This year's films, at a glance.

2/15 = Bruce Willis goes to Russia, reprising "Yippee-Ki-Yi-Yay" John McClane in A Good Day to Die Hard .

2/22 = Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson goes undercover for the DEA, costarring with Susan Sarandon in Snitch.

3/15 = Hummingbird casts Jason Staham as a homeless ex-Special Forces member

3/22 = Olympus Has Fallen brings Gerard Butler, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster and Ashley Judd into the efforts of an ex-Secret Service guy working to save the President after a terrorist attack on the White House. (The movie site IMDB specifically compares this to a better cast and treatment with Jamie Fox in White House Down, debuting June 28.)

3/29 = G.I. Joe Retribution. Channing Tatum. Dwayne Johnson. Ray Park. Bruce Willis.

4/5 = Evil Dead remake. Remote cabin. People die. Demons. You know the drill.

4/19 = Oblivion. Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman. Banished soldier on an alien planet, now questioning his orders to kill the enemy. (Yup. Sounds JUST like Hollywood.)

4/26 = Dwayne Johnson's third outing this season, along with Mark Wahlberg and Ed Harris in Pain and Gain. Bodybuilders tangle with extortionists and a subplot of kidnap-scheme-goes-wrong.

5/3 = Iron Man 3 finds Tony Stark on his own, his world destroyed. IMBD says: "As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?" (No, but since the payoff fight's in China, we can say politics helped make the location.)

5/10 = The Great Gatsby, with Leonardo DiCaprio as F. Scott Fitzgerald's wastrel. It's Fitzgerald's second-best story and IMBD doesn't expect much from this version.

5/17 = He's better-known as the new Sherlock Holmes on the BBC, but Benjamin Cumberland takes on the villain's role first created by Ricardo Montalban in the TV episode "Space Seed" and later The Wrath of Khan, in Star Trek Into Darkness. (Can you say, "box office boffo?" Sure you can....)

5/24 = Dwayne Johnson yet again in Fast and Furious 6. Vin Deisel and Michele Rodriguez join the mayhem.

5/31 = This one's a liberal's dream, wherein the U.S. Government allows a 24-hour period where all illegal activity is now legal. Lena Headey shoulda known better but stars anyway in The Purge. IMBD says this could happen in real life....

6/7 = Joss Whedon shot a modern take on Much Ado About Nothing in secret while he was also doing The Avengers (one of the greatest-grossing movies ever). Whedon fans may like this, reportedly shot in a week, making its title prophetic.

6/14 = Man of Steel tries yet again to revive the Superman franchise with Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe, Amy Adams and Michael Shannon.

6/21 = World War Z. Brad Pitt versus the zombies. U.S. box office isn't expected to beat foreign sales, analysts say.

6/28 = White House Down = More saving the President, with Jamie Fox (as the Prez), Channing Tatum, Maggie Gyllenhaal. (It's reportedly better than Olympus Has Fallen, a limited endorsement for this tired thriller-genre stereotype which now tosses in Obama.)

7/5 = Johnny Depp desecrates Tonto in the uneccessarily-remade The Lone Ranger. Avoid this turkey. (No, not Tonto's hat, I mean this stink on wings.)

7/12 = Pacific Rim from Guillermo del Toro. Think Transformers, and bigger.

7/26 = Hugh Jackman in Japan against the Silver Samurai, in The Wolverine.

8/2 = RED 2 brings Anthony Hopkins to replace Morgan Freeman, with other A-line cast returning. No other details yet except expectations this should swamp all competition. (Which is an unknown cast in the sequel 300 Rise of an Empire and Smurfs 2).

8/9 = ELYSIUM brings A-listers Matt Damon and Jodie Foster to a space station housing Earth's runaway rich after the usual planetary upheaval. Neil Blomkamp follows his District 9 directorial success. This one's expected to be "this year's Prometheus".

9/6 = RIDDICK. Vin Deisel, Karl Urban and Battlestar Gallactica's Katee Sackhoff.

9/13 = Bill Nighy in I, Frankenstein, up against Danny Tejo in Machete Kills. (There's some talk Machete Kills may not be released, but this is the scheduled date.)

9/27 = Sly Stallone as a prison security expert trapped in his own creation, The Tomb.

10/4 = SIN CITY 2: A DAME TO KILL FOR returns Mickey Rourke, with Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez (and Robert Rodriguez co-directing with Frank Miller). More Marv---more Marv!

10/18 = Luc Besson assembles Robert DeNiro, Tommy Lee Jones and Michelle Pfeiffer in a Mafia-meets-Witness-Relocation crime story, Malavita.

11/1 = ENDER'S GAME offers the story of a boy sent into space to prepare for a future invasion. Harrison Ford is not lead here but present in an otherwise unknown cast.

11/15 = Cormac McCarthy's script gets Javier Bardem again in Ridley Scott's drug story The Counselor. Brad Pitt and Michael Fassbender co-star, and Oscars are being mentioned in pre-release hype.

11/15 = Remember De Niro as boxer Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull? Now he's in Grudge Match, 50 years after his match against Sylvester Stallone. Kim Basinger and Alan Arkin in the cast.

11/22 = HUNGER GAMES 2. Jennifer Lawrence and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

12/13 = THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG. Peter Jackson extends his franchise, with Benjamin Cumberbach's voice as Smaug.

12/27 = Jack Ryan we know from Tom Clancy, with Kenneth Branaugh directing Star Trek's Christopher Pine as Ryan. Kevin Kostner and Keira Knightley are in the cast.

Don't forget to stock up at the popcorn counter!....

Damn so many good movies, I'm very happy too see Bruce Willis in at least two movies. I was a fan of him before I knew he was conservative (same with clint eastwood).

Ah finally another Frank Miller movie, he is my second favorite comic book write/artist after Jodorowski.
Sin City 2 is going to be great.

btw my favorite comic of Frank Miller is the "Give me Liberty" series. That would make for an awesome movie, especially with all the secession talk going on now.

Uh, so far most of them have been crap.

There may be one or two I'll catch on DVD or PPV. I don't do theaters anymore.

Quote from: Shooterman on August 10, 2013, 02:52:12 PM
There may be one or two I'll catch on DVD or PPV. I don't do theaters anymore.

I couldn't go even if I wanted to, $14 a ticket, snacks, and a sitter for four kids including the infant...

Most of these people I refuse to give my money to anymore, but if I must see something we borrow from redbox.

Quote from: JustKari on August 10, 2013, 08:02:42 PM
I couldn't go even if I wanted to, $14 a ticket, snacks, and a sitter for four kids including the infant...

Most of these people I refuse to give my money to anymore, but if I must see something we borrow from redbox.

I agree Kari, I refuse to line the pockets of communists.

Quote from: mdgiles on August 10, 2013, 02:14:21 PM
Uh, so far most of them have been crap.

Yes, they have been. Moviegoers systematically refused to support so-called "tentpole films" which studios thought would support their money-loser boutique-socialism vanity projects. In hindsight thus far, Man of Steel was the only film that earned even closer to its expectations. Maybe the PRO-American and not-unfriendly-to-God sub-themes had something to do with it....

Meanwhile, Tonto wears feathers, The Lone Ranger wears a suit, and Elysium crashes to earth, weighted down by socialist mantra.

Quote from: quiller on August 12, 2013, 05:17:23 AM
Yes, they have been. Moviegoers systematically refused to support so-called "tentpole films" which studios thought would support their money-loser boutique-socialism vanity projects. In hindsight thus far, Man of Steel was the only film that earned even closer to its expectations. Maybe the PRO-American and not-unfriendly-to-God sub-themes had something to do with it....

Meanwhile, Tonto wears feathers, The Lone Ranger wears a suit, and Elysium crashes to earth, weighted down by socialist mantra.

Is that the one that goes:"It's alright to steal from someone, who has something you want, because they should have given it to you, anyway"?

Quote from: mdgiles on August 22, 2013, 09:38:00 AM
Is that the one that goes:"It's alright to steal from someone, who has something you want, because they should have given it to you, anyway"?

Beautifully said! 

Thanks to Hinckley, Jodi Foster's film career went sideways anyway, and Elysium was supposed to be her largest role in years. But the film's relentless have-vs-have-nots motif simply wouldn't fly with sentient audiences. If I buy it on CD at all, it'll be about five years from now when it's part of a 3-pack of things I wanted even more.

Oooog. 3-packs. 8-packs. 10-packs. 50 movies in a box packs. This summer I've been dipping into THAT level of B-films, and so far it's been a lot cheaper and a lot more entertaining than at $5 a pop in matinee prices.