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.