Although 2009 isn’t over, I’ve looked at the coming releases for the rest of the year and I don’t see anything I think I’d like. Things may change, and this article would be updated accordingly.
For this list, these are all movies I’ve seen in the theatre. I’ve seen more 2009 movies on DVD (and other sources– wink, wink), but I won’t include those here. This is only for the true experience of the cinema.
You’ll notice some of the “big” movies of 2009 are missing… Yeah, I won’t waste my time with rusty robots or aged comic book heros. Those franchises stray so far from the original premise that I have no connection with them anymore.
And without further adieu, the list.
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If you were born in the 1970s and grew up in the 1980s, you knew John Hughes. Even if you didn’t know him by name or by face, chances are pretty good you’ve seen one of his movies. To say John Hughes was responsible for some of the best movies of the 1980s is an understatement– Hughes was the quintessential visionary of a genre and responsible for the movies that shaped the direction of youth. John Hughes was to the 1980s what The Beatles were to the 1960s.
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I had the great pleasure of seeing Up in the theatre tonight. Well before the feature flickered it’s first scenes of animated brilliance, the audience of roughly 5 people, including me (hey, it was a late showing), were presented with a Pixar short film titled, “Partly Cloudy.” It set the tone for the rest of the night.
In “Partly Cloudy,” we see the process of how babies are born… just not the way you might imagine. We are talking storks and such. The process starts with the clouds, which create babies of all species, essentially from themselves, with cloud material. The storks then take the bundles down to their rightful recipients. The short has no dialog, just grunting, meowing, snorting, and a bunch of other cool noises.
The story focuses on one storm cloud, not bright white like the others. He seems to be sort of an outcast. Rather than make nice cuddly puppies, he’s making electric eels, crocodiles, and sharks. The poor stork who has to carry his creations to their eventual homes takes some exception to the lot. Eventually, the stork leaves him for another cloud, at which point the cloud gets angry and shows his anger with lighting and thunder. He then gets sad, and the cloud starts raining. It was all for not, as the stork simply went to another cloud to get a football helmut and some padding. The dark cloud gets happy again, and continues on with his purpose.
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