Preface

• Happy New Year Everybody!
• 2014 is far behind us, Top 10 Best and Top 5 Worst of that year is done.
  • Thank you all for the very positive responses to those!
  • Feel free to check those out (Best) (Worst)
• So now, let’s look at the year ahead in film: 2015.
• Over the past couple years, people have been proclaiming that 2015 will just be the Second Coming of Christ for Movies.
  • Is it though?
  • Is it really?
• Sure, there are 10 Movies I’m really looking forward to in 2015, maybe 2 or 3 honorable mentions, but 2016 looks a lot more promising!
  • Maybe I’m biased.
  • Those are just my thoughts.
  • Feel free to leave your backlash in the comments below!
• But without further ado, let’s do some honorable mentions!

Honorable Mentions

• A couple interesting movies coming out in 2015 that I didn’t consider, but still interest me:
  • Paper Towns
  • Black Mass
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2
• Then there were 2 films that were THIS close to making the list, but I just cut cuz of the limit to 10.
  • Tomorrowland, which I think is going to be really good.
    • Some people say it will be phenomenal, and I don’t know, I hope so.
    • But I think it will be a really cool and unique story.
  • Inside Out
    • Which looks like it’s going to be a really, really cool return to form for Pixar.
  • Those Honorable Mentions out of the way, let’s get on to this actual list!

10

• Keep in mind, these aren’t gonna be the 10 Movies that I think will be the best of 2015.
  • These are the 10 Movies that I’m excited for in 2015 for one reason or another.
• That being said, Taken 3 (which I refuse to call Tak3n) is Number 10!
• I loved the original Taken, but Taken 2 was a pretty lousy sequel.
• It looks like Taken 3 has a more solid storyline that was thought through, and it looks like there will be some really sweet action.
• Taken 3 will also be one of the first movies I see in 2015, so that’s why it gets to kick off the list.
  • The reviews from other reviewers will probably start coming out right after I post this saying, “it’s the same movie as the first two!”

9

• Inside out didn’t make the list, but one animated movie did!
• Peanuts is the animated representation on this list.
  • It’s funny:
    • On my Top 10 Best of 2014, I had a wildcard at number 10 and animated at number 9.
    • Same thing here…
  • I put Peanuts at this spot over Inside Out because Peanuts looks like it could be a really cool telling of the Charlie Brown gang story with modern animation.
  • It does have the potential to bomb, but I’m going to see it either way.

8

• Neil Blomkamp is a juggernaut right now.
• District 9 and Elysium were both phenomenal films.
  • In my opinion of course, I know some people hated Elysium, but I thought it was extremely well done.
• Chappie looks like it could be a really intriguing science fiction film, but not a sci-fi.
  • It looks like they’re gonna incorporate a lot of action with a lot of scientific fact, which I think is really sweet.

7

• Ant-Man.
• I was as nervous as anyone when the whole “Edgar Wright has Left Ant-Man!” thing came out.
  • I knew Edgar Wright had been working on Ant-Man since before I knew who Edgar Wright even was.
• I actually think that Ant-Man is going to be a surprise hit.
  • I think critically, monetarily.
  • I think every person will walk out of Ant-Man and immediately want a sequel.
• Just my thoughts, but I’m really stoked for Ant-Man.

6

• David O. Russell’s next project starring Jennifer Lawrence?
  • David O. Russell made The Fighter and American Hustle.  Excellent films.  He also made Silver Linings Playbook: my favorite film of all time.
  • Jennifer Lawrence is my favorite actress in Hollywood right now.
  • Bradley Cooper is one of the best actors in the business also.
• How could I not be excited for this?

5

• The Hateful Eight.
• Quentin Tarantino is finally making his project The Hateful Eight that’s been on and off of hiatus for years now.
• Django Unchained was phenomenal, and I can’t wait to see what Tarantino has in store for us in his next western.

4

• This project used to be called Bond 24, and I wish they kept that title.
  • It would have been the action-fan fantasy of James Bond teaming up with Jack Bauer.
• That’s just a joke (of course).
• I really like the title Spectre.
  • It’s the Bond organization that does evil and is menacing.
  • And it just sounds mysterious.
• If the Spectre organization can bring a cool, mysterious, spy feel to the Bond franchise, I can’t wait.
• Skyfall was one of the best spy movies I’ve seen in my life, and I’m really hoping Spectre can repeat that.

3

• Sea of Trees.
• Sea of what??
• Most of you probably haven’t heard of this project, but it’s directed by Gus Van Sant (director of Good Will Hunting) and stars Matthew McConaughey as a professor who contemplates suicide in the Japanese Suicide Forest.
• This film was made like RIGHT where I live.
  • Literally.
  • Like my local grocery store has a scene in it.
• I’m so excited to see the area in which I live be converted onto the big screen with Matthew McConaughey (one of my favorite actors), and it honestly could have been my Number 2 or 1.
  • But there were two others…

2

• I’m pretty sure anyone doing a “Top 10 Anticipated of 2015 List” has these two at their 2 and 1 respectively.
  • And I was flipping these back and forth, but here’s what we got.
• Avengers: Age of Ultron.
• Guardians of the Galaxy blew everyone’s minds, and we’re going right into Guardians which looks like it could be the darkest, most thought-provoking, and best Marvel movie yet.
• I can’t wait to see all the Avengers back, the direction looks great, Ultron looks phenomenal.
• I love how Marvel is expanding outward.
  • They’re setting up all these new projects like Civil War, but they still keep us excited for the very next one.
• I can’t wait to see this movie, I’ll be in line at 11:59 on April 30^th to see it.
• It also had the best trailer of any movie this year.
  • By FARRRRRRRRRR.

• Let’s note that trailer again.  Cuz it’s AWESOME.

1

• Like I said, I was flipping these back and forth.
  • But if someone came to me tonight and said, “you can either see Avengers: Age of Ultron or Star Wars: The Force Awakens right now, which would you choose.
• And I’d choose Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
• I remember being like 6 years old and being shown the original Star Wars (A New Hope) for the first time and thinking how awesome it was.
• Throughout my childhood, I was really into the Lego Star Wars sets, and I read the junior novelizations of the original trilogy.
  • Empire Strikes Back is still one of my favorite films and childhood reads to this day.
• And when I was a little older, I saw the prequels for the first time.
  • I CAN’T hate on the prequels like everyone else cuz I wasn’t old enough to have waited my whole life for them.
  • However, even I recognized from a young age that they were different, and more boring that the originals.
    • That’s Junior John’s film critic mind in action!
  • I thought Jar Jar Binks was ANNOYING to the 10^th
    • He was made for kids.
    • I was a kid seeing it.
    • And I thought he was annoying!
      • That’s movie fail 101!!
    • Regardless, I can’t wait to see the old school feel that Episode VII will hopefully have.
    • J.J. Abrams was my first choice as director of this project, I think he’ll do a fantastic job, as he respects the franchise so much.
    • The actors all looked great.
    • The trailer looks super sick.
    • Star Wars: The Force Awakens is a movie I wish I didn’t have to wait all year for, but I do.
      • Taken 3 is Number 10 since it’s the first one on the list I get to see.
      • Star Wars: The Force Awakens is Number 1 since it’s the last film on the list I get to see.
    • And it’s the movie I CAN’T WAIT to see the most in 2015.

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So guys, those are My Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2015. What are your most anticipated? Let me know down below, and as always, thanks for reading guys.