Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Starwars 3 Sahara (adapted from the Clive Cussler novel) War of The Worlds (spielberg) Fantastic Four (Ioan!) Harry Potter 4
I don't have any. I want to see several of those, but if I don't get around to seeing them this year, I won't be sad.
Edit: I take it back. I must see Serenity this year.
[ February 01, 2005, 11:14 AM: Message edited by: mr_porteiro_head ]
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Serenity.
Posted by Stray (Member # 4056) on :
Serenity Goblet of Fire
...and whatever else looks like it might be good
edit: Ooh, and MirrorMask.
[ February 01, 2005, 11:15 AM: Message edited by: Stray ]
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
Serenity, definitely. And Goblet of Fire, but that's only a must-see because I am heavily involved in the HP fandom, and not because I expect it to be a really great movie. I do expect to enjoy it, though.
I will also be seeing H2G2, and possibly Star Wars. Haven't decided yet on the latter, though I suspect I will give in and go.
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith I’ll be there for the midnight showing!!! Release Date May 19, 2005
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Gunner Palace The Ring Two* Sin City The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy* Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith* Batman Begins* Charlie & The Chocolate Factory The Fantastic Four Indiana Jones 4* Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride* Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire* The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe* King Kong* Aeon Flux*
* means it's must see, no * means I'd like to see it.
Dagonee
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Am I thinking too much?
Is seeing a list of "must-see" movies done for a different reason than entertainment? Like, doesn't the purpose become more to "collect" the movie and even possess the franchise? Do you really enjoy the movie half as much as enjoy having seen it?
One of the ladies in my department took last week off and saw 19 movies at the Sundance Film Festival. That's two or three movies a night for about seven days. She came in about halfway through the week and looked exhausted. I really think she was doing it more to have a sense of possession of the festival, and not as much to see a bunch of interesting films.
I think I go to see some movies to own them and set them aside. They are highly anticipated, people are talking about them, and they really do seem "must-see." So I go see them, and after that, all the buzz doesn't get me agitated anymore. After the stress of waiting for tickets and all the anticipation, the websites, the trailers, and the talk, watching the movie is anticlimactic. But once I've seen it, I can set it aside and not worry about it anymore.
Most movies don't even become entertainment until I rent them and watch them because I want to watch a movie that evening.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
to all of you that are enabling Lucas' horrible behavior.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Who else is wearing a Brown Coat to the opening of Serenity?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Oooh. Good idea. Must buy brown coat.
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
Serenity Batman Sin City
Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :
Serenity. And I also have been wanting to see Ghost in the Shell 2 for ages, so it's likely I'll see it this year.
Posted by Lady Jane (Member # 7249) on :
Harry Potter
Everything else is optional, although the chances are very high that I will see Hitchiker's, if it's good. Harry Potter is the only that I will whether it is good or not.
[ February 01, 2005, 12:54 PM: Message edited by: Lady Jane ]
Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :
Star Wars Goblet of Fire Hitchhiker's Guide Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
And some others. Not really sure what they are yet, but they exist, I promise Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Sin City Am curious to see what they've done with Constantine.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
I just don't get why they didn't go ahead and use Gordon Sumner as Constantine. He's not *that* old. I mean, look at Sean Connery.
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
quote: Lucas' horrible behavior.
What is Lucas' horrible behavior? I missed it...... Sorry.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Episode I and Episode II.
Posted by Jay (Member # 5786) on :
Oh, you’re one of those who didn’t like them. Gottcha. I loved them. Thought they were great.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
Gordon Sumner? Is that what everyone's calling him now?
Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :
Serenity Batman Begins Sin City Goblet of Fire Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Indiana Jones 4 Any and all Pirates of the Carribean sequels The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe King Kong Howl's Moving Castle Nausicaa
... is there an echo in here?
[ February 01, 2005, 01:07 PM: Message edited by: Lime ]
Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :
Ghost in the Shell 2 was really good. I saw it last Summer.
Posted by the_Somalian (Member # 6688) on :
Speaking of movies, did anybody else know that Ebert added "Groundhog Day" to his Great Movies list? Read the article here. Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:Oh, you’re one of those who didn’t like them. Gottcha. I loved them. Thought they were great.
I blame you, then.
Posted by jebus202 (Member # 2524) on :
quote: Oh, you’re one of those who didn’t like them. Gottcha. I loved them. Thought they were great.
Hey, who needs good acting or good plots when you've got light sabres!
Lucas obviously understands this, each movie he increases the amount of light sabres we get to see.
I expect with the third episode, Lucas will get rid of useless attempts at character development and make the entire thing one huge light sabre battle with a few million people partaking. It will be interrupted only for HIL-LARIOUS moments of comedy from Jar-jar and the flamboyantly gay android.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I won't watch it in the theater, but I'll probably see it when it comes out as a video game.
Posted by Peter (Member # 4373) on :
So far: Constantine Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Star Wars Harry Potter
Side note: Ghost in the shell is a movie? i'll have to get my hands on that.
Edit: just reserved GitS and GitS2 from my library, i'll have the first next week, hopefully, and they are waiting on the second one (they ordered it but it hasn't come in yet), but i'm 31st on the list
[ February 01, 2005, 02:05 PM: Message edited by: Peter ]
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
the increase of light saber duels only worked while increasing the quality of the choreography. The Duel of the Fates was awesome (thank you, Ray Park) but it appears that we won't have anything quite that cool again, unless Park got asked back.
Still holding out hope that we weill see a return to the badass Kenobi of episode 1 rather than the whiny worrywort that gets taken down by the guy who was the basis for all the stormtroopers ( I mean, are there any worse shots in the galaxy? besides Sandpeople, I mean...) that episode 2 left us with. Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :
A Scanner Darkly and Batman (not because I like the franchise, but because it looks awesome) for sure. I can't really think of anything else off the top of my head, though I'm sure there will be others.
Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :
I forgot about Narnia. Of course I'll be seeing that.
And did they really make Indy 4? I remember hearing that they were talking about it, but somehow missed the news that it was a given. I'll go if the reviews are good, otherwise I'll rent it.
Finally, I cannot believe I forgot about FFVII: Advent Children. Yup, will be seeing that, though I have to finish playing the game first. *wanders off to google for release dates*
Posted by Vána (Member # 6593) on :
Well, since Lime listed these:
quote:Serenity Batman Begins Sin City Goblet of Fire Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Indiana Jones 4 Any and all Pirates of the Carribean sequels The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe King Kong Howl's Moving Castle Nausicaa
I guess that's probably my list, too. Though I may send him off to see Sin City with the guys, and stay home to watch A Walk on the Moon or Hidalgo.
edited 'cause I have punctuation issues *sigh*
[ February 01, 2005, 03:03 PM: Message edited by: Vána ]
Posted by Coccinelle (Member # 5832) on :
The Perfect Man, the new Hillary Duff film Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
I just saw Les Choristes, the french film nominated for an Oscar.
I LOVED it. It was... oh... lovely! Probably best movie I've seen this year (2004, I mean).
If you can find a theatre showing it, see it.
Posted by newfoundlogic (Member # 3907) on :
I'm going to see Star Wars III. I'm also pre-apologizing to myself and every other real Star Wars fan.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
2001: A Space Odyssey.
Hobbes Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
I have never been able to watch that movie without falling asleep before the end.
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :
You have my pity.
Hobbes Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
That's OK. I've read the book several times.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Did someone say Nausicaa?!?!?!?!?!? You haven't LIVED until you've read the 4 part manga. Best manga ever! I want to see- Corpse Bride Charlie and the Chocolate Factory P of the C sequels Howl's Moving Castle Spiderman 3 when that comes out HP4 Maybe I'll see Starwars 3. I don't know. I'm just curious about Darth Vader. It had better not suck! Mirror Mask Obscure foreign films
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
the_Somalian, thanks for that link. When will Groundhog day be added to the belief-o-meter? Phil
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I have high hopes for the final duel in E3.
Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :
Did someone say Nausicaa?!?!?!?!?!? You haven't LIVED until you've read the 4 part manga. Best manga ever! I want to see- Corpse Bride Charlie and the Chocolate Factory P of the C sequels Howl's Moving Castle Spiderman 3 when that comes out HP4 Maybe I'll see Starwars 3. I don't know. I'm just curious about Darth Vader. It had better not suck! Mirror Mask Obscure foreign films
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
Edit: to Dag... I have to confess the previews on the DVD set make it look much better than Ep 2's duels.
[ February 01, 2005, 06:23 PM: Message edited by: Jim-Me ]
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
Batman Begins is seriously shaping up to be a comic book movie that one can actually take seriously. When you first see the trailers, you don't even know it's Batman, you just think, "Wow, this looks pretty interesting," and then WHAM! Batman.
Very well done. Not like the others.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
It could be DC's first good movie.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
Hey, the first and second Supermans were pretty cool.
'Mr. Loo-tor! Mr. Loo-tor!'
I love Otis.
[ February 01, 2005, 10:19 PM: Message edited by: Storm Saxon ]
Posted by urbanX (Member # 1450) on :
Well the only movie I really care about is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A quick question whats all the fuss with Serenity about? Is that the movie based on the canceled TV show? I've never seen the show (I lived in Japan for 4 years).
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
He flew around the world and turned back time by reversing the rotation of the earth. That's enough to consign Superman I to the trash heap of movie history. The scene is so bad that I keep forgetting about it and getting outraged all over again when I remember it.
In part two, which could have been great, the Kryptonians suddenly got teleportation, telekinises, and a cellophane throwing weapon of some kind.
Dagonee
Posted by Brian_Berlin (Member # 6900) on :
I also seem to have missed whatever "Serenity" is. Was it a book or something?
Posted by solo (Member # 3148) on :
Serenity is the movie spawned from Firefly.
Posted by Peter (Member # 4373) on :
Also, jus thought of it, the was a new anime movie (Appleseed) realeased a couple of weeks ago that i really, really wanna see.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Star Wars.
There's an Indy 4? Gosh, I don't know if I can bring myself to see it. I suppose I will have to.
HGTTG
hmm . . . I guess that's about it.
Oh, wait. Harry Potter.
Posted by Tarrsk (Member # 332) on :
Serenity is the film based on Joss Whedon's short-lived Firefly television series. If you haven't heard of it, you owe it to yourself to get ahold of the DVD set, as the few episodes of Firefly that we got were some of the best character-driven science fiction in the history of television.
The show's basic premise was a western in space (down to a quirky hybridization of western slang, six-shooters, and Millennium Falcon-esque spaceships), but to reduce it to its setting is really doing it a disservice. What really made Firefly shine was how effectively it worked as a character piece, juggling between nine extremely different (and for the most part, equally fascinating) personalities with wit, humor, and well-executed drama. It also features a beautiful score that blends a variety of styles ranging from world music to westerny acoustic guitar.
Plus, there's no sound in space!
Oh, in keeping with the topic at hand, here's my list:
Serenity (duh ) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Howl's Moving Castle King Kong Batman Begins The Corpse Bride
[ February 02, 2005, 04:55 PM: Message edited by: Tarrsk ]
Posted by Book (Member # 5500) on :
What Dagonee said.
Whenever I want to get someone pumped over Begins, all I have to say is
Michael Caine Liam Neeson Gary Oldman Morgan Freeman Rutger Hauer Christian Bale and Christopher Nolan (or, the guy who did Memento to the uninformed)
Constantine is already a disappointment to me. They take a great, lovable character and stick him in LA and give the human robot the acting job. The best things about Constantine were that he was a seedy, smart aleck, alcoholic, chainsmoking, obscene, Limey SOB. You could always find him in the back of some grimy pub drinking his Guinness and smoking his Silk Cuts. Now... Budweiser and Marlboros? It just doesn't work. The appeal of the character is his Britishness.
Paul Bettany was such a better idea.
[ February 03, 2005, 10:55 PM: Message edited by: Book ]
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