Last year we had some seriously good films and we found it very hard to pick our favourite among a bunch that included, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Kick Ass, Inception, Salt, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and so many more.
It would be tough to follow these films but 2011 looks set to kick it’s ass with some top-notch movies on the cards for this year. So sit back relax and let’s check out what movies you can’t afford to miss in 2011.
Sucker Punch
We covered Sucker Punch last year in a Trailer Talk piece and our excitement for this dirty gritty action flick hasn’t subsided even a little bit. A young girl (Emily Browning) who goes by the name Baby Doll is placed in an institution against her will but even here she clings to her freedom and refuses to simply lie down and accept her fate. Banding together a group of four other girls, the friends will face ancient warriors, gigantic serpents and be forced to face their fears as they battle to survive in a world that blurs reality with the fantastic.
Girls, swords and guns, fantastic effects = possibly the greatest movie of all time!
Scream 4
The masked killer is back but now in a new generation the rules have changed again (didn’t the rules change in every move?) and the killer has no qualms about who is on his chopping block. Neve Campbell reprises her role as Sydney as do recently divorced couple David Arquette and Courtney Cox. It’s ten years since the incident of the 3rd movie and Sydney who had thought she could finally move on is once more visited by the Ghost Face Killer (who we can’t look in the eye after Scary Movie) and as the body count rises, the mystery must be solved if anyone is going to survive.
Thor
The first big Marvel movie of the year, Thor is one of Marvel’s more popular characters and finally we get the chance to see his big screen debut. With an all star cast including Anthony Hopkins as Odin and Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, Thor’s love interest, Marvel movies have been able to attract the best in Hollywood. After accidentally reigniting an age old war, Thor is banished from Asgard by his father Odin and forced to live amongst humans. It is here he meets and falls in love with Foster and learns what it truly means to be a hero but when an old enemy releases one of the most powerful weapons ever created, Thor must prove himself or lose everything.
The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman
Hey! We said no romantic comedies but we never said anything about Asian Comedies! Remember Shaolin Soccer or Kung Fu Hustle? Well ‘The Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman’ is something along those lines with elements of amazing effects, satire and outlandish plots all thrown together, these movies are something similar to the Scary Movie series. It is a story of honour and revenge, as a fight to obtain a kitchen cleaver fabled to have been made from the metals of five of the greatest swords held by the greatest martial artists.
X-Men: First Class
The second Marvel movie in our list and probably the one we are most eager to see. X-Men: First Class is our last hope, after the fiasco that was Wolverine, our opinion of the X-Men movies started to falter and now we’re relying on First Class to make things right. Set prior to the events of the main trilogy, the movie will show the relationship with Charles Xavier and Eric Lehnsherr before they became rivalries. The movie will also debut mutants including The White Queen, Havok and Sebastian Shaw. As a rift begins to grow between them, a cataclysmic force will threaten the very existence of humans and mutants and ultimately split the two friends apart and create a rivalry that will continue for a generation.
Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows Part II
The Deathly Hallows Part II is the concluding part of the Deathly Hallows and the very last Harry Potter movie in the series. After Voldemort retrieves the most powerful wand ever made, Harry, Ron and Hermione must step up their search for the Horcruxes and return to the place they knew as home and school for many years. However it is not going to be as simple as just walking back into Hogwarts as the Dark Lord is aware of their plan and so the greatest battle foretold on his birth will come to pass and things will never be the same again.
Green Lantern
DC aren’t about to let Marvel have all the box office tickets this year and Ryan Reynolds prepares to don his second super powered alter ego, the Green Lantern (Reynolds also played DeadPool in the Wolverine movie and will reprise that role again in 2012 for his own movie). Hal Jordan is one of the best Test pilots around and he knows it, cocky and brash he is known for his attitude as well as his skills but when he is selected as the bearer of a ring of immense power his life will change forever. As the first human ever selected, Hal has something to prove and fast as a new and powerful Threat rises and threatens the life and world he once knew.
Cowboys and Aliens
It’s one we’ve always been a little wary of but nonetheless we are excited for the release! When an alien spacecraft crashes onto Earth it finds itself in the middle of a fight between Cowboys and Indians and when the occupants decide to take over the planet it is up to survivors to put their differences aside and take down the new threat. Cowboys and Aliens stars Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford and is based on the graphic novel created by Scott Rosenberg.
Captain America: The First Avenger
The final Marvel movie of the year, Captain America will be the retelling of the origins of one Marvel’s classic heroes. After Steve Rogers, a seemingly ordinary soldier volunteers for an experiment, he soon finds himself wielding unbelievable strength, speed and reflexes. Entering World War II he is a powerful ally for the US but after being frozen he soon finds himself being revived in the present day. With his ideals intact, Captain America begins to adjust to his new life only to have it interrupted by an old enemy, the Red Skull. Captain America will be played by Chris Evans (who also plays The Fantastic Four’s Human Torch) and Hugo Weaving has been cast as the Red Skull.
The Thing
First and more importantly we have to get something out of the way! THIS IS NOT A REMAKE! We know! We were a little surprised too when we heard of a movie called The Thing and automatically had horrible thoughts of some sort of massacred plot and contrived storyline with flashier effects. No this movie is more of a prequel and will follow the events taking place before the alien life form made it to the American base. That’s right; we get to see just what happened on the Norwegian base. So prepare for gore and be sure to not get attached to any of the characters because that place was a bloodbath when it was discovered by the Americans.
There are plenty of other movies that we want to see this year but didn’t get a mention so here are just some of the others: Super, Battle: Los Angeles, Priest, Piranha 3 DD, Now, Hanna, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides.
It’s going to be a very good year!
