Wide-reaching appeal
By Rama Gaind
Here are some new films which should appeal to a wider cross-section of audience and a variety of tastes.
Twilight: New Moon: A teen soap opera with enhanced cinematography which has been ambitiously taken on by director Chris Weitz. It has also been liberally sprinkled with a lavish score.
Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) is keen for an eternal connection with her century-plus vampire lover, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattison), who has a strange attraction with his sparkly, milk-white complexion and sculpted cheekbones.
The film, which remains true to the book, copes with absence of the lead for a short time, but one of the strong points is the characterisation of Bella. She displays an appealing vulnerability through the pain of teenage yearning.
A handsome barrier comes in the form of werewolves as Bella grows closer to an old native American friend, Jacob (Taylor Lautner).
Watch out for vampire cameo appearances from Dakota Fanning and Michael Sheen.
2012: December 12, 2012 is said to be the doomsday date.
Director Roland Emmerich is a disaster movie expert who has destroyed cities and continents. Through his remake of ‘Godzilla’ he had ravaged New York and the world’s capitals were blasted with the help of an alien invasion in ‘Independence Day’. When he produced and directed ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, he froze this planet under sheets of ice.
Global destruction on the big screen now just doesn’t attack cities or mankind, but reconfigurates the planet.
Based on the myth of the Mayan calendar’s 2012 prediction sees the end of the world.
The Boys are Back: As a single father to two boys, journalist Joe (Clive Owen) tackling touchy issues with understandable sincerity.
Scott Hicks gives us a plausibly moving and funny film.
