Every January I whip through the new year’s release schedule and come up with a list of movies I want to see. I’ll see more movies than the ones on this list, but these are the ones I plan on seeing. You can pretty well guarantee I’ll be reviewing them here too.
Here’s the list of movies sorted by American release dates. I’ve also broken them down into four categories of how excited I am.
Movies I’m Very Excited About
Deadpool Feb-12 (cautiously optimistic.)
10 Cloverfield Lane Mar-11 (VERY pumped to see this!)
Batman Superman Mar-25 (Can’t wait for this!)
Jungle Book Apr-15
Captain America Civil War May-06
Snowden May-13
The Nice Guys May-20 (Awesome Alpha movie, written by one of the best in the business.)
X-Men Apocalypse May-27
The Purge 3 Jul-01 (Frank Grillo’s in it again! Yay!)
Tarzan Jul-01
Suicide Squad Aug-05 (VERY excited.)
Doctor Strange Nov-04
Star Wars Rogue One Dec-16 (I will like this way better than Force Awakens.)
Assassin’s Creed Dec-21
Movies I’m Mildly Excited About
13 Hours Jan-13
Gods of Egypt Feb-26
Hail Caesar Feb-05
Warcraft Jun-10 (I want it to be good, but eh…not sure.)
Star Trek Beyond Jul-22
Bourne 5 Jul-29
Jack Reacher 2 Oct-21 (Tom Cruise is on an incredible roll; I’ve never seen anything like it.)
Movies I’m Curious About
Zoolander 2 Feb-12 (Looks stupid but I’ll probably enjoy it.)
The Huntsman Apr-22
Alice Through The Looking Glass May-27
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Jun-03 (I grew up with those damn things, so…)
Now You See Me 2 Jun-10
Finding Dory Jun-17 (Fuck you, I liked Finding Nemo, okay? And I want to see more sharks with Australian accents.)
Independence Day 2 Jun-24 (I’m hoping this will be good, but it’s 50/50.)
Gambit Oct-07
Movies I May Not Like But Will See Anyway Because I’m A Big Dork
London Has Fallen Mar-04 (Hated the first one.)
The BFG Jul-01
Ghostbusters Jul-15 (It’s now a chick flick. Sigh. But I have to admit that Melissa McCarthy is funny and Kate Mckinnon is, by far, the most talented female comedian in the business right now, so I’ll give it a shot.)
Mechanic Resurrection Aug-26 (First one was lame, but Jason Statham’s in it so I’m required by Action Movie God to go see it.)
The Infiltrator Aug-31
The Magnificent Seven Sep-23
Underworld 5 Oct-14 (She’s gettin’ pretty old now but mmmmmm I don’t care.)
Inferno Oct-28
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David
Posted at 05:46 am, 25th January 2016Quite a solid list there Caleb. Definitely plan to see many of those myself.
– 10 Cloverfield Lane – J.J. was sneaky with this one. Doing all that fancy work on Star Wars, while pulling the strings to get this one off the ground. Interested to see where that story goes.
– BvS: Dawn of Justice – ONLY 2 MONTHS!
– The Nice Guys – very intrigued by this as well. Did you see “Kiss, Kiss; Bang, Bang”? Loved RDJ and Val Kilmer in that one.
– The Purge 3 – Didn’t know they were doing a third one. But glad to see Frank coming back. He owned the second one.
– Doctor Strange – After seeing Cumberbatch in the Sorcerer Supreme’s garb, I’m sold 100%.
– TMNT 2 – I’m with ya. I grew up watching that show every Saturday morning, so it’s for the nostalgia. Hoping Stephen Amell can bring some added cool factor to it with his portrayal of Casey Jones.
– Underworld 5 – I’ll see anything with Kate Beckinsale in black leather. Rrrrgh!
Look forward to all your reviews.
Netbug
Posted at 08:36 am, 25th January 2016A few that I’m surprised aren’t on the list in some capacity:
“Hail, Caesar!” looks to be very smart and funny.
“The Accountant” also looks promising.
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” seems to be a fun period zombie flick.
“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny” should have some beautifully choreographed action pieces.
“The Wave” (Norwegian action film)
-“Mechanic: Resurrection” brings Statham back to the role and should be a decent action flick.
-“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them” though I’m not sure if you like the Harry Potter series.
“Gods of Egypt” looks dumber than a box of hammers; it’s like they took a bunch of grade-B video game cut-scenes and stuck them together, but hopefully I’m wrong. The trailers were laughably bad, but Alex Proyas can be forgiven for a lot of things for giving us “Dark City.”
I don’t think it’s fair to call “Ghostbusters” a chick-flick unless you’re going to call “Spy” a chick-flick. Paul Feig has a great eye for comedy and the cast they have is great (and Chris Hemsworth in the secretary role should be hilarious). I’m excited and hopeful about this one.
As for WarCraft… I’m both incredibly excited and worried. “Moon” and “Source Code” were both great sci-fi films and Blizzard has never released anything that wasn’t amazing (even scrapping games that have been worked on for years because they didn’t meet the incredibly high-standards they set). They have a LOT of control in the movie, so hopefully it will break the “video-game movie” curse. I’m far more worried about the “Assassin’s Creed” adaptation than “WarCraft” (the director, Justin Kurzel, isn’t known for much yet and it seems like they’re just looking to make it for a quick buck since they’re not releasing an AC game in 2016).
Caleb Jones
Posted at 10:11 am, 25th January 2016Yes. Shane Black is the man and it was great.
I love Stephen Amell in Arrow, but I think he’s a bad choice for Casey Jones. Casey Jones is a crazy psychopath…not a good match for Amell. But we’ll see.
That’s on my list. Go back and look.
Eh, I don’t think so but maybe.
Stupid as fuck. Chick flick. And I’m so fucking tired of zombies. Dumb.
I didn’t include any Netflix movies in my list, just theater releases, but yeah, this looks good.
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The first one was boring and dumb, and sequels are usually worse. I have very low expectations for this.
Yuck. I’ll pass. Harry Potter is for kids, at least in my opinion. If you hold it to the same standards as Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones it can’t stand up. Thus, it’s for kids, at least in my mind. (“But Ninja Turles is for kids too Caleb!” Yes, but Ninja Turtles doesn’t try to be serious. Harry Potter does. It doesn’t work.)
Okay. Spy was a chick flick.
Once every few years, Hollywood does make a chick flick I can sort of enjoy. Bridesmaids was very funny, for example. A surprising amount of Alpha content in that one. I was hoping they would make more angry, R-rated chick flicks like this but the trend never caught on. Too bad.
Lachlan
Posted at 07:28 pm, 25th January 2016The Nice Guys looks awesome. Saw the trailer and right after that saw this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Rtt1EyeE4
Triple 9. Looks great too, with an awesome cast.
epi
Posted at 10:22 am, 21st February 2016No one I went with liked or understood Hail, Caesar!. The commercial takes scenes from the whole movie. Unless you’re a big 1920’s movie aficionado, you probably won’t like it.