So summer sucked. We had two tentpoles bracketing the summer, The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, which were certainly events even if they weren't as good as some of us wanted them to be, but not a whole lot else. Savages? Ted? SNOW WHITE, FOR GOD'S SAKE? And The Retarded Shit That Is Timothy Green is still about to be foisted upon us.

But Fall is looking pretty amazing. We have new movies by Paul Thomas Anderson, Rian Johnson, Martin McDonough, and Ben Affleck. And weird as it is to say that I'm excited because I see a movie is directed by Ben Affleck, he's gotten there with his first two films. Cloud Atlas and Flight look like they are at least very ambitious, and I'm curious about both of them.

In November we get a new Bond film (directed by Sam Mendes!), Stephen Spielberg's Lincoln with Daniel Day Motherfucking Lewis, and in December we get the Les Miserables musical movie I've been waiting on for 9 years ever since my mind was blown by the stage play AND a new Tarantino film. Also, there are high-profile adaptations of Anna Karenina, Life of Pi, and The Great Gatsby.

I'm not saying these will all be great. Some will probably prove extraordinarily disappointing. But look at the potential! Hope you're all as excited as I am. And I didn't even MENTION Taken 2.

I think the summer season has been pretty good so far, though the fall looks good as well, musicals aren't my thing, so i'll pass on Les Miserables along with The Hobbit, Great Gatsby sounds like a total yawn-fest as well. Taken 2 I am definitely pumped up to see, also looking forward to Cold Light Of Day, Red Dawn, Alex Cross, Jack Reacher, Zero Dark Thirty, Dredd, End Of Watch, Resident Evil Retribution and Looper.

With Resident Evil, Taken, and Bond, I think the true summer season of 2012 is yet to come. The latter two will hopefully be good enough to make people forget, at least temporarily about the crazes of Avengers and Rises. Since Moonrise Kingdom was the only good movie I saw this summer, summer felt more like fall to me.

Cloud Atlas looks and sounds completely ridiculous. The Anderson and Tarantino films look mediocre, and Jackson is proving that no matter what you've done in the past, it's never too late to make an ass of yourself. Lincoln should be strong but I'm actually more psyched for the three action tentpoles. I don't expect Evil to bring in many new fans to that franchise, but Taken 2 will hopefully garner wider attention for Olivier Megaton, who looks like a truly badass up and coming action director. And Skyfall looks awesome.

Inasmuch as the last Resident Evil barely made 60 million domestically, I don't think I could call it a tentpole in any way, and it saddens me a bit that you're excited for the 5th movie of a franchise that has never aspired to anything more than mediocrity. But hey, at least we can agree on Skyfall

Definitely excited for P.T. Anderson's The Master. I highly doubt it'll be mediocre. I wouldn't be surprised as, like with many of Anderson's film, it falls just short of perfection. But you can be pretty sure he'll make up for it with ambition.

There's nothing with being excited for another Resident Evil film, if you're not familiar with the games I can understand why you're not big on them.

I’ve played all of the main Resident Evil games and several of the spin offs. Doesn’t mean I have any interest in watching the movies.

Anyway; I’m excited for The Master.

Can't wait for Bond.

Did anyone see the Olympics stunt with the Queen?

Great Gatsby just got moved to next summer. Lame

Eh, I was more annoyed at World War Z getting moved to next summer.

They're probably trying to figure out how best to reveal Jay Gatsby's middle name is "Robin".

That's going to be a huge clusterfuck. They're trying to adapt an amazing but unadaptable novel and apparently fucking it eight ways from Sunday

Well I haven't read the novel, so it matters little to me how faithful the film is to it.

You add so much to the discussion and really endear yourself to the forum with these unnecessary, dismissive comments.

Moving on, this fall looks like it has a lot of potential. I think Flight looks like it could be really great, but who knows if Zemeckis will overload it with sentimentality or not. Obviously, I'm excited for the Anderson and Tarantino movies. Also, a new Haneke film!

Bond done by Sam Mendes is really exciting, Looper looks very good, and I'm with Kunz in that it's so weird to be excited for anything with Ben Affleck's name attached, but he's made 2 very good movies and his new one looks promising.

The Grey is still the best movie I've seen all year and nothing from this summer comes close. The fall/winter slate looks like it should provide Carnahan's mini masterpiece at least a few rivals.

It's not just a question of fidelity. The novel is an oral history of a massive, worldwide zombie war. It's an epic that transcends genre and becomes literature. And the movie is apparently just a straightforward run of the mill zombie movie. It'd be like adapting War and Peace to a 90 minute romcom

(1) HELL YEAH, I say, MICHAEL HANEKE! Amour this bitch multiplex! I can't wait.

(2) The Grey now holds my #2 spot for the year right behind Moonrise Kingdom. Both movies are far better than my numbers 2-10 of last year. I haven't seen a fair chunk of 2011's crop so let's no go crazy and start threatening my kneecaps.

You add so much to the discussion and really endear yourself to the forum with these unnecessary, dismissive comments.

Moving on, this fall looks like it has a lot of potential. I think Flight looks like it could be really great, but who knows if Zemeckis will overload it with sentimentality or not. Obviously, I'm excited for the Anderson and Tarantino movies. Also, a new Haneke film!

Bond done by Sam Mendes is really exciting, Looper looks very good, and I'm with Kunz in that it's so weird to be excited for anything with Ben Affleck's name attached, but he's made 2 very good movies and his new one looks promising.

The Grey is still the best movie I've seen all year and nothing from this summer comes close. The fall/winter slate looks like it should provide Carnahan's mini masterpiece at least a few rivals.[/quote]I'm just saying a film dosen't always have to be faithful to the novel to be good, and i'm sure the film isn't going to cover the entire novel, just part of it, maybe that's why the third act was re-written, so the film would leave room for a sequel.

Funny, my #1 and #2 of the year are the same as yours, just flip flopped. I guess I should have said no large summer release comes close.

Haneke is right there with PTA, Tarantino, the Coens, and a handful of other directors where everything they release has to be seen immediately by me. I've heard Amour is supposed to be Haneke with a heart, which is something I really need to see. Plus, movies about old people hold a soft spot for me.

Thread created! I'm wondering about Amour -- the last time the writer/director grew a heart, he killed off most of the world's population (Time of the Wolf).

Actually, they are trying to keep it as a massive zombie epic. That is one of the reasons it has been postponed with rewrites. Word is the first hour is extremely good and they are trying to keep the whole film that way.

(although I've also heard that the director has no hold on his cast and crew, so the movie is bellowing out of control.) can't wait to see how it turns out though...either a great success story or just another zombie of the month film.