The TV Addict 

The other day I started to work on a Best of the Summer Awards type article, and realized something in the process.

I think this may be one of the best summer movie seasons in my lifetime, because I can honestly not remember the last time I’ve experienced such satisfying week-to-week consistency.

It seems that ever since IRON MAN opened back in May, every week when I’ve walked out of a movie theatre I found myself thinking: “That was a great/good/fun movie.” Even more shockingly, I honestly feel that almost every highly buzzed film not only actually lived up to its respective hype, but in some cases it even surpassed it. In other instances there were films I thought would turn out to be mediocre but were actually incredibly good summer fun (THE INCREDIBLE HULK, WANTED, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, KUNG FU PANDA). That’s not to say there weren’t some duds (THE HAPPENING), minor disappointments (HANCOCK, PRINCE CASPIAN, INDIANA JONES) and movies I didn’t even bother with (THE LOVE GURU, MEET DAVE). Yet even some of films that tripped a little along the way, still proved to be fulfilling, summer movie experiences. They were perhaps not great films, but they were good summer movies. Maybe I’m just more forgiving in the summer, but either way,  so far… I’ve had a blast.

Do you guys agree that this may be one of the best summer movie seasons in a long time, or am I perhaps going a little off my rocker with enthusiasm?

P.S.: For the curious, the above photo was taken up in glorious Haliburton, Ontario in Canada by yours truly.