Horizons

I have comprised a list of movies that I believe will be good in the forthcoming weekends of this year. Some may wonder how I have come to place each movie on this list but not others. The answer: personal taste, trailers, cast, producers & directors, franchise history.

Examples...

PERSONAL TASTE:  Personal taste comes in with the particular genres I like, like action. Some trailers have the ability to grab one's attention like no other, like the first Iron Man, or the 300. 

CASTING: I like to look at casting on a very few actors, who seem to stay in quality movies. Leonardo DiCaprio has seemed to become one of those actors, with recent films like Blood Diamond, The Departed, Shutter Island, and Inception. Russell Crow and Denzel Washington are two other actors I tend to keep an eye out for.

FRANCHISE HISTORY: I take the history of a franchise into account with a movie like the upcoming Batman: The Dark Knight Rises. Batman Begins was good, The Dark Knight was better, hopefully The Dark Knight Rises triumphs over all.

PRODUCERS & DIRECTORS: Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson, Christopher Nolan—enough said. One look at the history of each of their work, and one will feel no obligation to give a reason to see their movies, be they director or producer of said project.

The list goes as follows...

January 13th
•Contraband (Mark Wahlberg) 
January 20th
•Haywire (Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor)
•Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler)
•Red Tails
January 27
•The Grey (Liam Neeson)
February 3rd
•Chronicle
February 10th
•Safe House (Denzel Washington, Ryan Reynolds)
February 17th
•This Means War (Reese Witherspoon, Tom Hardy, Chris Pine)
•The Secret World of Arrietty 
March 9th
•John Carter
March 30th
•Wrath of the Titans (Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson)
April 13th
•Bullet to the Head (Sylvester Stallone)
May 4th
•The Avengers
May 25th
•Men in Black III
June 1st
•Snow White and the Huntsman (Kristen Stewart, Chris Hemsworth)
June 8th
•Prometheus
June 15th
•Jack The Giant Killer
June 22nd
•Brave
July 3rd
•The Amazing Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone)
July 20th
•Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway)
August 3rd
•The Bourne Legacy (Jeremy Renner)
August 17th
•The Expendables 2 (Sylvestor Stallone, Jason Statham, Chuck Norris, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger)
November 9th
•James Bond: Skyfall (Daniel Craig) 
December 14th
•The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
December 21st
•World War Z (Brad Pitt)
December 25th
•Django Unchained (Jamie Foxx, Leonardo DiCaprio)

I will surely update this list as more trailers premier and other release dates are announced, so stay tuned, moviegoers. Comments are welcome and encouraged.
—Thomas