Well, my esteemed blogger colleagues Soul Kerfuffle and PoTT and I have decided we once again need to get on this whole "joint blogging project" some more. So we've decided to go with our "Top 5 Anticipated Movies of 2009." Without further ado...
5. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen - Yes, ultimately the first movie pretty much sucked at any point in which robots were not battling each other. And the really puzzling thing was how little screen-time the robots actually got. I sense this will not be a problem in the second movie. Why, do you ask?
Because Michael Bay had a direct hand in writing the screenplay. He expanded an outline into 60 pages during the writer's strike.
That being the case, I expect the movie to feature mostly robots getting blowed up real good, or getting punched so hard their eyes pop out. Freeze frame the moment when Optimus punches Bonecrusher in the first flick; it totally happens. Eye pops right out.
I expect the landscape of Transformers 2 to be positively littered with busted robot eyes.
4. X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Yeah, X-Men 3, uh, failed to live up to its promise. That being said, this looks like an asskicker of a movie, and casting Liev Schrieber as Sabertooth may very well turn out to be a stroke of genius. If nothing else it'll be fun to see Logan kicking ass without a bunch of pansy ass whiner X-Men around him.
3. Watchmen - I don't know if the graphic novel can really be brought to the screen in a way that does it justice. But what kind of comic geek would I be if I didn't go see it? Obviously Zack Snyder's strategy is "slavish devotion to the look and feel of the original" though there are apparently significant changes to the ending. I do know I have to see it because I have to know if the movie can work.
Bonus prediction: I am going to go see this movie, and on the way out I will hear some teenager say "Man, that plot was ripped off from the first season of Heroes." Then the world will go black and I will wake up in jail with bloodstains under my fingernails.
2. The Expendables - IMDB lists this movie as coming out in 2010, but I'm listing it here anyway. Why, do you ask? Let me count the ways.
1. A script written by Sly Stallone featuring a group of badass mercenaries overthrowing the government of an African country at the behest of the CIA.
2. The confirmed cast: Sly Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture and Dolph Lundgren as the main members of the team. Rumored casting: Forest Whitaker (as CIA handler) Ben Kingsley, and Mickey Rourke (!!!!!)
3. Did I mention it was written by Stallone?
4. According to script reviewers, the climactic battle scene is simply scripted as "unlike anything ever seen before."
I can hardly wait.
1. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra - Do I really need to even explain this one? Haven't you all seen my toyblog? And despite all the NERD RAGE surrounding this movie (and believe me, the nerd rage is truly frightening and highly irrational - suffice it to say people think the only way to bring G.I. Joe to the screen is to do so so that it is EXACTLY FRAME FOR FRAME LIKE THE COMIC or EXACTLY FRAME FOR FRAME LIKE THE CARTOON depending on which they liked better as a kid) I am actually kind of optimistic. Is it gonna be great cinema? Hell no. But look, Stephen Summers can direct a fun, solid action flick (I'm thinking more The Mummy than Van Helsing), Chris Eccleston should be a fine villain, Sienna Miller is really, really hot in black leather with guns, and Ray Park is Snake-Eyes. Action, explosions, ninjas, and T&A. What more can a toy collecting nerd like me want?
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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But look, Stephen Summers can direct a fun, solid action flick (I'm thinking more The Mummy than Van Helsing)
Both of those movies were so putrid and horrible I don't even know how to parse that sentence.
An entire movie's success is hinged on Ray Park's ability to play a mute badass...
Can you honestly say that the parts of "Episode I" focusing on Ray Park as a mute ninja badass weren't totally balls out awesome?
No. No you can't.
They were superlatively balls out awesome to the extreme they rock a mic like a vandal. And I mean the ones who sacked Rome. I'm just worried about the rest of the movie...
If you tell me your whole theory on why this movie should be good has to do with sword fights, gun battles, and hot chicks in tight outfits, I better never hear any criticism of my movie choices again.
:-p
Yeah, Storm Shadow's being played by a guy who hasn't done anything but Chinese soap operas and who took a whole entire month's worth of sword lessons. Up against Ray Park. And his costume includes white sneakers. I want to like it, but they're just making it so damn difficult.
Please explain how a South Korean star has only appeared in "Chinese soap operas." That doesn't make any sense. Granted, if Tommy is still a Japanese-American character in the movie, casting a Korean doesn't make a whole lot of sense vis a vis Hollywood thinking "all Asians are more or less the same, right"
Look, casting Storm Shadow is a trap no matter how you look at it; either you cast an actor and train him in martial arts, or cast a martial artist and train him to act. I think the former is easier to do; you can make a good actor LOOK like a highly trained martial artist/assassin in a movie. It is a lot harder to take a highly trained martial artist and make him look like a good actor. Snake-Eyes faces none of the same difficulty because he can't freakin' talk anyway, so very little acting is required.
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