2010 Hollywood Delievers Crap or Good Movies?

[MR2-Sooner86]

Alright, this year in movies there are a couple of good things coming out but I think there's going to be a TON of films that will be pure **** with flashy colors. I'll name off some of the big blockbusters that are coming up.

I got them from this site here:http://io9.com/5437682/the-20-sf-movies-were-most-excited-to-see-in-2010

I also saw others on Yahoo! Movies about stuff this upcoming year right here:http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/collections/gallery/2292/most-anticipated-movies-of-2010/#photo1

I ordered all of these at the times they come out so you can expect when to see these in theaters and what will be released for Memorial Day weekend etc.

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The Book Of Eli (Jan. 15)
What it's about: The world ended decades ago, and now Eli (Denzel Washington) is the last guardian of a special book that could save the human race. But Gary Oldman wants it too, and he's got a rocket launcher, among other things.

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The Lovely Bones (Jan. 15)
What it's about: Peter Jackson adapts Alice Sebold's novel about a young girl who gets murdered by a pedophile, and then finds herself in a kind of purgatory.

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Legion (Jan. 22)
What it's about: A group of humans under siege in a truckstop discover their attackers are angels, sent to destroy one pregnant woman whose child has a huge destiny. Only one fallen angel (Paul Bettany) can save them all.

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The Wolfman (Feb. 12)
What it's about: Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins star in this revival of Universal's monster movie franchise, about a man who becomes... wait for it... a wolf.


Shutter Island (February 19)
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio team up again in this horror yarn about being trapped in the world's worst insane asylum.


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The Crazies (Feb. 26)
What it's about: Did you know they were remaking George Romero's 1970s classic about a town of people infected with a disease that makes them go nuts? The military decides to barricade everyone in the town, and craziness ensues.


ALICE IN WONDERLAND (March 5)
Tim Burton and Johnny Depp team up again, this time to re-imagine Lewis Carroll's bizarre and beloved tales.


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Hot Tub Time Machine ( March 19)
What it's about: A gaggle of middle-aged guys (including John Cusack and the Daily Show's Rob Corddry) discover that their hot tub is really a time machine that lets them go back to their party-boy youth in the 1980s and do it all over again. Or something.


CLASH OF THE TITANS (March 26)
Greek hero Perseus (Sam Worthington) battles Hades (Ralph Fiennes), god of the underworld, in this remake of the 1981 cult classic.


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Repo Men (April 2)
What it's about: As we mentioned, this one was filmed a while ago and put on ice, until Repo Man director Alex Cox decided to do his own spin-off, Repo Chick. But it's not actually connected to Repo Man at all — it's a movie version ofa novel, Repossession Mambo, about a future where your artificial organs get yanked out if you don't keep up with your payments.


Kick-*** (April 16)
What it's about: Mark Millar's brutal comic about what superheroes would really be like gets a faithful adaptation from Matthew Vaughn (Stardust) featuring Nic Cage as a psycho version of Batman who pumps bullets into his 11-year-old girl, Hit Girl (Chloe Moretz).


THE EXPENDABLES (April 23)
Pretty much every blockbuster icon of the '80s -- Sly Stallone, Bruce Willis, Dolph Lundgren, even Arnold Schwarzenegger -- stars in this action yarn directed by Stallone himself. Expect a lot of explosions.


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A Nightmare On Elm Street (April 30)
What it's about: Jackie Earle Haley stars as Freddie Krueger, the serial killer with the knife-glove, who kills people in their dreams, resulting in their deaths in real life. This is another film that's been having a ton of reshoots, and there are rumors it's a bit troubled.

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Iron Man 2 (May 7)
What it's about: The sequel to 2008's most pleasant surprise, a superhero film that sported interesting characters and memorable performances. Robert Downey Jr. is back as Tony Stark, and this time the U.S. military wants the Iron Man "weapon" he's created. But he's going to need that suit to survive Mickey Rourke's zappy-whip assault.


ROBIN HOOD (May 14)
Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott struck Oscar gold with their last action-adventure outing in "Gladiator." This time around, they're tackling that famed medieval do-gooder Robin Hood.


SHREK FOREVER AFTER (May 21)
Everyone's favorite green ogre returns to the silver screen, featuring the voice talent of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, and Antonio Banderas.


SEX AND THE CITY 2 (May 28)
Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte follow up on their blockbuster big screen debut with new tales of love, romance, and fabulous shoes.


PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (May 28)
Jerry Bruckheimer brings the popular video game to life, starring a very buff Jake Gyllenhaal.


THE A-TEAM (June 11)
Hannibal, Faceman, Murdock, and B. A. Baracus come to the big screen in this adaptation of the '80s TV series, starring Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, and Jessica Biel.


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Jonah Hex (June 18)
What it's about: A gunslinger in the old West battles supernatural evil, based loosely on the DC Comics series.

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Toy Story 3 (June 18)
What it's about: The long-awaited third installment in the series about sentient playthings picks up when the toys' owner goes off to college — and not all of the toys are going to get to stay.

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The Last Airbender (July 2)
What it's about: M. Night Shyamalan adapts the super-popular animated series about Aang, who has power over the element of air and tries to save his world from the warlike Fire Nation.

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Despicable Me (July 9)
What it's about: Steve Carrell voices the supervillain Gru, who wants to remain the worst evildoer on Earth. (This is actually just one of two animated supervillain movies coming out this year, with the other one, Megamind, coming out towards the end of the year and starring Will Ferrell.)

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Predators (July 9)
What it's about: Producer Robert Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal relaunch the series about aliens who hunt humans for sport, this time on an alien planet where a few humans are kidnapped and forced to fight for their lives.

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Inception (July 16)
What it's about: Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight) brings us an original science-fiction story, in which cities melt and Ellen Page screams "Wake me up!"

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Priest (August 20)
What it's about: Paul Bettany, our new go-to guy for supernatural action, stars in an adaptation of the TokyoPop comic set in a world where vampires and humans have been at war for decades. Bettany is a warrior priest who defies orders and goes after some vampires who have kidnapped his niece.

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Red Dawn (November 24)
What it's about: Chinese and Russian troops attack a small town in America, and the town's teenagers are the only ones who can mount a defense, in this remake of the 1980s classic.

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Tron Legacy (December 17)
What it's about: Disney finally makes a sequel to the 1980s video-game classic, and Jeff Bridges is back, playing his original character as well as a (possibly evil) computerized version.

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The Green Hornet (December 22)
What it's about: Another troubled production, this adaptation of the classic radio and TV superhero serial lost its director and co-star Stephen Chow. Seth Rogen's still on board playing the newspaperman whose super-sidekick is more famous than he is

[Crucifax Autumn]

Inception should be great. Iron Man 2 oughtta be decent. Aside from that I see myself watching A LOT of independent film.

[yermom]

Legion looks awesome

and by awesome i mean hilariously awful.

[Collier11]

Legion looks awesome

and by awesome i mean hilariously awful.

Legion looks about as bad as that Keano movie about hell that came out a few yrs ago

As for the movies listed,

Book of Eli looks awesome, seeing that tom

The lovely bones intrigues me although ill prob wait til its on video

Shutter Island looks pretty cool

The crazies I havent seen previews to yet but based on the descirption, im in

Alice in Wonderland looks wonderfully trippy

Nightmare on Elm street will probably be like the new Friday the 13th, decent enough to watch but not that great

The Christopher Nolan and Shamalyan movies look interesting

The rest, Meh

[Crucifax Autumn]

Legion looks about as bad as that Keano movie about hell that came out a few yrs ago

This one's either gonna be completely awful or amazingly cool...Not nec. good, just cool in a flashy kinda way. They already have an uphill battle though with every Christian group in the world calling for their heads!

As for the movies listed,

Book of Eli looks awesome, seeing that tom

I'll just play some Fallout

The lovely bones intrigues me although ill prob wait til its on video

I'm watching the screener later tonight or tomorrow.

Shutter Island looks pretty cool

Not too sure about those guys doing horror

The crazies I havent seen previews to yet but based on the descirption, im in

Another remake...Yay! :rolleyes:

Alice in Wonderland looks wonderfully trippy

Tim Burton gives me some hope, but he's hit or miss with me.

Nightmare on Elm street will probably be like the new Friday the 13th, decent enough to watch but not that great

Not at all interested in this...another fuggin' remake!

The Christopher Nolan and Shamalyan movies look interesting

Nolan, yes...Night...Eh...Anime adaptation and a shaky record recently doesn't have me all that excited.

The rest, Meh

All these crappy horror remakes are gonna keep making money as are unoriginal and uninspired bigger budget "new" horror movies. They miss the fact that the scariest movie last year was Antichrist by Lars Von Trier and starring Willem Dafoe...yeah, the one no one saw but movie nerds. The opening sequence is the best cinemetography of 2009...just beautiful and the mood of the movie is such that you have an ever-growing heaviness in your stomach and a sense of dread you can't even explain. The movie is friggin' scary without much gore at all and none of those stupid "BOO!" moments that most horror directors use as a crutch. And no...It's not about THAT Antichrist...it's a bit deeper than the rehashed "the devil's coming and he's mad" crap we've all seen. This one has to do with sexuality and nature, both human and the other kind with a whole lot of slow burning human insanity and evil just draining you as you watch. Easily one of the best few movies of the year, in any genre. Movies should make you feel and think in addition to being entertaining and this movie succeeds at all 3.

[Collier11]

Ive been thinking about watching that movie, I hear it is F'd up?

[Crucifax Autumn]

It's totally insane...and like I said, scares the crap out of you with the mood. And hey, penetration in a non-porno is always different! lol


A couple lose their young son when he falls out the window while they have sex in the other room. The mother's grief consigns her to hospital, but her therapist husband brings her home intent on treating her depression himself. To confront her fears they go to stay at their remote cabin in the woods, "Eden", where something untold happened the previous summer. Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film details acts of lustful cruelty as the man and woman unfold the darker side of nature outside and within.

That little tidbit from IMDB just doesn't come close to explaining the things this movie does to your mind and body as the dread just builds and builds, causing physical discomfort rather than the shaky butthole pinching that crap like saw relies on.

[Collier11]

sept its William Dafoe who is penetrating isnt it?

[Crucifax Autumn]

LOL...Story-wise yes, but it's really some dong-double.

[Collier11]

LOL, dong double...ill watch it one of these days when im drunk

[Collier11]

Brown bunny was an interesting non porno, never seen a non porno with an actual BJ in it

[Crucifax Autumn]

LOL, dong double...ill watch it one of these days when im drunk

I recommend not being TOO drunk. You will have a tough time following a lot of it if you are more than a little buzzed and at least one of the more disturbing moments will have the opposite effect when you **** your pants laughing.

[MR2-Sooner86]

The only movie on that list I'm like "YES!" is Toy Story 3. I really want to see Red Dawn thinking there could be more explosions but knowing Hollywood I'm afraid this will get ****ed up.

Predators, another grab at money? They say they want to "reinvent" the series and get us interested again. What the hell? The first two Predators were kick ***!

I'm also surprised nobody is jumping out of their seat for Tron wanting to get an early screening :D

[soonerinabilene]

toy story 3, iron man, and robin hood are 3 that im pumped about.

[C&CDean]

This list ain't worth a ****.

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[silverwheels]

The Book of Eli looks bad. There's a reason it's coming out in January.


And I agree with Dean.

[yermom]

you guys are just ghey for Harry


i'll see it, but i'm not that excited about it

i must have skimmed that list too fast, i didn't even notice Tron, but i knew it was coming soon. i totally missed M. Night's new flick though. i haven't heard anything about that one

[silverwheels]

M. Night? The guy has one good movie.

[yermom]

i wasn't a big fan of The Happening, but i liked the cast a lot. other than that, i really liked everything else. i think The Village is my favorite

[C&CDean]

Gay for Harry, or hot for Hermione doesn't really matter.

To have a list of "2010 Movies" and no HPATDH on it is bull****.

Of course it might be that good movies aren't actually made in Hollywood?

[silverwheels]

I don't know; I'm looking forward to Clash of the Titans. It will be nice to see it without the stop-motion monsters.

[Collier11]

The Book of Eli looks bad. There's a reason it's coming out in January.


And I agree with Dean.

well ill report back tonight, going to see it at 745

[Crucifax Autumn]

Of course it might be that good movies aren't actually made in Hollywood?

This is increasingly true, and I've been arguing that for a week or two now. Christopher Nolan, the one guy on the list I'm REALLY looking forward to, is a product of independent film and makes a point of shooting movies away from Hollywood as much as possible. Other than that and rare exceptions I'm more interested in foreign films and independent movies. Of all the sci-fi movies last year Moon (British) and District 9 were the truly interesting ones.

[LosAngelesSooner]

You realize that most movies aren't made IN Hollywood but almost all movies (including foreign films and indies) are made BY Hollywood, don't you?

[Crucifax Autumn]

Here are the assorted production companies that were involved with Antichrist:


Zentropa Entertainments
Zentropa International Köln (co-production)
Slot Machine (co-production)
Memfis Film (co-production)
Trollhättan Film AB (co-production)
Filmstiftung NRW (in co-operation with)
Lucky Red (co-production)
Zentropa International Poland (co-production)
Danmarks Radio (DR) (in co-operation with)
arte France Cinéma
ZDF/Arte
ARTE (in co-operation with)
Film i Väst (in co-operation with)
Sveriges Television (SVT) (in co-operation with)
CNC (in co-operation with)
Canal+ (in co-operation with)
Det Danske Filminstitut (in co-operation with)
Deutsche Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (in co-operation with)
Liberator Productions (co-production)
Nordisk Film- & TV-Fond (in co-operation with)
Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej (in co-operation with)
Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI) (in co-operation with)
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (in co-operation with)

Here are the filming locations:


Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Eitorf, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Forstbetriebsbezirk Dattenfeld, Windeck, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
MMC Studios, Hürth, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany
Ruppichteroth, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Here are the producers:


Bettina Brokemper .... executive co-producer
Madeleine Ekman .... co-producer
Meta Louise Foldager .... producer
Peter Garde .... executive producer
Sanne Glæsel .... line producer: Denmark and Germany
Peter Aalbæk Jensen .... executive producer
Lars Jönsson .... co-producer
Andrea Occhipinti .... co-producer
Ole Østergaard .... co-producer
Johannes Rexin .... line producer: Germany
Marianne Slot .... executive co-producer
Malgorzata Szumowska .... co-producer


Writer and Director:


Director:Lars von Trier
Writer:Lars von Trier

And it is one of the finest movies of 2009.

Moon was 100% British-made. And it is the most intelligent Sci-fi movie of the year.

And Nolan has repeatedly stated that he gets away from Hollywood as much as possible for his movies.

Don't get me wrong, I know what you mean. I just have a passion for movies made with a less traditional viewpoint and approach, so I push that end of the spectrum. It is obvious that there have been countless great movies made by the establishment. The problem is everyone knows about them so I have no reason to word of mouth them to death.

[StoopTroup]

Someone shot the moon?

[soonerinabilene]

i wasn't a big fan of The Happening, but i liked the cast a lot. other than that, i really liked everything else. i think The Village is my favorite

i have never met anyone who thought the village was just ok. people either think its his best film, or one of the worst movies ever. i hated it.

[Crucifax Autumn]

The Happening AND The Village sucked. So did Lady in the Water.
He better hope this new one is really good or his extended 15 minutes is gonna end soon.

[jkjsooner]

The Happening AND The Village sucked. So did Lady in the Water.
He better hope this new one is really good or his extended 15 minutes is gonna end soon.

One of the problems is that everyone expects a twist at the end of his movies and since people are looking for it it's very obvious. I found The Village to be very predictable but had it been Shamyalan's first movie maybe I would have found it to be interesting. If he came out with the Sixth Sense right now I think it would be a disaster. It wouldn't work at all.

As for independent films, for whatever reason I find them to almost always be missing somethng. However, I can't pinpoint what that something is. A lot of times it seems like they have an interesting concept but they just don't pull it off. Also, too often they try too hard to be different from Hollywood.

I used to go to Sundance with a group of friends who like independent films. I'd go for the skiing but I'd see 2 or 3 films while there. I can't remember a single film that I didn't walk out thinking that it could have been done better.

[Crucifax Autumn]

That's how I feel about almost every action movie.

[the_ouskull]

Of course it might be that good movies aren't actually made in Hollywood?

Ding, ding.

Sin,

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[StoopTroup]

If they want to improve the movies....they need to fire every script writer in the business and hire some normal folks. :D

Also....someone needs to realize that a tub of popcorn and a coke isn't worth $20.

[Crucifax Autumn]

That's too true!

Thus my downloading and leaning close to the screen!

[LosAngelesSooner]

If they want to improve the movies....they need to fire every script writer in the business and hire some normal folks. :DI wish you had the knowledge to understand just how incredibly stupid this post is.

[StoopTroup]

I wish you had the knowledge to understand just how incredibly stupid this post is.

I thought you had the knowledge to understand what flame baiting is. And I thought you were the "Master". I was so wrong about you.

[LosAngelesSooner]

I thought you had the knowledge to understand what flame baiting is. And I thought you were the "Master". I was so wrong about you.Heh. :D

Ya got me. ;)

But seriously, though...you have NO idea how many of my friends/acquaintances send me scripts asking me to "read them and tell them what I think?" and then ask me to pass them along to my "producer friends" so they can get the movie made.

Ya know...'cause that's how it works. :rolleyes:

And then I sit down and read what they've been working on...and I'm faced with the tough decision of a) telling them what I really think and losing a friend, b) saying, "It's good! I'll pass it along!" and then letting it die right there and c) taking hours out of my day to try and give them notes, teaching them the intricacies of screen writing over several conversations all the while knowing that they are probably going to lose the momentum and energy they had to write it once they begin the long and thankless "rewriting process."

I think Matt Damon once said, "Everyone thinks they can act, just like everyone thinks they can play poker until they sit down at a table with professionals." And that holds true with writing. It ain't as easy as it looks, and just because you write beautiful memos or legal briefs or short stories or poems or even stage plays does NOT mean you know how to write screenplays.

I tell my friends who want to be screenwriters to sit down and write a screenplay. Then get feedback and rewrite it until they feel it is done. Then go and put it on a shelf and don't let anyone see it. Repeat this process until they have written 3-5 screenplays and put them on the shelf.

Then go back and re-read them.

Then light them on fire and start on your next screenplay. At that point you'll have gotten most of the **** out and you might have something interesting to say.

[the_ouskull]

Precisely why I haven't written anything longer than a couple dozen pages in years, years, and years. I mean, not counting the length of my average rant on here... :D

the_ouskull

[Chuck Bao]

Personally, I don't think screen writers get their fair due. Some of it is so sharp and quick and delivers.

It isn't so much the big budget movies that have gone so much into action hero/supernatural with all the special effects.

In my opinion, it is American TV that got smart and interesting. It is light years away from the 70s, 80s and 90s. The HBO series are just sensational and I think it has raised the bar and TV networks had to follow suit. I may be wrong but there seems to be more edgey, witty and...well...better written stuff today. At least they don't seem so shackled with PC concerns.

[crawfish]

i have never met anyone who thought the village was just ok. people either think its his best film, or one of the worst movies ever. i hated it.

I thought The Village was ok. :)

Actually, I didn't like it at all when I saw it in the theater. When I watched it again at home, I knew more what to expect and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. It's certainly not as awful as some would make it to be.

[Collier11]

There are some brilliant writers out there, IMO the Office is the funniest show on TV and the funniest show on tv in quite a while, you dont have to agree but my point is that I look at the subtle and not so subtle jokes they have and it blows my mind. It also blows my mind the way that the writers of Lost can make all of that make sense.

[Collier11]

I thought The Village was ok. :)

Actually, I didn't like it at all when I saw it in the theater. When I watched it again at home, I knew more what to expect and actually enjoyed it quite a bit. It's certainly not as awful as some would make it to be.

Yea, the problem is that the Village was promoted as a scary movie and about 2/3 of the way thru it appeared it was a scary movie, then when it ended everyone was like, WTF?!

[Chuck Bao]

I've only seen a few episodes of "The Office". Is it a spin-off of a British series?

The HBO series True Blood is the one that totally cracks me up. You know the writers are having so much fun with the whole soap opera story line and vampires and god knows what else and they write some lines that are just tongue-in-cheek classic.

[Collier11]

Yea its a spin-off of the British version

[Crucifax Autumn]

True Blood rocks. I prefer the British version of The Office, but it is funny.

[yermom]

i tried watching the British version, it's just not paced right or something

it was funny, but i couldn't sit down and watch it for very long

[Crucifax Autumn]

Yeah, the pacing is very different. A lot of British comedy is like that though...An acquired taste perhaps.