Poll Results- What Summer Movie Are You Most Excited About?

The results are in and you have spoken Fearless Readers. Before we get to that please allow me a Ryan Seacrest moment to blither on a minute or two before finally answering your question of "Who? Who? Who?" (you're beginning to sound like an owl by the way, might want to get that checked out).

The options were: The Avengers, The Amazing Spider-Man, Battleship and The Dark Knight Rises.

We're halfway through the summer and three of the four movies listed above are already out and DKR is out in only ten days! Apparently we are of like mind Fearless Readers because I would say my ranking would have been identical:

1. The Dark Knight Rises (level of excitement...extreme!)- it's the conclusion to one of the greatest movie trilogy's of all time, yes I went there, and it has had all of the hype that one would expect. These films will probably define Batman for my generation and I can't see anything wrong with that! I purchased by tickets for the midnight release last week and it goes without saying that I am incredibly pumped about this movie. I expect it to be my favourite of the year, anything less will be a disappointment.
2. The Avengers (level of excitement...very, very high)- Marvel Studios spent years building up to The Avengers which released in May and went on to gross well over a billion worldwide! I saw this movie twice in theatres, once at the midnight release and then again on 'opening night' and I was about to go see it for a third time when it was yanked from theatres in favour of the third film on the list. The Avengers was everything I had hoped for and more. I don't know anyone who was disappointed, haven't read much of anything negative at all in fact. I have already posted about this movie so I will stop myself here but this is a 'must-see' for pretty much everybody: exceptions to the rule are people who have to ask eighteen thousand questions while the movie is playing instead of watching the damn thing.
3. The Amazing Spider-Man (level of excitement...cautiously optimistic)- When I first heard that Sony was working on a 'reboot' to Spider-Man I was excited but also a little apprehensive. Spider-Man 3 was 2007, how much would change in those five short years? The answer turned out to be quite a bit. Amazing Spider-Man focuses on a younger Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) and goes all of the way back to his original comic book origin in that his love interest is the beautiful Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone). I have posted my full reaction to this film already so I'll let you with this: I was very pleasantly surprised by The Amazing Spider-Man, it was superb.
4. Battleship (level of excitement...I was calling it 'Battleshit' after I saw the first trailer)- Calling it a blatant copy of Transformers would be pretty accurate and that's just from watching the trailers. Proving that bad acting and an over reliance on explosions, action and CG animation doesn't mean much anymore, Battleshit flopped (LOL) earlier this summer. Thankfully my Fearless Readers were smart enough to steer clear of this (sorry here comes another pun...) ship wreck.

Enjoy your movies this summer Fearless Reader. I am anxiously awaiting the release of The Dark Knight Rises as it is my most anticipated movie of the year!