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I'm pretty interested in Wolverine, even though I really hated X-3. I think Star Trek may be good, as well as Harry Potter 6. From the looks of the previews, I hold Fast and the Furious 4 in higher regard than Terminator 4.

And Avatar is next summer, right? I would think that should be at the top of my list, even though I have seen nothing on it yet.

I have a bad feeling about Avatar. I just think that in geekdom there will be Star Wars Prequel levels of anticipation that it can't possibly live up to.

If anything, its looking to be the Summer full of sequels to to films that left a bad taste in our mouths. Star Trek, Terminator, X-Men... While I have no problem with sequels I'm kind of missing the variety we were given last summer.

On that note, I'm looking forward to Watchmen (March is a good release, though I still think the "R" rating is going to kill its box office), X-Men Origins (I'd see it even if Gambit wasn't in it), Star Trek, and, ummm, well, I'm sure I'll see previews for other things I want to see. I wish Mutant Chronicles was getting a wide release...

There are a lot of movies that I hope end up being good, but I seriously doubt they will all do so. I'm looking forward to all of these to varying degrees: Watchmen, X-Men, Star Trek, Terminator Salvation, Up, Brothers Bloom, and Harry Potter.

Transformers will probably make a ton of cash again, but I don't hold out any hope that it will actually be good. GI Joe also has a chance to make money but is all but guaranteed to suck.

How do you make a good GI Joe movie ? The attraction of GI Joe was getting your grubby little 6 year old mitts on the new toys and inventing, in your head, implausable scenarios for them to act out vs. Cobra in your back yard until your Ma called you in for dinner, working out little back stories for the characters and the vehicles. You can try and replicatethis on film and you get a sh*t movie. Try and make a good movie, and you lose the magic of the toys and then it's just..... well, a movie and the inner geek is left unsatisfied. Hollywood will, as always, take forever to learn that movies based on toy lines are like movies based on video games. There is a fundamental reason why they don't work but like lemmings, that won't stop Hollywood trying !

I'll have to disagree with you a little bit there. I think there are some video games that could translate very well into a film, but Hollywood has yet to find them. They keep trying to adapt the wrong ones.

They need to adapt Zelda.

"Well, *excuse* me, Princess!"

They need to adapt Patrick Stewart's script where he's got Professor X's powers but it's set in the real world. He'd see a girl and he'd wonder what she looked like naked, so he'd make her clothes fall off. She'd scramble to cover herself, but it was too late. He'd already seen everything.

I don't know if I can get behind a Zelda movie. The silent protagonist bit would probably wear thin before the movie's end. Then, of course, you'd have the sequel that was just the first movie over again but with different maps ;)

As for G.I. Joe, I have mixed feelings. Its by Stephen Sommers whom I usually enjoy (except for Van Helsing). On the other hand, the only thing for basis would be the comic books and movies which always felt lacking to me. I'll probably wait for DVD on that one.

2009 Summer Best Movie = YOUR FACE

I hate Star Trek with a passion normally reserved for the likes of the King Kong remake, but I am definitly going to see this one, as I am a huge fan of JJ!

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I would say "Watchmen", except it's coming out in March. So, I guess I'll go with "Inglorious Basterds" even though I sort of hate Tarantino, mostly because it's the only thing that's not a sequel, remake or adaptation. :(

Quasar wrote:

They need to adapt Patrick Stewart's script where he's got Professor X's powers but it's set in the real world. He'd see a girl and he'd wonder what she looked like naked, so he'd make her clothes fall off. She'd scramble to cover herself, but it was too late. He'd already seen everything.

THIS.

Strike what I said, I meant "Where the Wild Things Are".