2008 Movies

[Micah 16]

A staff member and I were talking about all of the incredible movies coming out in 2008. And trust me, if you thought this year or last year had a large number of sequels, wait until the year 2008 comes!

Movie list:

One Missed Call

Pride & Glory

27 Dresses

The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie 

First Sunday

Funny Games

How She Moves

Untraceable

Prom Night

Case 39

Fool's Gold

The Better Man

Made of Honor

Jumper

Babylon A.D.

Semi-Pro

The Spiderwick Chronicles (the movie)

The Ruins

College

Horton Hears a Who!

Spring Breakdown

10,000 BC

Walk Hard

Inkheart

21

They Came From Upstairs

Be Kind Rewind

Superhero!

The Greatest Escape

Wanted

Drillbit Taylor

Iron Man

The Day the Earth Stood Still (remake by Speilberg)

Speed Racer (the movie)

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Indiana Jones 4

Starship Dave (Eddie Murphy)

Kung Fu Panda

The Incredible Hulk (the sequel)

The Mummy 3: Curse of the Dragon

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

Saw V

Bond 22 (of the Bond movie series)

Madagascar 2: The Lost Island

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Star Trek (the movie)

24

The Brazilian Job (sequel to the Italian Job)

Fear Effect

Goal 3

The Grudge 3

Hannibal The Conqueror

Jurassic Park IV

Lincoln

Meg

The Munsters

Sin City 2

Smurfs (the movie)

Halo (the movie)

Scary Movie 5

World War Z

When a Stranger Calls 2

Wolverine (sequel of X-Men)

That's truly many sequels! And I'm sure there's still more out there too!

So what are your thoughts and which movies might you see?

Edit: Okie doke, I posted as many videos and hyperlinks as possible.

Sorry for the really strange errors.

[Easy Bakes 253]

WAY to many Sequels that do not to be made.

[daniel01 0]

wow more great movies to come out next year can't wait

[Voar Tok 4]

The Day the Earth Stood Still

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Indiana Jones 4 (maybe)

The Mummy 3: Curse of the Dragon

Madagascar 2: The Lost Island

Star Trek (the movie)

Jurassic Park IV

Meg

Halo (duh!)

Scary Movie 5

Now, for 2008 to get here.

[coolotter88 2]

bond 22 *nods*

[hamsterTK 93]

I hope Bond 22 is good, Casino Royale wasnt my favorite

[GingerBlokey 30]

Yawn!!

I hate sequels

[Easy Bakes 253]

Their Remaking Star Trek 1?

[Micah 16]

Actually, it's believe that the next Star Trek will be after (in Star Trek time) the events of Star Trek: Enterprise and before the events of the original Star Trek series. It may be the Earth-Romulan War.

[Cjah 15]

ATHF made a movie and Hot Fuzz came out....normally i never go to the movies twice a year...

not even Scary Movie makes me want to visit a local teather...sequals are boring....

[Deever 23]

Well, they plan to start a new trilogy for Terminator, according to this article. They're still working on the script but I don't know if it's coming out on 2007 or 2008, or if it is even coming out at all. I sure hope it does.

[Micah 16]

Ah! You're totally right. I read that on MetaCafe. They're also creating Men in Black III.

[SpecialEddie 3]

*sigh* Sequels and remakes...

Hollywood has nothing original coming out of it anymore.

[Elton_Bush 0]

I tend to find that sequals aren't always as good as the originals but i think some of these will be good

[Cjah 15]

Originally posted by: SpecialEddie

*sigh* Sequels and remakes...

Hollywood has nothing original coming out of it anymore.

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Exactly...which is why i like films from other places....

[Cjah 15]

Originally posted by: SpecialEddie

*sigh* Sequels and remakes...

Hollywood has nothing original coming out of it anymore.

quote>

 

Exactly...which is why i like films from other places....

[Barbarossa 51]

Hollywood has lost its ability to be creative. All it can do is recycle old plots, or resurrect films that were perfect the first time. I see the same thing happening in music... my lord, someone actually remade a Cure song!

Barbarossa

[screamingman12 30]

The Brazillian Job sounds interesting.

[dralin321 0]

WHAT!!!! Speilberg is remaking THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL??? My god, if its a movie speilberg is involved its gotta be good. Transformers and War of the worlds are one of the best ones i have seen him involved in. cant wait!!!!!

[SpecialEddie 3]

Originally posted by: dralin321 Transformers and War of the worlds are one of the best ones i have seen him involved in.

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Are you on anti-depressants? Transformers one of the best Spielberg-involved films?

You probably haven't seen a lot of his films. Off the top of my head, I can name Jaws, Close Encounters, 1941, Indiana Jones (all three), E.T., Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, etc. as his best films. 

And the best he's done this decade are A.I. (underrated IMO), Minority Report, The Terminal, and Munich. War of the Worlds, maybe.

But Transformers= 

[The_Dalai_Llama 15]

Hmm... a few originals, a lot of sequels, plenty of remakes, and some movies based on TV shows of past and present... Hollywood has completely lost it.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Although Steve Correl as Maxwell Smart was some good casting.

[Ratieya455 1]

Why on earth are they making a Smurfs movie? I hope it isn't live action.

[Micah 16]

But Transformers= quote>

If you can believe it, they're planning on a second and possible third live-action sequel for Transformers.

[mencc1701 0]

There are definitely too many sequels and franchises, though I can't deny that I'm looking forwards to The Dark Knight, Star Trek, Bond 22 and Indy 4. Most of the others, though? Couldn't care less.

[SpecialEddie 3]

Originally posted by: Micah

But Transformers= quote>

If you can believe it, they're planning on a second and possible third live-action sequel for Transformers.quote>

 

Of course. They have to make money and sell toys. 

But the films I'm looking forward to next year (but I'm not sure how it can top 2007--great year, box office wise):

-Speed Racer  (I hate anime, but I grew up watching reruns on CN). 

-Sin City 2

-The Dark Knight (duh)

-Indy Jones 4

-That wizard kid with the thing on his head

-and Jurassic Park 4 (God, I hope they don't butcher it). 

From that list, you can probably figure out my movie preferences and tastes.

[GingerBlokey 30]

I have just read through the list again and not a single film calls out to me. American cinema sucks atm. I would rather watch a British or Bollywood film.

[Kotztopf 1]

Hmm... not very promising, if you'd ask me... i didn't knew there was already a SAW 4 , and scary movie has lost it's humor since the second part ,i can only hope that it won't be as bland and boring as the other ones...

[GingerBlokey 30]

Originally posted by: dralin321 Transformers and War of the worlds are one of the best ones i have seen him involved in. cant wait!!!!!quote>

I am sincerley worried that wasn't sarcasm. How can you call War of the Worlds a good film. It was crap. They took and amazing book, set in the British town of Guildford, moved it to the US added some short-ass actor and spent millions on it. How can you compare that to such marvels as Schindler's List, Indiana Jones or Saving Private Ryan. All amazingly deep films, well two of them.

On a different note a channel here called Film4 is having a season of "New Hollywood" films from the early 00s and late 90s which was argubly a golden period in American cinema but looking at this years releases it has been going downhill. They all have a number on the end. I mean come on! I would love another classy film like Feris Bullers Day Off, The Breakfast Club or another really uplifting high school film because all the recent films about high school have been chick-flicks. Yawn. Im also looking forward to a British film based on the His Dark Materials triology.

[The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz 27]

Having watched the preview for it several times, I am hugely anticipating Cloverfield (or 1-18-08). Both these are code names, the real name of the film hasn't been released yet, but if you went to see Transformers you apparently saw a preview for it.

War of the Worlds is one of my favourite sci-fi films, the action was incredible and I found the characters very realistic (especcially the girl who kept screaming...), and in my opinion it will be remembered for a long time. I don't see how you don't like it. Oh, so it wasn't set in the UK, oh, so the actor was short. These are trivial things, and they are grossly outweighed by the quality of the film.

Looking forward to a new bond film, too!