Godzilla is fed up with all your crude ‘Pacific Rim Job’ jokes. He’s also here to show us how a biblical flood wouldn’t bother him a bit.
This might be a good place to begin listing our Most Anticipated Films of 2014. We’ll sort the lists into two stacks — Oscar potential and popcorn entertainment — and then put the titles in a poll to see what comes out on top. In past years these informal uurveys have been remarkably accurate in culling a top 20 cream-of-the-crop from which all the BP nominees will be drawn.
Most anticipated Oscar movies:
Interstellar
Foxcatcher
Gone Girl
Exodus
Most anticipated Popcorn Movies:
Godzilla
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
X-Men: Days of Futures Past
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.
“Gone Girl”. Your 2014 oscar winner for BP and BD. David Fincher. Extremely overdue. If it’s great, it’ll be hard to stop.
Popcorn:
X-Men: Days to Future Past
Maleficent
Hunger Games 3
300: Rise of the Empire
Godzilla
The Hobbit 3
Sin City 2
Quality Film:
Knight of Cups/ Untitle Terrence Malick movie
Gone Girl
Carol (maybe a 2015 release)
Suit Fraincaise
Map To The Stars
A Most Wanted Man
Noah
Exodus
The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: His & Hers
Miss Julie
The Imitation Game
and the one with Sigourney Weaver and Isabelle Huppert
I also want to see
The boxtrolls
Son of god
300 2: rote
The equalizer
The best movie of 2014 so Far is grand piano and monuments men
Top ten most anticipated filmfs
1. The hobbit there back and again
2. Interstellar
3. Noah
4. Captain america: tws
5. Unbroken
6. Inherent vice
7. X men days of future past
8. A million dollars in the west
9. Neighbors
10. Dumb and dumber to
11. Dawn of the planet of the apes
12. Godzilla
13. Edge of tommorrow
14. Jupiter ascending
I want to see godzilla it looks awesome.
I’m totally excited for this movie. It really seems to be taking Godzilla in a serious and scary direction… the sort of thing he hasn’t represented in a long time.
Don’t get me wrong… I love me some campy giant monster fun (Godzilla: Final Wars is a particular favorite), but bringing him back to his roots as an unstoppable force of nature has the potential to be something really powerful.
And with a cast like that, it’s clear those involved believed in the material. Bryan Cranston’s narration is particularly effective in the trailer.
What i’m looking forward to most:
Inherent Vice
Untitled Michael Mann Thriller (Jan 15, but Oscar run probable)
The Imitation Game
Can A Song Save Your Life?
Gone Girl
Unbroken
Wild
Cameron Crowe Untitled
Foxcatcher
Knight of Cups
Grand Budapest Hotel
Magic in the Moonlight
Interstellar
Fury
Birdman
The Giver
A Most Wanted Man
Laggies
Snow Piercer
Whiplash
This is everything I’ve got:
Potential Awards Bait:
Inherent Vice (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson)
Gone Girl (dir. David Fincher)
Foxcatcher (dir. Bennett Miller)
Exodus (dir. Ridley Scott)
Fury (dir. David Ayer)
Big Eyes (dir. Tim Burton)
Trash (dir. Stephen Daldry)
The Immigrant (dir. James Gray)
Serena (dir. Susanne Bier)
The Search (dir. Michel Hazanavicius)
The Imitation Game (dir. Morten Tyldum)
Wild (dir. Jean-Marc Vallee)
Grace Of Monaco (dir. Olivier Dahan)
Untitled Cameron Crowe Hawaii Movie
Specialty/Genre Stuff:
Snowpiercer (dir. Bong Joon-ho)
The Raid 2: Berendal (dir. Gareth Evans)
The Rover (dir. David Michod)
Midnight Special (dir. Jeff Nichols)
Jane Got A Gun (dir. Gavin O’Connor)
They Came Together (dir. David Wain)
A Walk Among The Tombstones (dir. Scott Frank)
Blood Ties (dir. Guillame Canet)
The Drop (dir. Michael R. Roskam)
The Trip To Italy (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
God Help The Girl (dir. Stuart Murdoch)
Zero Theorem (dir. Terry Gilliam)
Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland)
Welcome To Me (dir. Shira Piven)
Interesting Mainstream Fare:
Interstellar (dir. Chris Nolan)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (dir. Wes Anderson)
Noah (dir. Darren Aronofsky)
The Interview (dir. Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg)
Transcendence (dir. Wally Pfister)
Big Hero 6 (dir. Don Hall & Chris Williams)
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (dir. Matt Reeves)
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (dir. Anthony & Joe Russo)
X: Men Days Of Future Past (dir. Bryan Singer)
Godzilla (dir. Gareth Edwards)
Guardians Of The Galaxy (dir. James Gunn)
The Hobbit: There And Back Again (dir. Peter Jackson)
Jupiter Ascending (dir. The Wachowskis)
22 Jump Street (dir. Phil Lord & Chris Miller)
Jersey Boys (dir. Clint Eastwood)
Tammy (dir. Ben Falcone)
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For (dir. Robert Rodriguez & Frank Miller)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 (dir. Francis Lawrence)
Chef (dir. Jon Favreau)
Neighbors (dir. Nicholas Stoller)
The Fault In Our Stars (dir. Josh Boone)
The Giver (dir. Phillip Noyce)
Muppets Most Wanted (dir. James Bobin)
The Boxtrolls (dir. Graham Annable & Anthony Stacchi)
Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (dir. Miguel Arteta)
Dumb And Dumber To (dir. The Farrelly Brothers)
Indies & Outliers:
Boyhood (dir. Richard Linklater)
Nymphomaniac 1 + 2 (dir. Lars Von Trier)
Birdman (dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu)
Maps To The Stars (dir. David Cronenberg)
Under The Skin (dir. Jonathan Glazer)
Calvary (dir. John Michael McDonagh)
Magic In The Moonlight (dir. Woody Allen)
Only Lovers Left Alive (dir. Jim Jarmusch)
The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby: His & Hers (dir. Ned Benson)
Whiplash (dir. Damien Chazelle)
Locke (dir. Steven Knight)
The Cut (dir. Faith Akin)
Two Days, One Night (dir. The Dardennes)
The Double (dir. Richard Ayoade)
Night Moves (dir. Kelly Reichardt)
A Most Wanted Man (dir. Anton Corbijn)
Venus In Fur (dir. Roman Polanski)
Every Thing Will Be Fine (dir. Wim Wenders)
The Congress (dir. Ari Folman)
Sils Maria (dir. Olivier Assayas)
Joe (dir. David Gordon Green)
The Voices (dir. Marjane Satrapi)
While We’re Young (dir. Noah Baumbach)
True Story (dir. Rupert Goold)
The Judge (dir. David Dobkin)
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy)
Eden (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
Tracks (dir. John Curran)
Love & Mercy (dir. Bill Pohlad)
Child 44 (dir. Daniel Espinosa)
The Duke Of Burgundy (dir. Peter Strickland)
Far From The Madding Crowd (dir. Thomas Vinterberg)
Slow West (dir. John Maclean)
Enemy (dir. Denis Villeneuve)
Hide Your Smiling Faces (dir. Daniel Patrick Carbone)
99 Homes (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
Possibly 2015 Releases:
Queen Of The Desert (dir. Werner Herzog)
Men Women & Children (dir. Jason Reitman)
Carol (dir. Todd Haynes)
Knight Of Cups (dir. Terrence Malick)
The Creed Of Violence (dir. Todd Field)
Manglehorn (dir. David Gordon Green)
The Lobster (dir. Yorgos Lantthimos)
Black Mass (dir. Scott Cooper)
Unicorn Store (dir. Miguel Arteta)
Squirrel To The Nuts (dir. Peter Bogdanovich)
Blackbird (dir. David Mamet)
Untitled Noah Baumbach/Greta Gerwig film set in a public school
Everest (dir. Doug Liman)
Theory Of Everything (dir. James Marsh)
Oh, I forgot the sequels to How To Train Your Dragon and Hot Tub Time Machine. Doh.
I didn’t mention Unbroken or Into The Woods because I am not anticipating them, nor am I anticipating Clerks 3.
Oscar potential:
Interstellar(Gravity give it the necessary boost)
Boyhood(what an interested experiment from an underrated filmmaker)
Inherent Vice(PTA doing a detective story? Yes please. Phoenix’s last two efforts have really pushed him as one of the best today)
Foxcatcher(Speaking of underrated filmmaker, it’s good to see Miller working consistently. Bummed this didn’t come out last year. Hoping this isn’t some disaster)
Gone Girl(Any wait between a Fincher film is a tough wait)
A Most Wanted Man(Corbin and Hoffman in his last role. I’m there.
Grand Budapest Hotel(after Moonrise Kingdom was his best effort in some time, Anderson looks like he’s on track. I think i under appreciate Ralph Fiennes.
Blockbuster:
Godzilla
Captain America: The Winter Soldier(kind of looks like what I would want with Cap’s traditional moral views challenged by a less idealized complicated world)
Guardians of the Galaxy(something inspired James Gunn)
Sin City 2
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes or w/e it’s called
22 Jump Street(please be as sharp as the first)
The movie looks outstanding, and I trust the director, “Monsters” was one of a kind and would have been a good Best Picture nominee, to be honest.
Yes! And I will remind. Been looking at promising stuff all day. I know some readers have other lists too so I’ll just make sure I add whatever I find 🙂
I was going to do a big as list, but I don’t want to have a 150 most anticipated, talk about overkill. So I’ll just talk about POSH and another project from writer-director Ramin Bahrani, 99 HOMES. Bahrani, who is yet to disappoint, cast Andrew Garfield (who urgently needs to make good movies again), Michael Shannon, Laura Dern.
Garfield, “a man whose home is lost in a foreclosure, but who’s soon able to attain financial solace employed under the real estate broker responsible for this original loss.”
Yup, sounds topical like a Bahrani, whether is hammy melodrama or return to the more subtle yet powerful stuff, I’m in.
Bryce, not sure if you’ve noticed whenever I put a poll together, but usually as soon as I post a selection of 100 obvious choices I get to spend half a day adding 50 more titles that everyone helps to remind me I forgot
Boyhood, Richard Linklater
I have this weird feeling I have seen every single shot of this trailer in other movies.
I don’t have my list on hand at the moment. But the movies that no one has mentioned yet are Big Eyes and the Zero Theorem. Yes Christoph Waltz is starring in both of them. That is enough for me and it should be for you too.
Most anticipated Oscar films:
Unbroken (Directed by Angelina Jolie and written by the Coen Brothers & Richard LaGravenese)
Into the Woods (The cast alone has me excited, but if done correctly this could be a great movie musical)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (I am not going to have to wait too long for this one, and it definitely looks like something you need to see on the big screen)
Wild (Any Oscar movie starring a sole woman is always of interest to me, plus the plot sounds interesting)
Nailed (This sounds like the David O. Russell I fell in love with from Three Kings)
Inherent Vice (Even P.T. Anderson’s worst is better than most people’s best, and this sounds like the perfect material for him)
Most anticipated popcorn films:
Godzilla (I have loved him ever since I was a little kid, hopefully it will erase the bad memories of the last time he came to the U.S.A.)
Noah (I am not sure how this will turn out, but I will follow Aronofsky anywhere)
How To Train Your Dragon 2 (The first one was a pleasant surprise, and hopefully this sequel will improve on the first like the second Toy Story did)
Jupiter Ascending (Cloud Atlas restored my faith in the Wachowski siblings after the Matrix sequels disaster)
X-Men: Days of Future Past (With Bryan Singer back at the helm and all four versions of Prof. X and Magneto, I am hopeful this will be more than just a comic book movie)
Most anticipated popcorn/Oscar films:
Interstellar (Much like Gravity and Inception, this film has the potential to do really well with all audiences)
Grand Budapest Hotel
X-Men Days of Futures Past
A Million Ways to Die in the West
22 Jump Street
Jupiter Ascending
Sin City 2
Interstellar
The Zero Theorem
The Hobbit
Unbroken
Exodus
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Oh yeah…and my most anticipated, slightly in order from most to least…
Oscar Potential:
Foxcatcher
Grand Budapest Hotel
Interstellar
Inherent Vice
Gone Girl
Noah
Transcendence
Jersey Boys
Unbroken
Into the Woods
Popcorn movies:
The Hobbit: There and Back Again (possibly contender as well if Jackson hits it out the park? It’s by far the most epic and dramatic part of the book)
Guardians of the Galaxy
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Muppets Most Wanted
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Godzilla
Jupiter Ascending
Maleficent
The Hunger Games
Love the 2001 music; it really ramps up the tension and sense of awe. Bryan Cranston looks to be in fine form as usual. It couldn’t possibly be as bad as the Matthew Broderick one, right?
Love the 2001 music
Gyorgi Ligeti, “Requiem For Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two Mixed Choirs And Orchestra”
(Knew it was Ligeti. Had to look up the title.)
Most Anticipated – Oscar
1. Noah
2. Godzilla
3. Interstellar
4. Hobbit 3
5. Heaven is for Real
6. How to Train Your Dragon 2
7. Exodus
Most Anticipated – Popcorn
1. Hot Tub Time Machine 2
2. X-Men: DFP
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Divergent
5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
6. Sin City 2
7. Hunger Games 3
This movie could actually be quite good, and it has a hell of a cast. And speaking of exceeding expectations, “The Lego Movie” just came out way too early to be considered for Best Picture, right? Because I honestly have a hard time believing I’ll see 9 more movies this year I enjoy more than that one. Loved it.
GODZILLA trailer suggests to me the overall mood/visual style of the pic (or at least the ambition) is something of a “John Martin meets CONTAGION”. For real:
Here’s Martin’s ‘The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum’
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Destruction_of_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum.jpg
And the trailer of Soderbergh’s CONTAGION:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5g
What a beautiful trailer! I hope it’s considered for some top honors in the next ceremony.
(provided it’s as good as the trailer suggests!)