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Post by therealcomicman117 on Apr 6, 2021 15:40:14 GMT
For me it's a tie..between these two:   I don't know who on the board was around during the time these two films were being released..but the HYPE around them was insane and I was caught up in it. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace - I mean it's a no-brainer why this was heavily anticipated. A new Star Wars movie hadn't been released in 16 years and Star Wars fanatics were eagerly anticipating this film (they were sleeping in tents in ticket lines a couple of weeks in advance). Plus it was George Lucas, the man behind the franchise, returning to write and direct about the story of how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader. The teaser trailer and trailers were some of the most watched trailers of all-time, not to mention Lucas was wetting the fans appetites by releasing those Special Edition films of the original trilogy. So I along with millions of other people were geeked for this film....and...the rest is history...lol. Although I will say that watching the pod race scene in the theater with everyone was an experience I'll never forget and the film did introduce one of the coolest Star Wars characters ever in Darth Maul. But I'll never forget the hype around that film. It was bigger than Force Awakens if you can believe that. One of my absolute favorite hype memories related to The Phantom Menace was going to Pizza Hut, and getting the planetarium counsel ball thingy. That shit was the coolest thing to me as a six year old. |
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Post by sirchuck23 on Apr 6, 2021 15:55:25 GMT
For me it's a tie..between these two: I don't know who on the board was around during the time these two films were being released..but the HYPE around them was insane and I was caught up in it. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace - I mean it's a no-brainer why this was heavily anticipated. A new Star Wars movie hadn't been released in 16 years and Star Wars fanatics were eagerly anticipating this film (they were sleeping in tents in ticket lines a couple of weeks in advance). Plus it was George Lucas, the man behind the franchise, returning to write and direct about the story of how Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader. The teaser trailer and trailers were some of the most watched trailers of all-time, not to mention Lucas was wetting the fans appetites by releasing those Special Edition films of the original trilogy. So I along with millions of other people were geeked for this film....and...the rest is history...lol. Although I will say that watching the pod race scene in the theater with everyone was an experience I'll never forget and the film did introduce one of the coolest Star Wars characters ever in Darth Maul. But I'll never forget the hype around that film. It was bigger than Force Awakens if you can believe that. One of my absolute favorite hype memories related to The Phantom Menace was going to Pizza Hut, and getting the planetarium counsel ball thingy. That shit was the coolest thing to me as a six year old. Oh yeah, all the merchandising and toys helped contribute to it...video games, etc. The movie let fans downs, but it made Lucas a shitload of money. |
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Apr 6, 2021 16:01:15 GMT
One of my absolute favorite hype memories related to The Phantom Menace was going to Pizza Hut, and getting the planetarium counsel ball thingy. That shit was the coolest thing to me as a six year old. Oh yeah, all the merchandising and toys helped contribute to it...video games, etc. The movie let fans downs, but it made Lucas a shitload of money. Say what you will about the film, but it felt like a real genuine event, even in a way that The Force Awakens wasn't. It helps that this was all pre-social media, so it made it extra special, since we had no idea what was going to happen, beyond whispers we got from sites that we had to follow via shitty dial-up.  |
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Post by sirchuck23 on Apr 6, 2021 16:06:55 GMT
Oh yeah, all the merchandising and toys helped contribute to it...video games, etc. The movie let fans downs, but it made Lucas a shitload of money. Say what you will about the film, but it felt like a real genuine event, even in a way that The Force Awakens wasn't. It helps that this was all pre-social media, so it made it extra special, since we had no idea what was going to happen, beyond whispers we got from sites that we had to follow via shitty dial-up. It was..everyone wanted to experience it. People who were teenagers or growing up when the Original trilogy came out were bringing their kids to have the experience they did when Star Wars came out. Spanned generations..other than The Force Awakens and Avengers: Endgame, no other movie property/franchise this century came close to the hype Phantom Menace did. Probably won't experience that whirlwind again in the Social Media era. Another movie I was real hyped about as well was Black Panther. Just everything that went into it, the people involved, and what it represented. I was happy it became the pop culture phenomenon it did. |
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Apr 6, 2021 16:12:28 GMT
Say what you will about the film, but it felt like a real genuine event, even in a way that The Force Awakens wasn't. It helps that this was all pre-social media, so it made it extra special, since we had no idea what was going to happen, beyond whispers we got from sites that we had to follow via shitty dial-up. It was..everyone wanted to experience it. People who were teenagers or growing up when the Original trilogy came out were bringing their kids to have the experience they did when Star Wars came out. Spanned generations..other than The Force Awakens and Avengers: Endgame, no other movie property/franchise this century came close to the hype Phantom Menace did. Probably won't experience that whirlwind again in the Social Media era. Another movie I was real hyped about as well was Black Panther. Just everything that went into it, the people involved, and what it represented. I was happy it became the pop culture phenomenon it did. Yup. It was truly a one of a kind moment, and for a while it really felt like something truly grand. Black Panther felt generational defining if anything, even compared to an average Marvel movie. That was the kind of movie that appealed to almost everybody. It as truly fun to follow its box office performance. |
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Post by wallsofjericho on Apr 6, 2021 16:41:00 GMT
The last time for me was True Grit.
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Post by wonky on Apr 6, 2021 18:38:32 GMT
Oh yeah, all the merchandising and toys helped contribute to it...video games, etc. The movie let fans downs, but it made Lucas a shitload of money. Say what you will about the film, but it felt like a real genuine event, even in a way that The Force Awakens wasn't. It helps that this was all pre-social media, so it made it extra special, since we had no idea what was going to happen, beyond whispers we got from sites that we had to follow via shitty dial-up. I was a little too young to be online but apparently there was enough out there that Weird Al was able to write "The Saga Begins" and even recorded it in April before the movie came out   I guess he was able to get into an expensive screening for charity just before his recording dates and only had to change a couple minor lyrics. The main thing I remember about that summer was the Pepsi cans  I think my own answer to this would have to be the Harry Potter movies in general, particularly the Goblet of Fire. 2005 was my first year on IMDb and I think being on those boards plus the Voldemort factor, the sixth book had just come out so hype for the finale was also freshly brewing simultaneously, and just being a moody teenager with a lonely beginning to my freshman year in high school, I couldn't get my mind off it. I remember having legit anxiety where I couldn't get to sleep and going to see things like Curse of the Were-Rabbit or Good Night and Good Luck and seriously wishing I was watching Goblet of Fire instead. It also ended up being my first midnight movie with friends so looking forward to that just sent me. And, like, it ended up being a movie. But I had a really good time. So I was always walking around like a man possessed waiting for those and that was the peak. But I've always had a hard on for movies....I remember New Years before that going into 2005 thinking "Wow I'm gonna get to see Revenge of the Sith this year." Before that, watching the Movie Surfers and shit for the new Disney movies, I think Tarzan is the first time I can remember looking forward to a new movie being released rather than wanting to see something once it was already out. LOTR - mainly Return of the King and the first Hobbit since I fell into that fandom later - and Star Wars 7-9 are the other franchise things that have gotten me impatient waiting for news, trailers, clips, following all the speculation. The biggest non-franchise things would be The Master and Inherent Vice, where the wait for the tiniest drip felt absolutely interminable, big mood when those first teasers dropped. Spielberg's run of Tintin, War Horse, and Lincoln also got me more involved than the usual high hopes for something. |
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 6, 2021 18:55:21 GMT
Who would buy a Jar Jar Binks can, for Christ's sake???
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Apr 6, 2021 18:58:47 GMT
I remember being reeeealy excited for TDKR and Revenant, cue massive disappointment.
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Post by wonky on Apr 6, 2021 19:19:33 GMT
Who would buy a Jar Jar Binks can, for Christ's sake??? Hey, if Jar Jar rolls out of that vending machine, are you NOT gonna drink him? |
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Post by sterlingarcher86 on Apr 6, 2021 19:22:16 GMT
It: Chapter 1 or Return of the King
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Post by TerryMontana on Apr 6, 2021 20:07:19 GMT
Who would buy a Jar Jar Binks can, for Christ's sake??? Hey, if Jar Jar rolls out of that vending machine, are you NOT gonna drink him? It just looks a bad marketing decision of Pepsi, if you ask me.  |
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Post by Mattsby on Apr 6, 2021 20:14:11 GMT
How the hell'd I miss TDKR hype? Now....TDK I vividly remember seeing that and my audience and everyone talking about Ledger....and that marketing..... As for my picks, tbh just every new Pacino... even the little ones like Manglehorn I was obsessed.... The Irishman probably #1.... and now with Gucci, I've literally never been more interested in fashion. |
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Post by stephen on Apr 6, 2021 20:32:11 GMT
Not really a movie, but Twin Peaks: The Return.
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Post by countjohn on Apr 6, 2021 22:37:53 GMT
Oh yeah, all the merchandising and toys helped contribute to it...video games, etc. The movie let fans downs, but it made Lucas a shitload of money. Say what you will about the film, but it felt like a real genuine event, even in a way that The Force Awakens wasn't. It helps that this was all pre-social media, so it made it extra special, since we had no idea what was going to happen, beyond whispers we got from sites that we had to follow via shitty dial-up. People would buy tickets to other movies just to watch the trailer. Obviously wouldn't happen now with youtube. |
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Post by Pavan on Apr 7, 2021 6:05:54 GMT
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
The Dark Knight Rises
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Post by HELENA MARIA on Apr 7, 2021 6:20:26 GMT
THE IRISHMAN and IT : CHAPTER 1
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Post by chris3 on Apr 7, 2021 22:31:56 GMT
I don't think anything could beat my excitement for Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. I was eleven in May '99 and a SW fanatic from birth. The disappointment was so huge I cried on the way home lol.
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- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. I was always more a sci-fi nerd than fantasy, but Fellowship hit me like a nuclear bomb back in '01. To this day my first viewing is the single best theater experience I've ever had. Naturally, Two Towers immediately became the most anticipated sequel of my young life. And despite a knockout finale, I must admit I was sorely disappointed in the film. The Extended Edition fixes some of my issues but it's still my least favorite of the trilogy by a wide margin.
- There Will Be Blood. Since age thirteen Magnolia was my go-to answer for favorite movie of all time, and after a great but slighter follow-up (Punch-Drunk Love), I was so incredibly pumped for There Will Be Blood. To my own idiocy I will fully admit to being slightly disappointed in it on my first viewing because a) it was so stylistically different from any of PTA's earlier work, and b) all I could see at the time was PTA nakedly aping the work of Stanley Kubrick. Saw it again a week later and recognized it for the masterpiece it is.
- The Wolf of Wall Street. All year this movie was like some mythological project. We never knew until the very last minute whether it was going to make its Christmas Day 2013 release date. The whole project just had "dream come true" written all over it, from the rumblings of its NC-17 content and wild tone, to how much of a passion project it seemed to be for DiCaprio, who seemed to treat this like his most important work. After a string of somewhat weaker Scorsese films, this was the return to his earlier kinetic style that I desperately wanted to behold at least one more time from the legendary director.
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi. JJ's Episode VII rebootquel was IMO a lot of fun at the time (even if it completely falls apart on repeat viewings), but Rian Johnson's sequel was the SW film I was utterly frothing at the mouth to witness. And this time, unlike back in '99, it not only met my expectations but exceeded them on nearly every level, becoming the first and only truly great Star Wars film post-Empire Strikes Back. The backlash was totally baffling to me when I checked reactions online later that night since the theater experience of that final hour (basically everything from the Yoda scene on) felt like a euphoric drug trip to me as a lifelong fanboy of the franchise.
- Roma. Cuaron is my favorite filmmaker of the 21st century and Gravity is easily my favorite blockbuster film of the 2010s, so I was naturally obsessed with this film leading up to its release. I expected nothing short of a masterpiece and that's what I got.
- Dune (2021) and The Batman (2022). I am so unbelievably hyped for these two movies and I'm confident both of them are going to deliver.
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Post by coop032 on Apr 7, 2021 22:35:51 GMT
Grew up a Star Wars fan I was 18 went The Phantom Menace came out so maybe that. But probably something else entirely. When Return of the King came out we did a marathon at the theater of the extended of the first two leading up to that, so that day might have been the greatest.
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Post by Johnny_Hellzapoppin on Apr 9, 2021 19:49:48 GMT
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Vol. 1 was such an immediate classic for me, that my anticipation was off the charts. Thankfully, unlike a lot of people in the thread, I was not disappointed.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Jul 31, 2021 12:30:02 GMT
Kill Bill Vol. 2 Vol. 1 was such an immediate classic for me, that my anticipation was off the charts. Thankfully, unlike a lot of people in the thread, I was not disappointed. Glad someone else named Kill Bill. Volume 1 was definitely my most anticipated film of all time up until that point (2003). Tarantino had a brand new spanking toy and I wanted to see this sick looking oozing cool movie with an assassin kicking butt on a high-tech motorcycle. As for Volume 2? My anticipation was greatly reduced, because teenage brains change very fast - and an 8 month layoff is a long enough time to change things. At the time, Volume 2 underwhelmed me and I definitely greatly preferred Volume 1. Nowadays it's the opposite. |
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Post by franklin on Aug 3, 2021 20:46:22 GMT
Now that Brendan Fraser is in, i'm even more excited about Killers of The Flower Moon.
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Post by SZilla on Aug 3, 2021 21:56:32 GMT
I was in 8th grade when this teaser dropped and it blew my preteen mind to smithereens.
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Post by jakesully on Aug 5, 2021 14:18:57 GMT
Zodiac When it was 1st announced that David Fincher (my all time favorite director) was going to make a film about the Zodiac killer, I was so excited and also add into the fact that there was a five year gap between Panic Room and Zodiac, it really added to the hype. And the film surpassed my expectations as well. The Dark Knight Rises I remember following all the news regarding this film religiously on the Joblo.com forums. I'd say it was a satisfying ending to a great trilogy so it wasn't a disappointment at all. My current most anticipated film is Avatar 2 It feels like I've been waiting 84 years to see this shit!  The 1st one blew me away in IMAX 3D. And I can't wait to see what James Cameron has up his sleeve with the sequel. I'm just preying that it won't get delayed AGAIN.
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Post by DanQuixote on Aug 7, 2021 13:38:32 GMT
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - That badass trailer with the theme from The Wolfman sold me. I read some Le Carré novels in preparation and loved them. I was so hyped.
Carol - Beautiful trailer. Had just started getting really into Haynes. Raves from Cannes.
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