Why I Will Be Broke in Six Months
Movies. this is going to be a helluva year for movies, even if a bunch of the ones i'm stoked about end up getting delayed to next year/spring/summer. regardless, the upcoming six months to year are absolutely loaded with top notch directors, actors, and films. just to give you an idea, the following directors have movies that are already in production coming out in america, at least according to the latest info from IMDB, sometime between now and early 2007: Richard Linklater, Kevin Smith, Shyamalan, Michael Mann, Woody Allen, Oliver Stone, Michel Gondry, Mike Judge, Broken Lizard (collectively), Brian De Palma, Christopher Guest, Scorcese, Darren Aronofsky, Sofia Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Christopher Nolan, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Linklater again, Richard Kelly, Steven Soderbergh, Mel Gibson, Robert De Niro, David Lynch, Werner Herzog, David Fincher, Danny Boyle, Soderbergh again, and Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.
the summer blockbuster season consists of fun but mostly mindless movies that don't become lifetime favorites. the true quality flicks start up in the fall and continue into oscar season. even during the summer season, though, some of the biggest directors' films are coming out. while many of the movies i'm excited for will, inevitably, disappoint me and many others, the real question is how much money am i going to be spending to see all of these damn movies...i think i should start saving now.
all of these dates are very tentative and will change so don't quote me, use a reliable source instead
June 23 (??): Pedro Almodovar's Volver
Technically this one doesn't count, since it was released a while back in Spain, but it's new to me so i'll take it. The release date seems incorrect, considering it's yet to play anywhere near me, but I'm still excited about it. After All About My Mother and Bad Education, he's clearly making films that are unlike anything i've seen from a U.S. director, and i haven't even seen what's his apparent masterpiece, Talk to Her.
June 28: Bryan Singer's Superman Returns
Only reason he's on this list is because of The Usual Suspects, still one of my all-time faves with, possibly, one of the greatest endings in movie history. Already saw this one and enjoyed it. I had missed the Superman boat growing up, so I am still relatively new to the character. Singer made me want to learn more about him.
July 7: Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly and Strangers with Candy
Too bad those financial commercials have already been using that style of animation. This looks like an interesting movie, but i'm still unsure about how I feel about the look. Strangers with Candy: I thought the show was funny, which is all i have to base my interest in it on, considering i haven't even seen a trailer.
July 14: The OH in Ohio
I love Parker Posey and I'm in Ohio.
July 21: Kevin Smith's Clerks II and M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water
Kevin Smith: oh how the mighty have fallen. Makes me sad that he has to resort to a sequel on the cult classic.
Shyamalan: Can he make a movie that actually delivers? I disqualify myself from objectively analyzing Sixth Sense since I knew the secret going in, but The Village was a huge disappointment, and Signs failed at the end for me, so his last complete movie in my eyes is Unbreakable, probably his least successful movie overall. Lady in the Water has a damn intriguing trailer, but who knows if it will deliver.
July 28: Michael Mann's Miami Vice and Little Miss Sunshine and Woody Allen's Scoop
Michael Mann has yet to fail me with Collateral, The Insider, Manhunter, and the epic Heat, although Miami Vice is being bashed by everyone, but the trailer looked cool, and I'm a sucker for that. My only introduction to Woody Allen has been Match Point and Melinda and Melinda, both of which I loved, and Scarlett's in this one again, so I will be there. I paid to see The Island because of her, so now i'm pretty much obligated to see everything she's in.
August 4: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Oh Will Ferrell, how many quotable lines are you going to be coining in this one?
August 11: Oliver Stone's World Trader Center and Michel Gondry's The Science of Sleep
Too soon? Maybe. I don't know if I'm ready to see it; crying for two hours straight doesn't sound that great to me.
After Eternal Sunshine, the production stills I'd seen, and the fact that Gael Garcia Bernal is in it, this could be a keeper.
August 18: The Illusionist and Snakes on a Plane
Edward Norton has yet to fail me.
How can you not be excited, seriously?
August 25: Broken Lizard's Beerfest
I don't want a large Farva, I want a goddamn liter of beer. That line better be in this movie.
September 1: Mike Judge's Idiocracy
Finally follows up Office Space.
September 15: Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia
Once again, Scarlett. and it sounds interesting.
September 22: All the King's Men and Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration
Great book, great cast, delayed nine months though. That's a concern. As my English teacher, the immortal Shirley Ann Lyster, prompted us to consider while reading the book: who is Humpty Dumpty?
Christopher Guest movie, should be good as usual.
September 29: Employee of the Month
Dane Cook.
October 6: Scorcese's The Departed
Leonardo is his new De Niro, which I'm not sure how I feel about yet.
October 11: Running With Scissors
October 13: Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain
one of these dates has to be wrong
October 20: Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette and The Painted Veil and Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers
I heard Marie Antoinette got laughed at in France, which could be trouble.
Edward Norton, once again. and Naomi Watts, mmmmm
October 27: Christopher Nolan's The Prestige and Inarritu's Babel
Damn, this could be a good weekend. Both look great, but Babel is the one I've been looking forward to for a while now. I heard a Stephen Gaghan interview, around the time Syriana came out, about the use of these complex, large cast, interconnected stories to tell stories with a larger scope, and I have to say, I've enjoyed these types of movies. Inarritu did it with Amores Perros and 21 Grams, which were a little too similar, story-wise and stylistically, but Babel has some potential.
October/Novemberish: Richard Kelly's Southland Tales and Linklater's Fast Food Nation
Apparently all of the actors in Southland Tales don't even know what it's about, and it sounds huge, but Donnie Darko was too damn good to not give him the benefit of the doubt.
November 10: Stranger than Fiction
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Will Ferrell, Dustin Hoffman, and Tony Hale (Buster from Arrested Development). This could be very good.
November 17: Casino Royale and Tenacious D
Daniel Craig and, supposedly, a new direction to the character could makes this a good Bond Movie, which I really have not found impressive of late.
And Jack Black, always good.
November 22: Steven Soderbergh's The Good German
The stud George Clooney and post-WWII.
December 1: Bug
December 8: Mel Gibson's Apocalypto
If he hasn't completely lost his mind, this could turn out OK.
December 22: Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd
The CIA, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, and Angelina Jolie.
End of the year-ish: David Lynch's Inland Empire, Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn, and Little Children
January 7: Steven Soderbergh's Guerrilla
January 12: The Blood Diamond
January 19: David Fincher's Zodiac
Also among my most anticipated, David Fincher and Jake Gyllenhaal.
March 16: Danny Boyle's Sunshine
He keeps changing genres and keeps delivering, so I have no reason to expect otherwise on this one.
April 6: Quentin Tarantino and Frank Rodriguez's Grind House
One of the most intriguing movie ideas I've ever heard of: Each is directing an hour long horror movie, with fake movie previews in between them. I'm imagining From Dusk til Dawn and Sin City on crack. Delicious, delicious crack.
Well, if you're still reading this, I'm amazed, and I hope you're as stoked about the upcoming movies as i am. Oh, and one final movie for next summer's blockbuster season, fresh off the new teaser trailer that's online: Michael Bay's live-action Transformers movie. Yes, I loved the Transformers growing up, and yes, I will probably see this along with all of the other nerds next year. Only 368 days and counting...
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