For many avid movie goers, the fall film season is a welcome sight. It signals the end of a season of tired, over produced and over replicated movies which serve to stun the senses into thinking they are being entertained. No doubt the summer holiday movies are so visually awing and sonically thundering that visitors of the cinema leave shocked into a state of mind-numbed, zombie-esque reality. This cannot be ideal for driving home.
Summer Movies
The summer of 2009, for all its action packed thrill, involved very little original material to take home and ponder. It was the summer of science fiction reruns. Star-Trek, X-Men, and the Terminator series each added new instalments to their tired, but ever-popular collections. And even The Fast and the Furious decided to make one more go of it, this time actually incorporating actors from the original movie.
On the comedy front, the outlook was just as bleak. Year One, Bruno, and another Night at the Museum had awkward laughs turn to uncomfortable chuckles become unimpressed sighs ending in the sound it makes when a straw is searching for the last pebbles of cola at the bottom of a paper cup in a quiet theatre.
Enter the realm of digital animation. Again, a trilogy was formed with the release of Ice Age 3, while G-Force and Up were the other additions to what will always be a booming market of child entertainment. And who can argue with a happy, laughing, smiling child.
Fall Movies
For those craving clever dialogue and the chance to contemplate and anticipate, and craving thought out humour and realistic action, the fall movie season has it. In fact, this fall’s movie season has something for everyone to take full advantage of the movie going experience.
The Informant, The Truth About Lying, and Men Who Stare at Goats stand out as the front runners for potentially enlightening and engaging entertainment. These are films coveting big reliable names of writers, producers, directors and actors. They are all but guaranteed to satisfy and should be at the top of the list for anyone looking for a babysitter and a night out.
Beyond that, it seems almost every other genre of cinema is available at hand. Romance and Romantic Comedies represented with a typecast but sure to deliver Jennifer Aniston in Love Happens and Vince Vaughn in Couples Retreat. The anything-vampire-can-do-no-worng a phenomenon continues with the sequel to the cult hit Twilight, New Moon. But it is all brought back to fun and games with Woody Harrelson throwing out magnificent catch phrases like “Nut up or Shut up” in Zombieland.
For the kid in all of us, Spike Jonze takes an endearing and imaginative adventure in his realization of the Maurice Sendak children’s book Where the Wild Things Are.
And as for real, good, story, acting, drama, and all manner of cinema, look toward Amelia, the story of Amelia Earhart. As well, the long awaited adaptation of Cormack McCarthy’s The Road. Top it all off with a musical Nine featuring the incredible talent of Daniel Day Lewis.
Throw in some Halloween horror and what’s sure to be a great Jim Carrey performance and performance and performance...as multiple roles in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, alongside the ‘in lieu of’ Michael Jackson concert finale, the film This is It. This fall’s movie season something to partake in whatever your flavour.
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