nauru wrote:Just wondering what everyone's must-see blockbusters are for this year.
Top of my list is certainly X-Men: Days of Future Past. I've thoroughly enjoyed most of the films in this franchise, particularly 1,2, parts of 3, and First Class.
Besides this I'm looking forward to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles because
1) the turtles are badass;
2) they're probably my favourite childhood superheroes; and
3) William Fichtner is cast as Shredder.
Hercules just because Dwayne Johnson is one of my favourite performers at the moment. In the last seven years or so he's been consistently producing good work and seems perfectly cast for the role.
Transformers films have generally been horrible up to this point, but now Shia Laboeuf is gone! So with Mark Wahlberg and Stanley Tucci taking the lead roles, Transformers: Age of Extinction has a chance to at least be a decent actioner. Say what you will about Michael Bay, he makes some entertaining films when Laboeuf isn't involved. Perhaps last year's Pain & Gain shut up some of the haters.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes seems like it could be good, but I'm concerned about the small budget. Not sure 120 million dollars will be enough to capture the sense of scale required to convincingly convey an all-out global war between humans and apes on the screen (budget for X-Men is more than double that). The pacing of the previous film was a bit off, hopefully they pick it up this time.
What are yours?
Sorry to rain on your parade and while I'll probably see most of them just in case there's a surprise in there somewhere (yeah right), they're just getting to be more and more tedious and sucking up all the oxygen. Dwayne Johnson, really??? Don't forget Godzilla (Oh God!), Spiderman, Edge of Tomorrow (d'you know Cruise is doing another Top Gun and another Jack Reacher....I need an atomic face palm), Guardians of the Galaxy, and the most likely of the lot Sin City but being just another sequel, I don't hold out much hope. I see a ray of sunshine for Planes 2, which looks better then #1, but still has a good distance to go to get back to Pixar's golden age.
On the non-blockbuster side in the next month, the trailer for Chef looks good.