Nehkara's 2008 In Movies

[Nehkara]

Red = Interesting To Me
RT: %/% = Rotten Tomatoes Critic/User Rating

January

One Missed Call (4th - Shannyn Sossamon, Edward Burns) RT: 0%/18%

First Sunday (11th - Ice Cube) RT: 16%/25%
In The Name Of The King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (11th - Jason Statham) RT: 2%/15%
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything (11th) RT: 44%/94%

27 Dresses (18th - Katherine Heigl, James Marsden) RT: 37%/69%
Cloverfield (18th - Michael Stahl-David, Mike Vogel) RT: 76%/69%
Mad Money (18th - Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes) RT: 20%59%

How She Move (25th - Kevin Duhaney, Shawn Desman) RT: 71%/48%
Meet The Spartans (25th - Diedrich Bader, Kevin Sorbo) RT: 3%/17%
Rambo (25th - Sylvester Stallone) RT: 34%/77%
Untraceable (25th - Diane Lane) RT: 13%/44%

February

Strange Wilderness (1st - Justin Long, Steve Zahn, Jonah Hill) RT: 00%/50%
The Eye (1st - Jessica Alba) RT: 19%/42%

Fool's Gold (8th - Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey) RT: 10%/46%
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (8th - Martin Lawrence, Cedric The Entertainer) RT: 25%/50%

Definitely, Maybe (14th - Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher) RT: 72%/75%
Jumper (14th - Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson) RT: 15%/51%
Step Up 2 The Streets (14th - Robert Hoffman, Briana Evigan) RT: 27%/57%

The Spiderwick Chronicles (15th - Freddie Highmore, Sarah Bolger) RT: 81%/72%

Charlie Bartlett (22nd - Robert Downey Jr., Hope Davis, Anton Yelchin) RT: 54%/72%
Be Kind Rewind (22nd - Jack Black, Mos Def) RT: 68%/75%
Vantage Point (22nd - Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker) RT: 35%/58%
Witless Protection (22nd - Larry The Cable Guy, Jenny McCarthy) RT: 00%/17%

Penelope (29th - Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O'Hara, Reese Witherspoon) RT: 55%/64%
Semi-Pro (29th - Will Ferrell) RT: 24%/74%
The Other Boleyn Girl (29th - Natalie Portman, Scarlet Johannson, Eric Bana) RT: 53%/64%

March

10,000 BC (7th - Steven Strait, Camilla Belle)
College Road Trip (7th - Raven-Symone, Martin Lawrence)
The Accidental Husband (7th - Uma Thurman, Colin Firth)
The Bank Job (7th - Jason Statham)

Funny Games (14th - Naomi Watts, Tim Roth)
Horton Hears A Who! (14th - Jim Carrey, Steve Carell)
Pride And Glory (14th - Edward Norton, Colin Farrell, Jon Voight)

Inkheart (19th - Brendan Fraser, Paul Bettany)

Drillbit Taylor (21st - Owen Wilson)
Shutter (21st - Joshua Jackson)
Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns (21st - Tyler Perry, Angela Bassett)

21 (28th - Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne)
Stop-Loss (28th - Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
Superhero! (28th - Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Leslie Nielsen)
Run, Fatboy, Run (28th - Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran, Thandie Newton, Hank Azaria)

April

Leatherheads (4th - George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski)
Wild Child (4th - Emma Roberts)
Shine A Light (4th - Martin Scorsese, The Rolling Stones)
The Ruins (4th - Jonathan Tucker, Jena Malone)

Goal! 2: Living The Dream (8th - Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola)

Prom Night (11th - Brittany Snow, Dana Davis)
Smart People (11th - Dennis Quaid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thomas Haden Church)
College (11th - Drake Bell, Andrew Caldwell)
Mama, I Want To Sing! (11th - Ciara)

Baby Mama (18th - Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear)
The Forbidden Kingdom (18th - Jet Li, Jackie Chan)
The Rocker (18th - Christina Applegate, Rainn Wilson)

Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (25th - Kal Penn, John Cho)
Repo! The Genetic Opera (25th - Tobin Bell, Paris Hilton)
Big Stan (25th - Rob Schneider)
The List (25th - Ewan McGregor, Hugh Jackman)

[Nehkara]

May

Iron Man (2nd - Robert Downey Jr., Terrance Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwenyth Paltrow)
Space Chimps (2nd - Andy Samberg, Jeff Daniels)
Made Of Honor (2nd - Michelle Monaghan, Patrick Dempsey)

Speed Racer (9th - Emile Hirsch, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox)

The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian (16th - Georgie Henley, Anna Popplewell)
What Happens In Vegas... (16th - Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz)
Midnight Meat Train (16th - Vinnie Jones, Brooke Shields)

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull (22nd - Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf)

Forgetting Sarah Marshall (30th - Jason Segel, Kristen Bell)
Starship Dave (30th - Eddie Murphy)
Sex And The City: The Movie (30th - Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall)


June

Kung Fu Panda (6th - Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu)
You Don't Mess With Zohan (6th - Adam Sandler)

The Happening (13th - Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel)
The Incredible Hulk (13th - Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt)

Get Smart (20th - Steven Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson)
The Love Guru (20th - Mike Myers, Jessica Alba)

WALL-E (Pixar) (27th)
Wanted (27th - Morgan Freeman, James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie)

July

Hancock (4th - Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman)
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (4th - Abigail Breslin)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army (11th - Ron Perlman, Selma Blair)
Journey To The Center Of The Earth 3D (11th - Brendan Fraser, Josh Hutcherson)
Tropic Thunder (11th - Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Bill Hader)

The Dark Knight (18th - Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Morgan Freeman, Maggie Gyllenhaal)
Mamma Mia! (18th - Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan)

Step Brothers (25th - Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly)
Untitled X-Files Sequel (25th - David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Amanda Peet)

August

The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor (1st - Brendan Fraser, Jet Li)
He's Just Not That Into You (1st - Drew Barrymore, Ben Affleck, Justin Long, Jennifer Aniston)

Eagle Eye (8th - Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan
Pineapple Express (8th - Seth Rogen, James Franco)
The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2 (8th - Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera)
Blindness (8th - Mark Ruffalo, Julianne Moore)

Dragonball (15th - Justin Chatwin, Justin Marsters
The International (15th - Naomi Watts, Clive Owen)

Case 39 (22nd - Renee Zellweger)
I Know What Boys Like (22nd - Anna Faris, Kathaerine McPhee)

Babylon A.D. (29th - Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh)
Horrorween (29th - Chuck Lamb, Ed Meyer)


September through December

Unscheduled Wide Release Movies Of 2008

Box Office Top 10 Worldwide And Domestic Of 2008


This thread will be updated all year, feel free to check in often.

If there are any errors or comments, please let me know. Thanks!

[Azure]

Great stuff!

Vantage Point, according to the preview I saw last night looks really good.

[Got Miikka?]

I'm counting on Cloverfield to be everything I Am Legend wished it was but wasn't.

Saw the trailer for Strange Wilderness on TV the other night and laughed my ass off at it. I think that's the first time I have laughed at a movie TV spot.

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Thanks for putting this together, very cool stuff. Gonna keep this handy for sure.

Poughkipsie Tapes looks pretty cool, I love stuff like that.

Cloverfield
Dark Knight
Rambo
Iron Man
Indy Jones
Bond

ALL MUST SEES THIS YEAR!! To say Im a sucker for a big budget blockbuster is an understatement.

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN

Thanks for putting this together, very cool stuff. Gonna keep this handy for sure.

Poughkipsie Tapes looks pretty cool, I love stuff like that.

Cloverfield
Dark Knight
Rambo
Iron Man
Indy Jones
Bond

ALL MUST SEES THIS YEAR!! To say Im a sucker for a big budget blockbuster is an understatement.

I second all of those and add Star Trek and the Incredible Hulk to the mix. It's going to be an expensive year at the theatres.

[PowerPlayoffs06]

I love that Marvel puts out a superhero movie every year around my birthday. Iron Man should be cool.

[rubecube]

Austin Powers 4? Ugh...

[Ozy_Flame]

City of Ember with Bill Murray will be, IMO, the most underrated show of the year. Look for this one to be a sleeper hit.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by rubecube

Austin Powers 4? Ugh...

Oh yeah, baby!


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_...ustin_Powers_4

During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, [2] Mike Myers discussed the possibility of studio sources moving forward with a fourth Austin Powers film. "There is hope!" says Myers of the latter. "We're all circling and talking to each other. I miss doing the characters." In an interview with IGN (May 16, 2007), [3] IGN asked, "So no more Austin Powers?" and Myers said, "No, no, there is a fully conceived idea for a fourth and I can just say that it's from Dr. Evil's point of view. So if you balanced how much of it was Austin with Dr. Evil, it's more about Dr. Evil than Austin." It has also been rumored that Jennifer Lopez or Rachel Stevens will be starring along side Myers in the fourth movie. It is also unknown if Jay Roach will return as director of the fourth film.

In May 2007, at the Shrek the Third premiere, Mike Myers announced that a fourth Austin Powers film is planned but that it would focus more on Dr. Evil than Austin himself. He also said that he'd be starting work on it when he starts work on another film project The Love Guru, this August.[4]

It was recently confirmed on a daytime TV show in the UK[citation needed] that Austin Powers would not be against Dr. Evil (because of the events at the end of the previous film) but would in fact be co-operating with him against a brand new nemesis codenamed 'Neversoft'.

http://countingdown.com/movies/2756429

[foofighter15]

I swear, if Mike Meyers gets to make out with Jessica Alba in the Love Guru I am writing him in for the next Prime Minister vote

[Got Miikka?]

Since Sly is all over doing sequels to his movies, I nominate Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot for his next project, pretty sure the old lady from Golden Girls is still kicking.

[Nehkara]

September

Cliver Barker Presents: Hellraiser (5th)

Punisher: War Zone (12th - Ray Stevenson, Dominic West)
Nights in Rodanthe (12th - Diane Lane, Richard Gere, James Franco)

Lakeview Terrace (19th - Samuel L. Jackson)
Nothing But The Truth (19th - Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Angela Bassett)
My Best Friend's Girl (19th - Dane Cook, Kate Hudson)

Death Race (26th - Jason Statham)
NowhereLand (26th - Eddie Murphy)
South Of The Border (26th - Drew Barrymore, Jamie Lee Curtis)

October

Valkyrie (3rd - Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy)
RocknRolla (3rd - Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton, Jeremy Piven)
Nick And Norah's Infinte Playlist (3rd - Michael Cera)

City Of Ember (10th - Bill Murray)
Body Of Lies (10th - Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe)
The Express (10th - Dennis Quaid)
The Women (10th - Annette Bening, Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes)

Scanners (17th)
The Lonely Maiden (17th - William H. Macy, Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman)

Igor (24th - John Cusack)
Saw V (24th - Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (2008 re-issue) (24th - Chris Sarandon, Danny Elfman)


November

Bond 22 (7th - Daniel Craig, Judy Dench)
Madagascar 2: The Crate Escape (7th - Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith)

Four Christmases (14th - Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon)

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince (21st - Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson)

Bolt (28th - John Travolta, Thomas Hayden Church)
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button (28th - Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Elle Fanning)

December

Twilight (12th - Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson)
The Day The Earth Stood Still (12th - Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly)

Revolutionary Road (19th - Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet)
The Tale Of Despereaux (19th - Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson, William H. Macy)
Yes Man (19th - Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel)
Marley & Me (19th - Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson)

9 (26th - Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly)

[habernac]

Originally Posted by Got Miikka?

Since Sly is all over doing sequels to his movies, I nominate Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot for his next project, pretty sure the old lady from Golden Girls is still kicking.

LOL! Yeah, Estelle Getty is a spry 84 years old, I'm sure she'd be game.


And now it's not as funny as I've read some more and discovered she has Parkinson's and dementia.

Oh well, the original post was still humourous.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by Got Miikka?

I'm counting on Cloverfield to be everything I Am Legend wished it was but wasn't.

IMO I Am Legend wouldve been so much better(or at least not as hokey-looking) if they wouldve kept with the original idea and not made the infected people CGI. They just looked so phony, and like super-villians. They looked like Imhotep from The Mummy or something, I couldnt get past it. I really enjoyed the concept of the movie and thought Will Smith did an outstanding job, but the CGI people really ruined it for me.

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by Nehkara

Updated with 2008 straight to video releases.

Fixed.

I mean seriously... The Haunted World of El Superbeasto??

[Thunderball]

Austin Powers 4? Ace Ventura 3??

My heart wants them to be good, but my brain says these franchises have jumped the shark.

My must-sees for the year:
Cloverfield
Get Smart
The Dark Knight
Bond 22
Star Trek XI

Though I might get suckered into Austin Powers 4.

Edit: Not Ace 3... it looks like total garbage with a nobody cast and a dumb plot.

[Locke]

Jumper.

Very cool, I was in Toronto a couple years ago and my Uncle runs a propshop there and he was working on all the props in that movie.

He made all those cool baton-whips for that movie. Really cool stuff. I was playing with the one that pops out of the briefcase when I was there.

[Nehkara]

Unscheduled Wide Release Movies Of 2008:

Ace Ventura Jr. (Josh Flitter, Emma Lockhart)

Backdown
Beautiful Loser (Lenny von Dohlen)
Resident Evil: Degeneration (CG)
Blood: The Last Vampire (Gianna Jun, Allison Miller)
The Box (Cameron Diaz, James Marsden)
Brideshead Revisited (Emma Thompson, Michael Gambon)

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (Rider Strong, Giuseppe Andrews)
The Unforgettable (AKA Condemned: Criminal Origins)

Defiance (Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell)

Far Cry (Til Schweiger, Michael Paré, Clint Howard)

Goal 3 (Kuno Becker)
The Great Buck Howard (John Malkovich, Colin Hanks, Tom Hanks)

Have Dreams, Will Travel (Cayden Boyd, AnnaSophia Robb, Lara Flynn Boyle)
Hell Ride (Michael Madsen, Dennis Hopper)
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (Paul Giamatti)
High School Musical 3 (Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale)

Jackboots on Whitehall (Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Timothy Spall)

Major Movie Star (Jessica Simpson)
Make it Happen (Mary Elizabeth Winstead)

Roadside Romeo

Spawn 2

A Tale of Two Sisters (Elizabeth Banks)
Trick 'r Treat (Quinn Lord, Anna Paquin)
Truth in Numbers: The Wikipedia Story (Jimmy Wales, KRS-One)

War, Inc. (John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, Ben Kingsley)
Winged Creatures (Kate Beckinsale, Dakota Fanning, Forest Whitaker)

[Hakan]

Nice post.

As an aside, how bad does that Speed Racer movie look?

yikes

Stay away.