Posts tagged 2010 films

CLASH OF THE TITANS

Directed by Louis Leterrier. With Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng, Gemma Arterton and Sam Worthington as Perseus. A remake of the 1981 film version of the myth of Perseus and his quest to battle both Medusa and the Kraken monster in order to save the Princess Andromeda. In the film, the ultimate struggle for power pits men against kings and kings against gods. But the war between the gods themselves could destroy the world. Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus (Worthington) is helpless to save his family from Hades (Fiennes), vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing left to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus (Neeson) and unleash hell on earth. Leading a daring band of warriors, Perseus sets off on a perilous journey deep into forbidden worlds. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, he will only survive if he can accept his power as a god, defy his fate and create his own destiny.

Release date: March 26, 2010

I’m not really a big fan of remakes but I’m really looking forward to this, the cast is looks great and the original is a classic that could do with a modern remake.

SHUTTER ISLAND

Directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Kingsley and Jackie Earle Haly. In 1954, US Marshall Teddy Daniels (DiCaprio) hunts down a murderess who’s escaped from the Shutter Island hospital for the criminally insane. Though she can’t get off the island, Daniels’ job is made harder by an approaching hurricane.

Release date: February 19, 2010

I’ve been looking forward to this ever since it was announced in 2008. Martin Scorsese for me and most mentally abled people is one of the top 5 directors of all time, he’s made classic after classic. The only thing that makes me slightly sceptical about the film is that it was due to be released this October but has now been given a Febuary 2010 release, this kinda showed that Paramount don’t have much confidence for it’s Oscar appeal. The Oscars themselves for me are a joke though it’s all down to movie making insider studio politics so you never know

TREE OF LIFE

Directed by Terrence Mallick and starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. The tale of a Midwestern boy’s journey from the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as a “lost soul in the modern world”, and into his quest to regain meaning in life.

Release Date: TBD

Terrence Mallick is my personal favorite director of all time, his films say so much without much words, they’re all extremely philisophical, moveing and visually stunning. Since his debut film Badlands in 1973 he has only made 3 other films which were all amazing (Days Of Heaven, The Thin Red Line and The New World). The premise of this looks real good, very little information has been leaked about it.

THE FIGHTER

Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Mark Wahlberg and Directed by David O. Russell. The film centers around the life of professional boxer “Irish” Micky Ward (Wahlberg) and his older drug addicted brother Dickie Eklund (Bale). Amy Adams has also been confirmed as a love interest of Ward.

Release Date: TBD

This might be the film Christian Bale finally get’s his Oscar nomination! Both him and Mark Wahlberg don’t look like their messing around with their respected rolls, Bale has lost a tonne of weight to play an addict (as he done in Rescue Dawn and more extremely in The Machinist) and Mark Wahlberg has beefed up to play the Welterweight Micky Ward

INCEPTION

Inception takes place in a world where people can enter other people’s dreams. Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a CEO type, who illegally dives into dreams to extract information. He does this via a portable device, which is basically an injection into the bloodstream. In one scene, Cobb’s team enters a person’s dream while on an airplane.

The team who creates the dreams is comprised of Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Eames (Tom Hardy) and Ariadne (Ellen Page), a young college student who is considered the “architect.”

This is a must see for me. great cast, great director (Christopher Nolan) and the trailers got me hyped. I can’t see this going wrong

AMAZING TALES: THREE GUNS

Amazing Tales: Three Guns is an upcoming 2009 film directed by Zhang Yimou. Zhang’s first film since Curse of the Golden Flower in 2006, Three Guns is a remake of Blood Simple, the 1985 debut of the Coen brothers, whose films Zhang Yimou lists among his favorites. The film transports the original film’s plot from a town in Texas, to a noodle shop in a small town in the Chinese desert.

Three Guns will reportedly consist of two distinct segments, a thriller segment, and a comedic segment. The film will star Sun Honglei, Ni Dahong in the thriller segment while comedians Xiao Shenyang and Yan Ni will star in the comedic segment.

I love Blood Simple and I love the idea of putting a twist on that story. Zhang Zimou is one of my favorite modern directors. Visually he’s on a different level. A number of his films blew me away -  House Of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden Flower, Hero, Not One Less, The Story Of Qui Ju……

HONORABLE MENTIONS: IRON MAN 2, TOY STORY 3 (PIXAR ARE ON A ROLL), LEGION, CENTURION (STARRING NOEL CLARKE, DOMINIC WEST AND MICHAEL FASSBENDER), THE BOOK OF ELI, MR NICE,JONAH HEX,PREDATORS,TRON LEGACY