A Pretty Good Year
So after seeing Episode III the other night, and after watching the previews for all the other movies coming out, I’ve decided that it’s gonna be a pretty good year for movies. Great year, actually. I’ll give you reasons why:
* Star Wars – Duh.
* Batman Begins – Besides the original w/ Keaton, all the Batman movies have sucked. This one looks very promising, without all the bright colours & scores of big names poorly portraying villains.
* Narnia – This is the one I’m most looking forward to, even over Ep 3. It looks like they’ve done a fantastic job. We saw the trailer b/f Ep. 3 the other night & Aslan on the big screen is too much for words. I had goose bumps. See the trailer here. I’d suggest right-clicking the Quicktime XL version.
* Fantastic Four – About time they got around to making a FF movie. Casting seems fine, technology looks good. Dr. Doom is in the hizzy. If the writing’s there, this should be money.
* War of the Worlds – Yes, it’s sad that many who see this will think it’s a newly written story, but regardless… I’m looking forward to this, but I’m much more skeptical than I am w/ the others I’ve named so far. We’ll see how they did…
* Charlie & the Chocolate Factory – Ignoring the somewhat Marilyn Manson-esque look Willie has at times here, w/ Tim Burton behind it I imagine it’s gonna be pretty decent.
Among these I’d also like to see Madagascar and Unleashed. I’m sure there are more good ones from this year, but these are the ones that come to mind.
umm the dukes of hazzard
Just buy a poster of her & hang it up above your bunk bed.
don;t ever tell me i like the dukes cause of the “chick”
the dukes of hazzard is the best TV show of our generation (non animated)
and for you to tell me i only like jessica simpson ,who i don;t like at all, is rediculous. it hurts, it hurts in my chest.
hurts in your pants
The ranger at my scout camp had 2 sons, spittin images of the o-riginal Bo & Luke Duke. If only they had an orange Charger…
Was watchin the Duke boys last night. It was the one where they had evil twins who robbed the armored truck. They were tied up in coffins. & when the bad guys put on their rubbery, special fx masks, they looked exactly like the duke boys.
& in this one, Flash was rather passive.
The previews of Fantastic 4 look okay. But Thing just looks weird to me. I’m not sure if using a rubber outfit is better than computer generated stuff (the Hulk sucked). Of course whats-her-name who plays Sue Storm means you might not be looking at Thing too much.
And speaking of the Dukes of Hazard, did anyone watch that show last night with Jessica Simpson – the tribute to the troops (as I commented to my wife, I think she would watch anything with Nick and Jessica in it). Poor Willie Nelson looked like he needed to be shot when singing with Jessica – although his version of the Dukes theme song was nice. And who are these prepackaged Big and Rich guys and why can’t they leave my country music alone. Hank had to be spinning in his grave.
The only movie I can think of that I havent seen on this page is Crash.
Pretty nice little fall lineup:
The Second Chance (film debut of MWS should be interesting, if not Oscar-material) in September
SWC in October
Chicken Little (hopefully Disney will get back on track with their animated features…Amy Sedaris is a voice, that’s good news) in November
Also, it’s a long way off, but this has serious potential, as long as there’s no reverence toward racing (Ferrell’s character’s name is money, and Koechner is a no-brainer casting decision)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415306/
“hurts in your pants” is one of the funniest phrases I’ve heard in a while.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0415306/
Producers pitched the movie idea to studios as: “Six words: Will Ferrell as a Nascar driver.”
Not that i am surprised but the guys who btrought us hits like club dread got some pretty bad reviews. My favorite dskay13
who brilliantly wrote: They ask why Hollywood isn’t making the money it used to. Because they put out garbage and pay actors huge amounts of money to be garbage men and ask us to pay $10 to see their garbage.
Not that anyone cares (except maybe Bill), but it looks like The Second Chance got pushed back to February:
http://www.michaelwsmith.com/news/view_article.php?story=551
i think it is nov 18th something like that, “I walk the line” comes out. you guys are going to the thetre to watch this with me. And you’ll like it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358273/
I plan on seeing the Johnny Kiz-ash movie.
Okay, I still haven’t seen Walk the Line but am listening to the soundtrack right now… Do you guys *really* think he (we’ll use pronouns since his name is technically unpronounceable — at least with a hairlip) did such a great job? I’ve been impressed w/ his acting in the past, especially in The Village, but vocally, I’m not really diggin it here. At all. Witherspoon neither.
I realize there’s much more to the film — like, err, video — but I’m just sayin, I really expected more from the soundtrack.
I’ll see the movie regardless, but supporters, I’d like to hear what you have to say…
I haven’t heard the soundtrack (I’d rather just listen to the real Johnny Cash rather than Juaqen (?) do his impression). But to answer your question, I have to say that when I watched the movie, it blew me away. Cash had such a unique voice that I doubt anyone could hit it dead on. But in my opinion, he did a very, very good job.
I think what pushed it over the edge for me and made his performance so great was that he had a lot of the physical mannerisms down. Listen to the voice by itself and it is pretty good. But put that voice together with his physical performance and it was dead-on in my opinion.
i thought he did pretty good, i never heard of jaquen before this film either, but i really like the CD, i like home of the blues and it ain;t me babe better than originals, not so much on the others.
but the moivie was good, def worth seeing at least once.
i cannot wait to see this movie.
“Dear Lord Baby Jesus…”
I can’t either. I’m totally gonna drive to Nerk & watch this opening night at the Indian Mound Mall.
has anyone seen “the benchwarmers”
i hear good things about it.
nope, sorry. I had wondered that, too.
Actually, I’ve been meaning to *bump* this thread anyway b/c this year’s summer movie list looks pretty good too.
First off, the big screen ver of one of my all time favourite tv shows, Strangers With Candy, is finally being released, although it was ready to go over a year ago.
Some other stuff I’d like to see: Ricky Bobby, Pirates, X3, Nacho Libre & Superman. Lady in the Water could be good too…
What are you all planning on seeing?
not sure when this is going to be released but here is reno 911: Miami the R-rated version of the show. It should be hilarious
Also i watched benchwarmers last night, it was decent. stupid but funny. Nick Swardson aka Terry from reno 911 was in it. He was pretty funny.
Wanting to see:
MI3
Xmen 3
Pirates of C
Over the Hedge (i like animation movies :)
Superman
I will probably see Da Vinci and Miami Vice out of curiousity.
Not sure what else; I don’t get out much these days.
I will def see that. I’ll sit through 2hrs of new Reno.
That said, I have to also point out that I think the big screen is the wrong format for Reno. I mean, the COPS parody is perfect for the show. The bleeping of the curse words makes it much more funny than if you actually hear it, & b/c it’s all cut up, you have the advantage of getting tiny little clips throughout the episode, rather than just following a plot all the way through. Not that the eps don’t have general plotlines, but there’s so much room for randomness…
Well, I saw Da Vinci Code this weekend. And with all the hype about the movie and given that Tom Hanks and Ron Howard are both associated with the movie I was expecting it to be fabulous. Needless to say, it wasn’t. As usual the book was much better. I appreciated the art and beautiful churches shown. I also have to say that the main chick in the movie is beautiful.
I think it’s great that a movie has so many people talking about Christianity. What a great way to help bring it up in conversation. While the movie tells a certain story, I also think they don’t tell you to believe a certain way.
I’ve always belived in God, but I haven’t always been a good Christian. It wasn’t unti l after I read the book a couple of years ago, that I even started talking about my relationship with God again. And, thanks to my roommate Julie she answered a lot of my questions. So, even though it is a book painting a different view about Christianty, it actually helped me begin rekindling my relationship with God. I hope that will be true for many others.
Strangers With Candy hits the Big screen in Columbus on July 14 (Only at the Drexel).
Cleverly, HBO is playing Superman. Can’t say I remember seeing baby Clark’s super-penis…
Reno 911 Miami trailer…
So do we know when this is actually coming out? Next year?
More Mockumentary fun: Coming out in November, the Borat movie. If you’re not familiar w/ this guy, he played the french driver in Talladega Nights & he’s best known for his Ali G character. Borat’s his best though, IMO. Here’s some more examples of why.
Anchorman 2? I’m Ron Burgundy?
(This source claims it’s official…)
And, in retrospect, looking at my original post from last summer:
* Star Wars — still duh. Great.
* Batman Begins — horrid. I didn’t even finish it.
* Narnia — absolutely awesome
* Fantastic Four — sucked. The casting in particular.
* War of the Worlds — weak
* Charlie & the Chocolate Factory — meh
i liked batman begins
I like Batman Begins, too. Random note: if you saw a picture of me at 14, I look freakishly like the oldest girl from the Narnia movie (obviously I don’t have the accent). My sister couldn’t even watch parts of the movie b/c she was weirded out by the similarity.
I gotta throw my support behind Batman Begins as well. True, it didn’t have the over the top villains of all the other Batman movies, but it was a decent “this is how it all began” attempt.
Plus I’ve been crushing on Christian Bale ever since American Psycho – which probably reveals more about me than I should be cofortable with in a public forum.
Not a recent pic — & i hope you don’t mind, Miranda — but i can kinda see that (you folks too?)… the girl’s name is Susan, fyi…
Here’s Miranda:
Is anyone going to see “man of the year” cause if you are i want to punch you
What’s wrong w/ “Man of the Year”? Got Williams and Walken? Seriously, give feedback.
Bill, really enjoyed Batman Begins — did you watch it on Lunesta? :) Best of the Batmans.
Thought War of the Worlds was solid. Gotta love Morgan Freeman as a narrator.
FFour — yeah, it was comic-bookish, but Alba in tights made it bearable :)
1) i can;t stand robin williams
2) ditto for lewis black
3) robin williams in a wig
4) i guess i can;t sy this for sure but i bet there is a conservative politician who looks eithe evil, or idiotic, cause thats the only role hollywood gives conservatives.
5) seriously which one of these quotes won you over cause i think they are all ridiculous? was it the same sex one? cause that was pretty lame.
Looking at the message boards, there were 148 responses to the question, “Should jon stewart run for president.”
so like a loser i had to read it. Someone seriously stated, that Rudy Guliani running would be “laughable” and he would want to see Bruce Willis instead. then he says, “think about it.”
and generally they all think stewart would be better than bush. that is what this movie has done, intelligent conversation at its best
I love Robin Williams. I absolutely hate Lewis Black.
And one more time: I hate Jon Stewart. How retarded are these ppl who are comparing Stewart to Bush??? That would be like me saying that Bush would make a better comedian. It makes no sense. It doesn’t begin to translate. Stewart’s not a politician. He’s just a tool.
I don’t remember…
It was just really lame. I wanted to like it, but I just found it silly. I turned it off during the last fight scene. It just dragged on & on & on…
The only good thing to come from this movie was hearing my friend Rusty explain recently that the movie sucked b/c of dude’s posture. He was quite serious…
So he hated “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, eh? :)
I just read the link Kevin gave for the quotes to “Man of the Year.” I liked this one:
“Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently, and for the same reasons. “
Okay, everybody likes Batman Begins…
HBO’s playing it & I caught it from the beginning here while doin the work thing today… It’s not as bad as I initially thought. I still don’t quite care for dude as The Bat, but the story’s better than I thought. (Definitely deserves the PG-13 rating though, b/c I could really see the Scarecrow stuff bothering kids…) I have the really lengthy final fight scene coming up yet, but maybe it won’t bother me as much this time around…
Man, Blades of Glory has a good cast. Not only do we get Will Ferrell on ice, we get Napoleon, GOB, and one Pam Beesly. Excellent.
FYI — Reno 911! Miami comes out Feb 23.
Here’s Dangle’s extremely gay MySpace page.
Beowulf this Christmas. A well-done version is long overdue. Let’s hope this is it.
Official site
IMDB listing
I know for a fact that *some* of you enjoyed Shaun of the Dead, even though you gave no love over in Chris’ scary movies thread…
So anyway, Hot Fuzz looks like it’s gonna be good. Opens in April 07 here.
Beowulf trailer now.
Again, Beowulf site, IMDB, and of course you could always read it between now and November…
More than half of the people in that movie trailer looked like they were CG rendered. I’m not sure if it was intentional or not, but there were times when I imagined that it was actors re-done almost Shrek-like. I’m not really fond of that, but maybe as a feature-length production it will work out.
Especially note the woman that pulls someone’s arm and leaps away from the dragon (Grendel?) that chomps down. Looked like Princess Fiona diving out of harm’s way.
Other than that (if it doesn’t bother me for the whole movie) I’m very much looking forward to it. Beowulf is a great story to come to the big screen.
does anyone else want to see superbad?
I want to see Superbad for the mere fact that George Michael from Arrested Development is in it. He’s so cute.
Just saw a commercial for Mr. Bean’s new movie. The TV was on mute, but w/ Bean it makes no difference. Rowan Atkinson is a master of physical comedy, in case you’re unfamiliar. But good for them for using Bean to put out a rated G movie for the holidays. That’s becoming harder and harder to come by, and Atkinson’s humour is perfect for it.
I wouldn’t mind seeing 3:10 to Yuma. Or if one of you see it let me know if I should bother. It doesn’t look fantastic but it’s been a while since we’ve had a good, new Western. & I don’t particularly like Crowe or Bale but I don’t hate them either, so it might work.
I have no interest in seeing it, but Mr. Woodcock just seems like a rip off of the Freaks and Geeks ep where Bill’s mom dates the gym teacher they all hate. Maybe too obscure to be considered a rip off, but some of you here prob know what I’m talking about…
I think the most obnoxious movie concept, even more obnoxious than “completely unnecessary sequel”, e.g. Rush Hour 2, is “it’s roughly time for the ‘holidays’ (Nov. 9); let’s put a hip new twist on Santa Claus.”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486583/
I agree. Call me
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story has the potential to be really solid. John C. Reilly has been spankin in his work in Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show, Great Job! (chidder cheese) so I’m glad to see him headlining in this. And yes, Pammy is in it too.
Wewt
I still have to read the rest of the books – I only ever read The Lion, The Witch and The Wadrobe.
And I know a couple of people are a bit ruffled by The Golden Compass, but c’mon now, look at this
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vK6MDIEQjMg
It’s got freaking witches and pirates and bears that fight in armor and sam elliot’s mustache. I could do without the reference to LotR at the beginning of the trailer though. That just feels kinda cheap.
Also, everyone should go see The Mist. It was very good – way better than I expected it to be.
Don’t call her Pammy.
Regarding Walk Hard, Pammy says “please go see my boobs.”
Saturday night I returned from my cruise to find my place decorated with posters from the hot new grammatically incorrect movie How She Move.
These posters are all over the place. Thanks for that, Stink.
And speaking of that stupid movie, last week’s The Soup had a good promo for it.
I bet you haven’t found all of them yet.
That promo crack me up.
I have somehow missed the commercials for this movie. Perhaps they’re not running with my “Little People, Big World” airings?
you need to find the clip of the guys modeling and then the photogrrapher says take out the sucer it makes you look gay. that was the best clip on the soup
Did anybody hear about G.I.Joe being made into a movie? Not in theaters until Aug09 but still an interesting thought. Hollywood is running out of ideas and it seems is trying to play “comeback kid” with our generation’s hero’s growing up (Transformers, Marvel comics). I did find this though and IMDB has a cast listing.
I’m gonna go out on a limb & say that this will suck.
Seth showed me this, but I’ll share it here: Expelled
Preview looks a little dramatic, but I like Ben and I’m glad to see this issue getting some mainstream exposure. I’ll see it.
has anyone seen leatherheads? I think it looks good.
no, kev, but I want to see it too. and 21.
I really want to see Leatherheads…not so much for the football though. More so to see George Clooney. *sigh* He’s dreamy.
Sucer?
sucker
Saw Leatherheads — liked it alot. A little slow, but I liked the era and the football, and Clooney is great.
Can I assume that Prince Caspian and Indiana Jones are the movies we all want to see this month?
This list needs more Iron Man.
I’m looking forward to seeing Iron Man and Narnia. Chris, I saw Leatherheads last week and thought it stunk for the most part. Too slow. I thought it was going to be funnier.
I doubt a lot of people are with me on this… but I can not wait until the Sex and the City movie comes out on May 30! I haven’t been this excited about a movie in a long, long time. If there is a midnight showing I’m totally there (and that’s a lot coming from someone who likes to be in bed by 11 p.m.). Anyone else excited about this movie?
So the posters look cool (well, Snake Eyes & Duke anyway). Still, gotta agree w/Bill and say I’m pretty sure this is going to suck.
I’m really looking forward to the new X-Files movie…
The Dude is back in Tron 2.
In a perfect world, An American Carol, Religulous, and W (and possibly Expelled and %insert_michael_moore_formula%) would’ve all released at the same time and opening night theater lines would’ve been very interesting.
On this cold day, here’s a good movie preview on global warming: Not Evil Just Wrong
I just got back from watching Slumdog Millionaire. Wow, very good.
Also, they showed a trailer for X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I’m excited, and I don’t even *like* Wolverine.
This looks good: Coraline
Where the Wild Things Are
BTW, am I too old/big for pajamas like Max’s?
I predict that we’ll see lots of kids dressed as Max for Halloween this year and I can’t wait!!
Apparently not
Those Wayans brothers put out quality movies, don’t they?
Macgruber
9 looks good.
Here’s the short film.
Gentlemen Broncos looks fantastic.
saw the review for Youth in revolt this weekend when we watched zombieland, it looks ok.
For all youse Don Miller and/or Steve Taylor fans:
http://www.bluelikejazzthemovie.com/
Thanks, Scott. I’m a Steve Taylor fan, so I find this interesting. But on the the other hand, I didn’t like the book…
http://screencrave.com/2010-01-13/official-the-a-team-trailer/
The Green Zone
Matt Damon is really good in this type of role… in fact, it’s even the same director as the Bourne movies… I’m pretty excited.
I have one month to find someone who either gets as geeked out about action movies as I do or can at least be bribed with popcorn and icees.
(Yes, I realize that the reporter was the blonde chick from the office… I’m choosing to ignore that part..)
I’m trying to figure out why there’s even a girl in this movie at all.
I have a feeling this is just going to be another liberal Hollywood anti-war movie, and using the Matt Damon/Bourne combo to market it.
Bill said, “I have a feeling this is just going to be another liberal Hollywood anti-war movie.”
Yes, we were thinking the same thing.
Really liked the Bourne movies too, Julie…wish this one wasn’t R rated.
we watched the Book of Eli last night, it was really good. I recommend it to all who read this page
Beatles meet the Zombies.
“Paul is Undead”. Not sure what I think about this one.
I don’t know if you meant for that to be a pun but this article has a lot less Zombies than I was expecting.
Mary, did you notice this sentence?
Coen Brothers do True Grit, with the Dude as Rooster Cogburn
We could use some good news now more than ever, and here it is: there will be a fourth Spy Kids movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517489/
Looking fwd to this ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE09rUdpB94