We all love our lists… they provide a great jumping point for discussion and debate. I’ve put up a couple of list revolving around my most anticipated films of 2007… well this morning I came across another list with a bit of a different slant. MSNBC put up their list of their five LEAST anticipated films of 2007. Here is what they gave us:
“Wild Hogs”
Oprah, John Travolta shill that she’s become, devoted an entire episode recently to plugging this movie about four dispirited middle-aged men who hit the road on their motorcycles in search of their lost masculinity rather than simply see their doctor for testosterone replacement therapy.
“I Think I Love My Wife”
Hey, everybody! Remember when Chris Rock directed a movie in 2001 called “Head of State”? Remember how incredibly funny it was? Remember how we all loved it so much? No, you don’t? Oh wait, I remember now. It sucked, is why. But remember all those other movies he directed after that? All the none? Well now he’s at bat for the second time.“Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer”
My partner is a comic book nerd. And while he’s got a certain itchy excitement over this one (“OMG! Silver Surfer! And the guy from “Hellboy” who played the faun in “Pan’s Labyrinth” is the Silver Surfer!” Yes, it’s like that in my house.) because it looks like they were fanboy-faithful in character design and whatever, the fact remains that the first “Fantastic Four” movie was a steaming pile of crap.“Alien vs. Predator 2: AVP2”
I love it when a movie feels the need to name itself twice in the same title. Like the audience is so lazy they won’t be able to bother themselves to actually speak the entire thing, even when buying a ticket at the box office, so they give you an out. If you want to call it simply “AVP2” then you can and it’s okay.“Rush Hour 3”
I think at this point in his career you could approach Jackie Chan with a script about Duracell batteries and exploding pens and he’d go, “Okay, sure, I’ll do that. Pay me.” This is a guy who made some of the most flabbergastingly insane action movies of the past 25 years and now he’s taking it easy, hanging with good-times-fun-machine Brett Ratner, making sure the stunt doubles look sort of like him enough to pass and then cashing the checks. I suppose you can’t blame the man.
Now as for myself, I am personally looking forward to Fantastic Four 2 (not because I think it’ll be good… just because I’m a sucker for Sci-Fi/Comic book movies)… and yes… I’m looking forward to Rush hour 3.
Now I know what you’re thinking: “But Giovanni… you despise Chris Tucker”. Yes, I do despise Chris Tucker, but that doesn’t change the fact that I really enjoyed Rush Hour 2 and I’m looking forward to the third. Talentless Hack Tucker and all.
