The movies of 2011

[Emperor]

I Am Number Four

 

 

Opens: February 18th 2011

Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron, Kevin Durand, Teresa Palmer

Director: D.J. Caruso

 

Summary: Nine infant aliens flee their home planet to hide out on Earth. The species that destroyed their planet however has followed them and sets out to hunt them down. As the infants grow into teenagers with special powers, three of them are killed. A fourth has fallen in love and now has something to stand up and fight for.

 

Battle: Los Angeles

 

 

Opens: March 11th 2011

Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Michael Pena, Bridget Moynahan, Ne-Yo

Director: Jonathan Liebesman

 

Summary: When Earth is attacked by unknown forces and the world's great cities fall, Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected. It's up to a Marine staff sergeant and his new platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they've ever encountered before.

 

 

 

Fright Night

 

 

Opens: August 19th 2011

Cast: Anton Yelchin, Colin Farrell, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, David Tennant, Toni Collette

Director: Craig Gillespie

 

Summary: Trouble arrives for high school senior Charlie Brewster when Jerry Dandridge moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood.

 

 

 

Jeff Who Lives At Home

 

 

Opens: 2011

Cast: Jason Segel, Ed Helms, Judy Greer, Susan Sarandon, Rae Dawn Chong

Director: Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass

 

Summary: When he leaves his house on a seemingly banal errand for his disgruntled mother, Jeff discovers that the universe might be sending him signals about the nature of his destiny.

 

 

Footloose

 

 

Opens: October 14th 2011

Cast: Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough, Dennis Quaid, Ziah Colon, Ray McKinnon

Director: Craig Brewer

 

Summary: A remake of the 1984 movie in which a rebellious teenager moves into a town where dancing has been banned.

 

Arthur

 

 

Opens: 2011

Cast: Russell Brand, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Garner, Nick Nolte, Greta Gerwig

Director: Jason Winer

 

Summary: Arthur is a drunken playboy and heir to a vast fortune which he is told will only be his if he marries a woman he doesn't love but whom his family expects will make something of him. Arthur proposes but then meets a girl with no money who he could easily fall in love with.

 

 

 

 

Immortals

 

 

Opens: November 11th 2011

Cast: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff, Freida Pinto, John Hurt

Director: Tarsem Singh

 

Summary: The power hungry King Hyperion is destroying all before him in his quest to possesses an artifact that can unleash the Titans, the race of beings imprisoned by the Olympian Gods deep within the walls of Mount Tartaros. As the Gods can not intervene in man’s conflict, a young peasant is secretly chosen to save his people from Hyperion and his hordes.

 

Fast Five

 

 

Opens: April 29th 2011

Cast: Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson

Director: Justin Lin

 

Summary: Having escaped custody, former cop Brian O'Conner and ex-con Dominic Toretto are now in Brazil where they must pull off one last job against a corrupt businessman who wants them dead. As they assemble their elite team of top racers, a hard-nosed federal agent named Luke Hobbs and his strike team launch an all-out assault to capture them.

 

 

Apollo 18

 

 

Opens: March 4th 2011

Cast: Unknown

Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego

 

Summary: The story revolves around recently “found footage” shot by the crew of an abandoned moon mission that NASA claims never took place in the early 1970s. The footage reveals the existence of alien life and explains why the agency has hidden the evidence for all of these years.

 

 

 

The Ides of March

 

 

Cast: Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Director: George Clooney

 

Summary: An idealistic staffer for a U.S. presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

 

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

 

 

Opens: December 21st 2011

Cast: Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara, Stellan Skarsgard, Robin Wright, Max von Sydow

Director: David Fincher

 

Summary: Based on the first novel in the best-selling Millennium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. A middle-aged hard-nosed investigative reporter in Stockholm loses a libel case and faces jail time. He's offered an assignment to investigate the 40-year-old disappearance of a industrialist's niece on a remote island. His work alongside misunderstood rebellious female hacker Lisbeth Salander uncovers religious killings, Nazism, incest, child abuse and murder.

 

The Adjustment Bureau

 

 

Opens: March 4th 2011

Cast: Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, John Slattery, Terence Stamp, Daniel Dae Kim

Director: George Nolfi

 

Summary: Loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story "Adjustment Team". David Norris, a charismatic congressman meets a beautiful ballet dancer named Elise Sellas, only to find strange circumstances keeping them from getting closer. Norris discovers forces are at work to ensure they stay apart, and he pushes to find out why.

 

 

 

Green Lantern

 

 

Opens: June 17th 2011

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Angela Bassett

Director: Martin Campbell

 

Summary: Hal Jordan is a gifted and cocky test pilot who becomes a Green Lantern, a member of a brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order. Hal must quickly master his new powers and find the courage to overcome his fears in order to defeat a dangerous alien force known as Parallax.

[Emperor]

Kung Fu Panda 2

 

 

 

Opens: May 27th 2011

Cast: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Gary Oldman, Jackie Chan

Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson

 

Summary: Po, now a kung fu master, is fighting alongside with Master Shifu and The Furious Five. The group soon must join forces with another group of kung fu masters in order to defeat Lord Shen, a peacock, who plans to use a secret weapon that can destroy kung fu forever.

 

 

Conan the Barbarian

 

 

Opens: August 19th 2011

Cast: Jason Momoa, Rachel Nichols, Stephen Lang, Leo Howard, Ron Perlman

Director: Marcus Nispel

 

Summary: Khalar Singh arrives in Cimmeria seeking the help of young Conan's father Corin. When help is refused, Singh slaughters all the Cimmerians except for Conan who escapes. Becoming a thief, he eventually seeks revenge for his father's death.

 

 

Larry Crowne

 

 

Opens: July 1st 2011

Cast: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nia Vardalos

Director: Tom Hanks

 

Summary: After Larry Crowne, a middle-aged man, is terminated from his job, he goes back to college, where he unexpectedly forms bonds with his fellow students and a romantic relationship with Mercedes Tainot, a professor.

[Majsju]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is basically a remake of the original Swedish movie, rather than a new interpretation of the novel. Surprise...

[SinisterDeath]

Uhh, wow, Sweden already has the 3rd girl with the dragon tatoo movie, nearly finished, and we start making it?

 

Somehow I think its going to be failure.

 

reminds me, how was the holywoodized version of let the right one in?

[Emperor]

Contagion

 

 

Opens: October 21st 2011

Cast: Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow

Director: Steven Soderbergh

 

Summary: The story follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart.

 

The Hangover: Part Two

 

 

Opens: May 26th 2011

Cast: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifinakis, Justin Bartha, Ken Jeong

Director: Todd Phillips

 

Summary: Phil, Stu, Alan and Doug travel to exotic Thailand for Stu’s wedding. After the unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. However, things don’t always go as planned.

 

 

 

Cowboys and Aliens

 

 

Opens: July 29th 2011

Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano

Director: Jon Favreau

 

Summary: 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution, a town about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation against the alien force.

 

 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part Two

 

 

Opens: July 15th 2011

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, John Hurt

Director: David Yates

 

Summary: Breaking into the Wizarding Bank Gringotts and then Hogwarts itself to destroy two more Horcruxes, our heroic trio find themselves in a final battle with Voldemort and his legions on the grounds of the school. It's a battle not all will survive.

 

 

Captain America: The First Avenger

 

 

Opens: July 22nd 2011

Cast: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Richard Armitage, Stanley Tucci

Director: Joe Johnston

 

Summary: After being deemed unfit for military service, Steve Rogers volunteers for a top secret research project that turns him into Captain America, a superhero who sets out to stop an evil Nazi scientist who has become a nefarious being called The Red Skull.

 

Caesar: Rise of the Apes

 

 

Opens: June 24th 2011

Cast: James Franco, Freida Pinto, John Lithgow, Brian Cox, Tom Felton

Director: Rupert Wyatt

 

Summary: A contemporary-set reboot of the "Planet of the Apes" franchise, this cautionary tale is set in San Francisco in which man's experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.

[Majsju]

Uhh, wow, Sweden already has the 3rd girl with the dragon tatoo movie, nearly finished, and we start making it?

 

Somehow I think its going to be failure.

 

reminds me, how was the holywoodized version of let the right one in?

 

Uhm, the third movie was released in 2009

[Krakalakachkn]

I saw the Swedish "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and it was great. I have lower hopes for the American version.

[Majsju]

I was not too impressed with the Swedish movies, except for one thing - Noomi Rapace. Her performance was some of the finest acting i have seen in a long time. And now she is replaced with some hollywood-bimbo.

 

Granted, I watched the movies with some bias, as I do not like the books, and was quite annoyed with the hype. So maybe the movies are better than my gut told me they were.

[Krakalakachkn]

I mean, it wasn't phenomenal, it was a little slow in parts, but over all very good

[dapianoplay3r]

apparently the third one in the dragon tattoo series isnt thats great so hopefully the remake will live up to the books