20 Most Hotly Anticipated Movie Scenes Of 2018
And then Thanos clicked...
2018 is already shaping up to be one of the most exciting years on record for fans of blockbuster movies. Buoyed by franchise, reboot and adaptational successes in the past few years, studios are rushing to force feed us all as many popcorn friendly movies as they can possibly get made at great expense.
Judging by the precedent set by the past two years (and countless before that, in fact), there's no way that all of the most expensive movies on the slate will be successful (at least not both critically AND financially anyway), but there are some that will definitely deliver on the hype. We have three more MCU movies to take in, the most exciting stand-alone DCEU flick, new Star Wars, Jurassic Park and lots of Disney and there should be enough there to satsify even the most cynical of cinephiles.
And even more specifically, there's a fairly good indication - whether from set leaks, official marketing or simple clever deduction - of what some of the best moments and individual scenes are going to be within those films. In short, there's already reason to be excited about some of the biggest films of the year for very specific reasons...
20. Michael Returns - Halloween
In the expert opinion - or at least the best intentions - of John Carpenter, David Gordon Green's Halloween reboot is going to be the scariest ever, as part of a celebration of it being the franchise's tenth sequel. That might be a slightly contradictory celebration, given that the film will ignore all of the other sequels, but there we are.
There's not a lot the film needs to do to be better than most of those sequels, but aiming to deliver on Carpenter's claim would be a very good start. And in the absence of ghosts and ghouls, it will depend fundamentally on building up the mythology of Michael Myers again and making sure the rules of his monster movie like presentation are kept to.
In that respect, the first pay-off of him reappearing is going to be a massive deal for fans - not least because of the sense of occasion, but also because it will hopefully come after a smart, slow-build that goes heavy on atmosphere and genuinely chills. Here's hoping.