Comments on: 20 Most Anticipated Movies Still to Come In 2009

By: Jezza

Jezza — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:18:25 +0000

Is anyone looking forward to Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol?

By: JOE KERR*

JOE KERR* — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:13:40 +0000

Where the wild things are and The Immaginarium of Dr. Parnassus definitely.

By: Jezza

Jezza — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:16:38 +0000

@jeremy wein: James Cameron is always gonna have a hard time topping Titanic. I mean how would you follow up the biggest grossing film of all time? Rob Marshall doesn't have that kind of pressure. On the other hand musical is a tough genre to sell because many don't feel they're able to sit through 6 or 7 music videos sewn into a feature film. Some exeptions include Mamma Mia and Disney's The Lion King. Those 2 have family appeal which Chicago lacks a lot of.

By: Jezza

Jezza — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:05:48 +0000

@blkgrl: I'm asuming you are interested in Astronomy. With all that full moon, half moon and quarter moon business you're on about

By: picto

picto — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:20:48 +0000

You must all be on crack….. 9 looks like the biggest waste of film stock since showgirls, I mean really.. i just dont get this contempoary sycophantic mass adoration of the musical… i dont care how well shot it may be or how many days Mr Day lewis spent with his singing coach to nail every note…. stick to the straight acting you are usually pretty good at it Dan… This movie could'nt be more pretentious if it tried… btw Chicago sucked too as did Moulin Rouge and dont even get me started with Mamma Mia… Avatar is the only considderation for the number one spot, i mean the guy only makes a film every 10 years and tries to push the envelope of filmmaking with every project….he is the natural successor to Kubrik's mantle…. and you expect us to get excited about a few A listers regressing back to thier first year of musical theatre studies on a perfoming arts degree !!!…..PLEASE do us all a favour and go start a Eurovision Appreciation Site and leave the world of movies to those of use who have some taste !!

By: Justin Casey

Justin Casey — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:59:54 +0000

brain is right taking woodstock looks like a great movie this has nothing to do with it but i think demetri martin is hilarious and teh fact that he's doing a movie about one of the greatest music festivals of all time is really cool he looks great in it

By: Shannon Coulter

Shannon Coulter — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:08:51 +0000

@PhineusQButterfat: I totally agree. Ritchie doing Holmes? Not a good fit. Ritchie isn't wry or subtle enough for this material and I wasn't surprised to see in the trailer that he packed in fistfights and a lot of other nonsense.

By: mr. magic

mr. magic — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:29:34 +0000

Extract.

By: blkgrl

blkgrl — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:51:34 +0000

Yuck, i only want to see New Moon

By: jewjiblet09

jewjiblet09 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:30:43 +0000

I was looking at The Princess and the Frog and looked at 2D! I'm gonna be a smartass and say that their are 3 dimensions in here: X, Y, and Motion/Time. I bet everyone here has heard that and are already over it. But obviously I still need to grow up since I'm about to graduate from high school.

By: jewjiblet09

jewjiblet09 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:23:03 +0000

I gonna swap Daybreakers and Splice around due to increased fondness in the first

By: jewjiblet09

jewjiblet09 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:27:07 +0000

@The Jackal: I totally agree with that. i think The Hobbit is gonna be good with both Guillermo Del Toro and Peter Jackson on the project. i also thnk there's gonna be The Hobbit 2, check out IMDB for info. ever since T2 and Titanic, i've been waiting 4 James Cameron's next big movie

By: Shaz

Shaz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:07 +0000

Absolutely love this list, Brad. Very happy to see The Informant among the top five. I saw the trailer and am greatly looking forward to it. Sherlock Holmes' trailer, though, for some reason, evokes memories of Wild Wild West. I hope for the cast it's good. I watched Ponyo in Japan and think it's just OK. But, as usual, has some astonishing visuals (and it was in Japanese so I can't say much). Nine, The Road, Avatar are my other top anticipated.

By: BR

BR — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 05:19:24 +0000

@The Jackal: I agree with you completely about Avatar. It almost pains me to think that it could surpass TDK, but I cannot argue against an amazing film. 2011 will surely be my most aniticipated year now!

By: joker47

joker47 — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:57:02 +0000

I gotta go with Extract and Inglorious Basterds for my most anticipated. Avatar, Armored (Which got pushed to December 4th), Lovely Bones, The Road, Nine, The Informant!, Green Zone, Zombieland, Sherlock Holmes, Jennifer's Body, 9, Where the Wild Things Are, The Princess and the Frog, Invictus, Brothers, and Ponyo round out my list

By: The Jackal

The Jackal — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:15:54 +0000

@Br: I do consider "The Hobbit" part of the Lord of the Rings franchise. I was referring to the fact that since The Lord of the Rings "Trilogy" ended in 2003 and Star Wars ended in 2005 and given the fact that Harry Potter VI is only a stepping stone to the final showdown in 2011, Avatar has become the must see-event of the latter half of this decade.

I cannot think of a bigger or more anticipated film than James Cameron's Avatar. It's gonna be huge. It's not gonna surpass Titanic (or even The Dark Knight for that matter); however, it's gonna make at least $300+ million in the U.S. and could easily surpass $900+ million worldwide.

Now, all that having been said. I will agree, The Hobbit has now risen to the top of my Must-See future films list – but it doesn't come out until 2011. I'm a huge fan of Lord of the Rings – it was a masterpiece. As a fan of Guillermo Del Toro (specifically his work on Pan's Labyrinth) I'm eagerly awaiting his collaborative vision of The Hobbit with Peter Jackson – they seem like two like-minded fellows.

By: BR

BR — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:13:52 +0000

@The Jackal: I also do need to mention that i know you are talking about 2009 movies, I was just wondering your intake on the LOTR franchise.

By: BR

BR — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:13:13 +0000

@The Jackal: are we considering "The Hobbit" part of the LOTR franchise or separate? Dec. 17, 2003 was the hardest day of my life. Walking out of that midnight premiere of Return of the King, knowing that it was partly over, but i myself consider The Hobbit part of the franchise.

By: The Jackal

The Jackal — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:36:11 +0000

@Brad: Lord of the Rings is done. Star Wars is finished. Harry Potter is on its 6th Installmant, so its not exactly the most "must-see" event of 2009.

Aliens, Terminator 2, Titanic – these films defined my generation. The director of the biggest movie OF ALL TIME hasn't made a feature film (that little underwater documentary he did doesn't count) in 12 years. 12 YEARS!! – over a decade.

How can Avatar not be you #1 most anticipated film of 2009? I would go so far as to say, since Star Wars wrapped in 2005, it has to be the most anticipated film of the last 4 years.

By: jj

jj — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:48:00 +0000

That is one wack list!

By: cocina

cocina — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:48:32 +0000

how bout busty asian beauties 9?

By: Allan

Allan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:07:30 +0000

Invictus!

By: jewjiblet09

jewjiblet09 — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:07:59 +0000

I like most of the movies listed, especially Wolfman. i havn't even heard of Nine but that looks good. To everyone one who says FD4… No way! I had enuff after 3, it just looks even stupider than the rest. I'm gonna hold out 4 "Wild Things", "Avatar", and "The Road" tho. And I forgot Bruno and funny people. anyway there's a whole bunch of films I want to watch.

My top 20:

1. Shutter Island/Avatar (sorry, i can't decide)
2. Nine
3. 2012
4. District 9
5. Sherlock Holmes
6. The Road
7. The Wolfman
8. Funny People
9. Splice (Adrien Brody in a horror movie just looks like it'll be good)
10. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
11. Ponyo
12. The Perfect Getaway
13. 9
14. Extract
15. Gamer
16. Pandorum
17. Surrogates
18. Couples Retreat
19. Daybreakers (I know it's in 2010, but it looks good)
20. Zombieland

By: JM

JM — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:22:22 +0000

Haha, Brad, I knew you were going to say "Nine" even when I was on the first page. I'm immensely looking forward to it as well, despite the fact that I thought "8 1/2" was actually a pretty bad film. From what I can see of the trailer, it looks like it may correct everything that was wrong with "8 1/2"–that is to say, the horrid editing (what is it with Italian films and bad editing? I love Pasolini, but even his films don't have very cohesive editing, with the exception of the paradigm-shifting "Salo"), and the lack of strong imagery, the lack of truly immersive characters. I kept thinking while watching "8 1/2": "You know, this will be so much better as 'Nine,' when it has song & dance numbers and nice images to leaven all this hollow pretentiousness. Having an A-list cast will also help."

I'm most looking forward to "Antichrist," "The Lovely Bones," and "Avatar." There are others, but I need to get to bed (work at 7:30… groan!), so I don't have time to list them.

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:40:41 +0000

1. Avatar
2. The Road
3. A Christmas Carol
4. The Informant!
5. Invictus
6. Green Zone
7. The Lovely Bones
8. Nine
9. Where the Wild Things Are
10. Inglourious Basterds

By: Mony

Mony — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 03:23:53 +0000

The Lovely Bones
District 9
An Education

That's all I can think of at the moment.

By: JON

JON — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:27:58 +0000

1. Sherlock Holmes
2. 2012
3. G.I. Joe
4. Couples Retreat
5. Funny People
6. Gamer
7. New Moon
8. A Christmas Carol
9. The Wolfman
10. Final Destination 4

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:18:52 +0000

1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
2. Nine
3. The Road
4. The Lovely Bones
5. The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus
6. A Serious Man
7. Inglourious Basterds
8. Where the Wild Things Are
9. Shutter Island
10. The Men Who Stare at Goats (2010?)
11. Avatar
12. (500) Days of Summer
13. The Informant!
14. Brooklyn's Finest
15. Invictus
16. The Invention of Lying
17. Up in the Air (2010?)
18. Tree of Life (2010?)
19. World's Greatest Dad
20. It Might Get Loud

By: Gophers Attack!

Gophers Attack! — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:06:41 +0000

@Brad Brevet: Well then, I think you are going to be surprised. It honestly had one of the greatest teaser trailers I've seen.

By: BR

BR — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:56:50 +0000

what about The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus? Johnny Depp + Heath Ledger's last film. It looks like a very interesting film