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Let's look ahead to the 1st 12 Fridays of 2012 and what Harry thinks...

Published at:  Dec 25, 2011 6:06:26 PM CST

Hey folks, Harry here...  I'm going to give you a little preview of the first 12 weeks of 2012, some pictures, some videos, some comments...  I'm writing this up as I have Christmas, but figured if I don't do this now, with the family vacation taking me offline for 8 days, it won't get done.   So enjoy...

 

 

1st Friday of 2012 - January 6th, 2012





THE DEVIL INSIDE - This is a 'found footage' film - that purports to be a documentary about a young lady's discovery of her insane/allegedly possessed mother who is commited to a sanitorium in Vatican City.   She is trying to understan Exorcism and gains admittance to a Exorcism class taught in the Vatican.  The 2 rebel priests she hooks up with give her and her camera man a look at the Hell they deal with.   The acting and story are a bit on the lame side, but honestly...  I had a blast with some of the Exorcism sequences.  There's more exorcism in this film than any other I've seen.  BTW - Driving with a possessed person is a bad idea.  Could be a lot of fun with audiences primed.  The scene shown at BNAT13WOLF was warmly received.

 

2nd Friday of 2012 - January 13th, 2012 - Yoko's Birthday





MISS BALA - the film is pretty damn badass - about a would-be Beauty queen having to deal with essentially the Mexican mob.   It's pretty blistering...





CONTRABAND - Here's a fun looking film with Mark Wahlberg, who seems to be one of those criminals that got clean, but just when he got out, they pulled him back in, because Banshee was a fucking dumbshit that followed his larcenous path - and to save his rotten little life, Mark has to be a badass to right it all.  Also has Kate Beckinsale and - haven't heard much on this, but I like what I see.

 

3rd Friday of 2012 - January 20th, 2012





CORIOLANUS - Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut is outstanding.  In particular, his performance, Gerard Butler's and Vanessa Redgraves makes this film absolutely what you need to watch - especially if you love wild Shakespearean reinterpretations.   Not as great as McKellen's RICHARD III, but what is?

 





EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE - yawn, an emotional pap smear.





HAYWIRE - I hear that Soderbergh's HAYWIRE is fucking amazing.   Can not wait!  





RED TAILS - Lucas' long term dream project is finally hitting theaters - and I can not wait to check it out.   The story of the Tuskegee Airmen as told with a nod to EC's ACES HIGH comics.   Can't wait!

 

4th Friday of 2012 - January 27th, 2012 - Father Geek's Birthday





THE GREY - As stated by most every BNATTER - this is a tremendous film.   It is beginning to screen to other long lead press and they're seeming to love it as well, which is really a no-brainer.   This isn't a stupid fist-fighting CG Wolf story.  Instead, it plays as MEN AGAINST NATURE - and nature's teeth happen to be the elements & wolves.   But the real heart of the film is in the unity or lack there of, with the men that are trying to survive.  Do not miss this!





MAN ON A LEDGE - Sam Worthington without a shit ton of CG?  Alright - like the cast and the premise.  Definitely there to see this.





ONE FOR THE MONEY - So Katherine Heigl stars in this comedic mystery based on those Stephanie Plum series of popular novels.   SO...  will it be good?   who knows.  Fun trailer though, right?  No?  Yes?  Maybe?

 

5th Friday of 2012 - February 3rd, 2012





CHRONICLE - A very intriguing "found footage" film about boys that discover something that embues them with powers that seem to get the best of them.  Love the trailers so far.





THE WOMAN IN BLACK - Harry Potter vs Ghost - HAMMER FILMS made it, so I'm intrigued.  Jane Goldman wrote the script off of the famous well known ghost story - that has me dying to see it.   Like the  trailers.

 

6th Friday of 2012 - February 10th, 2012 





JOURNEY 2: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND - the first film in this series was about as awful as it gets.  Casting changed - they brought in Dwayne Johnson, Michael Caine and Vanessa Hudgens...  but it still has Josh Hutcherson...  Film seems wildly addicted to CG, but does have a fun spirit to the trailers.





SAFE HOUSE - is probably the better bet this weekend - as the screenwriting talent of David Guggenheim and John Lee Hancock has my confidence up.   Also the cast of Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard, Robert Patrick...  well it has me curious to check it out.  Denzel is a fugitive wanted by the CIA - Ryan is an agent teamed with him to apparently survive the badassery they are confronted with.

 

7th Friday of 2012 - February 17th, 2012

 





ACT OF VALOR - Real Navy Seals, Real state of the art military tech, real tactics...  Let's see if that makes for a good movie, right?





GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE - I love the CRANK films - Neveldine and Taylor had approximately $110 million less than either the CAPTAIN AMERICA or THOR films from last year.   It's a MARVEL KNIGHTS film.  GHOST RIDER was always, to me, a part of Marvel's Grindhouse - and this film plays to me as I expected a Neveldine/Taylor GHOST RIDER movie with Nick Cage going nuts would play.   Most of the Critics at BNAT passed on it, but the fans that seem to love the comics, something most critics can't and wouldn't claim....  Well they had a blast with the film.  Personally, I enjoyed it enough to play it at BNAT after I previewed it.   





THIS MEANS WAR - I believe that McG's THIS MEANS WAR is going to be a realy delightful surprise next year.   Watching Witherspoon juggle Super Spy boyfriends played by Tom Hardy and Chris Pine... well that sounds fun to me.   The trailers are fun.   And this is the kind of material that I really like McG doing.   Fluffy fun action.  Right?

 

8th Friday of 2012 - February 24th, 2012 





WANDERLUST - Produced by Apatow - directed by THE STATE's mastermind David Wain (director of WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and ROLE MODELS) teams up with Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston on this Hard R-rated Comedy.  Check out the trailer...  This seems like the first real fun comedy we have to look forward to in 2012.

 

9th Friday of 2012 - March 2nd, 2012





DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX - I kinda love the voice casting of Danny DeVito as THE LORAX - but everything that his character isn't in, in the trailer kind of grates me.  Right?

 

HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS - a Steampunk Fantasy Horror Action Fairytale starring Jeremy Renner & Gemma Arterton as the famed siblings.  At one point we were to see this trailer at BNAT13WOLF - but that didn't happen, damn it.   I've read the script - and it was a big ambitious endeavor - and the screenwriter is Directing.   So visually, I've no idea of how this is going to play.  The idea is that after they survived their childhood encounter with a Witch - the Brother & Sister team decided to take on Evil for the rest of their lives, taking on witches and things that go bump in the night for money.   Think GHOSTBUSTERS from a really long time ago - and more serious and straight.   Once we see the trailer - we'll have a clue if Tommy Wirkola has translated his script into something curious or not.  Oh yeah, it's 3D.





SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN - Lasse Hallstrom brings this novel to life with Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt and Kristin Scott Thomas.  I'll give this one a shot - I like everyone involved.  Romantic Comedy.  Hallstrom took over for Bill Condon, when Bill got seduced by the dark side.





TIM & ERIC'S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE - it is either for you or not.   What say you?

 

10th Friday of 2012 - March 9th, 2012 





JOHN CARTER - the more I see, the more I want to see.  I've loved this novel ever since I was a kid.  It has taken me a while to get the 6-7 years I spent trying to make this over at Paramount - out of my head, so I could just enjoy it - and I'm just about there.  I love Andrew Stanton's previous work - and while I've yet to see a single scene between John & Dejah with a connection...  I have to believe that Stanton has that, or else he'd never cast them.  I really like the Japanese trailer quite a bit.





THE RAVEN - James McTeigue is a curious director.   Love V FOR VENDETTA intensely.  Dislike NINJA ASSASSIN quite a bit.   Turning Edgar Allan Poe into a character in a SEVEN-esque serial killer detective story - using his own writing as inspiration for the crimes being investigated could be fun.   Could be.   And it was written by Shakespeare.  Stars John Cusack as Edgar...   but also has Luke Evans & Brendan Gleeson - and will offer us a good look at Alice Eve, who will next be in JJ's STAR TREK 2.





SILENT HOUSE - a remake of a mixed reviewed Horror film from Uruguay in 2010.   The English language remake stars MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE's probably Academy Award nominee for Best Actress - Elizabeth Olsen.   She's amazing in that film and is definitely an actress to watch.  The directing team of Chris Kentis and Laura Lau last brought us OPEN WATER, which I did enjoy.   But mainly I'm there to see this for Elizabeth Olsen.   Very curious. The above is just a clip.

 

11th Friday of 2012 - March 16th, 2012





21 JUMP STREET - I've heard rumors that the film is terrific.   Channing Tatum doesn't fill me with hope, but I'm a huge fan of Jonah Hill's.   He has consistently been doing great work.  This comedic cinematic take on 21 JUMP STREET could be a big hit.   Like the trailer so far.   We'll see...





BUTTER - R-rated for language, sexual content & brief drug use.   It's a story of a young orphan being adopted by a MidWestern family who has an amazing talent for BUTTER SCULPTING, which is a huge deal in this town.   And yet, the R-rating and title makes it sound like a tribute to Brando's anal lubing LAST TANGO IN PARIS scene...  Stars Hugh Jackman and Jennifer Garner, Alicia Silverstone & Olivia Wilde.   Butter, huh?  It's a comedy.





MIRROR, MIRROR - this is the first film of 2012 that looks like a high speed train wreck - and because it is by Tarsem Singh - there is no Earthly way I'll miss it.   Though the trailer literally leaves me in pain.  It just...  no.

 

12th Friday of 2012 - March 23rd, 2012





THE HUNGER GAMES - I'm really rooting for this film.  I like the book by Suzanne Collins.  Sure, it's a mixture of BATTLE ROYALE and about a dozen other Dystopian future stories... but it works, mainly because you fall in love with the main character as your read.  At least I did.   I'm curious to see what kind of teeth director Gary Ross has in this adaptation.   The book is pretty brutal, but right now - we don't know how this is going to translate.   Gary Ross is a great director though and an even better writer.   So I'm awaiting it.   Great cast.   Will this become a cash cow franchise for Lionsgate?  They're betting big on it.





A THOUSAND WORDS - Director Brian Robbins is trying it... again.   This will mark his 3rd high concept comedy with Eddie Murphy.   The first was NORBIT.  A singular achievement.   Until he made MEET DAVE, which was just as stunning.   This time out, they hired the "brilliant" writer of JACK AND JILL, to find the 1000 words that Eddie Murphy will spout before he dies.  So.   Feeling lucky, punk?  Heh.   I bet it has to be better than the two previous attempted cinematic suicides.   Right?

 

Well that's the first 12 weeks of the New Year...   Whaddaya think?   Anything there you want to see?



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  • Dec 25, 2011 6:20:08 PM CST

    No

    by jrcanreid

  • Dec 25, 2011 6:20:50 PM CST

    OK, maybe Norbit.

    by jrcanreid

    That looks worth a rental.

    Reply to Talkback

  • ...but it's working on me. I really would like to see that.

    And that Japanese JOHN CARTER trailer is a million times better than the AVATAR meets ATTACK OF THE CLONES one that American cinemas are getting.

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  • the first time I saw both it was... extremely groan worthy.

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  • Dec 25, 2011 6:49:20 PM CST

    I don't want to sound gay or nothin'

    by mugato5150

    But Bane and Kirk v2.0 could do a lot better than Reese Witherspoon.

    Reply to Talkback

  • Imagine the same movie with Richard Pryor in 1979. Or Steve Martin in 1988. There you go, now you know how much Eddie Murphy sucks now.

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  • Dec 25, 2011 7:03:00 PM CST

    1,000 Words

    by filegumbo

    Eddie Murphy is at his best when he engages in that quick, verbal patter. A movie that specifically takes that away seems a bad idea.

    Besides that, the concept is lame. Who wants to see anyone's facial contortions trying to get his point across for an hour and a half?

    Reply to Talkback

  • Who...? What the...? Why...? Never mind. It actually made me want to go back in time and kill Tim Burton and Stephenie Meyer as children, just to change this future.

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  • Dec 25, 2011 7:24:25 PM CST

    Phantom Menace 3D?

    by milla jovovich

    February 10th, right?

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  • It's like Scary Movie for cop and teenage film genres but without trying to be.

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  • Dec 25, 2011 7:35:37 PM CST

    2012

    by tenenbaum

    I was checking out Moriarty's site today and they had their WORST FILMS OF 2011 list. Three films AICN relentlessly pimped were found in the top 5: "Red State", "Green Lantern", and "Centipede 2."

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  • Dec 25, 2011 8:00:07 PM CST

    Jonah Hill has done good work, since when?

    by sunwukong86

    I'm sorry but he's just terrible...

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  • Dec 25, 2011 8:09:46 PM CST

    Safehouse looks bad ass

    by bass ackwards

    Safehouse, Haywire, and The Grey looks like some kick ass action to start the year.

    Everything else looks like a rental or just outright skip-able.

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  • Dec 25, 2011 8:09:56 PM CST

    Why'd Harry bother to include relatives' birthdays in this list?

    by johnfordsmissingeye

    Because the movies didn't look bad enough?

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  • Dec 25, 2011 8:16:00 PM CST

    Also, Eddie Murphy needs a

    by bass ackwards

  • Dec 25, 2011 8:40:31 PM CST

    David Wain's Wanderlust I'll check out...

    by jarek

    Always been a fan of that crew, and Wain. I hate a lot of drug scenes in movies though. You don't end up running around when taking Ayahuasca, you basically sit in a trance and potentially puke or shit yourself. It's a very internal sort of thing.... minor nitpick (I don't know this from taking it, but from shooting a doc in which a bunch of people took it).

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  • Dec 25, 2011 8:45:09 PM CST

    this is a GHASTLY lineup of films

    by gaygoonie

    21 Jump Street, however, should be awesome. Jennifer Garner looks like Michelle Bachman - yikes!

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  • Dec 25, 2011 8:52:42 PM CST

    my step mother cried after seeing Jonah Hill in Cyrus

    by bacon_aesthetic

    because she said it reminded her of when I came to with live her and my Dad when I was a teenager. That would be 27 years ago.

    I was at the theater too but had stepped away to hit the bathroom so I didn't witness this. My brother told me later.

    Looks like I scarred the cunt for life. It's either that or she's a manipulative, crazy fucking twat who was trying to fuck with my Dad and my brother while I was taking a piss. Yeah, gonna go with that theory.

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  • Dec 25, 2011 9:28:49 PM CST

    You forgot to mention the UPCOMING FILM "Found Footage"...

    by jacksparasites

    ...the shitty found footage film about a group of teens who find a shitty found footage film.

    META!

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  • Dec 25, 2011 9:52:11 PM CST

    Let me get this straight Harry

    by wallygogo

    Journey to the Center of the Earth 2 and that Katherine Heigl crap looks promising to you but you say Yawn to Extremely Loud which has two Oscar winners and is garnering awards buzz? I'm not saying it wont be boring but you're so quick to write it off while you seem to give some other crap a fighting chance.

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  • Dec 25, 2011 10:05:27 PM CST

    Gina Carano (Haywire) = yummy

    by shiftyeyeddog

    that is all.

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  • Dec 25, 2011 10:17:23 PM CST

    Tarsem? TARSEM!

    by wherearetheducks

    ASK ME WHAT IT MEANS! ASK ME WHAT IT MEANS!

    Reply to Talkback

  • Dec 25, 2011 10:54:12 PM CST

    Great Nostalgia Critic reference, wherearetheducks

    by nasty in the pasty

  • Otherwise, plenty to avoid from Hollywood in the coming months!

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  • Dec 25, 2011 11:44:32 PM CST

    Hansel and Gretel has been indefinitely delayed

    by billemic

    The studio isn't releasing it until "fall 2012" now. No set release date.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 12:34:56 AM CST

    Let the box office slump continue!

    by nursey

    Ooof Hollywood is kind of screwed until what, the Avengers? John Carter will likely play to 10,000 BC numbers.

    Billion Dollar Movie is the only thing on here that looks decent.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 2:05:46 AM CST

    THE SILENT HOUSE

    by maxthesilent

    The original had a brilliant first hour, but then the obligatory (and completely unnecessary) 'twist' is revealed and it totally shits the bed for its third act. I'm sure the remake will do the same.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 2:10:30 AM CST

    I really like the Chronicles trailer

    by winona_ryders_pussy_juice

  • Dec 26, 2011 3:59:56 AM CST

    No Phantom Menace 3D or Underworld Awakening 3D?

    by brody bruce

    Ball officially dropped, big fella. Everybody knows you have strong feelings about Phantom Menace, Harry. And maybe a lot of people here don't care but some people are actually looking forward to Kate Beckinsale's return to the skin-tight vinyl outfits she wears in the Underworld series.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 4:02:14 AM CST

    Really?

    by scrote

    The Raven was written by Shakespeare? Can you explain further, Harry?

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  • Dec 26, 2011 4:41:36 AM CST

    Charades

    by aceldama

    Great. Just what I want to see. a 90 minute game of charades (a thousand words).

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  • Dec 26, 2011 4:43:52 AM CST

    Thank God no 3D

    by aceldama

    Brody Bruce, The Phantom Menace and Underworld Awakenings are 3D. Even Harry knows that 3D is a dead tech. No reason to include them on the list.

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  • is he gay?

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  • Dec 26, 2011 5:03:07 AM CST

    And it was written by Shakespeare.

    by kungfuhustler84

    Face, meet palm.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 5:32:08 AM CST

    Hey Harry

    by dr eric vornoff

    You didn't mention it was my birthday on March 9th, you cunt!

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  • Dec 26, 2011 5:47:20 AM CST

    You should cut the crap

    by david_denmans_beard

    and just start recording a video of you saying these one-line blurbs. This is the kind of garbage Columbia Pictures should've paid for when A Knight's Tale was released, but instead thought it better to make up a critic instead. If only they'd picked up the phone, they could have saved themselves tens of dollars!

    Seriously though, adding "what ___ thinks" to the title of an article entails that there should actually be THOUGHT present, not just one to two lines of "I don't know about this one, I haven't seen the trailer". Keep that crap on Twitter. Post something worth reading on the site.

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  • the model claimed she had been kidnapped and forced to go for the ride. the police was not fully convinced of her version.


    the funny thing is that in the movie, the actress chosen, quite quite a cute girl herself, she is not as pretty as the real life conterpart. the real life girl whose this movie is based on loks like an holywood glamour superstar. she's called Laura Zúñiga, and if you check out her photos, you'll know what i mean.


    my point is, in this movie MISS BALA, they didn't glamoured the character up for the movie, as it's so common in an Holywood movie. instead, they went for what they must had believed to be the best actress for the job. funny how things work outside Holywood.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 6:12:18 AM CST

    Oohh, yes, A Thousand Words is on post prod hell since 2008

    by ricarleite4

    Do you know what other Eddie Murphy movie was on shelf for 3 years before release? Pluto Nash.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 6:47:53 AM CST

    21 Jump Street looks horrible

    by cobb05

    The movie looks like The Other Guys, which also sucked balls. No one wants to see stupid comedies, where people just say random shit and it's supposed to be funny. Improv is killing comedy. It's one thing to use improv to improve a movie, but when you rely on it to the point of making the movie up as you go, it ends up being a bad movie. Just look at Your Highness. That could've been a classic in the right hands, but you can tell the improv scenes because they are dragged out and and have no real point, like the child molester puppet scene.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 7:19:38 AM CST

    ...still has Josh Hutcherson

    by drath

    Yeah I remember you said "fuck this kid" in your review, which I took to mean you really disliked him and not that you were going pedo on us. Not sure how he inspired that kind of venom since he's never been BAD in anything I've seen him in, but isn't he in the Hunger Games's "great cast"? Whatever, I think Journey 2 looks like Spy Kids, great if you're little and painful if you're not.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 8:38:44 AM CST

    Jeez, Harry thanks for all the youtube trailers

    by phantomcreeps

    that you smashed together like Play-doh for us.

    Which at certain times were articles themselves.

    Sad thing is, I could call ya lazy, but probably took awhile to make.

    Just spend some time with your family, if this is the turd article that plops out of your , to entice us.

    Keep big Pimpin bro.

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  • Did I just say that out loud? Ah, who cares, it's only AICN.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 9:31:24 AM CST

    The real reason why The Rock failed as a valid action star:

    by scratchmonkey

    It's because he looks like Rob Schneider wearing a 'Nutty Professor'-style muscle suit.

    Rob Schneider is... The Rock!

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  • Dec 26, 2011 9:33:35 AM CST

    re: "CONTRABAND - Here's a fun looking film with Mark Wahlberg"

    by scratchmonkey

    The only thing that could possibly look fun with Mark Wahlberg in it is a coffin.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 9:34:31 AM CST

    scratchmonkey?

    by phantomcreeps

    Can I get Your sisters number?

    My Sister, looks like Heig, tool, but she won't return my calls.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 9:58:24 AM CST

    Hunger Games look pretty 'dystopian'...

    by scratchmonkey

    ...but only if you're from a generation where "a bleak future" means you can't use your mobile phone for the next 30 minutes while you wait to recharge it.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 10:03:36 AM CST

    @phantomcreeps

    by scratchmonkey

    Yes, you probably can, unless it's ex-directory.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 10:05:08 AM CST

    Red Tails ≠ that Conan cartoon

    by mickster_island

    I gotta get that straight

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  • Dec 26, 2011 11:08:52 AM CST

    Irreverant, context-free comedy risks climbing up it's own ass

    by zombie_fatigue

    It's all about throwing one liners up on the wall (or balls on the drum kit) and seeing what sticks.

    My prediction is that most of it will not age well.

    Some of it is funny. But little of it is very memorable.

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  • If annoy-fucking is a thing, then I want to be annoy-fucked by her.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 11:32:00 AM CST

    Reykjavík-Rotterdam like a mother fucker.

    by series7

    Watch Hollywood screw it up. Though it looks pretty much the same, just counterfeit money instead of alcohol this time. Also like how they sort of give away the ending in the trailer.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 11:35:04 AM CST

    also need to see Snaaba Cash

    by series7

    To see if Safe House is gonna knock your skull.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 12:56:55 PM CST

    The Raven was written by Hannah Shakespeare

    by bass ackwards

    For those that didn't get Harry's joke, Hannah Shakespeare is one of the writers on Raven. From her imdb it looks like shes mostly known for mediocre television.

    Coriolanus, the movie on here that was written by the "other" Shakespeare, looks tremendous. Though it's interesting that the trailer underplays the Shakespearean language. Wonder if it's trying to rope in an unsuspecting audience.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 12:59:32 PM CST

    Coriolanus and The Grey are intriguing

    by sardonic

    Chronicle could be decent. Other than that nothing there is too interesting for me...

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  • Dec 26, 2011 2:03:28 PM CST

    I'm looking forward to Ghost Rider.

    by hallmitchell

    Can't wait. I think this movie will do well.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 2:03:41 PM CST

    Steampunk in film.

    by hallmitchell

    Always flops.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 2:04:31 PM CST

    21 Jump St will be 2011's Green Hornet.

    by hallmitchell

    Good writers and stars who should know better.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 2:12:09 PM CST

    Extremely loud and Incredibly close...

    by dr. egon spengler

    Is the only one that looked worth its salt.

    I've been told to read the book first.

    And I shall.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 2:51:57 PM CST

    Except for two trailers, most of it looks pretty dreadful....

    by orbots commander

    ...as in, barely worth a Redbox rental.

    The Chronicles trailer, along with This Means War (McG? Go figure) look interesting, fun, and fairly well done.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 2:59:01 PM CST

    Why did I laugh at the TIM & ERIC trailer?

    by yackbacker

    I hate these guys, but... "Chef Goldblum"-- sweet merciful God that makes me smile.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 3:01:55 PM CST

    Oooooh, youtube videos!

    by canned_dirty_ape

    What a great scoop.

    AICN goes out on another high for 2011.

    Can't wait to see what amazing heights this site goes to in 2012!

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  • Dec 26, 2011 4:09:33 PM CST

    @ Lisab.

    by pink_apocalypse

    I feel you, but you really need to know the answer to that question?

    Look around you. *This* is the target audience. Set your expectation levels for product catering to it accordingly.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 4:47:27 PM CST

    Golftangofoxtrotoscar

    by canned_dirty_ape

    And of course both are Columbia films in which case they have proberly aleady remunerated Knowles in advance of his review.

    After all, can anyone recall a negative review on Aint It Corrupt News of a Columbia movie post- Green Hornet?

    And let us not forget how guahingly positive the Hornet reviews were on this site. A medicocre movie on a site run by supposed geeks who realistically should have demanded a decent Hornet movie.

    Knowles is a whore plain and simple. Anyone who cant see that.... well, I can sell you Buckingham Palace for $27 if you're interested.....

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  • Dec 26, 2011 4:58:40 PM CST

    Based on the Safe House trailer....

    by blagyver

    I am nominating "No Church in the Wild" for Song That Should Be In Every Trailer Ever.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 5:09:54 PM CST

    Jonah Hill is in 21 Jump Street?

    by isaac_r

    ummm...Ok.

    Tim and Eric?

    No.

    The Grey?

    Fuck yes.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 5:11:53 PM CST

    and has anyone seen The Sitter?

    by isaac_r

    Crass and tasteless don't BEGIN to describe it.

    Fucking awful.

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  • Just the way it is. Drew Carey used to funny, now he's just the skinny host of a game show.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 5:18:30 PM CST

    I love the CRANK films

    by eoneon

    I bet you do Harry,I bet you do indeed ;)

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  • Dec 26, 2011 5:38:21 PM CST

    Why does everyone keep saying they "can't wait" for RED TAILS??

    by lookylookymoontard

    It looks like a cliche filled crapfest,seriously i was nearly producing my last meal via my mouth watching that trailer,looks total garbage.

    I'm looking forward to The Grey though,looks fun at least....Red Tails can fuck off and die

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  • Dec 26, 2011 5:38:59 PM CST

    Anyone else hear Jonah Hill on Dan Patrick's radio show?

    by gumbyandpokey

    Patrick asked him about the weight loss and if it was harder to be funny since he was so much thinner and he got seriously PO'd. I agree that he looks sick now. The same thing happened when Ed McMahon lost a lot of weight. He aged about 20 yrs and looked gaunt.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 6:46:22 PM CST

    An emotional pap smear??

    by truedog67

    WTF, seriously... I bet if Cameron Crowe would've directed it there would be headlines about trailers and all sorts of shit. Not defending the movie, frankly looks shitty... Just commenting on the ever increasing amount of bias displayed on this site.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 8:44:17 PM CST

    I guess I don't know what "dystopian" means, because a future where

    by subtitles_off

    adults throw the teenagers into a pit and make them kill each other sounds pretty alright to me.

    I'd live there. Except for the having-to-dress-up-like-a-GaGa-video part. That would be dreary.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 9:12:40 PM CST

    My New Years Resolution is to.....

    by jarjarmessiah

    stop coming to this site. Goodbye AICN, Hello Hitfix!

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  • Dec 26, 2011 9:33:18 PM CST

    Subs!

    by yackbacker

  • Dec 26, 2011 9:49:04 PM CST

    So excited for Haywire. Please, gods, let it kick much ass.

    by tanisdevelopment

  • Dec 26, 2011 10:00:14 PM CST

    IDK but our movie future is looking pretty dystopian

    by cherryvalance

    Anyway, I'll be going to the theater to see Tom Hardy and Jeremy Renner most likely. I can ignore the plots and dialogue if I have to. :) Is Sean Bean still in MIRROR, MIRROR? Maybe I can go for the hot guy/shitty movie trifecta.

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  • Dec 26, 2011 10:19:45 PM CST

    agreed, that Mirror Mirror looks like a trainwreck

    by iwasinjuniorhighdickhead

    Christ alive

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  • And that's why I am a misogynist

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  • Dec 27, 2011 2:07:05 AM CST

    Mirror, Mirror looks great with the sound off, like

    by bedknobs_and_boomsticks

    an Aubrey Beardsley crossed with Edmund Dulac. Tarsem is better when he gets to control the script; The Fall is my favorite movie of the past decade.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 2:11:07 AM CST

    I don't get the Tarsem Singh love

    by brashhulk

    Talk about style over substance... style is 90% of this guy's game. "Immortals" was a horrid piece of dung wrapped in a shiny gold ab-suit. "The Cell" has a couple of interesting ideas, but the last act falls apart and it has the awful Jennifer Lopez in it. "The Fall" was at least interesting... but Singh just can't himself when it comes to the over-the-top, grandiose pomp. When the visuals become a distraction to your movie rather than an attraction, then you know you're doing something wrong. This guy is no more than a Cirque de Soleil show designer with a much larger budget.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 4:20:59 AM CST

    Nothing wrong with an emphasis on style. Not all

    by bedknobs_and_boomsticks

    entertainments should be the same. Unbalance can be as interesting.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 5:50:16 AM CST

    Act Of Valor

    by kgersen

    WTF is the US Navy / Defense Department doing allowing active duty SEALS to appear in a commercial film? Has everyone in the world seriously become so desperate for their 15 mins of fame that you have serving special forces soldiers appearing in films glorifying their exploits? Frickin hell, tis the end of times!!

    As for the rest of the films - pretty much look shit, maybe Haywire, Woman in Black, Hunger Games worth seeing, Wanderlust may be good but presence of Jennifer Anniston does not bode well.

    Also taken as granted now any film with some shit hip-hop tune as soundtrack is going to be generic...rem..shit.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 9:13:39 AM CST

    Sooo pumped for The Hunger Games

    by pumaman

    ..but that Snow White mess of a film. WTF!!!????

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  • Dec 27, 2011 12:07:41 PM CST

    You're a retard if you think 'Act of Valor' is using real SEALS...

    by judge briggs

    As someone who works along the side of former Navy SEALS and Army Rangers for a major defense contractor, don't believe the 'real SEALS' tag line.

    I showed my colleagues the trailer the other day and they all laughed- especially at the part in which the SEAL catches the falling dude out of the boat.

    After the trailer, a former SEAL imdb'ed the movie and found only 1 former SEAL who was consulted ... the rest of the movie is made by actors.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 1:22:50 PM CST

    Why is it I watch the trailer for This Means War.......

    by velvet_sloane

    .......And I'm reminded somehow of that horror shitefest that is Bridewars?


    What the fuck is Tom Hardy doing in this?

    Ghostrider I'll see, The Grey looks great, and Coriolanus looks outstanding - the rest I'll see about.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 1:25:29 PM CST

    Judge Briggs

    by kgersen

    I'll ignore your retard jibe and say I'm glad to read that if that's the case. The IMDB entry for this film suggests the makers are bullshit-ing wildly.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 1:31:54 PM CST

    Hunger Games? Jonah Hill? Judd Apatow?

    by mrmajestic

    Crap! So no one mentions the white washing for Hunger Games? From a progressive dark skinned lead in the book to an uber-white moon-faced Jennifer Lawrence?

    Good work from Jonah Hill? Are we talking about the same actor/"comedian"? He's a lead now? Dayum being friends with Apatow will make anyone a lead I guess.

    Anxiously awaiting an Apatow directed flick? I mean we all know what we're gonna get; a 2 and half hour "dramedy" that will feel like a 5 hour root-canal.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 1:44:46 PM CST

    The Rock is Rob Schneider?

    by darth macchio

    Hmmm...don't see it myself.

    However, it is true that Will Farrell plays drums in the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. And it's also true that Chad Smith has a quite successful side-career as a comedian with a spot-on George Bush (part 2) impersonation.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 2:03:49 PM CST

    Hmm, Red Tails and safe House looks interesting..

    by stalkeye

    ..so does Hunger Games as I loved the film, Battle Royale. I don't know what to think of Ghost Rider since the first film was extremely disappointing.Oh, and it still has Nic Cage as Blaze?!?

    Marvel shouldv'e scrapped this altogether and made a Moon Knight (Marvel's Batman lol) film instead.

    I mean seriously, do we need to see another GR movie? Who demanded this shit BTW?

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  • Dec 27, 2011 2:04:34 PM CST

    Hawkeye and Gretel? I'll pass.

    by stalkeye

  • Dec 27, 2011 2:08:00 PM CST

    Yes - I want to see a Fincher directed 'Moon Knght'...

    by joaquin_ondamoon

    ...with a script by Charlie Huston, whom I thought had the best run on the comic in ages.

    Surprised no ones snatched up the film rights to his 'Joe Pitt' vampire novels. Those would make Twilight fans shit their glittery shorts.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 2:48:29 PM CST

    @velvet_sloane

    by mugato5150

    WTF is Tom Hardy doing in "This Means War"? I would guess that he's not making the same mistakes that Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson made. He's not fucking around with kids movies in his prime years and he's taking whatever action gigs he can get while he's still young.

    Sure Arnold did Kindergarten Cop but that was after he had the T2 deal wrapped up. Before then he had to pay his dues with Raw Deal and Red Heat.

    Sure Hardy's the bad guy in the new Batman but is anyone going to look at the trailer to another film he's in and say, "Hey, that's that guy with the gimp mask and the fucked up voice from Batman!".

    You have to plan this shit out, even if means you take a role where you pretend you have to fight over Reese Witherspoon.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 2:55:02 PM CST

    Gemma Arterton in tight leather pants?

    by mattman

    Something tells me I might see that...

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  • Dec 27, 2011 3:12:57 PM CST

    RE: "I want to see a Fincher directed 'Moon Knght'..."

    by stalkeye

    Holy shit, you're on to something! Fincher has that tone for suspense that would bode exceptionally well for a MK film. (Good thinking Sir!)

    Marvel need to forgo anymore rehashes and focus on a few Silver Age characters like Nova, Killraven, Deathlok,etc. After all, had it not been for a certain film based on a certain Vampire Hunter who debuted sometime during the 70's, Marvel wouldn't have had the confidence to greelight the following films based on their properties.





    FACT (As Creepythinman would often say.)

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  • Dec 27, 2011 3:28:48 PM CST

    I would let Gina Carrano kick my ass anyday

    by maxcherry

  • by the way he doesn't look sick, he looks normal. He looked sick when he was 100 pounds overweight.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 3:31:25 PM CST

    The trailer for Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance looks good...

    by maxcherry

    The first one sucked and you could tell that by the trailers before it even came out.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 4:29:03 PM CST

    Chronicle and Haywire

    by mr_x_

    Will watch.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 4:46:01 PM CST

    Red Tails

    by tazzman

    The Hunger Games, and John Carter of Arizona.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 6:09:52 PM CST

    I have seen the Phantom Menace 3D trailer on the 3DS...

    by ricarleite4

    ... the conversion IS FUCKING HORRIBLE.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 6:52:54 PM CST

    I love you scratchmonkey

    by deaft0ne

    also, Red Tails looks boring as fuck, just as fucking boring as the actual story about the Tuskegee Airmen. Just because they were the first black fighter pilots does not make it an exciting story. The HBO movie was boring as fuck and this looks to continue that tradition. If they were chinamen or pakis or spanitos it would still be boring as shit.

    Also, as for the crop of crap coming out between now and The Avengers, the only movie that looks even marginally non-retarded is JOHN CARTER WITH SARS. I will probably end up sauntering over to the theater near me that is a 5 minute walk from my place to see it on a drunken Sunday.

    I have no reason to see THE HUNGER LAMES because I already have BATTLE ROYALE on DVD and I can watch that anytime for free. American remakes of Asian films are always shit unless we're talking about Reservoir Dogs or The Magnificent Seven or The Departed.

    Jonah Hill looks like a hemophiliac or a cancer patient or an AIDS patient or all 3 now that he's lost weight. It's fuckin weird.

    I would also pay to see Yoko's bday in imax if it involves an epic gangbang featuring Matt Hughes, Yasmin Lee, and Mint with Harry crying in the background but also egging them on.

    Anyways, fuck the next 4 months.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 6:53:16 PM CST

    Also in regards to Ghost Rider Spirit of Vengeance

    by deaft0ne

    It looks total shit to me and Nic Cage is insisting that 'it's not a sequel, it's a reboot, hahaaaa!' If that's the case then why in the anti-gravity fuck is he playing Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider again and he looks old as shit now? Tobey Maguire is not playing PP/SM in TASM because it's a fucking reboot and Andy Garfield is playing him.

    Michael Keaton/Val Kilmer/George Clooney/Adam West didn't play Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman Begins because it's a fucking reboot. Christian Bale did.

    Nic Cage should realize that a new motherfucking Ghost Rider movie with him in it as JB/GR is going to be regarded by the public as a goddamn shit sequel to a shit first movie no matter what his stupid EXTREME SUPER ACTING ass says.

    If they make a 3rd one keep his dumb ass far away from it please.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 6:53:29 PM CST

    Also Wrath of the Titans looks to be setting a record

    by deaft0ne

    for the quickest remake of a remake in movie history. It even has the same exact cast and looks to have an identical story and shitty cg. Liam Neeson again phoning it in as Zeus and Ralph Fiennes as Hades and Sam Worthington falling out of bed to play a shitty Perseus again.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 6:58:37 PM CST

    now that i've watched all the trailers

    by mr_x_

    the devil inside looks good
    miss bala looks ok
    contraband again looks ok, gone in 60 seconds?
    CORIOLANUS - not my cup of tea
    EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE - not my cup of tea
    Haywire - looks superb
    red tails looks good
    man on a ledge looks ok
    the grey looks ok
    man on a ledge - inside man?
    one for the money - midnight run?
    CHRONICLE - looks superb
    the womna in black looks good
    jouneyr 2. i didnt relaise there was a journey 1 - family flick?
    safehouse - looks bourne
    ACT OF VALOR - Battlefield 3
    ghost rider - look better then the first
    this means war - i really dont know how to catergorise this one.
    wanderlust - no.
    salmon fishing in the yemen - looks ok
    tim and erics billion dollar movie - no although i did chuckle halfway through the trailer. maybe a maybe.
    john cater - not famialiar with this, looks alright though.
    the raven, looks ok
    silent house cant tell
    21 jump street - looks awful
    butter - can't tell
    mirror mirror - looks ok, not for me though
    the hunger games interesting, looks good.
    a thousand words - this is just like liar liar right?

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  • Dec 27, 2011 7:05:24 PM CST

    @mr_incredible RE jonah hill

    by mr_x_

    totally agree

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  • Dec 27, 2011 8:05:14 PM CST

    How many times did Harry end with "Right?"

    by jackslater4

    I mean come on, am I right?

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  • Dec 27, 2011 9:22:16 PM CST

    Mcg, Steven Sodebergh or Mark Walbergh

    by locater16

    I can't decide which is worse or who'm I'd rather see less, but maybe they can team up with current day Michael Bay and collectively disappear into a black hole somewhere.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 9:43:43 PM CST

    locater16, please explain your problem with...

    by powers boothe

    Steven Soderbergh. He does terrific work. Did you watch Contagion, Che or The Informant?

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  • Dec 27, 2011 9:58:14 PM CST

    Looking forward to a few of these...

    by hipshot

    First one will be Red Tails. Action looks great, story is important, and I can't wait to watch the racist assholes crawl out from under their rocks and have coronaries. The fun will be immense.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 10:22:58 PM CST

    YOU are the reason for racists.

    by powers boothe

    Wow, this place never fails to amaze me.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 10:34:41 PM CST

    hipshot is just a tranny's cum-flakes dried on their panties

    by deaft0ne

    and a race-baiting moron. Red Tails looks shit because it is shit. The Tuskegee Airmen story is straight up boring and dry and lame. 20 movies could be made about it and you still end up with boring.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 10:57:42 PM CST

    2012 Movie Season Doesn't Begin Until June 8th

    by raskolnikov_was_framed

    after that it goes pretty much non stop until we all die December 21st

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  • Dec 27, 2011 11:12:57 PM CST

    Perhaps "boring" for you, deaft0ne

    by powers boothe

    But for many others it's a story of significant historical importance. I look forward to it.

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  • Dec 27, 2011 11:48:32 PM CST

    Some of those movies actually look really good!

    by redjester

    Thanks for giving a heads up about them!

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  • Dec 28, 2011 3:48:26 AM CST

    I bet Jonah Hill cant fucking wait until his hair grows out

    by winona_ryders_pussy_juice

    you guys realize he lost weight AND cut his hair short, right?

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  • Dec 28, 2011 7:58:19 AM CST

    golftango, you are so predictable

    by hipshot

    I'm not a race baiter. I'm a RACIST baiter. There is a huge difference. And I do it very deliberately. Most white people, on this site and elsewhere, are good decent folks. And good decent folks want to believe that that's all there is in the world. By commenting on race from time to time I elicit a totally predictable response from troglodytes like you--foaming at the mouth, raving racism, and showing yourselves to be PRECISELY the kind of people the Tuskeegee Airmen were up against. Precisely. Those who would have supported them look at a movie like this as a vindication, a victory over the basest tribal instincts of human beings. You would love for people to stop pointing out racism, because then you could do your trolling in the darkness. But you have nothing, nothing to offer but your cowardice. I go to tons of SF and media conventions. Weaklings like you NEVER talk like this in person, only from the anonymity of the internet. You are dinosaurs in search of a tar pit. I actually don't dislike you at all--love you in fact. HATE your attitude, and the sickness you are inflicted with, and hope you heal and join the human race. Seriously, dude. Heal your heart. Your fear of the future is leaking all over your shoes. I hope 2012 is a better year for you than 2011, because anyone so filled with hate has to have a very shallow, unhappy life. But--thanks for helping me make my point! God, I enjoy you!
    ##
    To 90% of the white people out there--please note what lurks among you. Don't be fooled. Behind the mask is the same terror of the Outsider that has driven war and cruelty for thousands of years.

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  • Dec 28, 2011 8:03:18 AM CST

    I couldn't watch THE GREY trailer

    by asimovlives

    the blurbs were very anoying.

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  • Dec 28, 2011 8:05:34 AM CST

    Privately, I think Golftango

    by hipshot

    Is a card-carrying member of the Black Panthers who engages in performance art, trying to make white people look bad. While I guess your heart's in the right place, please, please leave our white brothers with a bit of dignity. Give them more credit than trying to make us believe that are quite THAT ignorant and easy to manipulate. Most of them really are lovely people, kind and intelligent. Only a tiny percentage are the kind of morally bankrupt, emotionally stunted intellectual midgets you pretend to be. Even real racists aren't that easy to bait. I'm sure you're trying to help, but...dial it down a notch, o.k?

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  • Dec 28, 2011 9:09:03 AM CST

    Golftangofoxtrot

    by d.vader

    If you haven't seen anyone on the talkbacks, and I mean all of them, not just this one, say anything racist, then maybe you've just been in the right places. Because trust me, it does happen.

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  • Dec 28, 2011 10:00:02 AM CST

    Dinosaurs in search of a tar pit...

    by pink_apocalypse

    I lol'd, that's a good one! I'm going to be borrowing that one, Hip.

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  • Dec 28, 2011 11:33:53 AM CST

    I see casual racism, sexism and homophobia in...

    by powers boothe

    quite a few of these Talkbacks. It's depressing. This site is pretty shoddy but the Talkbacks are lots of fun. I love movies and I love reading what people have to say about them. I don't enjoy the hostility. I usually avoid articles on this site about Red Tails because the predictable Lucas-hate on
    the internet bores me to tears.

    BTW: Lucas didn't write or direct Red Tails :)


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  • Dec 28, 2011 11:44:42 AM CST

    Red Tails was made by a man who has...

    by powers boothe

    directed episodes of Fringe, Battlestar Galactica, True Blood and The Wire. I'm fine with those credentials :)





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  • Dec 28, 2011 1:54:52 PM CST

    The ones I am looking forward to (from this list):

    by lv_426

    Red Tails

    Haywire

    The Grey


    Man On A Ledge and The Woman In Black have peaked my interest too. I love both a good caper and ghost stories. So maybe these two will be worth checking out?

    Act of Valor looks interesting, if for anything I am curious to see how it turns out knowing that most of it was shot with HD DSLR cameras like the Canon 5DmkII. The trailer's image quality looked good on the big screen when it played before MI: Ghost Protocol. Also, the Act of Valor trailer played right before the one for the next G.I. Joe movie. That odd juxtaposition of trailers really made the G.I. Joe trailer look extremely silly and inauthentic in terms of both films being about military subjects.

    The Hunger Games seems like it might be worth a watch. If not in the theater, I'd certainly rent it with no problem.

    Same with John Carter, if only for the designs and a trip to a retro sci-fi Mars (Barsoom). I think John Carter does feel a bit off though, at least compared to how I always imagined it would look on film.

    Mirror Mirror and 21 Jump Street look like train wrecks. Especially 21 Jump Street, as Mirror Mirror I can at least excuse for aiming for a younger audience being that it is Snow White and all.

    21 Jump Street looks so lame and just by the numbers bad. I am actually flabbergasted by how bad it looks. And the skinny Jonah Hill isn't helping. Dude looks strange now that he isn't fat. But kudos to him for loosing the weight and being healthier. That is certainly not a bad thing.

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  • Dec 28, 2011 1:58:06 PM CST

    Safehouse

    by lv_426

    Can someone tell me when Denzel Washington is going to stop playing the "I know all and the rest of you folks are retards" type of omnipotent bad ass character he always plays nowadays?

    Seriously, it is getting annoying.

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  • Dec 28, 2011 2:06:50 PM CST

    This Means War

    by lv_426

    Can someone tell me who still likes these types of light pastel colored action-romantic-comedies?

    About the only time this type of thing has worked was with True Lies, and even then... a waste of Jim Cameron's time when he could have been making a bit historical epic (no, not Titanic, something else) or awesome sci-fi/action. Even better yet, a proper Terminator 3 set during the future war.

    Anyways, stuff like Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Bounty Hunter, Knight and Day, and Killers. This whole action-romantic-comedy subgenre seems kinda odd to me.

    Seriously, I want to know.

    What is the appeal with these films? Are we waiting for another True Lies type of film like this that actually works? Do we see potential in this subgenre?

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  • Dec 28, 2011 2:12:34 PM CST

    Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters / The Raven

    by lv_426

    Literary mash-ups.



    Please stop making these Hollywood.





    Please.




    Stop.


































    That's all I got.

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  • A WEREWOLF HUNTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Dec 28, 2011 2:15:49 PM CST

    Another one... Rip Van Winkle wakes up in the far future

    by lv_426

    AND ENLISTS IN THE ROYAL SPACE MARINES AND FIGHTS AGAINST GIANT EVIL SPACE BUGS IN A GALACTIC SPACE BUG WAR!!!!!!!!!!!!



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  • TO FIGHT A MASSIVE ARMY OF ZOMBIES!!!!!!

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  • AND THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST OCCURS ON THE EVE OF A MASSIVE EARTHWIDE ALIEN INVASION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!












    The Anti Christ would then be an advanced alien sleeper agent that looks human, sent forth many years before the space demon invasion to infiltrate human society and distract us by creating all kinds of bullshit like our currently fucked up political system, the recession, and Justin Bieber.

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  • A professional Hollywood agent or a drunken Leprechaun?

    Mysterious Island looks to be the worst out of the above batch of trailers. Holy hell. Mirror Mirror looks like a fucking masterpiece next to this one.

    I think I am in shock.

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  • Is Wrath of the Titans a remake of Clash of the Titans?

    I haven't seen Clash, and I thought Wrath was a sequel.

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  • a movie produced by George Lucas and the geekry in here are tradin g insults on the subject of racism? you should should be all vomiting insults at how you think how awful the SW prequels are and what an evil man George Lucas is. that's how it works, you geekoids! get back on the program!

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  • Dec 28, 2011 3:00:32 PM CST

    by lv_426: "I haven't seen Clash" OH LUCKY MAN!!!

    by asimovlives

    Sure, there's Gemma anterton to look at, always a good thing. and Madds Mikklesen playing a bad ass. But those things are not enough to erase the utter shittiness that fucking movie is. the movie is so bad, i had to check it again if Michael Bay or JJ Abrams hadn't directed it, because it sure loked like. It's not just that the movie is pretty dumb and idiotic, it's also that IT DOENS'T MAKE A FUCKING LICK OF SENSE WHATSOEVER! Like a Bay or Abrams movie, then, hence my confusion.

    Fuck was that movie stupid!

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  • Dec 28, 2011 3:09:53 PM CST

    Asi, on Clash of the Titans...

    by d.vader

    It didn't make one lick of sense, but even Michael Bay movies and JJ Abrams' films have more narrative logic and consistency of character than that movie did. You've got to come up with a better insult than constantly falling back on those two guys. Because in this case, you're wrong.

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  • Dec 28, 2011 3:11:05 PM CST

    Harry read a book?

    by redmule

    Not really meant as an insult, I just can't imagine Harry sitting down and investing time in a novel instead of putting on another movie.

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  • Dec 28, 2011 3:14:57 PM CST

    It's wierd but, after Haywire and The Grey, I think I'm most excited for

    by alan_grant_lives

    21 Jump Street, of all those trailers. Usually something like that would give me a facepalm, but I can't help but find the thing very funny and charming from that edit.

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  • ...I guess Seattle had to re-appear in a film contained with something other than gay vampires.

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  • and instead just went with the premise of three friends gaining superpowers and how that effects their friendship. Does it tear them apart, make them grow stronger as a trio of friends, or something else entirely?

    What if the film took place over a few decades instead of just in the limited time period that this seems to occur in due to being a found footage film? Start it in high school, give them their powers, and then show them as they become adults, and maybe parents. So not only how does this affect their friendship, but how do they deal with it as they age and mature? That could be really interesting in a more down to earth, almost Unbreakable sort of way. What if they don't become superheroes like in the comic books? Maybe they realize they need to keep their powers unknown to the world? Maybe they keep it as a secret between the three of them, because it they blabbed about it to the media, the military and government would try and take them as guinea pigs and study them to replicate these awesome powers? That is at least somewhat different.

    I mean, imagine Spielberg channeling his E.T. mojo and making a film out of this basic premise. Wouldn't have to be Spielberg, but you get the idea.

    Now something along those lines, that could be interesting.

    Instead, it looks too much like all the other found footage films. It feels extremely generic. It looks like AKIRA-lite filtered through found footage film gimmickry.

    Also, the whole found footage thing, to me, feels less authentic than just shooting the story as a normal movie using normal cinematic style and technique. I thought the whole point of found footage was to make it feel like it really happened, as if it were a documentary or raw unedited clips off a camcorder tape or memory card. Too bad that doesn't really work with these types of films, because the methodology draws too much attention to the whole style and technique, and thus makes it feel like a sham in the first place.

    The best use of the camcorder/found footage style of shooting is in stuff like RoboCop (fake news segments that give exposition or worldbuilding info), or in District 9 at the beginning where it starts out like a documentary or news piece, and then turns into a normal movie.

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  • I mean, why even do a found footage film if the technique isn't suited enough to the story to not tempt you from deviating from it?

    At least with something like Cloverfield, it looked rough and tumble enough to feel like off the cuff footage shot by some poor dude with a camera unlucky enough to be underfoot of a giant monster.

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  • Dec 28, 2011 5:35:42 PM CST

    golftango...

    by hipshot

    I said I can't wait for the racists to pop up, and you immediately obliged. Hey, I didn't single you out. You singled yourself out. It was certainly predictable, given the countless other comments you've made, but that's fine.

    All you had to do was look away, or assume I wasn't talking about you...but you really couldn't, could you?

    I don't "cry racism" at everything. I call racism when people specifically make racist comments. That's it. Then of course, you try the old "mirror" technique and say that makes me a racist. I say again: racism is the belief that one group is superior to another based on ethnicity. I can state with 100% clarity that in no way shape or form do I think white people are special in any way, positive or negative. They're just people. Period. Children of God like everyone else.

    And there's no way in hell I think you could say something like that without choking.

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  • Dec 28, 2011 5:58:19 PM CST

    Chronicle has a cool poster

    by bass ackwards

    The poster where with the far off shot of the 3 boys flying, that's almos artful.

    Also, from the trailer it seems the movie must abandon the found footage format at some point, that or it really will be working hard to stretch the home camera use. Two shots I'm specifically thinking of are the one of the kid Isflying and the one where they are in the car and he pushes the redneck off the road, those seem less found footage (the latter simply because the camera seemingly shifts perspective a couple of times in the car and when they get out of the car, though I suppose in the film there can be lots of "hey, take the camera while I do this").

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  • Dec 28, 2011 9:45:20 PM CST

    Excited for Chef Goldblum in Tim&Eric and The Grey.

    by sirgarycoleman

    The rest, I don't remember the rest..

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  • Dec 29, 2011 10:14:24 AM CST

    Thousand Word trailer voice guy only voices bad movies

    by doubleh55

    Ever notice the trailer voice guy who did Thousand Words is the same trailer voice guy on every horrible movie that has been made in the past five years?

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  • Dec 29, 2011 10:47:36 AM CST

    The only thing that looks good...

    by cdubya1971

    Is Haywire.

    Everything else looks terrible, esp Ghostrider and Mirror Mirror. When will Hollywood wake up? I have a feeling Hunger Games is gonna be crap, even with that "cast"

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  • Dec 29, 2011 1:21:25 PM CST

    Helllllooooooo does anybody still work here?????

    by zdog22

  • Dec 29, 2011 1:44:26 PM CST

    oh god how could I miss Tim and Eric?

    by alan_grant_lives

    Tim and Eric, Haywire, and The Grey seem like the highlights here.

    Quite drawn to Chronicle too.

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  • Dec 29, 2011 1:45:42 PM CST

    and anything David Wain is involved in

    by alan_grant_lives

  • Dec 30, 2011 8:00:36 AM CST

    The Rock's gotta eat.

    by _nerfee_

    Though he has to cook first, obviously.

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  • Dec 30, 2011 1:47:33 PM CST

    Fuck Harry, JOURNEY 2..?

    by flynn-lives

    What did they promise you?

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  • Harry, once for all. Stop.Lying. It's bad.Lying is bad.

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  • It's not a matter of personal preference on this one. McTeigue's V for Vendetta was one of the stupidest, poorly directed pieces of shit ever produced. I really hate when people gush over that movie because I have no idea what fucking film they watched.

    Seriously, did McTeigue even fucking care? Did he even bother to show up on set? Hell! They could have just skipped hiring a director all together and just let the first AD tell the actors were to go alone with backgroun...... Oh that's right.

    Well, I'm sure he was a great first AD.

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  • Dec 31, 2011 10:19:14 AM CST

    Also Miss Bala

    by dr_pepperspray

    Looks and sounds great. Most people here will over-look it simply because it's a foreign movie and about Mexico.

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  • Jan 01, 2012 3:56:53 PM CST

    Jonah Hill has been consistently doing great work.

    by pinkfloyd7

    Seriously? The dude has no range whatseover. He always plays himself. And did you forget about "Allen Gregory"? If not the worst, one of the most annoying shows I've seen on TV.

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  • Jan 02, 2012 10:49:56 AM CST

    3 Propaganda Films! Great!

    by youarebeingliedto

    Let's see-

    one an outright shilling for the military and its neo-imperialist actions...gotta keep providing money for defense related actions and get people pumped for the coming war with Iran!

    another one showing the CIA all cute and cuddly! surveillance and drones are funny! they are the good guys, they never imported drugs into American cities or overthrew democratically-elected foregin governments

    and yes, another one showing how dangerous wolves are! of course, the last recorded death in america by a wolf was in 1888, but who cares? they are vicious animals.

    keep shilling, harry, you're wonderful

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  • Jan 03, 2012 12:16:11 PM CST

    Who is Jonah Hill blowing?

    by myphdisdoom

    He's pretty HORRIBLE in everything he's in. Then he keeps getting credit for Moneyball... Um did anyone who says that watch the movie? Moneyball was good because it worked around his performance. He was out of place and horrible. Now hopefully because he got skinny to be in action movies he'll just vanish.

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  • Jan 03, 2012 4:57:08 PM CST

    Mr. & Mrs. Smith + menage a trois = This Means War

    by army_of_me

  • Jan 03, 2012 6:24:56 PM CST

    FYI HANSEL AND GRETEL....FALL 2012

    by gqsioux

    IT HAS BEEN PUSHED TO TBD FALL 2012....

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  • Jan 05, 2012 5:54:03 AM CST

    Phantom Menace also has "limited 2D release"

    by mrbong

    at least that's what it says on the poster, along with a huge Darth Maul and no sign of Qui-Gon at all.

    just hope that the "limited" is not deliberate to make the 3D box office look better. really, the sooner the 3D novelty goes away the better.

    quite happy that this is coming back on, really. sure, TPM is no masterpiece, but it is nowhere near as bad as some people believe. the good bits outweigh the bad, even if they are not just enough to make the film a truly great one.

    either way, really strange to see no mention of it.

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