With many summer commitments, like summer school and SHAD, coming to an end, youth in Calgary are starting to find more time on their hands and starting to head out to the movies with friends more often. I personally have already watched a good number of movies this summer with both friends and family, and I must say that it’s probably one of the best ways to relax and chill! For those of you looking to start watching more movies, I’ve decided to help compile a list of the best summer movies (in my opinion). Don’t worry, the below introductions for the movies will be mostly spoiler free!
Spiderman: Homecoming
I’ll be completely honest, I’ve never been a huge fan of the Spiderman series. Ever since I was little, I always thought Spiderman was the least “cool” of all the Marvel superheroes (I probably just offended 500 people right there). In fact, the only reason that I saw this movie was because I do my very best to keep up with all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe lore, and missing a movie would mess up all the continuity that was already established in my brain. The movie was actually a lot of fun to watch, with lots of unexpected humour and new perspectives about the world that the characters live in. Tom Holland was a great Spiderman actor, and the storyline played perfectly into everything that was already known about the other Marvel movies. This movie made me even more hyped up for the next instalment in the MCU, Thor Ragnarok! You can read more about Spiderman: Homecoming in Ananya’s post from a few days ago!
Dunkirk
So one day I was flipping through the Wikipedia app on my phone and I went to the trending pages bar, to see that the Battle of Dunkirk was the top visited page in the last 24 hours. I was really quite confused about why a battle so long ago in WWII would all of a sudden be the most searched up article on Wikipedia, so I did a quick Google search and voila: it was Christopher Nolan’s new war epic. My first Christopher Nolan movie was Interstellar, which thoroughly impressed me, and so I decided to watch Dunkirk as well to see if it actually lived up to the reputation that critics were giving it. During the movie, the dialogue, explosions, and stressful music all kept me on the edge of my seat. I do have my criticisms for the storyline about the airforce. There were only three British Spitfires from start to finish, and so dogfights were not as exciting as I anticipated. It was also really hard at the beginning to tell which planes were German and which were British, so when a plane went down I wasn’t sure if I should have been happy or sad. The land and sea story lines more than made up for the shortcomings in the air storyline however. All in all, it was a really well made movie that had a perfect soundtrack, which I would highly recommend seeing.
Transformers: The Last Knight
One. Last. Time. Michael Bay’s last Transformers movie lived up to his reputation, with crazy amounts of CGI and an excessive number of explosions. It was an absolutely crazy thriller, and my love for the Transformers series through the years makes me a biased supporter of this movie. I used to be that kid with all the different Transformers toys lined up neatly in my room, and I absolutely enjoyed my first Transformers movie. I know that lots of people criticize the entire Transformers franchise for having an underwhelming repetitive storyline, and I have to at least agree somewhat with that criticism. That doesn’t stop me from recommending this movie to anybody who loves breathtaking scenes and epic robot-on-robot moments!
Despicable Me 3
I’ve been waiting for this one since Despicable Me 2. Way back then, I had a bet with someone that Gru would go back to evil. I don’t remember who that someone was, but if they are reading this right now, please buy me ice cream at McDonald’s like you promised! It was pretty much what you would expect from a good-guy-turned-bad-guy-turned-good-guy-again movie, with random wacky stuff like chewing gum all over the place and a real life (kinda) unicorn. As great as the movie was, I think that it didn’t quite top the Minions movie. Perhaps it’s time for a shift to more of the little yellow guys!
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