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War! Huh?

Welcome to the summer of love at a theater near you

MATT COKER

Published on May 30, 2002

After weeks and weeks of new films pumping us up for war—even if the wars depicted had nothing to do with the war we're about to wage, other than U.S. involvement in all of them—we're heading into a summer movie season that's relatively conflict-free. Other good news: there aren't as many sequels or remakes as in summers past. (Still, if summer sci-fi blockbusters are your thing, just look for the nearest line of geeky campers, as we've witnessed recently for Spider-Man and Attack of the Clones.)