Today we have a guest post by our friend Nathaniel Thomas McGill.  He was one of the producers on our first feature, Dangerous Calling.  He’s also produced multiple short films and a feature length documentary called An Inconvenient Tax.

I love going to the theater in the summertime. As soon as the first blockbuster release date is announced I start getting excited. Sure, I get disappointed when movies suck, but I never miss the release of an awaited feature.  Even when in production, I’d find my opportunity to sneak away and double feature them if necessary. The rest of the year I try to focus on independents, documentaries, and films with more “significant” ideas, but during the summer I’m just a twelve-year-old boy that wants to hear a good story and see something explode.

There is something magically nostalgic about over paying for coke and popcorn, sitting in the dead center of the theater and falling into the suture of a summer blockbuster. Sure, it’s gotten pretty expensive over the last few years, but I’ve remained true to my tradition. That is, until this summer.  Sadly enough, the best movie experience I’ve had this summer is when I stayed at home and re-watched the 1st blockbuster - Jaws – instead, which celebrated its 35th anniversary this year.

Sure I was excited about Iron Man 2, but they just added 2 of everything.

Robin Hood was so bad it made me laugh and cry. (Laugh when Scott turned the film into Saving Private Ryan with bows and arrows, and cry that I paid 12 bucks to see it.)

While I had a great time with A-Team, isn’t it getting ridiculous the amount of TV and Video game adaptations we have to put up with?

M. Night lost it years ago, and the other films like Predators had such revealing reviews that I just didn’t give it the chance to waste my money.

I shamefully admit that I went to see Grown-ups and geez… now I am just depressed at what a suck fest this summer has been.

Of course, Toy Story 3 was a great time, but still, enough with the 3D thing. Let’s try to make something worth watching in 2D first.

I just don’t know that I can afford this anymore. I’ll see Inception, but its just too late in the game to not feel betrayed by this summer. Ticket prices are higher than ever and the movies are just horrible. So, I’ve found a new hobby for movie summer and if you’ve had enough, you should do the same. Go to NetFlicks or the Bluray/DVD store of your choice and marathon the summer films celebrating milestone anniversaries.

Celebrating 25 years, and possibly one of the greatest movie summers of all time is 1985. Listen and learn present day Hollywood! How is it that with no CG or digital effects you let this year kick the crap out of you? Tickets were like $2.75 back then. Take it in. All these films came out in one summer!

Brewster’s Millions, Rambo 2, A View to a kill (Roger Moore’s last Bond film), Fletch, The Goonies, Pale Rider, St. Elmo’s Fire, Back To The Future, Explorers, Silverado, The Man With One Red Shoe, Day of The Dead, European Vacation, Follow That Bird, Fright Night, Weird Science, Pee Wees Big Adventure, Summer Rental, Return of The Living Dead, Volunteers, Teen Wolf, Better Off Dead… just to name a few.

You know you are having a good year when the not so great movies to come out are The Black Cauldon, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, Cocoon, and Return to Oz.