Hopefully, Evenflow won't be too upset that I'm starting out this week's thread, but we're under a certain amount of time pressure due to a limited number of new reviews this week. This is still his competition to run.

This week's contenders:

THE MERRY GENTLEMAN (Michael Keaton's directorial debut) - May 5 (Tu)
SUMMER HOURS (A French festival favorite, now in limited release) - May 6 (W)
TERMINATOR 2 (Getting ready for TERMINATOR SALVATION) - May 9 (Sa)

Voting will remain open until 8 pm EDT on May 5. The review for THE MERRY GENTLEMAN will be posted shortly thereafter.

I now return control to Evenflow...

This is weird but no matter, hopefully you won't pull a swerve like you did with Ghosts of Christmas Past

THE MERRY GENTLEMAN - **1/2
SUMMER HOURS - ***
TERMINATOR 2 - ***1/2

Agreed! Now I come with my tentative predictions:

The Merry Gentleman (**1/2) - Probably will show some promise as a directorial debut but will need something extra to up the ante
Summer Hours (***) A family film done by the French, which means that at least it will be more emotionally honest than its American counterparts
Terminator 2 (***1/2) This one ought to be a gimme!

The merry gentleman - 3.0
Summer hours - 3.0
Terminator 2 - 3.5

The merry gentleman - 2.5
Summer hours - 3.0
Terminator 2 - 3.5

The Merry Gentleman: **1/2
Summer Hours: ***
Terminator 2: ***1/2

the merry gentlemen - 3.
summer hours - 3.
terminator 2 - 3.5

any one could be easily 3 or 3.5.
terminator 2 could be 4.

please let me win this time, god. even though i'm an atheist, please hear my call.

this is getting ridiculous, really. im tired of losing by half a star.

Well...

THE MERRY GENTLEMAN - 3
SUMMER HOURS - 3
T2 - 3.5

The Merry Gentleman might screw us here. Good luck folks.

Holy jeez...

The Merry Gentleman: ***
Summer Hours: ***1/2
Terminator 2: ***1/2

I'm not going to lie, all of our predictions are so close together that I just stuck a half star on my Summer Hours prediction for the hell of it.

The Merry Gentleman: **1/2
Summer Hours: ***
Terminator 2: ***1/2

So we go in with the assumption that he'll be at least a little upset?

Just to be different:

THE MERRY GENTLEMAN - 3.5
SUMMER HOURS - 3.5
TERMINATOR 2 - 3.5

THE MERRY GENTLEMAN - 2.5, Call it a hunch...
SUMMER HOURS - 2.0, Why does everyone think this is going to be good, he hasn't rated *every* french film positively...
TERMINATOR 2 - 3.5, Based on his review for the first film, I feel like this is going to be a gimme...

Merry Gentleman - 3
Summer Hours - 3
Terminator 2 - 3.5

actually there's a very good chance this'll be correct. my impressions for the movies said 3.5 for each, but its james. he's odd. that's why im cautious.

THE MERRY GENTLEMAN - 3
SUMMER HOURS - 2.5
TERMINATOR 2 - 3.5

I'm back in the game

the merry gentlemen - 3
summer hours - 3.5
terminator 2 - 3.5


Here's my predictions. This is what I get for having five hour family dinners

The Merry Gentlemen: ** 1/2
Summer Hours: ***
Terminator 2: *** 1/2

The Merry Gentlemen - 3 stars
Summer Hours - 3 stars
Terminator 2 - 3.5 stars

I really would like to go with four stars on T2, but I'm gonna play it safe and go with the flow here.

I'm going with 3 stars for all three films this week.

The Merry Gentleman - 3
Summer Hours - 3
Terminator 2 - 4