2005: Greatly Anticipated Movies

Submitted by lukeprog on Sat, 01/08/2005 - 03:51
Tags: 
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Technorati
  1. Batman Begins
  2. King Kong
  3. Manderlay
  4. Jarhead
  5. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
  6. A Scanner Darkly
  7. The New World
  8. Elizabethtown

  10. Too Early to Tell:
  11. V for Vendetta
  12. Corpse Bride
  13. Chornicles of Narnia
  14. The Wallace & Gromit Movie
  15. The Jacket
  16. The Brothers Grimm
  17. War of the Worlds

  19. It'll Suck But I'll See It Anyway Because It Looks Cool:
  20. Revenge of the Sith

  22. May or May Not Arrive in 2005:
  23. The Fountain
  24. Aeon Flux
  25. Fahrenheit 451
Author Comments: 

Films that are really 2003 or 2004 be releases but are being released in the U.S. in 2005 are not counted.

I'm probably forgetting some. What are YOU looking foward to?

dayfornight01/08/2005

I like your list, the Mendes and Crowe films notwithstanding. I'd add "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "Land of the Dead," "Palindromes" and "Sin City." And, I'd be lying if I didn't admit that I was looking forward to Renny Harlin's cheesy serial killer thriller "Mindhunters" and "Underworld: Evolution" starring Kate Beckinsale in tight vinyl.

lukeprog01/08/2005

Mendes and Crowe may not be provocative or original, but they craft well-made mainstream films that I enjoy.

The trailer for Charlie and the Chocolate factory rubs me the wrong way. Land of the Dead doesn't really interest me, even if it ends up being pretty decent. And Sin City looks like it may turn out much better than I thought after seeing the ComicCon footage a while ago, but I'm still quite worried.

The first Underworld was absolutely horrible and I have no compunction to see a sequel, even if it had ten vinyl-clad Beckinsales. I'm more a 'lace' guy, anyway. Mindhunters looks like a decent premise in an overdone genre that will turn out like crap (just like White Noise).

But, what is Palindromes? I'm guessing it's not at all like 2003's Spellbound.

dayfornight01/08/2005

"Palindromes" is the latest from Todd Solondz if you're into that kind of thing.

lukeprog01/08/2005

Haven't seen any of his work yet. What is 'that kind of thing?'

Anyway, it doesn't qualify for this list because it premiered in 2004 - but I certainly might be interested in seeing it some time.