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Sundance 2010: RT's 10 Most Anticipated Movies

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Sundance 2009

Five or six years ago, the Sundance Film Festival was more famous for showing dozens of worthy, politically correct movies that instantly disappeared than the odd breakout hits that it spawned, which previously included the likes of The Blair Witch Project, Reservoir Dogs and El Mariachi. Recently, however, the festival has become an excellent launching ground for low-budget movies from across the world, with the 2009 event showcasing the likes of British indie hits Moon and In The Loop and starting the awards momentum for two very different rites of passage movies: An Education and Precious, both tipped for Academy Award/BAFTA success. This year, under the stewardship of new artistic director John Cooper, Sundance shows no sign of slowing down, as its 2010 choices seem to suggest. RT picks 10 we're keen to see, in strictly alphabetical order.

Alexson Philip

Alexson Philip on 12-4-2009 12:35 PM

splice looks pretty sik.

brandon v.

brandon v. on 01-24-2010 03:54 PM

splice is very very sick. surprisingly the acting was not that great but the idea rocked and i loved this movie

Rash Hunt

Rash Hunt on 12-4-2009 12:37 PM

Hesher for the win.

General Disarray

General Disarray on 12-4-2009 12:40 PM

My top 5:

1.The Killer inside Me
2.Hesher
3.Splice
4.Buried
5.Welcome to the Rileys(Gandolfini FTW)

daftfunk

daftfunk on 12-4-2009 01:02 PM

Solid list. Hesher has to be at the top of mine.

liquid.swords

liquid.swords on 12-4-2009 01:02 PM

How you can make a list like this without The Tree of Life is beyond me.

Angel C.

Angel C. on 12-5-2009 09:08 AM

Nerd Alert!

The.Watcher

The.Watcher on 12-4-2009 01:04 PM

Page 11 reminds me:
I will probably never be able to watch Adventureland again.
Which is a shame, cos it's a funny movie, but I still have nightmares of Twilight.
God...I really, really don't like Twilite.

Joe Utichi

Joe Utichi on 12-4-2009 01:54 PM

The Tree of Life isn't at Sundance.

Ryan M

Ryan M on 12-4-2009 02:15 PM

Splice looks interesting, although nothing else really looks that good to me.

Smartest Person Here

Smartest Person Here on 12-4-2009 02:17 PM

It's nice to see so many of Hollywood's younger actors branching out and doing non-traditional roles.

Bed Head

Bed Head on 12-4-2009 02:28 PM

Clearly the writer must have been being sarcastic when he wrote:

"a much-deserved vehicle for the underrated Ryan Reynolds, who has yet to find his proper place in Hollywood after a series of ill-advised romcoms."

I hope.

Oh, and no offense to anyone, but "Hesher" sounds like a dead-on description of (roughly) 90% of this forum's members.

Bigbrother

Bigbrother on 12-4-2009 08:26 PM

You could always go somewhere else, I know I wouldn't miss the sarcasm. I've been on here a while and I would definately not say this site is populated by "meathead stoners". "Self-satisfied comic book stoners" yes, but we are a clearly different and far superior lot.

Isaiah R.

Isaiah R. on 12-4-2009 08:29 PM

My List:
Well, Splice is a necessity, and the rest :

1. Buried
2. Hesher
3. Welcome To The Rileys
4. The Killer Inside Me
5. Howl

Isaiah R.

Isaiah R. on 12-4-2009 08:34 PM

I was laffin my *** off at that comment cuz Its probably tru. :P Not for me of course

Freudian Nightmare

Freudian Nightmare on 01-14-2010 05:42 PM

I do not befriend young boys (I'm not allowed to, but that's another story).

And I think Reynolds is an underrated actor, always liked his work. So Buried is a shoe-in for me. I have been looking forward to Splice for a while now (Cube is awesome), so I hope it's good. The rest seems ok as well.

Dave J.

Dave J. on 12-4-2009 02:49 PM

Since I haven't seen or even heard of any of these films up until now, I have no idea or even care who wins until I'm offered at least a screening to see all those films to say the least.

King Thor

King Thor on 12-4-2009 04:04 PM

'Buried' looks awesome. Love Ryan Reynolds and I completely agree he is very under rated. He's a great actor.

'Splice' definitely sounds very cool too.

And I'd like to see 'Welcome to the Rileys' solely for Kristen Stewart nude. Yep. You betcha'

BLaCKWoLF

BLaCKWoLF on 12-4-2009 05:02 PM

Buried, Splice, The Killer Inside Me and Welcome to the Rileys all feature great actors. I am actually really interested to see all of these movies now that I have actually seen what will be shown. Cant forget to mention Joseph Gordon Levitt, give the man an award or some form of recognition now please. We all know he can act already (I have even forgiven him for G.I. Joe lol).

nathanpoitras

nathanpoitras on 12-4-2009 06:06 PM

Definitely looking forward The Runaways too.

southfrisco

southfrisco on 12-4-2009 07:50 PM

They all look decent. Although hearing poor test audience reaction about Splice has me worried that it will be a slow boring let down unless they make some changes to it before it debuts at Sundance.

Bigbrother

Bigbrother on 12-4-2009 08:36 PM

For me Howl looks interesting and The Killer inside me has two of my personal favorites who aren't where they should be Casey Affleck and Elias Koteas.

Bigbrother

Bigbrother on 12-4-2009 08:45 PM

Oh and I for one don't like Mark Ruffalo. Just something creepy about him for me.

ilnot

ilnot on 12-4-2009 08:50 PM

I second Blackwolf, give Joseph Gordon Levitt an Indie lifetime achievement award; Manic, Mysterious Skin, Brick, The Lookout, Uncertainty, (500) Days of Summer, and now Hesher. And we all know G.I. Joe was just a paycheck, he gets to have three houses just like every other star.

tomwaitsjrHAPPYICONOCLAST

tomwaitsjrHAPPYICONOCLAST on 12-4-2009 09:02 PM

I can't wait to see THE KILLER INSIDE ME

WELCOME TO THE RILEYs also is a must see.

Bed Head

Bed Head on 12-4-2009 09:18 PM

BigBrother, exactly WHAT sarcasm are you referring to?

I highly doubt most people consider Ryan Reynolds "underrated" (he's rated right about where he should be) or "deserving of a major push" (seeing as he seems to already be getting quite a "push" as it is).

Moving on (to whoever said Mark Ruffalo was "creepy looking")... his performance in "You Can Count On Me" was truly amazing, imo.

In fact, I consider him "underrated", actually. And also, therefore, "deserving of a major push".

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