From weed smoking buddies to a cute robot on an outer space adventure, From curving the bullets to flying faster than jet planes, From an awesome reboot to one of the greatest sequels ever made. Summer 2008 goes down in history as one of the most awesome summer movie blockbuster seasons ever!
THUG LIFE! yeah! you wanna get high? You’re gonna wanna after you’ve seen this hilarious ride that will take you to comedy and action and back. It’s a great escape, a sweet release,… the dopest dope!
Awesome Moments:
* Cross joint
* Danny McBride’s character crawling quickly out of a burning building.
Far-Fetched? Yes! Ridiculous? Yes! What’s your point? In the end, the word ‘cool’ still applies. It reminds me of movies like Matrix and Equilibrium… and there’s something rad about hearing Morgan Freeman say, “MothatF*cka!”
Awesome Moments:
* The beginning Car Chase Scene
* Shooting from afar in the last scene
Which one is funnier… Tropic Thunder of Pineapple Express? Some people have been asking that since these two movies come out a weekend apart from each other. What they don’t get is Tropic Thunder’s comedy is different, it’s a satire on actors and hollywood execs and the whole movie business.
Awesome Moments:
* Anything that Robert Downey Jr.’s character does
* Anything that Tom Cruise’s character does
They say, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Well, Ang Lee’s HULK back in 2003 was a disaster, but Marvel has fixed the mistake by bringing us this Smashing reboot. When we see the green giant hero, we wanna see some destruction and incredible fights,… this movie knows exactly what we want.
Awesome moments:
* Hulk kicking the bad guy like he’s a soccer ball
* The 26 Minute fight scene between Hulk and Abomination
Skadoosh! Our hero Po the Panda knows how to use overweight size to his advantage and give some serious beatdown! For a Dreamworks animated movie, this jokes in this one are actually funny and the fight scenes are pretty cool.. plus, I got to meet Jack Black at the screening of this movie… Awesome! yes, I like to brag.
Awesome Moments:
* Po the Panda uses his belly to bounce the enemy all the way to the sky.
* Climbing the stairs
Finally, a scary movie that’s really scary. Ya see… when I watch horror movie, I expect to get terrified, to find myself with my hands covering my eyes but a few fingers open because part of me wants to see what happens next.
Awesome moments:
* Mistaking a friend for a foe
* Liv Tyler’s character just standing there and in the background you see the bad guy standing there too, watching her..in a very stalkish, creepy way
A movie that’s heavy metal and rock n’ roll all at once. It’s hardcore entertainment not for the faint of heart.
Awesome Moments:
* The warden’s ultimate armored truck gets destroyed
* The way each criminal dies
I remember exiting the theater after seeing the whole thing and all the children were happy and they tried doing the robot’s voice “Wooaaall-Eeee!!” Truly an amazing movie watching experience.. Pixar has outdone itself.
Awesome Moments:
* WALL-E touching the little rocks that make the ring around the planet Saturn
* WALL-E stomps his foot on M-O The Cleaning Robot’s Face.
The movie that makes us wish we could be just like Tony Stark. One of the most well reviewed movies of the year has scenes that will take your breath away… eat my shorts, Top Gun!
Awesome Moments:
* Iron Man goes supersonic and then deploys flares and then deploys flaps
* The hot flight attendants in Tony Stark’s private plane.
The throne, the honor, the glory for the most awesome movie of the summer 2008 goes to THE DARK KNIGHT which also has become one of the highest grossing films of all time.
Heath Ledger’s brilliant performance as THE JOKER will forever be remembered as iconic, borderline perfect, the stuff of legends!
Awesome Moments:
* The Joker’s Magic Pencil Trick
* The Joker in a nurse outfit walking out of the hospital and the remote got busted
Am not surprised to see Wall-E here. Pixar does awesome animated features…remember “Toy Story”, “Monsters Inc.”, “Bug’s Life”, “The Incredibles”, “Cars”, “Ratatouille”…the list is endless. My faith in animated features was restored after Pixar films became part of the picture
And the cool thing about Pixar movies is that if you go to the website (www.pixar.com) & click on any feature film, there’s a paragraph about what inspired the storyline which to me is really cool
Some great films listed here! I’m trying to understand the perception behind the classics though…while I think that some of the newer horror films are more frightening (saw, hostel, etc..) some people don’t agree at all. In Fact they prefer the older classics. Yay or nay?