March 2012 movies

[Disneyphile]

What movies are you looking forward to in March 2012?

Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
Project X
John Carter
Silent House
A Thousand Words
21 Jump Street
The Hunger Games
Mirror Mirror
Wrath of the Titans
Other
None

[yamiiguy]

I'll be going to see The Hunger Games. I thought the books were highly enjoyable and I initially had very low expectations of the film but the trailer seems to push it as much more of a prestige/event movie than the standard YA adaptation. Jennifer Lawrence is a terrific actress though I would have thought that Saoirse Ronan was a better fit. Regardless, Lawrence will no doubt do well, it's Josh Hutcherson that worries me. I haven't seen him give a strong performance yet.

[blackcauldron85]

I want to see John Carter, and hopefully I'll be able to see it in the theater (otherwise I'll definitely rent it), and I want to see The Hunger Games, but I want to read the book first!

[PixarFan2006]

I'll definitely be avoiding The Lorax movie like the plague that it is. Why does Hollywood always feel they have the need to turn beloved children's books into full-length movies?

I am in seeing The Hunger Games though (having read all three books). I just hope it does not go the way of Twilight in terms of popularity.

[dvdjunkie]

John Carter, The Lorax, The Hunger Games are at the top of my list of must-sees. "The Lorax" basically because of the grandkids whom I read the Dr. Seuss books to regularly.

Also on my list is Mirror Mirror, a different retelling of the Snow White story. The trailer looks very impressive, and since we have to wait until summer for "Snow White and the Huntsman", I want to see this one first.

[TheSequelOfDisney]

I definitely plan on seeing The Hunger Games, and I'll try and see John Carter. They both look really great.

[UmbrellaFish]

I'll watch The Lorax when I inexplicably stumble across it on TV or what have you.

I might rent John Carter if I hear good things.

In the Snow White Wars, I'm team Mirror, Mirror since I like the cast and feel of the movie better than the other one. But I don't plan on seeing it in theatres. I might rent it and then buy it.

I saw a commercial for The Hunger Games on TV last night, and I must say it intrigued me. I read the synopsis of the book on Wikipedia before and it didn't catch me, but it seems like the type of thing that one has to actually pick up before they get enamored with it. I'll check the books out from the library first, I suppose, and then see the movie.

[dvdjunkie]

Note to Umbrella Fish:

Do you ever go to the cinema to see movies. Nowaday with the Digital Theaters and THX sound in most major theaters, it is truly the way to watch a movie. Waiting for the time to rent it, unless you have a major-big screen television and surround system in your home theater, it is not the same experience.

Don't use money as a reason, most theaters have matinee prices and there are lots of times available during the day every day of the week to catch the film.

Just wondering. Post a reply if you wish.

[yamiiguy]

Digital isn't really an advantage. I managed to see The Tree of Life on a 35mm print and it was gorgeous. I'm pretty sure The Lion King was screened from film too and it looked superb.

[Barbossa]

For me:
John Carter (got to support a fellow Kelownian, Taylor Kitsch)
Wrath of the Titans

For April:
Chimpanzee
Not sure what else

[UmbrellaFish]

Note to Umbrella Fish:

Do you ever go to the cinema to see movies. Nowaday with the Digital Theaters and THX sound in most major theaters, it is truly the way to watch a movie. Waiting for the time to rent it, unless you have a major-big screen television and surround system in your home theater, it is not the same experience.

Don't use money as a reason, most theaters have matinee prices and there are lots of times available during the day every day of the week to catch the film.

Just wondering. Post a reply if you wish.

Of course I see films in a theatre from time to time, however, I can't do that often because, currently, I neither drive nor have a job. I have to rely on others to transport me and fund those experiences. Which I don't like to do. It's much easier to spend a dollar at redbox or save up the cash for a BD that I can watch again and again.

I won't deny that there's a different experience between seeing a film in a legitimate cinema to watching a Blu-ray in my bedroom, but I didn't see Gone With the Wind or Ben-Hur in a theatre, either, but since they're good movies, they're more than fit to be screened in my house.

[estefan]

John Carter is a must-see for me and I'm also curious about The Hunger Games and Mirror Mirror.

I don't understand the hate on The Lorax. They still appear to have the environmental theme of the book intact and I think it will turn out really well.

[disneyboy20022]

The Lorax

John Carter (my parents were cracking up when they saw a tv promo due to remembrance of ER)

[dvdjunkie]

yamiiguy wrote:

Digital isn't really an advantage. I managed to see The Tree of Life on a 35mm print and it was gorgeous. I'm pretty sure The Lion King was screened from film too and it looked superb.

If you saw "Lion King" or "Beauty & The Beast" in 3-D they were digital. And if you haven't experienced a digital film, you haven't seen a real, true picture. The digital picture has such depth it looks like you can touch it with your finger.

If you live in a larger city, you will find that most major theaters are 100% digital. If not, there are still a lot of theaters that still use film, but they are being phased out slowly and, according to Variety Magazine, very few theaters will be running 35mm film after 2015.

Here in Wichita, all of our Warren Theaters are Digital with THX Sound, and even the second run theater is slowly changing over to digital.

Most of today's 3-D films are only released in the Digital format.

[dvdjunkie]

How come one of the best movies of March 2012 was left on this list?

Isn't anyone going to see "Tooth Fairy 2"???


ROFLMAO!!!!!!

It's coming direct to video the last week of March. Larry the Cable Guy is starring in it, and I will avoid this like the plague it sounds to be.

[yamiiguy]

yamiiguy wrote:

Digital isn't really an advantage. I managed to see The Tree of Life on a 35mm print and it was gorgeous. I'm pretty sure The Lion King was screened from film too and it looked superb.

If you saw "Lion King" or "Beauty & The Beast" in 3-D they were digital. And if you haven't experienced a digital film, you haven't seen a real, true picture. The digital picture has such depth it looks like you can touch it with your finger.

Nope, I saw The Lion King in glorious 2D. The big cinemas here have been digital for years but the independent occasionally shows off of film. Digital projection has problems that wouldn't have occurred with 35mm and the problems that do occur aren't fixable as easily. A good 35mm print with a proper projectionist is still an unrivalled delight in the digital age.

[dvdjunkie]

That's the Brits for you. They don't understand Digital Projection.

Here in Kansas, I would dare you to be able to tell a Digital movie from one that is on 35mm. The best way to tell besides the promos that the theater shows that it is in Digital with THX Sound, is there are no cue marks in upper right hand corner for the projectionist to know when to change reels.

If they are having problems over their with Digital, someone just doesn't know what they are doing or they have really bum equipment.

[yamiiguy]

I've never had any problems with digital projection but I know some people who have (during a digital showing of The Tree of Life some scenes repeated themselves several times but due to it being The Tree of Life, they didn't realise that something was wrong until a while in!). Film does tend to give richer blacks than digital. Not that it particularly bothers me but if I was given a choice between film and digital I'd probably go for the former.

One of the very sad effects of the digital switchover is that projectionists are finding themselves unemployed - unnecessary in the digital age. Some theatres don't even have a projectionist anymore and have no one with the expertise to fix a projector. As one British critic put it "A [theatre] without a projectionist isn't a [theatre] - it's a sweet shop with a video screen".

[SillySymphony]

The Hunger Games for sure. I'm currently rereading the book and I'm going with a group to the midnight showing on the 23rd.

My family keeps making comments on seeing The Lorax, John Carter and Mirror Mirror. I'm not impressed by any, although I might rent John Carter.

[jediliz]

none....I don't want to see The Lorax. Mirror Mirror's trailer annoys me (and I don't luike Julia Roberts). And I am sick of the4 John Carter ads on Disney Channel. If they are summer movies, I try to pick ones I can take my brother's oldest girls to, so they have to be age appropriate for a 10 year old and an 8 year old.