It's difficult to make such an accusation not even two months into the year, but I have a suspicion that this won't be a good year for movies. Then again it's the same sort of feeling that I get around this time every year. We had a good run for 2009, and we were able to get more than our fair share of blockbusters out of the year. It just feels like such a depressing change this time of year when we go from getting amazing movies to immediately getting crap. Like last year we have our single saving grace of a film. This year's Coraline came in the form of Shutter Island.
Besides that though there is nothing particularly inspiring. We first got a mashup of vampires (Daybreakers), Post-Apocalypses (Book of Eli), and career suicides (Tooth Fairy). Then as we mingled around Valentines Day we started on unhealthy sugar induced products (Percy Jackson, The Wolfman) until we rolled up in a corner and cried pathetically (Dear John). Then out of the darkness a friendly face (Martin Scorcese) comes to deliver us, but is then ridiculed and shot (Cop Out), and quickly loses his mind (The Crazies). That is a better plot than most of what you could find in the first two months of this year.
We still have quite a ways to go before we reach the real gold of the year, and we're just going to have to struggle through the coming weeks, and with luck we might get rewarded for our patience with a few surprises. Expect my 3 to see for March in the next few days, and shortly after that a review of Shutter Island.
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