Best Summer Season of the Decade!

[Catman]

2000 had Xmen, Gladiator, Mission Impossible 2, Scary Movie, The Perfect Storm, What Lies Beneath, The Patriot...so many good ones.

Indeed, my friend. Indeed. But this is SUPERHEROhype. They're gonna go for the summer with the best superhero movies.

 

[The Chris]

2008

I had loads of fun every week, and a lot of double features too. It doesn't hurt that it was the best for superhero films too.

 

[nathaniel]

Its all relative to the viewer of course but a year or decade is best for me when it has a good mix of drama,sci fi,superhero,comedy movies thats why 1980 to 1990 will always be such a great decade.

It was a time when loads of little movies came out that where minor hits two of my FAVOURITE movies ever are Flight of the Navigator and The Last Starfighter for example just simple great movies with a good story you just wont see these types of movies made again,not one that will make any money anyway, mainly because the simplist movie today (especially science fiction) costs a packet to make and market.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Signs is a brilliant film. Better than The Sixth Sense.

 

[CELTICPRED]

2008 gets my vote.

I don't think I remember another summer where I saw a movie I was interested in every week, let alone 2 a week sometimes.

Won't forget it for a long time.

This year looks good though too. Terminator and Transformers baby.

 

[Mutagen]

2008 gets my support.

 

[McGraw]

2008 for Hellboy II, Iron Man, Speed Racer, & Wall-E alone

 

[Nivek]

Signs? Seriously?

 

[Galactus]

I think 2008 was probably as good as you can realistically expect from Hollywood, and perhaps a little more thanks to The Dark Knight alone. It's not every summer they manage to make a big blockbuster that even the critics fall in love with and is being talked about for various awards (not counting technical awards). In a perfect world every summer movie would be that good, but of course that will never happen. Summer season is rarely quality times when it comes to movies.

 

[McGraw]

I think 2008 was probably as good as you can realistically expect from Hollywood, and perhaps a little more thanks to The Dark Knight alone. It's not every summer they manage to make a big blockbuster that even the critics fall in love with and is being talked about for various awards (not counting technical awards). In a perfect world every summer movie would be that good, but of course that will never happen. Summer season is rarely quality times when it comes to movies.

A reviewer (Mark Kermode ) I follow almost reigiously thought TDK was ok but prefered Batman Begins, I honestly thought he was going to eat it up & worship the film.

 

[baerrtt]

2001 is still the most horrible summer blockbuster season to date regardless of decade. SHREK aside it was the one time I almost found myself agreeing with those over-serious critics/film buffs that modern blockbusters were a stain on cinema.

From JP 3 to PEARL HARBOUR to TOMB RAIDER to SWORDFISH to PLANET OF THE APES to the POINT BREAK remake that was the first FAST AND FURIOUS movie nearly every movie felt cliched and completely uninspired.

Even in the years that give us a disaster like GODZILLA or ARMAGEDDON we have SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY and THE TRUMAN SHOW to balance it out but in '01 it felt like nothing would.

 

[baerrtt]

Its all relative to the viewer of course but a year or decade is best for me when it has a good mix of drama,sci fi,superhero,comedy movies thats why 1980 to 1990 will always be such a great decade.

It was a time when loads of little movies came out that where minor hits two of my FAVOURITE movies ever are Flight of the Navigator and The Last Starfighter for example just simple great movies with a good story you just wont see these types of movies made again,not one that will make any money anyway, mainly because the simplist movie today (especially science fiction) costs a packet to make and market.

I'm of the opinion that it was Tim Burton's Batman (the marketing) and Terminator 2 (the then very expensive budget) that led to what summer blockbusters eventually became, over-expensive and loud tentpoles with countless tie-ins.

In retrospect you're right in that there was better variety back then as you got 'unusual' films like ET (which I can certainly believe nobody thinking it was going to do anything major until they put it in front of audiences) or the likes of BLADE RUNNER or even THE THING where directors were taking chances with the format allowed to them.

 

[CelticPredator]

2007 had Transformers....so it gets points.


*GET AWAY G1 FANS!*

 

[Doctor Jones]

Hmm, I would of loved to be around in 89. It sounded so damn good with all those big films coming out. Especially to be around Batmania.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I'm glad someone else sees this. It's deeper to me. It's about a man who's lost faith with everything. Signs isn't about aliens, it's about finding your way back through fate. And signs doesn't mean the crops in the field, it really means signs of miracles. Things that aren't coincidences. And when Graham says, "There's no one watching over us." It's interesting to me. Yes there are. You could say aliens. Or angels. No matter what you believe in, there is someone watching over us.

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