Welcome to my 2nd Annual Summer Movie Preview. Keep in mind I’m not ranking these films on box office or on critical acclaim, but rather my own personal tastes. Obviously I’ve not seen any of these yet so some of them could be clunkers like last year's number 8 film Nacho LIbre. On the other hand they could be every good as I built them up to be like Clerks 2 and Snakes on a Plane. This year I had a hard time finding honorable mentions (Pirates 2 killed any interest in Pirates 3) so we’ll jump right into the list.
10. The Brothers Solomon (August 31st)
This is the tale of two brothers who are socially inept with the ladies trying to grant their father’s dying wish of seeing one of them produce a grandson. It’s also a tale of two Wills. Will Forte is someone who used to really annoy me on Saturday Night Live. Every skit he did seemed overly long and filled with dead silence. In the last couple of years though, the guy has steadily improved partly due to the addition of new cast members. He also had a nice turn in Broken Lizard’s Beerfest. Now Forte is making his screen writing/leading role debut and I must admit I’m interested especially since his costar, Will Arnett, might be the most underrated comic actor today. Arnett stood out on a show filled with amazing performances on Arrested Development and steals the spotlight when ever he takes smaller roles on shows like 30 Rock or movies like Blades of Glory. Hell I even thought about seeing the dreadful looking prison comedy he did last year. Simply put despite my somewhat apprehensive feelings about giving Forte’s lead role/writing debut a coveted spot on my list, I’m willing to bank on Arnett making it worthwhile.
9. Transformers (July 4th)
This could suck…bad. This is a movie based on toys. While Batman, X-Men, and Star Wars are all money making commercial machines they all come from original source material. The Transformers started as toys and then got their animated show, first movie, and various comic book incarnations. Still I’m geeking out for this flick for two reasons. First of all even though the Transformers cartoons were a transparent marketing tool from my childhood I still loved them. I know the show was really just 30 minutes of trying to get me to convince my parents to buy me Optimus Prime but I didn’t and don’t care. Vehicles that turn into robots are inherently cool. The second reason I’m jacked up for this is director Michael Bay. The man can flat out direct the hell out of an action film. Unfortunately sometimes he gets distracted by things like plot and character. Bay is no where near my list of top 10 directors but I still love the way he blows things up. The Rock is still one of my favorite action films and despite the layers and layers of cheese, I still dig Armageddon. Pearl Harbor on the other hand was terrible beyond words and Bad Boys II made the original look like Gone with the Wind. Obviously this flick could go either way but I’m feeling half full today so Transformers makes the list…barely.
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