For me, I am looking forward to
X-Men - The Last Stand
Aeon Flux
Ultraviolet
Ghost Rider
And what movies are you going to avoid?
I am avoiding Hostel like the plague. Torture movies never really do it for me, strangely enough!
~Archivist~
Movies I'm looking forawrd to:
X-Men 3
Sin City 2
Superman Returns
Over the Hedge
Slither
Last Rites For the Dead
Movies I'm staying the hell away from:
-Resident Evil 3
-Alice
-Ultraviolet
-The Da Vinci Code
-Any s**tty remake of an otherwise great movie
For some reason I'm not all up on what movies are to be released this year, but the ones I do know about sound ok.
V: For Vendetta is one I'm impatiantly waiting for, since I really enjoyed the Graphic Novel it was based on.
Other than that, Superman holds a bit of interest, as does Ghostrider because both were filmed in Australia [for the most part at least] but I've heard from some people who worked on Ghostrider that it won't be that good a film. Still I'm interested.
Aeon Flux seems like it will be dissappointing, since the MTV cartoon is a favourite of mine, but I'll still see it.
Didn't even know about Ultraviolet until just today, so that should be good.
Other than that, nothing really too big is on my radar.
Ghost Rider is due for 2007, NOT 2006.
Aeon Flux looks nothing like the cartoon, I will NOT see it.
V for Vendetta seems interesting enough, in a kind of "Che Guevara 2099" sort of way.
I want to check out Pirates of the Caribbean II (attack of the second titled movie)
I too am looking forward to Ghostrider. But the fact that it has been pushed back to 2007 is not a good sign. Does Man-Thing sound familiar? I bet we will see it as a made for SCIFI original or maybe it will just mysteriously show up on the video shelves one day.
In 2006 all the ba dmovies I didn't see in 2005 will make it to NetFlix...that's what I look forward to
I'm looking forward to any movie that was made before 1980 that will be released on DVD during 2006. After the disappointing theatrical releases of 2005, I have become bitter and pessimistic. (More than usual, that is).
According to the IMDB, there's supposed to be a remake of The Entity due out sometime this year, but the page hasn't been updated since July 2004.
I can't belive you are actually looking forward to a REMAKE...
The main film that I'm looking forward to is Fido.
Here's the plot:
Timmy Robinson's best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when FIDO eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and Dad hit the roof, and Timmy has to go to the ends of the earth to keep Fido a part of the family. A boy-and-his-dog movie for grown ups, "FIDO" will rip your heart out.
It's set in the 50s with zombies as an accepted part of society. This one looks fantastic, and seems to be a pretty well made film, not a b-movie.
Otherwise, I'm seriously psyched about V For Vendetta. I'm a huge fan of the graphic novel, and everything I've seen/read has been great.
The people should not be afraid of the government, the government should be afraid of the people.
Genius. I think it'll be a "kick in the balls" movie for a lot of people. I for one, can't wait.
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> I can't belive you are actually looking forward to
> a REMAKE...
Yeah, well, I was a fan of Paul Schrader's Cat People for ten years before I found out it was a remake. Then again, I guess I'll never get my mind out of the gutter.
Couldn't an avoidance of remakes just because they are remakes be a form of ad hominem 'attack?' I mean, why not judge a film on its own merits.
Though there have been some really crappy ones, there have been some very good remakes over the years. And some where even remakes of good original movies.
The Thing, the new King Kong, Ocean's Eleven to name just three. I'm sure we could (and have, actually, iirc) do a whole thread on GOOD remakes.
IMO, there's nothing wrong with a new director giving his take on an idea already done. The lighting, mood, characterizations and fx might be new, even if the basic story premise is copied from a previous film.
I'd rather see more good remakes than endless sequels (that have lost the soul of the original), clone ideas or 'original' works that just plain suck. For example, how many copies of American Pie did we really need? How many iterations of Scream (eg, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, etc) were really creative and interesting?
No, I'd really rather see a good modernization of The Caine Mutiny, or perhaps a better reworking of Planet of the Apes. The remakes will never diminish the original, like The Thing has not dimished The Thing From Another World, but can stand on their own.
Just one guy's opinion.
1-The "Planet of the Apes" remake sucks. Burton DEFINETLY lost his touch.
2-Peter Jackson's "King Kong" remake sucked (the damn '70s version was better!). It was nothing but two hours of CGI monsters fighting with either Kong or the humans, cut with romantic scenes between a human and a 30 FOOT GORILLA!
3-I can't give you PLENTY of reason why to stay away from remakes: The Pink Panther, Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog, The Stepford Wives, House of Wax, Fun With Dick and Jane...
4-One bad thing does NOT justificate another bad thing. Bad sequels and rip-offs are JUST AS BAD as awful remakes.
"XXX: State of the Union" sucked.
"Son of the Mask" sucked
any Batman movie after "Batman Returns" sucked.
"Wild Things 2" sucked
"Starship Troopers 2" sucked.
And don't even get me started on the rip-offs:
Million Dollar Baby = Girlfight
28 Days Later = The Omega Man
The Island = THX 1138
XXX = every single Connery/Moore Bond movie
Looney Tunes: Back in Action = all three Austin Powers movies
Hey plan9, what are you like ten years old? This place is called Badmovies, we like movies good and bad. Haven't you read any or Andrew's reviews?
It's quite okay to have your own opinion here, but chill it with the rants.
Which films of 2006 am I looking forward to?
Any of them that don't suck!
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Strangely, I really want to see it! I know it's going to be very, very bad, but Peter Strauss is never in a big budget movie, and I'll watch just about anything with Willem Dafoe.
You know, the only one I can think of is "Cars." I guess that the next X-Men movie could be interesting too, but a lot of what comes out these days does not end up catching my attention until afterwards.
What I would really like to see is a good space opera or fantasy film. Something set in Peter F. Hamilton's "Nights Dawn" universe would be cool. Do not worry about doing the book(s), just use the amazing setting for a good story.
Andrew,
Personally, I'm still waiting for a film version of Ender's Game.
One is currently being scripted, they will start filming as soon as the script is done.
Check it:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0400403/
Wolfgang Petersen will direct it.
How about The Wizard of Oz (1939) ?
According to the IMDB, the version we all know & love, starring Judy Garland & directed by Victor Flemming was actually the fourth remake of a movie based on the Baum classic.