Summer Has Gone And All I Got Was This Popcorn Kernal Stuck In My Teeth

So I know that summer actually ended sometime in the middle of August (and yes, I'm too lazy to look up when it actually ended) - but it sure as hell doesn't feel like the end of summer - we were above 100 again yesterday and high 90's today, but whatever, that's neither here nor there...

The Andy's Official Summer Movie Experience ended last night (really the season lasts generally from May-August, but I was a little late and couldn't get out to see the final summer movie until late last night, sue me... I had freaking pnemonia...)

At any rate, I saw Inglorious Basterds last night and I was absolutely blown away.  I promised you all that this would not turn into a movie review blog, which is certainly is in danger of becoming based on how many movies I watch as well as my overwhelming good taste and keen eye for excellent as well as crappy film making... but no, I will not review it - 

So I'm not going to re-list my summer movie rankings - I'll keep them up for the time being and for a little while longer - and if you don't know where to look for them, then we're not friends anymore...

I'll say this by way of general notes - I liked this summer - it pretty much gave something to all of us - action popcorn flicks, character studies, violence, love stories, animation, comedies, etc - generally I was dissapointed the most is the comedies.  Only The Hangover was worth seeing in the theater and the others had such potential but came up just short... or in some cases, way short...

Obviously Star Trek was amazing, to the point that it'll be a first-ballot DVD purchase - but I was very very pleasantly surprised that the two movies that rounded out the top three were not big-budget, effects driven popcorn movies.  I don't think anyone will argue that Public Enemies and Basterds were low budget arthouse flicks, but they were character and personality driven movies that relied on amazing actors (sidenote: the German Colonel stole the show in Basterds, and Brad Pitt could not have been better -  Matt and I talked about this last night on the way

 home, but can you honestly think of an actor with more of a range than Brad? He's hilarious, he can be mean and intense, action star-y, and even play that weird character.  He was amazing last night, being exactly what he needed to be to fit into a Tarantino film - he was unflinchingly at ease with his gruesome nature, friendly and innocuous when faced with enemies, and off-puttingly and unintentionally funny... seriously... I'm a fan...) and incredible scripts and shot framing to move us... and they were both great...

So summer movie season is over... we'll miss it until May of next year, when we have another amazing sorting of movies to look forward to (and these are only the ANNOUNCED summer movies... seriously I think next summer has a chance to blow this summer out of the water: 

NO SERIOUSLY, READ THIS LIST WTH THE PROPER RESPECT AND EXCITEMENT!

Iron Man 2 (Robert Downy Jr.) 

Ridley Scott's Robin Hood (Russell Crowe)

Prince of Persia (Jake Gyllenhall)

Shrek Forever (Mike Myers et al)

X-Men Origins: Magneto (Ian McKellan)

The A-Team Movie (Bradley Cooper and Liam Neeson)

Toy Story 3 (Tom Hanks et al)

Despicable Me (Steve Carrell)

The Green Hornet (Seth Rogan)

Inception (Leo DiCaprio)

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (yes, with Nick Cage, but still...)

Logan's Run (??)

The Lone Ranger (Johnny Depp)

Mortal Kombat 3

Superman

Voltron

I mean really - I can't freaking wait until May 2010!!!