Summer movies: To see or not to see?

Summer movie season means excess, from the behemoth buckets of popcorn I like to call "gluttony tubs," to bloated production budgets and marketing blitzkriegs that saturate the media like the golden butter-like substance drizzled over a gluttony tub.

Movies That Look Promising:

Iron Man 2

May 7

Starring: Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr.

Directed by: Jon Favreau

Iron Man doesn't need any help from me to rake in gluttony tub after gluttony tub of box-office riches.

Get Him to the Greek

June 11

Starring: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Sean Diddy Combs

Directed by: Nicholas Stoller

The sort-of sequel to the winning romantic comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall takes Brand's character, rockstar Aldous Snow, off the wagon and into debauched adventures with sycophantic assistant Jonah Hill in tow.

Splice

June 4

Starring: Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley

Directed by: Vincenzo Natali

Brody and Polley star as two idealistic genetic scientists who create a new, horrible life from in this creepy looking science fiction horror hybrid.

Inception

July 16

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan has kept production details and most of the story under wraps, releasing a brilliant and cryptic trailer that provokes attention while providing no information.

The Adjustment Bureau

July 30

Starring: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Terence Stamp

Directed by: George Nolfi

I want to see this film because it's an adaptation of a short story by sci-fi legend Phillip K. Dick. Previous Dick adaptations include Minority Report, Blade Runner, and A Scanner Darkly: fine films all. I also do love me some Damon, so I'll be front and center, gluttony tub in hand for this picture.

The Last Exorcism

August 27

Starring: Patrick Fabian, Ashley Bell

Directed by: Daniel Stamm

This indie horror effort was a big hit at the Sundance Film Festival. That sentence alone bought my ticket because the Sundance audience demands a little more from their fright flicks than blood-soaked cleavage and gotcha scares. Also, demonic possession is never not scary.