Fall Movie Preview

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Welcome to the suck. Fall is generally a craptacular season if you’re a movie-goer. A large portion of Hollywood’s target audience is back in school, and for whatever reason, the entertainment industry has yet to realize students get weekends off. As such, whatever movies that studio executives didn’t have enough faith in to release during the summer get dumped in the autumnal months. That isn’t to say the season is a complete bust. There is a spike in quality around Thanksgiving. Even though Harry Potter waved his wand and disapperated from November, there’s still another Britisher to celebrate Turkey Day with — James Bond.

Associated Press has a list of all the movie scheduled for release between now and Christmas. Out of almost 100 titles, it’s pretty bogus that less than 20 are movies that I’ll definitely see. I’m not terribly familiar with a good number of these films. At any rate, I’ve lumped them into four lists, based on my degree of interest at this very moment. I might reverse my position on a few of these films down the line.

Must-See Filums:

Bangkok Dangerous
Burn After Reading
City Of Ember
Defiance
Eagle Eye
Madagascar Escape 2 Africa
Punisher War Zone
Quantum Of Solace
Quarantine
Religulous
Righteous Kill
Saw V
Sukiyaki Western Django
The Road
The Spirit
W.
Zack And Miri Make A Porno
Transporter 3

Might-See Filums:

Appaloosa
Australia
Blindness
Body Of Lies
Changeling
Choke
Gran Torino
Igor
Max Payne
Milk
Miracle At St. Anna
Nick & Nora’s Infinite Playlist
Pride And Glory
Rachel Getting Married
Revolutionary Road
Rocknrolla
Synedoche, New York
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
Towelhead
Valkyrie
Yes Man

Won’t-See Filums:

A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers
Babylon A.D.
Ballast
Battle In Seattle
Bedtime Stories
Bolt
Breakfast With Scot
Doubt
Filth And Wisdom
Flash Of Genius
Forever Strong
Four Christmases
Frost/Nixon
Happy-Go-Lucky
Hounddog
How To Lose Friends And Alienate People
Humboldt County
Hurricane Season
I’ve Loved You So Long
Lake City
Lakeview Terrace
Marley & Me
Mister Foe
Morning Light
Nights In Rodanthe
Noah’s Arc Jumping The Broom
Nobel Son
Nothing Like The Holidays
Ping Pong Playa
Role Models
Seven Pounds
Sex Drive
Soul Men
Surfer, Dude
The Boy In The Striped Pajamas
The Brothers Bloom
The Day The Earth Stood Still
The Duchess
The Express
The Haunting Of Molly Hartley
The Lucky Ones
The Secret Life Of Bees
The Soloist
The Tale Of Despereaux
The Women
Traitor
Waltz With Bashir
Wendy And Lucy
What Just Happened

Eff These Filums:

An American Carol
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
College
Disaster Movie
Ghost Town
High School Musical 3
My Best Friend’s Girl
Repo! The Genetic Opera
Twilight
Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys

I don’t know about you, but I’ll definitely be catching up on a lot of reading this fall. Summer’s definitely over, kids.

-Brad Lohan

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