**2009 Films To Go See
Submitted by DJ Cmoney on Mon, 08/17/2009 - 16:36
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- 9 (9/11)
- Caught a trailer on Film School Rejects and thought it looked really interesting.
- Adam
- Caught a trailer before (500) Days of Summer. Looked very interesting.
- Antichrist (10/23)
- Even though I've near seen any, Lars Von Trier's films have always intrigued me. The Trailer for this one had me.
- Avatar (12/18)
- It seems like everyone is really excited for this and who am I to be any different.
- Big Fan (8/28)
- Patton Oswalt is hilarious and everything I heard coming from Sundance was positive.
- The Box (11/6)
- Richard Kelly's new film...I absolutely loved Donnie Darko.
- The Brothers Bloom
- Rian Johnson's new film. His previous film Brick was incredible
- Broken Embraces (11/20)
- Pedro Almodovar's new film and I liked Talk To Her and am interested in seeing his other movies like Bad Education and Volver.
- Brothers (12/4)
- Some excellent Acting Talent with Jake Gyllenhall and the love of my life Natalie Portman. Plus David Benioff wrote the Screenplay and I loved 25th Hour.
- Bruno
- Despite what I hear I still want to see it simply because Borat was absolute comedic genius.
- Dead Snow
- Two Words: Nazi Zombies.
- District 9
- Wasn't that interested until it opened and everything I've heard is that it's really good.
- Drag Me To Hell
- I love Evil Dead and this is in the same vein: Comedic-Horror.
- Duplicity
- I really liked Michael Clayton, Tony Gilroy's previous film and I'm a big Clive Owen fan.
- Extract (9/4)
- I think Mike Judge is a comedic genius.
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (11/13)
- They had me at Wes Anderson.
- Funny People
- Judd Apatow is a funny guy and all the trailers I've seen have made me laugh.
- The Girlfriend Experience
- I like Steven Soderbergh as a director and I'm interested to see Sasha Grey act instead of just get f***ed on camera. Could be interesting.
- Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince
- It's Harry Potter, people who say they don't like it are lying.
- The Hurt Locker
- Trailers look awesome and everything I've heard has been positive.
- I Sell The Dead
- Didn't know anything about this until a couple of weeks ago when I saw a trailer on Film School Rejects and it looks hilarious. More Comedic-Horror.
- The Informant (9/18)
- Steven Soderbergh is a talented director and makes some interesting films.
- The International
- I really liked Run Lola, Run, Tom Tykwer's film from 1998 and I'm also a Clive Owen fan.
- The Invention of Lying (9/25)
- Ricky Gervais is a funny dude.
- Invictus (12/11)
- After Mystic River, I'm always interested to see what Clint Eastwood has to offer.
- Jennifer's Body (9/18)
- Trailer's look hilarious, Diablo Cody (Juno) wrote it and Megan Fox is beyond hot. Comedic-Horror
- The Lovely Bones (12/11)
- Never read the book but I hear it's incredible and Peter Jackson directing.
- Management
- Caught a trailer on Film School Rejects and thought it looked quite interesting.
- Moon
- Trailers make it look incredible and everything I've heard has been excellent.
- Nine (11/25)
- Daniel Day-Lewis in a musical. Sounds interesting to me.
- Ninja Assassin (11/25)
- The still photographs I've seen make it look so bad-ass and James McTiegue (V For Vendetta) is directing.
- Pandorum (9/25)
- Director of Antibodies in America. Trailer is intriguing.
- Pirate Radio (11/6)
- I loved Love Actually, Richard Curtis' previous film. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bill Nighy and Nick Frost provide some excellent acting talent
- Post Grad (8/21)
- Trailer made is look interesting.
- Public Enemies
- Christian Bale + Johnny Depp + Michael Mann.
- The Road (10/16)
- Pulitzer Prize winning book written by Cormac McCarthy (No Country For Old Man) adapted for the screen. Directed by John Hillcoat (The Proposition) and starring Viggo Mortensen. All the talent involved is top class.
- Rudo y Cursi
- Directed by Alfonso Cuaron's (Children of Men) brother and starring Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna, reunited after starring together in Y Tu Mama Tambien. A personal favorite of mine.
- A Serious Man (10/2)
- The Coen Brothers, need I say more.
- Sherlock Holmes (12/25)
- Guy Ritchie + Robert Downey Jr. + Jude Law+ Rachel McAdams + the greates detective of all time. Why wouldn't I want to see this.
- Shutter Island (10/2)
- Martin Scorcese + Leonardo Dicaprio + a Dennis Lehane (Gone Baby Gone and Mystic River) novel.
- Taking Woodstock (8/28)
- Ang Lee directing a film about Woodstock. Sold.
- Thirst
- Chan Wook Park (Oldboy) directing. Plus the review I read from Cannes was very positive.
- Where The Wild Things Are (10/16)
- Spike Jonze directing my absolute favorite book when I was a kid. I have been so excited from the moment they decided to turn this into a film.
- Whip It (10/9)
- Trailer before (500) Days of Summer looked quite good. Ellen Page in the lead as well.
- Youth In Revolt (10/30)
- I'm a big Michael Cera fan. I think he's hilarious.








The films that are going to come out this year (or already have come out) that I want to go see.
In Alphabetical Order