July Movie Previews

As expected for midsummer, this month is loaded with blockbusters.

Ranked by release date:

July 1st

Transformers: Dark of the Moon: In this new movie, the Autobots and Decepticons become involved in a perilous space race between the U.S. and Russia, and human Sam Witwicky has to come to the aid of his robot friends.
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Larry Crowne: When Larry Crowne (Tom Hanks) is inexplicably fired from his job as a big box store clerk, he realizes it’s time for some meaningful change in his life.
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Zookeeper:Griffin Keyes (Kevin James) decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decide to break their time-honored code of silence and reveal their biggest secret: they can talk!
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Ironclad: A medieval-era action film that pits a member of the formidable Knights Templar (Purefoy) and his Magnificent Seven cohorts who defend Rochester Castle against King John and his army in 13th century England.
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2: This is the final adventure in the Harry Potter film series.
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Winnie the Pooh: Walt Disney Animation Studios returns to the Hundred Acre Wood with “Winnie the Pooh,” the first big-screen Pooh adventure from Disney animation in more than 35 years.
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Captain America: The First Avenger: Injected by ‘Super-Soldier Serum’ and bombarded by ‘vita-rays.’ Steve Rogers emerged from the treatment with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human.
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Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage: When the Sultan's first born is taken by an evil sorcerer, Sinbad is tasked with traveling to a desert of magic and creatures to save her.
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The Smurfs: When the evil wizard Gargamel chases the Smurfs out of their village, they’re forced through a portal, out of their world and into ours, landing in the middle of New York’s Central Park.
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Cowboys & Aliens: Based on the Malibu Comics graphic novel that mixes Western and science fiction genres. Set in 1800s Arizona, a skirmish between cowboys and Apaches is interrupted by the crash landing of a space ship.
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Looks like a some good ones Smoke. Larry Crowne has gotten a lot press as Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts have been doing the talk show circuit.

Harry Potter is on the list for sure. Haven't missed one yet. Our friends wanted us to go opening night, but the last time we did that we had to sit in the 3rd row. Not fun.

Saw the Cowboys and Aliens preview when we went to see Green Lantern and it looks really wild. Sort of like the episode of Star Trek when they wind up at the OK Corral.

Now that I'm retired, I hope to catch more movies. The senior citizen matinees are only $6.00

Of all the Harry Potter movies, the first one was good but pretty much lost me after that. Maybe they go out with a bang with last one in the series. The Sinbad movie look kind of interesting and hopefully they follow the same story lines previous Sinbad movie did with alot of strange creatures and exotic settings.

Cowboys and Aliens will probably be on my list so as Captain America. Let's see how they hold up with audiences and critics. But I am still surprise Disney waited 35 years to bring Winnie the Pooh back to big screen since they already have built-in audience.

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Originally Posted by Smokey

Of all the Harry Potter movies, the first one was good but pretty much lost me after that. Maybe they go out with a bang with last one in the series. The Sinbad movie look kind of interesting and hopefully they follow the same story lines previous Sinbad movie did with alot of strange creatures and exotic settings.

Cowboys and Aliens will probably be on my list so as Captain America. Let's see how they hold up with audiences and critics. But I am still surprise Disney waited 35 years to bring Winnie the Pooh back to big screen since they already have built-in audience.

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With the Harry Potter movies, you really need to read the books and then you become hooked. She puts so much in the books, that the movies can loose you if you're not familiar with the story.

Think the last novel I read was Godfather by Mario Puzo back in "86. And that was before I seen the movie. Although the movie version is excellent on its own right, but it did not match the complexity, atmosphere and charactor develpment of book.

I am guessing it is the same thing with Harry Potter books vs the movie version.