…at least according to Matthew Jacobs at Huffington Post:

13 Blockbusters that could define 2016’s summer movie season

Of the listed films, the latest X-Men film is curiously absent.  I was also surprised to realize Robert Redford (!!!!) was in the Pete’s Dragon remake.  This proved a surprise almost on the level of finding he was in Captain America: The Winter Soldier…as the bad guy and very cleverly subverting his good guy roles/image he projected in his 1970’s films.

So, of the 13 films listed, what am I most curious about and/or looking forward to seeing?

I’ll see Captain America: Civil War eventually but I have to admit some of the air is out of that particular balloon.  The reviews I’ve read, both positive and negative, revealed enough of the movie’s plot for me and I’m finding it…nonsensical.  I never read the comic books this story is based on, though it is my understanding the movie doesn’t follow that particular story all that closely but still, I’m just not buying what they’re selling here.  The closest analogy to the gray feelings I’m currently having about this film is like when Avatar was about to be released.  I remain a HUGE fan of James Cameron’s early sci-fi works (Terminator and Aliens, natch) and when I heard he was going back to his sci-fi “roots” I couldn’t have been more excited to see whatever he was going to release.  Yet the more I read about Avatar and the story it presented, the less interested I was in seeing the film.  Ultimately I didn’t see it then and to this date haven’t bothered to see it at all.  Will the same happen to CA:CW?  I don’t know…

Ghostbusters (note that I’ve passed over the six films between Captain America: Civil War and this one.  While some of those films have me curious, none I’m particularly excited to see).  People have railed against the movie’s trailer to the point where it is supposedly the most disliked trailer on YouTube.  I didn’t think the trailer was that awful…

…but I will admit it wasn’t all that incredible, either.  I do hope the film winds up working as I like director/writer Paul Fieg and his association(s) with both Melissa McCarthy and Kristen Wiig.  We’ll see.

Jason Bourne.  Years ago and upon the release of the last Matt Damon starring Bourne film, Mr. Damon was asked about future Bourne films and, if my memory is correct, he answered something to the effect that this would be the last one as these movies were getting to the point where they were repeating themselves.  Again, if my memory is correct, this was a particularly brave thing to say about a franchise series that was turning in a tremendous amount of money and showed Mr. Damon was moving on.  Well, that last Bourne film, The Bourne Ultimatum, came out in 2007 so its been almost 10 years since Mr. Damon’s filled that role and perhaps the time off has allowed him to reflect and, more importantly, refresh himself on the role.  As a writer who’s desperate to finish off a novel series he’s been working on for nearly ten years straight, I can understand the need to go into other directions now and again.  Hopefully, this film will be a welcome return to the Bourne series following the (IMHO) pretty lame 2012 Jeremy Renner “sideways” sequel The Bourne Legacy.

Suicide Squad.  Color me very intrigued with this one.  When I first heard about the film being made and released hot off the heels of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, I shook my head.  “Suicide Squad?” I thought. “That’s what they’re following BvS with?  Why not something bigger?”  And then came the magnificent trailers…

Could it get any better than that?  Incredibly, the second official trailer was just as good:

Of the films listed, this is the one I most look forward to seeing as of this point in time.  By the way, if you’ve checked out the IMDB page for this film, Clint Eastwood’s son and up and coming actor Scott Eastwood is listed second after Margot Robbie (who plays Harely Quinn) in the cast yet the character he portrays is mysteriously absent.  Just a guess here (and I may be completely wrong) but I suspect he’s playing the grown up Richard “Dick” Grayson, aka the original Robin (as in Batman and…) and who subsequently (as an adult) became Nightwing.  Just speculation on my part but he looks the role and Batman appears in this film, so why wouldn’t the Caped Crusader want someone he can trust looking over this motley group?

Aaaaaannnnnnddd…that’s pretty much it.  The films I haven’t listed, as I stated above, are interesting to me to various degrees but, admittedly, not enough to make me want to pencil them in to see theatrically.