Coming Soon

The Holiday Movie List has been updated with some of our movie friend, Frank's, picks. Be sure to add your two cents on the list by commenting on this post!

Today I did some snooping. I'm a bit of a IMDB stalker. It's one of those sites that is addicting and I could easily spend hours surfing. It's sad, but true. Another website I love to visit on a daily basis is ComingSoon.net. Upon surfing this website I found an area where you can see all the upcoming movies that are projected to be released within the next 1-4 years! Here are some of my favorites for 2008:

JANUARAY
27 Dresses -- A young woman (Heigl) who has made a career out of being a bridesmaid but never a bride and faces her worst nightmare when her sister (Akerman) becomes engaged to the man of her dreams. Luckily, the wedding brings around the man (Marsden) who will change her bridesmaid status for good.

The Air I Breathe -- A businessman (Forest Whitaker) bets his life on a horse race, a gangster (Brendan Fraser) sees the future, a pop star (Sarah Michelle Gellar) falls prety to a crime boss (Andy Garcia) and a doctor (Kevin Bacon) must save the love of his life. Based on a Chinese proverb, these four overlapping stories dramatize the four emotional cornerstones of life: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love.

Cloverfield -- Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

FEBRUARY
Diary of the Dead -- The latest sequel to Romero's 1968 horror classic "Night of the Living Dead," finds a group of young film students who run into real-life zombies while filming a horror movie of their own.

Possession -- A woman's life is thrown into chaos after a freak car accident sends her husband and brother-in-law into comas, but then the latter wakes up thinking he's his brother.

The Spiderwick Chronicles -- From the beloved best-selling series of books comes "The Spiderwick Chronicles," a fantasy adventure for the child in all of us. Peculiar things start to happen the moment the Grace family (Jared, his twin brother Simon, sister Mallory and their mom) leave New York and move into the secluded old house owned by their great, great uncle Arthur Spiderwick. Unable to explain the strange disappearances and accidents that seem to be happening on a daily basis, the family blames Jared. When he, Simon and Mallory investigate what's really going on, they uncover the fantastic truth of the Spiderwick estate and of the creatures that inhabit it.

MARCH
10,000 BC -- It was a time when man and beast were untamed and the mighty mammoth roamed the earth. A time when ideas and beliefs were born that forever shaped mankind. 10,000 B.C. follows a young hunter (Steven Strait) on his quest to lead an army across a vast desert, battling saber tooth tigers and prehistoric predators as he unearths a lost civilization and attempts to rescue the woman he loves (Camilla Belle) from an evil warlord determined to possess her.

21 -- "21," based on Ben Mezrich's best-selling nonfiction book "Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions," revolves around a group of young men who become experts in the art of card counting.

APRIL
The Ruins -- Based on the Scott Smith novel, "The Ruins" centers on a group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they accompany a fellow tourist on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- No plot available.

JUNE
Get Smart -- When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief (Alan Arkin) has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreamt of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23 (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson). Smart is partnered instead with the only other agent whose identity has not been compromised: the lovely-but-lethal veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway). As Smart and 99 get closer to unraveling KAOS' master plan—and each other—they discover that key KAOS operative Siegfried (Terence Stamp) and his sidekick Shtarker (Kenneth Davitian) are scheming to cash in with their network of terror. Given little field experience and even less time, Smart—armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and his unbridled enthusiasm—must defeat KAOS if he is to save the day.

JULY
Step Brothers -- Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, who last teamed in the box-office smash "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby," now star in "Step Brothers," a comedy about two spoiled grown men, still living with their folks, who become competitive stepbrothers when their parents fall in love and get married.

AUGUST
He's Just Not That Into You -- Based on the best-selling book by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo. The Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior. Jennifer Connelly plays a woman stuck in a tired marriage with Cooper's character. Kevin Connolly, meanwhile, is a man pining after a woman, still not cast, who is having an affair with Cooper. Goodwin is a young woman obsessed with Kevin Connolly's character who tries to set up accidental meetings with him only to run across his friend, played by Long, who takes her on as a "My Fair Lady" experiment. Barrymore plays a woman perpetually confused by dating, now more than ever in a culture that is more obsessed with technology than actual human contact.

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperer -- The blockbuster global "Mummy" franchise takes a spellbinding turn as the action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series, "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor." Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O'Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient China high into the frigid Himalayas. Rick is joined in this all-new adventure by son Alex (newcomer Luke Ford), wife Evelyn (Maria Bello) and her brother, Jonathan (John Hannah). And this time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service. Doomed by a double-crossing sorceress (Michelle Yeoh) to spend eternity in suspended animation, China's ruthless Dragon Emperor and his 10,000 warriors have laid forgotten for eons, entombed in clay as a vast, silent terra cotta army. But when dashing adventurer Alex O'Connell is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 -- Sequel to the 2005 sleeper hit "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" in which four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another as their lives start off in different directions: they pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of their bodies perfectly.

SEPTEMBER
Nothing But the Truth -- The story centers on female newspaper reporter (Beckinsale) who outs a CIA agent and is imprisoned for refusing to reveal her source. Schwimmer will play Beckinsale's husband, who initially supports his wife's decision not to name names but as time goes by begins to resent her for choosing a principle over her family.

OCTOBER
Where The Wild Things Are -- "Where the Wild Things Are" follows the adventures of Max, a head-strong young boy who leaves home after having a fight with his mother -- only to find himself in a mysterious forest bordering a vast sea. Misunderstood and rebellious, Max sets sail to the land of the Wild Things, where mischief reigns.

NOVEMBER
Bond 22 -- No plot available. Craig will be back to reprise his role.

DECEMBER
The Day The Earth Stood Still -- A remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic about a humanoid alien named Klaatu (Keanu Reeves) who arrives on Earth accompanied by an indestructible, heavily armed robot and a warning to world leaders that their continued aggression will lead to annihilation by species watching from afar.

TBA 2008

Frank, Life, and Quotes

This blog has seemed to turn away from the original concept. Regardless, I enjoy blogging about random ideas, findings, and reviews on movies I love, hate, and love to hate. Although I have just recently posted my soon-to-be long list of holiday movie recommendations, I made my way over to Frank's Films and was pleasently surprised to see his review on BUG. I had mentioned a couple posts ago that I wanted to see what he thought of the movie. Frank, I'm always happy to see that you put so much effort and thought into your weekly movie reviews (PS, I will be renting Pi this week). So, if it counts - A+ for effort!

I'd like to think that beyond reviews, ramblings, and whatever else I can think of posting, that this blog is definitely a release from the frustrations of the "real world." Who likes the real world anyways? I want to live in Kansas with Dorthy and be married to John McClane, but not everyone gets what they want. So... I post.

Now, I post about quotes. Izzika IMed me (feel free to, by the way at: bgbeebs) earlier and asked if we could post some quotes on our fabulous blog. OF COURSE! I said. Who loves nothing more to have entire conversations based soley on various movie quotes that you know so well. There is no doubt that some of you, if not all of you, have said a movie quote today. If you haven't yet, you will and you won't even realize it. Today, for example, Izzika called me to tell me that she was "hungooooova'; famously said by Paul Rudd's character, "Brian," from Anchorman. Quote one of the day: Check!

There are classic quotes...

My personal favorite from Aliens:
Ripley: Get away from her, you bitch!

I can remember when I was young and my dad and I would have "father/daughter" movie nights (see, my love for movies is deeply rooted) every Saturday night. I was 8 years old watching Aliens. Can you believe it? I remember that everytime that line would come on near the end of the movie I would ask my daddy sweetly, "Can I say it, daddy?" And he would say, "Yes, but only around me". So I would walk around all day and night around my dad saying, "get away from her, you bitch!" It's funny the little things you remember. Now, 14 years later, I'm hoping that Santa brings me the Aliens Quadrilogy. A girl can dream.

There are common quotes...

As mentioned previously, a quote from Anchorman:
Ron: I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down, down into my belly...

Anchorman seems to be the most commonly quoted movie through my circle of close friends. Quotes constantly sneak their way into daily conversation, it's pretty bizarre.

Now I ask you all: What are you favorite quotes? Everyone has that movie that they are constantly quoting from (whether people realize it or not). What's that movie? What's that line?

T-Minus 25 Days

It's December! Holy cow! T-minus 25 days and counting for my broke butt to purchase oodles of gifts. Looks like everyone is getting $10 gift cards to Wal-Mart!

In the holiday spirit (or lack of), I thought it only appropriate to list some splendid holiday movies. Some are quite obvious others, not so much. If you feel I've not included a great movie then comment! We'll be sure to add it to our list of favorites. There will be no reviews in this post, however, just a long list of holiday movies that I enjoy and think you might too.

Updated 12/02/07 @ 2:57PM
Die Hard
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Love Actually
The Holiday
When Harry Met Sally
It's Christmas, Charlie Brown
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
**Bad Santa
**Joyeux Noel
**La Buche

"**" new addition

So far, that's all I can think of. My brain is mush. Feel free to add via comments and I'll be adding for the next 25 days. Eventually I will add my own tid-bits on each movie and I'll include yours as well!