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2009 in film – the naughty list
Well I’ve done the ‘good’ list for movies this year so it seems only natural and fair to draw up the naughty list of movies before the year completely comes to an end.
This is potentially a much harder list as I generally don’t like to hate on too many films but there were at least a couple of films this year that deserve to get lumps of coal in their stockings or at the very least a good frowning. …
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The big anticipation for me this year was obviously Star Trek and last year it was Iron Man, next year I suspect it will be Iron Man 2. But even though the film that I was most hanging out to see this year has come and gone there is still a lot of 2009 film going left.
Five films that are coming out this year that I’m looking forward to are:
- Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Moon
- G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
- District 9
- Ponyo
- Inglourious Basterds
- 9
- Avatar (no trailer yet)
- Sherlock Holmes
I want to see Transformers 2 despite really disliking the first one to see if any improvements have been made, I mean it looks really fantastic special effects wise, so who knows, maybe I’ll warm to the next generation’s Transformers. G.I. Joe is on the list purely for interest sake, I’ve never been a significant fan of the franchise (?) but it looks as though it may be a bit of fun, I wonder how far they’ll take any of the violence etc.
Having finally watched the Harry Potter film that I missed seeing for some reason (which, I may add I’m still not sure how I missed it since Tracey had seen it), I was reminded of how much I really enjoyed those films and the books and so it will b nice to go see an old friend.
Studio Ghibli produces the best animated films in the world and even though Disney is slapping their name on Ponyo I see no reason why this won’t continue to be so.
Moon looks interesting and quite a departure from the flashy science fiction of Star Trek, if you haven’t seen the trailer you should go check it out because it looks really intense. District 9 also looks to be a neat scifi movie, I watched the original short film on youTube and thought that would make a cool film and hey they delivered!
Avatar is either going to be hugely awesome and amazing and mind blowing or it will be The Abyss…
…I’m kidding, I love The Abyss. Avatar is just putting so much anticipation out there that it’s hard to believe that it could be as good as its promise, but it will be pretty good if it does! I’ve been avoiding much to do with it and have only a vague sense of what it is about, although the 3D aspect is… well I was going to say interesting but to be honest I can’t say I’m all that interested in 3D.
The second film in my list to have 9 in it of course is 9 (apparently there is a Nicole Kidman film called ‘Nine’ coming out but I doubt that I’ll accidentally see that). 9 is along the lines of the stop motion look and feel of Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas. I think it looks really interesting.
Inglourious Basterds is a must see, looks like a great cast and even though Tarantino has swung and missed in the past, it has been rare and not that bad anyway. So what I’m saying here is that even if it isn’t his best work, it certainly won’t be awful.
And finally we have Sherlock Holmes, which judging by the trailer looks like a lot of fun despite having Jude Law in it. Robert Downey Jr has been on a bit of a roll with Tropic Thunder and of course Iron Man so I’m reasonably confident that this should be alright.
I watched most of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines last night on television, weird considering that I own it on DVD and could have watched all of it including what I missed during my shower break without commercials. Tracey believes it to be a shared experience kind of thing, that popping in the DVD takes away from the communal sharing of the movie or television show. I’m happy to go with that.
A week or so ago I watched Terminator: Salvation and I just couldn’t make up my mind whether or not I liked it on any level, I know, as a Terminator film that I really disliked it. This kind of overshadowed what I could take away from the film as an action scifi piece. The stigma of being a Terminator film seemed like to much weight for the film to carry.
So it was with more of a curious mind that I found myself watching T3.
Terminator 3 has its share of problems, it has its share, your share and probably my share as well, it has a lot of problems. But then the film almost redeems itself for all of its problems with that last 15 minutes, when we see judgement day take place and John and Kate are tricked by the T101 (I’m so confused over the numbering system – I thought it was a T-800 but he very clearly says he is a T101) into going down into the bunker.
The acting in this scene is superb and like I said it really makes up for a lot of the stupidity of the rest of the film.
Is T3 really better than Terminator: Salvation?
Whoa now! Now did I say that?
Well, maybe it is.
You see for all of its flaws, T3 is a Terminator film and frankly I don’t think you can call Terminator: Salvation a Terminator film. You certainly can’t say that it is part of the series, maybe it is as some have been calling it a reboot?
If that’s the case then I would happily cut it some slack, maybe go back and watch it with less cautious eyes. But I’m not convinced this is the case.
Not that there isn’t stuff to like in Terminator: Salvation, the Sam Worthington character is really interesting, the Kyle Reese character (played by Chekov) likewise. The Arnold Terminator appearance is actually the absolute highlight of the film. But there are more problems than there is good.
Namely one Christian Bale as Connor.
Apparently in the future, if someone doesn’t listen to you yelling something the first time you just yell louder until they see your point.
“I need to go to HQ”
“Sorry dude but you’re pretty much no one so I can’t take you there”
“TAKE ME TO HEAD QUARTERS!”
“Ok.”
And here lies another problem, John Connor didn’t rise up to lead the resistance, he became some podcasting messiah guy (he’s not the messiah he’s just a very naughty boy, who happens to yell a lot). He’s not a great military leader, he’s not even in the loop, and it has to be said that Michael Ironside had a much nicer submarine when he was in SeaQuest.
The whole film feels like a cross between Transformers and the Matrix, but never a Terminator film and had John Connor survived judgement day by hiding in a lead lined fridge I would not have been surprised.
What did you guys think of Terminator: Salvation?
