... And The Rest

This calendar week's Plumping Picture offered a countdown of films I'm most excited (or, at any rate, interested) to view in the coming year. For the rice beer of tradition (and my own sanity) it was kept to an even decade, which obviously means that there are plenty of films that didn't quite make the cut that I'm yet looking forward to for one and only reason or another.
So, in no particular order* … here's the cream of the not-quite-cream of the lop:

*NOTE: There's at the least one upcoming feature that would be on this list but tail't be because I've already seen it and simply can't break the trade embargo to talk about yet. So suppress that in mind when the "what about … ?" stuff starts.

Chronicle

Populate tell me that my hatred of "base footage" filmmaking is a generational matter, and I basically agree, inasmuch as I sympathize that I am a appendage of the last generation who didn't cause its aesthetic sensibilities done for by YouTube and camera phones. But all erst in a while, someone does something fascinating with the genre. Chronicle's hook is that a bunch of teenage douchebags have been filming themselves making roguishness, just that these particular teenage douchebags give birth acquired telekinetic superpowers. So, Jackass meets X Men, I estimate. The trailer certainly looks interesting.

Looper

In the time to come, gangsters dispose of their victims away zapping them back in time to our award to be executed away peculiarly-designated hitmen (I approximate the idea is that they'll fair turn upbound as "Joe Blow" corpses because they wouldn't have records of existence.) Joseph Gordon Levitt is one such hitman, whose latest time-displaced mark (Robert the Bruce Willis) is diverse from the others. To aver anything more would be spoil (though I'd bet anything they'll arrange it in the trailers) but rough versions of this have already screened to rave reviews. Rian Johnson (Brick and The Brothers Prime) directs.

The Char in Unclean

Ghost story, remake of a furor classic, dear trailer, fustian blah fustian … the reason to care is that this is our first chance to see if Daniel "Plague Potter" Radcliffe can transition to fledged leading man material now that his term at Hogwarts has ended. Note to future viewing audience: Calling out "ten points to Gryffindor!" every time he does something cool/heroic will only if be rum one time per theater, per showing on opening nighttime. Afterward that, knock it off.

Lock-Retired (aka MSc-Ane in some territories)

In the near future, dangerous criminals aren't scarce jailed – they're put into suspended animation hypersleep and shelved in a massive high-tech super-prison house … in space! Unfortunately, a jailbreak occurs and a group of non-incarcerated innocents are now hostages on base the orbiting Alcatraz, including – yes – The United States President's girl. Guy Pearce is the bad-screw passe-warlike bully conscripted to wear away in and save her, presumably because, in the future, all eventuality plans are barely repurposed John Carpenter movies. Here's a lagger.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

For my money, the first G.I. Joe movie got the tone (re: sharply silly) exactly right but left a lot to be sought after in its somewhat bland reimagining of the franchise's basic look. Retaliation seems poised to correct that second persona, with its teaser trailer screening off candy-colored ninjas, a cartoon-precise Cobra Commander and a killer money shot: The Cobra Flag being raised over the White House.

The Thirstiness Games

Why didn't this make the first list? Well, to be frank, because the only multitude who are really, really psyched for this are fans of the books and studio executives hoping that this will Be the future Mess around/Twilight-style mega-hit spawned from a Young Adult franchise, and I'm neither. Haven't read `pica em. Sorry. I'll get some to it. All I've seen is an incredibly underwhelming trailer and a patch verbal description (teenagers forced into combat past indulgent future society) that sounds Right smart too much the like Conflict Royale. But, fans of the books assure Maine that they're some kind of lifetime-changing grandness, thusly we'll cause to see.

Casa First State Mi Padre

Will Ferrell and a WHO's-World Health Organization of Latin American talent star in a parody of the Telenovela ("Spanish Soap Opera") genre – and yes, IT's apparently (almost) dead Spanish, which Ferrell had to learn for the part. Could either be brilliant or a disaster, but I'm excited to see Leave Ferrell move in the "I privy get studios to greenlight my insane-sounding pet projects" phase of his career. Trailer here.

Amazing Wanderer-Man

On one hand, "we have to jazz and QUICK because if we don't, Marvel might take the reference punt and add them to The Avengers" is both the lowest, most with cynicism cash/contract-driven reason to produce a movie and combined of the worst possible conditions to make a movie under. Happening the other reach, those exact same factors gave us the magnificent X-Men: First Class, so possibly it's a mistake to write Sony's quickie/cheapie indorse-to-high-school Spider-Human beings boot off this early. Then again … its first trailer? Ghastly. We'll reckon.

Cabin In The Wood

Joss Whedon and Drew Robert Hutchings Goddard ready-made this movie two years ago, merely the MGM collapse and the film's supposedly waaaaaay out there plot twists got it shelved until now. A group of teenagers are stuck in a cabin and … well, what seems like a traditional repugnance setup supposedly takes a gargantuan turn for the weird. There is a trailer that shows some much, but you might lack to avoid it and survive in cold. Prize is yours.

Bloody Tails

Since "Foreshorten!" was called on Render of The Jedi, George VI Lucas has been talking about various smaller non-Asterisk Wars projects he was nigh to fishing tackle. Immediately, one of them has finally gotten made! Formally directed by Marcus Antoniu Hemmingway (merely with Lucas producing, exercising control over Emily Post-production and even directing a bulbous of re-shoots himself) it's a WWII action moving-picture show nearly The Tuskegee Airmen. Trailer looks promising, but let's get real – the big matter to is to learn if The George Lucas History is about to deliver a storm 4th Act.

Act Of Valor

Few years ago, a production company was contracted by the U.S. Military to produce an up-to-see story enlisting film for the Navy's SEAL division featuring actualized Sealing wax members and cutting edge subject weapon system technical school in its action scenes. These sort of films are successful tractor trailer-oft, but are usually solely ever shown to folks in the military who Crataegus laevigata wish to move up into other branches … only this unitary wound up turn out so proficient that IT got repurposed into a wide-release have film. (Combined imagines the killing of Osama BIN Laden by a SEAL team last year helped bring forth more interest.) None of the SEALs' real name calling volition comprise used onscreen, as their identities are theoretic to persist a military secret, but it should be pretty interesting to undergo a war picture (the story is a rescue commission) being acted out with A.) exacting attention to technical details and B.) by folks who really know how to use the stuff we're seeing.

Bob Chipman is a film critic and independent movie maker. If you've detected of him before, you throw formally been spending way too some sentence on the net. If you find yourself in Boston happening January 13-16 stop aside and view Bobsleigh in person at Arisia 2012

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