I will go ahead and say that my top 5 isn’t void of Hollywood blockbusters. In fact, it’s mainly composed of them. However, there will be movies that most are anticipating that haven’t appeared on my list thus far. Thus, people might be expecting to see them in the Top 5. They won’t be, most likely. For an example: Neither Green Hornet nor Harry Potter are going to be on my list.

I will also confess, my top 5 is actually going to be 6 movies (I couldn’t decided on which should be number 1). At one point I had one, then I changed it to the other, then I realized I couldn’t decide. So I gave them both the number 1 slot, and just added a 26th movie to the end of the list.

Also, since Part 3 will only be the Top 5 (6), I will be adding a “Indie Films to Look Out For” portion that will satisfy that “lesser known” part.

The fact that your top five will be comprised of more personalized and distinctive films (and not big mainstream blockbusters) is more interesting. For the most part, everyone (most casual moviegoers) has a solid grasp on what big films to expect this year, but most are not aware of the rest of the cinematic crop (often times, these lesser known films impress us more more)! So kudos for your decision making process!

Hangover 2, you do have a point. They do need to steer clear of riding that “repetition train” as you put it. The part that has me worried the most, as I pointed out, not the same writers.

As for my Top 5, I’ll get around to doing the final part of this tonight or tomorrow. Though, I’m fairly sure some people will be quite disappointed. Some of these big releases that people are really excited for? Not going to make it. And they’ll potentially be up in arms about what does make it in my Top 5 while those movies are snubbed.

Though I will point out again, this is based on anticipation factor for me. This isn’t a “What will be the best movies of 2011″ list. I’m obviously anticipating these because I think they will be good. However, the anticipation is the main factor in ranking them. For instance, I could very well think that Unknown (#13) will actually be a better movie than Transformers (#7) (which it probably will), but my anticipation for Transformers far exceeds my anticipation for Unknown, thus it ranks higher.

Not to mention, some of these movies haven’t really kicked off their marketing campaign, some haven’t even released trailers yet. Thus, as the year moves on, there will be some I’m not excited about now (or at least not really excited) that I will become more excited about.

By the way, Matt, when commenting on here, lose the /category_archives/ part of your URL as that just turns up a broken link and people can’t get to your blog that way.

Hangover 2 should definitely be hilarious (hopefully, they attempt some new gimmicks and don’t ride the repetition train). It is the type of simple escape film that I’ll go see with my buddies and just laugh my ass off. Source Code has an inventive and sophisticated premise that may be be compelling, though I am somewhat dubious. The trailer kind of gives too much away.

Keep up the good work. I cannot wait to see the Top 5!