I’m naive enough to hold out some hope for War of the Worlds. The trailer looks very good,but then again, trailers have looked good before w/o delivering the goods.
I’m very hyped about Serenity, having read a plot outline, it seems very promising.
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. (Big shocker there)
Somehow that plot reminds me of something… ah, I know:
I’m hoping The War of the Worlds will be good and not have any aliens taking over human bodies in it.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (even moreso since the writer hasn’t seen the 1971 version, though I loved it… I also love Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. Oh, and Danny Elfman. July 15, 2005.
The Ring 2. I think I’ll be disappointed, but the first one was great in the theater. March 18, 2005.
and, of course, I’m counting down the days until RENT. The original Broadway cast (minus Mimi and Joanne) and an amazing script from what I’ve read, I think Chris Columbus can make it great for the big screen. November 11, 2005.
I tink Batman Begins is going to be AWESOME!
Chris Nolan at the helm of a Batman movies is going to produce epic results.
I’m hoping that the IMDB plot summary is just a misguided interpretation of the novel, because it’s really much better than that. While it sounds like a “Donald Kaufman” contrivance, it actually has the authenticity of a roman à clef, since that’s what it is, with the thinnest of sci-fi glosses. In the depths of PKD’s speed days, he went through periods of dissociative psychosis where he made bizarre attacks on his household and then spent the rest of the time trying to work out who exactly was conspiring against him. Later, he wrote an almost documentary novel about watching himself and everyone around him completely come apart under the influence. It’s really a heartbreaking book. I hope that the film makes some acknowledgement of Philip K. Dick’s afterword, which is the “real” end of the novel, and carries a lot of emotional weight.
I’m not sure how I feel about the digital rotoscopy approach either, devilsknew. I think the hallucinatory stuff would work best if it were photoreal. (Especially the opening “coke bugs” sequence at the beginning, where a user who’s been dealing with a personal “infestation” for weeks talks a buddy into a folie a deux wherein they both run around collecting the chimerical crawlies in mason jars. That should ideally look totally matter-of-fact.)
On the other hand, I’m one of the half-dozen people on the planet who regards Waking Life as a cinematic triumph, so I have sort of mixed feelings about the whole thing. 
Harry Potter:GoF
The Amityville Horror
Batman Begins
Hide and Seek (kind of looking forward to it)
Dark Water (" “)
Darkness (” “)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (” ")
I’d also say I’m looking forward to My Dark Places but I don’t know if that movie will ever see the light of day or linger in limbo indefinitely like Prozac Nation has 
Definitely Serenity.
Let’s look at this realistically. RENT from the guy who brought us Home Alone. I’ll pass, thanks.
There’s only so much one can screw it up.
The list has to start with Batman Begins. I am so pumped for this movie…
Others:
Cinderella Man
The Brothers Grimm
Harry Potter 4
Be Cool
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Sin City
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Star Wars 3
The Wedding Crashers
War of the Worlds
Kingdom of Heaven (although I’m not sold on Orlando Bloom)
The Amityville Horror
Forget Willy Wonka, I’m waiting for Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride!
Serenity and A Scanner Darkly look good
Also on my list:
HHGTTG
Brothers Grimm
Harry Potter 4
Star Wars 3
Sin City
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Pink Panther
Batman Begins
Actually, while CC gets credit for directing, it was really John Hughes whp brought us that awful movie.
And besides, the guy wrote Gremlins - a masterpiece.
Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Kingdom of Heaven
Harry Potter 4
To tell you the truth, I don’t even really know what else is coming out. Without any new LOTR, it seems I’m lost!
bump in case anyone else was interested in seeing what people thought a year ago.
Somewhat interesting. Most of the anticipated turned out to be all right, I’d say. Mr Mudd liked Kong 12 months before it came.
Looks like you all can look forward to A Scanner Darkly for this year too. At IMDB, the talk makes it sound like you could see it in March, not exactly a peak time for movies. Someone there saw a test screening of it, and had a couple comments.
On the other hand, I picked up Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on DVD and never made it all the way through it. What a disappointment.
I still have high hopes for A Scanner Darkly, though. I wish that it was released a little closer to Batman Begins, since Batman Begins had a sly nod to PKD and Mors ontologica. (Lovely little blue flowers which yield a drug that creates terrifying hallucinations and has the side effect of creating a “split” psyche.)
No Fahrenheit 451 on the horizon, after all.
I think the award goes to kushiel for knowing about Brokeback Mountain last year. Talk about a huge movie that barely registered on the radar of the unwashed masses!