2005 movies you're looking forward to

I suppose this has been done before, but what the heck.

Title says it all.

Of the movies I know are coming: Revenge of the Sith, Batman Begins, Sin City, and Wallace and Gromit (woo-hoo!!!). Fantastic Four? I have my doubts, but I’m hoping for the best.

Not sure what’s on the slate for the art house circuit, but I usually have to wait for the DVD on those. :frowning:

Charlie and the chocolate factory.

Better known as Willie Wonka.

With Johhny Depp as Willie. Directed by Tim Burton.

It looks positively bizarre.

Watch the trailer here…

http://movies.yahoo.com/movies/feature/charlieandthechocolatefactory.html

Serenity

Serenity

C’mon, ouryL, yell it out loud! :smiley:

A Scanner Darkly.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

I’ve been waiting for both of these flicks forever – and 2005 is the year they both finally get delivered. I guess I’ve been waiting for HHGTTG longer, but I’ve been anticipating A Scanner Darkly so much that it seems like more than a mere seven years. I hope it’s worth the wait. I have a hard time comprehending how Richard Linklater discarded the Charlie Kaufman script. Dude! I can get over the disappointment of Terry Gilliam never getting anywhere with it, but… Geez. Back in 2000, I wrote:

Please please please please. Pay no attention to the Keanu behind the curtain. Please please please please. I so sincerely desire this movie not to suck.

I’m also looking forward to Peter Jackson’s King Kong. I’m nuts for the '30s, revere the original, and have a healthy respect for Peter Jackson. I think it’s going to be great.

And Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, of course. It’s going to be a good year.

Sin City
Batman Begins
Be Cool (sequel to Get Shorty)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Hitchhikers’ Guide To the Galaxy
The Brothers Grimm (Terry Gilliam’s next movie)
Fantastic Four
Constantine
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
King Kong

It’s a tricky question. I was going to say The Fantastic Four. I’m one of the many who have been following the very troubled gestation of this movie for a long time, having been keen to see a movie version of the FF for even longer. And 2005 is the year we finally get to see the movie. And yet… and yet… we know that comic book adaptations can be really great (X-Men… Spider-Man…), but we also know that the good ones are the exceptions, and most of them don’t really work. Plus, I had been waiting most of my life to see a live-action Thunderbirds movie, and when it came out this year the movie itself was a bigger disaster than anything the Tracy boys have ever tackled. So, I really want FF to be good, but I can’t stop the nagging doubts that it will turn out to be one oft he duds, and not really worth the wait.

I’m looking forward to Fahrenheit 451.

The original story and Truffaut’s 1966 film adaptation were somewhat allegorical in nature; I’m waiting to see if, in the new film, the ban on books has a more realistic, “war-on-drugs” vibe to it, with smugglers and gangbangers dealing in books instead of drugs.

Kingdom of Heaven should be fun.

Well, as has become tradition in recent years, I’m looking forward to the next Lord of the Rings mov…

…what?

Aw, crap.

:frowning:

Hell yeah! How could I forget?

While I love the Truffaut version, it’ll be nice to see a less campy adaptation. The “hovering” firemen with visible wires were cool and all, but it’ll be nice to see the Hound in action. It’ll also be interesting to see how they present “The Family” now that network programming has descended to the point where it seems like a much less hyperbolic representation.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. November 18, 2005 people!!!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Mmmm… Johnny Depp…

Waitaminute. I thought everyone on this board hated Lucas and his new movies?

Oh well, more theter spots for me. I’m gonna see it five times!



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Brokeback Mountain.

:smiley:

SERENITY!

I just read that A Scanner Darkly will employ a tweaked version of that animation overlay that Linklater used in “Waking life”. In my eyes, that’s a big minus… I want hyperreality in a story like this, not surreality and the distraction of that kind of effect. Maybe it will work out brilliantly, dunno…

Batman Begins
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
SERENITY!!!

Clerks II. Wonder whatever happened to jay and Silent Bob… :wink:

Typically the only movies I can think of this far our are the geeky ones. So, Batman Begins, Hitchiker’s Guide, Sin City, and this little movie clearly no one has heard about called Serenity.

Now?