Screen Rant’s 2008 Movie Preview & Recommendations

I agree with almost all of your decisions here, and I’m surprised you’re still willing to give Shyamalan the benefit of the doubt. I’ve always enjoyed his movies, flawed as they can be, an I respect his vision as an artist and director. But if that rumor you mentioned is true, I’m going to be vomiting with you. If I run out of vomit, can I borrow some of yours?

>>- there were already so many other sites churning them out<

There are other sites?

>>Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay>Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull>The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor<

It’s the end of a short era, where you could message your friends and say that you just saw a great movie, and it’s name was—

But it’s retro for 40somethings like me who grew up on Tom Swift and Hardy Boys series.

Nice job,Vic. You must have spent days preparing this.
Isn’t Thor supposed to be released this year?

Here’s the list of films I am most certain about seeing this year,listed in the order I am most anticipating them:

1.Iron man

2.Dark Knight

3.Indy 4

4.Incredible Hulk

5.Star Trek

6.Day the earth stood still

7.Speed Racer

8.Punisher

9.Hancock

10.Wall E

And I personally see IM finshing first at the BO,with either Indy 4 or TDK second.
Oh,I also cannot wait to see the JLA: the New Frontier,PG-13 animated DVD project from DC on Feb 26th,but I didn’t list that cuz it’s a DVD release.

Nice job, Vic. Dragonball is coming out this year? Didn’t know that. Since you don’t know much about DBZ, it’s about a guy named Goku from a planet called Vegeta, which has been destroyed. Goku can fly, has super strength, super speed (sounds familiar), can throw energy beams, and gets stronger with each confrontation. Yes, it is a Japanese version of Superman. I have to admit, I was hooked on this cartoon (Dragonball Z) but it will star the same guy from “The Invisible”, Justin Chatwin. Because of this, I don’t think it’s gonna work.

Iron Man is definately on my list as the most anticipated of 2008.

Well, I have to disagree with you about Star Trek. Given how the writers screwed up Transformers, the movie that started out as the movie I’d been waiting for my whole life, I don’t have any hope for Trek to be any good.

Still, I agree that Iron Man looks good, and I hope that turns out better for you than Transformers did for me.

As for the rest, I’ll agree with you on the ones I know about, and, for the moment, trust your opinion on the ones I don’t know about.

looking forward to dark knight especially

i agree with you all this way with this list. i relly want to see iron man, the dark knight, cloverfield, hellboy 2, incredible hulk, the signal, wall-e, hancock, chronicals of narnia, punisher, wanted and the rest ill see if i think they are worthy enough to pay $9 to see.

Its interesting to see readers picking their choice 5 films. (Vic I’m looking forward to your ranking post)!!!
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So far, Ironman and Dark Knight seem to be the top picks.
(What a shock).
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Where’s that new young audience JJ Abrhams keep refering too?
Oh yeah there over at that other site. Flamestrike,even though the new Trek is destined to blow, I think alot of people will want to see it for the spaceship wreck aspect of it all…
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Go Speedracer Go!

Nice line ^ up there,Adrian!
Even tho Batman is my favorite superhero,the Iron Man film tops my list because: A) I’ve seen Batman,both good and bad,on film before,B) We’ve NEVER seen Iron Man in LIVE ACTION before,EVER,and C) Iron Man,to me,looks to be the best,most exciting and action packed film of 2008. I can’t wait to see it!
Can’t wait to see that second trailer during the superbowl!!

Thanks Kel. Funny thing is, your list was so ideal to what my most anticipated films that I copied your list and moved and added a few. So… Thanks, man! Also love Bats and Indy, but Marvel will kick major butt this year!

“Flamestrike,even though the new Trek is destined to blow, I think alot of people will want to see it for the spaceship wreck aspect of it all…”

That’s what scares me. Even assuming it’s as bad as I believe it will be, or worse, that many people going to see it will almost guarantee that it’s perceived as being the right way to handle Trek, and they’ll continue on that path. After all, it’s the money they care about, it’s the money that is the measure of success, and not what fans and other movie viewers end up saying about it.

I just worry that this movie will mark a bad new direction for Trek, and after its success it’s not going to be easy to convince Paramount that they screwed it up.

(Just a reminder this entire post is my opinion only).
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Well I don’t think going back to Kirk and Spock was a very good direction at all.
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Others think neato let’s go back cause I love those characters and we can bring Nimoy in and maybe resurect Kirk, go back in time and see Pike before the Chair maybe even that totally awesome way Kirk cheats on the koboyashi training test,,it will just be bitchen.
As if for some reason there’s nothing else left?
It blows my mind when I think of the different paths they could have gone down.
They not only chose the wrong path they chose the totally wrong path.
Not only has CBS split the fans down the middle they have set themselves up to make the perfect movie or face a shields down direct hit to the warp coil.
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I think alot of us are looking forward to seeing it tank.. And the only way they know how to say it is by ragging on it. Like me…. :).
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But there’s others that disagree that’s totally cool I don’t have a prob. And if they pull off a winner and I like it I will be here to post it.
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Jim, I don’t like Abhrams work ether… I feel like he’s a glorified ripoff artist. All his concepts are lifts from allready proven ideas.

That’s cool Jim..
But I’m not a fan of JJ and his work…
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But well see what happens.
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Go Speedracer Go!

Flamestrike, Star Trek 0 is brought to us by the makers of Transformers? In space, no one can hear you boo!

Carey, I didn’t “boo” during Transformers. I tried to burrow through my seat and into the floor so no one would see me there.

Flamestrike, I remember burrowing at Transformers. I chaperoned kids from a church group. When Sam’s parents asked if he had been m—, all the boys turned to the adults to ask, “What does m– mean?” You could hear “homina homina” all around.

Luckily the boy next to me (9 or 10 years old) had already asked tons of questions, so I said, “Shh, you’re gonna miss something.”

This offensive moment is deliberated over in editing and early screenings. Leaving it in a movie that would attract a lot of kids (PG-13 assumed to be about action scenes), speaks of an intent to manipulate. That was even more offensive than the lameness of the story and effects.

QUOTE: “Nice post. I am stoked about seeing The Eye and Untraceable.”

Yes, “UNTRACEABLE” is very very good. Very intense and suspenseful. They seem to have atleast tried to make the film technically authentic too. Diane Lane was superb.

Paul-Franco, if your still out there, you seem like a fan of the show. Ques? Do you think they should tackle the Conspiracy issue or do a stand alone story?

Yea KEL, I think alot of the townsfolk are scared of the conpspiracy issue.

Were living in a time where (truth is becoming the enemy of the state)and were told not to go there….
It sickens me.

Its funny though how alot of townfolk hated the way the conspiracy issue was never resolved yet tune into Lost every week like junkies.
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Steve, Kel.

We’re posting messages about monsters, space ships, uniforms and celebrities.

Not free?

Don’t know if you’re still reading this thread, Vic, but I just saw the trailer for “The Happening”, and from what I’ve seen it looks like the storyline we both feared has been left in-tact (plants emitting a self-defense that causes humans to destroy themselves).

Wow Jerseycajun, you would think the plantlife would have done this along time ago if they could.
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This is the lamest idea Mcknight Shamalen has come up with since “the village”.
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What’s happened to this guy.

First of all this is a total rip-off of the 60’s film “The day of the Triffeds”.
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Did McKnight think that we wouldn’t see thru his “inconvienant truth rip-off”. Wow. Whata dork.
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Thanks for the warning Jerseycajun.

I think Shyamalan deserves a chance. I liked “Unbreakable” or was it because it was a Bruce Willis vehicle?? Anyway, terrestrial dangers are much more likely than an “Andromeda Strain”. I admit I probably won’t see the movie but the earth is more hostile than we give it credit for. It’s only because man has built up so many defences against nature. If you want some believable examples there are common fruits in our diet that while the fruit is harmless the seeds arn’t. What about the potato harvest the FDA had to have destroyed a few years back because the particular variety was dangerously allergenic? Of course the bean sprout growing out of the kids nostril is still a memorable old tale…Ha..ha When you think about it that tale was brobably more influential than The Triffids.

Just my two cents…

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