I'm going to keep this short and quick: the general consensus (aka my twitter feed) seems to indicate that the summer of 2010 was "like, one of the worst ever," as decided by a group of people with the average age of 27. I actually agreed with that sentiment until just now, which is when I popped open the summer schedule and started reminiscing. Speaking only about "studio" flicks, since this is the summertime we're talking about, we start with...


-- I actually dug Iron Man 2 quite a bit, but this is an admittedly thin batch. Anyone out there want to champion one of these flicks?



Wow. There's a few there I haven't seen, but even fans of Greek or The A-Team are hardly to call them big-time summer season barn-burners. Splice is a pretty damn cool piece of sci-fi / horror, but I don't get why you release that flick in the summertime. (pause for dramatic effect) Toy Story 3 is a thing of beauty.




Of this batch I really liked Inception (like most of you seemed to), Salt (a lot more than most people did), and Predators (more than I probably should have).



Like a lot of old movie / video game freaks, I virtually made out with Scott Pilgrim, even if general audiences didn't, I dug the relatively guilty pleasures of The Expendables (if only because it's a vast improvement over Rambo 4), and I definitely enjoyed the one-two end-of-season horror punch of Piranha (stupidly splattery) and The Last Exorcism (smartly scary). Ah, and I did giggle a whole lot during The Other Guys, truth be told.

Overall, not a "Top 3" summer season, but we did get one brilliant sci-fi flick and a new animated classic out of it. Plus a few memorable movies that may be worth revisiting ... and some crap that's just plain old fun.

Sort of like every other summer movie season I can think of, basically.