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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
What are your favorite/least favorite summer movies?
The folks over at Ain’t It Cool and the Web site Hit Fix came up with a good question, so I’m going to appropriate/co-opt/steal it. And this one’s pretty easy:
What are your favorite summer movies/summer movie experiences?
If I had to name my absolute favorite (and I guess I have to in a post like this, don’t I?), I’d have to say Raiders of the Lost Ark. Two things in particular stand out about seeing that movie for the first time. First, there was the way it made time seem to fly. I remember checking my watch at the end of that movie and being surprised 2 hours had passed. It felt more like 20 minutes.
The other thing I remember most? The ROAR that went up when Indy shot the villain waving his knife around. God, I miss movie theaters that could hold 1,000 people or more.
Some other favorite movies/memories:
Seeing Terminator 2 and being asked what I thought of the movie, which wore me out so much I could only give a rating by holding up five fingers.
Seeing Hercules (the 1997 Disney movie, mind you) and discovering the wonders of Susan Egan as Megara.
Seeing Star Wars: Episode II at a screening with a room full of critics and being taken aback when I didn’t hear a HOORAY at the opening fanfare.
Miracle on 34th Street: OK, I didn’t exactly see this on its original release, but it DID come out May 2, 1947. By today’s calendar, that counts as a summer movie.
As for my least favorite summer movie, that’s also beyond easy: Bad Boys II. I know I pick on it all the time here, but Michael Bay will be doing penance for that for the rest of his life in my mind. And so it goes …
So what are your favorite/least favorite summer movies?
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