Friday, January 14, 2011

The Sadness of 2011

Once again, it's time to play the "there are no good movies coming out next year" game - except this time, the barren wasteland of 2011 is quite shocking - scary, even. 
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Seriously, over the first four months of the year, what is anybody legitimately looking forward to? I kind of have a hankering to see Joe Wright's Hanna or Duncan Jones' Source Code and maybe Francis Lawrence's Water for Elephants, but I'm not really excited about any of it - even Pixar's offering this year will struggle to get me in the theater. 
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The summer? Full of superheroes (Thor, Captain America, Green Lantern) and sequels that nobody cares about (Pirates of the Caribbean, Transformers), what's new? 
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Well Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens should be a wonderful little genre splice-up that I'm looking forward to and Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class should be interesting, given the conceptual work being shared by the film's creators plus the young, diverse cast slipping on the costumes. (Although I still contend that Singer's X-Men films were uniformly overpraised for being simply competent.) And J.J. Abrams also returns to the monster-flick with Super 8, so that should be fun. 
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Other than that, it's Katherine Heigl Lionsgate action-comedies and more Kevin James buffoonery...and we thought last year was bad. 

1 comment:

  1. Martin Scorsese's HUGO CABRET
    Terrance Malick's TREE OF LIFE
    Steven Spielberg's WARHORSE
    (or his TINTIN collaboration w. Peter jackson for that matter)
    Wong Kar-Wai's THE GRANDMASTERS
    Cameron Crowe's WE BOUGHT A ZOO
    Alexander Payne's THE DESCENDANTS
    David Fincher's GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

    ...and that's just off the top of my head.

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