Crouching Tiger, Desperate Housewives or: Why 2009 will be a horrible year for cinema



I know my MS Paint skills are on point, so it's hard to tell this is fake.
According to Wikipedia (and confirmed on IMDB) 2009 is actually the Year of the Box Office Bomb. It seems as if Hollywood just plain ran out of ideas, and just decided to stick with these two mantras;

a) "Let's make a sequel...that's right...ANOTHER SEQUEL."
b) "Let's make a movie adaptation of something really old, or obscure, and just hope people come to see it."

...I have a sneaking suspicion that some of the worst movies in recent history will debut in '09, but these will probably be at the top (or bottom) of that list.

1) Fast and Furious. I actually haven't seen any of these, but when the first one came out, I
figured that America's obsession with fast would have died out with the sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious. But, lo and behold, six years later another variation of the words "fast" and "furious" will be released on film. My general rule of thumb is that any movie starring Paul Walker already has two strikes against it, but the fact that it's the fourth installment doesn't help, either... Still, look forward to Fast and Furious: Double Dash! starring Tyrese Gibson, and John Leguizamo as Luigi.

2) Dragonball. There are two (major) things wrong with this movie; first, it's about 10 years overdue...the actual Dragon Ball series goes back to the late 80's in Japan, and crossed over to the US around 1995. Since then, Dragon Ball spurned Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, and probably a bunch of other manifestations that I don't watch. Second, it's live-action; anyone who has seen the show knows how ridiculous a live action movie would be; for those of you who haven't, planets get destroyed, people transform into giant ape creatures, and there's a flying cat...Good luck to whoever will be inevitably fired for green-lighting this.

3) Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Do you remember the original Street Fighter movie? (not the anime) If you don't, good; if you do...enough said. Apparently Jean Claude Van Damme even turned down a part because he's more careful in choosing his roles...whatever that means doesn't bode well for this movie.

Honorable Mention: Crank 2: Electric Boogaloo...not the actual name, but it might as well be. I thought Stratham died in the first one anyway (spoiler alert).

To be fair, there are some potentially good movies for 2009. Obviously, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince won't disappoint, and apparently Watchmen will be good; I personally thought the trailer sucked, but since it's based on the best graphic novel ever (appeared in Time magazine's best English-language novels) I'll probably give it a chance. But looking over this list again, I'm starting to wish Crouching Tiger, Desperate Housewives was real.

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