While we were watching Dark Shadows, I noted the previews and movie posters for upcoming movies.  Some of them look good enough to pay theater prices, some look good enough for a DVD or on-line rental, and some looked like they ought to be avoided like a fuzzy steak.  I’m basing these opinions entirely on not knowing much about the movies other than the series they’re in, the poster, or the trailers, so take them with a grain of salt and enjoy what you want to enjoy.

• Battleship – Really?  Multiple movies about poseable soldiers and transforming robot dolls weren’t enough?  Now we have to do action movies about a game that can be played on graph paper?  I’ll save my money and wait to be really bored during the heat of next summer so i can watch it on some cable network.
• GI Joe: Retaliation – Remember what I said about poseable dolls?  Yeah, this is more of that.  Pass.
• Men in Black III – Men in Black follows in the Star Trek “We can’t think of anything new, so… Hey!  Time Travel!” footsteps.  This one will be a rental at Christmas time, but only because I liked the first two movies so much.
• Snow White and the Huntsman – Snow White meets Joan of Arc.  The visuals and action in this one look really good, but we all know pretty much know how it’s going to end.  This one might be worth the cost of a matinée during the heat of the summer.
• Prometheus – Oh Lord, please do not let this suck.  Oh please, oh please, oh please!  Will probably pay full price to see this one on the big screen.
• Madagascar 3 – Probably wait for a rental or TV showing of this one.  I was disappointed in the second movie, and let’s be honest, how many times can you do the same jokes about city folk out in the wild?
• Rock of Ages – Tom Cruise plays an aging rocker who doesn’t know when it’s time to hang up his leather pants.  If I wanted to see people who need to get a haircut and learn more than three cords, I’ll go to one of the  retirement fund concerts that come through here every summer.
• Brave – It’s a Pixar, so I’ll probably go to a matinée of this one with the kids.  I have yet to watch one of their movies that hasn’t been at least entertaining.
• Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter – Not sure on this one.  I love history, I love monster movies, but I’m not sure about revisionist history that paints the 16th president as a monster hunter.  Probably a rental, but I’m on the bubble about paying to see this one.  I haven’t read the book, and I’m worried that if I do, I’ll enjoy it enough to pay to see the movie and then be disappointed.  I got bit in the butt by Stephen King in that way enough that I’m a little gun-shy.
• The Amazing Spiderman – A reboot of the reboot.  Unless I hear something significant, this one will go on the “movie of the weekend” queue on cable.
• Argo – This one looks really interesting.  Ben Affleck plays a CIA officer sent to Iran in 1979 to rescue 6 Americans who are hiding in the Canadian embassy.  This is supposed to be based on the actual operation to get them out.  Probably a rental because I’m the only person in the family who wants to see something like this, and I get the feeling I’m going to want to rewind back to catch things I missed the first time.