Summer movies: One in 33 ain’t bad

Having just perused this preview of 33 movies to be released this summer, I am interested in exactly one of them: Prometheus. Two reasons: Intelligent science fiction is hard to find, and director Ridley Scott has proven that it needn’t involve giant shape-changing robots. In fact, his classic Alien and a couple of its sequels might be the last good science-fiction movies I’ve seen.

The rest of the crop — ugh. It’s all comic books and cartoons and stupid romantic comedies. There are sequels out the wazoo. There is also Adam Sandler, who keeps committing career suicide and keeps reappearing like Jason in those Friday the 13th movies. Somewhere along the line he made a deal with the Devil, and the Devil definitely got hosed on that deal. I’ll bet when you saw the first “Opera Man” sketch on SNL, you never thought that dude would be haunting the big screen until the end of time. I know I didn’t.

Take a look at the list and try to identify the very worst of the lot before the reviews are in. Something that will make Jack and Jill look like Citizen Kane. You know at least one of these movies is going to top the Razzie list next year. Pick the one that garners the most Razzies, and I’ll give the winner a $25 gift certificate to Chili’s. (Hey, crap food for crap movies). I’m totally serious about this.

My selections, just based on concept and a feel for this sort of thing: A Little Bit of Heaven (Kate Hudson), Battleship (Rihanna), That’s My Boy (Sandler) and G.I. Joe: Retribution (Bruce Willis).