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Post by moniker on Oct 8, 2005 10:02:17 GMT -5
I'm sick and stuck inside for this crappy ass rainy weekend. So, I thought, what better time to post what I'm looking forward to when the rain stops and the snow begins... to turn into nasty black stuff on the streets of New York City.
Here is a short list of movies I am looking forward to seeing this fall/winter:
The Squid and the Whale [already out]
Good Night, and Good Luck [already out]
Memoirs of a Geisha
RENT!
What are you looking forward to from the fall/winter movie season?
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Post by MW on Oct 8, 2005 13:03:09 GMT -5
I'm looking forward to:
Shopgirl (been meaning to read the book, never got around to it)
Jarhead
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
and of course,
King Kong
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Post by BG on Oct 9, 2005 11:53:18 GMT -5
I'm still fairly cautious about the Narnia movies. I mean the director of Shrek? Sure Peter Jackson was the director or Dead Alive and The Frighteners, but I'm not expecting lightning to strike twice here. But King Kong....oh man! Oh man oh man! Watch all the production diaries! www.kongisking.net |
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Post by MW on Oct 9, 2005 14:07:12 GMT -5
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe looks pretty good from the trailer. And I love those books, so I'm at least going to try to be excited for it.
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Post by moniker on Oct 10, 2005 11:15:07 GMT -5
Really? I was creeped out by the whole idea of the Narnia stuff as a kid [well, and Pinnochio, The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, etc.-- apparently, I was a very frightened child]. Since then I've pretty much written it off, perhaps it is worth looking into again?
Does it have something to do with Christianity? I vaguely remember something about God and Narnia, but I forget.
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Post by MW on Oct 10, 2005 18:37:06 GMT -5
The religious/allegorical stuff is there is if you want it to be. But then, it's there in the Lord of the Rings too (C.S. Lewis and Tolkien were actually close friends and were both bigtime adherents to the Catholic Church).
Personally, I just think they're excellent fantasy books.
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Post by moniker on Nov 17, 2005 16:24:14 GMT -5
Release dates! In case you haven't picked up this week's Entertainment Weekly, here are the release dates of movies I really want to see:
Dec. 2
Aeon Flux
Dec. 9
Brokeback Mountain
Chronicles of Narnia
Memoirs of a Geisha
Dec. 14
King Kong
Dec. 25
Rumor Has It
And of course, playing this weekend are Walk the Line and Harry Potter
Yay winter movies! The best movie season of the year!
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Post by BG on Nov 18, 2005 21:18:53 GMT -5
I'm so ridiculously looking forward to this movie, it's a little scary. But I love Peter Jackson, and I really love 1930s pulp stories, so this is the perfect blend. Aeon Flux I'm still very....I don't think there's actually a word that describes how I feel. I'm curious, yet ambivalent, and vaguely put off. I only watched a little of the show, and I wonder if the movie will be that fucked up, too. Memoirs of a Geisha is one of those things that my college classes have ensured that I will never be able to enjoy. Does anyone else have things like that? A class where you study some creative work and tear it to shreds through analysis that renders you unable to ever enjoy it on any level? As it was, I only wanted to enjoy it on the "Zhang Ziyi is really hot" level, but if I ever tried to watch it, I'd just be analyzing everything. |
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