What’s The Greatest Movie Summer Ever?
We’re gonna post 6 of the greatest movie summers - reblog your favourite!
1991
Terminator 2: Judgment Day: James Cameron arguably started his habit of making groundbreaking event pictures with this sci-fi sequel. To this day, the CGI continues to impress, as does the beating heart beneath the hyperalloy combat chassis.
Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves: For the last 30 or so years, the ‘swashbuckler’ seems to be a difficult subgenre to get right, but Prince Of Thieves nails it, with action and scale to spare, and one of Alan Rickman’s many great villains, the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Thelma & Louise: This ladies-on-the-lam movie may not immediately feel like a Ridley Scott flick, but the director’s fingerprint is visible in the striking vistas, large-scale action and gutsy characterisation.
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey: There was existential searching aplenty in this most excellent of sequels. The time-screwing plot, in which the eponymous slackers try to outdo Death, is a head-scratcher, but it’s just one facet of the movie’s goofy charm.
Point Break: In what was an annus mirabilis for Keanu Reeves-based bromances, Kathryn Bigelow’s tale of wave-riding bank robbers took action-buddy antics to a whole new level of awesome. One hell of an adrenaline rush.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back for more Terminator
Arnie wasn’t kidding when he said he’d be back; the Austrian Oak has just signed on to make another Terminator movie. With his tenure as ‘Governator’ of California over, speculation has been rife over which project Arnie would choose to head back to the movies with.
Now, Deadline confirms that the 63-year-old is sticking with what he knows by returning to the franchise that first made him a household name. Having signed on to resurrect his Terminator character, Schwarzenegger is now shopping the project around Tinseltown with director Justin Lin in search of studio backing.
15 Awesome Movie Mums
1. The Incredibles (2004)
The Mum: Helen Parr. AKA Elastigirl. AKA Mrs. Incredible. The maternal contingent of Pixar’s super-family.
The Awesome: A superhero in her younger days, Elastigirl marries fellow crimefighter Mr Incredible. After superheroism is outlawed, the pair retire and raise a family. When her husband is endangered re-living his glory days, it’s up to Elastigirl to don a new supersuit and and sort things out the way only a mum can.
Her high point comes when infiltrating Syndrome’s secret base, where her stretchy limbs provide one of the movie’s finest set-pieces. And turning into a parachute to save her kids has got to earn her some Mother’s Day brownie points.
(via cocksandcowboys, lifeslittle)
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