There are just SO many movies coming out this summer that I want to see!!

Batman and Indiana Jones are highest in my summer motion picture expectations, so I couldn't resist researching some cinematic info:

Indiana Jones 4: the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -5/22

-Spielberg refused to modernize the photography and wanted to retain the comic book style from the previous films.

-John Hurt is in this and he was also in V for Vendetta and in Contact.

-Sean Connery emphatically turned down the offer to cameo in this movie.

-Frank Marshall and the cast wanted to make this movie less dark than the second, less comical than the third and more like the original.

-During filming, Spielberg estimated that 30% of the visual effects would have to be computer generated.

The Dark Knight -7/18

-Aaron Eckhart described his portrayal of Harvey Dent as simultaneously coming from and being apart from the same world as Batman (Dent is the white knight of Gotham, as opposed to the Dark Knight). His challenge was "looking for the similarities and the tension between the two; to find what's similar to Batman and then what's opposite to him." -----Eckhart also prepared for his role by studying split personalities.

--In 2007, Heath Ledger told MTV blogger Josh Horowitz rather prophetically that playing the Joker was “the most fun I’ve had with a character and probably will ever have.”

                       (How eerie!)

-Batman was fierce in the comics -- showing no remorse when tossing an evildoer into a vat of acid. 

Well, I'm pretty excited about this summer as I will be starting my summer by ending a semester in South America, being home for about a month and then to Houston, TX to do some VBS interning!