Yesterday it was announced that the Director of what could have been my favourite movie of 2010, Monsters, has been signed up to Direct the new 2012 Reboot of the Godzilla franchise, being produced by Warner and Legendary. Gareth Edwards, a special effects guy from Nuneaton, made Monsters on a shoestring £10,000 budget and used the singularity of his vision and his ability to persuade great actors to star in the unusual, ethereal and strangely moving post-apocalypse love story. For girls, its a Monster movie you might be interested in and for boys, its a love story you might just let yourself get sucked into... see it before its gone and if you miss it, buy it on dvd...
It does prove that with dreams, you can make anything happen and thats a great message to send at a time of uncertainty in the British Film Industry and Gareth Edwards, if there's any justice in the world, will find himself with a few golden statues come the awards season and I suspect he may find himself with a BAFTA, as was similar for the debut Sam Rockwell starring film MOON. So I will be glued to awards season waiting for the results...
Here's hoping.
Unfortunately though 2011 looks to be a barren wasteland of sequels and reboots, with the new Transformers 3: Dark of The Moon sounding pretentious enough to warrant me taking a sick bucket into the theatre for good measure. Tron: Legacy serves to remind us why 3-D is cool but why, if its a film, it should be there to improve story; not to substitute for it. Although Jeff Bridges will forever be the dude...
Films like True Grit will do okay at the box office but Westerns have a strange ability to flop. At the hands of the Coen Brothers then I'd say it's a safe bet to get a few Nominations. COWBOYS AND ALIENS gives me the jitters, just because Jon Favreaus record is so inconsistent. First he makes Elf (eww) and then makes IRON MAN (awesome) and then follows with the confusing and very loud IRON MAN 2, which repeated IRON MAN 1 but with less interesting plot and story. That said, Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford wouldn't have signed on to a piece of horse-shit would they?
127 Hours doesn't really compell me but Danny Boyle is so damn good I think he might just pull this off, so when it goes on release I'll recommend this one just one previous record alone. James Franco is such a great actor that it's worth a view just for that.
One film to let out a little bit of wee over is probably HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 as it was the stand-out blockbuster for me in the latter half of 2010, surpassed by Inception and Toy Story in my top five of the year. Providing of course that it doesn't lose character and gritty reality in the battle heavy sections, see LOTR 3 for this problem, then I suspect that it may go on to surpass the billion dollar mark; making it the first of HARRY POTTER to do so.
Late year looks better, with two Spielberg films appearing in theatres in December. Look out for WAR HORSE as his potential Academy Award attempt but also look out for THE ADVENTURES OF TIN TIN, which sees Spielberg bring his trademark style into the 21st Century with the help of close friend and colleague Peter " Middle Earth" Jackson. Expect good box-office numbers but it will depend on the quality of the animation and story as to whether Spielberg hits it out the park with this one.
Summer looks barren but fans waiting for the fourth PIRATES picture will get their moment. ON STRANGER TIDES hits in May and looks to break the box office but probably not the backs of its critics...
2011 in Summary:
A mixed bag of bullshit and hope that will undoubtedly end in mediocrity.
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