Best Movie of the Summer

[That Purple Stuff]

Ok this is a thread for you to explain which movie you thought was THE best overall movie of the summer. It doesnt matter if its a comedy or animated movie, just because they dont have a dead actor playing the Joker doesnt mean they cant be the best. Vote for the movie YOU truly think is the best, and not what the crowd is choosing. I will keep the poll anonymous so you dont have to be scared of your name being brought up if you like lets say "Meet Dave." In my opinion the best action movie was Iron Man the best animated movie was Wall E and the best comedy was Pineapple Express with the best OVERALL movie being Pineapple Express. Now I realize there are still a few movies coming this summer (august) like Sisterhood 2 and Tropic Thunder, so if you seriously think some of these will be the best movie of the summer, then dont vote yet, its simple as that. May 1st to August 31st is what I determine a Summer movie so here is the list

Bold movies will be the "blockbuster" movies

May 2
- The Favor (NY)
- Fugitive Pieces (limited)
- Iron Man
- Made of Honor
- Mister Lonely (limited)
- Redbelt (NY, LA; expands: May 9)
- Son of Rambow (limited)
- XXY (NY)

May 7
- Battle for Haditha (NY)

May 9
- A Previous Engagement (NY, LA)
- The Babysitters (NY)
- The Fall (limited)
- Frontier(s) (limited)
- Noise (NY)
- OSS 117: Cario, Nest of Spies (limited)
- Speed Racer (conventional theaters and IMAX)
- Surfwise (limited)
- The Tracey Fragments (NY)
- Turn the River (NY, LA)
- Unsettled (NY: May 16 LA)
- Vice (limited)
- What Happens in Vegas

May 16
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer (limited)
- Reprise (limited)
- Sangre de mi sangre (limited)

May 21
- A Jihad for Love (NY)
- The Edge of Heaven (limited)

May 22
- Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

May 23
- The Children of Huang Shi (limited)
- Postal (limited)
- War, Inc. (NY, LA)

May 30
- Bigger, Stronger, Faster (NY, LA)
- The Foot Fist Way (limited)
- Savage Grace (limited)
- Sex and the City
- The Strangers
- Stuck (limited)
- The Unknown Woman (NY; LA release: Jun. 27; SF release: Jul. 25)

June 4
- Dreams with Sharp Teeth (NY)
- Operation Filmmaker (NY)

June 6
- The Go-Getter (NY, LA)
- Kung Fu Panda (conventional theaters and IMAX)
- Miss Conception (LA)
- Mongol (limited)
- Mother of Tears (limited)
- On the Rumba River (NY)
- The Promotion (NY, LA)
- When Did You Last See Your Father? (limited)
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan

June 11
- Encounters at the End of the World (NY)

June 13
- Beauty in Trouble (NY)
- Chris & Don: A Love Story (NY; LA release: July 4)
- The Happening
- The Incredible Hulk
- My Winnipeg (NY)
- Quid Pro Quo (NY, LA)
- To the Limit (NY)

June 20
- Brick Lane (limited)
- Expired (limited)
- Get Smart
- Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (NY, LA, CHI, ATL, Dallas; wide: July 2)
- The Love Guru

June 25
- Full Grown Men (limited)

June 27
- Elsa & Fred (limited)
- Finding Amanda (limited)
- Gunnin for that #1 Spot (NY)
- The Last Mistress (limited)
- Red Roses and Petrol (NY, LA)
- Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic (limited)
- Trumbo (NY, LA)
- WALL•E
- Wanted

July 1
- Hancock (7pm)

July 2
- Tell No One (NY)

July 3
- The Wackness (limited)

July 4
- Diminished Capacity (limited)
- Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (limited)
- Holding Trevor (NY, LA)
- Kabluey (NY)
- We Are Together (limited)

July 9
- Full Battle Rattle (NY)

July 11
- August (NY)
- Death Defying Acts (NY, LA)
- Eight Miles High (NY)
- Garden Party (NY, LA, Portland & Seattle)
- Harold (NY, LA)
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- Journey to the Center of the Earth
- Meet Dave
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (NY; LA release: Jul. 18)
- The Stone Angel (limited)

July 18
- A Man Named Pearl (NY; LA July 25)
- A Very British Gangster (NY, LA)
- Before I Forget (NY)
- The Dark Knight (conventional theaters and IMAX)
- The Doorman (NY)
- Felon (NY, LA)
- Lou Reed's Berlin (limited)
- Mad Detective (NY)
- Mamma Mia!
- Space Chimps
- Take (NY; LA release: Jul. 25)
- Transsiberian (NY)

July 22
- Two Tickets to Paradise (limited)

July 23
- Boy A (NY; LA release: July 25)

July 25
- American Teen (limited)
- Baghead (limited)
- Brideshead Revisited (limited; expands: Aug. 1; expands: Aug. 8)
- Bustin' Down the Door (NY, LA)
- Canary (NY; LA release: Aug. 8)
- CSNY: Déjà Vu (limited)
- Man on Wire (limited)
- No Regret (NY, LA)
- The Order of Myths (NY)
- Step Brothers
- The X-Files: I Want to Believe

August 1
- America the Beautiful (NY; LA release: Aug. 22)
- Frozen River (limited)
- In Search of a Midnight Kiss (limited)
- Midnight Meat Train (limited)
- The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
- Sixty Six (limited)
- Swing Vote

August 6
- Bottle Shock (limited)
- Patti Smith: Dream of Life (NY)
- Pineapple Express
- The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

August 8
- Beautiful Losers (NY; LA release: Aug. 29)
- Beer For My Horses (limited)
- Elegy (limited)
- Hell Ride (limited)
- Red (limited)
- What We Do is Secret (NY)

August 13
- Tropic Thunder

August 15
- A Girl Cut in Two (limited)
- Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer (limited)
- Bachna Ae Haseeno (limited)
- Fly Me to the Moon
- Henry Poole is Here (limited)
- Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (NY, LA)
- Mirrors
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona

August 20
- The Rocker

August 22
- Cthulhu (limited)
- Death Race
- Hamlet 2 (limited; wide: Aug. 29)
- The House Bunny
- I Served the King of England (limited)
- I.O.U.S.A (limited)
- The Longshots
- Momma's Man (limited)
- Trouble in the Water (NY, LA)

August 27
- Traitor

August 29
- Babylon A.D.
- College
- Disaster Movie
- Sukiyaki Western Django (NY; LA Release: Sept. 12)
- Year of the Fish (NY)

August TBA
- All the Boys Love Mandy Lane


The bold movies will also be the ones in the Poll. Now also if you want you can list your favorite category movies too

Action: Iron Man

Comedy: Pineapple Express

Animation: Wall E

[fighthefutureofhd]

over all i'd have to say that i want to believe is my favorite, but then i'm a huge fan and really haven't been this geeked out in 10 years. i don't know if it's my favorite action movie because i don't know if i'd categorize it as an action film. but then i'm not really sure what to categorize it as. as for comedy i can't say as i have yet to see pineapple express or step brothers so i'll wait. wall-e though is my favorite animated film. although it's the only one i've seen.

[That Purple Stuff]

Yay Pineapple Express is winning. Not for long as the TDK fanboys will rush this poll soon enough

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by That Purple Stuff

Yay Pineapple Express is winning. Not for long as the TDK fanboys will rush this poll soon enough

I'd vote but the summer isn't over... still many movies left to see.

[Grimshaw23]

Best movie this year is Tropic Thunder!! nothing else comes close!

[That Purple Stuff]

Originally Posted by jq71586

Well out of spite, I voted for it. I'm going to see Pineapple Express this weekend, so maybe it'll change my mind. I voted for TDK because I haven't seen many of the big summer movies this summer like Iron Man, Hellboy 2, Indy 4, etc.

Haha well it was inevitable but lasted a while. Like 10 minutes?

[jq71586]

Originally Posted by That Purple Stuff

Haha well it was inevitable but lasted a while. Like 10 minutes?

True. 9 more minutes than I expected.

[That Purple Stuff]

Originally Posted by jq71586

True. 9 more minutes than I expected.

9 minutes and 59 seconds longer. TDK fanboys usually smell a "was TDK better than...." poll and are here right away and vote against it.

[Blu Titan]

Originally Posted by That Purple Stuff

4 votes and none for TDK? Maybe people are finally jumping off its massive proverbial cock

I am changing that as we speak.

[Damiesmallz]

I say it is a toss up between TDK and Pineapple Express. One is all you could ever want in a Batman movie and the other is the funniest movie ever. I voted for TDK, though.

[Giyomu]

geez i m the only one who picked tropic thunder

[Marquoz]

*puts on his flame resistant suit*

I've got to say Speed Racer. It was a visually stunning movie, a great soundtrack, I enjoyed the plot, I felt that I got my moneys worth because it wasn't a short 90 minute movie. All in all, for me, a phenominal movie.

[fighthefutureofhd]

that one's high on my list too. i really thought it was done well. it's definitely in my top five for the year. and maybe top three by the end of it all. speed racer is just that rare film that hardly gets made and i love it all the more for it.

[coolmilo]

This was the easiest poll ever. The Dark Knight rocked it!!!

[micks_address]

i voted for the dark knight, but its not such an accurate poll seeing as most people probably havent seen all the films listed.. and some of them havent even shown yet in theatres..

[That Purple Stuff]

Originally Posted by micks_address

i voted for the dark knight, but its not such an accurate poll seeing as most people probably havent seen all the films listed.. and some of them havent even shown yet in theatres..

Thats why you read the OP

[mikem471]

Originally Posted by That Purple Stuff

9 minutes and 59 seconds longer. TDK fanboys usually smell a "was TDK better than...." poll and are here right away and vote against it.

You keep saying "TDK fanboys" yet your av is of Heath Ledger with Joker "paint". Interesting.

[That Purple Stuff]

Originally Posted by mikem471

You keep saying "TDK fanboys" yet your av is of Heath Ledger with Joker "paint". Interesting.

Its a joke, check it out on HDD and you'll see. And if you have read my statements I hate the attention a dead guy gets for a role that was overrated imo

[mikem471]

Originally Posted by That Purple Stuff

Its a joke, check it out on HDD and you'll see. And if you have read my statements I hate the attention a dead guy gets for a role that was overrated imo

LMAO, I don't really care enough about the joke to do any research on it.

[That Purple Stuff]

Originally Posted by DetroitSportsFan

Have you seen your avatar?

Again. Its a joke on how much I hate how much attention the dead guy is from an overrated role