One of these days I'm going to invent a machine that lets you live out any book or other thing as a character from the book or movie or whatever and to you it seems like you're there for years, but then when it ends you've only been asleep for a few minutes. It's going to be the most awesome invention ever. Now I just need to figure out the whole human brain and stuff like that, shouldn't be too hard. And how electronics work. But that's pretty easy stuff, right?
I want to see that movie so much. My favorite movie of this year is either Sky Captain [for the awesome old-school feel] or Finding Neverland [just for being such a great movie]. Next year is going to be a great year for movies: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, War of the Worlds, Episode 3, Hitchhiker's Guide, and I know I'm missing something.
They're making Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy into a movie? Sweet! If it doesn't kick ass, heads are gonna roll! I used to play the old text adventure game years ago back when computers had DOS. I could never get past the Heart of Gold.
The old Hitchhiker's Guide movie is pretty good... so are the BBC Narnia films (three three-hour (or so) made-for-tv films -- Lion, the Witch, and the Warderobe, Prince Caspian and the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, and The Silver Chair), so both of those films have a pretty high bar to meet quality-wise. I hope they make it, but it's also quite possible that the older ones will be better... you never know.
Batman Begins is going to own 2005. After Episode III.
Did you see Garden State and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, GR? Those two along with The Life Aquatic were my favorite American movies released this year.