This Year's Movies

[HR-Trevor]

I was reading an article by Stephen King for EW where he went over what he predicts to be hits and flops this summer. And it pointed out a movie I had forgotten about until I saw it mentioned.

Stealth has to be worst idea for a movie this year, maybe this decade, and maybe ever. The concept is that an advanced warplane is fitted to carry a powerful arsenal of weapons and fly by itself so no pilot is needed. Supposedly because our pilots are so at risk blah blah and why let pilots die if you can have a computer do the dirty work?

Of course the next step in the movie is very predictable. The plane magically obtains "awareness" and enhanced AI and begins thinking for itself. And of course it decides it wants to bomb things. Furthermore, of course it decides it doesn't just want to bomb empty fields, or even enemy countries, no it wants to bomb major U.S. cities.

The trailer of course didn't get into details that surpass even the ridiculous concept of instant self-awareness, like how this plane would refuel, how it would re-arm, and how it apparently doesn't need repair. I guess the movie will ask us to believe an artifically intelligent plane wouldn't go dropping its weapons immediately at select targets, rather it would lie in wait somewhere like a normal predator until it got hungry, then go bomb something.

So this is the desperation we've reached to scrape money up at the box office. It's a sad state of affairs. I don't know about you, but to me movies like this make things like Herbie: Fully Loaded, The Pink Panther, and The Dukes of Hazzard seem like sure Oscar winners.
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[Brokyn]

At least the original Pink Panther movies were great. Stupid humor, but great nonetheless.

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[HR-Beau]

Maybe I can win an Oscar now. I've never been in the movies, but at this point, isn't that a plus?
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[HR-Mickey]

The Dukes of Hazzard will never be the Dukes of Hazzard without the voiceover of Waylon Jennings.
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[the blue fairy]

Im soooooo looking forward to the remake of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, War of the Worlds doesnt look to bad either. Also want to see Mr. and Mrs. Smith although I doubt it will be real huge.
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[HR-Beau]

Narnia should be AWESOME. Mr and Mrs Smith looks excellent as does War of the Worlds. Those are on my To see list. I might even go see Star Wars 3, but I hear the acting is so bad.
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[Brokyn]

Nobody goes to a Star Wars flick for the acting. It's always about the special effects.

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[HR-Faith]

I was at first dismayed to find out they were remaking Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). What a classic! Then I found out they'd cast Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. He's probably the only actor who could pull off the part Gene Wilder immortalized believably, so I'm at least going to go see it when it is released.
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[Brokyn]

Also, Batman Begins and Superman Returns are both assured to be flops.

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[HR-Drake]

You people are way too picky. When I go to see a movie, I sit back and enjoy it, regardless if there's a few bad glitches or whatever. I personally thought Star Wars 3 was awesome, it connected the bits and pieces from 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 together almost flawlessly, and the acting was NOT that bad. Of course the special effects were pretty amazing.

I do wanna see Mr. and Mrs. Smith, War of the Worlds, and Madagascar (which is out now, but I already saw a movie this week ), but I'm most looking forward to the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe at the end of this year.. the trailer for it at the theatre almost brought a tear to my eye.
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[HR-Beau]

This Charlie and the Chocolate factory should be nothing like the original movie. I'm just glad the original front runner for Willy Wonka was not cast: Marilyn Manson. I mean, I know its supposed to be creepy, but that's way TOO creepy.
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[the blue fairy]

ahh yes I forgot Willy Wonka, looking forward to watching that with my daughter since she refused to watch the original.

Also looking forward to watching the new Harry Potter with my nephew
gotta love having kids to use as an excuse
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people who expect movies to be good expect too much.
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