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Posted: Sep 16 2009 05:35 pm

I've looked at the things coming down the pipe in the next few weeks and months of the year and this is what it looks like I'll be seeing/trying to see:

The rest of September
Surrogates. Now on DVD watch, never went and saw it
Pandorum. Good, but I'll wait for DVD.

October
Zombieland. Was glad to see my instincts were right about this being awesome.
Astro Boy. Intended for September but released in late October. Pretty good, nothing groundbreaking but a very enjoyable movie with only a few changes to the origin story portion.
Where the Wild Things Are. See Surrogates.

November
The Road. Father and son apocalypse flick. Likely to wind up like Surrogates.

December
The Princess and the Frog. This is how you do a Disney animated movie, though apparently it's not doing too well at the box office (costing 105 million to make).
Avatar. Much like the recent 9, the effects alone have my interest.
Sherlock Holmes. Hopefully I can find a theater that's playing this Christmas Day as I'll be in the Georgia mountains then.

Posted: Sep 16 2009 06:55 pm

The Road sounds neat. Zombieland is a must see for me as well. I really don't go out to the movies very often at all, but I will try and get out to see Zombieland.

Posted: Sep 16 2009 09:55 pm

This is almost exactly mine, except that "Surrogate" is absolutely the must-see of that month for me. Its right up my alley.

Sherlock Holmes is my other hugely anticipated movie. I'm a HUGE Holmes fan, have been since I was old enough to read them. Also love Robert Downey. Movie will be awesome; willing to give Jude Law the benefit of the doubt til I see the movie.

I can't believe I haven't heard anything about The Road. It sounds like a great idea, also exactly my type of movie. Looking forward to finding out more via google right...now!

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You all know the Road is a book too, right? A pretty damn good one.

Posted: Sep 17 2009 01:00 am

Kubo wrote:

You all know the Road is a book too, right? A pretty damn good one.

Oh SHIT! I can't believe I didn't make the connection. It's based on the Cormack McCarthy novel? I...am not actually sure how I feel about that, now. Although I guess the other movies they made of his novels turned out okay. So maybe this will end well after all...I'm more nervous than excited now though.

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for Blood Meridian. I can't get through the book without gagging, and I'm sure an even moderately faithful movie adaptation would have me outright puking in the aisle...but holy crap would it be amazing if done well.

Joined: Aug 24 2005 Location: Mount Holly, NJ Posts: 1062

Personally, I'm most amped about the adaptation of Brave New World starring DiCaprio coming out sometime in 2010. I forget who's directing it, but it should be badass. DiCaprio makes some very good movies (e.g. the Departed, Blood Diamond).

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I absolutely loved reading "Brave New World" and I'm willing to accept DiCaprio as the lead. This should be a great movie, for sure.

Posted: Sep 17 2009 11:45 am

Okay, super excited for Brave New World. Only issue: I'm not sold on DiCaprio as John Savage. I could see him as one of the pretty boy Alpha scientists maybe, but Savage? Really??

I know, I shouldn't hate on him. I just have...issues from having Titanic inflicted on me more times than I care to remember by my younger sisters. Sigh. He really was good in Blood Diamond. I'm sure it'll turn out okay.

Posted: Sep 17 2009 02:01 pm

basketball diaries was also a good movie

Posted: Sep 17 2009 03:09 pm

Jennifer's Body (September 18th): I loved Juno and really like United States of Tara. I also enjoy masturbating to pictures of Diablo Cody.

Whip It (October 2nd): Worth watching for the fantastic female cast alone: Ellen Page, Juliette Lewis, Zoe Bell, Ari Graynor, Alia Shawkat among others.
A Serious Man (October 2nd): Two words: Coen. Brothers.
An Education (October 9th): This got rave reviews at Sundance and the Berlin Film Festival, so my interest is piqued.
Black Dynamite (October 16th): Just trying to catch all the references in this one should make it fun.

2012 (November 13th): IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT!
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (November 20th): The original was one of the best movies of the 90s and maybe Harvey Keitel's best performance. Remaking it and replacing Keitel with Nicolas Cage would be a sure fire way to piss me off. However it's directed by nobody else than Werner Herzog, so this might end up being one of the rare cases of a successful remake.
Ninja Assassin (November 25th): I'd watch anything written by J. Michael Straczynski. Also: ninjas!

Posted: Sep 17 2009 06:47 pm

i just read about thirst and that looks rather interesting. is from the same director of Oldboy (Park Chan-wook) and about vampires. automatically its 100% better than twilight.

Posted: Sep 17 2009 07:40 pm

username wrote:

i just read about thirst and that looks rather interesting. is from the same director of Oldboy (Park Chan-wook) and about vampires. automatically its 100% better than twilight.

Is it bad that my very first thought on reading that was "holy shit, they're doing an adaptation of Rime of the Ancient Mariner!"

It was only after clicking the link I realized it was about vampires. And I felt let down. Confused

Posted: Sep 17 2009 11:25 pm

SoldierHawk wrote:

username wrote:

i just read about thirst and that looks rather interesting. is from the same director of Oldboy (Park Chan-wook) and about vampires. automatically its 100% better than twilight.

Is it bad that my very first thought on reading that was "holy shit, they're doing an adaptation of Rime of the Ancient Mariner!"

It was only after clicking the link I realized it was about vampires. And I felt let down. Confused

an adaptation of rime of the ancient mariner would be awesome.

but either way, a vampire movie that doesnt have emo teenage love bs AND its directed by the director of oldboy?! sign me up son

Posted: Sep 18 2009 01:30 am

I think an adaptation of Rime would be amazing. I've actually stopped and started a screenplay for it several times (mostly because...I suck at screenplay format.) Plus you could use the Iron Maiden song over the closing credits and in the trailer...it would be fucking epic.

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The Road sounds neat. Zombieland is a must see for me as well.
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Posted: Oct 25 2009 04:48 pm

I think most everyone on here can agree Zombieland was awesome. I just saw Astro Boy over the weekend with Atmanryu and we both really liked it. There're several in-jokes present that Tezuka was known for doing. My only gripes are the main villain is a pretty one-dimensional character and (a lesser one) that instead of Tobio being killed in a car wreck, it's a boy named Toby killed in an off-screen vaporization.

Posted: Dec 11 2009 05:44 pm

I read The Road because the movie looked good and so far the movie hasn't come to the theatres in my town, it damn well better.

Posted: Dec 20 2009 06:55 am

Saw Princess and the Frog on the 18th. I enjoyed just about the whole of the movie as well as a few shoutouts to the other movies like Lottie's collection of princess dolls resembling previous Disney princesses and the big King Triton float during Mardi Gras.