The 2009 Review Of The Year: Part One

All the best movie news and features from January to June!

March

After what seemed like years of waiting, Watchmen hit our screens at last. While no film could have lived up to the hype, we liked it, and were disappointed to see it didn't fly at the box office. We were inspired to look at great Opening Credits Sequences, though.

Early March was also trailer tastic, loaded down with promos. Terminator Salvation launched a new one. We took it apart. A Public Enemies promo arrived. We took its riches. Harry Potter brought us a fresh trailer. We worked our magic on it. Oh, and Drag Me To Hell. Which we dragged to... trailer breakdown hell?

Exhausted from all the trailer mauling, we celebrated St Patrick's Day in the Best Movie Bars, and thought of Great Movie Mums for... what else? Mother's Day.

Film-wise, pickings were slimmer in March, but we got to see Marley & Me (we won't spoil the ending for you), Lesbian Vampire Killers (still a great title, shame about the movie) and Knowing, which turned out to be both more - and less - than we expected.

In brighter movie news, based-on-truth prison drama Bronson proved movies could still shock, and made us ponder 7 Strange Ways To Survive The Slammer.

And there was more news to come - we got new plot details for the Tron sequel, Kevin Smith got hold of A Couple Of Dicks (easy, it's a cop comedy), Megan fox (mmm... Megan Fox) became attached to nerd boy dream role Fathom, Zack Snyder started work on his Watchmen follow up Sucker Punch and George Miller hyped up the return of Mad Max (as Mel-free anime).

Meanwhile, Joss Whedon and Cloverfield's Drew Goddard sent some young actors into the Cabin In The Woods, we got the first look at Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, and a fresh glimpse of chiseld Jake Gyllenhaal as the Prince Of Persia.

More on the rumour side were whispers of Danny Boyle spinning Slumdog success into a job directing Bond 23 (he's not doing it, at least not yet, so we suggested other ideas) and the Fantastic Four reboot (it didn't stop us offering up casting ideas).

Oh, and Robert Rodriguez? Stop teasing with Sin City 2 talk? KTHX.

March wrapped with us looking at the 20 Worst Movie CGI Moments, learning that the Terminator Salvation ending had been changed, and scoring some amazing new pics from the film.

Sean Penn, Jim Carrey and Benicio Del Toro signed on as the Three Stooges for the Farrelly bros (Penn's since dropped out), and Paramount, confident in Star Trek's future success, gave the go-ahead for a sequel script to be started.

Next: April


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    • Ali1748

      Dec 4th 2009, 21:21

      Star Trek Is My Favorite movie of the year.

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