TMT's Stupid-Ass Predictions
Tue, January 4, 2011 
Only four days into 2011, and we at TMT were nerdy enough to think up some predictions. We're putting everything on the line here (which, of course, is nothing) and make our big bold assessments of what will go down in moviedom. Right or wrong (Knowing us, the latter), here are some of the never-so-humble correspondents (three Movie Moaners – Phil, Queen Kristina & Jamie) with their stupid ass predictions.
Phil: Cars 2 becomes the first Pixar film I give a 3 out of 5 rating. I promise I will be honest when the film comes out but this one just does not look substantial in any way. There appears to be no message here, no theme, no real story. It's a spy movie. With cars. I'm sure it will be fun but no more than a solid DreamWorks movie. And let's be honest, if the last trailer were for a film by any other studio than Pixar, we would be pissing all over it. Cars 2 will be passable. Quote me on this people.
Kristina: Inception won't win Best Picture, but it will win more Academy Awards than any other film come Oscar night. It's shaping up to be a "Share the Wealth" Oscar night, since there isn't a Return of the King behemoth this go around. The acting awards are going to get split up between films like Black Swan and The King's Speech, which leaves everything else open for Inception to take. Original Screenplay and Score are pretty much a foregone conclusion unless some major shenanigans occur, and it should clean up in the technical awards. Wally Pfister, Inception's cinematographer, is a favorite of the Academy, having been nominated three times the past for and could possibly win. I'm looking for a minimum of four wins.
Jamie: This guy will be a finalist for Zack Snyder's Superman.
Kristina: Sucker Punch will tank. Hard. Kick-Ass and Scott Pilgrim, here we come again, baby. I see no possibly of this crossing over into the mainstream. Geeks will adore it. General audiences will ignore it. Much fanboy weeping will be heard online as Jamie and I cackle in the corner at the continuing disconnect between us nerds and everyone else.
Phil: The "Best Comic Book Movie of the Summer" award will go to Captain America. Bear in mind that my opinion has changed on this several times. I used to think Thor was clearly going to be the superior film. Until I saw the footage. I used to think Green Lantern was in a great place because I love Martin Campbell as a director. Until I saw the footage. I refuse to believe X-Men: First Class will be worth a damn because I've been burned by 20th Century Fox before. The reason I'm starting to get really excited about Captain America is because we've not seen very much. The costume looks great. The director is solid. The Red Skull is Hugo friggin Weaving and the idea of a Marvel movie set entirely in WWII has me salivating - praying that it isn't just a two hour prequel to The Avengers. I just sense a confidence in this production that I don't see with the others. It just looks far more fun and has a better story. Cap is the last comic book movie event of the summer out of the gate and he will be the best. Quote me on this people.
Jamie: Ghostbusters 3. It's gonna happen. This time it won't be Dan Aykroyd or Harold Ramis talking to thin air for the trillionth time. No, Sony will finally greenlight it, and by this fall, if not the very end of 2011, cameras will roll twenty-two years after we last saw Peter, Ray, Egon and Winston. And we'll all sigh inside. I'm sorry, but I just can't muster up much enthusiasm. The best time to revisit this property would have been back around the end of the 1990s. But 80s nostalgia is still hot with sequels or reboots of our childhood favorites being churned out, and Ghostbusters is the last of the big ones untouched. Until now.
Reader Comments (2)
I don't know about Cap besting the other shitty line up of super hero movies for this year, but being that the bar clearly hasn't been set too high I would probably agree with Phil.
I LOVE ghostbusters, I just hope they don't ruin the mythology with a cash-grab 3D peice of shit in order to jump start a new franchise and trilogy that no one wants to see. I'll only be watching Ghostbusters films as long as the original cast remain and even then I'm hesitant.
Cars 2 will probably make enough that they'll regard it a success and greenlight a third installment. That doesn't mean it'll be good by any means, but I could see it happening.
Inception probably won't win best Oscar and Sucker Punch will almost definitely bomb, I agree.
Cars 2 will indeed be terrible.