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BvS was pretty dismal (in comparison to Nolan's magic) but it was nice to see WW, and Batfleck wasn't all that bad, killing spree aside. I mean, we're not talking Joel Schumacher levels of disgrace here. I enjoyed SS, but had nothing to compare it with as I'm not familiar with any of the characters.
I didn't like Apocalypse and thought Strange was so-so. I didn't see Deadpool. So the only Marvel output I enjoyed this year was Civil War, which was also a little predictable.
So DC for me.
Love both but the DC tv series if hard to top right now.
So:
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WHAT ARE YOUR MOST ANTICIPATED FILMS FOR 2018?
WHICH FILMS OF 2017 ARE IN YOUR TOP 10?
Blade Runner 2049
John Wick: Chapter 2
American Made
Logan
Atomic Blonde
The Hitman's Bodyguard
Dunkirk
Good Time
Wind River
Borg McEnroe
My most anticipated films for 2018:
Triple Threat
Mission Impossible 6
Rampage
Skyscraper
The Meg
The Equalizer 2
X-Men: The New Mutants
Deadpool 2
Sicario 2: Soldado
The Commuter
12 Strong
Black Panther
Annihilation
Gringo
7 Days in Entebbe
Captive State
Widows
Get Out
John Wick Chapter 2
War For The Planet Of The Apes
T2 Trainspotting
IT
Dunkirk
Detroit
Baby Driver
Split
Honourable mentions to Free Fire, Anabelle Creation and Kingsman 2. I think The Foreigner would be on there if I'd been able to see it (no sign of a UK release). If I had to pick a favourite it'd probably be Dunkirk.
Next year off the top of my head I'm most excited for Creed 2 (seriously can not wait) the new Predator movie and the next Conjuring spinoff which is about the nun from the second film.
Tomb Raider
Johnny English 3
Mission Impossible 6
Ocean's 8
Jurassic World 2. I already hope to collect first one, but the prices there asking.
Red Sparrow
Peter Rabbit
Mowgli. Another live action version of Jungle Book.
The Nutcracker. Look like some Alice in Wonderland movie.
Ant-Man 2
Pacific Rim 2
Fantastic Beast 2
Mabey:
Deadpool 2. I hope i finaly can buy BD of first movie.
Rampage.
Ready Player One
Inversion
Early Man
The Equalizer 2
Sicario 2
Transformers 6 (Bumble Bee)
The Mazerunner 3 & Divirgent 3
From 2017, but released in 2018 in The Netherlands:
The Greatest Showman (11 Jan)
All the Money in the World (11 Jan)
Father Figures (18 Jan)
Bullet Head (25 Jan)
Just Getting Started (03 May)
Tv premieres in 2018:
Spectre. Tv premiere. I expect in January like SF in January 2015, but it look like that wil not happen. So expect in March 2018 like Casino Royale in 2009.
Mission Impossible 5. Tv premiere. Problem is that i whant limited 2 disc BD, but when i order it when price whas acceptable it was sold out. With cinema release of Mi6 my expections it be on tv in July 2018. Possible i wil be a bit more patience and mabey skip this tv premiere. Because of hope on second hand of 2 disc BD or 1 disc Steelbook .
Split
A Cure For Wellness
Logan
Alien Covenant
Wonder Woman
Spiderman:Homecoming
War For the Planet of the Apes
Dunkirk
Blade Runner 2049
Thor: Ragnarok
Most anticipated
Black Panther
Pacific Rim Uprising
Avengers: Infinity War
Solo: A Star Wars Story
Incredibles 2
Sicario 2. Soldado
Ant_Man and The Wasp
X-Men: Dark Phoenix
Dunkirk
Mother!
It
Thor Ragnarok
Blade Runner 2049
SW-8 The Last Jedi
Spider Man: Homecoming
Kong: Skull Island
John Wick Chapter 2
Wonder Woman
Most awaited for 2018
Avengers: Infinity War
Sicario 2: Soldado
Gringo
7 Days in Entebbe
The Commuter
Black Panther
Deadpool 2
**this list may change in the next few days if Molly's Game and All The Money In The World live up to expectations.
1. It
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. Dunkirk
4. Get Out
5. Coco
https://theplaylist.net/jodie-foster-superhero-james-gunn-20180102/
J Foster has a good point but movies like Logan show that you can have you popcorn and eat it. In contrast, Ive been very disappointed with discussions with friends and relatives about TLJ. None of them saw the obvious faults and seem to just be happy with lots of action, lots of fighting etc etc. Are people who actually pay attention to movies in a minority?
I can't speak on the Star Wars issue, however. I haven't seen any of the new ones and don't even like the old ones, so I don't have a dog in the fight and if I did I fear he'd be asleep on my lap. I do hear vocal criticism for these latest films on this forum alone more than I do praise, so you're certainly not alone in your disappointment by any means.
Film's like Logan show that you can have genuine drama and character in addition to good action. I think the danger is (and Foster is referring to this I think) is that we have too many movies that focus on an existing brand and just squeeze too much from the brand rather than focussing on producing a genuinely thought provoking, emotional story.
Obviously, there are fans who dont want story and are happy to watch massive action scenes but, we know from how well movies are regarded in the long term, that action on it's own has no long term impact. They are throw away creations and add little to the history of cinema.
I also wouldn't be quick to champion things like Logan. I guess it's a big hit with people, and I liked it too, but that movie also has big flaws as well as far as general filmmaking goes, so from my side I don't see how TLJ is flawed and badly executed when Logan has its own setbacks. While I came away from Logan impacted by the emotion of the piece, it was undoubtably a film that was built around constant repetition of the same action sequences over and over again (not exciting or original), such that it gets stale action wise at the end for this viewer because I've seen about seven different version of Logan cutting the same people down with small drama breaks in between.
And let's not forget that Logan came about because Fox had been squeezing the X-Men/Wolverine brand so exhaustively for nearly two decades such that they were forced into doing something fresh for once with the character. Before Logan came out Hugh Jackman was jammed into countless Fox superhero films, many of which were not hits by any means, and there was a lot of criticism for how Logan was used at all times, as people thought he was neutered and not faithfully translated to the screen from the comics. It was only until Jackman's last film that Fox really did anything new with the brand, or did the character justice, and they did so in Jackman's last movie as the character. Not exactly what I'd call a successful model. Logan embarrasses other X-Men films with Wolverine because it's not hard to be better, frankly. The last time around they actually felt like they were trying, and knew the character, but that wasn't the case for most of the time.
Sci-fi still has humans (or human sourced emotion) as their core. It's humans watching the movie so we need to be able to relate to the character. Rachael in Bladerunner is a good example. She works as a character not because she is human but she has traits and emotions that the audience relate to. Another example: Ripley's desire for motherhood in Aliens. Amongst all of the tech, action and violence etc, the writer put basic human emotion/need at the centre of the plot and it drives the story forward re her desire to save Newt.
So IMHO scri-fi writers still must focus on character. Lucas knew this when he created the iconic characters with SW. I dont think sci-fi gives any room for wild scripting compared to other styles of movie.
I digress massively, sorry
When it comes to sci-fi, I wasn't really referring to characters and how they're written, but the events around them. By which I mean, when Star Wars has improbable sword and ship battles, you're going into a movie that is very much focused on spectacle and things will not logically add up if you sit there wondering about why the Stormtroopers are all bad shots, why the heroes never seem to get hit, how all the ships are even flying and what the hell Midichlorians are. Basically, you sign up for being taken on a ride.
That's why it's a bit of a lost cause to praise the scripting of a movie like OHMSS on generally realistic or honest terms, considering that it is one of the most improbably told stories in the series, with things revolving around Blofeld that make no sense whatsoever (him setting up the clinic and creating an identity in a small amount of time, him not realizing Bond is Bray, the concept of the Angels and the brainwashing, etc). But we as fans overlook it because it's escapist filmmaking, a modern myth, and we know that things aren't going to match up to reality. The point of a Bond script in that case isn't to play to absolute logic or reality, it's to take you on an adventure. If you begin to rate Bond scripts on truth and what can happen, you are risking calling nearly all the films badly written by that logic because what happens to Bond doesn't happen in real life. The fantasy is emphasized and usually doubled down upon.
I do agree that the best movies are those that have spectacle and strong character, but who is to say that your friends weren't moved by the way the characters in TLJ were written, even if you weren't? Maybe they're not avoiding the flaws, but don't see them as such? I don't know what happens to Luke in the movie (and don't want to), but I know that response to his part in it has been contentious because every fan has an idea of how Luke should be written (Mark Hamill even seemed upset). It's like taking a famous character like Han, and making him toe the line between the light and dark side, for example. A lot of fans would despise Han going bad, thinking it was against his character, while others would view it as an interesting use of the character. Neither viewer is wrong, it's just how their tastes perceive the use of the character.
I just wouldn't highlight movies like Blade Runner as examples of films that have what you're looking for when it comes to character and scripting, as I think it's horribly written from that perspective and beyond hollow (even robotic, fittingly). Rachael is a big example of what I find wrong in the film, basically that the emotion and character fail to ignite any genuine connection or care from me. I don't relate to anyone in the film, even (especially) Deckard, and don't find it a great story or use of character across the board maybe outside of Roy who redeems a bit of it. But you get my point, we have differing perceptions about the same movie. Just like I don't get what is so great about the script in Blade Runner no matter how much I think about it, you can't see what your friends see in TLJ. But the thing I wouldn't take away from that is the fact that I or them aren't paying attention or seeing what they should in the film, or that we've shut off our brains. We just like what we like, and that's it. I could turn around and say you're overlooking flaws in movies like Blade Runner that I see, but it's fruitless because you don't see the flaws I see as flaws. It's all nothing more than opinion.
1. Blade Runner 2049
2. Dunkirk
3. Baby Driver
4. The Last Jedi
5. T2 Trainspotting
6. Moonlight
7. Jackie
8. Split
9. Free Fire
10. Get Out ( thought it was good but couldn't quite understand the hyperbole over)
11. Prevenge
12. Logan
13. Logan Lucky
That's about it for me films I've seen released in the UK this year.
As for awaiting in no particular order.
The Darkest Hour
Sicario 2 Soldado
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
The Predator
Isle of Dogs
White Boy Rick
Backseat
Apostle
I saw it back in March while they were doing a tour of the film here in the UK. Ben Wheatley and Sam Riley were there, Wheatley introduced the film and then came back at the end to do an Q&A with Riley.
My first Q&A was quite interesting, was amusing when someone suggested Tarantino was a big influence on the project, Ben quite rightly pointed out other film makers had set a film in one location, he also talked about the influence of the original Taking of Pelham 123.
Something I definitely picked up on, while I didn't think it was his best work ( that is Sightseers for me) I did thoroughly enjoy it and thought the cast equipped themselves well.
Very inventive and Wheatley as always made good use of his budget making the film much more than what it cost (7 million dollars). Though it never drew a profit in it's whole global box office take. Definitely better than most of the franchise nonsense released in 2017.
I've not seen it since and will grab the Blu ray at some point to revisit it.
It's why 2018 is looking pretty weak for film for me: anything I'm interested in will most likely get a limited release and won't play anywhere nearby, and there aren't any big releases that demand I pay money to see them until June/July.