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Fandango’s MOST ANTICIPATED BLOCKBUSTERS FOR 2009
According to Men:
1. Star Trek 23%
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen 17%
3. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 14%
4. X-Men Origins: Wolverine 9%
5. Terminator Salvation 7%
6. Watchmen 7%
7. Angels & Demons 5%
8. Public Enemies 3%
9. G.I. Joe 3%
10. New Moon 3%
According to Women:
1. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 25%
2. New Moon 15%
3. Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen 11%
4. Angels & Demons 9%
5. X-Men Origins: Wolverine 7%
6. Star Trek 6%
7. Public Enemies 5%
8. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian 4%
9. The Lovely Bones 3%
10. Where the Wild Things Are 2%
Editor-in-Chief Nikki Finke - tip her here.
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This list is just a reminder how off the radar my film tastes are compared with Joe Public. Even as a teenager, I had no time for the comic book blockbusters. I hope some clever alternatives come down the pike this new year or it’s all documentaries for me.
Ooooo, top five are all sequels. Can’t wait!
For total boxoffice gross, I think the women’s list is the clear winner here. I’m just surprised that Public Enemies makes the list, because I just can’t imagine that anyone has even heard of it yet.
Star Trek, Transformers and Terminator are my top 3. Want to see Public Enemies too.
My top five are 1. Watchmen, 2. Terminator Salvation,
3. Star Trek, 4. Public Enemies, 5. Wolverine.
Peace Out !
Only 2% of women for Where the Wild Things Are? That would definitely be in my top three for next year.
Happy holidays everyone. Anyone bemoan the fact that gone are the days of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, BEN HUR, DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, SPARTACUS and other pre-blockbuster extravaganzas? Quality movies that demand your respect and attention, even decades later.
Now that my local theater jacked rates up to $15 there isn’t one movie on that list I will be seeing in 2009. They just don’t look terribly worthwhile, you know what I mean? Hey, I’ll endure another “I’m King of the World” Oscar acceptance speech if some director/financier/producer/exec wants to set his sights above grade-three kiddie projects.
I think you’re all full of crap and you’re just angling for favorites. Of course the most anticipated movies are sequels because we haven’theard of the rest. I’m waiting for the gems that no one knows about yet.
Nikki stop the hype machine. Or at least re-title it. The ten movies that studios have spent over $100 million on between production and marketing and hope and pray there’s some wannasee value.
The real movies I want to see haven’t hit DHD radar. Yet. But you’re good, Nikii. I feel certain they will. In time.
The only two movies I want to see right now on that list are..
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen
Angels & Demons-Looks interesting, but want to read the book first before I see the movie.
However; those can even wait for DVD..
Why waste $10 on a movie, $10 parking, $20 for food, and then put up with a kid screaming in your ear, someone talking next to you or a teenager texting in front of you? When you can watch the movies from the comfort of your own home and save money doing it.
1. Avatar
JJ Abrams’ Star Trek at number one with 23% of the vote, well above the Transformers sequel?
Pffft. Yeah right.
I will eat my hat and the coat that came with it if those numbers are the same come the end of April/beginning of May.
As I’ve said before, I’ll be in line to see Abrams’ reboot of Star Trek, opening weekend. But I honestly just don’t see the hordes of MySpace loving tweens and Mountain Dew swilling kids that the studios covet so much doing the same.
Paramount want this to be an Iron Man sized summer hit. But I think, at the end of the day, it will be closer to Cloverfield.
But in saying that…. I have been wrong before.
Again I have said it before…do not count out Star Trek folks. This is a franchise that was literally screaming REBOOT! REBOOT! The trailer kicks butt and will easily open in the low 80′s on opening weekend. By far my most anticipated movie of 2009 and I’m not even a Trekkie. Watchmen will be up there just for the sole fact that the trailer played in front of TDK so that has huge awareness factor. Terminator, the only thing with that one is that it too much resembles the bots in Transformers, ont he basis of the footage screened its increasingly becoming derivative.
I seen many of the trailers to the films mentioned and the only trailer that really stood out for me as a must see is “Watchmen”. But then again I am not a true fan of the Action genre.
Avatar will kill everything in its path.
soul surfer…the 2nd chance of bethany hamilton
1. Avatar.
2. Everything else.
I can’t wait for New Moon! Hope it’s better than Twilight.
1. Avatar
2. Who gives a fuck
Avatar is by far my most anticipated film of 2009.
I think the moviegoing public will be blown away by it–kind of like how people in ’77 felt after watching Star Wars, or people in ’93 felt when they saw those first dinosaurs munching on the trees in Jurassic Park.
A true sense of wonder and “how the hell am I seeing what I’m seeing?” has been missing from cinema for way too long.
I am definitely looking forward to STAR TREK, looks like a big, lavish fun adventure with some old style space opera melodrama thrown in.
I hope Leonard Nimoy as Spock has a substantial role, he will bring much added class and gravitas to the proceedings – he’s a big selling point as far as I am concerned.
The great thing about this flick is that its New Age-Old School Retro, it’s a prequel, a reboot *and* a sequel – how many movies manage to do that?
JJ Abrams is a talented artist, and he can pull this off, judging by the trailer the action is fast and furious, and for once a STAR TREK film looks like it was made for the big screen.
Whatever happened to SHANGHAI starring John Cusack & Gong Li?
I’m a woman and I don’t care to see any of the movies on either list.
Hands down, 2009 is all about Kathryn Bigelow, Jeremy Renner and The Hurt Locker.
I’m a 30-year-old male, and none of those movies sound remotely interesting.
If I were Universal, I’d be worried about the deafening silence around its $120 million Land of the Lost.
The 3% of men who anticipate the release of New Moon can no longer call themselves men anymore, and shall heretofore be known as “Pansy wussies.” No one with the Y chromosome would ever consider the sequel to Twilight something to anticipate. The appropriate reaction of men the world over to that movie ought to be universal disgust and horror that something so blatantly banal, stupid, and saccharine could ever get made.