the boy who lived to watch movies

Randomness, movie edition:

I saw Harry Potter today. See my review here...I was all excited to go see Harry Potter cuz I thought I would get to see the first glimpse of The Dark Knight Rises, but they didn't show the teaser trailer at my showing. WTF!...I really hope Madonna's W.E. does well. critically more so than commercially. I want her to prove people wrong. It's supposed to open in a limited run in December for the Oscars. That's a good sign...Horrible Bosses. I don't need a movie. I get to see it everyday, in 3D no less. Actually I do want to see it, just to compare notes...Please people stop watching Transformers. Which is more obnoxious - Michael Bay's directing, Shia LaBeouf, or the robots?...Crazy Stupid Love is a win, if for nothing but having Ryan Gosling and Marisa Tomei in the same film. Which means Ides Of March also wins...Aside from Horrible Bosses and Crazy Stupid Love, for the rest of summer I am still looking forward to Captain America and Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. I mentioned this before, but I do have an aversion for talking apes. Fortunately as far as I can tell, the apes in Rise do not talk; they just destroy. Cool...2012 of course is really the year to wait for. Sure, we got a little thing called the apocalypse which would spell the end of the world as we know it, but we also got Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit, The Avengers, Spider-Man reboot with Andrew Garfield, and Superman reboot with Henry Cavill. I mean, just the thought of getting to revisit Middle Earth in a year and a half is more excitment than this boy can bare. I am about to combust with anticipation. Please don't let it suck. Actually I need more than that - I need it to be freaking brilliant...But before we get to next year, we still have Oscar baits to look forward to this year. There is much buzz on Warhorse (Spielberg film based on play based on novel, about a boy and his horse and World War I), J. Edgar (Leonardo DiCaprio as Hoover), A Dangerous Method (Cronenberg film with Magneto Fassbender as Jung and Viggo Aragorn as Freud and Kiera Knightley as a crazy patient), We Bought A Zoo (return of Cameron Crowe), The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (English remake by David Fincher - not sure that it's really necessary), Drive (Ryan Gosling in action thriller that made big splash at Cannes this year), Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock in film adaption of Jonathan Safran Foer post-9/11 novel), and the previously mentioned Ides Of March. Wonder which one of these will end up being The Social Network (the deserved winner for Best Pic) and which one will pull A King's Speech (upset winner for a better Oscar campaign)...Anyways, Harry Potter made a bucketload of money this weekend, surpassing The Dark Knight as the biggest opener ever...And one more thing - 2004 was the year that Before Sunset came out. Nine years from 2004 would be 2013. So I just want to put Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater on notice that they better get working on a script and freeing up their schedule next year. Just saying...