Summer Movie Blogathon Hits the Beach

Put on your baggies and wax up your rear-projection surfboard, it's almost time for the Summer Movie Blogathon, June 24 and 25 (first weekend of Summer).

Posts from June 25

• Anybody Got a Match, Summer Movie Blogathon… The Parent Trap (1961)
• Blog of the Darned, Summer Movie Blogathon – Dogtown and Z Boys
• City Lights, SMB: In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
• Movie Rob:
• Summer Movie Blogathon – Little Darlings (1980)
• Summer Movie Blogathon – Summer of ’42 (1971)
• Movies Silently, Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915) A Silent Film Review
• Phyllis Loves Classic Movies, Ride the Wild Surf (1964)

Posts from June 24

• Blog of the Darned, Summer Movie Blogathon – Pajama Party
• Demanded Critical Reviews:
• E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Review
• American Graffiti Review
• The Midnite Drive-In, Don't Be Afraid of No Ghosts
• Movie Rob, Summer Movie Blogathon – The Sandlot (1993)
• Realweegiemidget Reviews, (500) Days of Summer (2009)
• Silents and Talkies, Summer Movie Blogathon: La Piscine (1969)
• The Stop Button, Indian Summer (1993, Mike Binder)
• Thoughts All Sorts, Summer Splashes ... The Way Way Back

Posts before June 24

• Cinematic Scribblings, Family Affair: The End of Summer (1961)
• Double Exposures, Bouquets of Faces: Christmas in July (1940, Dir. Preston Sturges)
• Film Perspective, Summer Movie Blogathon: Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Soul Ride, Summer Movie Blogathon: “Muscle Beach Party”

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We've been a little generous with our definition of Summer as indicated below. The only rule is no repeats on movies titles, first come first served. If interested, post a comment saying what movie you want to do below. Examples of qualifying films include the following.


Movies with Summer in the title:

Examples:

• 500 Hundred Days of Summer  [Taken]
• The Endless Summer
• Suddenly Last Summer
• Long Hot Summer
• In the Good Old Summertime [Taken]
• Indian Summer [Taken]
• Summer of '42 [Taken]
• Summer of Sam
• Corvette Summer, they can't all be Casablanca, folks

Movies about the beach, surfing, or summer sports:

Examples:

• Beach Party, Muscle Beach Party, [Muscle Beach Party is Taken] ...
• Gidget
• Ride the Wild Surf
• Dog Town and Z Boys [Taken, unless someone else wants it real bad]
• Deliverance
• Without a Paddle
• Major League
• Bull Durham

Movies about summer or hot weather:

Examples:

• Stand by Me
• Grease
• Dazed and Confused
• American Graffiti [Taken]
• Seven Year Itch
• Weekend at Bernie's

Movies about vacation/camping or set in amusement park/resort area:

Examples:

• Coney Island
• Roman Holiday [Taken] Change of plans, Roman Holiday now open
• National Lampoon's Vacation
• Meatballs
• Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
• Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation
• Euro-Trip
• Woman on the Run

Summer blockbusters (to qualify, must have been released between April and September):

Examples:

• Jaws
• Men in Black
• Independence Day  [Taken]
• Raiders of the Lost Ark  [Taken]
• Ghostbusters [Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II are Taken]

Want to be involved? Post a comment, saying what film you want to cover.

Here's what we have so far:

• 500 Days of Summer (2009), Realweegiemidget Reviews
• A Brighter Summer Day (1991), Charlene's (Mostly) Classic Movie Reviews
• Christmas in July (1940), Double Exposures
• Clash by Night, In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood
• ,The End of Summer (1961), Cinematic Scribblings
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and American Graffiti (1973) demandedcriticalreviews
• Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition (1915), Movies Silently
• Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989), The Midnite Drive-in 
• In the Good Old Summertime (1949), City Lights
• In the Heat of the Night (1967), Iron Clad Words
• Indian Summer (1993), The Stop Button
• Independence Day (1996), Listening to Film
• La Piscine (1969), Silents and Talkies
• Muscle Beach Party (1964), Soulride
• Pajama Party (1964) and if I get ambitious, I might do Dogtown and Z Boys (2001) as well (unless someone else wants it), Blog of the Darned
• The Parent Trap (1961), Anybody Got a Match
• Raiders of the Lost Ark, Film Perspective
• Roman Holiday, In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood
• Summer of '42, The Sandlot, and Little Darlings, Movierob
• The Way Way Back (2013) Thoughts All Sorts

I've made the above graphics to promote the blogathon. Please feel free to Save as and use as needed.