I was just checking out the trailers on top of IMDB, there's probably about 12. Nothing really grabbed me.
Now You See Me, with Jesse Eisenberg, Michael Caine, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, and Woody Harrelson has a stacked cast. It seemed pretty typical though. Bank heist film using magic, feds trying to chase them down figuring out how they did it.
The Host is a film that looks like it's made to bank on the success of Twilight and it's lore now that it's gone. Only two humans left on earth, with people that are taking over Earth. Meh.
Admission seemed interesting, and I love Tina Fey. A single woman who's worked for an ivy league school her whole career gets connected with her son she gave up for adoption. Paul Rudd also stars.
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones was definitely one of those films that is really hoping to capture the success of Twilight/True Blood/Vampire Diaries. Seemed like just another teen demon/vampire/zombie flick, based on a "Best-Selling Novel,"
. Not interested in the slightest.
The Heat seemed like it was trying way too hard. Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy star in a female buddy-cop film. Bullock is a terrible FBI agent, and McCarthy is a terrible cop. Same director as Bridesmaids, but whatever. McCarthy is good and all, but I feel like she has no range.
Dark Skies looks like the next great-terrible horror film. It's demographic will love it, anyone with a brain won't. An alien-invasion film where we probably won't see very many aliens, and wasn't much else exciting. No name actors, and you've seen it all before.
I Give It a Year was charming for the most part, but I like most things British I see, so maybe I'm biased. A couple gets married when everything thinks it won't last. Simon Baker, Rose Byrne, and Anna Faris are the biggest names.
Great Expectations looked terrible, IMO. I never read it as a child, and it just doesn't grab me.
Jack the Giant Slayer looked kind of fun, and it's something I'd show my kid, if I had one.
. It's kind of cool to see Beast from First Class getting a lead role, but he looks too much like a Twatlight-character in this. Ewan McGregor and Stanley Tucci also have supporting roles.
Snitch looks like it could be okay if it were Rated R. It's stacked with familiar faces, other than the obvious Dwayne Johnson. Also includes Jon Bernthal (Shane, The Walking Dead), Susan Sarandon, Harold Perrineau (The Matrix films, Oz), and Michael Kenneth Williams. It looks kind of mediocre, and the director is a stuntman, so we'll see.
Epic looks like another pixar-film with great visuals but lacking in the story department. Same guy that made Ice Age and Robots. It'll probably get good reviews, but won't be anything too groundbreaking.
Last one was
Les Miserables. I have no idea what to think about this one. A musical with Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Borat? Tom Hooper (The King's Speech, John Adams) seems like he'd be a great guy for it, and there isn't much that turned me away, I just don't know if it's something I'll enjoy.
Of everything I watched,
Admission,
Les Miserables, and maybe
I Give it a Year are the only ones I'd consider to go see.
A couple I was looking forward to but never really heard much out of since were
Passion, De Palma's newest thriller with Rachel McAdams and Noomi Rapace. I don't know what it is, but I love Noomi. I think she's gorgeous.
The other that I was really interested in seeing was
Cosmopolis, that new Cronenberg film. I saw a trailer, never saw it come to any theaters near me, and I think it's out on Blu-ray somewhere.
Itwas way better then I thought it was going to be
