Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Secret Movies of the Future to Watch out for. (Also new section)

1. Immortals (11.11.11) - Finally Henry Cavil lead role!
2. Now (9.20.11) - Andrew Niccol directing/writing, Cillian Murphy lead.
3. Fright Night (8.19.11) - David Tennant is in it. Brilliant.
4. Super (4.1.11) - Dwight K Schrute and Nathan Fillian and Ellen Page + utter brutality.
5. Paul (3.18.11) - Pegg, Frost + Alien.
6. The Appirition (9.9.11) - Malfoy being a good guy?
7. Cabin in the Woods (unknown) - Whedon et al.
8. The Thing (10.14.11) - Solid cast and promising, but obvious, story.
9. Your Highness (4.8.11)- Everything about it.
10. Limitless (3.18.11) - Bradley Cooper looks like Aleem.
11. Restless (1.28.11) - Trailer kind of ruins it.
12. Bunraku (unknown) - Some freaky combo of live action and animation as yet unseen.

Green Hornet: Expectations

Once Kato spins with the camera, I can just sense Gondry taking over and it gave me chills. I believe this movie will be fantastic and over the top awesome.

However, the public response does not look promising and there is an air of premature dismissal around this movie.

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Ties: Expectations based on the Trailer. (A new segment)

The Trailer did very little for me. It seems I'm more Team Bloom than Team Depp. Here's hoping for the best.

Regardless of quality, tons of money will be made...may not include mine.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

TRON: Legacy


Mmmmmmmmmm, so delicious. My eyes were drooling. Never before has a film covered up such large flaws so overwhelmingly. Anything negative became irrelevant once Daft Punk blankets the atmosphere and the effects start flying. Modestly touching story with characters I quickly grew to enjoy. Quorra is cool, The Dude 2.0 is awesome, Tron (the character) is wonderfully heartbreaking, and Sam wins you over with his psychotic edge despite Hedlund's stoic acting.

Really is all about that dominating score. The best in the history of film? Possibly. The best background music when passing a cop parked on the highway? Unequivocally. 

Score: 10 out of 10

Friday, December 17, 2010

A Top Ten for 2010.


Whats shorter and sweeter than a Top Eleven List? Don't you dare say top ten. Who said top ten? Top tens are so last millennium. Also noted will be the type of film that they are. Why? Cuz who's gonna stop me.

While I've not seen every movie released in 2010, I have seen enough to constitute a top 11 list. 

And here. We. Go. 

12. The Fighter
11. Predators (Sequel)
10. TRON: Legacy (Sequel)
9. Toy Story 3 (threequel)
8. The Social Network (Adaptationy)
7. True Grit (remake)
6. The Town
5. Daybreakers
4. Kick A** (Adaptation)
3. Inception
2. How to Train Your Dragon (Adaptation)
1. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Adaptation)

Four original films made the list. Kudos to those scribes and auteurs out there for stepping beyond the industry pressures and believing in new ideas. 

Here now are a bunch of Noncommittal Lists...

As yet unseen:
Piranha 3D
Little Fockers
Black Swan
Resident Evil: Afterlife
Machete
Creation
Micmacs
Defendor
A Prophet
Four Lions
Holy Rollers

Other decent films:
Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Other Guys
Despicable Me
Robin Hood (Adaptationy)
She's Out of My League
Easy A (Adaptationy)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 (uber sequel)
Its Kind of a Funny Story
Date Night
Cyrus
Let Me In (Adaptation)
Splice
Iron Man 2 (Sequel)
Hot Tub Time Machine (Prequel to Hot Tub Time Machine 2)
Megamind
District B13: Ultimatum (Sequel)
Sorcerer's Apprentice (Adaptation)
MacGruber (Continuation?)
The Crazies
Get Him To the Greek (Spin Off)
Due Date
The ending of Legion. 

Disappointments:
Everything but the ending of Legion
Alice in Wonderland
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief
Dinner for Schmucks
Cop Out
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (Adaptation)
The Wolfman
The A Team (Adaptation)
Gulliver's Travels
Shutter Island

The Ive Made a Huge Mistake: 
When in Rome
The Last Airbender
Knight and Day

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

The Social Network (2010)

Directed by David Fincher

Engaging and intense throughout. I'm classifying it as a fiction dramedy inspired by true events. Suffered from Justin Timberlake over-saturation. Not that he did a poor job, Timberlake proved to be a capable actor and his dominance when on screen is undeniable, but he simply drew far too much attention to himself. It was more a problem with the character.

Eisenberg proves he and Michael Cera will duke it out for years to come on who has better hidden talents underneath that unassuming-cool-nerd guise. Rooney Mara's short role was brilliant. Sorkin's writing was stand out, brought to life by great acting. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score was spectacular.

Best Line:
Cameron Winkelvoss (Reaper's Armie Hammer): We dont even have to do that..Im 6'5, 220 and there's two of me.

Score:
9 out of 10

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Easy A

Saw it for the parallel with my life. And by that I mean the monstrosity that is Pocket Full of Sunshine. A truly horrendous song that I will immediately and emphatically sing along with after eternally bonding with a demonic cell phone flip advertisement in that one Entertainment Weekly.

The movie was OK, kind of funny. Not bad. Id have liked it more if it didn't wind up as a girl-gets-guy flick but who am I kidding, its a movie.

6 out of 10