With 2012 ticking quickly away and the clock marching on towards the no-doubt superstition-filled advent of 2013, we’ve been looking back at the best bits of 2012, compiling the best films, the most disappointing films and the best examples of people taking their clothes off throughout the year, but now it’s time to look forward to next year for a moment, and the ones beyond.
With the New Year chiming in but a few short hours, Hollywood has a chance to make some resolutions, and get its house in order a little. This one time a year opportunity provides a chance for the sins of the past to be used to inform the decisions of the future, and by God have their been some sins this year.
So here we have it, the 10 New Year’s Resolutions Hollywood must make come the strike of midnight tonight…
1. Have The Balls Not To Reboot Batman
I’ve already spoken at length about how crazy Warner Bros would be to reboot the Batman property, given how much potential there is to continue it even without the active influence of Christopher Nolan, and the sentiment remains the same even after the dust has settled on The Dark Knight Rises.
There is no need to press reset on the property – there are enough villains to furnish further films on the same thread, including the Joker who we apparently all simply expected to believe vanished into thin air, and the suggestion that Blake was to take over the mantle as Batman offers enough potential for the next film. And as much as Nolan fans were happy with his ending to Bruce Wayne’s character arc, there were enough Batman fans left disgruntled to make a fourth film in this strand a good idea.
Come to think of it, stop rebooting superhero stories full-stop. We all know the origins of the major players from the comic book world, and being endlessly fed the same material cut in a slightly different way is just demoralising.
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3 Comments
An end to 3D? Come on. I agree with a lot of your points, but 3D needs to improve, not dropped completely.
Sorry mate but i think you’re gonna be disapointed by Hollywood.
There’s no way on earth that they will stop making 3D movies, Batman films (guarantee there’s a couple of scripts or at least plot outlines locked in a safe somewhere) or Twilight movies as they all make too much money from them and that’s all the film companies are interested in.
Trilogies will continue to be made and I’m personally in favour of it, for example for The Hobbit to be made as 1 film then it would either be 8 hours long or have so much cut out that the plot would be unfollowable or the owners of the origional work would never sign off on the deal.
Finally Mila Kunis…. SHE’S NOT THE SEXIEXT WOMAN ALIVE…. did you not see the recent pictures of her without makeup? She looked dog rough, check the link if you don’t believe me.
Nice article Simon. I like being able to investigate further into each point by articles from 2012.
No mention of The Avengers or Amazing Spider-Man?
I think the resolution for The Avengers is that shared cinematic universe can pay off in a big way. We will be seeing a lot more of these in future.
The resolution for Amazing Spider-Man is that a reboot too soon will not be well received, even if it is done well.
I still have hope for Eddie Murphy. He was fantastic in Trading Places and Beverley Hills Cop, and incredibly likeable in Coming to America. He could find that again.