tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799692319538063538.post6601261205351336400..comments2024-03-11T00:24:45.891-07:00Comments on Popcorn Culture: Captain's Slog: Stardate Summer 2016Brennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399713449347559869noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799692319538063538.post-75683781128056583492016-08-28T18:46:34.598-07:002016-08-28T18:46:34.598-07:00I completely agree with you Brennan that Star Trek...I completely agree with you Brennan that Star Trek Beyond is an average slog. It moved so fast for me that I was completely bored and utterly uninvested in everything. As for the summer of 2016, it sucks. Summer of 2015 wasn't very good, but the greatness of Mad Max Fury Road and Mission Impossible 5 made it memorable alone. The best summer action movie I can think of from this year is The Nice Guys, and it's a small scaled buddy comedy. As for big movies, Cap Civil War is the next best bet, but even I didn't love that movie. Almost every blockbuster has been a joke, from the crappiness of X-Men Apocalypse, to the accidental hilarity of Independence Day 2, to the inept Jason Bourne, to even the overstuffed mess that was Suicide Squad, every summer film has let its respective franchise and its fans down.Zach Nixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09897951069093994788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799692319538063538.post-39870551203291808312016-08-26T08:21:56.868-07:002016-08-26T08:21:56.868-07:00While I'm grievously offended that you would u...While I'm grievously offended that you would use MY blog to support your cockamamie theories that Batman v Superman is even in the same stratosphere as Mad Max: Fury Road, I shall deign to respond.<br /><br />And honestly, I don't feel the same way. 2015 at least had an interesting film landscape, even if the movies were bad. Here, even though there's just as many sequels and remakes and what have you, it just feels so pointless. I'd rather have Pitch Perfect 2 over TMNT 2 any day.Brennanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399713449347559869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7799692319538063538.post-89754299891385183222016-08-25T17:34:14.218-07:002016-08-25T17:34:14.218-07:00Right on, brother.
And it isn't a very good y...Right on, brother.<br /><br />And it isn't a very good year, is it? I'm trying to figure out why it seems better than 2015, when the best movie of 2016 so far (either Swiss Army Man--or BVS, ha!) is trivially less good than the second best of last year (Fury Road).<br /><br />Maybe it's that there were fewer outright disasters that I wound up grinding through in theaters? The Lobster was awful freaking bad, but at least there wasn't that one-two punch of Fantastic Four and Terminator: Genisys. (God knows what I'd have done if I saw SPECTRE in theaters. Vomited from the boredom?)<br /><br />Or maybe it's that the first half of the year was pretty good in providing a solid backing of 9/10s and 8/10s, when 2015 was parsiminous in even handing those out.<br /><br />2013, man. Now, that was a good year. Also 2006 and 1991. And most of the years that start with a "198."Hunter Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925220178171355473noreply@blogger.com