Considering the difficulty I’ve had mustering up any excitement about anything geeky, I was amazed to feel a spark about the upcoming movies below:
Never Let Me Go (September 17)
Something about stealth sci-fi tickles me. I love the idea of people going to a movie expecting nothing more than a love story, then being confronted with clones.
Devil (September 17)
Here’s a hint: stop putting M. Night Shyamalan’s name on stuff. Just stop. And stop using the phrase “From the mind of. . . “ This trailer was going along just fine until “From the mind of M. Night Shyamalan” appeared.
This one strikes me as Lifeboat in an elevator. With the Devil. Other than the above complaint, it looks promising.
Case 39 (October 1)
Case 39 continues the proud tradition of creepy little white girls. This one is being sent to hell. By her parents.
Monsters (October 29)
The trailer looks like every other horror/monster movie trailer: people running, people screaming, large objects being thrown around, but the movie itself could be promising.
A NASA probe tasked with searching for alien life crashes in Mexico as it re-enters the atmosphere. Naturally, it found alien life and brought it back to Earth.
Skyline (November 12)
Since I was about 12, I’ve had a recurring nightmare about an alien invasion. Seriously. Weirdly, that recurring nightmare looks a lot like the brief shots in this trailer.
Lisa Fary is a graduate of the creative writing program at Florida State University and holds an advanced degree in Special Education. Her earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She’s angry that it’s 2010 and she still doesn’t have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram.
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
That last shot of the Skyline trailer is so creepy! Eep.
I haven't heard of the Monsters but I hope it sparks an interest in Giant Monster Movies! We need more of them.
John also pointed out that Skyline plays right into my fear of vacuum cleaners.
I also thought Devil looked interesting until Shyamalan's name appeared, but I held up hope… until a friend told me she saw an advanced screening and it sucked. Hard. They need to stop letting that man make movies.
I was getting kind of interested in Case 39 — Renee Zellwigger being not-weird, Bradley Cooper, the little girl from that episode of SGA being rescued from scary parents — until it got to the bad CG bugs. I much prefer psychological horror to blood, guts, and swarms of pixels. The things you don't see are far scarier than the things you do, especially when the things you're seeing are blatantly not real. I don't know who originated the concept, but the standard example is Jaws.
So, I saw the trailer for Devil when I went to see Scott Pilgrim. Everyone was watching, interested, and then his name flashed up on the screen, and the entire theater in unison groaned. Then the entire theater laughed at the fact that we all just groaned. It was the greatest geek hive mind moment ever.
Rosalind
Girls Are Geeks
In the theatre I was in, the audience skipped right to the laughing.