In terms of what you’d want to see at your local cinema, most of the movies coming in 2010 rank just below “dropping your Oscar Meyer hot Dog on the floor”.
Well, worry not faithful cineaste, for now we come to some slabs of celluloid you might actually want to see…and discover the law of diminishing returns is still very much in effect.
Wipe the popcorn from your beard and join us then, as we realise we’ve got piss-all to look forward to this summer, in part three of our amazingly awful 2010 movie round-up!!
2009 may well be remembered as the year of the apocalypse – cinematically at least, and despite strong (not to mention patently ridiculous) bids from Zombieland and 2012, The Road is the literary pinnacle of the years filmic lust for devastation. Based on a Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer winning novel, Proposition director Hillcoat has a stellar cast, and manages to pull off a literate, messagey Sci-Fi meltdown without ever coming across as portentous or overblown.
Adapted from Shane Acker’s own 2005 Oscar-nominated animated short, 9 is a weighty slab of CG sci fi that owes more to Alexander Reynolds than Pixar, bright colours and loveable characters replaced with grim, menacing situations and a serious lack of laughs. Indeed, it even seems dark for producer Tim Burton; stripped of the dry, moribund humour that characterised Batman and particularly Beetlejuce, this is very much Acker’s baby, and a very unhappy one at that.
Rumblings in the outback today; and if E! Online is to be believed, they could just be the sound of a Mark IV Interceptor revving up – quite possibly with Ex-Captain Picard Tom Hardy behind the wheel.
George Miller is certainly gearing up for a fourth crack at the Road Warrior, and with Gibson apparently too old or too rich to return as Max Rockatanski, Hardy – who’s brutal turn in Bronson may have caught the director’s eye – is set to fill the post-apocalyptic biker boots –with female support from one Charlize Theron.
While her acting chops may not match Hardy’s, Theron certainly looked good in AEON Flux leather and is apparently the Happy Feet Helmer’s first choice for female lead, although whether this will be a sequel or yet another reboot remains a mystery.
What’s your opinion? Should Gibson return to the role that made him famous, could new blood reignite the franchise-or should it be left well alone?
