DRAGONLORD'S 2016 MOVIE GUIDE

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MOANA **Interested**

Release: November 23, 2016

Genre: Computer-Animated Fantasy Adventure

Director: Ron Clements and John Musker (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules)

Cast: Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson and Alan Tudyk

Synopsis: In ancient Oceania, in the South Pacific, the young Moana (Auli'i Cravalho), a born navigator, sets sail in search of a fabled island. During her journey, she teams up with her hero, the legendary demi-god Maui (Dwayne Johnson).

 

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ALLIED

Release: November 23, 2016

Genre: War Romance Drama Thriller

Director: Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Cast Away, Flight)

Cast: Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Lizzy Caplan, Matthew Goode, Jared Harris, Charlotte Hope, Raffey Cassidy, and Marion Bailey

Synopsis: 1942. After falling in love with a French agent during a dangerous North African mission, an Allied counter-intelligence agent is quietly notified that the woman he has married and had a baby with is likely a Nazi spy.

Comments: Mr. and Mrs. Smith in World War II setting. Not that it's a bad thing.

 

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BAD SANTA 2

Release: November 23, 2016

Genre: R-rated Christmas Comedy

Director: Mark Waters (Mean Girls, Freaky Friday)

Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Brett Kelly, Tony Cox

Synopsis: No plot details yet.

 

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LION

Release: November 23, 2016

Genre: Drama

Director: Garth Davis (feature film directorial debut)

Cast: Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, Nicole Kidman, David Wenham, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Pallavi Sharda

Synopsis: A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

 

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LA LA LAND

Release: December 2, 2016

Genre: Musical Romantic Comedy Drama

Director: Damien Chazelle (Whiplash)

Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, J.K. Simmons, Finn Wittrock, Rosemarie DeWitt, Callie Hernandez, Jason Fuchs, John Legend, Meagen Fay, Jessica Rothenber and Sonoya Mizuno

Synopsis: Set in modern-day Los Angeles, La La Land portrays a romantic relationship between Sebastian (Ryan Gosling), a jazz pianist, and Mia (Emma Stone), an actress.

Comments: This intrigues me due to Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) directing it.

 

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KIDNAP

Release: December 2, 2016

Genre: Thriller

Director: Marcel Langenegger (Deception)

Cast: Halle Berry, Sage Correa, Lew Temple, Chris McGinn, Christopher Berry, Dana Gourier, and Richie Montgomery

Synopsis: A mother stops at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.

 

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THE BYE BYE MAN

Release: December 9, 2016

Genre: Supernatural Horror Thriller

Director: Stacy Title (The Last Supper, Hood of Horror)

Cast: Doug Jones, Douglas Smith, Michael Trucco, Cressida Bonas, Lucien Laviscount, Carrie-Anne Moss

Synopsis: Three college students move into an old, off-campus house, where they find themselves hunted by a supernatural entity called The Bye Bye Man (Doug Jones) who may be responsible for possessing various people and causing them to commit killing sprees throughout recent history.

 

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OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY



Release: December 9, 2016

Genre: Comedy

Director: Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory, The Switch)

Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T. J. Miller, Kate McKinnon, Olivia Munn, Jamie Chung, Abbey Lee Kershaw, Courtney B. Vance, Randall Park, Matt Walsh, Vanessa Bayer, and Rob Corddry

Synopsis: When his uptight CEO sister threatens to shut down his branch, the branch manager throws an epic Christmas party in order to land a big client and save the day, but the party gets way out of hand...

 

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ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY **Must-Watch**

Release: December 16, 2016

Genre: Science Fiction Heist Adventure

Director: Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Monsters)

Cast: Felicity Jones, Donnie Yen, Riz Ahmed, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Alan Tudyk, Jonathan Aris, Mads Mikkelsen, Riz Ahmed, Genevieve O'Reilly, and Alistair Petrie

Synopsis: Following the foundation of the Galactic Empire, a wayward band of Rebel fighters come together to carry out a desperate mission: to steal the plans for the Death Star before it can be used to enforce the Emperor's rule.

 

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COLLATERAL BEAUTY

Release: December 16, 2016

Genre: Drama

Director: David Frankel (Marley & Me, The Devil Wears Prada)

Cast: Will Smith, Keira Knightley, Kate Winslet, Edward Norton, Helen Mirren, Michael Peña, Naomie Harris, Jacob Latimore, and Enrique Murciano

Synopsis: A tragic event sends a New York ad man on a downward spiral into other events in depression, hope, romantic tendencies and tragedy.

 

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ASSASSIN’S CREED **Interested**

Release: December 21, 2016

Genre: Sci-Fi Historical Action Adventure

Director: Justin Kurzel (Macbeth, The Snowtown Murders)

Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Michael K. Williams, Ariane Labed, Jeremy Irons, and Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis: Career criminal Callum Lynch is rescued from his own execution by Abstergo Industries, the modern-day incarnation of the Templar Order. He is forced to participate in the Animus Project and relive the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha, an Assassin during the Spanish Inquisition. As Lynch continues to experience Aguilar's memories, he begins to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to confront the Templars—age-old enemies of the Assassins—in the present day.

 

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PASSENGERS

Release: December 21, 2016

Genre: Science Fiction Romance Adventure

Director: Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game)

Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt, Michael Sheen, Inder Kumar, Jamie Soricelli, and Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunction in one of its sleep chambers. As a result, a single passenger is awakened 60 years early. Faced with the prospect of growing old and dying alone, he eventually decides to wake up a second passenger.

Comments: Premise sounds promising. Will wait for the trailer to see if it's worth it.

 

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SING

Release: December 21, 2016

Genre: Computer-Animated Musical Comedy

Director: Garth Jennings (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane, Scarlett Johansson, Tori Kelly, John C. Reilly, Taron Egerton, Peter Serafinowicz, Nick Kroll, Leslie Jones, Jay Pharoah and Beck Bennett

Synopsis: Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (Academy Award® winner Matthew McConaughey), a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal optimist—okay, maybe a bit of a scoundrel—who loves his theater above all and will do anything to preserve it. Now facing the crumbling of his life’s ambition, he has one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world’s greatest singing competition.

Five lead contestants emerge: A mouse (Seth MacFarlane) who croons as smoothly as he cons, a timid teenage elephant (Tori Kelly) with an enormous case of stage fright, an overtaxed mother (Academy Award® winner Reese Witherspoon) run ragged tending a litter of 25 piglets, a young gangster gorilla (Taron Egerton) looking to break free of his family’s felonies, and a punk-rock porcupine (Scarlett Johansson) struggling to shed her arrogant boyfriend and go solo. Each animal arrives under Buster’s marquee believing that this is their shot to change the course of their life.

 

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PATRIOTS DAY

Release: December 21, 2016

Genre: True Story Drama Thriller

Director: Peter Berg (Lone Survivor, The Kingdom, Battleship)

Cast: Mark Wahlberg, J. K. Simmons, John Goodman, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin Bacon, Melissa Benoist, Lana Condor, Michael Beach, Vincent Curatola, James Colby, Alex Wolff, and Rachel Brosnahan

Synopsis: An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis's actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and the aftermath, which includes the city-wide manhunt to find the terrorists behind it.

 

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WHY HIM?

Release: December 25, 2016

Genre: Comedy

Director: John Hamburg (I Love You, Man, Along Came Polly)

Cast: James Franco, Bryan Cranston, Zoey Deutch, Megan Mullally, Griffin Gluck, Keegan-Michael Key

Synopsis: A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.

 

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Finished.

Thread now open.

 

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My most anticipated film of 2016 is Captain America: Civil War.

I'll try to take a look at the list later for the other films I'm looking forward to.

 

[Tyrannosaurus rex]

Awesome guide! Thanks for all the effort you put into this.

Looking forward to Captain America as well. And Star Wars Rogue One.

Also a few horror movies on that list that seem to have some potential.

 

[inbox]

Wow. Great thread, thanks for the effort. As strange as this sounds, I'm most looking forward to Zootopia. I love movies I can watch with my daughter and the sloth trailer had me laughing out loud for the full two minutes

 

[ehtheist]

Just looked through the whole list - awesome thread. Will probably reference it all year long. Thanks!