1. X-Men: First Class - hopefully as good as X1 and 2, I'm betting it will be, even though it is a rushed production, KA was great, so I am v curious about how well he does with a big budget sh flick.
2. Conan - I'm hoping the lead actor manages to feel like the Conan of the SSoC REH adaptations I have been reading, ie totally different to Arnold's , who was just some barbarian guy. This will probably not be a great movie, but it could have a great central performance which carries the thing and makes it very watchable.
3. Captain America - This should be good, Evans was the best thing in the FF movies, the Rocketeer was pretty good, and here we have a sh who is interesting, not just some guy who happens to find a jet-pack. Hogo Weaving as the Red skull should be worth the price of admission as well.
4. Thor - The only thing making me hesitate to expect great things from this is the mess Branagh made of his Frankenstein movie, but hopefully this will be great, I think it will be.
5. Green Lantern - yeah, the trailer made it feel a wee bit daft, the 'Yeah! I know!' bit when he transforms in front of his friend was really cringeworthy, and i hope they have not peppered it with daft comedy because it is Reynolds, but it is Martin Campbell, who made the best Bond movie to date, Casino Royale, and who did a stellar job with his 1st Zorro film, which was a lot of swashbuckling fun, so it could be better than any of the others on my list.
6. the Rum Diary - I forgot this was being made until someone else put it in their list. I read the book, and it was way better than I thought it would be, as of course it was an early discarded manuscript by HST. So, in essence, a sequel of sorts to FALILV, which was a very good adaptation of the book, Depp will be a good watch at the very least, and Bruce Robinson was responsible for the sublime 'Withnail and I' which has been called, rightfully, the British FaL, so it seems like they have gotten ahold of the right guy for the flick.
7. Sucker Punch - I have thoroughly enjoyed Synder's first 3 movies, have not seen the owl flick yet, but it got good reviews, so I am most interested to see what he comes up with off his own back storywise, I'm sure it will be a lot of fun. I don't have a clue what it is about, so will try to keep it that way until I see it.
8. The Green Hornet - I really liked 'Be Kind, Rewind', and the trailer looked alright, so I think this will be a good, fun flick from Gondry, the guy has his own style and sensibilities, so I don't think it will be bad at all, it tested well with audinces apparently.
9. the Thing prequel - Adibesi/MrEko is in it, who i am a big fan of, and the original Thing is a classic, so I hope it is at least a worthy prequel, even if it does not match up to the original's quality, not many horror/sci-fi films do, so if it is at least entertaining and inventive, I would call it a success. I have no idea who is directing or writing it. Mary elizabeth whatsherface is in it too, and i liked her in DP, DH4 and SPVsTW, so that's two actors who will raise the quality automatically, and they are using mostly practical effects, so they seem to have the right idea behind this.
10. Harry Potter - the only reason I am ranking this aty the bottom is because I have already seen umpteen HP movies(apart from the latest one), so at least have an idea of what to expect, unlike the others on my list which will be fresh experiences. I'd love to see the latest one, but don't have the money to go see it, unfortunately I'll have to wait for the dvd I think.
11. Hugo Cabaret - it's Scorsese, so I'm always interested in his flicks automatically, although i have still to force myself to see The Age of Innocence, it being a period drama puts me off it, I don't understand how they did anything back then without bursting out laughing at the fact that each other's clothes are ten sizes too big for them, or how they got through doors with those hats and skirts and massive curly grey wigs. Living in that time period would have driven me nuts, so i avoid the movies, apart from amadeus.
12. Tin tin - I am not a fan of the motion capture computer people from the planet pixelpallette, and i don't know who keeps handing out equity cards to these freaks, but as it is Speilberg/Jackson, i am interested in this. I was more of an Asterix fan than a Tin tin fan, but the books were alright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost too, could be funny. I hope at least they don't try to make Snowy the dog look too 'realistic', he should just stay the way he is in the books, no weird eyeballs please.
