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dangermousieOK, here's the list of the movies coming out this year (non-Bollywood) that I really want to see.
No order. 20 movies.
1. Serenity: I am a Firefly fan. And this is supposedly excellent big-screen continuation with more Mal, more Simon, more Jayne, more everyone. Woo!!!
2. Walk the Line: I don't generally go for musical biopics (or for biopics, period), but the trailer looked fantastic, this has really good buzz,I have the hots for Joaquin Phoenix, and I know nothing about Johnny Cash, so it will be all new to me.
3. Aeon Flux: It doesn't look anything like the cartoon (according to Husband). But since I haven't seen the cartoon, I don't care. It does have cool-looking action, futuristic dystopia, Celeborn being autocratic, and some really impossible romance. Works for me.
4. The Corpse Bride: Because it's an animated film that looks macabre and made by Tim Burton.
5. Munich: It's a Spielberg movie about the aftermath of the Munich Olympics. Of course I'll watch.
6. Jarhead: I like the subject matter and the cast.
7. Brokeback Mountain: I adore Ang Lee. I am also bemused by the idea of Heath Ledger and Jake G(no idea how to spell the last name) as star-crossed gay cowboys.
8. Memoirs of a Geisha: I liked the book, I love the cast, I love period movies.
9. The White Countess: Merchant-Ivory film set in 1930s Shanghai starring Ralph Fiennes? Why on earth not?
10. The Constant Gardener: Mereilles directed, Fiennes is the lead, LeCarre is the source.
11. Elizabethtown: Orlando Bloom! Seriously though, I did like the trailers and I like Cameron Crowe and the premise is totally fun.
12. Rent: I love musicals (check out the Bollywood obsession). Not enough to want to watch "The Producers," but enough to get excited about this angsty La Boheme update.
13. The New World: Period movie about a period (early 17th century Jamestown) not done very often. Besides, the trailer looks dreamlike. Plus, Christian Bale and Colin Farrell (I prefer Bale, but Farrell ain't bad).
14. Beowulf: Iceland and Gerard Butler. And Vikings fighting monsters.
15. Tristan and Isolde: duh. If it ever gets a freaking release date, that is! It's turning into Humko Tumse Pyar Hai of Hollywood.
16. Proof: I liked the play
17. The Fountain: Hugh Jackman as a man travelling through time into past and future (15th and 25th century) to save his wife. Sounds good to me.
18. King Kong: Once again, duh.
19. Everything is Illuminated: Frodo! :)
20. Hooligans: Frodo as a football hooligan!
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elvensapphire: The Chronicles of Narnia. How could I forget!
No order. 20 movies.
1. Serenity: I am a Firefly fan. And this is supposedly excellent big-screen continuation with more Mal, more Simon, more Jayne, more everyone. Woo!!!
2. Walk the Line: I don't generally go for musical biopics (or for biopics, period), but the trailer looked fantastic, this has really good buzz,
3. Aeon Flux: It doesn't look anything like the cartoon (according to Husband). But since I haven't seen the cartoon, I don't care. It does have cool-looking action, futuristic dystopia, Celeborn being autocratic, and some really impossible romance. Works for me.
4. The Corpse Bride: Because it's an animated film that looks macabre and made by Tim Burton.
5. Munich: It's a Spielberg movie about the aftermath of the Munich Olympics. Of course I'll watch.
6. Jarhead: I like the subject matter and the cast.
7. Brokeback Mountain: I adore Ang Lee. I am also bemused by the idea of Heath Ledger and Jake G(no idea how to spell the last name) as star-crossed gay cowboys.
8. Memoirs of a Geisha: I liked the book, I love the cast, I love period movies.
9. The White Countess: Merchant-Ivory film set in 1930s Shanghai starring Ralph Fiennes? Why on earth not?
10. The Constant Gardener: Mereilles directed, Fiennes is the lead, LeCarre is the source.
11. Elizabethtown: Orlando Bloom! Seriously though, I did like the trailers and I like Cameron Crowe and the premise is totally fun.
12. Rent: I love musicals (check out the Bollywood obsession). Not enough to want to watch "The Producers," but enough to get excited about this angsty La Boheme update.
13. The New World: Period movie about a period (early 17th century Jamestown) not done very often. Besides, the trailer looks dreamlike. Plus, Christian Bale and Colin Farrell (I prefer Bale, but Farrell ain't bad).
14. Beowulf: Iceland and Gerard Butler. And Vikings fighting monsters.
15. Tristan and Isolde: duh. If it ever gets a freaking release date, that is! It's turning into Humko Tumse Pyar Hai of Hollywood.
16. Proof: I liked the play
17. The Fountain: Hugh Jackman as a man travelling through time into past and future (15th and 25th century) to save his wife. Sounds good to me.
18. King Kong: Once again, duh.
19. Everything is Illuminated: Frodo! :)
20. Hooligans: Frodo as a football hooligan!
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elvensapphire: The Chronicles of Narnia. How could I forget!
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Date: 2005-08-31 04:53 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-08-31 04:56 pm (UTC)I look forward to Walk the Line. I love Johnny Cash and Pheonix really looks like him.
I wish they'd just release Tristan and Isolde and be done with it. At this rate it's going to end up liek Sound of Thunder and just be dumped into a theater for like a week.
And I love Jake Gyllenhaal, but he being a gay cowboy sheepherder is just too out there for me.
And of course New World. Had it just had Farrell in it I probably would have still been interested, but since the Bale is there, so am I.
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Date: 2005-08-31 04:59 pm (UTC)I haven't seen any pics for it. Hmmm, need to find them now :)
I look forward to Walk the Line. I love Johnny Cash and Pheonix really looks like him
It's weird, because usually this would be the kind of movie I would be staying far away from, but it had such good WoM and then I saw the trailer and...baaaam! It reminded me of those 40s-50s biopics they used to do.
At this rate it's going to end up liek Sound of Thunder and just be dumped into a theater for like a week.
By now I don't even care if it goes straight to DVD as long as I get to see the damn thing!
he being a gay cowboy sheepherder is just too out there for me
I am severely amused at that actually, which is why I want to see it.
since the Bale is there, so am I.
You seem to be the Bale go-to person, so does he have any other movies between TNW and the next Batman (whenever that will be)?
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Date: 2005-08-31 05:17 pm (UTC)I've adored Christian Bale since EQ (I've lost track of the number of times I've seen that movie - I have forced all of my friends to see it too). Colin Farrell is a weird one, he was so good in Tigerland but since then he's kind of annoyed me - a lot.
I'm also looking forward to "Perhaps Love" which is a Chinese/HK movie coming out shortly which is a musical set in old Shanghai and looks quite colourful and fun, but then I like flashy bright musicals and this looks like it wants to be a Chinese Moulin Rouge. :)
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Date: 2005-08-31 05:33 pm (UTC)"Perhaps Love"
I read about it in you lj, and it sounded really interesting!
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Date: 2005-08-31 05:41 pm (UTC)I am hoping that there will be at least two movies in the year ahead that grab me and make me absolutely obsessed so that I can put them in the "If you don't like that movie then we can't be friends" list ;) New World looks amazing but poor Wes Studi, I wonder if he's doomed to forever be the bad guy. He was sooooo good at being the evil Magua in "Last of the Mohicans" and now seems doomed to the role forever.
Bale looks very cute in the trailer, Farrell has got a bit of an unfortunate Brunette Fabio/Yanni look going on which I find disturbing.
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Date: 2005-08-31 05:54 pm (UTC)It's a good thing my door was my closed on my giggle fit :D
My husband actually didn't watch Equilibrium with me. Hhhhhmmmmm, he might like it.
"Equilibrium was so bad, it skipped the cinemas and went straight to pirated dvd".
LOL. Here in DC it did play in the theaters, because I remember considering checking it out. I ended up renting it months later. The copy was crummy and I was exhausted but I fell in love with it anyway. That last fight between Bale and the Bad Guy? Wow.
I've already had four movies this year I fell in love with: Revenge of the Sith, Kingdom of Heaven and Batman Begins (I like them epicy and angsty :D) and Bollywood movie period romance Parineeta.
Last year, of the non-Bolly movies, the only ones I adored were Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Hotel Rwanda, so I am already better this year...
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Date: 2005-08-31 06:14 pm (UTC)I noticed the Yanni, which was why I initially was like "eeeee..." when I saw the first trailer. Farrell looking pretty rough.
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Date: 2005-08-31 06:22 pm (UTC)LOL - so, I have to spam you with pieces of an article I just read. It fits the theme. :)
Studios Hope to Salvage Disappointing Year
By DAVID GERMAIN
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hollywood's long, dreary summer finally is over. Now it's on to the good stuff. And it better be good, if film studios hope to salvage what's shaping up as the worst year for movie attendance since the late 1990s.
After a summer season that left audiences generally uninterested, the fall and holiday lineup offers the promise of fresh films with an exotic cast of characters that includes country music legends, a great ape, teen wizards and a Japanese geisha.
The long-awaited adaptation of the best seller ``Memoirs of a Geisha,'' director Rob Marshall's follow-up to ``Chicago,'' stars Ziyi Zhang as a poor Japanese girl who becomes a geisha goddess.
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Other big films include Steven Spielberg's ``Munich,'' a thriller about the slayings of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics; ``All the King's Men,'' starring Sean Penn as the Southern political boss of Robert Penn Warren's classic novel; ``Jarhead,'' a Gulf War tale with Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx; ``Tim Burton's Corpse Bride,'' an animated yarn featuring the voices of Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter; ``The New World,'' Terrence Malick's epic set in colonial America with Colin Farrell; and ``Elizabethtown,'' Cameron Crowe's romance starring Kirsten Dunst and Orlando Bloom.
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Science-fiction and fantasy are shaping up as some of the season's biggest attractions, led by ``The Lord of the Rings'' mastermind Peter Jackson's new take on ``King Kong,'' starring Naomi Watts as the beauty who steals the heart of the gigantic primate.
The fourth ``Harry Potter'' tale casts the young hero (Daniel Radcliffe) into an international wizardry competition that leads him to another showdown with dark sorcerer Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes).
...``Aside from everything else, these are school stories,'' Newell said. ``In a middle-of-the-road English education, the teachers are embattled, the school is a very kind of anarchic place and a very funny place, as well. Where two sets of people - one of which is becoming adults and one of which is trying to avoid going back to becoming children - clash.
...Hollywood's current love affair for fantasy continues with ``The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,'' adapted from C.S. Lewis' ``Chronicles of Narnia'' series.
...``There has been an awfully lot of reality programming in the last 10 years and natural-disaster movies. I do think there's somewhat of a backlash,'' Adamson said. ``People do want to be taken to new worlds. They're kind of tired of this one and want to go somewhere where they can let their imagination run free a little bit.''
Fall's fantasyscape also includes the video-game adaptation ``Doom,'' starring The Rock as part of a commando force taking on creatures from another realm on Mars; and ``Serenity,'' a sci-fi adventure whose behind-the-scenes story is a drama unto itself.
After scoring with the TV version of ``Buffy the Vampire Slayer,'' Joss Whedon created a smart, funny show called ``Firefly,'' about misfits living on the edge of the law aboard the rickety space ship Serenity 500 years in the future.
``Firefly'' lasted only 14 episodes but its cult audience kept interest alive. Now Whedon has directed the big-screen continuation ``Serenity,'' reuniting the ``Firefly'' cast.
``I took the overreaching arc I was headed toward in the TV show and made that the plot of the movie,'' Whedon said. ``I had to jettison or streamline plenty of things. It's two totally different mediums, and you've got to respect that. A TV show can kind of meander its way along and find a little piece of something for everybody. A movie is more about the momentum of the main story.''
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Also trying something different are Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon as Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in director James Mangold's ``Walk the Line,'' a portrait of the early years of the country star who died in 2003.
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And so on.
Here's hoping for the fall/winter!
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Date: 2005-08-31 06:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-08-31 06:29 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2005-08-31 09:52 pm (UTC)Though might check out a few others!
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Date: 2005-08-31 10:01 pm (UTC)Considering the tv series looked like this, it would be pretty impossible to replicate anyway.
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Date: 2005-08-31 10:30 pm (UTC)20. Hooligans: Frodo as a football hooligan!***
When you sayd Frodo, I thought you were refering to Aamir Khan! Then I read #20 and yeah, that's not Aamir for sure! :P (although, that would be an interesting role for Aamir!).
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Date: 2005-08-31 10:44 pm (UTC)I'm looking forward to seeing: King Kong, The New World, Rent and Memoirs of a Geisha. This looks like a very promising fall HW season.