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March 9, 2007, 10:11 pm · Filed under Movies

It looks like 2007 is going to be a fantastic year for movies. Just a few of the ones I'm looking forward to this year:

Sure, a good chunk of those are sequels, but you have to admit they're sequels to great movies. Hopefully they stack up to the originals. Some notable entries, which I'll likely have to pick up opening-night tickets for:

Resident Evil: Extinction

From the trailer, it looks like they're taking the franchise in a completely different direction, but it should still be interesting. Four great things about this trailer. One, it's Resident Evil. Two, Milla Jovovich. Three, Ali Larter (also in the excellent TV series Heroes).

And fourth… listen to the music used in the beginning of the trailer, during the 'commercial' part. You know who that is? Yeah… that's The Crystal Method, my favorite group. That particular song is “I Know It's You” featuring vocals from none other than Milla Jovovich herself. Could it get any sweeter? I submit that it could not.

Transformers

I'm too young to have been truly into the original Transformers cartoons and toys, but man are they awesome. For a while I was really into the animated series Beast Wars, which was a spinoff of sorts on the original Transformers… not quite the same thing, but close enough to still have me psyched for this movie. Besides, with a trailer like this, how could you not be excited? Turns out my original assumption about some of the characters in this one was wrong… there's a shot in the trailer of a bot crawling out of a pool… I assumed it would be a character similar to Depth Charge but it appears it might actually be Megatron himself. Nobody seems to agree who it really is, most people are thinking it's just a protoform (meaning, a transformer without a transformer body).

The only problem with an opening-night ticket for this is that it's releasing on July 4th… so we'll see. Plus, I imagine the theatres are going to be sold out for that night.

Spider-Man 3

Everything I've seen and heard about this movie says it's going to be purely amazing. There are three confirmed villains — Sandman, Venom, and the Green Goblin (part two, I suppose) — for this one, with a rumor circulating that Mysterio might make an appearance (though there's nothing listed in the credits or much of anywhere else at all). All that plus Kirsten Dunst. Holy crap. This is going to be an awesome movie.

Everything else.

I'm not usually much of an opening-night-movies kind of guy, but these are going to have to be exceptions. Good year for movies indeed.

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