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Summer of Sequels is coming…

May 14th, 2007

NPR calls this summer the “summer of sequels”. I didn’t realize how right they were until Spider-Man started off the last weekend.

Sequels:
-Ocean’s
-Bourne
-Pirates
-Spider-Man
-Fantastic Four
-Rush Hour
-Harry Potter
-28 Days
-Shrek
-Hostel
-Transformers
-Die Hard
-The Simpsons

I’m sure there’s more. This is what I have now.

I’ve already started out my summer of movie watching with a team outing to Spider-Man 3 on the IMAX big screen. Thanks to Matt and John’s wife. I was surprised that the screen and the movie was shot in a way that the large screen and moments did not cause me to become motion sick.

All my friends know better than to watch a movie with lots of movement with me unless we sit in the back row. 9th grade, best friend and I went to see Hook for our English class. (The assignment in English class is to watch a movie and review it for the class in a five minute speech.) We were in different periods so we often chose the same movies so that we could have company as well as a carpool to drop us off. Another time I went babysitting with my best friend at Chuck E. Cheeses. On the way home, I sat in the backseat with the kids and bad pizza in my stomach. The moment the car stopped in front of her house, I wasn’t feeling well.

I was really relieved not to have to relieve the 9th grade during Spider-Man III. Thankfully a seat in the back with Aarthi and no bouncing kids nearby averted any motion sickness. I also have to give credit to the movie director who choses to shoot action scenes with a mounted cam.
Now for Ocean’s Thirteen where Soderbergh’s free hand camera angles are sure to make me ill.

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