[Lethal Biddle]

Folowing on from Timmy's best of last year I was wondering what films everyone was looking forward to for 2012?

For me the most exciting at the moment are:

01 - The Dark Knight Rises
I'm a Batman fan & was made more so by Nolan's films. Dark Knight being one of the best films of 2009. And Bane is an excellent villain. It also looks to be the darkest of the trilogy, which pleases me.

02 - The Hobbit
My favourite book as a child & I still have a huge soft spot for the story. After LotR I have faith in Jackson to deliver it well. Though I am concerned about all the faffing about that seems to have been done to the timeline to crowbar in events from The Silmarillion & Unfinished Tales...

03 - The Muppets
Jason Segal is a genius. I've enough love for 'How I Met Your Mother' & 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' to think he's going to do an amazing job & bring it back to form after a short string of shitty muppet movies.

04 - Prometheus
I don't really know anything about this. Other than that the trailer makes it look great & that I love 'Alien'. Ridley Scott at the helm again, so I'm confident it'll be ace.

05 - The Avengers
I love Marvel & this has had a good run up so far. Nothing's topped Iron Man, but Captain America & Thor were both good & much better than I expected. I like films that reference each other & tie together all over the place & that seems to be abig part of what this is about. Also looking forward to having lots of heroes all smooshing around the place all at once.

06 - Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists.
Great book. Gideon Defoe has written the screenplay, phenomenal cast & with the Aardman folks doing it I think it's going to be awesome.

07 - The Cabin In The Woods
A Joss Whedon & worth watching for that fact alone, but it's got Bradley Whitford & Amy Acker in it too & the premise sounds half-decent. That being said, it looks like a "spooky" horror movie & so could go either way quite rapidly. If it were anyone other than Whedon I'd predict failure, but I think he can make it awesome.

08 - Dredd
Another one with huge potential. As long as it walks the line of the original comics properly; being surreal without feeling too silly, being dark & gritty without straying into the pornographic. Although, in film, I don't think that second part is so much of an issue. It just needs to be significantly better than the Stallone version, which compromised too much. Sin City, 300, Watchmen etc have proven that an adult comic adaptation can hold it's own if allowed to retain it's style & 2000AD is a series well deserving of this treatment. Fingers crossed.

09 - James Bond: Skyfall
Casino Royale was fantastic & Quantum Of Solace was fairly good. So I'm hoping they get at least one more good innings for the new Bonds as there's a lot of potential to redo them properly as a serious series. Should be a good action film even if the story & cast aren't up to much, but I hope it all comes together nicely.

10 - The Secret World of Arrietty
The Borrowers done by Studio Ghibli. That says it all really. I have high hopes. It'd be higher on my list, but I never really liked the book. My hopes are purely invested in Ghibli.


Loads of others than look good too, particularly Tim Burton's new thingy 'Dark Shadows'. But it isn't one I'm msot looking forward to due to some concerns. I didn't think nearly as much of A Corpse Bride & Sweeney Todd as I thought I might. They were ok, but I didn't like them anywhere near as much as his older stuff. Also it's Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter again. Who are great. But using only them for absolutely everything is starting to get boring. Maybe the film will prove me wrong though.

Also Spiderman... Which looks like it'll be good. I'd be all over it, if we hadn't already had 2 half-decent Spiderman films, what feels like only a few years ago (though I appreciate it was about 10). The last lot were far from perfect, but they haven't aged at all really. It seems like a pointless reboot. Just because Marvel got their rights back & thought they could do it a bit better. Not taking into account that everyone will find the origin story boring if they've already recently seen it. Again, I hope the film is so good it changes my mind, we'll see.

This post has been edited by Lethal Biddle: 04 January 2012 - 05:25 PM

[Timothy Goose]

Lethal Biddle, on 04 January 2012 - 05:25 PM, said:

10 - The Secret World of Arrietty
The Borrowers done by Studio Ghibli. That says it all really. I have high hopes. It'd be higher on my list, but I never really liked the book. My hopes are purely invested in Ghibli.

Didn't Arrietty come out last year? I'm sure it was on at the Duke of Yorks whilst I was in India which is why I couldn't go.

Anyway....

Here are my 12 for 2012

[Lethal Biddle]

Timothy Goose, on 04 January 2012 - 07:35 PM, said:

Didn't Arrietty come out last year? I'm sure it was on at the Duke of Yorks whilst I was in India which is why I couldn't go.

Anyway....

Here are my 12 for 2012

Well, yes & no. It came out in Japan last year & there have been a few subtitled screenings, but the full cinema release & also the dubbed release are this year.

[Timothy Goose]

Lethal Biddle, on 04 January 2012 - 07:53 PM, said:

Well, yes & no. It came out in Japan last year & there have been a few subtitled screenings, but the full cinema release & also the dubbed release are this year.

Ahhhhhh

Thats good. I thought I'd missed it at the cinema

[PJ Stevie G]

Afraid to say that the 2012 release of Arriety is for the US only - both dubbed and subtitled versions came out in cinemas over here last July and in 2010 for Japan.

This post has been edited by PJ Stevie G: 06 January 2012 - 12:51 PM

[Lethal Biddle]

PJ Stevie G, on 06 January 2012 - 12:49 PM, said:

Afraid to say that the 2012 release of Arriety is for the US only - both dubbed and subtitled versions came out in cinemas over here last July and in 2010 for Japan.

Balls. Oh well, that means I can watch it tonight.

[Poohbah (Gsq)]

Gaston in 3D?? Awesome. He uses antlers in all of his decorating, don't you know.

[Rachel Rose]

So far I want to see The Hobbit, The Woman In Black and Dark Shadows.

[PJ Hannah B-R]

Best film I've seen this year is The Artist. Saw it on Tuesday. I'm a big fan of silent movies anyway (my favourite ever is The Man Who Laughed - AMAZING), and this really lived up to the hype. I only had one major complaint and that was that

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I wanted it to finish with the sound of the breathing at the end. I felt like letting them speak kind of ruined it... Even though the speaking showed that his reluctance to do talkies was less his pride and more his accent. And his voice did make me tingle cos it was dead sexy. But the breathing when it come in was spine tinglingly brilliant and I wish it had been left at that.

I also loved that

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there was no real romance between them, just a huge amount of love

Funniest film I've seen this year is Role Models. I've seen it like 10 times and it never fails to make me laugh like a total tit.

[PJ Hannah B-R]

I went to see The Artist again yesterday. It's that good.

Also, finally worked out why I loved Clifton so much - he's Father Hoggett from Babe and thus the BEST MAN EVER.

Also, Jamie said Napoleon wasn't Captain Logan from Bill&Ted and I just checked IMDB and BOOM I'm right.

This film is great. Go and see it.

[Lethal Biddle]

PJ Hannah B-R, on 20 January 2012 - 12:52 PM, said:

I went to see The Artist again yesterday. It's that good.

Also, finally worked out why I loved Clifton so much - he's Father Hoggett from Babe and thus the BEST MAN EVER.

Hahaha. You mean James Cromwell. He's a fairly renowned actor!

[PJ Hannah B-R]

I know, and I knew I'd seen him in lots of things, but it was his quiet, patient, kind look that he did...I knew I'd seen it somewhere before and it was when he was in Babe.

Also - all anyone is talking about is how great the dog is. Hear this forum - this dog is amazing BUT, this film would be astonishing without the dog in it. the dog just makes it even more immense.

[Silver Joinee Johnd]

Birdemic 2

That is all. Quite literally, I'm still catching up on films from a couple of years ago

This post has been edited by Silver Joinee Johnd: 22 January 2012 - 01:13 AM