Summer Movie Fantasy League

This post will be the first in a series. We're entering Summer Movie season. Look forward to a bunch of posts designed to help you get ready for all the hordes of movies that will be released this summer. Some will be bad, some will be good. We'll help you find out which aren't worth your time and which are worth a first born child.

Ryan and I are both huge fans of Leo Laporte’s brain child “This Week In Tech.” For those of you who don’t know anything about it, I’ll give you a quick run down. Leo Laporte is a tech guy who used to work for TechTV back in the 90s. After TechTV crashed, Leo bopped around for a while and eventually started “This Week In Tech” a radio podcast for him and his friends, all players in the tech industry, to chat about technology each week. It eventually expanded to other shows and quickly became a small network of its own. Now he also records video and live streams many tech events. One of the shows on the TWiT Network is “NSFW”. NSFW features Brian Brushwood, comedian/tech guy/stage magician, and guests shooting the breeze. Something that they did last year and enjoyed enough to bring back this year was the Summer Movie Fantasy League.

Yes, that is exactly what you think it is. Brian and his more regular guests bid on the movies that are coming out this summer and assign a point/dollar value to each movie. Then everyone has a pool of 100 dollars to assemble a “team” of movies. When the box office results are released for each movie it is added to a total. At the end of the summer who ever picked a “team” that grossed the most amount of money wins the league.

Being film buffs Ryan and I sat down and picked our brains and came out with a list. Ultimately his preferred list differed with mine slightly, but it was close enough that I submitted a list to be included in the official NSFW league.

You can find the full list and everyone’s teams here.

If I submitted my form in time, which hopefully I did, it’ll appear on the Chatrealm list way at the bottom under ScreenFix.

Here is my “team”



Source Code (valued at 9 points)
Although I personally am not excited for Source Code it is a solid early summer movie that has a wider appeal than some of the movies on the list. Overall it was a relatively inexpensive way to get a good solid start.


Thor (valued at 23 points)
Its a Marvel super hero movie. It wont be fantastic, but that wont stop people from going to see it in hordes. It was a good chunk of points but I think that the potential payoff is worth it.


Priest (valued at 10 points)
This is in the same category, for me, as Source Code. It is going to be a sleeper. It might not do fantastic, but since its a 3D movie it’ll make bank.


Super 8 (valued at 38 points)
Super 8 cost a lot of points but I think it will more than pay itself back. From what I’ve seen and heard about this film it is going to be phenomenal. It’s the only movie I’m really looking forward to this summer. It looks like J. J. Abrams at the peak of his career and Steven Spielberg getting back to the roots of what used to make his movies great. I think this movie will be the biggest hit of the summer. Hands down.


Zookeeper (valued at 10 points)
A good solid middle of the summer comedy. It was inexpensive and has a lot of potential to pull in some good money.


Smurfs (valued at 8 points)
This is the same as Priest. It’s a classic kids comedy. More importantly its 3D. Twice the ticket cost means that it only has to bring in half of the audience to make the same amount of money. At 8 points it was a responsible buy.


That puts me at a total of 99 points out of 100. I’ll keep everyone updated on how we do.