Fall Movie Preview Spectacular! Part 1 – The Films of September

August 31, 2012 Jonathan R. Lack 1 Comment

Screen Shot 2012 08 29 at 9.32.40 PM 670x314 Fall Movie Preview Spectacular! Part 1 The Films of September

Having wrapped up our Summer 2012 film coverage with the End of Summer Movie Awards earlier this week, it is time to look forward to Fall and the rest of what 2012 has in store. This has been an extremely enjoyable year for cinema so far, but when one looks at the absolute mountain of titles the industry has coming over the next few months, one has to imagine studios have been saving the best for last.

There are so many films coming out through the end of the year, in fact, that we thought it would be a good idea to put together this handy, four-part guide to the films of the Fall. This preview, publishing throughout the week, is divided into four parts, each exploring one remaining month of the year. Today, we examine the films of September, with a guide to release dates, casts, story information, trailers, and my analysis of how each individual movie may stack up.

It’s our Fall Movie Preview Spectacular! Part 1. Enjoy…

Continue the Preview on the next page…

obloodyhell

So far:

The Master looks like a thinly veiled attack on the inception of Scientology. I’d be a lot more impressed if they actually did a movie about Scientology’s inception….

Arbitrage looks like a lame, trite, cliche’d potboiler. The only hope it has of rising above the dreck concept is if the actors in it pull off magnificent performances. Possible but unlikely.

Wallflower: Yeesh… save me from the senselessly obligatory gay character in anything like this. Need a third wheel for it? Less see, a nerd? No. A music geek (of any kind, not necessarily “band”) No. An artistic type that WASN’T gay? Naww… Why be original, and use any of a number of possible third wheel types… No let’s go with the GAY outlier… Especially one that has to be flamingly so. “Ezra Miller was fantastic”… so much so that his only way to play a gay teen is to be so obviously gay that he’s going to regularly get beat up for it? I mean, really? Seems to me that the fantastic way to play a gay person would be one that WASN’T obviously gay from 100 paces. Because THAT is a heck of a lot more like most gays than the ones who look like they’re getting tooled up for a career in the ballet.

Looper looks good. Dredd might surprise (though releasing either in September, the “dead zone” for movies, is a bad sign for the studio’s opinions of them both).