Garbage...garbage...and more garbage

It's now mid-July and things are looking ugly. There has been so little that is worthwhile this summer. Going all the way back to May, Star Trek was fun, and then the Hangover, but there hasn't been much since. I hear Up is worthwhile and Harry Potter that comes out in a few days is supposed to be dark which means good (remember Prisoner of Azkaban, the only really dark Potter movie and by far the best). Still, aside from those four movies spanning the months of May, June, and July, it's been pretty gloomy. Based on word of mouth, Public Enemies is boring, Transformers is idiotic, Taking of Pelham has a terrible ending, Bruno is non-stop offensive. Where's the fun? I went to see the Larry David - Woody Allen movie Whatever Works, simply because there was nothing else to see, and it was just as plain and predictable as everything else. Maybe Judd Apatow's Funny People will be ok, and I have high hopes for 500 Days of Summer and Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards, but those three would have to be pretty miraculous to put this summer on par with where it should be.