I had been meaning to post this thread for weeks but kept putting it off, in fact you can say that the “Blockbuster Season” has already begun with the failed Watchmen movie, and the more successful Monsters vs Aliens (and I totally called both, nyah nyah! 
) so here’s a look at more movies this year that might be worth watching:
This is taken from a Times Online article, btw. Check it out, it includes trailers: TIMES ONLINE MOVIE ARTICLE
-Red Sonja. What, again? Unless they put her in the chainmail bikini she had in the comics, I don’t care.
-Night At the Museum 2: Takes place in the Smithsonian this time. Did this movie demand a sequel? Probably not, but what the heck, the first was funny.
- Planet 51: CGI movie about an ‘alien invasion’- except the “invader” is an astronaut stuck on an alien planet. Might be cute.
-Creature from the Black Lagoon: What, they are gonna remake THAT too? I’ll stick with the classic, thank you.
-G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra: Hey, if the Transformers could make the transition…! Looks good so far. I wonder if this will work in these days where terrorism is more a fact of our lives, tho.
- Fanboys: Star Wars fans steal a copy of the Phantom Menace for their dying friend. These Fan comedies almost never work because they don’t get the details right, but there are exceptions (Galaxy Quest, for example.) Might be worth a look.
- The Surrogates: Sci Fi crime thriller starring Bruce Willis investigating a murder connected to… service androids? Is this a Blade Runner rip off?
-The Wolf Man: What, that TOO? Give it up, Universal, your movie monsters will never be better! (Well, except THE MUMMY, that was good…)
-The Birds: …And they are remaking the Hitchcock classic too, it seems. The first WAS scary, but unexplained. I bet the remake will be bloodier but not in any way better.
-S. Darko: HOLY COW, A DONNY DARKO SEQUEL!? Now THAT even I never expected! Will probably not live up to the original. But you never know.
-Hannah Montana: No, I don’t care about it. Just mentioning it since you know it’ll be a hit. With the teen crowd anyway.
- Dorian Gray: As in “The Picture of”. No pun intended. You might remember this guy from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie. The original story was more mind screw than horror, but you can bet they’ll market it as the latter.
- Sherlock Holmes: notable only because it stars Tony St- I mean Robert Downey junior. Still not interested.
-Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: I liked the first two movies, but the joke is getting old. Adding more dinosaurs may make it more interesting. But I might wait for the DVD.
-Nottingham: Robin Hood with Russell Crowe playing both hero and villain. Mmm… nah.
-2012: You know, the one about the Mayan Doomsday prophecy. After “Knowing” nobody will want to see this.
-The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: Another of Terry Gilliams’ surrealists movies. Features the TRUE final Heath Ledger performances (unfinished, sadly.)
-Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Unless they screw this up, it’s a guaranteed hit. Though I’m not very interested.
-Avatar: No, not The Last Airbender (that one IS in the making, tho.) This one is about humans invading another world via remote-controlled androids. By James Cameron. Eh… I’ll wait for more details.
-Angels & Demons: The sequel of The DaVinci Code, but you knew that already. I don’t, since I don’t read the novels, and if it’s as preposterous as the first, I’ll pass.
-X-Men Origins: Wolverine: Also known as “X-Men 4 by a cooler title.” This might actually be good, even if I’m not a Wolverine fan.
-Star Trek: Is it me, or does this remake sound really, really Emo? Gimme back my manly Captain Kirk, dammit!!
-And finally, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. AKA as “The !@#$ing movie they promised us last year!” Hopefully DONE IN ONE and not split into two parts as rumored. Ahh, you know I’ll see it, and so will you. Don’t expect Dumbledore to come out of the closet, tho.
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