Anticipated Movies of 2008
 

Cloverfield/ 1-18-08-Ever since I saw this trailer and the mystery behind it, I've been dying to know what kind of movie it is, including the plot (other than being a monster movie). Whatever it is, I hope its really good and lives up to the genre.

Indiana Jones IV-I never had the chance to see the first three Indy films, but with the fourth one coming out, I may have the chance to see one for the first time.

Sin City 2-Despite the fact that it never intended to came out this year, I hope that, in spite of the production delayment, the sequel to the sleeper hit would make a good impression in theaters.

Iron Man-Not use to the recent villainous Iron Man being played out in the current Marvel Comics, I prefer to see the Iron Man being what he was once known as: a hero.

Speed Racer-At first, I wasn't so sure about this movie, considered that some movies based on cartoons flop in theaters. But with Joel Silver as producer (including a great cast and a great rendition of the Mach 5), this is an exception.

Get Smart-The movie adaption of the well-known TV series looks very promising, and Steve Carrell could pull off a good performance as the goofball Agent 86.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor-I'm surprise that Universal was making this sequel to the Mummy Returns, but regardless, I'll give this film a chance when I have the time.

The Dark Knight-The sequel to the box office hit Batman Begins, the movie reunites most of the cast and the director, picking off from the ending. It would be no surprise if this film has the same success like its predecessor.

Bond 22-The untitle direct sequel to Casino Royale is a mystery, but regardless, another great Bond film to look forward to when it comes out.

The Incredible Hulk-I was surprise that not only Universal has been producing the sequel to the 2003's Hulk, but the cast and director has been replaced (Edward Norton will be Bruce Banner this time). However, I won't judge the film just yet, as I rather see it first.

Don't forget that it's written AND directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski! :frankiesmile:

Get Smart - After seeing the teaser trailer, I have a lot of hope for this movie. Steve Carell is going to rock and I can't wait to see how this is going to turn out! :bloogrin:

Nim's Island - This is based on Australian author Wendy Orr's book about a girl who lives on an island with his father and makes friends with an author by e-mail. I love the book. It's currently being filmed in Queensland and I really can't wait to see this.

I am pretty sure this Hulk will be a seperate Hulk for the first film (to be like the real Hulk from the mythology of the Marvel Universe, not just based on the same idea), thus the change in cast and crew. Ed Norton rocks!

I'm really looking forward to Cloverfield. The teaser has me craving more info and I want to see what the monster looks like.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - Directed by my favorite director of all time (Tim Burton) and starring my two favorite actors of all time (Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter). Oh yeah...this is a must-see for me:P

And I guess I'm looking forward to Get Smart. I've never seen the original, but Steve Carrel is another favorite of mine, so I'll give it a shot8-)

Sweeney Todd has to be my favorite musical. I even have a quote from it in my signature. I really hope the movie is just as good. The casting is pretty much perfect. The only person I have trouble with is Johnny Depp.

Yeah, lots of people are a little iffy about Depp, because no one's ever heard him sing really. He was in a band some years ago, but he only did back-up vocals and the such. I really really hope that he surprises us and does an awesome job (especially since Sondheim isn't exactly easy stuff).

Harry Potter 6- It means we'll be closer to the (hopefully) amazing Potter 7.
Wall-E-What can I say....It's Pixar. Plus it's the last of Pixar's original ideas (The ideas the head guys cooked up in '94 which were A Bug's Life, Monster's Inc., Nemo & Wall-E)
Iron Man- From what I heard the teaser from Comic-Con was amazing. I'm hoping it's as good(or better) than S-M2.
Finally....

Indiana Jones IV- I can't be excited enough for this movie. I'm going opening day for once. Or atleast opening weekend. If you guys haven't seen the Indy movies your'e missing some of the biggest classics of all-time.

sounds good.

I think Depp can do it.

Sweeney Todd- boy this movie oughta be fun. maybe i should see the musical first though

Iron man- one of my favorite heros, this should be good.

fanboys- lol. gotta see this one. love the plot.

horton hears a who!- because dr suess+CGI+jim carrey= awsome.

the last guy on earth- nice plot. seems like a good movie

scary movie 5- because i liked 2 and three, and want to see 4 still\




also, this doesnt come out till 09, but i cant wait for astro boy. the CGI movie? no? well nevermind

SM5's coming out next year? AWESOME!
4's coming on Starz soon if you have that channel.

Some of these movies are for late 2007 but considering this is an "upcoming movies" section, I figured I'd post them up here too for the hell of it. I'm mainly VERY excited about certain bad ass new horror movies coming out next year.

I'm looking (and eagerly waiting) to see:

Speed Racer
The Mummy: Curse of the Dragon
Hellboy 2: The Golden army
The Dark Knight
Be Kind rewind
The Strangers
30 days of Night
Trick R'Treat
JJ Abrams Untitled Monster movie
The Mist
The Punisher 2
Wall-E
Whisper
Wolverine
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
Aliens vs. Predator 2: Requiem

There's an Iron Man movie in the works? Okay, that one I've got to see. :D

Yes, there's an Iron Man movie coming. A sneak peek was shown at Comic-Con this year. :frankiesmile:

Sorry I missed it. Eh, I'll catch it in the theater and see it all at once. :)

It's going to be VERRRRRRRRY GOOD! Robert Downey Jr. is Tony Stark, Gweneth Paltrow is Pepper Pot and the villains they mentioned in the film are Obadiah Shane and Iron Monger. I don't know alot about Iron Man's history but still.

The images, the teaser clip at comic con, the armor designs, everything I have seen makes this movie look incredibly bad ass and a BIG return for quality comic book super hero movies, outside of the likes of Batman and Spider man.

I really think Iron Man is going to be excellent, it has the feel and look of a Grade A quality super hero flick.

The Iron-man movie is certainly generating a lot of positive hype. I've never been an Iron-man fan but even I'm getting quite anxious to see it.:D

i'm still waiting for a Captain America movie

You and me both, Partymember! 8D But I hear that the Cap's movie is scheduled more production in 2009. Or maybe that's the release date. Either way it's coming. :D

I hear Paramount wants to pull out an Avengers movie before they do Captain America or Thor.

I've got disturbing news for Sweeney fans. It seems Warner wants to aim for a PG-13. Because a Grand Guginol musical about a barber who kills his customers while his landlady bakes them into pies translates so well into a PG-13 film. I sincerely hope they don't take the scissors to what has to be one of the best written musicals of all time.

I'm gonna count Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem too.

It's a real shame too. I was really hoping for an R rating. I've been reading quite a few articles lately, and if Burton gets his way, it will be an R rating. But the articles are also saying that people want him to cut out a lot of the gore. Which really really...sucks. It won't really be 'Sweeney Todd' without that gore:scaryberry:

I also wanna see Wolverine if that's released next year. Hopefully it has the same style as X2.

In 2008, I'm looking forward to Synecdoche New York (Charlie Kaufman's comeback, now also in the director's chair, after the masterful Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind), Be Kind Rewind (everybody see the trailer, it's hysterical), Sweeney Todd (if WB doesn't butcher it too much), Charlie Wilson's War (it's Aaron Sorkin! it's gotta be good, right? ...right?), Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, The Darjeeling Limited, Fanboys, Ponyo On A Cliff, The Dark Knight, Cloverfield orwhateveritendsupbeingcalled, The Fantastic Mr. Fox (Roald Dahl! Wes Anderson! Animation! The ultimate awesomeness collission!), the 4 Futurama direct-to-DVD features, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Horton Hears A Who, Get Smart (the trailer actually makes the remake look good, I'm as surprised as you are), There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, Burn After Reading, Bee Movie (yup, it comes out in 2008 around here), Watchmen (my favorite graphic novel of all-time on the big screen!), and of course, WALL-E, which after reading the complete plot looks like the greatest animated feature ever produced in the history of mankind.

And I bet I'm forgetting a whole bunch of movies.

EDIT: Told you so.

From what I understand, it's going to be all done in flashbacks so it can avoid the issue of being classified a "sequel" or a "prequel". Wolverine is going to have his background explained, his training, his history with the Weapon X program and more of his lost memories.

The most REALLY interesting tidbit about the Wolverine movie is the fact that both Brain Cox and Tyler Mane are coming back to play as Colonel Stryker and Sabertooth. ;D Hell yes! The creators say they purposely didn't give Sabertooth many lines or much depth in the first film intentionally for this spin off.

The idea is to show that Wolverine soon realizes just how important Sabertooth, Stryker, and Lady Deathstrike were to him in the past after realizing what he did to them in the present. I LOVE Sabertooth so hearing that he's going to be back and have a bigger role is VERY big for me :berry:.

This just in Sweeney fans, Depp can sing!!! Looks like we're in for a good time.

Yaaaaay!:P lol

I know, I've been reading all these reviews from the Venice Film Festival like the dork I am, and I'm lovin' what I'm hearin'! Also, it's going to be rated R! Thank you, Sweeney Todd gods!:P I can't WAIT for this movie!

I've never seen X-Men 1. Just 2 & 3.

Just saw the trailer for Iron-Man and I can't wait to see it now.:D

I'm really looking forward to The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything VeggieTales movie. It looks like one of the better CGI-animated films and it's one of the few movies I'm interested in general this year.

There really haven't been any films that have caught my attention besides HP 6 & Wall-E. This seems like it's going to be 2005 again - No movies besides a handful. (Most notebly Napoleon Dynamite.)

I just wanted to resurrect this thread, so that I can update my must-see movies of 2008:

Get Smart - As I said before, after seeing the teaser, I have a lot of hope for this movie. As well as the recently released poster, it's looks like Steve Carell is going for the best role of his career.

Speed Racer - Larry and Andy Wachowski. Christina Ricci. New cutting edge effects. The new trailer. What more could you ask for?

Nim's Island - Based on Wendy Orr's children's book, Nim (Abigail Breslin) lives on an island with his father Jack (Gerard Butler). When he gets lost at sea, Nim must rely on her hero Alex Rover (Gerard Butler), who's really a New York author (Jodie Foster). It's now in post-production. I love the book and I really can't wait for it.

Scary Movie 5 - After seeing Scary Movie 4 (Shaq + Dr Phil + Scary Movie = 8D), I'm now really looking forward to the fifth installment of this series.

Is that the Shazam! movie? Because Peter Segal will be directing this after Get Smart and will star Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam.

Though not as detailed a list, movies I'm looking forward to seeing in 2008:

WALL-E
Get Smart
Cloverfield
Dragon Ball Z: The Movie (HELL YEAH :D)
The Strangers
Fan Boys
Iron Man
Jumper
Teeth
Harold and Kumar escape from Guantanamo
The Dark Knight

Indy 4! FTW! :bloocross:

You know, I'm absolutely terrified about a Watchmen movie, as it's one of my favorite comics ever and was written with the intention of being unable to be turned into a film. If anything, the best medium that could be done for it would be a HBO series of about 12 hour long episodes, one episode for each issue of the comic. There's simply too much to put in for it to work as a 2 or even 3 hour film, and taking away even a bit of the content of the comic immediately hampers the process of the film.

Really, films based on Alan Moore's comics have been extremely hit and miss, and the two I've liked the most, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and V for Vendetta have nearly nothing in common with the original work except for the names of the characters. Really, I'm frightened of a masterpiece such as Watchmen, which is studied in depth in college courses as a literary masterpiece, as getting such a possible treatment as a film.

As for Speed Racer...I was never extremely in to the show, so it never really held all that much interest to me. However, I basically lost all faith in the Wachowski siblings after the last two Matrix films, though V for Vendetta somewhat regained it, despite their villainous treatment of Alan Moore and utter disregard for the way he wished to see his creation presented. I don't have much hope for it.

I really want to see The Dark Knight. Really, that's it so far; that's the only other film I know of that'll definantely be upcoming next year that I have any desire to see.

There is one other upcoming film I want to see, but who knows when it'll come out: and that happens to be the remake of the original Child's Play. Since Don Mancini is going to write it again, as well as direct, I'm having extremely hight hopes for it, if it ever does come to fruition.

Sorry for going to such an old post, but I had to put my thoughts in.

P.S.: Almost forgot Sweeney Todd, though that's coming out this year.

After seeing the preview of the first few minutes of the opening, definitely "Cloverfield"!:D

If there's only one movie I could be allowed to see of 2008, Cloverfield would be it no question, easily. I'm literally jumping out of my pants to see this movie and the new trailer makes it look even more freaking awesome then before.

Thank god its coming out next month, I don't think I could have stand it if the movie came out at the end of 08 or anything like that.

Iron Man looks promising. The game looks like the actual CGI Iron Man. :o

Iron Man looks like an awesome movie to go and watch

After seeing I am Legend I was very fortunate to get there early enough to make sure I didn't miss the trailer for "The Dark Knight" something I have been wanting to see for a long time. I've been rather unsure about this movie ever since I saw Joker's make up and to be honest, I don't really care that much for it.

It looks like curdled milk and the wear and tear on it kind of "disappoint" his appearance to me. Having said that, I saw the trailer and despite it being a REALLY bad ass trailer with great dialog and some very cool scenes.....the make up still bugs me. I don't mind watching it but I find it doesn't do a lot for me you know?

I still plan on seeing this movie first chance I get, but from what I saw, I don't feel as amped up for it as I feel I should be and I'm disappointed in that because this is a movie I would normally definitively be pumped for. I don't mind Heath Ledger as The Joker at all its just....the face....its so meh or blah to me.