FILMS WE CAN'T BLOODY WAIT TO SEE... I thought it might be good to have a thread for this, a one-stop shop, if you like.
THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN - One of my all-time favourite short stories from Clive Barker's BOOKS OF BLOOD - what, you've not read them? They're only the best pieces of writing the guy has ever done (in my sole opinion, of course ) Got to admit, though, the trailer hasn't done much to excite me...
Re: FILMS WE CAN'T BLOODY WAIT TO SEE... BOOKS OF BLOOD = good.
Sadly, the film adaptations of those stories have so far been pretty weak. RAWHEAD REX was utter poo; LORD OF ILLUSIONS was a fair bit better.
I live in hope that the original edit of NIGHTBREED gets released some day.
For 2008:
DIARY OF THE DEAD
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
JOHN RAMBO
THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD
DEATH SENTENCE
THE BRAVE ONE
EASTERN PROMISES
ZODIAC: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT
(The last few will be watched via DVD, obviously.)
--- 'Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy'.
Re: FILMS WE CAN'T BLOODY WAIT TO SEE... WANTED - a favourite series of ultra-vilent comic books by Mark Millar finally gets the celluloid - sorry, digital - treatment, although there's nobody brave enough to actually adapt the comic straight to film without chopping lots out, for instance, a character called GritHEAD made entirely from Grit...
Wasn't keen on NIGHT WATCH, to be honest: it was a flashy Hollywood blockbuster that acquired critical legitimacy through the fact that it was produced in Russia, and seemed little more than a calling card for Hollywood by its Russian director. It was THE MATRIX in Slavic... with vampires... and some very pretty subtitles.
It's a sad state of affairs when the distinct identity of national cinemas become so concerned with copying the commercial aesthetic and reductive/restrictive narrative structures of the modern Hollywood film. But it's the only way many national cinemas can compete with the seductive nature of the Coca-Cola culture. We're at a stage where cinema is nothing other than a commodity, and unlike no more than ten years ago nobody seems willing to question that anymore. Can you think of any high-profile filmmakers/collectives who present a challenge to Hollywood's methods and structures? Independent filmmakers seem more than ever to seek to imitate Hollywood above all else, enthralled by the seductive sheen of CGI.
--- 'Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy'.
) Got to admit, though, the trailer hasn't done much to excite me...
