Here’s a handy list showing all the major summer releases I covered in my three-part series, moving from bottom to top, to the insufferable to interesting. (But if you honestly thought The Smurfs 2 was my most anticipated movie this summer, you obviously don’t read this site.)
INTOLERABLE
• The Smurfs 2 (July 31)
• Grown Ups 2 (July 12)
• One Direction: This is Us (August 30)
• Planes (August 9)
• Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (August 9)
• 300: Rise of an Empire (August 2)
• Turbo (July 19)
• The Internship (June 7)
• The Lone Ranger (July 3)
• After Earth (May 31)
• The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (August 23)
• Pacific Rim (July 12)
• Rapture-palooza (June 7)
• The Hangover, Part III (May 24)
• Fast & Furious Six (May 24)
SOMEWHAT TOLERABLE
• Paranoia (August 16)
• The Conjuring (July 19)
• White House Down (June 28)
• The Heat (June 28)
• The Wolverine (July 26)
• The To Do List (August 16)
• 2 Guns (August 2)
• R.I.P.D. (July 19)
• RED 2 (July 19)
• World War Z (June 21)
• The Bling Ring (June 14)
• Now You See Me (May 31)
• Epic (May 24)
• This is the End (June 14)
• Man of Steel (June 14)
MOST TOLERABLE
• Much Ado About Nothing (June 7)
• We’re the Millers (August 9)
• Despicable Me 2 (July 3)
• Blue Jasmine (July 26)
• I’m So Excited (June 28)
• Iron Man 3 (May 3)
• Elysium (August 9)
• Kick-Ass 2 (August 16)
• The Great Gatsby (May 10)
• Only God Forgives (July 19)
• Monsters University (June 21)
• The Way, Way Back (July 5)
• Before Midnight (May 24)
• The World’s End (August 23)
• Star Trek into Darkness (May 17)