Bad Year for Movies?

[Early B.]

I read an article this weekend about the upcoming movies for the year. None of them seemed interesting, not even King Kong IMO. Lots of stuff that's already been done before ad nauseum. Do we really need another Batman movie? Yuck.

[Ron-P]

Off the top of my head I come up with these, hardly a bad year for movies...looking to be a great year as I see it.


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Kingdom of Heaven
Revenge of the Sith
Batman Begins
Robots
War of the Worlds
Fantastic Four
Elektra
Sin CIty
Bewitched
Magnum PI
Jurassic Park IV
James Bond 21
A Sound of Thunder
Die Hard 4
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

[PolkThug]

Originally posted by Ron-P
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Cool!!!!

[bobman1235]

Originally posted by Ron-P
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Kingdom of Heaven
Revenge of the Sith
Batman Begins
Robots
War of the Worlds
Fantastic Four
Elektra
Sin CIty
Bewitched
Magnum PI
Jurassic Park IV
James Bond 21
A Sound of Thunder
Die Hard 4
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

OK, whether you like them or not, of those 16 movies you listed :
- 4 are remakes of either an older movie or a TV series
- 6 are sequels or prequels to existing successful movies
- 3 are based on existing books

That leaves like 4 or 5 (soime of the above overlap) movies that are actually ORIGINAL. What is going on with the creativity in Hollywood? How about instead of 20 movies a month that no one watches, you do 10 quality ORIGINAL movies? So we don't have to see Die Hard 6 when Bruce Willis is 65 years old.

[Ron-P]

Remakes, sequels, book based, based on a TV series, makes no never-mind to me as long as they are done well and are entertaining.


How about instead of 20 movies a month that no one watches
Don't speak for everyone. If no one watched'em, they wouldn't make'em.

Most from that list I will not see in the theater but will buy on DVD.

[Ron-P]

Oh yeah, add Alone in the Dark to that list as well, the cool factor is high on this one.

[AsSiMiLaTeD]

Okay I'm looking at the list ROn gave us...and that's just the few that have been announced already...

So how is this a bad year for movies???

I'm with Ron, if they're entertaining and done well, then what difference does it make how they are spawned

[Demiurge]

I'm with Ron-P on this one.

[bknauss]

Originally posted by Ron-P
Off the top of my head I come up with these, hardly a bad year for movies...looking to be a great year as I see it.


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Kingdom of Heaven
Revenge of the Sith
Batman Begins
Robots
War of the Worlds
Fantastic Four
Elektra
Sin CIty
Bewitched
Magnum PI
Jurassic Park IV
James Bond 21
A Sound of Thunder
Die Hard 4
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Get rid of all of the sequels since they usually are junk. Get rid of the comic book movies since they are almost always terrible. That doesn't leave too much :)

My guesses from that list that are going to really suck:
Batman
Fantastic Four
Elektra <--- would put lots of money on that one
Magnum PI
James Bond

[Billm57]

looking at Rons list just supports Early B's statement more..yet another year of remakes & sequels
obviously they make money otherwise they wouldnt make them
but it just makes me support independent films more..just my opinion of course

[Shell]

Jurassic Park IV Stop already. The second one sucked big time, the third was not that good. The first one was great end it.

[AsSiMiLaTeD]

Originally posted by Shell
Stop already. The second one sucked big time, the third was not that good. The first one was great end it.
True, the second one sucked really bad...I actually liked the third one though...

[Demiurge]

Originally posted by Billm57
looking at Rons list just supports Early B's statement more..yet another year of remakes & sequels
obviously they make money otherwise they wouldnt make them
but it just makes me support independent films more..just my opinion of course

So, it may not be a bad year for movies then. Some of my favorite films of this year were independents. The list here isn't all that's coming out this year. That list is hardly concrete. I'm not willing to throw out the year after 11 days....

[Toxis]

Revenge of the Sith = HELL YEAH!!! How bad ass does this look?
Batman Begins = Again, total bad ass!
Sin City = Looks a lot better than I was expecting... I'll see it.
War of the Worlds = The trailer is more of a teaser... didn't really give you any idea about the movie so I'm not sure how to feel about this one yet.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = No thanks. Looks like it's for kids and drug users... I'm neither.
Kingdom of Heaven = Looks good but I think it (much like Troy) is trying to hard to be epic. Not sure if I'll see it in the theater...
Fantastic Four = Eeehhhhh....
Elektra = HAHAHAHAHAHA Thanks, but no thanks.
Bewitched = :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
A Sound of Thunder = WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? I just puked in my mouth.
Robots = Looks cute... Probably will wait til it comes on PPV.
James Bond 302193832 = No thanks, I'd rather watch Waterworld... :rolleyes:

Now Magnum PI, Jurassic Park 4 and Die Hard 4 are all rumors, nothing set in stone from what I'm seeing. And I can't find anything on the Hitchhiker's guide.

[Demiurge]

Hitchikers guide to the Galaxy is coming out. I just saw the trailer for it when I saw The Life Aquatic in the theatre.

[Toxis]

I almost forgot... they're redoing the AmityVille Horror! That's bad ass!!! Loved the original and I have a feeling they'll do it justice here. But a lot of people hated the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre but I thought it was bad ass as well.

[Early B.]

We need to save this thread and revisit it at the end of the year. It would be kinda interesting to see if our predictions are accurate.

I'm sick of remakes. Most of them are rarely do the original any justice. And haven't we had enough comic book movies. Geez. We've really reached rock bottom when some television shows are more interesting than most of the movies out there.

[Ron-P]

Revenge of the Sith = HELL YEAH!!! How bad ass does this look?


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = No thanks. Looks like it's for kids and drug users... I'm neither.

I'm of the exact opposite here. Give me Charlie over a very poorly acted, plastic looking CGI fest. Lucas may (and I hope) tie the two trilogy's together but between the rest of the crap surrounding what little story there may be I just don't think I can sit through it. I may see it in the theater but it's near the bottom of the list.

Here's a link to a very early teaser for
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (http://www.apple.com/trailers/touchstone/hitchhikers_guide_to_the_galaxy.html)

[Toxis]

Originally posted by Early B.
And haven't we had enough comic book movies. Geez. There's a lot more to come too! They're doing Spiderman til #6, X-men to #4 and then will spin off of that with each character having their own movies, potentially a Gambit movie (unless they include him in #4 then he'll have his own), Hulk 2, who knows with Batman, Daredevil 2, Elektra 2, Fantastic Four 2... and that's only what I know off the top of my head. For me? I say bring 'em on! I never was a huge comic book kid but I love what they're doing with the movies personally.

[hamzahsh]

I'll buy these 4 on DVD for sure!



Revenge of the Sith
Jurassic Park IV
James Bond 21
Die Hard 4

:D

[begbie]

Why it is a bad year !? We need more movies with stuff blowing up !!?? ;)



Seriously, it's all business and $$$$. Intellectual and thought processes come a distant second......

[Early B.]

We need more movies with stuff blowing up !!??
Let's at least hope that more movies come out in DTS this year.

[MrAnderson]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory = No thanks. Looks like it's for kids and drug users... I'm neither.

Robots = Looks cute... Probably will wait til it comes on PPV.




You won't watch a kids movie but you will pay to see a movie that's cute?

[Ron-P]

Yep, looks much more entertaining.

With Depp, Burton and Elfman behind this you can't lose. I just hope it follows the book (rumors are it does) as the previous Wilder version did not.

[Shell]

True, the second one sucked really bad...I actually liked the third one though... What got me in JIII is how they ripped off aliens II with the raptors. You know the egg is all the raptors wanted. Give me a break they are lizards. Early in the movie they state how those incredibly smart raptors would have ruled the earth with their large brain cavity. Other than that the movie was great.

Yep that was a rant.:)