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Added 2022-06-01 06:32:45 +0000 UTCWhat's your favorite summer movie to watch and why.
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"Raiders of the Lost Ark", because... Spielberg and Lucas pioneered the summer blockbuster. As Spielberg once said, "they put the butter back in the popcorn".
Atticus Xey
2022-06-03 20:22:55 +0000 UTCThis would be my pick too. I think I must have watched that movie at least 3 or 4 times last month XD
Hart
2022-06-03 19:06:11 +0000 UTCDazed and Confused. The greatest high school movie as well as one of the best hangout films ever made. Set on the last day of school in Texas 1976, no other movie better evokes the glorious aimlessness that comes with getting out of school for the summer and having your whole vacation ahead of you. Blessedly free of any plot, we follow a group of various seniors as they spend their Friday afternoon and evening hazing the incoming freshman, smashing mailboxes, trying to get a party started, getting drunk, getting high, hooking up, and scoring Aerosmith tickets—anything and everything important to a teenager of any era. While this all sounds like the stuff of many a high school film, Richard Linklater, a master at making a meandering narrative engaging, gives us likeable, appealing characters and grounds them in a casual yet precise authenticity. You never feel like you’re watching a movie so much as getting a glimpse at a specific time and place. The film has been dismissed by some as a mere nostalgia trip, but I think Linklater gets at the ambivalent nature of life in high school. His teenagers know they are never going to have a time in their lives where they have so much freedom and so little responsibility, but that only yields more uncertainty as to what lies ahead for them. No one, however, is going to let that get in the way of a good time. Dazed and Confused captures the joy and mindset of summertime for teens—getting the most out of the present while thinking as little as possible about the future. It’s my favorite Linklater film.
Bennett Oliver
2022-06-01 21:49:58 +0000 UTCRear Window. The summer setting is the key to making this movie work. Everyone in the apartment complex opens their windows to cool off which leads to Jefferies indulging in his voyeuristic tendencies. Summer’s image of childhood adventure and sunshine is a good setting for Hitchcock to subvert expectations. The only thing that can produce more sweat than a Manhattan heat wave is knowing that your neighbor has been killed and their murderer is still on the hunt.
Emerson B
2022-06-01 20:25:31 +0000 UTCJaws. An art house theater near me does an outdoor screening of it every July 4th and I try really hard never to miss it. It’s not just that the setting of the film is perfect for a summer fright night. The adventurous spirit of early Spielberg brings me back to being a kid and having the ultimate freedom during summer time. It’s basically a pirate movie where the characters hunt down the ultimate prize. Perfect for summer nostalgia.
Jackson Littlewood
2022-06-01 16:01:44 +0000 UTCCall Me By Your Name. For me, Guadagnino captures his settings so beautiful in his films and I always feel really immersed in his films. I feel the heat and cool refreshing pools and seas. I can smell and taste all the delicious food and especially the fruits on every table. The music both diegetic and score are so breezy and full of life. And the fashion is also just wonderful. I love spending time in the world with the characters of Ellio and Oliver and their fleeting summer fling. The movie just delights me for 95% of it until I'm emotionally wrecked by the end.
Tyler Shobe
2022-06-01 14:49:54 +0000 UTCDo the Right Thing. No film about racial conflict has been better. Spike Lee shows beautifully how a collective group filled with anger, frustration, resentment, and blazing hot summer weather can lead to disaster. The riot at the end is so perfectly shot, edited, and choreographed that it might as well be colorized documentary footage from the Civil Rights Era of the 1960s and has a line that never fails to get to me: "He died because he had a radio!".
Wolfman Brandon
2022-06-01 09:31:23 +0000 UTC
