As always, the movie titles are linked to the trailers plus an added bonus this year: the commentary is provided free of charge!
MAY 1st - X-Men Origins: Wolverine - If you enjoyed the X-Men Trilogy, then you'll enjoy this one. A great action movie to start off Summer '09. 8th - Star Trek - Never been a Star Trek fan, but this movie has seriously piqued my interest. Plus you can always count on J.J. Abrams to deliver an action-packed thrill ride. 15th - Angels And Demons - Just like Da Vinci Code, this will be a love it or hate it movie depending on which side of the religious line you fall on. 21st - Terminator Salvation - Normally I'd just brush this off since the 3rd movie and TV series are both a joke, but Christian Bale as John Connor leads me to believe there's hope for this one. 22nd - Night At The Museum 2: Battle of the Smithsonian - Looks to be a clone of the first movie which was fairly entertaining so I guess we'll see if Ben Stiller can bring anything new to this one. 29th - Up - I'd marry Pixar if I could. They have yet to make a bad movie. 29th - Drag Me to Hell - Sam Raimi getting back to his Evil Dead roots. This should be interesting.
JUNE 5th - Land of the Lost - Used to watch the TV show remake all the time, but with Will Ferrell playing the leading role I don't see this being any more than a campy movie fest. Will be interesting to see how they've updated the Sleestaks though. 5th - The Hangover - The plot to this one seems pretty crazy and should be chock full of situational comedy. It's from the director of Road Trip and Old School so it should be decent. 12th - The Taking of Pelham 123 - The cast alone makes this one worth seeing: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, James Gandolfini, Luis Guzmán. 19th - Year One - Jack Black and the cast of Superbad star in this one so it should be pretty hilarious, plus there's bound to be tons of jokes about religion. 26th - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - More transformers and more Megan Fox. Need I say more?
JULY 1st - Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - The first two Ice Age movies are pretty entertaining (and gorgeous on blu-ray) so adding dinosaurs to the mix should make things even better. 1st - Public Enemies - An interesting premise: Johnny Depp is a gangster being chased by Christian Bale a police officer set in the 1930s, which apparently leads to the formation of the FBI. 10th - Brüno - Another crazy fake character movie made by Sacha Baron Cohen. Should be good for quite a few laughs at the expense of how stupid Americans are. 15th - Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - It's about damn time this gets released. It's been so long I'm gonna have to go back and re-read the book. 24th - G-Force - "A team of highly trained Guinea Pigs are dispatched to take down an evil billionaire who wants to destroy the world with household appliances." What the hell, Disney? 31st - Funny People - Written and directed by Judd Apatow and starring Seth Rogen and Adam Sandler this could very well be the funniest movie of the summer.
AUGUST 7th - G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra - From the same guy who made Van Helsing, I'm really afraid this movie is gonna suck despite how badly I want it to be awesome. 21st - Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino directing a movie set in WWII starring Brad Pitt. This has the potential to be the most graphically violent movie ever made.
20 potentially awesome movies pretty well spread out over 3.5 months and not a single M. Night Shyamalan movie in sight. Should be a good summer.
"The good news is that the vile times may be ending. The coming debates
will decide this race, and it isn't easy to tell lies when your
opponent is standing right next to you. The Wall Street collapse demands a more sober campaign as well. But these dreadful weeks should
not be forgotten. John McCain has raised serious questions about
whether he has the character to lead the nation. He has defaced his
beloved military code of honor. He has run a dirty campaign."
I can't wait for the debates! McCain will finally be exposed as the unknowledgeable, mud-slinging politician that he has become over these past few months.
Also, nobody does it better than Jon Stewart. He's gotta be loving all the easy material that McCain/Palin are giving him to work with.
Sarah Palin is an inexperienced, clueless moron who was only picked for VP because she's a woman. The entire country knows it, so stop trying to defend her republicans. This is the woman who had to transfer FOUR different times between FOUR different colleges just to earn a bachelor's degree in communications/journalism from the University of Idaho. And for those of you that don't know U.S. News & World Report ranks University of Idaho, nationally, as a tier 3 school, its second worst category. So she's got a joke of a degree (in regards to politics) from a joke of a school and is governor of a joke of a state. The bottom line: she's a joke.
Bravo SNL, you nailed Palin and Clinton perfectly.
