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Summer of the Geek

by: rhino on: May 6, 2008 2:32pm

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The first summer geek blockbuster, Iron Man, was amazingly good. If you haven't seen it, GO...NOW!!!

For those who have seen it, or those returning from having just now seen it, there were a lot of great previews before the movie that got me excited for the upcoming Summer of the Geek. Here's a list of this summer's geek-tastic flicks.

Which ones are you most looking forward to?
Which ones are you dreading (because you know they'll be horrible)?
Did I miss any movies that should be added to the list?

I'm sure we'll have groups going to see many, if not all of these movies. If you're interested in going with us, let me know!

Movie                                   Release date
Speed Racer                          May 9th
Prince Caspian                       May 16th
Indiana Jones: Crystal Skull    May 22nd
Incredible Hulk                       June 13th
The Happening                       June 13th
Get Smart                              June 20th
Wanted                                  June 27th
Wall-E                                    June 27th
Hancock                                 July 2nd
Hellboy: Golden Army               July 11th
Journey to the Center
      of the Earth                       July 11th
Dark Knight                             July 18th
X-Files: I Want to Believe         July 25th
The Mummy: Tomb of the
       Dragon Emporer               August 1st
G.I. Joe                                 August 7th
Star Wars: Clone Wars            August 18th

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Speed Racer reviews:

Submitted by rhino on Thu, 05/08/2008 - 4:37pm.

Speed Racer reviews:

First reviews are in for Speed Racer (which opens tomorrow). Apprently it is considered visually stunning and very colorfully expressed. But I'll let you read the amazing reviews (taken from Rotten Tomatoes web-review site: www.rottentomatoes.com)

* the film needs more than what might result from the explosion of a Crayola factory
* Comparable to dousing one's eyeballs in a sugary hyper-digitized Skittles soup
* Speed Racer has the dubious distinction of being the only movie I've ever sat through while wishing I'd been born colorblind
* like the Wachowskis have taken a big fat multi-colored dump on their sense of nostalgia
* Overloaded with headache-inducing effects, without a coherent script
* creates a strange sensation indeed, that it's not just the cars that are smoking, but those Wachowski brothers as well, and whatever's in their pipes too.
* Not to whine, but: my eyeballs were on fire
* Imagine someone pouring hot, melted Starburst candies into your corneas, and you just begin to approximate the experience of Speed Racer, an ice-cream headache of a movie
* makes you feel like you've been stuffed inside a kaleidoscope and shaken for two hours.
* I can sit through just about anything, but I draw the line at two hours and 15 minutes of fuchsia vomit. To suffer through this kind of hell, movie critics deserve combat pay