Films To Watch Out For In 2010

Well, now that the year 2010 has been rang in, I’ve decided to assemble my list of movies that I want to catch this year. (Many thanks to Film-Releases.com for the release dates.) I’ve chosen ten that I consider my 2010 will not be complete without seeing.

1. Daybreakers (January 8th, 2010)

The first title on my list is the upcoming film Daybreakers, written and directed by by Peter and Michael Spierig. It is about an outbreak in 2019 that causes a majority of the world’s population to become vampires. The ones that remain human are being used basically as “bloodbanks” to satiate the thirst of the vampires. The vampires look just like humans, and cannot be distinguished from the latter without blood tests. But it the vampires don’t get enough human blood, they transform into evil, batlike killing machines.

The vampires want to round up the humans and farm them, while the humans want to continue their lives as a free species; they even take violent measures to ensure the continuity of their endangered race.

I for one am sick of all the vampire sh!t that’s going around nowdays (gee, thanks, Twilight Saga–yuck!).

However, I’m going to give Daybreakers a chance–it looks pretty good, to be honest. As long as the vampire boys don’t sparkle, I’m alright!

2. Legion (January 22nd, 2010)

The second film is Legion, which is directed by Scott Stewart.

After God loses faith in humanity,  the archangel Michael, who has become a fallen angel,  is the only one standing between mankind and Armageddon. This time using angels to execute the Last Judgment, Gods wrath descends on earth to exterminate the population. In a desperate, last-chance gambit, Michael leads a group of strangers to a small New Mexico diner to protect a young waitress who may be pregnant with Christ in his second coming.

3. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (February 12, 2010)

 Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief  is a fantasy film directed by Chris Colombus, based on the book series by Rick Riordan.

A teenager named Percy Jackson discovers that he’s the demigod son of the Greek god, Poseidon. He embarks on a journey across modern-day America with his friends, Annabeth Chase, the demigod daughter of Athena, and Grover Underwood, a satyr, to save his mother, return Zeus’s stolen lightning bolt, and prevent a war amongst the gods.

4. The Crazies (February 26, 2010)

The Crazies is a horror film directed by Breck Eisner and written by Scott Kosar and Ray Wright.

This film is about a small town in Iowa. After one of the residents attends a baseball game with a loaded shotgun and another man burns down his home–with his wife and child locked in a closet–this town becomes a hellhole where the residents are succumbing to an unknown toxin, which makes them sadistically violent. The few that are still sane band together, and an ordinary night becomes a struggle as they try to get out alive.

 

5. Alice in Wonderland (March 5th, 2010)

 Alice in Wonderland is a film directed by Tim Burton, based on the novel by Lewis Carrol.

When Alice Kingsley finds out she is to be proposed to, she runs off, following a white rabbit into a hole that leads to Wonderland, a place she visited before, though she doesn’t remember it. The rabbit came back for her, because only she can slay the Jabberwock, the beast which guards the Red Queen’s kingdom. She embarks on an adventure of self-discovery to save Wonderland from the Red Queen’s reign of terror.

OTHER MENTIONS:

6. MacGruber (April 23rd, 2010)

7. Shrek Forever After (May 21st, 2010)

8. The Last Airbender (July 2nd, 2010)

9. The Roommate (September 17, 2010)

10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part One (November 19, 2010)

11. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (December 10th, 2010)

 

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