Pineapple Express

Release: August 8th
Links: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia

Opinions:

Nowned: This looks like its going to be one of my favorite “Druggy Movies” and will probably become a classic in the drug culture. Seth Rogen looks great in this.

Mr.Wumpus: Wow, this looks legitimately hilarious and almost like it would have decent “slow” moments aswell. It’s like the birth of the stoner movie with a decent cast… Gotta say, being a rabid Seth Rogen fan, I’m excited.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Release: August 15th
Links: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia

Opinions:

Nowned: After the complete disappoint that was the last 3 movies it’s nice to see a new Star Wars based movie coming out to make up for it. I love the animation style that they use for the Clone Wars animated stuff.

Mr.Wumpus: Wow, looks sweet. Especially since I hated the last three star wars movies. I loved the animated series this movie is based on and I’m expecting this movie to be atleast worthy of going to see. First thing that comes to mind when watching this trailer though, is, how can Jabba the Hut reproduce? It must be a harrowing ordeal.

Hancock

Release: July 2nd
Links: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia

Opinions:

Nowned: This movie looks like a big “meh” for me. It could be good but chances are it’s just going to be just another boring movie.

Mr. Wumpus: Yeah, well… since when did Will Smith get “in-demand” again? It’s probably not a terribly good thing. Nowned’s meh resounds clearly throughout my opinion aswell.

The Wackness

Release: July 3rd
Links: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia

Opinions:

Nowned: The Wackness looks like one of the most esoteric quasi-mainstream movies that is going to come out this year. I’m expecting great things from this movie but i greatly doubt that the general public will appreciate it at all.

Mr. Wumpus: 25 seconds into the trailer and im just not going to watch anymore. Will not see this movie.

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Release: June 11th
Links: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia

Opinions:

Nowned: I loved the first Hellboy and this sequel looks just as good, if not better.

Mr. Wumpus: Hmm, never saw the first Hellboy but this movie looks bitchin’ and now I really want to.

The Dark Knight

Release: July 18th
Links: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia

Opinions:

Nowned: *drool*

Mr. Wumpus: I’m really not much of a Bat-fan but this movie does look pretty well done and I’ve got to say, Heath Ledger is a crazy mother fucker who looks like he nailed his role as the Joker.

This is a great fake trailer that is part of The Onion Movie that came out on June 3rd. It’s a pretty funny movie and definitely worth watching. There really is no way to explain this video except to watch it.

I don’t think you have the balls

This is our second month running this column and as everyone here at Exploding Wumpus liked to work on it and give their opinion, we have decided to bring it back. There isn’t a lot of movies coming out this month that look good, sadly. But we will make do.

The Incredible Hulk

Release: June 13th
Links: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia

Opinions:

Nowned: I was extremely surprised how good this movie looks. At first i was expecting this to be the one bad comic book movie coming out this summer as pretty much every other one actually looks good, which is kinda amazing considering last summer, not to mention the fact that the 2003 Hulk movie was terrible. I especially like how the plot is actually unique for a change. I’ve got high expectations for this movie.

Bluesun: I have never really liked Hulk especially since the 2003 release.  I also see a striking similarity between Hulk and Ironman: Main character attacked by military, becomes hero, military creates copy that is better, two fight each other, main character wins, the end.

Wanted

Release: June 27th
Links: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia

Opinions:

Nowned: I’m probably one of the few people who have actually read the Wanted comic book series that this movies is based on but just for the rest of you to know this movie is absolutely nothing like the comic book. I don’t even know how they can say that this is based on the comic book series they aren’t alike at all. In the comic books the characters are all superheros(villians, actually) that are in a league of super villians that control the world. Now how the heck does that compare to assasins? All of this aside, this movie still looks epic. Nice to see Angolina Jolie back in full form. Can’t wait to see this.

Bluesun: Looks good, a new idea to spice it up.  Has a kind of Jumper feel to it though

Wall-E

Release: June 27th
Links: IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, Wikipedia

Opinions:

Nowned: Everyone who knows me knows that i’m a huge fan of animated movie and especially Pixar movies. I have been looking forward to this movie ever since i heard about it when i saw the first teaser at a Ratatouille prescreening last year. Hopefully ill go see this on opening night.

Bluesun: I think this movie looks very good although if there is too much talking in “robot” it might ruin the movie.

We are starting a new monthly segment called Movies to See (or not see). Basically we just highlight all the movies in the next month that you should see, provide the trailer, a little information about each movie and have a little opinion written by each of our authors who want to contribute! Sometimes we omit movies from the list but these are merely ones that seem far too unimportant or ones that are universally understood as awful. All release dates are the American ones.

As a side note, all the trailers are supplied courtesy of Apple trailers and there were a slight few kinks in embedding the sexy, high resolution trailers into the post so if there is a broken video just refresh once or twice and it should fix itself.
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