Oh, yeah. I'm pretty easy to please but a couple negatives for me:

I don't think there's any chance of that, re: "If this ends up being one of the better blockbusters this summer, I'll be pretty disappointed."

Spider Man 2
 

I hope you're right. I watched Captain America 2 recently and enjoyed that one about the same as Spider-Man 2.

I think X Men will probably be around the same level as Cap and Spidey so I'm putting all my summer eggs in the Godzilla basket. That movie looks awesome.

Winter Soldier was great. If Spider Man 2 is on that level I'll be greatly shocked. Not that I ever plan to see it.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is my dark horse this summer. I think Guardians of the Galaxy could be really cool, too, but I'm not convinced they're going to be able to convince people to actually go to the theater to see something that looks that crazy. It's pretty far outside the safe, cookie-cutter Hollywood blockbuster formula, at least in appearance. I hope it does well.

The biggest movie of the year will probably be the next Transformers sequel. :(

Some big movies later in the year. Gone Girl will probably be huge. I would say Interstellar is the one I'm looking forward to the most, but it's not here until November 7th.

Winter Soldier was slightly better than I expected, and I enjoyed it even though I've felt it's yet to hit it's stride with getting the character established. I'm not explaining it well, but I'm eager to see where they go with it in 3.

As for Spidey 2- I guess I'm in the minority that liked the 1st, and Toby just never jived with me as an actor for that role, and I completely prefer Garfield regardless of one liking the Raimi trilogy.

I'm crossing my fingers that Dawn of the PotA can match the 1st, but that's a heavy order. Even though Franco isn't back - except maybe in a small cameo that's been rumored, I like the cast they brought in for the 2nd part of the series.

I had zero opinion about GotG since I wasn't familiar with it prior to the movie going into production. From the clips, trailers, and bits and pieces trickling out, I'm actually eagerly awaiting to see this once it opens. Pratt and Del Toro look great so far in the limited stuff they've put out. I hope I'm not disappointed given my recent interest.

I'm sure Transformers will rake in it's tons of cash. I'm cool with bringing in the new cast. Wahlberg doesn't bother me like he does for some.
The plot line based on the trailers doesn't seem nearly as interesting as #3, but this is totally the type of movie meant to be seen on the bigscreen. I'm holding out hope that the rumors are true and they decided to cut the campy stuff and this one will be grittier / skewed more towards an adult audience?

Sony is actually expecting it to do well. It's faired better than Captain America 2 in it's limited international release 1st weekend. I believe $46 million in very limited release of 15 countries. Estimates for the US is at about $100 million for the 1st weekend.

The studio head at Sony said they're very please and aiming for a billion at the box office. Seems a bit high- unless they have a huge number of IMAX / 3D theaters where they can really rake in the $$$ due to ticket cost. They'll virtually unchallenged for 2 weeks before Godzilla drops, and then X Men comes out and that will likely be it's 1st competition for entertainment dollars.

As for X Men- it just looks too awesome! I'm probably only setting myself up for disappointment only because my desire to see it so it will fall prey to unreasonable expectations. I'm trying to be reasonable but damn it looks awesome.
Part of my worry stems from pressure being put on Singer to trim down his theatrical cut because the studio obviously wanted to squeeze as many showing in per day as possible. I know for example an entire action sequence of roughly 20-25 minutes was cut where they have to rescue one of the mutants, I won't name, held captive in the mansion that has been taken over and turned into a sentinel base.

Also curious as to who the 4 secret Mutant cameos being kept under wraps will be?

Yeah, I thought Winter Soldier was a legitimately good movie. Probably much better than Spider-Man in technical terms, but the enjoyment I got from both movies was about on the same level. That could be due to the fact that Spider-Man is my favorite superhero. Who knows..

But yeah, you're right. I had totally forgot about Dawn of the Apes and Transformers! I know everyone here hates the Transformers flicks but I LOVE them and this one looks to be pretty good. I also LOVED Rise of the Apes so my hopes are up big time for this next installment. I can deal with no Franco if they give Oldman the chance to carry the movie.

Usually my wife will see a preview for a comicbook movie and agree to go to it with me. She saw the preview for "Guardians of the Galaxy" and responded with....what the hell was that shit? Looks like I'll be going by myself.

Oldman is Oldman- can't think of a flick he's in I dislike.
Don't sleep on Jason Clarke, as I believe he's got a fairly large role in the movie too. He's by far the best actor in the business that literally NO ONE talks about! Also a favorite of mine who just so happens to be in a ton of stuff that qualify as some of my favorite shows, movies, and series.

Figured I Bump this since it opened tonight. Anyone going to see it this weekend?

Just saw it. It was decent I guess. Sort of just going through the motions though.

It's too bad because I really like this cast. Garfield and Stone especially. Even though Electro is advertised as the main villain, you could remove him from the film and it wouldn't have any effect on the plot as a whole. He was mainly just there to have a couple of action set pieces and extend the runtime by 30 minutes.

If anything this film felt a lot like Raimi's Spider Man 3. It was a little too overstuffed with plot and trying to set things n motion for the next film.

Not bad, not good, not great. Just OK.

Some stuff I didn't really buy into. Didn't like the whole ending sequence. But I thought Garfield was fine as Spidey and Jamie Foxx as Electro should've gotten way much more film time.

Also, I could have been wrong, but:

I thought it was real good. But the people I went with brought a water bottle of vodka and I drank a lot of that during the movie. Don't know if that played a role or not... But I wasn't really a fan of the first one.

Also, a compliant........the entire Spidey universe feels awfully small. Everything begins and ends with Oscorp. Everyone either works for them or is connected somehow. Then, it all hinges on the coincidence of Peter getting bit by his fathers spiders? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense?