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Cinema Basement's Most Anticipated Films of 2020

Last year my most anticipated film of the year turned out to be the aggressively mediocre Brightburn so these are rolls of the dice. You never know what's going to be good or bad until you spend the two or so hours watching it. A lot of films I was looking forward to last year turned out to be either mediocre like Brightburn or just flat out awful like Midsommer. You just never know. But here each of us will pick one film we are excited for and give our reasons why. Come back after all four have come out and see who picked the best one. Trailers for each film will be linked below each section.

Brooks
As a huge Bond fan I should be excited for No Time To Die. While I am happy to see a new Bond film this year, I have worries with the news that they brought in Phoebe Waller-Bridge from Fleabag to add humor to the film and that Hans Zimmer is rescoring the film at the zero hour. So I have no huge excitement for No Time To Die. But the trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife has me excited, as much as I would not like to admit it. Ghostbusters is my favorite comedy of all time and I thought the 2016 remake was dreadful. But this new trailer has my stoked. It gives me feelings of an Amblin film and I like having Egon's grandchildren as the main characters. Of course it could not work at all so it's wait and see but man is it the film I'm most looking toward to right now.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahZFCF--uRY






































Forrest
There were several films I wanted to pick for this: “Murder on the Nile” and “Halloween Kills” were strong contenders, but when I was honest myself, this had to be my pick. I was a huge fan of Gal Gadot's debut film as the most famous woman in fiction, and my only big problem with the first film was that Ares was not a great antagonist. Hopefully Pedro Pascal's Maxwell Lord and Kristen Wiig's Cheetah can step up to the plate and compliment the surprising chemistry between Gal Gadot and Chris Pine from the previous film to give us a strong central cast. Add in the beautifully colorful visuals and what sounds like an awesome 80's synth soundtrack with the same upbeat tone of the previous film, and you get the recipe for my most anticipated film of 2020: “Wonder Woman 1984”. Oh and of course, before I go, obligatory mention of how badass the golden eagle armor is, because good lord it looks cool. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfM7_JLk-84

Azzam
I almost didn’t have something for this. In our group communications about this write up I was going to say how defeating cinema feels today. How it is just franchise after franchise, sequel after sequel and god damnit am I tired of seeing content I was once excited for feel like a punishment. So when the first trailer to Birds of Prey dropped I thought, this is will likely be bad but it has something about it. Today, I watched trailer number 2 and felt like this is going to have not the energy of someone like James Gunn but of guys like Gregg Araki, John Cameron Mitchell and other colorful fun directors that the industry would never give a film like this too. The sets look wild, the shots look colorful, the acting seems like everyone is going for broke and maybe for the first time Gotham looks like a hellscape using LA as the backdrop for the city. I am sure some people will wonder why the guy who is done with superheroes is excited for this. Hollywood doesn’t make movies of self-discovery and recovery from abuse for women anymore especially ones that say its ok to feel broken, its ok to seek the help of other women and its ok to fight back that aren’t trying to win an Oscar and that will likely speak to a generation of teenagers and twenty something that need to hear it! So here is hoping I am not wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbd3fxtn2-U



Chris
For me, it has to be Tenet, Christopher Nolan’s next film. The mystery that surrounds each of his movies always lends itself to something truly unique, and I’m quite excited to see what kind of mind-bender he takes us on after the somewhat lackluster “Dunkirk”. Nolan is at his best when he's grounding the fantastical in reality, and Tenet looks to be no exception.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdOM0x0XDMo




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