After a string of huge summer blockbusters, Hollywood has finally shot its wad. Welcome to August, the traditional dumping ground of also-ran action movies, lame comedies, cloying rom-coms and at least one sleeper hit. Too bad that sleeper isnt arriving this weekend.
Instead, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is the huge national release. G.I. Joe is (reportedly) so shiteous that the studio refused to screen it for all but a smattering of the most-fawning Internet critics. (Sadly, I was not on the list.) In a summer where Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is both the worst reviewed and highest grossing film of the season, your movie has to be exceptionally horrible if youre scared of the big, bad movie critics.
This article appears in Aug 5-11, 2009.
