[Avon-theatre-news] AVON THEATER NEWS---JUNE 24th, 2011

[Skip Huston]

WEEK OF FRIDAY, JUNE 24th thru THURSDAY,  JUNE 30th  ONLY!!  
Check out our way cool website at: www.TheAvon.com


NOTE: PLEASE PAY CAREFUL ATTENTION TO THE ABOVE EFFECTIVE DATES FOR 
THIS NEWSLETTER!!  

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OPENING:
  CARS 2 (G) Disney and Pixar do it again with a fun-filled romp for the WHOLE family!!

OPENS TUESDAY AT MIDNIGHT!! 
 TRANSFORMERS 3: DARK OF THE MOON (PG13) One of the BIGGEST of the Summer!


CONTINUING:
 GREEN LANTERN (PG13) Ryan Reynolds in one of the Summer's blockbusters!

  SUPER 8 (PG13) Steven Spielberg and filmmaker J.J. Abrams team up for what just may be the surprise hit of the summer!!  

COMING SOON:

  JULY 1st: LARRY CROWNE (PG13) Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts!! Perfect "Avon movie"!!

 JULY 15th: HARRY POTTER (the last chapter) (PG13) This is IT! No more Harry Potter after this one!

  JULY 29th: COWBOYS & ALIENS (PG13) Harrison Ford & Daniel Craig in a "must-see" fun movie!

  JULY 29th: CRAZY STUPID LOVE (PG13) Steve Carell, Julianne Moore, Ryan Gosling, 'nuff said??? 

...and the list goes on and on!!!
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CARS 2 (G)
Here is a loaded question: Can Pixar ever make a dud?
Some would caution that is a jinxed query to ask right on the eve of this new release, but I don't think so!
These guys just know how to get it "right"!
With an amazing cast of vocal talents, and those lovable cars, this is a sure-fire hit for the whole family!!
CARS 2  (G)
(Showtimes in brackets denote $5.75 "Bargain Matinees")
FRI, SAT & SUN: (1:30) - (4:30) - 7:30
MON,TUES, WED: 6:30
THURS: 7:00
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TRANSFORMERS 3: DARK OF THE MOON (PG13)
Director Michael Bay sure takes his lumps with the cineaste's crowd, but he can deliver a huge, over-the-top, summertime popcorn picture like few in cinema history have been able!


I know that sounds rather bourgeois from a college film teacher, but I have to give credit where credit is due...
In the end, its all about selling tickets and getting fannies into seats!
The Transformers franchise is incredibly successful, in spite of the abysmal reviews they usually receive. Every filmmaker's dream is to have a movie that is "review-proof", and Michael Bay has got just that with these babies!    
This is a mammoth, loud, explosive film that just about tears Chicago to pieces! (All with the magic of impeccable special effects, that is!)
Screen sensation Shia LaBeouf (who really should change his name to one easier to spell and pronounce, but nobody asked me) and a great supporting cast that even includes Oscar-winner Frances McDormand and John Malkovich (and Patrick Dempsey, for heaven's sake!)---and Leonard Nimoy's voice (yes, you heard that right).

And, for those of you who may take a chance on this, but have not seen the previous films? Don't worry about it. You'll catch on real fast!
This is a "two-tub" real buttered popcorn movie, for sure!
TRANSFORMERS 3: DARK OF THE MOON  (PG13)
(Showtimes in brackets denote $5.75 "Bargain Matinees")
MIDNIGHT DEBUT TUES: MIDNIGHT!!
WED & THURS: 7:15
(NEXT WEEK'S SHOWTIMES NOT SET YET)
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GREEN LANTERN (PG13)
Ok, so I know that some of you are starting to grumble about Summer and Hollywood's fixation with Superhero movies!
Well, get used to it, folks, because there's a whole lot more coming this summer and next and next and next...
BUT...sometimes they are pretty cool!
No one would argue that IRON MAN was a mistake to see, and the new reboots of Batman "Batman Begins" and "The Dark Knight" are now Hollywood iconography.
ENDS TUESDAY!!
GREEN LANTERN  (PG13)
(Showtimes in brackets denote $5.75 "Bargain Matinees")
FRI: (5:30) - 8:30
SAT: (2:30) - (5:30) - 8:30
SUN: (2:30) - (5:30)
MON & TUES: 7:30
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SUPER 8 (PG13)
Hey Folks! Every once in awhile we run a review from a secondary notable source, like Leonard Maltin, or Chuck Koplinski, or Roger Ebert, but, this time we have a guest who doesn't normally do movie reviews!! Troy Taylor is too busy writing books of the weird, dastardly heinous world of crime and the denizens of the dark to do things like that! He now has 81 books in print (yes, you heard that right 81!!) but he was so impressed with "Super 8" he sent me this thoughtful piece to help YOU decide you need to see this movie!!  We ran this last week, but I want to make sure all of you read this heartfelt rumination from an author that doesn't normally write in this area...

GUEST MOVIE REVIEW: SUPER 8
 BY TROY TAYLOR
Like the kids in SUPER 8, I was a nerd in 1979. I spent those summer days obsessed with movies and monsters and it became a time that literally shaped my life. I had no idea then that those waning days of middle school were as important as they were. I wouldn’t know until many years later, when adulthood landed on me with full force. My childhood obsessions – which I was supposed to outgrow and yet never did – became my life’s work. I never got into the movie business (until recently) but most can agree that I seem to know a thing or two about ghosts and monsters. I daydreamed back then about never really working for a living and as it turned out, I don’t. If you can do what you love for a living, someone wiser than I once said, you’ll never work a day in your life.
I think nostalgia is the main reason that I loved SUPER 8 so much. I saw myself there on the screen (perhaps a little bit in every one of the characters) but I saw my childhood friends there too. We were the goofy kids who buried our noses in books and had our copies of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND confiscated by teachers. We read those magazines cover to cover and put together the models that we ordered from the back pages, inhaling the fumes of countless tubes of clear, sticky glue. It was in the back pages of those magazines that we found the reels of Super 8 films that we could order for only a few bucks and screen them on the wall of our parents’ basements. Entire films were condensed down to just the highlights, but we didn’t care because we had our own private movie theaters. We watched them in awe but if there was one thing that we dreamed about the most, it was making a movie all our own.
SUPER 8 is just the sort of movie that we would have wanted to make if we could have. It had all of the ingredients of everything we loved – a monster, explosions, a train wreck, military secrets, guns, a spaceship and even a pretty girl. I would have loved this movie in 1979, just the same way that I love it now. SUPER 8 truly is the best movie of the summer and possibly the best movie that I have seen so far this year. I can’t remember the last movie that I saw that captured the feeling of a middle-school American summer in the way that this one has. 
It’s a simple story, at least at first. A group of kids set out to make their own zombie movie (using a battered Super 8 camera, hence the title), accidentally witness a sensational train crash that has mysterious undertones and then become involved in an extraterrestrial tale that conjures up memories of Spielberg’s E.T. – a movie that came out just a few years after my fateful summer of 1979 and which I saw at the Avon Theater of all places. 
Writer-director JJ Abrams calls the movie a “love letter to the kind of Super 8 monster and chase films that he made as a boy”, which were in turn influenced by the late 1970s and early 1980s films of Steven Spielberg, who produced the film, and who also made monster and chase films on Super 8 as a boy. Whatever influenced this almost magical movie, though, it works beautifully. 
The science-fiction and action in the film is amazing and creates the questions that drive the story --- why are secret military troops taking over the town? What were they hiding in that train car? What’s stealing cables, car engines and microwaves all over town? Why are all of the dogs running away? What happened to all of those missing people? This is all important to the film, but what really makes it work is the human cast, both the kids as the main characters and the adults around them. It’s a movie about love and loss, tragedy and family and a portrait is painted (once again) of real people that we loved, lost and grew up with. 
If you’re anything like me, this movie will take you back to a simpler time. SUPER 8 is a movie that I wish I could have made (or perhaps even lived) back then and if you were one of “those kids”, like I was, I urge you to see it. Even if you weren’t, you don’t want to miss it. There’s something here for just about anybody, of just about any age. Bring your kids and, like me, explain to them why it was called SUPER 8. It just might bring back some good memories for you.
Whatever you do, though, don’t miss it. SUPER 8 is just too good to pass up. Written by Troy Taylor
ENDS WEDNESDAY!!
SUPER 8  (PG13)
(Showtimes in brackets denote $5.75 "Bargain Matinees")
FRI: (5:15) - 8:15
SAT: (2:15) - (5:15) - 8:15
SUN: (2:15) - (5:15)
MON & TUES: 7:15
WED: 6:40
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RANTS, RAVES & RAMBLINGS FROM THE HEAD HONCHO

The studios keep pushing their headache-inducing 3D movies down our throats in a desperate attempt to revive the "golden-egg-laying goose" they have all but killed by substandard presentation, outrageously greedy "surcharges", and draconian tactics to the exhibitors.
To greatly paraphrase Abraham Lincoln: You can lead the moviegoers to 3D, but you can't make them like it (as long as so many of them are putrid wastes of money).

You, Avon movie-goers, know that for a short and agonizing period we actually did have 3D!
3D is a process that, in a very appropriate single word, is: DUMB.
They day we finally rebelled and ripped that 3D stuff out of our projection booth was a VERY happy day, indeed!
(And, it got us national publicity!)

Now, YOU have a chance to help put an end to all this 3D nonsense!
YOU actually have a voice in all this hoo-hah!
VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET!!

The studios are carefully watching the 3D admissions of TRANSFORMERS 3 and the next (and last) HARRY POTTER episode later in July to see if 3D is on the way OUT or not!

DON'T SEE THE 3D VERSIONS!!
STICK WITH THE SUPERIOR PICTURE 2D VERSIONS!!
By doing so, you will send a message to the studios that you are sick and tired of all this malarkey!

Maybe, just maybe, Hollywood will then get back to concentrating on just making good movies instead of obnoxious, over-priced eye-candy!

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By the way, TIGHTWAD TUESDAYS are BAAAAAACK!!
All Shows on Tuesday only $4.50!! You heard right! $4.50!!
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Come See Me This Weekend!!
-Skip Huston
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