This early 2000 comedy mashes up all the best bits from past summer movies and throws in a bunch of major comedy names, making this a cult classic. Hottest moment: The camp counsellors head to town.

Mysterious assortments of pigs and/or cows grilling above the charcoal; the laughter of children running through fields of green; some radio playing infectious pop music faintly in the distance? For most Americans that means time to celebrate the longest days of the year with trips to the beach, mountains, or a backyard barbecue pit. Just so long as there are fireworks, dammit!

For Hollywood, it means a five-car pile up at the box office (this year, the victims vying for survival are Solo: A Star Wars Story, Deadpool 2, Avengers: Infinity War, Upgrade, and Adrift). And for we at Den of Geek, it means looking back at our favorite geeky summer entertainment: going to the movies. Not just this weekend’s movies, but all summer movies. The kinds that are big on popcorn thrills, populist frills and warm night chills. This is a list about the best of those big budgets since a certain fish started stalking Martha’s Vineyard and changed movie making in the process (but more on him later).

So pull up your favorite lawn chair, open a cold one, and let the projector flicker. SPECIAL NOTE: This list is comprised only of films released in what Hollywood deems the “summer months.” That means movies that opened between the first weekend in May and Labor Day. Yes, Lord of the Rings, Superman: The Movie, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are all great summer entertainments except that they all came out in November or December. SECOND SPECIAL NOTE: We are intentionally leaving out “heavy” films that may have come out in the summer, but are not necessarily summer entertainment. Saving Private Ryan, Do the Right Thing, and Braveheart are amazing masterpieces of cinema. But escapism, they ain’t. After finishing the list below, it came to my attention that Will Smith, “Mr.

July” himself, is conspicuously absent. Despite being known as the King of Summer and having reliably opened summer blockbusters for an astonishing 20 years, I could not find a single place in the Top 26 for Wild Wild West, I, Robot, or Hancock. Yet, Smith’s track record deserves some acknowledgement. So, in this special summer recognition, we should remove our caps and salute the movie that started it all for the Fresh Prince: Independence Day. The following year’s Men in Black is arguably a better movie, but there is just something so perfectly summer about Roland Emmerich’s big, loud and awesomely dumb sci-fi blockbuster. And I mean that in the best possible way. With cheesy special effects that couldn’t pass for a Nintendo Wii game these days, Emmerich blew up New York, L.A., and D.C.

Anyone around in ’96 remembers the Super Bowl spot where the White House goes boom. And who does not get a little misty eyed when Bill Pullman soapboxes that “We will not go quietly into the night!?” Fashioned like an old school throwback to Irwin Allen disaster flicks, there are a dozen lead characters and a dozen more sidekicks who must die nobly to the sounds of stirring instrumentals. This movie has it all: Aerial dog fights out of Star Wars; the heroic stroll from The Right Stuff; the Jurassic Park guy quoting himself from Jurassic Park! Of course, it all came down to Will Smith flashing his newly minted Movie Star Smile as he blows up the aliens and brings fireworks to our big screens. Like a demented Randy Quaid, this movie will always come back. THE AVENGERS RELEASE DATE: MAY 4, 2012 Kicking off the list proper is once of the highest grossing summer movies of all time (if you ignore inflation and 3D ticket sales). The Avengers is the culmination of Marvel Studios’ ridiculously patient long-game business strategy, which began in 2008.

It is also the definitive signifier of several decades of summer movies dedicated to grown men in spandex. The fanboy symphony brought together Thor, Captain America, Black Widow, that big green guy, and Robert Downey Jr. I would say Iron Man, but let’s be honest Downey is the real show. Under the strong direction and even stronger scripting of Joss Whedon, The Avengers crackles and pops with the zippiness of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and also the subversive wit of Whedon’s own ‘Verse. He even made the Hulk cool again in a 30-minute climax that left New York covered in alien toys. Visual hotel program cara menggunakan.