August Movie Previews

[Smokey]

From Sylvester Stallone in South America to Piranha in 3D, it is the last push for summer movies.

Ranked by release date:

Week of August 2nd, 2010

The Other Guys: The film is an Adam McKay-directed action comedy that will team Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as cops.


Oxford Murders: When an elderly woman is viciously murdered in Oxford, her body is discovered by two strangers whose lives are immediately changed forever.


Sicilian Girl:Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother.


Week Of August 9th

Expendable: Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) lead a team of mercenaries heading to South America on a mission to overthrow a dictator.


Tales From Earthsea: Wizard of Earthsea" centers on Ged, who was the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea.


Week of August 16th

PIRANHA 3D: A new type of terror is about to be cut loose on beautiful Lake Victoria.


Nanny McPhee Returns: Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to teach her mischievous charges five new lessons.


Vampires Suck: The makers of "Date Movie," "Epic Movie" and "Meet the Spartans" take on the vampire genre, particularly "The Twilight Saga."


Lottery Ticket: The story of a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a winning lottery ticket worth $350 million.


Week of August 23rd

The Last Excorcism: A troubled evangelical minister agrees to let his last exorcism be filmed by a documentary crew.

[thekid]

Saw "Inception" with the kids yesterday. a very good movie that you have to stay on top of or you will miss something. Interesting ending that I think can be interpreted a couple of ways.

[Jack in Wilmington]

I read the CNN movie critics reviews each week and he was saying that it has been a dismal summer for movies. He said Toy Story 3, Iron Man 2 and Prince of Persia were good. Eclipse and A Team made money. But other than that it's been pretty poor.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

I read the CNN movie critics reviews each week and he was saying that it has been a dismal summer for movies. He said Toy Story 3, Iron Man 2 and Prince of Persia were good. Eclipse and A Team made money. But other than that it's been pretty poor.

They are correct, it has been a horrible year. I thought Disney's resurrecting The Sorcerer's Apprentice would be a great idea until I actually saw it. I looked at some of the other employee's at the screening in the Disney Digital Theater on the lot and said "we screwed this one up royally". I got this response from them

[Smokey]

Thanks Kid, Jack and Sir TT for movie reviews.

As for this being bad summer movie, it will be interesting to see total theater revenues for this season. That probably paint a better picture of how movies did this summer. But not before August totals are in for Stallon's new movie Expandable and 3D movie Pirahna. Those might turn out to be a mini hit.

[Worf101]

My friend Sugi who owns "The Spectrum 8 Cinema" da local art house (www.spectrum8.com) says that the heatwave this summer is the only thing that saved her. Sold a lot of tickets to older folks looking to survive the heat and eat popcorn. Other than that, the summer sucked.

Worf

[Smokey]

Worf, do you get in for free or does senior citizen rate apply

Theater sound like a nice pop and mom operation.

[Worf101]

Worf, do you get in for free or does senior citizen rate apply

Theater sound like a nice pop and mom operation.

You bearded scallywag!!!! I get in free because I put in the sound system in their coffee house and maintain it as well. I've also known the owners for 25 years AND you can take that senior citizen crap and shove it!!!! LOL. I get enough garbage from AARP as it is without you chiming in!!!! Seriously though they're an institution around these parts AND they pop their own popcorn and use melted, salted BUTTER and only BUTTER on their popcorn. My gawd I wants some and me wants it now... precious...

Worf

[Tarheel_]

AND they pop their own popcorn and use melted, salted BUTTER and only BUTTER on their popcorn. My gawd I wants some and me wants it now... precious...

Worf

What a concept...my local movie house servers popcorn that just tastes low quality and it's unsalted and get this....the only salt they carry is the cheese flavored variety. Talk about sucking!

After all popcorn and a movie help give the whole synergy feel.

[frenchmon]

My gawd I wants some and me wants it now... precious...

Worf

To much movie watchin....