Here’s The 2010 Movies You Really Need to Look Out For

Kick-Ass

Everything about this film is gonna be awesome. It’s based on a graphic novel by Marc Millar and was independantly produced outside of the Hollywood system so director Matthew Vaughn and Millar could produce the film they way they wanted – hard-R. The film is the story of a young adolescent boy who decides one day that he wants to become a superhero – the only problem, he has no ‘special’ powers. That however, does not stop our young hero in pursuing his dream and meeting a number of outlandish and downright-badass characters along the way including the 12-year old Hit-Girl with a penchant for big guns and bigger knives.

It’s the type of Superhero film to end the common movie-goers perception of superhero film and will most likely have everyone saying in 6 months time – “you seen Kick-Ass yet? That film is awesome!”

Clash of the Titans

Personally, I’m an unashamed-massive obsessive about the old Harryhausen mythology-based films & eventhough Jason & the Argonauts is my favourite, Clash of the Titans holds special value for me as my first introduction to the world of Harryhausen & his mastery. When word broke that a remake was on the cards for this film, apprehension didn’t begin to describe how I felt. But Louis Leterrier, who directed one of the finest martial-arts films of the 00′s in Unleashed/Danny the Dog, was then attached to direct and good vibes started to emanate from the set.

The first trailer was your typical Hollywood-fantasy-with-rock-score fest but the recent International Trailer took my excitement for this film to a whole other level which was so awesome even the giant scorpions rocked in time to the score – you just can’t buy that kind of editing! This film will be epic & will be the film that will launch a 1,000 remakes of the old Harryhausen classics.

Tron Legacy

A sequel to the cult-hit Tron has been in the making for a looong time. Every few years. word seem to creep up from somewhere that a new draft script was completed or that some big-name director was attached to direct. But now, geek-dom can finally rejoice as the Tron Legacy film is soon to hit. Based on even the small footage seen from the text visual effects footage that hit the internet last year, this film is going to push the boundaries of Special Effects in much the same way that Avatar has done. Trust me, people will actually be talking about this film and it’s effects more than other film this coming year. As for the story, who cares – it’s fucking Tron!

Buried

Buried is a film which just by the description will grab people’s attention and find it’s own audience. The film is based on first-time writer Chris Sparling’s script which basically tells the story of an American Contractor (Ryan Reynolds) who wakes up in a box buried underground somewhere with nothing but a mobile phone and a lighter. The hook of the film though is that the whole film takes place inside the box creating what many people are calling one of the most tense films of this coming year. The film was recently shown at Sundance and was the subject of a bidding war by every major studio for the distribution rights.

Iron Man 2

This film literally needs no introduction. It’s Iron Man 2 – meaning more witty Tony-Stark comments, more fast cars, more ridiculously hot women, more explosions and more AC/DC. Oh, and War Machine. What more can a man ask for?

Green Zone

Probably the oddest film of my ’2010 Movies to Watch Out For’ is Green Zone. Somehow, Paul Greengrass and Matt Damon managed to convince Universal Studios to fork out $100 million on an Iraqi war-movie that quite frankly, is only going to appeal to a niche market and will, with near certainty, fail at the box office. How they did this is a mystery but makes me want to see this film even more just to see what $100m can get you in an Iraqi war movie these days. Bourne vs those naughty Muslims?

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Obsessed. I am 100% completed obsessed with this movie and it’s amazing teaser trailer (which I already wrote about here). Bringing such an iconic character as Gordon Gekko back to the screen is a major risk (see Sharon Stone’s Basic Instinct) and many people thought Oliver Stone and Michael Douglas were simply in it for the money ironically. But the teaser trailer has allayed a lot of fears that this film might quite possibly actually be great. Douglas looks sharp as Gekko and despite the many criticism’s about him, LeBeouf looks as equally well-suited as the young-Gekko wannabe.

And just incase you were in any doubt about how unbelievable badass Douglas was as Gekko here’s that speech – Greed is Good

Predators

Reportedly, not long after the terrible fiasco that was Predators 2, a lowly Mexican called Robert Rodriguez took it upon himself to write a new Predators script. Reports say that the film was so epic and so ‘sci-fi’ that no one thought it could ever be filmed and so it sat on some guys desk. Fast-forward 20 years later and the world has seen the the ‘unfilmable’ Lord of the Rings and Sin City brought to vivid life. After the release of the recent bluray for Predator, renewed interest was found for Rodriguez’s script and before anyone really knew what was going on, some new hot-shot director (Nimrod Antal) and a cast were filming the reboot in typical Rodriguez lo-fi fashion. Antal’s recent film Armored points to some well-directed action sequences and with Rodriguez overseeing the film things can only be good – hopefully.