here i present a list of the upcoming movies which i am stupidly excited about even though it is fairly certain at least half of them (if not all) will be grade-a turkeys

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van helsing
hellboy
the day after tomorrow
troy
the terminal
around the world in 80 days (jackie chan & steve coogan!)
spiderman 2
king arthur
anchorman
the bourne supremacy
collateral
alien vs predator

and here is a list of movies i am NOT looking forward to:
the manchurian candidate (jonathan demme's "the real truth about charlie" rmx)
catwoman
the punisher

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:47 (twenty-one years ago)

dude hellboy is gonna rock!!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

omg ALIEN VS PREDATOR OMG

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i know!! alien vs predator is possibly my all-time most anticipated movie!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

they're really going for an x-men ripoff vibe with the trailers for hellboy but i still think it's going to be good even tho i'm iffy about guillermo del toro.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

the 12 yr old inside me is running around the room throwing paint on the walls and flicking wild boogers in anticipation

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

haha they are making a mask 2: it is the summer of shitty dark horse comics movie adaptations

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont have much hope for troy. looks corny in a bad way. i want a DEAD SERIOUS version of the iliad

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i kinda doubt it's actually an adaptation of the iliad!

dude have you SEEN the trailer for mask 2?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i have to be honest - the hellboy trailers got me interested

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a precocious little kid mask! it's so horrifying

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

liman's not directing bourne supremacy so i'm a lil worried on that one

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

word is king arthur is AWFUL

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

have you seen the spiderman 2 trailer? it's totally wicked!

xp: ha, blount, i was gonna comment on that too! he directed the first one really well

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i know! it looks so awful! "look who's mugging".

hellboy the comic is great...omg monsters and nazis and zombies oh my

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i kinda doubt it's actually an adaptation of the iliad!

yeah thats kinda what i mean.

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i love that it's ron perlman

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ron perlman is so cool, what a weird movie star

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

he's kind of been typecast hasnt he

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

ryan, as the iliad only takes place during one episode of the war i think the movie will probably be better as it is.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

'gimme that ugly fuck on line one shirley'

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

strongo, as what? a big-jawed tough guy? yeah, i suppose so.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

troy's gonna suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

he's in all those jeunet/caro movies (weirdest consistent ensemble cast ever there)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

troy probably will suck as it's directed by wolfgang petersen but the trailer is awesome

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i was thinking more of a guy dressed up in monster costumes, but yeah

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

admittedly i am not very familiar with his uh body of work

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

"ELIZABETH!!!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

van helsing looks awesome too--trailers for those kind of movies always make them look impossibly good though (nothing is that exciting!)

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait, maybe it's "CATHERINE!!!"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

what was nice lady's name in beauty and the beast again? dude was vincent as i recall

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

troy probably will suck as it's directed by wolfgang petersen but the trailer is awesome

you mean the one with the long shot of all the ships?

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

haha - confession time: who here does hsx?

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

no there's a newer one that's all "introducing the tough guys"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

if that gives you any idea what i mean

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

awesome!

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

can we talk about catwoman's costume for a second?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

wait - troy will probably have an 'assemble the samurai' type scene right? i luv those!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

such a terrible, terrible mistake (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

brian cox is in it! (troy)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

who is playing catwoman? wait, its halle berry right?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, joe elliot designed the costume

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah! but the costume is so sadly shitty (xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

here's another one i'm not excited about: the ladykillers

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll see it

― cinniblount (James Blount), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

slocki plz explain these movies to me

van helsing
the day after tomorrow
the terminal
anchorman
collateral

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Is Steve Coogan the guy from 24 Hr Party People?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

van helsing is the one with hugh jackman as van helsing from the dracula mythos: he has to fight ALL the famous monsters! (except the mummy)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

good lord

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Is I, Robot going to be good or is it going to suck?

I'm looking forward to The Punisher.

I'm just hoping Hellboy is more X-Men than League of Extraordinary Gentlemen...

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 17 March 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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She Hate Me, A Spike Lee Joint - I wasn't too sure about the premise I'd heard about (former corporate exec starts impregnating lesbians for money), but the trailer looks good.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/shehateme/flash.html

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 13 June 2004 04:40 (twenty-one years ago)

as lee has his "joints," what would the equivalent be for other major filmmakers?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 13 June 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

a Chris Colombus crib

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Sunday, 13 June 2004 05:23 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

amateurist writes:
apparently cannes accepted the film into competition without anyone having seen even a small part of it--indeed wong was still editing it a month ago. maggie cheung has no idea whether she appears in the movie for more than a minute or not. as of an interview two months ago, wong had no idea how the soundtrack would sound. madness.
wong spent so much of his producers' cash on this film it's not funny. wong has like the most decadent shooting ratio ever, you could make 10 movies out of the outtakes from "happy together."
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oh yeah tony leung plays a version of his ITMFL character but maggie cheung does not, indeed she refused to.
both leung and cheung are really ambivalent about working with wong; they both admire him, but say working on his sets is hell because everything is in his head and he doesn't communicate with his actors and he changes the scenario, indeed the whole concept, every few days

you realize both ITMFL and 2046 were shot at the same time right? the reason for the delay of 2046 was due to problems with investors (HK market crash/recession) and getting cash to produce the film. there are great interviews with WKW and Maggie and Tony on disc 2 of the criterion ITMFL that seemingly counter much of what you wrote above.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 19 July 2004 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got a ticket in the mail to see "The Village" in Charlotte the day before it comes out.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 07:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Wimbeldon... mmmmmm...

― TheRealJMod (TheRealJMod), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah... wimbledon.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I was more excited about Wimbledon until it said "from the people who brought you Love Actually and Bridget Jones's Diary"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

when is Garden State finally going to come out? I've been seeing the trailer for it for six months now. I hate the trailer to death now.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

well both cheung and leung have made contradictory statements about this. i'm basing my info on the cannes issue of cahiers du cinema.

i'm pretty sure wong shot most of the footage for 2046 well after making in the mood for love--but i've been wrong before.

much (most?) of the money in wong's films is japanese now, like with hou's films.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the lead actor in wimbledon has a weird complexion

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

That's because he's Russell Crowe's imaginary friend.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

wimbledon = dunst & bettany, right?

― cºzen (Cozen), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

They're filming a movie called Elizabethtown about 15 minutes down the road from here in Versailles, KY. This movie stars Ornaldo Bloomps and Spidey's Girlfriend. They have been around town lately; my friend Leah sold Mr. Bloomps a bitchin' jacket at my favorite thrift store the other day.

Anyway, I think it's funny that they didn't actually go to Elizabethtown to shoot a film set in Elizabethtown.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm pretty sure wong shot most of the footage for 2046 well after making in the mood for love--but i've been wrong before.

he talks about making both of the movies at once in the interview on the Criterion ITMFL disc 2.

much (most?) of the money in wong's films is japanese now, like with hou's films.

oh yeah, their economy is so much more stable than HK's.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

oh i thought he conceived them both at once and only had money for one?

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i wasn't making an argument re. the japanese, just pointing out that this new film and hou's recent films have been made in great part thanks to the japanese film industry.

2046 was shot in macao, shanghai, thailand, and hong kong--was ITMFL shot in all these places (obv. the coda was shot in cambodia)?

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

obv. the coda was archival footage!

i have no idea where ITMFL was shot, I will watch the parts of the interview where he adresses shooting both movies at once again and see if it touches on that. I highly recommend it, WKW is very upfront and straightforward and clearly addresses things that you mention upthread. Tony and Maggie's interviews at the Toronto FF are also very enlightening and seem straightforward and honest answers. All interviews are in English so there's nothing "lost in translation" (ugh).

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the de gaulle thing was archival footage, tony leung at angkor wat was not.

i have the ITMFL DVD but i haven't gone through all the bonuses.

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i try to watch it all at once but it puts me to sleep... :-\

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I was more excited about Wimbledon until it said "from the people who brought you Love Actually and Bridget Jones's Diary"

YEAH RIGHT??!!

― TheRealJMod (TheRealJMod), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Bridget Jones Diary was a fine film.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ON FUCKING MARS

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Closer looks pretty damn good. And this is not just because I want to see Natalie Portman stripping, whatever my wife claims.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

NATALIE WHO WHATTING

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 August 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"upcoming"

Definitely: Before Sunset, Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (big surprise), Silver City gabbneb explosion, Riding Giants, Weapons of Mass Destruction, F9/11,P.S. haha, the LA movie, I Heart Huckabee's omg wtf, Vanity Fair, The Last Shot, the Metallica movie, Ray, Lewis & Clark: the Great Journey West
Maybe: Sideways, Friday Night Lights, Maria Full of Grace, Open Water, Shall We Dance?, Collateral, The Corporation, Saved!, Primer, The Day After Tomorrow

I dunno if this is a good year for movies or not, but there are more of them out or coming that I'm actually interested in seeing than there have been in years

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Silver City looks awful - was it really necessary to name the Evil Republican "Pilager"?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i am intrigued by i heart huckabees

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i like david o. russell

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I'm generally predisposed in Sayles' favor (partly based on his place-orientation, and I dunno how Colorado this will be), and bringing back Wexler, Cooper and Kristofferson and adding Richard Dreyfuss and Miguel Ferrer into a Bush-bashing mix sounds like it will hit lots of buttons.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 14 August 2004 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

miguel ferrer!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm looking forward to the Chronicles of Riddick. Though they keep saying you gots to fight evil with evil sometimes, in the trailer. Vin just doesn't look at all evil. I bet this film came out eons ago over the ocean.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 14 August 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The cast of Ray is hysterical. Beyond Curtis Armstrong as Ahmet Ertegun and Jamie Foxx as Ray himself, we have... Richard Schiff as Jerry Wexler! Larenz Tate as Quincy Jones! Ralph Tresvant as Sam Cooke! Bokeem Woodbine as David "Fathead" Newman!

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 14 August 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

2046 DVDs are available on EBay now from mainland China. R0, PAL-encoded.

I'm tempted to buy one since it hasn't even found an American distributor yet.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 17 October 2004 02:58 (twenty years ago)

tarnation is out this week!

― youn, Sunday, 17 October 2004 03:16 (twenty years ago)

in retrospect, not a lot of these movies worked out for me.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 17 October 2004 05:37 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

the trailer for 'xxx - state of the union' is beyond awesoem.

― :| (....), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:24 (twenty years ago)

u r a moran right?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:29 (twenty years ago)

'be cool', on the other hand, is clearly the worst film ever.

― :| (....), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:36 (twenty years ago)

sorry I don't know what got me to post that, it was a knee jerk reaction like asking people to install lphant then get this film
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Mieville - Numero Deux (1975) 1 Of 2.mpg

Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Mieville - Numero Deux (1975) 2 Of 2.mpg

ps to admins: it's a left wing film, I don't think there are legal problems with hosting those links.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 08:48 (twenty years ago)

not if it's a left wing film!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 22 December 2004 09:55 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

I couldn't actually bring myself to start an anticipation thread for Stick It (from the people who brought you Bring It On!), so let's just bump this

― milo z (mlp), Thursday, 27 April 2006 23:48 (nineteen years ago)

O COME ON DO IT
I mean, I'm going to start a thread for Hard Candy.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

i guess my ideal movie is abbott & costello meet frankenstein
-- s1ocki (parrisactava...), March 16th, 2004.

hey mine too!!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

ah this thread is full of so much pathos now....

― ryan (ryan), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 28 April 2006 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

How well did you do? I'd speculate that you liked the same percentage of your hate list (er, if you liked The Manchurian Candidate) as your hit list (Spiderman, Anchorman, Bourne Supremacy, Collateral =4/12). I thought Around The World was great, mind.

People are still anticipating A Scanner Darkly!

It's so weird to me that all of these films have come and gone in the last two years, it seems much longer.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 28 April 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

Will backup appreciation for Stick It, tho I think it will be no Bring It On, and wonder loudly where Dushku is in all of this...

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 28 April 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Also, more challenging titles, pls.

ie Waht Choo Got

― Jimmy Mod is a super idol of The MARS SPIRIT (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 28 April 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

fifteen years pass...

Rosamund Pike to star in pandemic-themed thriller ‘Rich Flu,’ produced by Pablo Larraín.

A disease kills off some of the richest people on the planet. Then it threatens to strike anyone with any sort of fortune. People then flood the market with assets the world no longer wants. pic.twitter.com/YNBPxmp0q8
— Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) February 3, 2022

Make it in Imax 3D, please.

― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 4 February 2022 07:08 (three years ago)

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