Boom. Pow! Crash.

My, my, it's certainly been a fruitful summer movie season. There's been:

Star Trek
Wolverine
Terminator Salvation
Angels and Demons
Transformers 2
Up
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
GI Joe

That is not to say, however, that this summer's movie fruit has been beautiful, juicy, or delicious. What it has been is LOUD. With plenty of CGI. And not so much cohesive plot.

Star Trek was an extremely promising opener. It far exceeded my admittedly meager expectations, and I left the theater full of hope and optimism about the upcoming movie season. Little did I know, however, that the peak had already come and passed. Lots of this summer's movies can be described as whirly/peoplerunning/explosions!/kissing/betrayal/dizzying odes to somewhat controlled chaos.

It's been fluffy and fun, but I have to praise the heavens for student night and Entertainment book coupons. Without those price deferments, I might be less stoically philosophical about the disappointing blockbusters and slightly more bitter about the our significant time investment. I think I'm going to wish that 2010 is more like 2008, with fewer, but far awesomer bang-crunch movies like the Hulk, Iron Man, and Batman. Of course, 2010 will probably be an actual reprise of summer 2008, so I guess I should be hoping for good sequels...