Who the hell am I kidding, it's been terrible. You have to be batshit insane to think otherwise. This year would be like Purdue basketball being shown every time you turned on ESPN. Brutal.
To say the offerings at the theater the first nine months of the year have been underwhelming would be a compliment. I have seen exactly four good movies at the theater this year (Shutter Island, Inception, The Kids are All Right, and The Town).
But instead of what normal people watch, we get this. Seriously, this shit gets greenlit, yet PTA, Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Jeremy Renner CAN'T GET FINANCING!
Listen, I know that the first 75% of the year is traditionally when the studios make a lot of money for taking a dump and putting it on the big screen. It's these cinematic times that provide funding for the types of films we want to see. I'm okay with that. What I'm not okay with is FOUR GOOD MOVIES IN NINE MONTHS. Up to this point in the past couple of years, we've been given the likes of Juno, Crash, Moon, Little Miss Sunshine, Wall-E, The Dark Knight, The Hurt Locker, In Bruges, Up, Superbad, 3:10 to Yuma, Man on Wire, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Hot Fuzz, The Bourne Ultimatum, Into the Wild, Knocked Up, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, Zodiac, and Sunshine among many others.
We get this trash. I'd rather watch Stat bathe for 2 hours.
Also this year, we have lost the James Bond franchise for the foreseeable future, Scorsese to the small screen, 2-D movies to the gimmicky 3-D nonsense, and a number of studios to bankruptcy. Yikes. Perhaps if we actually get some good movies this fall, your boy Colin and I will feel more compelled to contribute to the blog. Hopefully tomorrow's The Social Network will compel me to rethink my stance on this year.
Get your weight up, 2010, you better have a hell of a final act.
