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i think rogue is gonna be a big suprise...

Rendition looks good. Am I missing something...no one appears to want to see it.

I want to see it... not only because I love Reese Witherspoon as an actress but because I like the way it shines a big fat spotlight on the other side of racial profiling.

It's just not at the very top of my list, that's all.

Why is everyone so excited about 30 Days Of Night it looks alright but nothing that special.

Definitely Seeing:
The Heartbreak Kid
Lars and the Real Girl
30 Days of Night
Run, Fatboy, Run
Saw IV (shamefully

)
Dan In Real Life (again, shamefully)
Things We Lost in the Fire
Funny Games

Definitely Not Seeing:
The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Postal
The Comebacks
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married
Sleuth
Sarah Landon and the Paranormal Hour

The rest I could go either way on, or don't know of

I think everyone knows what I'm looking forward to. Saw IV. The dark is rising definatley looks better and better the more I see of it.
I think they should've taken half the movies from october and put them in september. cause this month definatley needs some better movies.
Movies not looking forward too. Mainly just the tyler perry movie.

I can't wait to see "We Own The Night." Joaquin is always great, and this film looks like it will be awesome!

October looks like crap.

I'm only really looking forward to "Dan in Real Life" and "Lars and The Real Girl"

Love Steve Carell. and Ryan Gosling

lillylovelost wrote:

October looks like crap.

I'm only really looking forward to "Dan in Real Life" and "Lars and The Real Girl"

Love Steve Carell. and Ryan Gosling

October is actually alright November sucks

transformers2 wrote:

October is actually alright November sucks

Gonna have to disagree with you there; November holds American Gangster, Lions For Lambs, and Hitman... plus Bee Movie, Fred Claus, and Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium for the families (not to mention Enchanted), and of course Beowulf, which I'll definitely see if we get it in 3D.

I want to see most of those. Besides bee movie of course.

The only November films that interest me are Amercian Gangster, Hitman and Beowulf. All the others i will proably pass on.

My take on the first week in October:

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford won't be a mainstream hit. It can't be; it's too contemplative, too cerebral, too ambiguous, too beautiful. The best it can hope for, revenue-wise, is to win over some influential critics and nab some Oscar nominations. Fortunately, it looks poised to do just that. It still won't earn $100M, not even if it plays through April. (Even Unforgiven barely made that, and even the best-made Western doesn't have the drawing power that even the most anemic, self-referencing, endlessly derivative Star Trek installment commands.) Perhaps they should have called it The Assassination of Jesse James by Noel Coward, Robert Redford and Harrison Ford; now, THAT would have packed 'em in, and no one would notice the difference. Expanding 10/5

The Darjeeling Limited reminds me of Catch Me If You Can by way of Into the Wild, Legends of the Fall and The Razor's Edge. (Hey, someone must have agreed with me at some point, Bill Murray's in it!) I've wanted to see this film since the very first thirty seconds I was aware of it. Darjeeling could earn Rushmore-sized acclaim. (Hey, Bill Murray!) Rejected titles: A Passage to India's F#@%-You-In-the-Ass Prison; Seven Years in a Tibetan Jail; The Mandatory Life Sentence with Steve Zissou. (Murray!) Expanding 10/5

December Boys, otherwise known as Harry Potter and the Purple Staff of Manhood, has that same vaguely icky, discomfiting borderline-child-pornography feel that certain elements of Taxi Driver, Interview with the Vampire, Leon (The Professional) and pretty much any straight-to-DVD release featuring Alyssa Milano has. There's just something... NYUUUHHHHHHHH!!!... about watching child stars grow up to get clumsily, messily deflowered onscreen. Therefore, I predict December Boys will open to massive acclaim and high PTA. Oh, and it'll probably be a decent movie, too. Expanding 10/5

Feel the Noise is also coming out. And, um, that's all I have to say about that. Opens 10/5 [Limited]

Finishing the Game looks intriguing -- I have to admit, like most aging dorks, I have a soft spot for Bruce Lee and the entire genre of Asian martial-arts action movies -- but I doubt I'll see it before it's on IFC. Opens 10/5 [Limited]

The Good Night has a great cast (including fanboy fave Simon Pegg), but, really, this is just pretentious, artsy-fartsy crap. I love it when novice Hollywood directors have the temerity to pretend they're the first people to ever think of things, like (in this case) how dreams, being phantasmal and ungrounded, are disconnected from the burdens of real-world consequences and are therefore often misleading. How profound. (More and more, the good citizens of La-La-Land remind me of Charlie, the astonishingly thick, disingenuous, self-impressed ex-gf from High Fidelity.) Somewhere, Sigmund Freud is groaning and wishing he could still self-medicate himself into stupefied oblivion, if only to escape the little-brains he tragically shares some measure of DNA with. There's a reason they're called, the GRATEFUL dead, folks, there really is. Life is wasted on many of the living. Opens 10/5 [Limited]

The Heartbreak Kid: I think I'm just about over Ben Stiller, seriously I am. I used to like the guy, but the half-life of the appeal of goofy comedies -- other than the classics, like Caddyshack or Young Frankenstein -- has always been shorter for me than, say, of historical war films, and I've just seen the guy in too many similar roles to get excited about yet another "zany Ben Stiller" movie, y'know? This guy hit his pinnacle with Meet the Parents, and now he's well into a full-blown career flameout (it's awfully interesting, to me, that he chose to do Night at the Museum at about the same point in his career, as Robin Williams signed on for Jumanji in his own). Besides, the title, one of the worst ever, sounds like it should star Matt Dillon or Corey Haim -- twenty years ago. I won't allow my heart to be broken by the former Seven Day Itch; I won't care enough to see it at all. Opens 10/5 [Wide]

What is this, The Year of Reading Femininely? The Jane Austen Book Club sounds like the sort of feature Oprah would make with one of the Ephron sistas. (The one who isn't married and has eighteen cats named 'Mister Fluffles,' probably.) Well, at least it has Maria Bello, which means there ought to be at least five full minutes my TiVo remote isn't on triple-fast-forward. Perhaps they should have called it, How to Make an American Bored, or Divine Secrets of the Yawn-Yawn Sisterhood. Expanding 10/5

I've been looking forward to the "controversial" -- an overused bit of hyperbole, but one that might just be warranted in this case -- documentary Lake of Fire for quite awhile, now, if only for the fact that this appears to be a documentary made by someone who isn't merely trying to engage in propaganda for either side. (Hey, remember when documentaries were investigations of an elusive "truth," and not merely commercials for a partisan cause?) You could almost consider Tony Kaye's (director of the equally astonishing American History X) latest a "retro" film, which should make all serious fans of this now-trendy genre queasy... I love film that dares to ask tough questions and then, even more daring, er, -ly, obstinately refuses to give its audience pat, feel-good answers. Sometimes I wonder if I'm really an American. Plus, it sounds like a Johnny Cash song, or a post-apocalyptic epic starring Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey. Opens 10/5 [Limited]

I hate myself, I really do, for loving George Clooney so very, very much. Even his bad films are much improved, just by his presence; he's got this indefinable, gender-nonspecific charisma that combines the brooding, coy machismo of James Dean with the intelligence, world-weariness and gravitas of Anthony Hopkins. He makes films that are thoughtful and articulate, and that I admire even when I don't agree with them, ideologically. So, of course, I'm looking forward extremely to Michael Clayton, which reminds me of what might happen if Stephen Soderbergh combined The Insider with The Firm. Opens 10/5 [Limited]

My Kid Could Paint That might well have been titled, John Stossel Could Have Made This. Seriously, what's the draw? This "investigation" of how a four-year-old's finger paintings became an Internet and art-world sensation through gimiickly marketing and massive gullibility has the same sort of "Dog Bites Man" flavor as half of my morning newspaper, and fully ninety percent of the daily content of Countdown with Keith Olbermann. So, rich snobs think they're smart, and end up being dumber and more naive than the rest of us poor, huddled masses with our American Excess Tin cards. (Rejected as a Member since 2001!) This should have been a Dateline NBC 'expose'. Opens 10/5 [Limited]

I just can't get motivated for The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising; love the theme, the effects look decent, and we haven't seen a really well-made adventure / hero-quest film since The Lord of the Rings wrapped up (Terabithia was, I thought, disappointing)... I love Christopher Eccleston and, of course, Ian McShane, but unless it earns great-to-phenomenal reviews, I won't 'seek' this one out before PPV, and perhaps not even then. (It's just possible that Peter Jackson spoiled me for any of these films, for all time; I went, Meh to Narnia, Terabithia, Stardust, Golden Compass and, of course, Eragon, too... I mean, once you've eaten filet mignon, minute steak -- or even top sirloin -- just ain't so appetizing, y'know?) Opens 10/5 [Wide]

The fact that Weirdsville won an award from the Director's Guild of Canada, perhaps, explains why Hollywood, and not, oh, Vancouver, is the thick, rich, nougat-y center of the entertainment universe. This would have been an awesome film-of-the-week on SciFi or USA, though, oddly enough, it would probably have lowered the cumulative I.Q. of the first, and doubled that of the second. I'll await its premiere on IFC. Never, ever, but never trust the cultural compass of a nation that puts waterfowl and beavers on its currency, is my motto... or it would be, if I had a motto. Opens 10/5 [Limited]

Until next time, I lay down my enchanted quill... I remain, as always...

Nico.

Bless you Michael Bay. Armageddon is a masterpiece.

You cryed though terabithia. Sorry, Call me heartless, but I saw it coming. They didn't build very well on it. Alpha Dog was sadder to me. Probably because it was based on a true story and Terabithia was just fantasy. But hey. Whatever's your preference. Im not gonna judge it.

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