2010 looks set to be a great year for movies, and if the naughties are anything to judge by, things will just keep getting better. We’ve some great films to look forward to in the next decade, and you could be forgiven for thinking that, with all the great films on offer in 2010, a lot of those good movies will be crammed into the first year of the new decade. Read on for all the info you need for an awesome movie going year and click on the trailers to start them!
PLEASE NOTE, SOME OF THESE TRAILERS MAY REQUIRE PARENTAL GUIDANCE, ESPECIALLY THOSE CONTAINING BIG GREEN OGRES AND TALKING TOYS!!!
Of course, every year begins with some of the best movies on offer, just in time to meet the Academy Award deadline, and 2010 is no different, with Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones. The Lord Of The Rings director returns to our screens with the successful novel, Ireland’s own Saoirse Ronan starring as the teenage girl watching from heaven as her family (Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg and Susan Sarandon) are left on Earth, struggling to cope with her murder.
Jim Carrey flirts with Oscar nomination yet again in I Love You, Philip Morris, a bittersweet comedy drama in which Carrey’s character falls in love with prison inmate Philip Morris, played by Ewan McGregor.
Keeping things behind bars, Martin Scorsese teams up with Leonardo Di Caprio yet again for Shutter Island, a noir thriller set in the 1950s and based on an island penitentiary where a US Marshal struggles to maintain his sanity while investigating a missing inmate.
The early part of the year is also the perfect time for horror movies, and The Wolfman is the second period piece of the year, set in Victorian England where Benicio Del Toro turns into the wolf-man of the title in a movie that promises to be more old-school monster movie than effects-laden schlock.
With werewolves covered in the past, Daybreakers brings us vampires in the near-future, as Ethan Hawke searches to find a cure for the disease that has ravaged humanity and turned them into blood-sucking fiends.
Legion gives us a totally different version of angels and demons than Tom Hanks and Ron Howard would provide, with Paul Bettany as a gun-toting angel, and humanity’s only hope, as he tries to keep the inhabitants of a diner safe from a demonic Apocalypse.
Clash Of The Titans swaps demons for gods in the Louis Leterrier-directed remake of the classic stop-motion/live-action blended action film. Leterrier’s already proven he can do action thanks to The Transporter, and even blended CGI with it in The Incredible Hulk, and now goes all out as Sam Worthington takes on the classical Greek gods and monsters including Liam Neeson and Ralph Fiennes.
If the classics are your thing, but the thoughts of giant scorpions and sea monsters creeps you out, you and the kids may like Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, adapting the series of children’s novels where the Greek gods live on 600th floor of the Empire State Building.
Revisiting children’s books, Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland promises to bring the magic of Wonderland to the big screen in 3D with Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.
Madness isn’t confined to Burton movies though, and Kick-Ass, adapting the Mark Millar comic of the same name, promises some crazy superhero shenanigans. Millar wrote 2008’s Wanted and in this movie, that’s certainly not for kids, a group of teenagers (and Nic Cage) take vigilante justice to a whole new bloody level.
The Losers, another comic-book movie, follows a team of special agents betrayed by their handlers while Robert Rodriguez’s Machete is one of those rare films that the trailer existed long before hand, a full-length feature based on one of the fake trailers from the Grindhouse double feature. And if that doesn’t whet your bloodthirsty appetite, there’s also Piranha 3D and the remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street.
Knowing that too much action isn’t always a good thing, there’s some comedy and drama to stave the adrenaline off. Shot in Ireland, Leap Year stars Amy Adams as a woman ready to propose to her boyfriend; while Valentine’s Day is a collection of intertwining love stories to mark the holiday of the same name.
The Office’s Steve Carell and Tina Fey team up for Date Night playing a married couple who get caught up in a crazy adventure when all they want is a quiet dinner.
Death At A Funeral stars Martin Lawrence, Danny Glover and Chris Rock in an American remake of the British movie of the same name. And last but not least, Michael Douglas returns as Gordon Gecko, whose old ways may no longer have a place in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps.
As the summer kicks off, we’re treated to some of the most eagerly anticipated movies of the year. Top of that list is Robert Downey Jr returning for Iron Man 2, no longer just an origin story, the film promises to ramp up the action with the inclusion of many other Marvel heroes, including Samuel L Jackson’s Nick Fury and Mickey Rourke as the villainous Whiplash.
If that’s too futuristic for you, Ridley Scott tells the story of Robin Hood with Russell Crowe in the lead role, and moving further back in time, Disney brings the epic Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time with Jake Gyllenhaal as an Eastern prince trying to overcome evil forces with a dagger that grants him the ability to control time. Double whammy trailer set here folks!
Christopher Nolan returns to the summer blockbuster after The Dark Knight, this time with Leonardo Di Caprio for Inception. Little is known about the psychological thriller, except for the tag line that “Your Mind Is The Scene Of The Crime” but a short teaser trailer promises some Matrix-style effects as the below trailer proves in a supremely stylish movie.
Perhaps less stylish, but no less entertaining, is the promise of comic-book movie Jonah Hex, with Josh Brolin as a disfigured gunslinger in the Wild West. The A-Team bring the classic 80s action team to the big screen, while Predators revisits the aliens from the 80s movies (forgetting about those crossovers with the Alien franchise) for a big-action slaughterfest. Sadly no trailer in sight for these blockbusters, but there’s further 1980s nostalgia with a remake of The Karate Kid starring Jaden Smith (him of Will Smith’s son’s fame) and Jackie Chan – This one we CAN do for you!
There’s further martial arts action with the-other-Avatar, M Night Shyamalan’s adaptation of the animated series, now called The Last Airbender.
Mentor-student relationships seem to be flavour of the summer, with Nic Cage returning for The Sorceror’s Apprentice, a re-imagining of the segment of the same name from Disney’s Fantasia.
The summer also brings some sequels, both live-action and animated, with a third entry in the Meet The… franchise with Little Fockers. But even bigger movies are on the cards with Woody and Buzz returning for Toy Story 3, where Andy has all grown up and moved out leaving the toys with nobody to play with them, while Shrek Forever After revisits the lovable ogre and his ever-growing family and friends. Another double whammy folks!
Families and relationships continue to grow in Sex & The City 2 as Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha return for more straight-talking about sex and…well, cities. But if they’ve grown a bit too old for you, there’s still some teenage romance (and dancing) in Step Up 3D and more teenagers and more romance (with vampires this time) in the third entry of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse… Sorry girls, no Jake or Edward for you just yet, lets take a look at the SatC girls at it instead shall we?
We can’t make many promises for the end of the year, with many movies being announced between now and then or with dates changing, but there are some films we should be able to look forward to with some certainty, like Sylvester Stallone looking scarily like his mum and teaming up with every action star EVER in The Expendables.
Justin Timberlake stops singing and dancing for long enough to star in David Fincher’s The Social Network, a comedy drama about the origins of the number one social network, Facebook. Once Halloween comes around, it’s time for Saw VII and we can also expect a sequel to the most recent Friday the 13th movie coming later in the year (though there’s little information on either of those yet.)
Similarly secretive and of course with not even a teaser trailer in sight just yet are the penultimate movie in one of the biggest franchises ever, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, Part I and a further entry in the series of movies adapting C.S. Lewis’ series, The Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Dawn Treader.
The year gets rounded off with some films that have been in the works for so long, that we won’t be sure of their release until we’re leaving the cinema, in the shape of Tron: Legacy, a big-screen version of Yogi Bear and Seth Rogen’s turn as the crime-fighting The Green Hornet. We’ll leave you with one last trailer, Tron: Legacy… how cool????
If 2010 looks this good, it’s the start of a great decade, and 2011 has a lot to live up to. So Happy Movie-going throughout the year and we promise to keep bringing you the best news and reviews throughout the year to make the year just as awesome as 2009 was for you. Happy viewing!!!
