Top 5 Movies I Can't Wait To See This Summer

1.      Iron Man 3

      Release Date- May 3^rd

      Starring- Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Kingsley, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce

      What It’s About- Following the events of The Avengers, Tony Stark must face his       most powerful enemy yet, the Mandarin.  Along the way he finds out the answer to the

            question "Does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?

     

      Why I Want To See It- I’ve always enjoyed the Iron Man series even if Iron Man 2 wasn't  

            exactly a masterpiece. Now that Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) is directing  though, my 

            excitement for the franchise has come back with a vengeance. 

 

2.      Star Trek Into Darkness

Release Date- May 17th

            Starring- Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban

What It’s About- Captain Kirk, Spock and the rest of the USS Enterprise crew return to lead the manhunt of a mysterious new villain that has attacked Starfleet and left Earth on the brink of destruction

Why I Want To See It- While I admit I’ve never been crazy about the Star Trek series, I loved watching the last movie.  One of the weak points of it, however, was the villain.  I thought Eric Bana was over the top (and not in the good way) and his role as Nero to be weakest written character.  This time though, J.J. Abrams seems to have learned his lesson by not only making the villain much darker, but also by casting Benedict Cumberbatch

3.      Before Midnight

Release Date-May 24^th

Starring- Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

What It’s About- Nine years of after the end of Before Sunset, lovebirds Jesse and Celine are married and living in Paris with twin girls.  There’s trouble in paradise however, as Jesse struggles to maintain a relationship with his son Hank who now lives with his ex-wife and Celine contemplates taking a government job.

Why I Want To See It- This is the third and (presumably) final chapter in Richard Linklater’s brilliant Before Sunrise series and after seeing (and loving) the first two movies, I’m excited to see how it ends.

4.      Man of Steel

Release Date- June 14^th

Starring- Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane

What It’s About- You’ve probably heard the origin story a million times before, so you don’t really need me to tell it you again.  This time around, Superman must save Earth from the threat of the very powerful and megalomaniacal Kryptonian General Zod. 

Why I Want To See It- It’s been seven years since Superman has been in a movie and about thirty years since he’s been in a good one.    Now that Christopher Nolan is overseeing production of this latest interpretation of Superman, I’m hopeful that he can do for him what he’s done for Batman: restore his cinematic credibility.

5.      Pacific Rim

Release Date- July 12^th

Starring- Charlie Hunnum, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day

What It’s About- In the near future, humans are in a losing war with giant monsters known as Kaiju.  The human’s only defense against this new threat are gigantic robots known as Jaegers, but eventually even they prove to be little match for the enemy.  Together a former pilot and untested rookie control an old and out-of-date Jaeger to lead in the human race’s last stand against an impending apocalypse. 

Why I Want To See It- From what I have seen of Pacific Rim so far, it seems to be some kind of crazy offspring to Godzilla, Transformers, and Halo.  All those elements put together will likely make something unbelievably stupid or completely awesome.  For the time being, I choose to believe the latter.