This was the summer of several great comedies and one great tragedy. For comedies we started out the summer strong with Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which for me came out of nowhere, but was definitely one of the funniest movies I had seen in recent years. Also at the beginning of the summer, we had Iron Man, which although technically a serious superhero movie, was funny enough I think (thank to the awesomeness of Robert Downey Jr.) to be called one of the great comedies of this summer. But then, in July, we got a great tragedy: The Dark Knight, which may be the best movie I’ve seen in years, period. Now, in August, we have Pineapple Express, Tropic Thunder, and soon to be Hamlet 2.
I don’t say this too often about summer movie seasons, but this one was great. I just had an awesome time going to the movies this summer.
On the DVD side of things, I’ve been doing a lot better lately as well. I recently watched Sunshine, which I’d been meaning to see since I was in London, and it was really good. I really like the team of Danny Boyle directing and Alex Garland writing; they do a great job. Then there was Doomsday, which I’ve already posted about, but, yeah, suffice to say it was a lot of fun. And I just watched In Bruges, which is probably one of the best movies I’ve seen in the last couple years, not to mention one of the funniest.
As you can see by my recent posts, I’ve been steadily coming out of that dreaded movie slump I was in for awhile, which is great. I’m finally back to my normal movie-freakish self.
Tags: Alex Garland, Danny Boyle, Doomsday, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Hamlet 2, In Bruges, Iron Man, Pineapple Express, Robert Downey Jr., Sunshine, The Dark Knight, tropic thunder
August 19, 2008 at 3:24 am
I have to agree with you by saying this summer was full of entertaining and really good films. Opening was Iron Man that exceeded all expectations critically and in the box office. And then Forgetting Sarah Marshall returned Judd Apatow at the top of the comedy pedestal. Then the other great comedies of Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder. And of course the juggernaut that was The Dark Knight that simply awed the world to a silence with its superior cast, direction, plot, and action. One final film to note, which you forgot to mention, was the incredible achievement of Pixar’s latest WALL-E. It held the simplicity of a children’s story, the softness of a great romance story, and the maturity of a film that will test time into one of the best animated films ever.