NERDS ASSEMBLE!!! Aliens, comics, apes and robots, 2011 is gonna be a goooood year! The guys over at totalfim.com have made a list of 49 movies to look out for during 2011, and here's some of my favourite picks from the bunch:
January:
127 Hours: James Franco stars as the thrill seeker who gets pinned under a rock.....and has to cut his arm off, in this gruesome true story from director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire.....yeah, I know....quite the change).
The Green Hornet: Seth Rogen takes on Super-Hero image as the 1930s radio and film series crime fighter, The Green Hornet. With an unlimited supply of money and kickass gadgets, this looks to be Batman with a bit of comedy and a side-kick.
February:
Paul: (I promise I'll try to stop going on and on about this film). February 18th....keep it free! Nick Frost and Simon Pegg return as a pair to the big screen once again!!! In an aptly named movie title, the two play British comic-nerds on a road trip across America.... and bump into an unexpected visitor who goes by the name of Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen). Cannot. Wait.
March:
World Invasion: Battle Los Angeles: Aliens invade and Los Angeles is the battle ground.....pretty much in the title. To be honest I'm not getting my hopes up for this one. The Strause Brothers pulled a Mark Zuckerberg (Social Network joke....no?) and decided to drop this to make Skyline (Shiteline, Tripeline, WHY-line?! All work just as good). So if even THEY pulled out, I can't imagine it being amazing.
April:
The Thing: Not a remake but a prequel! This one shows the events right up to where Carpenter's 1982 classic starts.....could be interesting?? Doubt it, but I'll still watch it!
Thor: Another Marvel comic being turned into a movie? You'd swear they were building up to something huge in 2012 where all the Marvel super-heroes come together in one movie.....more on that later ;). Til then....we have Thor! An extra-terrestial banished to Earth, and protects it from his own species invasion.Nuff said!
Scream 4: Or Scre4m as it was initially marketed....a re-union of the old cast but with a new generation of victims. Wes Craven returns on the other side of the camera. Worth a watch anyways!
May:
Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Hmmm....I thought they had finished with these? Oh there's still money to be made from it, silly me! This time round it's just Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow, no Will Turner or Elizabeth Turner....feels more like a spin-off then an actual sequel!
June:
X-Men: First Class: Another prequel! X-Men, the early years with James McAvoy playing good old Xavier.
Green Latern: Another comic adaption? DC's turn this time. Ryan Reynolds plays the first human recruit to a bunch of supervillian fighting aliens known as The Green Laterns. Shweeeet!
Rise Of The Apes: As a Planet Of The Apes fan (the Tim Burton remake never happened, leave me in my bubble), I'm actually pretty excited by this one! Being hailed as a prequel, but has elements of the later Apes movies, it seems a short of mashup of remake and prequel! Downside has to be the loss of the monkey prostectics that make the Ape movies so brilliant...however, hiring Andy Serkis (Gollum from LOTR) for mo-cap, may be a good move! James Franco stars...seems a busy year for him!
Tranformers: Dark Of The Moon: Threequel blockbuster, has no relation to Pink Flyod! It'll get the crowds in as it has before. Transforming-robots fighting, what else would you want? Megan Fox won't be in this one (which I think is a plus, still don't see the appeal in her). A new love interest for Shia LaBeouf's Sam so!
Super 8: As if June wasn't set as amazing as it is, Super 8 is also going to hit screens. J.J. Abrams and Spielberg?! Nothing of a plot has even surfaced........we have a trailer.....it mentions area 51, has a train crash and something banging the train door open! There is no way in hell this can be a let-down!
July:
Harry Potter: The very very last one.....yada yada yada
Cars 2: Yeah, Pixar sequel.....can think of other, more deserving Pixar sequels, but word is, Monsters Inc. 2 is on it's way! So this'll do til then! McQueen and Mater are back! The pre-feature short that accompanys every Pixar movie is rumoured to be a Toy Story spin-off!!! OOOOOO!!!
Captain America: The First Avenger: We get our introduction to The Avengers (Marvels league of Superheroes - mentioned in Thor above!). This movie focuses on the creation of Nazi-asskicker Captain America, played by Chris Evans (Fantasic Four - but I think we're just meant to ignore that).
August:
Cowboys and Aliens: Yeah, you heard it exactly right. It's another comic-book adaption. John Favreau (Vince Vaughan's best friend and also directs Iron Man) directs this Sci-Fi Western about Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford fending off against an alien invasion in the old west!
September:
Real Steel: Robots boxing with Hugh Jackman as a trainer? Yeah ok.
October:
Contagion: In an Outbreak style plot, scientists must try contain a spreading disease and find a cure. Matt Damon, Kate Winselt, Jude Law and Gweneth Paltrow will be starring.
The Adventures Of Tin Tin: Secret Of The Unicorn: Don't laugh! Spielberg and Jackson working on a movie with Nick Frost, Simon Pegg (the dastardly duo) and Andy Serkis (Rise of the Apes?!)? Well surely it must be a hard-hitting fantasy sci-fi! No? Tin Tin? Unicorn? Don't call you Shirley?? I laughed when I first heard this....but it's real....and in 3D! KEWL!
November:
Nothing much on the cards here but I'll update when I hear!
December:
Mission: Impossible 4: The Incredibles Brad Bird is directing Tom Cruise as Ethan in a role not dissimalar from all the other ones....
Obviouslhere is going to be a lot more movies on their way in 2011, but these are the highlights for me so far! Until next time!
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