Coming Soon 9/2/11

Surprisingly not too many big name movies coming out this week.  But there are two that are getting a good amount of buzz.  Let's take a look and see if there's anything to them. 

Apollo 18

The lost footage of the last manned mission to the Moon and what they found there... and why we enver went back again.

The Good:  ?  It's in English?

The Bad:  Everything.  It's the Blair Witch Project in space with aliens. 

Final Thoughts:  On the surface this should be a movie I like.  It's shot in the same style as Paranormal Activity which I loved and it's generally the same kind of story.  Here's the problem!  These lost footage movies rely heavily on credibility.  (I should do my next editorial on "Lost Footage Movies")  Just think back to middle school history class and you know already that there wasn't an Apollo 18 mission.  So there's already a problem with the suspension of disbelief.  Also, the trailers don't really give a feeling that the acting will be any good.  And it raises a lot of historical problems.  I mean we know who was scheduled to be on Apollo 18 before it was scrapped.  How do you address that?  You know they are still alive right?  In the end this movie doesn't have the credibility needed to have the same effect as movies like Paranormal Activity, Blair Witch Project, or even Cloverfield.  Expect something more silly like Quarantine.  Wait for rental.

Shark Night 3D

Students go up to a lake and have a wild time at a lake house.  But there are sharks in the water.

The Good:  Should be dumb, hokey, B movie schlock.  A plot that can't possibly be taken seriously so it should be fun to watch a movie that is intentionally bad.

The Bad:  It looks too good.  I know a weird criticism but the shark looks very real and I'm worried that instead of playing it up for laughs, they are trying to go too serious with it and trying to rival movies like Jaws.

Final Thoughts:  I'm looking forward to seeing this one.  But I'm trying to contain that excitement.  The trailer is a bipolar.  The first half it looks like a summer sex romp movie but then the sharks attack.  The way I see it, this movie could be either one of two extremes: either it's going to be a B movie schlock fest like Piranas 3D or it's going to be embarrassing like Jaws 3 (Jaws 3D).  Cautious optimism?

see you at the movies.