No, I'm not talking about the most anticipated films of next year. I'm talking about the movies most likely to generate traffic on these boards. Forewarned is forearmed, as they say.

1. 2012

Could there be a more BAUT-friendly title than that? And it's directed by Roland "Day After Tomorrow" Emmerich to boot. Expect this site's bandwidth to implode when this one comes out.

2. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

Ah Michael Bay. How we missed you. The last time you did a Transformers movie, you told the world that Mars's sky was blue and that it had mud flats. What will you do now?

3. Monsters Vs. Aliens

One of the characters is a fishman called the Missing Link. Expect creationists to claim that this proves that evolutionists can't figure out if man evolved from apes or fish. You know it will happen.

4. Year One

Harold Ramis has made some great movies (Groundhog Day, anyone?) but here he seems to be courting the creationist dollar with a movie about exiled cavemen who encounter scenes from the Book of Genesis. Could be a blast. Could be a disaster.

5. Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Title says it all, really.

6. Race to Witch Mountain

UFO conspiracy for kiddies.

7. Star Trek

As scifi franchises go, Star Trek has a pretty good track record with scientific accuracy (I said pretty good!) but how far off will the notoriously ponderous JJ Abrams veer in his so-called reinvention? Anyone watch Fringe? This could be bad.

8. Up

You just know that someone on this forum is going to point out that no, it isn't actually possible to fly a house using a thousand helium balloons and sails made of shower curtains. Nor is it possible to drag a flying house along behind you on a piece of string as you hike through the mountains of Venezuela. To say nothing of how the toilet is supposed to work.

9. Land of the Lost

If they stick to the TV show, which depicted this place as a parallel universe accessed via dimensional portals, then this could be OK. But if they actually start saying that this is a real place under the ground, expect some science debate.

10. Whiteout

A murder mystery set in Antarctica involving a "a secret buried for 60 years". Exactly how many secrets have people managed to bury there? Let alone 60 years ago. I gotta bad feeling about this...

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BAUT aside, of those, the one I'm sure I will enjoy is Ice Age 3. I love that little saber-toothed squirrel critter.

Sigh, at that. The first one is pretty decent. The second one . . . has Bette Davis!

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I see some people share my contempt for Michael '2-frames per edit' Bay. a.k.a. Michael 'scientific accu-what?' Bay.

Personally I want to see Avatar the most this year, methinks. Say what you will about James Cameron - the man knows his technology.

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If I actually knew a jot about what Avatar was about, I might have included it on this list. I love James Cameron's movies. Always have. I think the guy's a technical genius who also cares about narrative. That said, I also think he's a complete jerk, as apparently does everyone else who's ever worked with and/or married him. But a lot of movie directors are complete jerks. Comes with the job.

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It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

Totally agreed. At least he guy has talent.

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I'm really looking forward to "Watchmen", based on the comic book by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

10. Whiteout

A murder mystery set in the world of the TV show Office, involving a secret buried for 60 years and a bottle of correction fluid.

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Swift, I think you took a wrong turn at Albuquerque. Perhaps you wanted this thread?

As for the Watchmen movie, perhaps we'll get to see it, perhaps not. There are some legal problems, apparently.

From the official movie website:

As one who has fond memories of cheesy Saturday morning kid-vid, I was at first excited about seeing a big-screen remake of this. But having read descriptions of this movie, I fear it's going to be bad. And bad in a bad way, not in a good way.

Nick

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I saw one of them on Disney Channel once (I'm not sure which.) and thought it was pretty good.

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Sooo ... is it good that it has Bette Davis, or bad? Some people like her, some not so much.

I like Bette Davis. It's the movie I don't really like.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I'm waiting for the Sigmund the Sea Monster movie remake since Hollywood is apparantly doing remakes of Sid and Marty Krofft TV shows...and let's not forget HR Pufnstuff!

Gossip-alert:

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As stupid as the 2012ers are, I'm really curious how he is going to destroy NY this time. Also I can't really fault Emmerich for the Guys who take it seriously, unlike the Histeria-Channel the movie doesn't claim to be a anything other than fiction.

Sorry to bump this so egregiously, but could someone please move this to Bad Astronomy in the Media?

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They're doing neither. They're not remaking the TV show at all. They're just making fun of it. It stars Will Farrell as a scientist who goes completely bonkers in plain old Earth within the first few scenes (including a very public physical assault on Stephen Hawking), thus setting up the rest of it as simply his hilarious hallucinations and witty running commentary about how weird they are. And it stars Will Farrell.

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Cheat-sheet! BONUS find: The Tiny Spaceship

Since there's no plot listed yet, how about:

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