A big day for trailers. The one that has me the most excited is "The Social Network", David Fincher's film about the making of Facebook. The trailer looks great and features Scala's amazing cover of radiohead's "Creep"

Up next is the new movie from "Hangover" director Todd Phillips. I had high hopes for this and the opening scene made me laugh but I'm afraid that it seems like more of the same from Zach Galifianakis (whose schtick might start wearing thin) and having Robert Downey Jr. as an uptight guy seems to be a waste of his personality. I don't know. One of the things that made the similar "Trains, Planes, and Automobiles" work was that Steve Martin was still funny, even when he was the straight man. Should be interesting to see if Downey Jr. can pull it off.

I had some problems with the pacing and casting in "Gone Baby Gone" but, overall, I thought it was a great movie with some phenomenal performances. Amy Ryan was robbed out of a Academy Award nomination. Well, Ben Affleck is back with his second directorial effort (and, yes, I think one film in is probably too soon to label Ben as an "acclaimed director" like the trailer does) and it looks intense. An amazing cast, but the person that stood out to me is Blake Lively, not so much for her performance (although it looks fine) but because between this and "Green Lantern" it looks like she's finally going to get her push towards the A-list. It should be interesting to see if she can make it.

And right when it looks like Zach needs to try something new, here's something new, as in the new films from the directors of "Half Nelson" and "Sugar".

I'm not sure about all of the films but all of them are at least on the radar and should be better than 90% of the dreck that's come out so far this year. These will give me something to look forward to now that the wait for Inception is over.