Summer Movie Releases - 8/28/09

Final Destination

And now the weekend I was dreading as I began this weekly post previewing upcoming movie releases. I've only seen a few minutes of one the Final Desinations on cable and they looked like they were having a great time killing young people in creative ways. Congratulations on making money in one of the most depraved ways possible.


Halloween 2

John Carpenter's original film is genuinely tense and thought-provoking (but unfortunately spawned the slasher genre). Rob Zombie "directs" his second Halloween film after a moneymaking reboot. If the trailer is any indication, there are lots of jolts from the sound design and lots of dumb movie characters. There really hasn't been an interesting "horror" film since the Scream series ended.

Taking Woodstock

Ang Lee uses Woodstock as a backdrop for a coming of age story. I've been sick of baby boomers shoving this event down our throats since I was a kid. It's a shame that Lee is wasting his time with such thin material. He has been great and hopefully will again. Mixed reviews at best. Liev Schreiber appears in drag in case you were tempted to see this at all.