Happy New Year! Top fives and trailers all around!
Happy New Year, CHers! The confetti’s been tossed, the champagne’s dripped all over the floor, and we’re looking at a stormy, gray January as we stare down our lists of resolutions (or in my case, “suggestions”). But never fear: with a new year comes a whole new crop of movies to anticipate, and things are looking positively spring-like for 2008.
Here, to start things off, is the Cinema Hype Top Five Most-Anticipated Movies of 2008:
1. Leatherheads
There is no way, in my humble but accurate opinion, that this movie can be anything but awesome. Intern George directing and starring! Renee Zellweger unscrunching her face for the first time since “you had me at hello!” And look how dreamy John Krasinski is. In the uniform, with his hair all slicked? Also, uh, football. Sure. We like sports movies. Count us in.
2. The Time Traveler’s Wife (No trailer available)
If this movie isn’t good, expect an uprising: cranky bookworms of the world, unite! On the other hand, how can it be bad? This story about a man who time-travels involuntarily and the woman he falls in love with feels like a good movie. Kleenex required, though.
3. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Why does this trailer make me feel all fluttery inside? I’m not gonna lie: it might be Lee Pace with a tux and a British accent. But doesn’t it just look like fun? Snappy dialogue-ish, big-band, Amy Adams-as-ingenue fun? I want to hang out with this movie.
4. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (no trailer available)
Another chrono-ambulatory love story, this time based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald story of the same title. Brad Pitt stars as Benjamin Button, who’s born an old man and ages backwards. Unfortunately for everyone, he falls in love with a 30-year-old woman (Cate Blanchett). Sounds cool, no? And if all else fails, sign us up for a theme-DVD night (with The Time Traveler’s Wife and, I don’t know, Somewhere in Time? Oh, you know you love it. Don’t lie).
5. Get Smart
AHAHAHAHA. I’m so looking forward to this, to the point where I’m considering liking Anne Hathaway (as Agent 99). Strong words, no?
So that’s where we stand. What are your top movies for 2008?
Leatherheads, George Clooney, Renee Zellweger, John Krasinski, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Frances McDormand, Amy Adams, Lee Pace, The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Get Smart, Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Top 5s, upcoming movies, trailers
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