So I’m rarely excited by my movie going prospects but…

Ok so normally the prospects of going to the movies for me is really limited to the occasional horror flick with some of my friends, or kids movies (I have three kids, the last three movies I’ve seen in the theatre are Enchanted, Bee Movie, and something that I have forgotten).  But somehow I’m actually excited to see a few movies.

First off the ones that I’m lesser excited to see, I’m excited to see National Treasure 2, Golden Compass, The Kite Runner, and Walk Hard.  But those aren’t the ones that I want to talk about. 

Here are the three movies that I really want to see.

3.  Sweeny Todd:  Demon Barber of Fleet Street.  I don’t really care what anyone else thinks.  It is an adaption of one of my favorite musicals of all time, with Tim Burton as director, and Johnny Depp as Sweeny Todd.  I don’t think I should have to say anything else to back up my desire to see this movie, but if you need more.  It is about a guy that kills people, and his wife makes meat pies out of them, with singing.  I mean seriously straight razor carnage, canibalisim, and singing.  Love it.

2.  I Am Legend:  I have very low expectations of this film.  But man I fucking love this book, and the need for there to be a good film adaptation of it is amazing.  The other two are hit or miss, the hit being Last Man on Earth.  Staring Vincent Price, I think this is going to be the film that I Am Legend is going to most closly reflect.  The miss, Omega Man, this cluster fuck staring Charleton Heston is one of those movies that is only good, because it is so bad.  It is camp and lame, and I pray to God the new I Am Legend is nothing like it.

1.  Cloverfield:  Ok this total Daikaju has such a build up for me that I just can’t tell you how excited I am to see it.  If you don’t know anything about it, I would encourage you to seek it out.  That will be more fun than me just telling you all about it.