Upcoming movies

Similar to how Nolan has the record industry as his cause, so to speak, I'm a big proponent of the movie industry. With that needless introduction out of the way, here's a list of stuff I'm looking forward to, or are at least intrigued by:

The Golden Compass

I read the His Dark Materials trilogy back in middle school and loved it, and so I really hope this movie can live up to it to some degree. I'm sure New Line is hoping the same, seeing as it cost upwards $180 million to make. Though honestly I'm happy just to be seeing giant cgi polar bears kicking ass (the polar bear is my favorite bear by far - it's almost stupid how much I value them over other rather viable bears like the grizzly), you all should go see it.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tim Burton, Johhny Depp, Alan Rickman, rousing musical numbers and people made into pies. Do I really need to say more? Go see this movie. Side note: I tried to link the trailer from the official site, but their flash code was really weird and I couldn't get an autoPlay=false command to work so I had to go with youtube.

There Will Be Blood

Daniel Day-Lewis alone makes this worth seeing. The trailer looks more intriguing than anything, but it promises big things and certainly looks compelling. Also, Jonny Greenwood (guitarist from Radiohead) is doing the score, which is kinda cool I guess.

Alvin and the Chipmunks

Honestly I'm a bit ashamed to be posting this here. I was horrified when I heard they were making an Alvin movie (despite a family tradition where we listen to the Alvin and the Chipmunks Christmas record every holiday season and a tendency to watch the cartoon as a child and pretend I was actually watching Rescue Rangers, which was a bad-ass show.) and felt sorry for Jason Lee that he felt his career was over enough to sign on for a role like this. And then I saw the new trailer, and actually found myself laughing and such.

I'm still not sure about the film, but Jason Lee seems fairly on his game and will likely make or break it. There's a fair chance I won't actually see this one, regardless, but what the hell - that shouldn't stop you!

Black Devil Doll

Does a day go by where I'm not looking forward to Black Devil Doll? Not really, no. It stands to be the family feel-good movie of 2008. Calling it now. Though surprisingly enough it isn't even the first black devil doll movie; there was apparently a film "videoed" (the box's word, not mine) in 1984 called Black Devil Doll from Hell that according to IMDB has one named person in the cast. I'm pretty sure I need find and buy this movie.