Upcoming June Movie Releases

I can't believe it's almost June already. June means we're about halfway through the list of big summer blockbusters being released. So I'm going to give you a list of some of the movies coming out this month. Keep in mind, these are just the movies I want to see. I'm pretty sure there are a lot more, but none that interest me.

I'm going to start off giving you a synopsis of each movie and then tell you why I want to see them.

Man of Steel released June 14

A young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and what he was sent here to do. But the hero in him must emerge if he is to save the world from annihilation and become the symbol of hope for all mankind.

I'm actually not as excited about this one as I thought I would be. Superman used to be "my" superhero, and I suppose I would say he still is, but I think I've just gotten more engrossed in the Marvel movies. I also didn't really get super excited when I saw the previews. I'm not really sure why. I kept expecting to see Tom Welling when he turned around, but obviously it's not him, it's Henry Cavill. I'm still going to be seeing the movie though, just probably not opening weekend. I'll wait till a Tuesday after the buzz has died down.

Much Ado About Nothing also released June 14

Leonato the governor of Messina, is visited by his friend Don Pedro who is returning from a victorious campaign against his rebellious brother Don John. Accompanying Don Pedro are two of his officers: Benedick and Claudio. While in Messina, Claudio falls for Leonato's daughter Hero, while Benedick verbally spars with Beatrice, the governor's niece. The budding love between Claudio and Hero prompts Don Pedro to arrange with Leonato for a marriage. In the days leading up to the ceremony, Don Pedro, with the help of Leonato, Claudio and Hero, attempts to sport with Benedick and Beatrice in an effort to trick the two into falling in love. Meanwhile, the villainous Don John, with the help of his allies Conrade and Borachio plots against the happy couple, using his own form of trickery to try to destroy the marriage before it begins. A series of comic and tragic events may continue to keep the two couples from truly finding happiness, but then again perhaps love may prevail.

Alright so full disclosure, I only want to see this one because, hello, Nathan Fillion and Joss Whedon. It's Shakespeare, but it's supposed to be a modern retelling, which should help it be a little more interesting. I'm worried though that it won't be coming to our little small town theatre, because it tends to not get, shall we say, not as popular movies. Which is disappointing. So I may be grabbing my bff Amberella and going on a trip to find it in theatres.

Monster's University: June 21

Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan are an inseparable pair, but that wasn’t always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met they couldn't stand each other. “Monsters University” unlocks the door to how Mike and Sulley overcame their differences and became the best of friends.

Just because I am 23 does not mean I can't get excited about movies meant for children. In fact, I'd say I have a right to be excited about this one because I was part of the original target demographic for the first movie. I think this movie should be pretty good, and pretty funny. I just wish Boo could be in it, she was my favourite.

White House Down release date June 28

 

Washington D.C. Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job of being a Secret Service agent and protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to disappoint his young daughter with the news, he takes her on a tour of the White House, and they are there when the complex is overtaken by a paramilitary group. Now the nation's government falling into chaos, time is running out and it's up to Cale to save the president, his daughter and the country.

I just saw another preview for this the other night when watching Fast & Furious, and I gotta say, I'm not as excited as I originally was. Regardless, Channing Tatum. So, I'm going to be seeing this. I probably sound super pathetic because the only reason I go see movies is because of hot guys. Oh well. I'm pretty sure this one is going to have almost the exact same storyline as Olympus has Fallen, and I'm not sure which one will be better.

Turns out there are zero DVD releases I am looking forward to in the month of June. Is that not sad? I think Die Hard is coming out, but I'm not going to be buying that one, but I just feel like most of the DVDs being released are kind of crappy. But hey, mine is just one opinion, you might like them.

Are there any movies you're looking forward to this month?

Mini Movie Review: Fast & Furious 6

Tuesday night means another cheap movie night! This time it was to see Fast & Furious 6. I was also super excited because I got the kids' combo which was for Monster's University :) because clearly I'm a giant dork. I now have a Sulley cup topper to join the rest of my collection.
Alright, starting with the (ridiculously long) synopsis and then into the review.

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of all-stars as the global blockbuster franchise built on speed races to its next continent in Fast & Furious 6. Reuniting for their most high-stakes adventure yet, fan favorites Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Elsa Pataky are joined by badass series newcomers Luke Evans and Gina Carano. Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete. Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.

I feel like I should have watched the last movie again, because I really don't remember what happened. That being said, I don't think there was much that carried over. Other than Letty supposedly being dead, and Brian is having a kid.

The movie starts with Hobbs asking Dom to help him, and he's pretty adamant about saying no, until he sees the picture of Letty. He then agrees, just to find out if she might be alive, and to bring her home. The rest of the team comes together pretty willingly. Brian needs a little persuading to leave Mia and the baby, but she convinces him to go.

Most of the movie is just the fast driving and chasing the bad guys. Some things blow up, a couple people die...but the basis is the fast car chases.

Overall I thought it was a pretty good movie. It had some pretty funny moments, lots of action, and a bit of a twist at the end. I'd recommend it if you like action movies, and want to watch something fun and not too serious.

I found out that this movie is actually supposed to take place just before Tokyo Drift (fast 3), and that there will apparently be a Fast & Furious 7...not sure how I feel about that yet. I almost feel like it's hit it's peak and will be downhill from here. But we shall see.

Stay tuned for more misadventures.

Mini Movie Review: Star Trek into Darkness

I apologize for being a tad MIA lately. I didn't really have much to write about, and then my internet seemed to be on the fritz. Alas, I am back with a Star Trek review.
Since I couldn't go see Star Trek opening weekend, the only obvious choice was to see it on Tuesday. Because who doesn't love cheap movie night?
I'm going to start off with the synopsis and then let you know what I thought of the movie.

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving the world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As the heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.

The movie starts by throwing you right into the action. Kirk ends up doing something stupid (which isn't overly surprising) and gets the Enterprise taken away from him. Enter bad guy Benedict Cumberbatch, people dying and he gets the ship back. I actually almost cried at one death, to be totally honest. It just made me really sad.
John Harrison (Cumberbatch) gets away and the crew of the Enterprise are assigned to go after him and attack him with torpedoes. Kirk being the good guy that he is (mostly influenced by Spock's arguing) doesn't kill him and just takes him into custody. And we all know what happens when the hero tries to be the good guy and not kill the bad guy, something bad goes down. Mild spoiler alert: one of the main characters dies because of Harrison. That just about made me cry too.
The whole movie was very action packed. There were a few sad parts, but for the most part it was pretty hilarious. There were some great lines. My favourite supporting characters were by far Chekov and Scotty. The whole cast is fantastic and Benedict Cumberbatch is an awesome villain.
I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone, Trekky or not. Even if you haven't seen the first one I think you'd still enjoy it.
The only thing I'd say I disliked about the movie, was that the ending seemed almost too rushed and too easy. I felt like it just sort of ended. I can't really describe it very well, but I've discussed with a few people (minus my boyfriend) and they've all agreed with me. My boyfriend says I just need to do my research on the old Star Trek. Either way, I still thought it was a good movie.
Have you seen the movie yet? What did you think?
Stay tuned for more misadventures.

TV Season Finale Time

It's that time of year when all the shows are ending. If you're lucky, your shows are renewed for another season, but many shows aren't quite so lucky. Thankfully all my shows are returning.
So far this week I've had 4 season finales, there's one more tonight and then my final one next Monday.
Castle finished on Monday and it kind of leaves you with a cliff hanger right in the middle of a conversation. You have no idea what Beckett is going to do. Now I'm trying to talk about these without giving anything away to people who might still have to watch them, so forgive me if I'm super vague.
NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles finished on Tuesday. NCIS wasn't all that much of a cliff hanger, and it mostly just made me confused. I have no idea what's happening. Granted I do watch a lot of similar shows so half the time I actually have no idea what storyline I'm following. Sad, I know. NCIS: LA was the worst ending. It was actually a "to be continued" and I just about lost my shit, pardon my language, at the end. Essentially one of the team members is being tortured and you have no idea what's going to happen. I was actually trying to cheat to see if they were signed on for next year just so I'd know they were ok.
Chicago Fire was Wednesday, and it pretty much wrapped itself up nicely. No major issues happen right at the end. Which was good, because I don't think I could have handled it after what else happened in the last 2 episodes.
I have Elementary to watch tonight, it's a 2 hour finale so it should be exciting. I know what a lot of people say about Elementary and how much they hate on it, and frankly it pisses me off. I think it's an interesting take on Sherlock and Watson and I enjoy the show.
Hawaii Five-0 is finishing up it's season on Monday. I have to say, I hope they wrap up the Wo Fat storyline. I feel like it's dragged way too long now.
Hopefully I'll be able to (or remember to) come back and update on the finales of the last 2 shows.
After next week I don't know what I'm going to watch. There's not many shows on in the summer. I thought about maybe trying to find the first seasons of Rookie Blue somewhere and watching that before the season starts. I sort of got into it I think the first year but then stopped watching.
Do you have any summer TV show recommendations?

UPDATE
I watched the 2 hour season finale of Elementary on Thursday and I have to say, it was a pretty good episode. Definitely a few twists and turns but it was enjoyable. And fortunately it wrapped up pretty nicely with them catching Moriarty so no stressful cliff hangers there.
While watching Elementary there were commercials for the finale of Hawaii Five-0 and I just about lost it when I saw it. "Will this team of 4...become 3?" or some such thing. None of them could die! I would be super upset. So starting to watch it on Monday night I wondered if perhaps maybe they weren't going to die but someone was just going to leave for a little while. Thankfully I was right. Won't tell you who goes, or why, to leave a little bit of mystery there. I was really hoping Steve's mom and Wo Fat story lines were going to end, but it appears that they're just building. Mama McGarrett has a secret that we don't get to find out before the end of the episode, and when Steve's visiting Wo Fat in prison at the end you hear shots fired in the hallway (where there is a massive amount of armed like SWAT guards) and then you see that someone is trying to cut through the steel door. And then scene. So that one had a bit of a cliff hanger because well, Steve could die because he has no gun.
Lastly, apparently I was mistaken and last week's Chicago Fire was not the finale, I saw a commercial for the finale last night while watching Five-0. So, one more stressful night on Wednesday and then a final update on that one.
2nd UPDATE
Watched the Chicago Fire finale last night, and I was not happy with the ending. They get called to a prison fire, the power goes out, one of the guys gets held hostage, but Casey is conniving and they get out. Shay is still trying to get pregnant. Herman's wife has their baby and asks Shay and Kelly to be his god parents, which I thought was pretty cute. You see Peter Mills go into the police academy and ask for an application form (meaning he's probably going to be moving over to Chicago PD which is apparently starting next season). And at the end Kelly's ex girlfriend comes back and drops a major bombshell on him that makes me angry.
Now I believe that's my last finale and update to do. Hope you enjoyed all your season finales.

World Class Procrastinator

I've always been a procrastinator. I should be packing. I have to move stuff on Saturday and I don't have much done. And to be honest, most of what I have done, wasn't unpacked from the last time I moved (which was back home).
I'm not even doing useful procrastination. Sometimes I'd not want to do something (it used to mostly be homework) so I'd do other things, like sometimes be crafty, read or even clean. Not so much these days. I have a couple craft projects that I could've been working on, but I've pretty much almost given up on them.
The most I did today was go rollerblading. Twice. I suppose that's better than what I did for the rest of the day, which was sitting on my butt playing on my phone. That's seriously how lazy I am sometimes, I didn't even bother to take out my computer, until about a half hour ago (like 8pm).
I'm also putting packing off because I hate it. And I hate moving stuff. This is going to be my 7th move in almost 5 years. And I'm going to have to have at least 2 trips this weekend alone. Because my bed takes up the whole truck bed and then I need to move a dresser and a couch. And they're not going to fit into my itty bitty Mazda. I myself am not going to be moving into the place until a couple days before the long weekend because I'm going to be working that weekend, but I need to do it in advance because my moving helpers are only available on the weekends. Damn people having real grown up jobs haha.
As much as moving sucks, there's a silver lining, which is, Megan doesn't have to commute an hour to get to work again this summer. And that makes me very happy. I was super cranky pretty much all summer because I worked long days and drove an hour both ways so I pretty much had no life.
In summary, I really need to get my butt in gear and pack tomorrow. Ugh, and I just remembered I have to do laundry and take my bed apart tomorrow. Lame.
In other news though, I got 3 new post cards to add to my collection. My boyfriend's mom and sister just got back from Newfoundland and brought me some.
As always, stay tuned for more misadventures :)

Mini Movie Review: Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3 came out in theatres last night, and it surprisingly wasn't as busy as I thought it was going to be. That could just be because I was at the early, 2D showing. The previews we got to see were Star Trek into Darkness, Fast & Furious 6 and Thor: The Dark World. They were all pretty exciting.
Before I begin my review, let's have the synopsis.
Brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) is pitted against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to a question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Apparently, according to my boyfriend and his friends, the movie wasn't "right". Meaning it's different than the comic books and the villain isn't the same. But to someone who has no idea about any of that (ie, me), it was a good movie.
What I liked about this movie was that it showed that Tony is still human. Whenever he got stressed out (or someone mentioned New York) he would have anxiety attacks. It also had the typical Marvel humour, but at some points it seemed like there was too much comic relief and one liners.
There are some creepy looking bad guys, a few plot twists, and an adorable boy that ends up helping Tony.
If you're a huge Marvel fan, or have even just seen the rest of the movies, I would definitely recommend watching this movie. And as always, make sure you stay until the credits finish rolling.

Upcoming May Movie Releases

I suppose I should specify, movie releases that I am excited for. Looking at my list, it appears as though there are only 3 coming to theatre and 1 on DVD. Well then.

First up is Iron Man 3, coming to theatres May 3
Brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr) is pitted against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to a question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
I'm super excited to see this. And even more excited that it's not only in 3D. I'm not fond of 3D, though I am at the mercy of my boyfriend's friends, so I may end up having to watch it in 3D. Regardless, I can't wait to see it. Hopefully we're going to be going opening night. If you had asked me even a year ago if I wanted to see any of the Marvel movies, you would have probably gotten a resounding "no" however they are growing on me. It helps that RDJ is freaking hilarious.

Next up is Star Trek Into Darkness on May 17
When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving the world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As the heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
To start with, I'm going to say I am not a Trekkie. I've only seen the newest movie and that's it. But I'm really looking forward to this one because, well the trailers look pretty sweet, and I love Chris Pine and Benedict Cumberbatch. This one, I believe, is only going to be (at least here anyways) in 3D. Unfortunate. This one I will not get to see opening night, because I'm pretty sure I'm going to be working, since it's the long weekend. Either way, I plan to see it.

Last movie is Fast & Furious 6 on May 24
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of all-stars as the global blockbuster franchise built on speed races to its next continent in Fast & Furious 6. Reuniting for their most high-stakes adventure yet, fan favorites Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Elsa Pataky are joined by badass series newcomers Luke Evans and Gina Carano. Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete. Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.
That is a ridiculously long synopsis. But I'm feeling somewhat lazy and don't feel like looking for another one, so that's that. This one I'm not as excited about in comparison to the first 2. I think I'm just looking forward to it because I've seen the rest of them. That being said I feel like they need to quit while they're ahead and end the series. That's just my opinion though, and who knows, it could change after seeing the movie.

I'm likely going to do reviews on all these movies after I go see them, so look forward to that.

DVD release Safe Haven on May 7
When a mysterious young woman named Katie (Julianne Hough) washes up in the small North Carolina town of Southport, she is determined not to make personal relationships. That is, until she meets Alex (Josh Duhamel), a kind-hearted widowed store owner, struggling to raise his two children. When Katie feels herself falling for him, she must choose between familiar safety and the perils that come with love.
This one was cute. It's a Nicholas Sparks adaptation, so that pretty much clues you in that it's a sappy, slightly depressing, romance. I think this might be one of my favourites of his. It wasn't super depressing. I haven't read any of his books to compare the, shall we say accuracy of adaptation, but from what I heard, a fair bit was changed. I probably won't be buying this one as soon as it comes out, but once it's been out a while and goes down it price, I'll likely pick it up.

Are there any movies you're looking forward to in the month of May?