Sunday, January 3, 2016

Twenty Sixteen

Happy New Year! I was away for Christmas holidays in Seoul. Walked around. Ate a lot. Saw a lot. Veni Vidi Manducavi(?). I ended my moviegoing year with Justin Kurzel's stylish adap of Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender which is basically the extremely hard level of English listening exam: Scottish accent combined with Shakespearian vocab. I understand the gist of every sentence (or paragraph) but if I were to recite one perfectly, I'll give up. Then I started this year with an unfinished Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation while on a 1 hour flight and went on a successive viewings of Sicario and Sherlock's Christmas Special (more on that later!). So, as the annual ritual (rhyming point!), every year must be opened with a preview of what's to come. 2015 was big but 2016 has films to match 2015. You know the drill: bold titles mean must-watches and unmarked means negotiable. I just copied and pasted that last sentence, because plagiarizing your own work is totally acceptable.


JANUARY
- The Hateful Eight with Samuel L. Jackson and director Quentin Tarantino
- The Finest Hours with Chris Pine and director Craig Gillespie
- Kung Fu Panda 3 with Jack Black (voice) and director Jennifer Yuh Nelson
- Jane Got A Gun with Natalie Portman and director Gavin O'Connor



FEBRUARY
- Hail Caesar! with George Clooney and directors The Coen Brothers
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies with Lily James and director Burr Steers
- Deadpool with Ryan Reynolds and director Tim Miller
- Zoolander No. 2 with actor director Ben Stiller
- Eddie the Eagle with Taron Egerton and director Dexter Fletcher
- Triple 9 with Aaron Paul and director John Hillcoat




MARCH
- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice with Ben Affleck and director Zack Snyder
- London Has Fallen with Gerard Butler and director Babak Najafi
- Allegiant with Shailene Woodley and director Robert Schwentke
- Midnight Special with Michael Shannon and director Jeff Nichols
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot with Tina Fey and directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
- The Brothers Grimsby with Sacha Baron Cohen and director Louis Letterier



APRIL
- The Huntsman: Winter's War with Charlize Theron and director Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
- The Jungle Book with Neel Sethi and director Jon Favreau
- Collide with Felicity Jones and director Eran Creevy
- Before I Wake with Kate Bosworth and director Mike Flanagan
- Demolition with Jake Gyllenhaal and director Jean Marc Vallee



MAY
- Captain America: Civil War with Chris Evans and director Russo Brothers
X-Men: Apocalypse with Michael Fassbender and director Bryan Singer
- Neighbors 2 with Seth Rogen and director Nicholas Stoller
- Alice Through The Looking Glass with Johnny Depp and director James Bobin
- Money Monster with George Clooney and director Jodie Foster
- The Nice Guys with Ryan Gosling and director Shane Black
The Free State of Jones with Matthew McConaughey and director Gary Ross
- Snowden with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and director Oliver Stone


JUNE
- Independence Day: Resurgence with Jeff Goldblum and director Roland Emmerich
- Finding Dory with Ellen DeGeneres (voice) and director Andrew Stanton
- The Conjuring: Enfield Poltergeist with Patrick Wilson and director James Wan
- Now You See Me 2 with Jesse Eisenberg and director John M. Chu
- Warcraft with Travis Fimmel and director Duncan Jones
- Central Intelligence with Dwayne Johnson and director Rawson Thurber
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows with Megan Fox and director Dave Green



JULY
- The Legend of Tarzan with Margot Robbie and director David Yates
- The BFG with Mark Rylance and director Steven Spielberg
- The Purge 3 with Frank Grillo and director James DeMonaco
- Star Trek Beyond with Chris Pine and director Justin Lin
- Bourne 5 with Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass
- Ghostbusters with Kristen Wiig and director Paul Feig
- La La Land with Ryan Gosling and director Damien Chazelle
- Genius with Colin Firth and director Michael Grandage


AUGUST
- Suicide Squad with Will Smith and director David Ayer
- Ben Hur with Jack Huston and director Timur Bekmambetov
- Sausage Party with Seth Rogen and directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan
- Spectral with James Badge Dale and director Nic Mathieu
- Arms and the Dudes with Jonah Hill and director Todd Phillips

SEPTEMBER
- The Magnificent Seven with Chris Pratt and director Antoine Fuqua
- Sully with Tom Hanks and director Clint Eastwood
- Deepwater Horizon with Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg

OCTOBER
- Inferno with Tom Hanks and director Ron Howard
- The Girl on the Train with Emily Blunt and director Tate Taylor
- Jack Reacher: Never Go Back with Tom Cruise and director Edward Zwick
- Gambit with Channing Tatum and Lea Seydoux
- The Accountant with Ben Affleck and director Gavin O'Connor


NOVEMBER
- Doctor Strange with Benedict Cumberbatch and director Scott Derrickson
- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them with Eddie Redmayne and director David Yates
- The Great Wall with Matt Damon and director Zhang Yimou
- Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk with Garrett Hedlund and director Ang Lee
- Moana with Dwayne Johnson (voice) and director Ron Clements


DECEMBER
- Passengers with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence, director Morten Tyldum
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with Felicity Jones and director Gareth Edwards
- Assassin's Creed with Michael Fassbender and director Justin Kurzel
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with Eva Green and director Tim Burton


There are currently undated films like Denis Villenueve's scifi Story of Your Life and Martin Scorsese's Silence. But it is shaping to be another solid year for movies. Like every other year there are unnecessary remakes like Ben Hur or The Magnificent Seven but their cast is solid so I'm actually excited for both. The blockbusters are crazy exciting. Also new films from Scorsese and Eastwood pretty much made the year strong. Jodie Foster's Money Monster is looking good too. Here are my top 10 anticipated films for next year!

10. Passengers - Chris Pratt x Jennifer Lawrence!
9. The BFG - Spielberg!
8. Fantastic Beasts - still not sold but magic
7. Bourne 5 - Damon is backk
6. Assassin's Creed - still got that Macbeth hype
5. X-Men Apocalypse - just gettin that Fassy-love and Olivia Munn
4. The Legend of Tarzan - I loved the trailer too much
3. Suicide Squad - Margot Robbie!
2. Civil War - looks great
1. Batman v Superman - looks awesome


NYResolution: I want to write more posts here. 2015 was a new low for posts number since 2012. I have five drafts and all were unfinished because a) I got bored b) I postponed it too long it lost it relevance. And also Imma do more work. But still watch a lot of movies.

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