Bridesmaids was a bigger critical hit than The Hangover. X-Men First Class and Super 8 were as big of critical hits as Inception. Hell, even Fast Five got some love from critics.

I'll agree with the people saying the summer's been consistent. I've gone to the movies pretty much every weekend with something I've wanted to see.

But like I said in the OP, most movies have been either mediocre or pretty decent, but nothing I'd rush out to see again. (a la inception)

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X-Men First Class and Super 8 were as big of critical hits as Inception.

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Those 2 movies were great, no doubt, but come on. Inception was up for best picture at the oscars.

If they were keeping the Oscar list at 10, which they aren't, there is a very good chance that Super 8 would have taken a BP slot as well, in the same way that District 9 did. So I don't understand the point, other than one movie got nominated for an Oscar while the others haven't gotten a chance to go through that process yet. Oh, and that you personally liked Inception better than the others.

Shark, you are putting too much of your personal opinions of the movies sway your thinking of what is successful. This summer has been very good critically and X-Men and Super 8 is rated just as high as Inception and Bridesmaids is in the same league as Dark Knight. Harry Potter is going to break every weekend record this year and I'm willing to bet it is going to end up above 85% on rotten tomatoes. X-Men is as 87% and Inception is at 86%. Bridesmaids is at 90% and The Hangover ended up at 73%. Not to mention Captain America and Cowboys vs Aliens good end up doing very well as well. The new Conan and Planet of the Apes movies could be sleepers as well. Just because you don't like the movies doesn't mean they have not done well from a critical stand point.

Good point, syag.

Maybe I'm just crazy, but it seems like this topic comes up every summer....just saying...

FEAR NOT! HERE COMES THE TUBBY LITTLE CUBBY ALL STUFFED WITH FLUFF!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRT86ZggCEk

For years now summer has meant a deluge of movies I wouldn't watch if I were on an airplane to China. GREEN LANTERN looked terrible in the previews. Ditto THOR. If only there were a new IRON MAN coming out this year.

But BRIDESMAIDS was fun if not life changing and MIDNIGHT IN PARIS and THE TREE OF LIFE were greatness. What gets me though is the people who will go see a movie they stated they very much did not want to see (the TRANSFORMERS series comes to mind) and then gripe about how awful it was.

If you feel some mad compulsion to show up every Friday just because something new has opened, may I suggest therapy? If nothing is on I want to see, I stay home (reading, internet, whatever) until something opens that I think will interest me. More people should do the same.

If you're going to preface your statement by saying "I knew that WHATEVER was going to totally suck," my main question is why you drove across town, parked in Siberia and walked across a hot parking lot, and spent money to see something you didn't want to see in the first place. BUT if you have children all bets are off: go watch the Chipmunks and keep your mouth shut through it. You won't die.

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I have not been terribly impressed overall with this summer. There were movies that looked bad in previews (Green Lantern) and movies that were sequels to movies I didn't like (Transformers 3), so I have not bothered to see these movies.

Super 8 was awesome. Thor was watchable but not memorable. I enjoyed Kung Fu Panda 2 and Cars 2 but these were not as good as the originals and seeing these was more for my 5-year-old. The wife and I laughed a lot during Bridesmaids. I was never a fan of X-Men so I didn't go to see Origins; I didn't like Hangover so I didn't want to spend my $$$ on the sequel.

I am looking forward to Captain America and the Cowboys-Aliens movie. Will likely skip Planet of the Apes and Conan (how can you remake that classic?), although I think there is a prequel of The Thing that I will see later this year.

Overall ... 2011 has been just so-so.

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http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6716942/the-movie-stary/

Have you looked at the RT ratings this summer? X-men was one of the best reviewed movies this summer. I don't know if any hp movie has broken 80%

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I'm not saying, I'm just saying: 98%

Winnie the Pooh is going to do well!

Yawn. Let me know when it gets 11 Oscar nominations.

because we all know Oscar never gets anything wrong!

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True, but in a good summer, you have at least a few of those. 08 - Dark Knight, 09 - The Hangover, 10 - Inception

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You remember on Sesame Street when they would sing "one of these things is not like the other ones"?

Well, 09 was kinda weak too, tbh.

'10 was completely terrible minus your overzealousfanboy love for Inception. This year is exponentially better on the whole than the 2 years before it, which is what makes this thread so stupid.

A bunch of solid movies >>>>>one really good movie and a load of crap.

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I mean you know it's bad when it's july and nothing has come close to breaking $300 mill

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http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20110715/business/707159845/

Whoops.

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No doubt it will be big financially, but I don't think anyone expects it to be a critical hit.

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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/harry_potter_and_the_deathly_hallows_part_2/

Whoops.

You got me on the second, but not the first. Nothing has come close until now, but no doubt hp will break 300. Tf3 also.

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20ag, are we forgetting toy story 3?

That's the really good movie. We've already discussed the merits of Inception as it relates to Super 8, First Class, etc.

Oh right I forgot, how Inception was no more critically acclaimed than Super 8 or X-men.

You are taking way too much offense to this thread.

Other than HP and what I mentioned in the OP, what movies are you trying to defend exactly?

July has definitely shown improvement with Horrible Bosses, and now HP. And hopefully Captain America and Cowboys and Aliens don't disappoint. But at the time I made this thread, it had been pretty mediocre for quite a while.

Well the numbers didn't lie...you just pointed straight to the Oscars, which haven't even happened yet. Inception had it's own fair share of flaws, but the Rotten Tomatoes scores are there. I mean, the sharkfanboy scale numbers I can't argue about, but those only exist to you.

Yeah that's it, I'm just being a fanboy.

RT is a good indicator of what's good and what's not, but are you really gonna argue that 1 % point higher means it was better received?

Do I have to explain how RT works?

If a critic gives a movie 3/5 stars and another 5/5 stars, it still just shows up at fresh on RT.

I don't take any offense. I just have no idea WTF you are talking about. At the time you made the thread, my point was that it had been a solid summer, and it had. My point remains today. Inception didn't come out until 7/16 either. The summer was halfway over with plenty of solid product and plenty more to come, and you dramatically called it the worst summer ever because none of the movies released won an Oscar 9 months before the Oscars.

Agree this has been a good summer. I am notoriously cheap, and it's been hard for me to wait to Redbox some of these. That's my test for a good summer. Can't wait to see Bridesmaids, Horrible Bosses, Hangover II, etc.

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HP ends up at $90M+ in it's first day alone, on track for something like a $180M 3 day weekend- crushing the previous record of $158M for TDK.

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With eight movies, “Harry Potter” is the most successful film series ever, according to Hollywood.com. The pictures have collected $6.46 billion in worldwide ticket sales, including the initial revenue from the latest movie, according to Box Office Mojo.

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Good Lord.