Geoff EganI think the Creme de la Creme has curdled....
April 2nd 2008 01:32
I’ve been kinda busy of late, what with birthday parties and music festivals to be attended (yeah it’s a hard life) so I haven’t thought of anything witty or funny to write about. Instead, just so a couple of people might accidentally end up here, arbitrarily padding my stats, I’m just going to do a quick round up of a couple of articles floating around the web.
Firstly, Variety has an article on the big, potentially award winning movies of 2008. They list off a heap, but unfortunately for all of us cinema goers, they all sound rubbish. Now I am judging these movies purely by their names, but hey does anyone think Die Hard would have been half as good/successful if it was call A Man Trapped in a Highrise?
The first couple Variety has, and the ones it gives credence too are Frost/Nixon about a bunch of TV interviews of Tricky Dicky. Now I can see myself being corrected on this (Good Night, and Good Luck was pretty good and vaguely similar) but that sounds lame. Where is the art of cinema in a movie retelling a bunch of interviews, regardless of how good they were?
Then a film about an engineer who claims to have invented intermittent windscreen wipers called Flash of Genius….Wow. That’s really taking the whole A Beautiful Mind thing to a new low isn’t it.
The movie Valkyrie on the other hand sounds sweet. It has even been delayed due to shooting ‘a key battle scene’. It’s about a Nazi German Colonel’s attempts to assassinate Hitler! Awesome! Oh, damn it, it’s got Tom Cruise in it. That’s a sure fire way to ruin a perfectly good movie. Then again The Last Samurai was cool, but that was more in spite of Cruise than due to him.
The same can be said of Revolutionary Road. Sounds cool, but then some quick investigation finds that the movie is about a marriage of two suburban American’s as their marriage fall apart. Dear God that sounds rubbish. Also it stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. I didn’t like Titanic and I doubt I’ll like this.
For obvious jingoistic reasons I hope Australia will be good, but I can see it being at least odd if not blatantly average. Baz Lurhmann can do a cool over the top all out extravaganza really well (see: Moulin Rouge!). But I can’t really see his style working for this kind of movie. Again I’ll happily eat my words if I’m wrong.
From then there is a whole plethora of things NOT to call a movie: Secret Life of Bees, The Soloist, State of Play, Benjamin Button just to name a few.
I just realised that I missed a prime opportunity to pull some April Fools yesterday, but thinking about it I’m nowhere near clever enough to do anything good. But for some elaborate hoaxing check out IGN’s IGN’s fake Legend of Zelda announcement.
Firstly, Variety has an article on the big, potentially award winning movies of 2008. They list off a heap, but unfortunately for all of us cinema goers, they all sound rubbish. Now I am judging these movies purely by their names, but hey does anyone think Die Hard would have been half as good/successful if it was call A Man Trapped in a Highrise?
The first couple Variety has, and the ones it gives credence too are Frost/Nixon about a bunch of TV interviews of Tricky Dicky. Now I can see myself being corrected on this (Good Night, and Good Luck was pretty good and vaguely similar) but that sounds lame. Where is the art of cinema in a movie retelling a bunch of interviews, regardless of how good they were?
Frost/Nixon
Then a film about an engineer who claims to have invented intermittent windscreen wipers called Flash of Genius….Wow. That’s really taking the whole A Beautiful Mind thing to a new low isn’t it.
The movie Valkyrie on the other hand sounds sweet. It has even been delayed due to shooting ‘a key battle scene’. It’s about a Nazi German Colonel’s attempts to assassinate Hitler! Awesome! Oh, damn it, it’s got Tom Cruise in it. That’s a sure fire way to ruin a perfectly good movie. Then again The Last Samurai was cool, but that was more in spite of Cruise than due to him.
The same can be said of Revolutionary Road. Sounds cool, but then some quick investigation finds that the movie is about a marriage of two suburban American’s as their marriage fall apart. Dear God that sounds rubbish. Also it stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. I didn’t like Titanic and I doubt I’ll like this.
For obvious jingoistic reasons I hope Australia will be good, but I can see it being at least odd if not blatantly average. Baz Lurhmann can do a cool over the top all out extravaganza really well (see: Moulin Rouge!). But I can’t really see his style working for this kind of movie. Again I’ll happily eat my words if I’m wrong.
From then there is a whole plethora of things NOT to call a movie: Secret Life of Bees, The Soloist, State of Play, Benjamin Button just to name a few.
I just realised that I missed a prime opportunity to pull some April Fools yesterday, but thinking about it I’m nowhere near clever enough to do anything good. But for some elaborate hoaxing check out IGN’s IGN’s fake Legend of Zelda announcement.
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SL, I'm trying to think of something good, most movies I talk about here have a habit of just being pulp action rubbish, but I do actually like some quality movies. Let me get back to you on that one
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Still the standard pulp blockbusters in Indie 4 and The Dark Knight should still be fun. And there are a couple of other ones that could be cool like this animated Star Wars film and a live action Blood: The Last Vampire.
Other than that I can't see anything particlarly attention grabbing this year. Which is pretty dissapointing.