Looking ahead to the second half of the year, there are more than a few films floating to the top of my list of anticipations. Here’s what I’d call the top 10:
1. “The Dark Knight” (hasn’t budged in six months)
2.“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”
3. “House of Lies”
4. “Quantum of Solace”
5. “Appaloosa”
6; “The Brothers Bloom”
7. “Milk”
8. “Australia”
9. “Pineapple Express”
10. “Religulous”
Anticipating with caution: “W”
Movie I hope disappears before it releases the most: “Ace Ventura Jr.”
How about you?
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I could only find 9 films that I want to see (it would be 11 if I hadn’t already seen Pineapple Express and Man on Wire).
1. The Dark Knight
2. Nights and Weekends
3. American Teen
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
6. Burn After Reading
7. Milk
8. Tropic Thunder
9. Happy-Go-Lucky
Is Paul Greengrass’ Imperial Life in the Emerald City/Green Zone not coming out this fall? If it is:
1. The Dark Knight
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Imperial Life in the Emerald City
4. Body of Lies
5. Milk
1. “The Dark Knightâ€
2.“Vicky Cristina Barcelonaâ€
3.“Synecdoche, New York†(If released)
4. “Burn After Readingâ€
5. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonâ€
6. “Quantum of Solaceâ€
7. “Happy-Go-Luckyâ€
8. “Revolutionary Roadâ€
9. “The Roadâ€
10. “Tropic Thunderâ€
Green Zone is next year.
Good call on Nick and Norah, Chad. Huge fan of Vargas.
I’m a big fan of Vargas, a huge fan of Cera and heard someone compare it to “Quiet City”, which I know we agree is an underappreciated gem.
01. “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”
02. “Doubt”
Not much else . . . “Mamma Mia” as a guilty pleasure? Friends tell me “Revolutionary Road” is a great novel. Maybe “Tropic Thunder” and “The Soloist” because of Robert Downey Jr.
1. Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Dark Knight
3. Synedoche, New York
4. Pineapple Express
5. Australia
6. Burn After Reading
7. The Brothers Bloom
8. Happy Go Lucky
9. Milk
10. Bruno
(also W with extreme caution)
forgot Hamlet 2.
1. The Dark Knight
2. Quantum of Solace
3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
4. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (come on, I know)
5. House of Lies
6. The Road
7. Australia
8. Burn After Reading
9. Revolutionary Road
10. The Soloist
In random order:
1. The Dark Knight
2. Hellboy II
3. House of Lies
4. Tropic Thunder
5. Grant Torino/Changeling
6. Burn After Reading
7. X-Files: I Want To Believe
8. Benjamin Button
9. Australia
10. W (yes I know, but it’s too interesting not the be excited in some way)
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Tropic Thunder
3. Milk
4. Quantum of Solace
5. Eagle Eye
6. Revolutionary Road
7. House of Lies
8. Burn After Reading
9. Changeling
10. The Road
Oh, The Road. Duh. Definitely on my list. I watched The Proposition again today…great, great stuff (that I admit I didn’t initially respond to three years ago).
1. Benjamin Button
2. The Road
3. The Brothers Bloom
4. The Dark Knight
5. Hellboy 2
6. Tropic Thunder
7. Pineapple Express
8. Burn After Reading
9. Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
10. X-Files
1. The Dark Knight
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
1. The Dark Knight
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Che (if picked up and released)
4. Milk
5. Synecdoche, New York
6. Appaloosa
7. Burn After Reading
8. Tropic Thunder/Pineapple Express
9. Changeling
10. Zach and Miri Make a Porno
1. Australia
2. The Road
3. Happy Go Lucky
4. Skin
5. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
6. Hellboy II
7. The Changeling
8. Milk
9. In the Electric Mist
10. Motherless Brooklyn
…and knowing what to expect, Harry Potter, and Mama Mia.
Dark Knight, Quantum of Solace, Pineapple Express. That’s pretty much it. I don’t go in much for anticipation.
Would include The Dark Knight but I already saw it two weeks ago (not to gloat or anything…).
1. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
2. Milk
3. Changeling/Gran Torino
4. Burn After Reading
5. Che
6. In the Electric Mist
7. Synecdoche, New York
8. Adam Resurrected
9. The Road
10. Happy-Go-Lucky
Australia
Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader
House of Lies
The Road
Harry Potter 6
Bruno?
Burn After Reader
Tropic Thunder
Me:
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Soloist
The Road
Australia
The Dark Knight
Blindness
Adoration
Gomorra
The Argentine/Guerrilla
Body of Lies
Revolutionary Road
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Brothers
Synecdoche, New York
Doubt
The Young Victoria
Burn After Reading
Transsiberian
1. TDK
2. Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Hellboy 2
4. Tropic Thunder
5. Burn After Reading
6. Pineapple Express
7. Quantum of Solace
8. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
9. The Road
10. The Spirit
11. Choke
12. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
13. Step Brothers
14. Che
15. Defiance
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I guess I’ll pitch in:
1. Defiance
2. Curious Case of Benjamin Button
3. Adoration
4. Vicky Cristina Barcelona
5. Burn After Reading
6. Synecdoche, New York
7. House of Lies
8. Happy-go-Lucky
9. Pineapple Express
10. “Quantum of Solace†(would be higher if they kept the same director or I liked the trailer)
Possibly more.
Man, I’m going through a Dark Knight obsession right now, but I’ll TRY to think of other movies I’m looking forward to.
1. Tropic Thunder (I think this looks like a comedic masterpiece)
2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (I loved the books and the movies; this is no different)
3. X-Files: I Want to Believe (LOVE the show, it’s my favorite; this looks brilliant)
4. Curious Case of Benjamin Button (I love the plot, the cinematography looks absolutely magnifcent…what else can I say?)
5. W. (I wanna see how this turns out; nuff said)
1. Burn After Reading – My favorite writers/directors, and after viewing the trailer, looks like it is going to be amazing.
2. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button – Not a huge fan of Fincher, but this movie looks like it is going to be great.
3. The Dark Knight
4. Synecdoche, New York – I love everything he has written, except Human Nature.
5. Tropic Thunder
6. The Road
7. Pineapple Express
8. The Soloist
9. Frost/Nixon – No one else mentioned this?
10. House of Lies
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Updated list for the Fall Season-
1. Milk
2. Nights and Weekends
3. Burn After Reading
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
5. Synecdoche, New York
6. Happy-Go-Lucky
7. Slumdog Millionaire
8. Ballast
9. Zack and Miri Make a Porno
10. High School Musical 3: Senior Year