Fall Movie Excitement! Avatar

Release: December 18th

Wrapping up this unnecessarily long preview is James Cameron's epic 3D ocular rape-fest Avatar. After Where the Wild Things Are, Avatar is a close second for movies I'd touch inappropriately between now and Christmas. 

Seeing the trailer proved one thing to me: James fucking Cameron is back and he's going to destroy us with awesome. Sure I had my problems with what I saw, but I'll never count Cameron out just because of a little overhyping. The action looks like true James Cameron and history has shown that this dude knows how to make a damn awesome action film. Even his low rent stuff like True Lies is full of some of the best action you can find, not to mention the perfection that is Aliens, and Terminator 2.

This may be the one movie to sell me on 3D, according to everyone who is reporting that 'This is 3D done right'. I hate gimmicky bullshit, but from what I'm hearing, the 3D is used only to immerse you further into the story and not have you flinching at rock flying at you or dogs sneezing on you.

Closing the fall out, Avatar looks to be one of the best action movies of the year. Well, not that Terminator: Salvation, Wolverine, or GI Joe are any competition, but Avatar will certain crush them under a rain of empty machine gun shells.

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Fall Movie Excitement! A Serious Man

Release: October 2nd, Limited

A Serious Man is the next release from the Coen machine and it looks to be another awkward and darkly hilarious character study. The Coen brothers never cease to squeeze laughs out of audiences regardless of how you may have felt about Burn After Reading. They can't all be as funny as The Big Lebowski or as straight up awesome as No Country for Old Men, but A Serious Man is certainly on the right track with a 9.5 rating on IMDb already.

The news out of the festival circuit has been nothing but positive for the piece, and while that's not always the best barometer for how I'm going to feel about a movie, all signs point to me enjoying this. It's nice to see quality film makers on a one-a-year schedule to keep up with the annual Uwe Boll trash piece.

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Fall Movie Excitement! Toy Story 1 & 2 3D!

Release: October 2nd, two weeks only

Technically this isn't a new release, but it's among my top most anticipated things I want to see on the big screen so I am including it. Toy Story was Pixar's declaration that they were going to ruin the lives of every other animation studio around or who would ever be around, and now 15 years later, studios are still visibly struggling to compete with what Pixar is doing. Don't believe me? Watch Wall-E and Up, then try sitting through Shrek and Hoodwinked and tell me that there's a comparison. Can't be done.

The beauty of Toy Story is it's staying power. Ask anyone today what their favorite Pixar film, animated film, or hell even just what their favorite film of all time is and you'll get a pretty high percentage of people who will unflinchingly say Toy Story. Personally, I'm a Wall-E kind of guy, but Toy Story is right there towards the top of my list.

I will say that I'm not sold on the whole 3D idea, but Toy Story wasn't made with all those built-in "shit flying at the screen" gimmicks so hopefully the 3D only adds fun to the experience and not headaches.

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