Sam Tremayne, award-winning writer and director loves watching films as much as he loves making them. We asked Sam to give us his 10 best movie moments for the year, and the answers were certainly surprising! you can see the first five selections here.
Here are Sam’s top five picks:
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5. Interstellar
Just released and probably still in the cinema, I wholeheartedly suggest you see it whilst still at the movies, in IMAX in Sydney if you can. It’s something that should be experienced on the largest screen possible with the loudest speakers possible.
The moment that makes this list however, and like with Gone Girl, I won’t spoil it, comes late in the film. What had me amazed was the brilliant reveal that wasn’t leaked on the Internet first… which is revealing in itself!
4. Super Sequels
Okay so by now we all have an understanding that sequels are commonplace in Hollywood now. What is memorable about this year is how many amazing sequels we were given to us; 22 Jump Street, Captain America – the Winter Soldier, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and even Inbetweeners 2… the list goes on.
On the other hand Hollywood still gets it very very wrong on occasion. Trans4mers and The Amazing Spiderman 2 are memorable this year for all the wrong reasons.
3. X-Men Days of Future Past – the Quiksilver scene
I guarantee you won’t like this movie as much the second time you see it. The story is cool, the setting is cool and Quiksilver, played by Evan Peters, is cool.
Director Bryan Singer shot a scene of Quiksilver taking out a group of guards that has to be seen to be believed. It is at 3600 frames per second (144 times faster than normal). It treats the audience to the spectacle of modern technology and how great filmmakers use it to their advantage.
2. Australian film’s glimmer of hope
The year’s most impressive movie moments came from local offerings.
Predestination is Australian (don’t let the accents fool you) and it is a better version of Looper. Son of a Gun is Australian (don’t let Ewen McGregor fool you) and it is a fresh take on the heist. Felony is Australian (don’t let the word Felony fool you) and it is a reminder that BlueTongue films is a staple of our film circuit and continues to impress abroad at helping us build a scene over here.
1.Godzilla trailer
That’s right, my most memorable moment in movies this year is a trailer.
When this trailer was released, it told us nothing of the story and yet it completely sold the film. All we as the audience see is chaos, followed by fear, then desperation, then death and then the shot of Godzilla. That’s it, yet it still resonates in my memory many months later as the best trailer of all time. Sure it was a terrible movie, but this trailer was a work of sheer genius.
Judging by the trailer for the next Avengers movie we will soon see a rise in the importance of an epic trailer to equal that of the epic film.
I’m looking at you, Star Wars. You can bet there will be whole lot more hitting theatres before Episode VII is released late in 2015.
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Here’s to a great year of film. See you in 2015!
