I didn't want to close the year with the last month's entry, but I'm still not in the mood to restart the usual blog reviews. However, a short preview entry was the usual choice for this period, and that I can do, but I won't split it in two this time. There's not much to choose from anyway...
Now, in December, I won't stop on Matrix Resurrections and neither on the third iteration of the third reincarnation of Spider-Man. By far the most interesting title in the upcoming weeks seems to be "Nightmare Alley". Guillermo del Toro is one of the directors who still has a personal touch, and you can spot it already from the trailer. Besides that, lately I tend to have more confidence in movies based on books than on productions with an original script. Even though that doesn't guarantee for which characters is decided that's more "correct" to be changed, or what action or dialogue to be adjusted to fit the current tendencies. After all, well.. that's more important than what the writer had in mind. But let's not get lost now in examples.. Hopefully this won't join the list.
For January I'll indulge myself to be subjective (nope, I wasn't earlier). Wes Craven might be long gone to other planes of universe, but I still have hope for the fifth "Scream". We have the same directors couple as we did in "Ready or Not", which was refreshing in a horror genre that's haunted for too long by too many ghosts and spirits. Besides that, most important, Sidney (Neve Campbell) is back ;) As I said, I'm subjective on this one.
In February, what got my eye is "The Outfit". I have a vague feeling that it's gonne be built on the same lines with "Bad Times at the El Royale" or with (the less inspired) "The Hateful Eight" of Tarantino, but different from these both. We'll see...
Starting from March the options reduce a lot (at least looking at released trailers), but from everything in the super-here genre there's one I'd rather not ignore completely - "The Batman" - at least for its cinematic experience potential that it had since Tim Burton to this day. Whatever reincarnation number it might have reached...
There's nothing to mentionf for April, at least not now, and in May the only title to catch some attention is another reboot - "Top Gun: Maverick". Honestly... it always seemed a miracle the fact that the '86 "Top Gun" got so popular. The script was at best mediocre. What saved that movie was the director's genius, but Tony Scott is unfortunately gone. We'll see if the army of screenwriters hired by Tom Cruise can compensate for that now.
Well, this was sort of bitter, I guess :).. But that's pretty much how I felt 2021 in general. Maybe it will change next year. Until then, all I can say is: Happy Holidays! :)
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