Best Film of the Summer

[rabidmidget]

Easily Toy Story 3, out of the ones I had seen. Pixar has never let me down, and in this case it's their flagship franchise. I missed out on Scott Pilgrim, though my mom saw it with a friend and had a glowing review. Funny, she's hardly the target demographic, but we're both fans of the director. When is the next Blood'N'Ice Cream thing coming out anyway?

I think it's beginning production when Pegg finishes whatever he's working on now.

OT: I would probably say Toy Story 3, especially since I have been around the same age as Andy in every film.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Easily Toy Story 3, out of the ones I had seen. Pixar has never let me down, and in this case it's their flagship franchise. I missed out on Scott Pilgrim, though my mom saw it with a friend and had a glowing review. Funny, she's hardly the target demographic, but we're both fans of the director. When is the next Blood'N'Ice Cream thing coming out anyway?

The only information available is that the third Blood And Ice Cream movie will be called The World's End

OT. Toy Story 3 hands down.

 

[gravitii]

I've missed so many of those movies so I'm not gonna judge, but i'd say this summer the movies were really divided by fan base. Scott pilgrim and kick and others had a strong nerd fan base, A-team and Expendables suffice for one kind of action, centurion and other greek/roman ones fit another, pirhanna had it's fan base, and toy story has it's very strong fan-base etc. As you can see a lot of people on the forum we're saying "Scott Pilgrim was the best, the expendables SUCKED!" and visa versa which goes to show the real fan base division here. I have no idea which ones will be getting the awards though.

 

[Azuria]

Inception. Although I would've liked to have seen Splice.

 

[CrazT]

i didn't see as many film as i wanted to this summer, but my favourites are Toy Story 3 and Inception. i thought Predators was good, much better than either AVP film. But the worst film i saw was Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

 

[Zing]

Inception by a mile.

 

[Axolotl]

Let's see, Toy Story 3 was pretty good, The Expendables was lacking, Inception and Scott Pilgrim were dissapointing.

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

I ignored Toy Story 3 on purpose due to not being 12 anymore.

Damn - I wish that I was as cool and hip as you.

You wish you were so lucky.

Sorry if I can't get interested in a plot that has been done twice already.

"Oh no, we have to get back to Andy! OMG Comic hijinks involving us being toys!" Yes, very original.

You probably saw Transformers 2 on opening weekend didn't you? And I bet you loved it too and can't WAIT for Transformers 3. You're the kinda movie go'er that makes me vomit.

Wow. I... I don't know where to begin. Terribly sorry that your delusions of my horridity made you vomit, but I guess if you're going to make blind accusations like that then... fine.
No I didn't see Transformers 2 or 3 - can't stand 'em.
Toy Story has always had the same themes and basic story lines. Many things do this - it's nothing new. Toy Story always tells it with different settings and characters, but yes the basic plot is the same.

That being said, Toy Story 3 was interesting with brilliant characters (Ken especially), great moments (the picasso tortilla especially), and some pretty fucking scary bits (much more so than the others before). Combine this with the brilliant ending and you have a damn fine movie. Being or not being 12 has nothing to do with enjoying a pixar movie - they are made for all ages.

I love you almost as much as that guy who gave me a big ass list of games that if I liked made me a hippocrite, assumed I liked at least one of them, and then proceded to mock me rather extremely, exclamationly, and capslockly for it. Suprise, I didn't like any of them. He blew it off like it was nothing. Figures.

You threw the first swing with your backhanded compliment, many assumptions were made about you from that moment, most of which I don't care about having any truth to them.

The reference to 12 was how old I was when the first Toy Story was released (1995). I saw Toy Story 2 when it was released as well, when I was 16 (1999). I'm sure its full of neato goodness, but frankly Pixar isn't what it used to be and rehashing the same old plot for some easy bank doesn't interest me, regardless of how "brilliant" the ending was. If it was as "brilliant" as Wall-E's ending (cliche, visible from about 5 miles away, and uninteresting), then I'll continue to pass. Lemme guess however, happy ending with cgi tears of joy?

You threw zero-ith swing by saying that Toy Story 3 was only fit for 12 year olds. The plot is similar, but most sequels are like that, and most sequels aren't better than the previous ones (and if you ask me, Toy Story 3 is). Toy Story 3's ending was happy, yes, but it wasn't visible from space.

I very much disagree that Pixar isn't what they used to be. (All my opinion here Cars wasn't very good (recent) but neither was Bug's Life(past). So far, it all seems to be balancing out.

You can do the 'Lemme guess' thing with pretty much any movie, excluding a few like Tarentino movies, Brazil, etc.

Alien: 'Lemme guess, only the girl gets out?'

This is not a kids movie, but rather an everybody movie including kids. It needs to be a fairly happy ending otherwise Fox News will get their souless bastardity into a bindle. As I said, I think Toy Story 3 would have really benifitted from a Brazil ending but again, it was to be appropriate for kids.

 

[Socius]

The sorcerers aprentice was badass! and hillarious!

 

[PissOffRoth]

Inception was pretty cool, but had a few too many plot holes that weren't explained well enough, I dunno if this was done on purpose to make you look back and try and figure things out on your own, but whatever.

Could you point out these plot holes to the rest of us who understood the movie? (or at least I thought I understood it.) Or do you always make accusations without backing them up?

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

I'm going to say Scott Pilgrim, even after thinking that Inception would go down as my favorite.

 

[Spacelord]

Does Shutter Island count at all? If so, then that.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

The Expendables.

I'm not even joking here, everything about that movie was really good, except for the length and it blew Inception out of the water for me.

Just to clarify, I like Christopher Nolan, if it were "Best film I've seen this summer", Dark Knight would've won that one.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Inception.

It was absolute masterpiece, seriously. Toy Story 3 was a fun watch and i might be seeing Scott Pilgrim this week, so i'l see how that is.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Toy Story 3. Why? Nostalgia , bitches! Oh, and it was a pretty good movie too.

 

[Mana Fiend]

Toy story 3. Easy.

That is all.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

1. Toy Story 3
2. Inception
3. The Expendables
4. Scott Pilgrim vs The World
5. The Other Guys

Toy Story 3 was the best film since... er... um... well, I forget. But yeah, best film this year by a long way. Inception was great. the effects were good, the plot was followable so long as you pay attention, the acting was good. Not as good as TS3, but that's a hard act to beat. The Expendables was 80's schlock so therefore it was awesome in it's own way. SP was great, but I didn't like the whole douchey hipster atmosphere it had. The Other Guys was hilarious, easily the best thing Will Ferrel has done since Anchorman and the best think Mark Whalberg has done since ages and ages and ages and ages and ages and ages and ages ago.

And yes, I prefered The Expendables to Scott Pilgrim. And I don't mind Michael Cera.

Oh yeah, I didn't like Pirhana 3D either. On the scale of badness there's 'so bad it's bad', 'so bad it's awesome (The Expendables?) and 'so bad I think it's actually bad for you (Piranha 3D)'.

 

[BlackJak007]

Can't decide between Toy Story 3 or Inception as best movie so far. Both great movies!

Really did enjoy A-Team and The Expendables though.

 

[SalamanderJoe]

Scott Pilgrim rocked. Expendables was a nice bit of mindless fun.