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    30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
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    Image of El_Wray El_Wray
    01/09/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    you forgot to say X-Men origins is a MUST NOT WATCH film. I don't care if watchmen comes out on schedule. Fox shoud be punished.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/10/09

    @El_Wray: Well, this is a preview of the movies themselves... I already discussed the issue of the Fox boycott in a different post...
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    Image of chris.rich.design chris.rich.design
    01/09/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    No Disney-Pixar's Up?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/09/09

    @chris.rich.design: Is there anything SF or fantasy about that movie? I thought it was just about a guy who attaches balloons to his house.
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    Image of Richard Jay Cooper Richard Jay Cooper
    01/09/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    In my opinion, this has to be one of the best all-around articles you guys have posted. I have seen almost all the trailers, previews and "first glimpse" stuff you guys have put out on these films but this sums them all up in a really nice package. Thanks!
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/09/09

    @Richard Jay Cooper: Yay thanks!
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    Image of Steve Bunche Steve Bunche
    01/09/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    I work at the design firm that's handling some of the tie-in merchandise for Monsters Vs. Aliens and I can tell you from firsthand knowledge that the film has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Rex Havoc and the Asskickers of the Fantastic. I'd heard the film described as a Rex Havoc movie and almost jumped out of my skin upon hearing it since the Rex Havoc stories are some of my favorite comics of all time (there were four of them and they ran in Warren Publications' 1984 magazine), but upon seeing the material being worked on here at the design studio it's clear it ain't Rex Havoc. Is the film company still promoting it as such?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/09/09

    @Steve Bunche: Our former writer, Kevin Kelly, was the one who was sure it was a Rex Havoc movie... aren't some of these characters from the Rex Havoc comic? Maybe we just got misinformed. I'm seeing Jeffrey Katzenberg present some footage from the movie in a week or so, and I want to ask him about it.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    01/09/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    No mention of Fanboys?
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    Image of Adah Adah
    01/09/09

    @JediTrilobite: Does it have a definite release date? I feel like I've been reading about that movie since 2006.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/09/09

    @Adah: I think it's coming out in a few months. We cover it on the site because it's so closely related to science fiction, but I didn't feel the need to include it on a list of SF/F movies.
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    Image of Andrew Liptak Andrew Liptak
    01/09/09

    @Adah: Wikipedia lists it as being released February 6th, 2009.
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    Image of Anthony Moody Anthony Moody
    01/08/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    When is Time Traveler's Wife supposed to come out?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/09/09

    @Anthony Moody: Hmmm good question. I feel like that movie dropped off the radar. I know it's done filming. At least I think it is. I should look into that!
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    01/08/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    Ugh.


    I like the concept of "The Box," but Kelly's Southland Tales was the first movie to make me actually shake with anger. That movie was so epic in its shittiness that I have to spit whenever I hear the name.


    Ok, that was overdramtic, I admit. But I fucking hate that movie.

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    Image of MinervaAlpaca MinervaAlpaca
    01/08/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    And again the new UNDERWORLD movie gets snubbed?


    I'd claim werewolf discrimination, but THE WOLFMAN and NEW MOON both got listed.


    What have you folks got against UNDERWORLD?

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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/09/09

    @MinervaAlpaca: Isn't it set during the middle ages? It's a prequel, right? We talked about it the other day and decided it doesn't quite fit in with the idea of "urban fantasy or fantasy that takes place in the present day." Arbitrary, I know, but there you have it.
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    Image of holographicProfessorMoriarty holographicProfessorMoriarty
    01/08/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    And don't forget that the company making Astro Boy has run out of money meaning that it may never get finished unless they acquire more funding.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/09/09

    @dOk: Wow, where did you hear that? Interesting.
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    Image of Quilt Quilt
    01/08/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    A few interesting movies in there. It should be a decent year...especially with TWO children-focused Rock movies!
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    Image of fatetwister64 fatetwister64
    01/08/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    Looks like no World War Z till 2010 :(
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    Image of Meirelle Meirelle
    01/08/09

    @fatetwister64: Well, think of it this way-- it'll give you something to live for. That's what I do. "Dude, I really want to kill myself, but I can't until ________." It's what gets me through every day.
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    Image of billygoat117 billygoat117
    01/08/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    Don't ask me why, but for some reason I always assumed that Avatar was based on that anime. Is it? Or am I just a dummy?
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    01/08/09

    @billygoat117: That's a totally seaprate movie, from M. Night Shyamalan. That will be called "The Last Airbender"
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    Image of BStu BStu
    01/08/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    Woah, the kid from Third Rock is playing a certain commanding officer of a certain snake based terrorist organization? Seriously? I mean, I didn't expect that they'd all be so colorfully attired as in the cartoon, but I was not expecting Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Guess I missed that spoiler.
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    01/10/09

    @BStu: With respect, you need to get out more. In addition to the above films, check out Brick.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    01/08/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    Outlander, MvA, They, 9, and Coraline are at the top of my list; ST, RotF, T:S, Wolverine, & Surrogates will do for 'popcorn flicks'; Avatar & Watchmen are on the fence, and I'll pass on most of the rest. Especially anything Will Ferrel contaminated.
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    01/08/09

    In reply to 30 Fantastic Movies To Watch (Or Avoid) This Year
    Sleestaks. Those guys scared the shit out of me when I was 3. Shuffling toward you, shooting off feeble little crossbow flechettes, going "rzzz" like the rats on a Frank Zapp album cover ...
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    Image of Sproing Sproing
    01/08/09

    @Sproing: ZappA.
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