James Bond joins Geekiest Year Evah…

Updated on January 12, 2011 By Ken Begg 8 Comments

The Mayan’s were close, but no cigar. 2012 won’t be the end of the world, but it will be the Year of the Geek.

Let’s see, there is The Avengers. Dark Knight 3. Godzilla. The Hobbit. And now the 23rd James Bond film is finally going into production and will be released in the Thanksgiving/Christmas period (as will The Hobbit). Let’s hope they learned their lessons from Quantum of Solitude, which was pretty much ruined by the use of the Shaky-Cam. I guess they went in that direction because nobody liked Casino Royale and complained about how stodgy it was, what with the whole “I can tell what’s going on” thing. Lame!

Not that there won’t be much real lameness: Another Spider-Man movie (meh), Underworld 4, Deadpool and Wolverine movies, a 3-D animated Popeye movie which will suffer mightily for lacking violence, the second Ghost Rider movie (which will be ‘improved’ by offering a pointlessly revised origin story), a 21 Jump Street movie (!!!), a sequel to Clash of the Titans, an animated Oz film with voice work by Dan Ackroyd and Jim Belushi, Men in Black III, that crazy sounding Battleship, based on the board game, another Superman movie (supposedly), Monsters Inc. 2, a fourth Bourne movie, and the second part of the fourth Twilight movie.

More promising are a sequel to Kung Fu Hustle (yes!), and John Carter of Mars, the first live-action movie from the Pixar people. And Star Trek 2 might well be pretty good.

Oh, and Keanu Reeves will be starring in a version of The 47 Ronin (!), which WILL Not be animated, but live-action, or as live action as a movie starring Keanu Reeves can be.

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  • The Rev.

    KFH2? I wonder if it’ll follow along from the first, or be a re-imagining of the first or something? If it’s the former, I wouldn’t mind seeing the Beast or the Fated Lovers again, but I wonder where they’d go from the first one.

    Still, I enjoy Chow’s work, so I’ll trust him on this.

    Underworld 4?? I haven’t seen any of them, but did they really do that well? My understanding is they’re all pretty crap.

    Of course, I forget: once a sequel to f’ing Baby Geniuses came out, all bets were off forever on sequels.

  • Rock Baker

    Monsters Inc was a cute movie, and Pixar flicks tend to be pretty good. I’d hold out more hope for that than another Superman movie. Didn’t they shame the Man of Steel enough with that last disgrace? The only upshot was Kevin Spacey. While a certifiable loon off-screen, a movie has never been hurt by casting Kevin Spacey in there somewhere.

    Men in Black 3 could be fun. The first two made me laugh and I like Smith and Jones.

  • Yeah, I can’t argue against Pixar’s track record. Monsters Inc. 2 would probably be pretty good…but man, I’d rather they made another Incredibles movies.

    I’ve only seen parts of MIB 2, but like most people apparently, didn’t think much of it. I’m not sure going back to the well for a third time is the best idea. It’s not like Underworld 4, though.

  • P Stroud

    Funny. I never noticed anything particularly wrong with the Casino Royale remake. I liked it quite a bit. Especially the old style non-CGI stunt work. That foot chase scene across the rooftops was classic.

    That quick-cut shaky cam that’s so prevalent gives me a headache. The quick cutting is getting worse than ever. I had to close my eyes during the trailers last weekend when I saw The King’s Speech. There must have been 4 cuts per second going on there. When I’m sitting close to the screen like I usually do it’s too disorienting for me. Quick cut editing has ruined much of the action genre… not that it wasn’t already on life support.

  • The Rev.

    I didn’t mention MI2 because Pixar’s track record speaks for itself. The Toy Story sequels show they can go to the well again and retain their quality.

    Like Ken, though, I’d plotz if they made another Incredibles movie. That remains my favorite of theirs to date, and I wasn’t sure anything would eclipse Finding Nemo.

    And while we’re dreaming for the future, I want another Wallace and Gromit movie, because Curse of the Were-Rabbit was f’ing brilliant.

  • monoceros4

    “The only upshot was Kevin Spacey. While a certifiable loon off-screen, a movie has never been hurt by casting Kevin Spacey in there somewhere.”

    Kevin Spacey was one reason I stayed away from that movie, once I saw movie clips revealing that he was was playing Lex Luthor as a broad, loudmouthed Dr. Evil caricature.

    I’ll go further–Spacey is not a very good actor because he has no range. He’s very good at being smart-mouthed and sarcastic and pretty dire when asked to do anything else (e.g. doing the world’s least convincing emoting toward the end of The Usual Suspects.)

  • Rock Baker

    I’d say he has screen presence, something fewer actors have these days. As over the top as he got playing Luthor, your eyes were still drawn to him whenever he was on screen. The movie had countless problems, but Spacey wasn’t one of them. I guess you could say the movie was SO bad that Kevin Spacey was a plus. I saw him just a couple nights later in Iron Will, which got me to thinking how I liked him as an actor. But then, I’m a big fan of Anthony Eisley and Mark Richman, so take from that what you will…

  • Toby Clark

    Kevin Spacey has long been my favourite actor and is probably the one thing about Superman Returns that I preferred to the first two Christopher Reeve movies. (Note that I like the film for the most part, even if Kate Bosworth was miscast.) Even so, I prefer the corporate Lex Luthors played by Michael Rosenbaum, John Shea, Clancy Brown and James Marsters. Hopefully Zack Snyder (good choice, IMO) takes him in that direction this time.

    Monsters Inc 2 is very promising, or at least more so than Cars 2. Like Ken, though, The Incredibles is the one I really want to see more of.

    Looking forward to Bond 23. If the director of the world’s longest reality TV series can make a good Bond movie, I see no reason not to have faith in Sam Mendes.

    Dark Knight Rising and Avengers are probably the ones that I’m most keen to see. I plan on boycotting Spider-Man though (at least until the DVD).

    Rev: If you’re like Wallace and Gromit, I recommend the Telltale Games point-and-click series.