2014 Summer Movies, Part 2 June
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- June 6, 2014
By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS)
June is here, so it’s time for a look at this month’s summer movies!
Edge of Tomorrow
While Groundhog Day crossed with Terminator sounds like a joke from a Kevin Smith movie, with Edge of Tomorrow (opens June 6, 2014), Tom Cruise and director Doug Liman have made it happen.
And despite the previews looking like a repetitive bore fest, featuring two impossibly good looking people firing impossibly large firearms, the early reaction to the film is actually rather good.
In fact this isn’t really surprising, as despite the negative press surrounding his personal life, Tom Cruise rarely puts a foot wrong professionally. Indeed, the Top Gun star has been selling big movies like this for nearly 30 years.
Also co-star Emily Blunt has already established herself as a genuine A-lister and her performance in Looper (2012), as a tough single mother, has solidified her status as an actress of substance.
Throw in Bourne Identity and Go director Liman and you have one of the best big movies of the summer. In fact, Liman and Cruise enjoyed working together so much, they are developing a buddy comedy and have reportedly approached semi-retired Jack Nicholson about co-starring.
Edge of Tomorrow IMAX trailer:
22 Jump Street
Speaking of buddy movies, 21 Jump Street (2012) filled the Lethal Weapon-sized hole in the box office schedule. And Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum proved that this genre will never run out of steam.
Following the commercial and critical success of the first movie, 22 Jump Street, which opens June 13, 2014, is here, with the action graduating from high school to college.
Once again directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the early reaction from screenings has been positive.
Indeed while 21 Jump Street – which grossed $201 million worldwide – poked fun at film remakes of television shows, the follow-up reportedly rips into sequels.
The first movie was smartly written and contained two strong central performances and it looks like the sequel will do exactly the same, with positive early buzz.
22 Jump Street red-band trailer:
Transformers: Age of Extinction
The international poster
There isn’t much to say about Transformers: Age of Extinction, other than if you liked the other instalments you will probably like this. Conversely, if you think most Michael Bay movies are unwatchable, effects-driven nonsense, then you’ll almost certainly hate this movie.
Filmmaker Bay, who may be stepping down from the rest of this new trilogy,?has ostensibly created a soft reboot, casting a whole new set of actors who exist within the same cinematic universe as the previous three films.
The rebooted cast includes Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Stanley Tucci, Jack Reynor, and Kelsey Grammer.
According to a new government study, if you enjoy watching Michael Bay movies you are unlikely to live past the age of 35 — Transformers: Age of Extinction will be released on June 27th — so good luck with that.
Transformers: Age of Extinction international trailer:
Other Movies Opening
Other noteworthy films opening in June: the animated sequel?How To Train Your Dragon 2 (June 13), sci-fi thriller?The Signal?with Laurence Fishburne (June 13), and comedian Kevin Hart’s?Think Like A Man Too (June 20).
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