May is going to be a big month in movies this year.  There are many sequels, and there are many films with big build-ups.  I think a few of them will be good, but I do think there will be some disappointments.  It could be an awesome movie month or a huge disappointment.  These are the five films I think are going to have the most hype, and the films that will make the most money.  This is what I think will happen with them.

The Great Gatsby:

I strongly believe that the Great Gatsby is going to be the movie of the month.  I think that for many reasons.

It is based off of one of the most famous pieces of literature of all time.  That already gives it an advantage to be great.  As long as it sticks to a similar story line it should be good.  Whoever wrote the script I am sure was smart enough to know that the screenplay will be great as long as you stuck to the book.  I read the book in school about two months ago, and I didn’t like it, but I think I will like this movie. Also the fact that is a remake of a bad original movie could make it better.  The old one stayed true to the book, but it is dated and boring.  The film looks like an updated and better version of the original.  They will be able to analyze the flaws of the original, and correct them.  A good remake should do that. The casting is also great.  Having Leonardo Dicaprio play Jay Gatsby is a great idea for many reasons.  First of all he is a great actor.  He has the intensity in him to do a drama like The Great Gatsby.  The trailers make the film look like it is going to be very intense on the drama, and Dicaprio is great at playing intense roles.  I love it that they chose him to play Gatsby himself, because he is a great actor, and I like him in pretty much everything he does.

However it could be a disappointment, because it a film that people will definitely have high expectations for.  But that is completely understandable considering what it is based on, and because of how big of a classic the book it is based off of is.  But I still think it will be very good.

Iron Man 3:

I have mixed feelings about how good Iron man 3 will be.  It will either be awesome or a failed attempt to be epic.  The first one was great, and it was definitely one of the better superhero films.  The 2nd one was ok, but I think it definitely wasn’t as good as the first.  The trailer for this looks epic, but sometimes they try to hard, and ruin it.  An example is Spiderman 3.  They tried to hard with that film, and it was terrible.  I hope marvel learned from that, and they do it right.  They seem to have been pretty consistently good with their films lately though.  This film has the potential to be just as awesome as the Avengers.  When films like this come out it is always talked about weather or not they will kill the protagonist.  They usually never do.  They tried to fake us at the end of Dark Knight Rises, but they kept him alive.  I think they will keep Tony Stark alive just so he can be in Avengers 2 in a couple of years.  I look forward to seeing it this weekend though with my friends.  I predict that it will be at the top of the box office this weekend though, but it will be pushed to 2nd when the Great Gatsby comes out.

Hangover 3:

Hangover 2 was funny, but it was almost exactly identical to the first one.  The only flaw was that it was predictable; because we had seen the exact same show before that.  But this one looks completely different.  They may just get back what made the first one so surprising and original.  They go back to Vegas, and I have no idea what they are going to do.  The film looks absolutely crazy, and I actually think it may be good.  They are going to have the exact same cast for it, so that will be good.

It will either be hit or miss.  I seriously doubt it will only be ok.  Comedy sequels are rarely good, but I have no idea how the end to a trilogy will be.  I felt like with the 2nd one they were just trying to continue the awesomeness of the first, but this one could be completely new.  I don’t know if there has been a comedy trilogy that has been good throughout, but this could be the first.  If they do a fourth one I think it will be terrible so I hope they are telling the truth and this is the end.

Star Trek Into Darkness:

I have no doubts about this one being good.  They have too many things to base it off of to make it bad.  There was a whole TV show that ran for years, and there are so many things from that show that they could take from to make it a good movie.  I just don’t see how they could mess this one up to be perfectly honest.  I would be shell shocked if it wasn’t good.

Fast and the Furious six:

I am not sure if I will see this.  I only saw the first one and I didn’t like it.  But these films have a cult following so it will have a lot of people who go to see it.  However series like this eventually run their course, and run out of ideas.  That is my prediction for this film.  I don’t have a lot to say about it, because I didn’t see any of the sequels, but I think this one will be bad just because I think they probably ran out of ideas after a while.  It will make a ton of money, but I don’t think it will do well on the tomatometer.  I probably won’t see it.

Those are my predictions for this month.  I think the Great Gatsby, and Star Trek Into Darkness will be great, and I’m not sure about Hangover three or iron man three.  I also think Fast Six will be bad.  If the four films that I talked about that I want to see are all good or most of them are good that will be a greta movie month for me.

I have been watching a movie every day since 11/9/12.  I must watch 365 movies in a year starting from that day.  I have the list of films that I have watched 

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/user/952425/lists/?id=917208002_55901&tab=movie

I also can't rewatch anything, and if I do I can't add it to the list.  Since I started that I have become more in love with movies then anything else.  I have gone deeper and deeper into genres and old films that I never watched before.  My taste has expanded, and my film reviewing capabilities have gotten so much greater.  Movies have become my life now.  I an hour of sleep every school night to watch one.  I fantasize about them, I have started on two screenplays, but I want to learn how to write them before I go back to them.  Movies are the things that make me the happiest now.  I rarely see a movie that I didn't like, because I have developed a great sense as to what films I will like, dislike, or just think are ok.

I have been watching a ton of Alfred Hitchcock films lately, and I intend to see all of his big hits.  I have watched many other old films like "Citizen Kane," and "Casablanca."  I intend to go deeper and deeper into really old films, and I have such a strong appreciation for them.  I also intend to go into more western, and neor films.  I have been renting tons of movies from the library to do this personal project of mine, and it will definitely take me less then a year to watch 365 movies unless I go about two months without watching them.  This has been a great experience for me, and I feel like it is a preview to having a job.  Because I have made movie watching and reviewing my job that I must do everyday.  It has also been a good thing for me because it has helped me learn to balance my time.  I have had to balance my time between watching films, reviewing them, getting all of my school work done, sleep, and friends.  I also play guitar, which is something that I have cut down on slightly since I started this project.  I can’t wait until I am done with this project so I can do it again and see if I can watch the same amount of movies in an even quicker time.  Movies are the greatest thing in the world too me.

I impress adults with my knowledge of older films and with my film reviews.  I am the only one at my school who reviews stuff like the stuff I reviews at my school.  Other kids think it is really cool, and it is the thing that I do that makes me feel special.  At times I tend to struggle to have good self-esteem, which is normal and very common amongst people my age, but when I write a good movie review I feel awesome.  Lately film reviewing has been a form of therapy for me, and a total release of thought.  I am a very opioniated person so that helps me in that area too.  My uncle Mike is the author Michael Connelly, and I intend to become a writer like him.  I try to show him my reviews to see what he thinks, because I know if I can impress him I must have done a great job considering he is the author of “The Lincoln Lawyer,” “Blood work,” and “The Black Echo.”  I always show my best reviews to my parents, and ask what they think.  I sometimes struggle to take feedback, because I am stubborn, but I will work on that next.

I really want to start making money for writing my film reviews, and I want to start writing about music on other websites.  I am definitely a writer.  I will write things in the future such as screenplays, film reviews, music journals, blogs, and maybe a book.  I also tend to write my thoughts on Facebook.  This site is what really made me decide that I am a writer.  I am only a junior in high school, and I am only 17 years old.  I have a long life ahead of me, and no matter what I am writing I will always be watching movies.  I expect that I will be one of those guys who has seen every movie by the time I get to college.  I don’t know if I will always be reviewing, but I will always be writing.

Just because a movie is entertaining doesn't mean it's good.  A movie can be entertaining, but it can still be bad.  Like Terminator 3 was bad, but it was still entertaining.  What makes a movie good is the story, and plot line.  Then comes entertaining.  What makes a movie great is the acting, script, entertainment, originality, and the the production.