Movies! 2011! Exclamation!

[Bells]

So, what Movies of 2011 are you guys currently looking out for?

Just saw this Trailer for Cowboys & Aliens and, to be honest, a fres-ish take on a simple story, giving a new twist to Popocorn movies. Me Likey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NKWhhrv288&feature=channel

I also wait the game i know they will make out of this movie.

There is also Green Hornet, i guess, if you like that stuff.

Also Thor and Captain america are out this year. that could be good...

And how about you guys?

[Seil]

I thought you were gonna link this. (http://www.movie-moron.com/?p=13779&page=1)

Red Riding Hood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UluNq3PhZnc&feature=channel) - Looks interesting, but then again, I'm a sucker for werewolf flicks and it has the director of Twilight in it, and it has the same vibe of terribly written love with a mythological creature.

The Mechanic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phpjnS_eqYc&feature=channel) - Jason Statham, action movie.

The Garden Of Eden (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNfHJctIG4w&feature=channel) - I don't know, but it's based on a Hemmingway book so it's well written at any rate.

Cars 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t30u_rRRnP8&feature=channel) - Pixar.

The Green Lantern (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_axLoYlwwmU&feature=channel) - Superhero movie, who knows?

Kung Fu Panda 2 - The Kaboom Of Doom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ3PwBI9HMA&feature=channel) Didn't see the first, not interested in the second.

Exorcismus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySKO0LRYeZ0&feature=channel) - What's with the mainstream horror flicks being about exorcism these days? The most recent one that I remember was that fux-documentary one and that wasn't too long ago. But then again, the trailer did have shades of Emily Rose and The Exorcist, so it might be worth a look.

Source Code (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiBVUulE_wo&feature=channel) - A movie about Jake Gyllenhall repeatedly living out the last eight minutes of a guys life in order to find out who bombed the train his guy is riding. The premise sounds pretty interesting, but it sounds like it's going to be have a drawn out story where Gylenhall falls for his guys girlfriend and at the end she's still blown up and there's long pans and sad music. Still, we get to watch the same train explode from a bunch of different angles.

Pirates Of The Carribean 4 - Worth a look. Summer blockbuster, I bet.

Captain America - Superhero movie.

The Hangover 2 - Seriously, how much did these guys drink to get enough fuel for two flicks? I guess 2012 will give us The Hangover 3 - Severe Liver Failure. Well, at least it'll be better than that 2012 movie.

Transformers 3 - "We kicked off Megan Fox and kept on Shia LaBouef! How can it go wrong?!"

[Krylo]

Just saw this Trailer for Cowboys & Aliens and, to be honest, a fres-ish take on a simple story, giving a new twist to Popocorn movies. Me Likey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NKWhhrv288&feature=channel

Jesus Christ.

How is that not the most terrible thing?

Edit: Holy Fuck, Harrison Ford is in it? He needs to play an aging Han Solo, and the aliens need to be like Sith or something.

Edit Edit: Main character was kidnapped by the sith because of his force potential.

[Seil]

Besides - The Dark Knight Rises and Kick Ass 2 both come out 2012.

[Bells]

Jesus Christ.

How is that not the most terrible thing?

Edit: Holy Fuck, Harrison Ford is in it? He needs to play an aging Han Solo, and the aliens need to be like Sith or something.

Edit Edit: Main character was kidnapped by the sith because of his force potential.

Thus... awesome.

Dude, it's James Bond and Han Solo in a Western Shooter. Against Aliens. There is a scene of a "Full Army" of Mounted Cowboys running braveheart style torwards the battlefield.

[Krylo]

That was neither Pierce Brosnan nor Sean Connery.

[Bells]

Just for a second, cause i never knew this was out there... you guys are aware of the Transformers 3 Trailer, right?

this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H8bnKdf654&feature=fvw

[Professor Smarmiarty]

That was neither Pierce Brosnan nor Sean Connery.

Moore or go home.

Also Ford fighting Sith would be worst thing ever cause that would just drag him into the mire of "prequel territory".

As for movies coming out his year, they all going to be terrible is my prediction. Except live action smurfs which will be aces

[Krylo]

Moore or go home.

He may have been Bond the longest, but he also spent the entire time looking like he was wearing a shitty toupee and/or a comb-over.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

The point about Bond is that it is supposed to be stupidly over the top and all the other Bonds played it way too serious! (By way too serious I mean in any way serious). Moore, on the other hand, was in Moonraker!


Also Moore was a black belt in Karate, he was the only one who could legitamately beat you up.

Thinking about it I shall also accept the Niven/Sellers/half the rest of the cast combo as a good bond because that movie was fantastic!

[Azisien]

Sucker Punch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSIetIg7O3M) seems up my alley.

[Archbio]

Moore, on the other hand, was in Moonraker!

That's the single most eloquent disavowal of Moore's Bond that one could make.

The movie Moonraker isn't just responsible for Moonraker, but also indirectely for Die Another Day, which I'm pretty sure reused the basic plot from the novel version of Moonraker.

And Die Another Die was awful.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I haven't seen any of the Brosnan films so I can't address that but even if it spawned like 10 bastard childrens it still easily the best Bond film by far.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

I might go see Transformers 3. So I guess that Transformer we see wake up is Hot Rod?

[Archbio]

Moonraker is like Star Wars if David Prowse forgot to wear the Darth Vader suit. And with prop comedy.

As for movies that actually come out in 2011 and aren't confined to the Dark Age of cinema, there's the Tintin movie, with Spielberg directing and Moffat writing (among others,) which I can't help but be wary of: not least because it's an english language adaptation.

I mean, Professor Calculus? Seriously?

Also there's that Season of the Witch movie that's out now, with Save me Barry! from Misfits in a secondary character role. I don't know what to make of that!

[RickZarber]

Paul (http://www.hd-trailers.net/movie/paul/) [March 18] - Because while the trailer doesn't really grab me, I've never not liked anything Pegg and Frost have done together.

Hanna (http://www.hd-trailers.net/movie/hanna/) [April 8] - The premise for this seems rather clichéd (girl is raised by her father to be the ultimate killing machine, then is sent after her fathers enemies and all is probably Not What It Seems), but something about the trailer changed my mind. The cinematography looks really interesting, and there are a lot of weird set pieces.

X-Men: First Class [June 3] - X-Men set in the 60s with spandex costumes and no Wolverine. What could go wrong? :P

Winnie the Pooh (http://www.hd-trailers.net/movie/winnie-the-pooh/) [July 15] - A traditionally animated sequel (with hand painted backgrounds) that makes use of unadapted sequences from the books. If the trailer doesn't make you feel nostalgic, I don't know what will.

The Muppets [November 23] - Because it's a return to classic Muppet Movie form, with a tried and true (but possibly trite) "getting the band back together" formula. But it's the Muppets, so... Also, I generally like Jason Segal.

Hugo Cabret [December 9] - An adaptation directed by Martin Scorsese of all people, just look at the pedigree of that cast (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0970179/) and tell me you don't want to see a 1930s-set steampunky movie like that.

Cave of Forgotten Dreams (doco) [No Release Date yet] - Werner Herzog was granted access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, location of mankind's earliest known artwork--the first time anyone has ever been allowed to do so.

A Dangerous Method [No Release Date yet] - A movie about the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, with Viggo Mortensen as Frued and Michael Fassbender as Jung, directed by David Cronenberg. The third Mortensen/Cronenberg team-up, and the other two were superb, so I have high expectations.

Also for big tentpoles yet unmentioned, you have Harry Potter 7.5 (July 15), Mission: Impossible 4 (Dec 16), Sherlock Holmes 2 (also Dec 16), and the new David Fincher adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Dec 21).

(Release dates may vary; those listed are for the US.)

EDIT - Okay, so a lot of these are in Seil's link if I'd bothered to check that...

[Seil]

Moore or go home.

I knew you had terrible taste, but... really? Moore?

He turned Bond into a joke! And before you go saying "exactly!" I should ask if you're aware that Bond was based on Sir Ian Flemming's adventures as a WWII spy in Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemenly Warfare."

[RickZarber]

In all fairness, producer Harry Saltzman bears more blame than Roger Moore. (Take, for example, the incredible stunt in Man with the Golden Gun of flipping a car nearly 360° off a ramp and landing on the other side of a river. They actually did this--a feat of physics, engineering, and stunt driving that would make the Mythbusters proud. And then they ruin it by adding in a cartoonish slide-whistle sound effect (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh0VF6s-UYU) in the final film.) It wasn't until after Saltzman and Broccoli split that the Bond movies started getting good again.

My major complaint with Moore is that he was too old for the role. He's older than Sean Connery, even though he didn't look it at first--that changed quickly. I don't really have much of a problem with his acting, but that doesn't stop most of his Bond movies from having terrible scripts and hokey sequences.

EDIT: The only Moore film I'm really a fan of is his most subdued: For Your Eyes Only. Its story is closer to a classic revenge thriller, it includes the fantastic keel-hauling sequence from the novel Live and Let Die, the MacGuffin is a simple decoding machine, and grampa-Bond actually declines to sleep with a precocious teenager, asking if she wouldn't rather he buy her an ice cream sometime instead. :P

[Professor Smarmiarty]

He turned Bond into a joke! And before you go saying "exactly!" I should ask if you're aware that Bond was based on Sir Ian Flemming's adventures as a WWII spy in Churchill's "Ministry of Ungentlemenly Warfare."

Well yeah novel bond is very serious and doesn't use crazy gadgets and hings but novel bond is also terribly shit. Film bond is a seperate entity and should be treated as such.
And as for when did Bond a joke: Original Casino Royale. There's no topping that one.



As for movies that actually come out in 2011 and aren't confined to the Dark Age of cinema, there's the Tintin movie, with Spielberg directing and Moffat writing (among others,) which I can't help but be wary of: not least because it's an english language adaptation.

Tintin will be hilarity calling it now! Get a good Haddock and you're all set

[Meister]

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/9500/haddock.jpg (http://img809.imageshack.us/i/haddock.jpg/)

more like Tintin in the Uncanny Valley

[Professor Smarmiarty]

What the shit?

[Seil]

And as for when did Bond a joke: Original Casino Royale. There's no topping that one.
You mean the one with Peter Sellers? The one that was supposed to be a comedy?

[Archbio]

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/9500/haddock.jpg (http://img809.imageshack.us/i/haddock.jpg/)

more like Tintin in the Uncanny Valley

"My Precious!"

He did have a substance abuse problem.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

You mean the one with Peter Sellers? The one that was supposed to be a comedy?

Th one that is a surreal madhouse with a massively fluctuating tone due to the massive number of directors and writers. It is the only Bond film I can watch more than once.

[Magus]

The Mechanic is the only movie in the near future I'm looking forward to.

lawl Transformers 3 does that one have LaBeouf and Fox in it? I can't wait to not watch that one.

[Fifthfiend]

X-Men: First Class [June 3] - X-Men set in the 60s with spandex costumes and no Wolverine. What could go wrong? :P

They might go completely insane and let Wolverine show up in it somewhere, ruining its chances of being the first remotely good X-Men movie.

That's the single most eloquent disavowal of Moore's Bond that one could make.

The movie Moonraker isn't just responsible for Moonraker, but also indirectely for Die Another Day, which I'm pretty sure reused the basic plot from the novel version of Moonraker.

And Die Another Die was awful.

Was Moonraker the one with Jaws in it where some villain is trying to send a bunch of really good lookin' blonde people to the moon while he kills all life on Earth or some shit?

Cause that was basically the best.

[mauve]

The point about Bond is that it is supposed to be stupidly over the top and all the other Bonds played it way too serious! (By way too serious I mean in any way serious). Moore, on the other hand, was in Moonraker!


Also Moore was a black belt in Karate, he was the only one who could legitamately beat you up.

Thinking about it I shall also accept the Niven/Sellers/half the rest of the cast combo as a good bond because that movie was fantastic!

But..... Sean Connery had the Sean Connery voice! You can't beat the Sean Connery voice.

He and Peirce Brosnan did the best "Smarmy one-eyebrow-raise" thing, too. AND they were the best-looking Bonds.

[Fifthfiend]

Just saw this Trailer for Cowboys & Aliens and, to be honest, a fres-ish take on a simple story, giving a new twist to Popocorn movies. Me Likey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NKWhhrv288&feature=channel

I can't believe that this and Fast 5 are happening in the same year.

All my Christmases

Transformers 3 - "We kicked off Megan Fox and kept on Shia LaBouef! How can it go wrong?!"

I want this movie to fail for specifically this reason.

[The Wandering God]

Hey guys, what about Timothy Dalton?

Guys?

...

oh

Sorry Tim.

[Archbio]

Was Moonraker the one with Jaws in it where some villain is trying to send a bunch of really good lookin' blonde people to the moon while he kills all life on Earth or some shit?

Gondola. Chase.

[Fifthfiend]

Leave Shakespeare in Love out of this :/

[Bells]

What the hell is this...? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uENDqlbCy4&feature=player_embedded)

http://www.esreality.com/files/placeimages/2010/76318-derp.jpg

[Magus]

Hey guys, what about Timothy Dalton?

Guys?

...

oh

Sorry Tim.

Actually I believe both of his were pretty good, or at least the one with the priceless viola was good. Can't remember the name, though (License to Kill? I think it may have been the other one he made...For Your Eyes Only? I can't remember. Anyway it was pretty good).

The guy who really has it bad is George Lazenby.

http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/479/georgelazenbyjanuary196.jpg
Only one Bond film. The women found him repulsive and the men found him to remind themselves of how women find them repulsive.

As for the Justin Bieber movie, it should go over well with the chickenhawk crowd.

EDIT:

BTW that movie Source Code sounds exactly the same as Deja Vu starring Denzel Washington. Is there anything differentiating it other than "the last 8 minutes" thing?

[Seil]

Timothy Dalton was very fine in the films he did - one which starred a young Benicio Del Torro - but he's Rassilon. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiiNauRTsOM&feature=related)

[Archbio]

No, he's a slasher. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4erhJoC24)

[Seil]

A new Carpenter horror! Joy! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWrnTbLRmMA)

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Lazenby had only one Bond film cause he was fucking terrible.
Sellers and Niven had only one Bond film because the world is full of terrible people with atrocious taste.

[Seil]

So says the man famous on this forum for his taste.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

So says the man famous on this forum for his taste.

because the world is full of terrible people with atrocious taste.

[Archbio]

You don't even have to bring the rest of the forum into it. The guy just admitted, on this very thread, to watching Casino Royale more than once. And enjoying it. With that little freaking music looping over and over again.

Lazenby's problem was the blue suit. Fact.

What the hell is this...?

I think there should be a rule that states that one has to know what something is before linking to it.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

The music only adds to the genius. It has pretty much no relation to what is going on in the movie further increasing the sublime ridiculousness.
That and the cowboys.

[Seil]

This looks pretty good. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzI4D6dyp_o)

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Total oscarbait!

[Archbio]

I'd probably contest that label, but I'm pretty sure I saw an ad for it with the quote "The Oscar race is over."

So at least the marketing campaign is vigorous oscarbation.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Forced by birth to take up a position for his country to the detriment of him self! Overcoming crippling personal demons while still being suitably rich, white and educated to no toffend anyone and to make his struggle suitable small and palaable! Emotive demons without physical demons allowing for massive overacting! Edwardian sets and costumes to bring in all the middle age ladies.
Also villains are nazis so you can gloss over them as "evil"!
Oscarbait out the wazoo!

[Fifthfiend]

So says the man famous on this forum for his taste.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha oh my god I may never stop lolling

[walkertexasdruid]

Sherloc Holmes 2: I definately want to see this movie.

Transformers 3: I will watch, even though Transformers 2 was disappointing.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part two: I will watch, even though, unless you have been living in a cave for the last couple of years, we all know how it will end.

Thor: Looks like another interesting Marvel movie.

There are others of course, but am I the only person who never got into the James Bond movies? I would rather watch the Austin Powers trilogy.