10. Body of Lies - Ridley Scott directs Gladiator star Russell Crowe and popular Norman Lamont lookalike Leonard di Caprio in a CIA drama adapted from the novel by David Ignatius.
9. Star Trek XI - Taking place, in the increasingly complex Star Trek universe, during the period after ‘Enterprise’ but before ‘Star Trek’ this movie introduces new actors in the well-loved Kirk, Spock, Scott and McCoy roles as it explains how the classic crew came to be. If anyone can pull off that extraordinary feat of cinematic cheek it’s JJ Abrams.
8. Speed Racer - A hyperkinetic 1960s Japanese cartoon series provides the source material for the next sci-fi hallucination from Matrix creators the Wachowskis.
7. Hancock - Superhero comedies can be as knowingly funny as Mystery Men or as plain silly as Condorman. Hancocks’s secret weapon will be the perennially likeable Will Smith in the title role as a super-powered crime fighter who creates almost as many problems as he solves.
6. Sweeney Todd - Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Helena Bohnham Carter conspire in a dark plot of pies and hairdressing. Spectacular somgs from Steven Sondheim are the icing on a wonderful, sinister, cake.
5. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of th Crystal Skull - Transformers star Shia LaBeouf pops up as the son of the world’s hardest-working archeologist in what must surely be the final Indy adventure.
4. Iron Man - Next up from Marvel’s collection of flawed supermen is Tony Stark: Former arms dealer turned terrorist captive turned armoured avenger. To critics who suggest that movie fans aren’t ready for a moody alcoholic superhero Iron man has one response: Talk to the hand. The glowing metal hand.
3. Bond: Quantum of Solace - After a shooting schedule more secretive than the ageless super-spy, Bond 22's title has finally been revealed.It's not a title that offers too many clues as to the storyline, but it looks as if the adversary from Casino Royale, Mr. White, is going to be replaced by a no less sinister Mr.Greene. The suggestion that it continues almost immediately from the end of Casino Royale, and in much the same vein, is all the advertising most movie fans will need.
2. Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince - The vast regiment of Potter fans will already know what they’re getting. Despite Guillermo del Toro’s pleas this instalment of the boy wizard franchise will be directed by David Yates, who everyone except Guillermo seems to agree made a decent fist of Order of the Phoenix.
1. The Dark Knight - The hype machine is almost up to full speed now for The Caped Crusader’s next outing. Great notices for director Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and an irresistible trailer make The Bat the boy to beat in 2008.
After finding the top ten i researched each film on IMDB to find out what genre they fall into, each one fell into more than one genre so i used every category that they fell into to create this graph.
This has shown me the variety of genres there are out there and how popular each one is, thriller of which being one of the more popular genre. Action though was the highest ranking genre with 8 out of the ten films being this genre. The thriller genre was apparent in half of the top ten films of 2008 which shows it is a very popular genre and is in alot of films. The highest ranking film of 2008 though was The Dark Knight which is a thriller showing me that people love going to the cinema to get those thrills, and to be put on the edge of their seat, it was also an action film which shows that The Dark Knight is a film that consists of two of the most popular genres showing its set out to reach a large audience and tried to give them what the want from the cinema experience, and they have succeeded.
2 comments:
Well done. You have explored thoroughly audience expectations and looked into the difference between thriller sub-genre.
What sub-genre are you working in and how do you think your research is going to inform your production? mw
I'm not too sure what sub-genre my thriller is yet, especially as it keeps changing each lesson at the moment, but from the outlines of the plan thats been drawn up so far its turning out to be a psychological/crime thriller.
The majority of these top ten are not even close to the sub-genre i am using but it does help me to establish what does appeal to the larger audience.
the closest sub-genre to mine is The Dark Knight, there is both a psychological and a crime element to it due to the Joker character, this is a good signifier that this type of sub-genre is a success with todays audience.
From this, i think it would be a good idea to use The Dark Knight as one of my case studies where i can do a thorough analysis of the film and why its so appealing, successful and what aspects i can take from it to use in my thriller.
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