Movies people are/are not looking forward to in 2011

[masterofsparks]

Really looking forward to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. It was already out when I was in England in September and everyone there was going bananas for it.

[wood and iron]

Really looking forward to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. It was already out when I was in England in September and everyone there was going bananas for it.

I'm very excited as well and glad to hear the good word of mouth. I read the book a few months ago and loved it. I now want to go back and read the Smiley series from the beginning.

I'm also looking forward to Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I love David Fincher's movies (except Benjamin Button) and the book while not a masterpiece of genre fiction was definitely something unique and kept my interest through the long haul.

[Kormod]

The BBC adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (which stars Alec Guinness as George Smiley) is phenomenal. Check it out if you haven't already. I haven't seen Smiley's People, but I hear that's good as well.

[Chris L]

Hugo was pretty great; probably Scorsese's most all-around satisfying film since The Age of Innocence. What a surprising relief.

[buffcoat]

Nobody talking about this new Diablo Cody thing?

[Kormod]

Young Adult has Patton Oswalt in it, which is nice, but Diablo Cody's pretty much a deal breaker for me. They could add Paul F. Tompkins, John Hodgman, and Bill Murray to the cast of that movie, and I still wouldn't want to see it.

[Joe Rogaine]

Young Adult has Patton Oswalt in it, which is nice, but Diablo Cody's pretty much a deal breaker for me. They could add Paul F. Tompkins, John Hodgman, and Bill Murray to the cast of that movie, and I still wouldn't want to see it.

It wasn't bad i could hardly tell Diablo Cody wrote it there was hardly any annoying dialog like Juno. Patton was great in it and it also had some pretty good 90's music.

Did anybody see Pattons King of Queens prank?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/patton-oswalt-stands-perfectly-still-on-king-of-queens_n_1108501.html

[Chris L]

Here's how my top 10 ended up. I saw Certified Copy last year... I don't know who here would possibly recall that or care, but it would have been #2 on this list.  Will be seeing Tinker Tailor... in a week or two maybe.

1. Melancholia
2. Tree of Life
3. Poetry
4. The Turin Horse
5. Le Havre
6. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
7. Mysteries of Lisbon
8. Bill Cunningham New York
9. Tuesday, After Christmas
10. Hugo

Also liked: A Dangerous Method, Drive, Essential Killing, Tabloid, Nostalgia for the Light, 13 Assassins

[ben]

Young Adult has Patton Oswalt in it, which is nice, but Diablo Cody's pretty much a deal breaker for me. They could add Paul F. Tompkins, John Hodgman, and Bill Murray to the cast of that movie, and I still wouldn't want to see it.

It wasn't bad i could hardly tell Diablo Cody wrote it there was hardly any annoying dialog like Juno. Patton was great in it and it also had some pretty good 90's music.

Did anybody see Pattons King of Queens prank?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/patton-oswalt-stands-perfectly-still-on-king-of-queens_n_1108501.html

I liked the movie quite a bit, and thought Patton was amazing.  Hated lots of other people in the theatre, laughing/guffawing at scenes i didn't find funny but sad.  And my friend didnt like the movie at all, but she's a lot more discerning.

I never watched Juno all the way through, but would never discount a movie because of a single component.

Pattons King of Queens prank where he was a statue was great! 

[Rick in Salt Lake]

Young Adult has Patton Oswalt in it, which is nice, but Diablo Cody's pretty much a deal breaker for me.

Yup. After seeing "Juno" I suddenly understood why some people hate Tarantino's dialogue so much...

Although I admit I thought "Juno" had a pretty satisfying ending...

Plus, let's be honest, "Diablo Cody" is the lamest pen name of the last hundred years. It sounds like something Busey concocted when she was 14, thinking it sounded bad-ass, and just stuck with it. I can hear this conversation:

Dad: Brooke, go clean your room.
Brooke (whiningly): I told you, my name isn't Brooke. My name is Diablo Cody!

Or this conversation at a party in which she converses with a similarly all black clad 15 year old:

Kid: My name is Agamenon the slayer.
Brooke: My name is Diablo Cody.
Kid: That's fuckin' rad...

[wood and iron]

I actually kind of like Juno. I agree that the forced lingo is grating but most of that stuff is within the first thirty minutes. I don't know if it's intentional but I see the dropping of that language during the movie tracing Juno's own maturation arc; as she matures and deals with life and pregnancy, the constructed world of a teenager ceases to be.

[Rick in Salt Lake]

I actually kind of like Juno. I agree that the forced lingo is grating but most of that stuff is within the first thirty minutes. I don't know if it's intentional but I see the dropping of that language during the movie tracing Juno's own maturation arc; as she matures and deals with life and pregnancy, the constructed world of a teenager ceases to be.

You're right. It by and large is. But the cheesy, twee soundtrack is throughout...

I spent the first 40 minutes of "Juno" fighting the urge to leave. By goddammit, Brooke Busey wasn't going to beat me... But again, the ending was pretty satisfying. I'll give Miss "Cody" that...

[Hugman 3.0]

I loved Juno the first (and second) time I saw it (both in the theater), but tried to watch it a third time at home and couldn't stand it.

I loved the soundtrack, too, especially the Barry Louis Polisar song at the beginning.

I liked Young Adult fine, but seriously don't see what all the hype is about. 

So let that color how you take movie and music advice from me.

[Rick in Salt Lake]

...but tried to watch it a third time at home and couldn't stand it.

That's one doodle you can't undo...

[buffcoat]

Should I start a 2012 thread?


Anyway, for those of you who were culturally aware in the early part of the 90s, Whit Stillman is finally coming out with a new movie.  It's called Damsels in Distress and focuses on college guys and gals.

Damsels In Distress Movie Clip "Lily Introduces Charlie" Official (HD)