This Year So Far..
So yet again where coming up to the annual season of summer blockbusters, and this year looks to be one of the most promising we’ve had for a while. It’s very early days and already we’ve seen massive hits such as ‘Cloverfield,’ ‘Iron Man,’ ‘Speed Racer,’ ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Sex and the City’ to name but a few.
‘Wanted’ has now been out a week, I haven’t had a chance to see it yet, but I’m really looking forward to that one.
‘The Incredible Hulk’ has also been out a fair while now, another one on my list of films I’m dying to see. Ed Norton as Bruce Banner in my eyes is an incredible (pun not intended!) piece of casting. I can’t wait to see him loose his temper as the short fused scientist come huge green beast!
M. Night Shyamalan’s newest venture, ‘The Happening,’ came out the same day as ‘The Incredible hulk,’ I was originally pretty excited to see what Shyamalan had to offer with this entry, but heard bad things from pretty much everyone who went to see it. As a result i let it slip under my radar a little, but I will inevitably catch it eventually. I find this really disappointing as ‘6th Sense’ showed that Shyamalan had real potential, but since then I have been waiting for him to make another film worth watching.
One very interesting film to hit the silver screen recently is the independent film ‘Teeth.’ This first appeared at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim. It’s finally hit the commercial cinemas and I’m very interested in the concept. Although I was disgusted and confused at first at the concept of a vagina containing a jaw full of razor sharp teeth, the idea grew on me and I can see this one being a very interesting take on the horror genre, with an even more interesting central message.
Edit: If any readers have seen any of these films, I would love to hear what you thought of them. Leave a comment on this post with any criticism both positive and negative for these films and any others that you may have seen that I haven’t talked about here.
Coming up…
To be released on Wednesday is ‘Hancock,’ where Will Smith stars as a washed up superhero, suffering with alcoholism, but attempting to improve himself. Will Smith has grown a lot since the days of the ‘Fresh Prince,’ shown in films such as ‘Pursuit of Happyness,’ where his powerful performance shone through to make a great script a fantastic, emotional and genuinely moving piece of cinema, and ‘I Am Legend,’ where he held center stage completely alone for the vast majority of the film, and held it together fantastically. ‘Hancock’ promises to be another great outing from the increasingly diverse Will Smith, and one you should definately watch for.
Perhaps the most exciting new release of the year, is Chris Nolans first ever sequel, ‘The Dark Knight.’ Picking up not long after ‘Batman Begins,’ Nolan is set to expand on what is arguably the best batman film ever made, delving deeper into the intruiging and refreshingly deep psyche of the most interesting character of the current ’superhero movie’ trend. Heath Ledger’s Joker looks to be the most psychotic, and genuinely terrifying Joker ever depicted on the big screen. This is by far the most exciting film for me this year, im practically frothing at the mouth already for this one! Look out for it on July 25th. RIP Heath.
On September 5th, the guys behind ‘Superbad’ and ‘Knocked Up’ are returning with ‘Pineapple Express.’ A drug dealer and a stoner witness a police officer commit a murder and are therefore forced to run in order to protect themselves. This promises to offer a lot of classic comic moments, and if it’s anywhere near as good as ‘Superbad’ or ‘Knocked Up’ it’ll definately be worth the ticket price.
Also this year, Daniel Craig returns as Bond in ‘Quantum of Solice,’ Guillermo Del Toro brings us ‘Hellboy II: The Golden Army,’ and audiences are asked to step back into the wardrobe in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian,’
This is just a small sample of whats coming this year. It’s definately a great one for cinema, as this is just a few of what I view as the most exciting films this year, there are so many more great movies coming that I couldn’t begin to talk about them all. Let’s just hope that the Writers Strike hasn’t stopped next year from being as great as this one.
