Wow.
I wrote briefly about Pixar’s upcoming movie, Brave, back in July. But have you seen the trailers?
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This is looking pretty good. It’s certainly piqued my interest… again.
My top movies for 2012, so far, are looking like this:
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Because duh! Huge fantasy nerd, here. Definitely seeing this one in the theaters.
- The Dark Knight Rises After the last Batman flick, The Dark Knight, both Dear Wife and I left the theory feeling terrified and unsettled. This is not the normal reaction you’re supposed to get from a superhero movie. But I am fascinated by the dark, uncompromising, and true-to-life vision of Christopher Nolan’s Batman. And I want to see how he brings this saga to an end.
- The Hunger Games Dear Wife and I will both enjoy seeing this. I just recently read the book, and Dear Wife just recently re-read it.
- Brave (in a statistical tie for #3) because, well… because Pixar, and because those trailers…
- The Secret World of Arrietty I’m a pretty big fan of Hayao Miyazaki. I’m predisposed to liking Anime in general, but Miyazaki’s works transcend the genre, and are beautiful and wonderful storytelling. This isn’t a Miyazaki-directed flick, but it’s by his studio (Studio Ghibli), and he’s an Executive Producer, so it’s still got his stamp on it.
- Prometheus It looks very rated-R, which is something the denizens of the Casa Chez Watkins typically eschew, so I probably won’t see it. But it is based on the Alien franchise, of which I partook before the days of my trying not to see too many rated-R flicks, so I am still quite fascinated by it – and it looks to be a much more intriguing and intelligent movie than the last few entries in the Alien series.
- The Amazing Spider-Man I’m still miffed they ruined the Sam Raimi/Tobey Maguire franchise, and still think it’s too soon; and yet this looks pretty decent. I may not catch it in theaters, but I’ll probably still see it eventually.
- Is there a number 8? Lots of spectacle-flicks this year (The Avengers, John Carter), but nothing that really and deeply excites me. The Avengers looks to rely too much on last year’s Thor which I didn’t see and which just didn’t strike much interest in me compared to other Marvel titles like Captain America (and the Thor-connection in Captain America annoyed me) and Iron Man. And John Carter… looks very visual-tastic… but something gives me the sense there isn’t very much there there. Another title that I might put on my list is World War Z; but so far I just haven’t seen enough about it to form an solid opinion.
Anyway, I hope to see my top 4 in theaters (it’s probably already too late for Arrietty). Any of these on your radar?
