Movies! 2011! Exclamation!

[Azisien]

Sucker Punch 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 NathanSave me Barry! from Misfits in a secondary character role. I don't know what to make of that!

[RickZarber]

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 [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 [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 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 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]

Originally Posted by Seil

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.

Originally Posted by Archbio

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]

more like Tintin in the Uncanny Valley