# What Movies Are You Looking Forward To? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 2, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565 "2002-10-02T18:17:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![murky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@murky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/murky)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/1 "2002-10-02T18:17:35Z")
Summer is over but I’m all about the fall line up. Plus, this way I don’t feel so guilty about staying indoors so often. Movies I can’t wait to see: Red Dragon I Spy Prozac Nation The Santa Claus 2 Two Towers Anybody else? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/2 "2002-10-02T19:03:08Z")
[Before you die, you see the ring.](http://www.ring-themovie.com/) Only about two more weeks, h’ray! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/3 "2002-10-02T19:30:57Z")
Definitely Red Dragon! I read the book about 20 years ago (before Silence Of The Lambs) and it scared the piss outta me!! The first movie of this novel sucked, even when they re-named it to make us think that Lecter was a much more major character than he is! But with the cast of this release, my hopes are high! ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/4 "2002-10-02T19:41:20Z")
I wrote this for a mailing list I’m on, and decided to share it here. It’s not comprehensive, but it’s a pretty good list of what’s coming up (minus the release dates, because someone was just asking if there were any good movies being released and I just wanted to provide titles). I’m leaving in my comments, because I’m lazy. I got most of my information from [www.upcomingmovies.com](http://www.upcomingmovies.com) **The Two Towers** is my #1 MUST SEE These are all my other MUST SEEs for the rest of the year. Some of these might/will not open wide until early 2003: **- 8 Mile** (dir. Curtis “LA Confidential” Hanson; Eminem. Gotta see it) **- 25th Hour, The** (dir. Spike Lee; killer cast starting with Edward Norton) **- About Schmidt** (dir. Alexander “Election” Payne; Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis) **- Adaptation** (dir. Spike “Being John Malkovich” Jonze, writer Charlie “ditto” Kaufman; Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep) **- All or Nothing** (dir. Mike “Topsy Turvy” Leigh; I’ll see anything he does) **- Ararat** (dir. Atom “The Sweet Hereafter” Egoyan; ditto) **- Auto Focus** (dir. Paul Schrader; biopic with Greg Kinnear as Bob Crane) **- Below** (dir. David “Pitch Black” Twohy, writer Darren “Requiem For A Dream” Aronofsky ) **- Bloody Sunday** (about Sunday, January 30th, 1972 in Northern Ireland) **- Bowling for Columbine** (Michael “Roger & Me” Moore’s new one) **- Catch Me If You Can** (dir. Spielberg; Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio) **- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind** (dir. George Clooney, writer Charlie Kaufman) **- Crazy as Hell** (dir. Eriq La Salle. Sounds warped. I like warped) **- Decade Under the Influence, A** (dir. Ted Demme (RIP); doc about 70’s filmmaking) **- Equilibrium** (stars Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Sean Bean. Grim futuristic thriller) **- Far From Heaven** (dir. Todd “Velvet Goldmine” Haynes; Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid) **- Frida** (dir. Julie “Titus” Taymor; Salma Hayek, about the artist Frida Kahlo) **- Gangs of New York** (dir. Martin Scorcese; Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis) **- Grey Zone, The** (dir. Tim Blake Nelson; Harvey Keitel, concentration camp film) **- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets** (oh why not) **- Hours, The** (dir. Stephen “Billy Elliot” Daldry; Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore) **- Heaven** (dir. Tom “Run Lola Run” Tykwer, writers Krzysztofs, Kieslowski and Piesiewicz, Cate Blanchett) **- Igby Goes Down** (Kieran Culkin) **- Life of David Gale, The** (dir. Alan “Birdy” Parker; Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney, Kate Winslet) **- Magdalene Sisters, The** (dir. Peter “My Name Is Joe” Mullan) **- Moonlight Mile** (Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Jake Gyllenhaal - can’t pass up) **- Naqoyqatsi** (another one of those “quatsi” movies) **- Personal Velocity** (Fairuza Balk, Parker Posey, Kyra Sedgwick. getting raves at festivals) **- Pianist, The** (dir. Roman Polanski; Adrien Brody. won Palme d’Or, 2002 Cannes) **- Punch-Drunk Love** (dir. PT Anderson; Emily Watson, some dork) **- Pinocchio** (dir. Roberto Benigni; don’t laugh, I think this will be wonderful!) **- Rabbit-Proof Fence** (dir. Phillip “Dead Calm” Noyce; Aborigine youth tragedy, score by Peter Gabriel) **- Red Dragon** (prequel to Silence of the Lambs) **- Ring, The** (remake, schemake, who cares, I want to see it) **- Roger Dodger** (tiny film that’s gotten great reviews at Venice Film Festival) **- Safe Conduct** (dir. Bertrand Tavernier. about WWII French filmmakers) **- Solaris** (dir. Steven Soderbergh; George Clooney) **- Spider** - (dir. David Cronenberg, Ralph Fiennes, Gabriel Byrne, Lynn Redgrave, Miranda Richardson) **- Talk to Her** (dir. Pedro Almodóvar; Ebert says it’s his best yet) **- Truth About Charlie, The** (dir. Jonathan Demme; Mark Wahlberg, Thandie Newton, remake of Charade) **- Veronica Guerin** (story of the murdered reporter, starring Cate Blanchett) **- Welcome to Collinwood** (Willian H. Macy, Sam Rockwell, George Clooney comedy) I will be EXTREMELY depressed if I can’t see all of those. These look promising, and on the surface I want to see them all, but I have to learn more about them, read more, see reviews. **- Abandon** (I had no interest until I heard that Zooey Deschanel and Melanie Lynskey were in it) **- Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony** (documentary about South African music during aparthied) **- Barbershop** (just sounds good to me) **- Between Strangers** (dir. Edoardo Ponti; directs his mom Sophia Loren, Mira Sorvino) **- Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary** (documentary about, well, Hitler’s secretary) **- Blue Car** (just sounds interesting) **- Chicago** (just because) **- Children of the Century** (dir. Diane “Entre Nous” Kurys; Juliette Binoche as George Sand!) **- Core, The** (um, er, I’m a sucker for Aaron Eckhart) **- Crime of Father Amaro, The** (stars Gael Garcia Bernal of Y Tu Mama Tambien) **- Das Experiment** (fascinating premise, partially filmed in Wuppertal!) **- Die Another Day** (just because) **- Down and Out with the Dolls** (comedic story of the rise and fall of an all-girl indie rock band in Portland) **- Emperor’s Club, The** (Kevin Kline, could be good) **- Evelyn** (dir. Bruce Beresford; Pierce Brosnan, John Lynch, Aidan Quinn AND Stephen Rea? Wow!) **- Femme Fatale** (film noir by Brian De Palma) **- Formula 51** (dir. Ronny Yu; Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Carlyle) **- Four Feathers, The** (dir. Shekhar Kapur. I loved Elizabeth) **- Friends and Family** (comedy about gay hitmen) **- Ghost Ship** (title says it all) **- God is Great, I’m Not** (newest one with Audrey Tautou) **- In Praise of Love** (dir. Jean-Luc Godard) **- Interstate 60** (cool cast, inc. James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Ann-Margaret !!) **- Just a Kiss** (dir. Fisher Stevens; Marisa Tomei) **- Love in the Time of Money** (Steve Buscemi, Rosario Dawson) **- Love Liza** (Philip Seymour Hoffman as a bereft widower) **- Max** (John Cusack, Noah Taylor, Leelee Sobieski. Noah Taylor as Hitler!) **- Maid In Manhattan** (dir. Wayne “Joy Luck Club” Wang; Jennifer Lopez. Oh shut up, I like her) **- Man from Elysian Fields, The** (Andy Garcia as a writer moonlighting as a male escort) **- Mesmerist, The** (Edger Allen Poe story set in modern LA) **- No News from God** (stars Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz. sounds warped. I like warped) **- Phone Booth** (dir. Joel Schumacher; Colin Ferrell. They made a great team in Tigerland) **- Pipe Dreams** (plumber tries to change his image with women) **- Pinochet Case, The** (doc about, well, Pinochet) **- Rising Place, The** (I heard some buzz about this intimate indie set in the 1940’s) **- Rules of Attraction, The** (dir. Roger “Killing Zoe” Avary; based on Bret Easton Ellis novel) **- Russian Ark** (I have no idea, but someone said it was beautiful) **- Skins** (dir. Chris “Smoke Signals” Eyre; Graham Greene) **- Secretary** (sounds warped. I like warped) **- Shanghai Ghetto** (doc about Holocaust survivors sneaking into China) **- Slap Her, She’s French** (the previews are funny, maybe the movie is too) **- Standing in the Shadows of Motown** (documentary about Motown’s Funk Brothers) **- Star Trek: Nemesis** (I’m not into Star Trek, but this could be good for non-Trekkers) **- Sweet Home Alabama** (dir. Andy Tennant; Reese Witherspoon, but I’d see it for Melanie Lynskey) **- Transporter, The** (dir. Corey Yuen, writer Luc Besson; courier gets into trouble) **- Trapped** (I don’t know, but I like Kevin Bacon and Courtney Love) **- Two Weeks Notice** (Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant? C’mon, you know they’re cute) **- Weight of Water, The** (dir. Kathryn Bigelow; Sean Penn) **- White Oleander** (nice cast, including Michelle Pfeiffer, Patrick Fugit, Robin Wright Penn, Renee Zellweger) **- Young Unknowns, The** (tiny indie, but was compared to Hurlyburly) I’m sure there are more that I don’t know about or forgot to add. I’m also sure that I won’t see a fraction of these films due to lack of money. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/5 "2002-10-02T19:52:53Z")
X-Men 2. Nemesis. Die another Day. Harry Potter. The Hulk. Daredevil. Solaris. Not too seriously grounded in reality, am I? ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/6 "2002-10-02T20:00:37Z")
I want to see all of them too. You’ll have to wait for some of those though. X-Men 2. - is slated to open May 2, 2003 The Hulk. - June 20, 2003 Daredevil. - February 14, 2003 (this is soonersd than I thought) ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/7 "2002-10-02T20:03:18Z")
We’ve only got roughly 2 1/2 years until Darth Vader’s emergence in **Star Wars: Episode III**. Shoot, I’d better go stake out a spot now. ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/8 "2002-10-02T20:07:42Z")
The Two Towers. Everything else I will rent the DVD. MMMMmmmm Home Theater! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Judith\_Prietht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/9 "2002-10-02T20:14:03Z")
I too have a vast list of must-sees, which is unusual for me as I tend not to go to the movies a lot. In two days it’s **Red Dragon**. Next weekend, **The Rules of Attraction**. Has everyone seen the teaser/promo “plushie” poster for the movie? It’s [hysterical](http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=13000). I’m overjoyed to see that no one included **Swept Away** on their lists, which promises to suck audibly and painfully. ---
**Author:** ![murky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@murky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/murky)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/10 "2002-10-02T20:23:42Z")
brondicon, I too have heard nasty things about Swept Away. Which is really lame – Guy Ritchie was one of my favorites and now it seems like his wife showed up and ruined his career. equipoise – wtf? all those movies and no mention of The Santa Claus 2? C’mon, it’s going to be cute! np: “The Same Boy You’ve Always Known” The White Stripes ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/11 "2002-10-02T22:23:35Z")
> [@](#): > > The Santa Claus 2 Ha, uh, well, if I have money left over after all the other ones I want to see, and after seeing my favorites of those several times… ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/12 "2002-10-02T22:58:18Z")
I hope you work at a movie theater, Equipoise, that looks like about $900 worth of movies ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2002, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/13 "2002-10-02T23:18:07Z")
The Two Towers (Whooooooooo!!!) :eek::eek::eek: Die Another Day Punch Drunk Love (Why not? Seems like a nice evening) Gangs of New York (Marty Scorsese= God) 😛 That Dustin Hoffman (or was it Richard Gere?) drama about the family+fiance of a woman who was killed, for the life of me I swear I’ve never heard the title but everytime I hear that one song I think of that movie **Metropolis**! Coming to Houston, Oct. 11 🆒 And before you die, you see… The Ring. ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/14 "2002-10-03T00:01:05Z")
**The Matrix: Reloaded** **Freddy vs Jason** **TRON version 2.0: Killer App** **Alien vs Predator** **Speed III** ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/15 "2002-10-03T00:42:43Z")
I will see a few more of the movies listed above, but my MUST SEE list is: Red Dragon LotR 2 Comedian (Seinfeld’s movie) ---
**Author:** ![TheOnlySaneOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheOnlySaneOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheOnlySaneOne)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movies-are-you-looking-forward-to/130565/16 "2002-10-03T00:49:51Z")
The ones I **have to see** are: Two Towers Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Yup. Just those two. The rest can wait for DVD.