Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: Drefoshow on July 25, 2008, 08:16:47 PM
Title: Upcoming Movies
Post by: Drefoshow on July 25, 2008, 08:16:47 PM
Ok im goin to list a number of movies that is coming out in the next year and you tell me wat you think. Ice Age 3 Transformers 2 Saw 5(this year october) Final Destination 4 Underworld 3 Harry Potter Madagascar 2 The Grudge 3
There is way more but this is where i stop
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Post by: wandering on July 25, 2008, 08:42:40 PM
crap crap crap crap crap engh crap crap
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Post by: vudu on July 25, 2008, 08:46:14 PM
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Post by: Khushrenada on July 25, 2008, 10:19:37 PM
There were only 3 films I knew I was going to see as soon as they came out this year. In order of most anticipated:
The Dark Knight Quantum of Solace (007) Wall-E
All that is left is 007. Everything else is filler or a repeated viewing of The Dark Knight.
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Post by: ShyGuy on July 25, 2008, 10:37:25 PM
X-Files is this weekend. I'M GOING, YOU SHOULD TOO
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on July 25, 2008, 10:58:12 PM
There are no movies coming out for the rest of the year that I care much about. The next movie I'm excited about is Star Trek, which doesn't come out until May 8th of next year.
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Post by: Drefoshow on July 25, 2008, 11:06:25 PM
Oh well i have one well 2 more questions. 1. This Dragonball Movie thats coming out what does everyone think of that? 2. how do you think this Avatar Movie is gonna be? personally i think they are both going to garbage
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Post by: Svevan on July 26, 2008, 01:29:39 AM
I'm not sure we've mentioned a movie yet that's not garbage.
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Post by: Stogi on July 26, 2008, 01:47:29 AM
Avatar has the potential to be ridiculously awesome. Watch the show and you'll know what I mean. Like I said before, M. Night Mylaalalmamahasha will probably **** it up though.
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Post by: NWR_insanolord on July 26, 2008, 02:41:58 AM
I'm not sure we've mentioned a movie yet that's not garbage.
Can you use your time machine to pick me up a copy of The Conduit?
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Post by: DAaaMan64 on July 26, 2008, 02:43:17 AM
oooooh
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Post by: wandering on July 26, 2008, 02:58:00 AM
The movie I'm looking forward to the most right now is Miyazaki's latest (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.) It's already out in Japan and will probably come out here sometime next year.
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Post by: Drefoshow on July 26, 2008, 03:53:13 AM
wonder why he's so grumpy but anyway wat is the movie Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea about?
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Post by: ShyGuy on July 26, 2008, 04:01:46 AM
The movie I'm looking forward to the most right now is Miyazaki's latest (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.) It's already out in Japan and will probably come out here sometime next year.
New Miyazaki? Sweeeeet
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Post by: wandering on July 26, 2008, 11:57:04 AM
I'm not sure we've mentioned a movie yet that's not garbage.
What?
See my post:
The Dark Knight Quantum of Solace Wall-E
All are garbage?
Yours was the exception; my post was a broad troll, not a specific one. Wall-E and Dark Knight are good films, no idea whether Quantum of Solace will be good or not (I won't tell you my prediction).
Leatherheads is probably the best film I've seen this year (which is not a great compliment to the other flicks this year; how did Pixar manage to disappoint me so?). I scrolled through a semi-complete list of upcoming domestic films. I'm looking forward to Pineapple Express and Tropic Thunder, both of which are coming out next month. Burn After Reading looks like it could be fun or good or both; Lakeview Terrace looks like a rehash of Changing Lanes, but it's by Neil Labute so I'll give it a spin; Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna is probably as good as any Spike Lee film (read: very good); The Road is based on another Cormac McCarthy novel but I haven't seen the director's other work; I hate Ron Howard, but the source material for Frost/Nixon is interesting; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button has an amazing trailer, and Fincher's last flick Zodiac was excellent; and, of course, I'll see the new Harry Potter film. I'm also waiting for Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara epic to make it to theatres, but that may not happen since it's 4 hours long (or longer). And if someone asked me to go to Hamlet 2 with them, I would go.
This list excludes any foreign or independent movies that get buzz and may actually come out in my neck of the woods. I missed The Fall while it was local, and I regret it.
edit: and I'm completely with Wandering on Ponyo, Cliff, Sea, etc, though I doubt it's coming out this year in America (Disney's been re-dubbing and slightly re-editing Miyazaki's films before they come over here, and I don't know if they've picked this up for domestic distribution yet. People generally don't go see these flicks; I saw Howl's Moving Castle with one friend in an empty theatre).
OH! I forgot my absolute number one upcoming film: Standard Operating Procedure.
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Post by: Drefoshow on July 26, 2008, 08:44:27 PM
I watched tha Trailer for Ponyo and it looks Interesting. I also want to talk about the Movies Fast and the Furious 4 and The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time movie.
The Fast and the Furious is said to bring back Vin Diesel, Brian O'Conner from the previous movies. What is you guys opinion on these
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Post by: Bill Aurion on July 27, 2008, 03:23:43 AM
(which is not a great compliment to the other flicks this year; how did Pixar manage to disappoint me so?).
How often can you fail so strongly?
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Post by: Khushrenada on July 27, 2008, 03:29:42 AM
Now I want to see Leatherheads. I wanted to see it when it came out in theaters but everyone else was more interested in 21 and whatever else came out at that time. But Leatherheads seemed to have the feel of a classic movie in the trailers with the light, fast-moving banter. With a Svevan recommendation, now I really want to see it. Curse my lousy friends and their lousy movie choices.
Whoa. You hate Ron Howard. Now, provided I'm not a huge fan or anything but I did like A Beautiful Mind and Cinderella Man. I thought both of those were very good.
Wall-E disappointed you? Actually my brother was disappointed a bit in it as well. As he said, SPOILERS AHOY There's this big conspiracy about keeping people from going back to Earth and in the end the climatic fight is just a fat guy learning to walk and hitting a button. An underwhelming climax. What I have argued is that the movie is a love story with the Envioronmental scene just the excuse given for how the characters meet and get together. The space dance was one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a movie in a long time. In the end, when it seems like Wall-E''s memory had been erased, it was so sad that, yes, a tear rolled down my cheek. While I was briefly happy that all worked out, that was what bugged me the most. Wall-E's memory should have stayed erased. That would have made for a more powerful ending, albiet a bit depressing.
All in all, when I left the theater, I thought Wall-E pretty much has the Oscar for best Animated Film but it was the first movie I saw this year that I felt should be nominated for the Best Picture catagory. I can't ever remember thinking that for an animated film before.
Do you think the new Bond trailer makes the film look like a Bourne movie?
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Post by: Svevan on July 27, 2008, 03:58:46 AM
You're very right about Leatherheads, it does feel like a classic film, mostly by way of the dialogue and story rather than the style and cinematography. I think George Clooney's actually a great Hollywood director.
My hate for Ron Howard is probably a combination of a dislike of his popular acclaim and a general distaste for his sentimental and simplistic movies that seem profound but aren't, by any measure. But more than anything I hate I hate I hate How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
I liked Wall-E, especially the opening 45 minutes. The film began to lose itself when it shifted from the world to the spaceship. Before there were just two characters (plus cockroach) and absolutely no dialogue, but on the spaceship suddenly we have an influx of characters and some weird extra explanatory plot developments. I didn't need the environmental metaphor or the didactic presence of the fat, machine-reliant humans. By the end I felt so preached at, which is something I hate in films whether I agree with them or not. You're absolutely right about the space dance, just gorgeous, and I loved the little cleaning robot, and the "island of misfit toys" assemblage of broken robots. All that stuff qualifies it as a great animated film. It was pretty much the human stuff that I didn't need; I didn't need the crowd of folk cheering Wall-E on, or the stupid plant in a shoe (which starts out like a subtle metaphor and becomes just a plot device) or any of that stuff.
More than anything, the (Chaplin-esque, Tati-esque) silent-movie opening half hour is a masterpiece, and I wish they could have kept it up. The rest of the film felt uneven, with parts considerably below Pixar's standards. I think my favorite of their films may now be Ratatouille.
Wall-E probably does have the Oscar, but it'll depend on what's nominated for me to say that it deserves it. The year Ratatouille beat Persepolis, I was a conflicted man. Not sure which of those "really" deserved the award, or if the whole concept of "awards" can handle the fact that these two great, different films were so outstanding when compared to pretty much any studio product that year (outside of, maybe, Eastern Promises).
I do think the Bond trailer looks a lot like a Bourne film; I also think it looks as generic as all previous Bonds. It's as if they tell the directors to be deliberately bland, to never "set the standard" for action films, as the Bournes have done, or Michael Bay before them, or Terminator 2 before him, or Spielberg before it, or Akira Kurosawa before all of them. Yet the Bond films are considered "definitive" action when they always play by the extremely strict structural guidelines and never deviate from the established formula (established in 1959 by Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, and I'm not kidding). Casino Royale broke some rules, as did Goldeneye, and this one looks like it's about a rogue Bond, so it'll break a bit, but I'm sure there will still be a sexual romance, three or four distinct action set-pieces involving gadgets or vehicles or both, and witty one-liners peppered throughout. As for the "style" of the films, they've always looked like they were directed by the same person, which is not a sign of artistic excellence in my opinion.
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Post by: ShyGuy on July 27, 2008, 04:08:06 AM
This is one of the reasons I like The Dark Knight so much. It takes a movie which at first glance should be a standard summer blockbuster action movie, and elevates the material into a greater film. It also manages to do this with a PG-13 rating, which is also impressive.
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Post by: Bill Aurion on July 27, 2008, 04:09:22 AM
I guess I just don't "get" Pixar movies, because I haven't enjoyed a Pixar movie since Toy Story and found Wall-E a bloody masterpiece...
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on July 27, 2008, 04:12:40 AM
Looks at Evan's list of anticipated movies.
Crap indeed. ;)
See look you guys got him going!
Also Bill I'm with you Wall-E is a masterpiece IMO, easily the best movie I've seen in quite some time though I do love Pixar's other stuff. Wall-E was something special though.
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Post by: Svevan on July 27, 2008, 12:53:49 PM
This is one of the reasons I like The Dark Knight so much. It takes a movie which at first glance should be a standard summer blockbuster action movie, and elevates the material into a greater film. It also manages to do this with a PG-13 rating, which is also impressive.
Unlike other action films, it is greater than the sum of its parts. Like Wall-E, though, I felt it was at times too preachy.
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Post by: Smakian on July 28, 2008, 09:57:24 PM
For the record, IMO (see sig) this summer has been fantastic for movies so far, especially compared to the utter lamefest that was last year. Iron Man, Dark Knight and WALL-E were all really strong, and I enjoyed Kung Fu Panda and Incredible Hulk just a little bit less. On the other hand, there have been some let-downs like Wanted, Indy and the latest Narnia (which I still maintain would have done much better had it come out at its original Winter 2007 release date), and Speed Racer was garbage, albeit with some very pretty race sequences.
As to upcoming flicks...I think The Mummy this weekend has the potential to be a fun popcorn flick. 007 will hopefully be good, although I have reservations as I was mildly underwhelmed by Casino Royale. Kinda hoping that this one will hit its stride and return more to the pace of the old ones while still maintaining the good changes made in the overhaul. Sadly, with Star Trek bumped to 2009 there doesn't seem to be much else in the way of big-budget tentpoles to look forward to (don't say The Spirit, that looks painfully bad), although I'm hoping I get blitzed by a few great indie drama/comedies as I did last year.
On the far horizon, I'm looking forward to Terminator Salvation. Yeah, I said it. I never saw the Full Throttle films, so the only thing I associate McG with is the television series Supernatural, which is fuggin awesome. Everything I've seen so far in his blog has been promising, Christian Bale is a solid lead and the trailer was badass. This is the war, the Terminator story I've been waiting for since T2, and I'm eager to see what it looks like on the big screen.
Speaking of trailers that look badass, I saw the Wolverine trailer online today that leaked from Comic-con, and I've gotta say that looked intriguing. I'm iffy though because X3 was a mess and early script leak reviews for this film have painted it as a train wreck. I guess we'll see. Also mentioned was Underworld 3, and while I haven't seen the trailer for this, I've read impressions from some of the few that have and supposedly it's amazing. In any case, that's all I've got so far. 2009 really won't be on my radar until after this summer season is over, so probably come fall I'll sit down and really start looking at what's coming out.
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Post by: Svevan on July 29, 2008, 12:21:44 AM
Which makes me pathetic. Anyways, don't you think it's a bit early to call The Dark Knight the greatest film of the year? Like, there's six months to go.
LOL from the guy that said all those 6 movies listed sucked.
DaMAAaaaAn took this to another thread, and now I'm bringing it back.
Hey you, shut up: I'm not the only one who said these movies look like ****.
Ice Age 3 Transformers 2 Saw 5 Final Destination 4 Underworld 3 Harry Potter Madagascar 2 The Grudge 3
I mean, seriously, this list looks GOOD? I'm open to anything, anytime, but to say that all of these (sans Potter) looks like total and utter garbage is not elitist, is not the result of a pretentious and overbearing movie taste, and it's definitely not uncommon (look at the other posts).
Shove it up your pie hole.
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Post by: ShyGuy on July 29, 2008, 12:39:36 AM
Hey, what's that new movie with Deniro AND Pacino?
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on July 29, 2008, 12:42:18 AM
Transformers 2 (more transformer interaction and bigger budget means GREAT) is near the top of my most anticipated list for next year along with Star Trek.
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Post by: ShyGuy on July 29, 2008, 12:43:15 AM
Sylar looks so much like Spock it's scary.
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Post by: Svevan on July 29, 2008, 12:43:48 AM
Who's directing the new Transformers?
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on July 29, 2008, 12:44:59 AM
Hey, what's that new movie with Deniro AND Pacino?
Frankly, I haven't been impressed by either actor in recent years. I think they've lost it, or they've just been picking really bad projects. Add to that the fact that Righteous Kill also stars 50 Cent (yes, that 50 Cent) and my expectations are pretty low.
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Post by: GoldenPhoenix on July 29, 2008, 01:28:03 AM
Hey, what's that new movie with Deniro AND Pacino?
Frankly, I haven't been impressed by either actor in recent years. I think they've lost it, or they've just been picking really bad projects. Add to that the fact that Righteous Kill also stars 50 Cent (yes, that 50 Cent) and my expectations are pretty low.
Deniro in Stardust=Amazing
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Post by: Smakian on July 29, 2008, 02:36:04 AM
Hey, what's that new movie with Deniro AND Pacino?
Frankly, I haven't been impressed by either actor in recent years. I think they've lost it, or they've just been picking really bad projects. Add to that the fact that Righteous Kill also stars 50 Cent (yes, that 50 Cent) and my expectations are pretty low.
Deniro in Stardust=Amazing
Okay, damn, I forgot about that. I stand corrected, he was awesome in Stardust, which may very well be my favorite movie from last year (although I am admittedly a Neil Gaiman fanboy).
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Post by: Svevan on July 29, 2008, 04:21:05 AM
Stardust is a romantic and funny fantasy adventure. De Niro plays a rather multifaceted airship captain, and he steals every scene he's in, but he's not the star (hyuck hyuck).
