Thursday 20 December 2018

Thursday Movie Picks: 2019 Movies You're Looking Forward To

Let’s face it 2019 is the year of Disney. 2019 sees the release of following Disney movies – Captain Marvel, Dumbo, Avengers: End Game, Aladdin, Toy Story 4, The Lion King, Artemis Fowl, Frozen 2, Star Wars Episode 9. I can see 3 or 4 of them breaking the $1,000,000,000 barrier with Toy Story, Avengers: End Game (Captain Marvel is a dark horse for that billion dollars), Star Wars and Frozen 2 being the most likely to smash that barrier.

But we’re not here to talk about them. This may surprise you but there are other movies released that year which, more likely than not, will be better movies. So, here’s three (of many) movies I am excited for.
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I loved James Gray’s The Lost City of Z as it harked by to the classic adventure stories of David Lean. His next feature seems even more epic as it sees Brad Pitt travel to the planet Neptune to track down his father (Tommy Lee Jones) who went missing searching for extra-terrestrial life. James Gray intended for this film to have the most realistic space travel ever put to screen. Whether or not this is case is to be seen, but it’s going to look incredible especially with Hoyte van Hoytema as cinematographer.

Maradona
Asif Kapadia’s documentary on legendary racing driver Ayrton Senna wowed fans and non-fans of motorsport (the very unsporty Mark Kermode even dubbed it ‘sennasational’). His third feature focuses on a sporting legend from the same continent, but from a different sport and different country. This man is Diego Maradona. Quite simply Maradona was one of the greatest footballers to ever grace the game. He was also very controversial, and his private life has enough material to fill 20 documentaries rather than solitary one. From the Hand of God to his drug abuse, this will be one gripping documentary.

The Irishman
Martin Scorsese is returning to the gangster genre with The Irishman which surrounds the assassination of union leader Jimmy Hoffa. This true to life story stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel and Al Pacino (surprisingly this is the first time Scorsese and Al Pacino have worked together). It’s rumoured to be Scorsese’s most expensive ever picture with de-aging technology used in the movie’s many flashback sequences. It will be 13 years since Scorsese directed a gangster flick (The Departed – which won him his first Oscar) so anticipation is high for this one. The Irishman will be distributed by Netflix.

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14 comments:

  1. Ooh I haven't heard of any of your three picks! You've reminded me that I still need to watch The Lost City of Z.

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    1. Do watch Lost City of Z. It is a great film.

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  2. I haven't heard of your first two but I'm also looking forward to The Irishman! I was disappointed when it didn't get released this year like people thought it might. I'm glad I'll get to see it on Netflix right away too.

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    1. Yep. Netflix isn't the villain here. Glad I can easily want it.

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  3. I haven't heard of any of these but now I'll definitely be looking forward to see The Irishman.

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    1. Anything by Scorcese is worth waiting for.

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  4. Oh, these are three films that I want to see as I'm a fan of these filmmakers. I'm still not fond of The Irishman being a Netflix exclusive. Fuck Netflix.

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    1. I don't think Netflix is the sole villian here. Paramount are the reaon why it isn't in the cinema because they refused to budget the film further.

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  5. That Sonic the Hedgehog movie's gonna be terrible

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  6. Movies I'm looking forward to: GLASS, IT CHAPTER 2, ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, STAR WARS EPISODE IX and the 3 M.C.U. movies.

    Movies I'm not looking forward to: ALADDIN, ANGEL HAS FALLEN, DOWNTON ABBEY, THE LION KING, SUPER INTELLIGENCE, TERMINATOR 6 and WHAT MEN WANT.

    However, there are probably many movies I'll end up loving that I haven't heard from yet.

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    1. ALADDIN is gonna be either awful or really good.

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  8. I know right! Disney seems to have a movie almost every month and three of them are live action versions of their animated classics.

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