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Summer movies show excitement, diversity
BY MATT MCCORMICK
The Battalion
T he summer is a time most students welcome a de
served break from their academic existence. So it
should come as no surprise that movie studios line
up their best movies in hopes of breaking new box-of
fice records during the summer.
In fact, summer is the time of the year when most
movies are released, and blockbuster movies are
stacked up often, two to a weekend.
The summer is also generally the time reserved for
big-budget action movies. This summer could be the
biggest of recent years with several action flicks sure
to blow audiences away.
When addressing summer movies, one first has to
mention Mission Impossible 2. John Woo directed
MI2, the summer’s most anticipated action flick due
in part to its trailer, which is one of the best in years.
This Tom Cruise movie is sure to be the early box-of
fice champion of the summer.
Do not expect this movie to hold on forever as box-
office champ because yet another Jerry
Bruckheimer/Nicolas Cage production will be out in ear
ly June.
The past two Cage/Bruckheimer movies (The
Rock, Con Air) were among the biggest summer
blockbusters of previous years, and do not expect
Gone in Sixty Seconds to break the streak. This re
make of the ’70s cult classic is anything but of the
cult genre, featuring great cinematography and a hip
supporting cast that includes Angelina Jolie and
Giovanni Ribisi.
Also to be released at the end of June is another
action extravaganza, but with a historical setting —
Mel Gibson’s The Patriot. An American Revolution
act ion/drain a, this movie is definitely attracting some
attention because some people wonder if director
Roland Emmerich can bounce back from the deba
cle of his last film, Godzilla, with this outing.
Chances are, The Patriot could be one of the most
enjoyable treats of the summer, especially since Gib
son has been saying that he thinks it is better than his
own movie Braveheart.
Riding closely on the heels of all of these action
flicks is The Perfect Storm. Storm reunites Three
Kings ’ George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg. It also boasts
top notch Computer Graphic Imagry (CGI) coupled with a
true life story based on the best-selling novel of the same
name. It is directed by Wolfgang Petersen, who recently
found summer success with Air Force One. Even though
the trailers look great, one has to hope that Petersen’s CGI
w@rk is much improved since the dismal final shot of the
plane crashing in Air Force One.
Another eagerly awaited action film \sX-Men. Directed
by Bryan Singer (T/je Usual Suspects), this movie is a spe
cial effects extravaganza with an all-star cast featuring
Patrick Stewart, Elalle Berry and Ian McKellan. Most
movies based on comic books seem to do well in the sum
mer, cashing in on all of the little kids out for the summer.
Eddie Murphy p]ans to get large again with his sequel, Nut
ty Professor II: The Klumps. Due to the overwhelmingly pos
itive response to the scene in which Eddie played the entire
family in the first film, this film will focus on the Klump fam
ily. Hopefully, Eddie has gotten some of his mojo back after
several box office disappointments since the last Professor.
Although these films are almost guaranteed to be big-
draw movies, there are several other films coming out this
summer which may have less hype and smaller budgets but
should be just as high in quality.
The Farrelly brothers, who had a huge summer success
a couple of years ago with There’s Something About Mary,
will return to the summer lineup with a Jim Carrey movie
titled Me, Myself and Irene. The wacky trailers and Carrey ? s
presence mean this movie will probably be one of the sum
mer’s funniest films.
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of Shaft. He will play the original Shaft’s (Richard
Roundtree) nephew. Isaac Hayes, who won an Oscar for his
theme song for the original Shaft, has been brought in t'o
provide music for'the new film, helmed by John Singleton
(Rosewood, Higher Learning).
The trailers for this film reveal very little about the ac
tual movie, but with Jackson in the lead role, it is sure that
this film will not lack attitude.
Harrison Ford badly needs a hit movie following Ran
dom Hearts, as does Michelle Pfeiffer. The two are starring
together in Robert Zemeckis’ supernatural thriller, What
Lies Beneath. Zemeckis, who ruled the summer a few years
back with Forrest Gump, insists that great characters, not
special effects, drive this film. Hopefully, Ford can score a
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