Summer Movie Time, 2012, Part 1

With the release of Hunger Games this weekend (I just finished re-reading the books to get ready) and the release of the DVD for The Muppet Movie this week, you probably haven't been thinking about what other movies are coming up that are sufficiently geeky to merit our attention. That's why we're here. So, over the next few days, we'll give you a short list of what the summer holds for the cinematic nerd in you.  

First and foremost, the long lineup of Marvel intro movies (Iron Man, Incredible Hulk, Captain America, Daredevil (yay, Ben Affleck) and Thor) finally comes together in The Avengers, due out May 4. With an estimated budget of $220 million dollars and directed and co-written by Joss Whedon of Buffy and Firefly fame, it should be the blockbuster hit of the summer. When global security is threatened by Loki and his cohorts, Nick Fury and his team (Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow) will need all their powers to save the world from disaster. Best tidbit from the movie: when Bruce Banner Hulks out, the voice of the Hulk is Lou Ferrigno, who played the Hulk in the TV series from 1978 which starred one of my favorite actors, Bill Bixby, as Banner.    

Here's a trailer from The Avengers"    




Coming up next, the classiest movie of the summer: Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.