30 Most Anticipated 2010 Movies

By Johnny Cat in Film on Jan 15, 2010 at 5:05 pm

Film School Rejects runs down the 30 films slated for release this year that audiences are anxiously awaiting. This year, many projects are coming out that I and my film-loving friends have been jawing about since last January. The usual suspects are there — Harry Potter, Iron Man 2, Alice in Wonderland. But there are other titles coming out that, even though they don’t get a lot of press, look fantastic. For instance, The Adjustment Bureau:

Image: Universal Pictures

The Pitch: Phillip K. Dick’s short story about a man in a changing reality is brilliant and includes some very cool imagery that would translate well to film. I have no idea if it’s been translated with this adaptation, but George Nolfi (in his first stint as director) is a great writer, and Matt Damon is one of the best working actors today. Pair him with Emily Blunt, toss in Terence Stamp and Anthony Mackie with a heavy dose of science fiction, and I have no idea why you wouldn’t get excited.

Catch the whole list at the link. Did they leave anything off?

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cola
Jan 15th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
For whatever reason, I’m anticipating Clash of the Titans. I don’t expect it to be a good movie, but then, I’d be kind of disappointed if it was. The only thing bothering me so far is Sam Worthington’s bald look. Have you ever seen a Greek portrait with a bald hero? Fluffy curls make the man!

It’s just replacing bad claymation with bad CG. ;p
Dara
Jan 15th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Looks about right to me, especially Toy Story 3, and anything else that will come in 3D…after Avatar, it will be hard to beat, IMO. I’m also willing to bet that “Something Wicked” and / or “Abandoned” (both slated for 2010 release dates) will be pretty popular and hyped-up, considering Brittany Murphey’s recent death.
danno
Jan 15th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Pedro Páramo. If it ever gets finished, and if it is true to the novel, it will be one of the most surreal and moving experiences evah.
caveman
Jan 15th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
At least they’ll be running out of comic books at some point.
angstrom
Jan 15th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
I read that PKD story when I was pretty young and it affected my perception of reality.
Dick’s story was a weird and unsettling tale of suburban late 50′s banality turned inside out.

Dick was interested in challenging perceptions while still remaining comic and satirical.
The movie meanwhile – is a love story, about “soul mates”, where our protagonist is no longer a downtrodden kafka-esque figure, but a … um, hunky powerful Matt Damon-esque figure.

Why did they even bother buying the rights?
cola
Jan 15th, 2010 at 9:06 pm
Angstrom: name recognition. Riding on the coat tails of a respected author is a cynically calculated move to get his fans into the theatre and lend a patina of literary legitimacy to the film for everyone else (“PKD?! I’ve heard good things about him!”).
LisaL
Jan 15th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
I can’t wait for The Crazies to come out! I’ve never seen the original, but hope it’s decent.
wow
Jan 16th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
a bunch of remakes? who woulda guessed….
Skipweasel
Jan 16th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
PKD films rarely bear any resemblance to the story on which they are ostensibly based. That may be a good thing really, it saves those of us who like his work from having to feel upset – we can just dismiss the films. Except Scanner, of course.

That doesn’t mean the films themselves aren’t worth watching, just that they’re not the book – and this isn’t the usual “It wasn’t as good as the book” moan, this is a “The only relationship to the book is that it may have been used to prop up the editing table” sort of moan.
IndieExStonerKid
Jan 17th, 2010 at 8:21 am
I can’t wait for Expendables, it just looks like the sort OTT action films I like. If I want to be intellectually challenged, I’ll open a philosophy book; If I want to be entertained I watch an OTT action film! I hate ‘smart’ films…
people
Jan 17th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Anyone looking forward to any non-Hollywood films in 2010?
bradbury
Jan 18th, 2010 at 3:12 am
Too bad PKD never wrote a story about an author, whose extrem paranoia came true post mortem by his corpse being gruesomely and repeatedly raped by hollywood executives which are all posessed by a god-like hive mind called mammon. the dickesque twist in this story would be that the industry was more crazy and cynical then the author THE WHOLE TIME and actually methodically created their demon instead of getting their creativity destroyed by it, like they plea in the beginning of the first act.

Now THAT story, they would’ve got right.

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