just hope that the people behind Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk don't see this years crop of movies and think they can shoot this low for next year, because I will send them boxes of hate mail and cat shit if they waste my money like Hollywood did this year. Because I'm looking forward to those two more than all of this years movies combined.
But fuck my opinion, what did you think?
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