or: The Art and Joy of Film Criticism
Things we’ve learned this week:
Goodfellas inspiration passed away
Woman in Black 2 plot already given away
Mindblowing: Video game adaptation of movie based on a non-existent video-game that is not out yet till November…
More Dirty Dancing coming up
Two Hannibal Lecter / Clarcie Starling television series coming up…. Two.
Things we’ve learned this week:
3D makes things go slow…
An umbrella Cannes be useful
The Magnificent Cruise and six other random guys?
A dictator bans The Dictator
and
No Joker, but some jokes in The Dark Knight Rises….
Hello! Kaboom. The name is Fall, Skyfall. And this is the teaser trailer. Which is now officially considered abso-f*ing-lutely f*ing awesome. Awesome.
Some things we’ve learned. First of all: this one is quite tough and strikes home. London is one of the major settings of this film, and it appears we might see an attack on the Underground. With memories of 2005 relatively fresh and the Olympics with all their security fuss on the agenda, this is more than topical.
Second: It looks gorgeous. But that’s to be expected when you pair director Sam Mendes with cinematographer Roger Deakins and costume designer Tom Ford (that’s his tuxedo that Bond is wearing in the Shanghai bit). A bit too gorgeous for Daniel Craig’s ‘roughed up’ version of Bond? Perhaps; we’ll have to see.
Third: The best villain introduction since ever, as Javier Bardem’s big baddie Silva walks away from an explosion, and we only see him in silhouette…
Fourth: the classic Aston Martin DB5 is back!
And finally: is this going to be a perfect double bill with Christopher Nolan’s Inception? I had strong ‘Nolanesque’ feelings with this teaser. It somehow reminded me quite a bit of The Dark Knight, with the terror striking close to home and a protagonist in psychological shambles… And Inception was, as Nolan proclaimed, his “Bond” film. Which does not mean I would not like to see the man doing a ‘real’ Bond flick.
But that’s fantasizing about the far future, while in the immediate one there is so much to look forward to. Not only Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, but also Sam Mendes’ Skyfall. Officially proclaimed awesome. What a year!
PS Probably a coincidence, but Bane, the villain in The Dark Knight Rises, made his first appearance in the comic book series Knightfall. Not only is this an alliteration of Skyfall, in this comic book Bane also broke Batman’s mind and his back. Is Bond awaiting a similar fate? This teaser surely leaves open the possibility….
Things that we’ve learned this week:
Yes We Cannes Again
Iron Man 3 gets crowded: Chastain out, Hall and Dale in
The Avengers has earned just enough to spawn a sequel
Channing Tatum in mix up between Die Hard 5 and Air Force 2
and
Prometheus will be tough
Things we’ve learned this week:
Justice is done!
Succesfull Dutch TV series finds its way to the big screen
A sparkling vampire will hunt Saddam Hussein
and
Tom Cruise is the new Hugh Jackman
Things we’ve learned this week:
Scarlett Johansson not in Iron Man 3, but Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain join RDJ, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and Ben Kingsley
So Iron Man 3 makes the same mistake as Iron Man 2
The new Anchorman film will be set in 1978, and deal with racial issues
Pixar will wake the Mexican dead
More than one hour of IMAX footage in The Dark Knight Rises
and
London Bridge is falling down (in GI: Joe: Retaliation [approx at 2:00] at least)
Things that we’ve learned this week:
Ralph Fiennes might be ‘N’
Iron Man fights Ghandi
Hunger Games director not to return for sequel
Batman’s baddies speak up
And Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save the Terminator
Things that we’ve learned this week:
There will be a new Anchorman!
And also a new Mummy.
And more Women in Black
Ashton Kutcher will be Steve Jobs (didn’t see that one coming)
and
The disaster that is John Carter costs Disney 200 hundred million dollars… (200,000,000.-)
I am one day late, but that doesn’t keep me from posting what we’ve learned this week, like:
Javier Bardem is blond (in Bond)!
Sin City 2 will be filmed this summer!
Wes Anderson’s new film Moonrise Kingdom will open Cannes 2012!
A first image of Jack Sparrow and Armie Hammer in The Lone Ranger!
And for the Marvel geeks:
Krees and Skrulls are not in Loki’s Army!
