1. Star Wars
2. Empire Strikes Back
3. Back to the Future
4. Superman
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark
Those movies are all popcorn movies, yet they each have good acting, a good story, good drama, and REAL characters. Summer movies today lack any of that stuff. They are just pure CG fest made for teenagers who will go "WOWWWW!" and then 5 years later won't remember that movie. Remember Independence Day in 1996? That was a huge hit that blew everyone away that summer, I thought it was terrible, cause the characters were lame, and it was the effects that sold it to people. 11 years later, that movie is not even talked about anymore, and wont pass the test of time of any of the 5 movies I have listed, yet it was the hit of 1996, the same as SW in 1977.
I am just sick of sequels, and I think it is beneath Lucas & Spielberg, and even Ford to do another Indy flick. Those 3 guys made my youth with all their great films, and to see them go to the well one more time cause they can't think of anything original is very sad. That is what sequels are anymore, they are just people who are milking a franchise, cause they can't think of anything new, and besides ESB, I have yet to see any sequel match up to the original, cause it is so hard to duplicate the magic from the original movie.
Cassidy, if you guys want to see Indy IV, I have no beefs and I am not personally degrading anyone who want 2 more hours of fun entertainment, I do to. I just think that Hollywood has really lost the ability to make great original movies anymore, as the last good summer flick I saw was The Sixth Sense, original, scary, dramatic, and totally threw me for a loop, instead we get Superman Returns, Fantastic Four, Batman Begins, Spiderman 3, and next year: Indy IV.
What was the last good original movie to come out of the summer: The Matrix? Thats a great movie, yet that was 8 years ago.