Movies people are/are not looking forward to in 2012

[Greggulator]

I'm super excited to not see Ted. That movie's getting really good reviews but looks like the worst piece of garbage. "Mom, that teddy bear is making fun of Jews!" I kind of actually want to see it so I have something to make fun of for a few years but the thought of handing any of my money over to the trash who put that together grosses me out. I think I'd rather just burn money.

There's that whole genre of weird mash-up books like Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Sense and Sensibilities and Sea Monsters. My good friend Doogie Horner (who you may remember from being a viral hit a few years back after he was being booed off the stage on America's Got Talent and then heckled the audience and won them over) designed one of the book jackets for one of those books. The publisher he works for published whatever one of those came out first and they took off like crazy. I haven't read them but my wife went through some of the books and said they were fun.  It looks like good campy fun.

[Rick in Salt Lake]

I'm super excited to not see Ted. That movie's getting really good reviews but looks like the worst piece of garbage. "Mom, that teddy bear is making fun of Jews!" I kind of actually want to see it so I have something to make fun of for a few years but the thought of handing any of my money over to the trash who put that together grosses me out. I think I'd rather just burn money.

Exactly, Greggulator...

Haw haw haw! The teddy bear is smoking pot... Haw haw haw...

[Rick in Salt Lake]

I saw God Bless America at the Toronto Film Fest last year and I was disappointed. It's very well made but I didn't find it funny, and the satirical targets are blindingly obvious. But on the other hand it's clearly heartfelt and personal, and I got to see the Bobcat Q&A. He's a cool guy.

I should say that I have a feeling I'm in the minority on this one -- it very well could be Goldthwait's breakout as a director.

If you haven't done so you should check out the Goldthwait interview on Jeff Goldsmith's podcast "The Q & A"...

[Omar]

"There's so much more to love here (on strictly aesthetic terms, Spring Breakers is straight-up astounding, recalling everything from the neon skylines of Miami Vice to the jagged, repetitious editing of The Tree of Life and beyond), and even more to digest further. Even on a more basic level, the film is enormously entertaining, particularly the hilarious, actorly turn by a Riff Raff'd-up James Franco: Stretches of the presumably ad-libbed riffing on his Scarface-inspired kingpin's lifestyle offer some of the most quotable one-liners in recent memory, and a centerpiece montage set to Britney Spears's "Everytime" stands out as easily the best thing Korine's ever done. This is a film that should, in theory, offer principally superficial pleasures, and yet somehow its glossy, appealing aesthetics form only one part of a considerably richer work." -- Calum Marsh, reviewing Spring Breakers, the new film from Harmony Korine.

U.S. release date is 3/5/2013.

[Kormod]

U.S. release date is 3/5/2013.

I want to see it now. 

[JonFromMaplewood]

Watched Sleepwalk With Me last night. I liked it a lot.