Bikeriders was barely promoted and no one knew about it, but it was worth seeing. I haven't gotten to see Horizon yet but hear it's worth seeing. Beyond those I haven't cared to go out and see much.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again, but 2025 and 2026 will absolutely be a return to form, in the best way. We just have to get through the rest of this admittedly down year.

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Isnt 2025 going to be pretty rough? We won't see the full impacts of coming out of the strikes by summer, at least on the big screen, right?

(The streamers will do better, bc they are more nimble).

But with the shuffling dates that's still happening, Summer 2025 is probably going to end up being rougher than 2024, right?

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I've said it before and I'll say it again, but 2025 and 2026 will absolutely be a return to form, in the best way. We just have to get through the rest of this admittedly down year.

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Isnt 2025 going to be pretty rough? We won't see the full impacts of coming out of the strikes by summer, at least on the big screen, right?

(The streamers will do better, bc they are more nimble).

But with the shuffling dates that's still happening, Summer 2025 is probably going to end up being rougher than 2024, right?

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No, summer 2025 is already insanely packed, with massive blockbusters, probably more than any summer since 2019 (if not even further back), as is the rest of the year. And it's all currently filming or is already done filming. There will be zero strike impacts after this year, and all the strike shuffling is long since over. I don't know where you're getting that info.

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Austin Powers
Underworld
Fifth Element

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I didn't list those…..they weren't considered "hits" but also weren't terrible either….

Obviously now fifth element and Austin powers are considered classics but they weren't mega hits like the top 4 films I mentioned….

And yet you listed Out to Sea and Gone Fishin' in the bad category.

I thought it was incredible, but that's of course my opinion, as someone who also unabashedly loved the first one.

It's like some of y'all forgot about 2020.

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Cannot think of one. My local theater has a dozen screens. There has not been a damn thing worth watching all summer. Why does Hollywood suck so much?

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Horizon: An American Saga - Part One

I would have walked out of the theater had I not been with my gf (she paid for our tickets)
turrible

Summer 2010 was pretty bad. Inception and Toy Story 3 were the two gems and then not much else.

Yep. I think that year was also effected by a strike.

Yeah, you're right. Forgot about that.

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Look….i ain't exactly high on Hollywood….like….at all…..

But come on man there's been way worse years for summer than this….

1997 for example….

Had several good summer films like Men in Black, Air Force One, Face/Off, and Con Air…..

But also had:

Jurassic Park The Lost World
Batman and Robin
George of the Jungle
Contact (I like now as an adult)
Spawn
Speed 2 Cruise Control
Out to Sea
Goodburger
Gone Fishin'
Airbud

There's been way worse in the 90s…..

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Airbud is a national treasure.

Guess I was the perfectly wrong age for that movie….was 11 years old during the summer of '97 and my friends and I made fun of the trailers for that movie a ton…..

Course we saw Batman and Robin and were too dumb to realize how bad that was…..so…….jokes on us?

I am not wowed by the movies this year. I'm sure there are a lot of valid reasons for this - woke Nazis, strike, Covid, all of that.

Dune Part 2 and Horizon Chapter One had no woke crap and are my favorites thus far this year. I don't believe I've seen anything else new this year. Skipped the Planet of the Apes and Mad Max movies because they simply didn't interest me. Will probably watch them on digital at some point. The new Monsterverse Godzilla movie sucked donkey balls.

I will be seeing Deadpool and Wolverine, Horizon Chapter Two, and Alien: Romulus as far as summer movies go. The only other title that might draw me in is Twisters. I thought the original movie was fun but had a lot of stupid (running through a field with picket fence slats slicing through the air like knives then hanging on to a pipe in the ground with a freaking leather strap, uh, yeah), but Glenn Powell the sip has been in some movies recently that I've had varying degrees of enjoyment (Top Gun Maverick, Devotion, and Anyone But You), and he's not an annoying sip (thus far) like Matthew McConna... however you spell his name.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is on my list for early fall, but after that I have no idea what is slated for release.

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Summer of 1526 was probably worse. Zero films released.

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Damn guess the Italian Renaissance wasn't that great after all. Stupid Italians

Yeah, he does come across as a good dude, but not when he's cheerleading for that baby puke orange crap.

I chuckled when I saw him in the WWII sub movie. His first scene looked like he had just stepped off the Quad with that close cropped haircut.

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Damn! Had no clue.

My wife and I argue about which of us has the bigger crush on Glenn Powell. I guess she can keep him now!

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Foreign films are the way to go these days

Hollywood has been dog**** since 2017 or so when those idiots all became woke nazis


Sad but it's reality

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2019 is largely considered one of the best cinematic years in history, for both awards movies and blockbusters, but okay. Covid then hit two months later, followed by the double strikes last year, both of which have been a massive challenge to come back from. But sure, we'll go with "woke nazis," despite having personally seen some of the best blockbusters of my life over the past three years, in the form of...

- Avatar: The Way of Water
- The Batman
- Dune: Part One
- Dune: Part Two
- Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning
- Oppenheimer
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Tenet
- Top Gun: Maverick

.. along with a ton of great dramas as well.

So sad, indeed!

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Was the Avatar sequel actually good? Or was it just another showcase of special effects with a thin plot like the first?

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It was mostly the special effects, which were great. The story was not good. But they did get to basically recreate the scene in the Titanic where Rose is making her way out of the ship as it fills with water. So there is that.

As good as the visuals were, the visuals in the first Avatar movie are the best I've seen in any 3D movie.