Wednesday, January 02, 2008

2008 movies

Movies im interested to see this year (not in any particular order. movie info from joblo.com and imdb.com):

1. The Incredible Hulk
(Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt)

Bruce Banner desperately hunts for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk.

Living in the shadows—cut off from a life he knew and the woman he loves, Betty Ross —Banner struggles to avoid the obsessive pursuit of his nemesis, General Thunderbolt Ross, and the military machinery that seeks to capture him and brutally exploit his power.

2. Iron Man
(Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow)

When Tony Stark is forced to create a life support suit to keep him alive after an accident he decides to use the technology in his suit to fight crime.

3. You Don't Mess with the Zohan
(Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lainie Kazan)

A Mossad agent fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist.

4. The Love Guru
(Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan Good, Verne Troyer, Ben Kingsley)

Pitka is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke's wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid - to the horror of the teams' owner Jane Bullard and Coach Cherkov. Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old "Bullard Curse" and win the Stanley Cup.

5. Meet the Spartans
(Sean Maguire, Carmen Electra, Ken Davitian, Kevin Sorbo, Diedrich Bader)

The heroic Leonidas, armed with nothing by leather underwear and a cape, leads a ragtag group of 13 - count'em, 13! -- Spartans to defend their homeland against the invading Persians (whose ranks include Ghost Rider, Rocky Balboa, the Transformers and a hunchbacked Paris Hilton).

6. Penelope
(Christina Ricci, Reese Witherspoon, Catherine O'Hara, Peter Dinklage, Nick Frost)

Penelope is a modern day offbeat fable about a young woman who, having spent her life trapped by a family curse sets out to find love and discover her true self.

7. The Dark Knight
(Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman)

Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker, whilst other forces plot against them, and Joker's crimes grow more and more deadly.

8. Jumper
(Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell, Teresa Palmer)

Once David Rice (Christensen) discovers he has the power to teleport from one place to another, he uses his ability to search for the man he believes is responsible for the death of his mother. Complicating his mission is the existence of a secret organization who want to exterminate people like David, which causes the young man to enter into a shaky alliance with a fellow "jumper" (Bell).

9. Semi-pro
(Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Andre Benjamin, Will Arnett, Rob Corddry, Jackie Earle Haley)

an outrageous comedy set in 1976 , Jackie Moon, the owner-coach-player of the American Basketball Association's Flint Michigan Tropics, rallies his teammates to make their NBA dreams come true

10. Be Kind Rewind
( Jack Black, Mos Def, Danny Glover)

Unaware that he has a magnetized brain, a man (Jack Black) accidentally erases every tape at the video store where his friend (Mos Def) works. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.

11. Horton Hears a Who!
((voices) Jim Carrey, Steve Carell)

An imaginative elephant named Horton (Carrey) hears a faint cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Although Horton doesn't know it yet, that speck houses an entire city named Who-ville, inhabited by the microscopic Whos, led by the Mayor (Carell). Despite being ridiculed and threatened by his neighbors who think he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to save the particle...because "a person's a person no matter how small."

12. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
(Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Sacha Baron Cohen, Alan Rickman)

Based on the hit Broadway musical which tells the infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett.

13. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
(Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Helena Bonham Carter, David Bradley, Jim Broadbent, Jessie Cave, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Frank Dillane, Tom Felton, Michael Gambon, Matthew Lewis, Evanna Lynch, Helen McCrory, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Natalia Tena, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Julie Walters, David Thewlis, Bonnie Wright)

14. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
(Jason Segal, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd)

Devastated Peter (Segel) takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah (Bell). Little does he know Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex ... and she's bringing along her new boyfriend.

15. Mamma Mia
(Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan SkarsgÄrd, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, Christine Baranski)

The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA.

16. Wall-E
((voices) Fred Willard, Jeff Garlin, Ben Burtt)

The year is 2700. WALL*E, a robot, spends every day doing what he was made for. But soon, he will discover what he was meant for.

17. Step Brothers
(Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Mary Steenburgen, Richard Jenkins)

Two spoiled guys (Ferrell and Reilly) become competitive stepbrothers after their single parents get hitched.

18. Starship Dave
(Eddie Murphy, Gabrielle Union, Ed Helms, Elizabeth Banks)

A crew of miniature aliens operate a spaceship that has a human form. While trying to save their planet, the aliens encounter a new problem, as their ship becomes smitten with an Earth woman

19. Baby Mama
(Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Maura Tierney, Holland Taylor, Sigourney Weaver)

A successful, single businesswoman who dreams of having a baby discovers she is infertile and hires a working class woman to be her unlikely surrogate.

20. Speedracer
(Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman, Susan Sarandon, Matthew Fox, Hiroyuki Sanada, Richard Roundtree, Ji Hoon Jung (aka “Rain”))

Based on the classic 1960's Japanese animated series chronicling the aspirations of a young race car driver as he attempts to obtain glory, with the help of his family and the Mach 5, the advanced car created by his father.

21. Hellboy II: The Golden Army
(Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Luke Goss, Doug Jones, Jeffrey Tambor)

The mythical world starts a rebellion against humanity in order to rule the Earth, so Hellboy and his team must save the world from the rebellious creatures.

22. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
(Harrison Ford, Shia LaBeouf, Cate Blanchett, John Hurt, Ray Winstone)

Plot unknown

23. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
(Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello, John Hannah, Michelle Yeoh, Anthony Wong, Luke Ford, Isabella Leong)

In the Far East, trouble-seeking father-and-son duo Rick (Fraser) and Alex O'Connell (Ford) unearth the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin (Li) -- a shape-shifting entity who was cursed by a wizard (Yeoh) centuries ago.

24. Hancock
(Will Smith, Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman)

A hard-living superhero (Smith) who has fallen out of favor with the public enters into a questionable relationship with the wife (Theron) of the public relations professional (Bateman) who's trying to repair his image.


25. Teeth (limited release...so it might not be shown here)
(Jess Weixler)

High school student Dawn, still a stranger to her own body, discovers she has a physical advantage when she becomes the object of male violence.


26. My Blueberry Nights (limited)
( Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman)

Elizabeth (Jones) takes a soul-searching journey across America to resolve her questions about love while encountering a series of offbeat characters on her route.

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