Have you ever had that feeling where you want something to come so badly that it actually makes that very thing that you are so looking forward to seem to creep forward to you that much more slowly? That is how i feel about the following movies, and while they may only be several months away, it seems like an eternity. Some of these movies i have been waiting years for, cough Dark Knight Rises cough, while others i have done research on and they seem like huge hits.
Without further adieu here is my movies i am dying to see in 2012, with trailer links so we can all enjoy said movies, and wish they were opening today.
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Dark Knight Rises
July 22
This is the proverbial eight hundred pound gorilla in the room, this is the big kahuna, the championship trophy, the well you understand my metaphors now. This is THE movie of 2012, in most peoples viewpoints. This movie in case you have been living under a rock for the last five or six years, is the third in the revamping of the Batman movie series. This movie starts about eight years after the events of the Dark Knight in which the Joker was captured, (poor Heath Ledger) and Harvey Dent aka Two Face was killed due to his own deeds. Batman and Gordon decided to cover it up and make Dent look like he died a hero, and Batman was the one who killed him. So now here we are eight years later Gotham has been hunting Batman for the last eight years. Now a threat looms large over Gotham the anarchist terrorist Bane, has made Gotham his hunting grounds and the people of Gotham are at his mercy, its up to Batman to save the day (again). Batman is once again played by Christian Bale, Police Chief Gordon by Gary Oldman, and his faithful butler Alfred is played by Michael Caine. New to the series is Catwoman played by Anne Hathaway (very meh on this casting ), Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing a detective and finally Tom Hardy playing Bane. While i think the new cast is spectacular i just dont know how they are going to top Health Ledger's performance in the Dark Knight as the Joker. I think that is the main question on most people's minds going into this movie, is how can they top the awesomeness that was the Dark Knight?
Enjoy trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gFwvozMHR4.
The Avengers
May 4
This is a movie literally years in the making. Marvel has assembled multiple heroes from their movies of recent years, into one giant superhero smashup. This movie has it all if you are into superheros,
We got Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Captain America (Chris Evans), Black Widow (Scarlett Johanson), Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) and finally Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury. WOW!
This movie is what you expect from all the heroes coming together, they have to join together, and fight off a threat bigger than any of them individually, expect lots of explosions and tons of CGI, this is the action movie of the summer no doubt about that. While i don't expect this movie to compete with the Dark Knight Rises in terms of critical acclaim i do expect it to be close to it in terms of overall money made. Both films i estimate will be at least 900 million worldwide, Dark Knight Rises i can see topping a billion dollars easily as its predecessor did.
Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9cuGZJ9DP0
The Amazing Spider-Man
July 4
This movie is taking the popular spider-man character from previous movies and making him more like the amazing spider-man from the comics. I think this is going to be the sleeper hit of the summer, a movie people will go into with mixed thoughts, thinking just another superhero movie. Just like X-men first class surprised us last summer, this is the one to watch out for this coming summer. With a great cast featuring Andrew Garfield (The Social Network), Emma Stone (superbad) and Rhys Ifans (The Informers). This movie takes spider-man back to his high school roots, in which he gets involved with a Gwen Stacy, and not a Mary Jane. He discovers his powers and must use them to defend against a monster of his own creation. Sounds like a great summer movie.
enjoy trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atCfTRMyjGU
Rock of Ages
June 15
Yes I know I honestly did not expect this one to be on this list either, but after watching multiple trailers for it and doing some research I have to admit I am excited for this movie. First of all it has one of my favorite actors in it, the always enjoyable Alec Baldwin. Secondly it has Tom Cruise played a rock legend and many many supporting stars that are getting together for this quasi-musical movie. This movie is going to be good on several levels, as a movie it has an interesting story, seeing Cruise play a rock legend will be entertaining to say the least. With this many big named and the kind of pedigree that the creative team has behind it (Chicago, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), this will definitely be a musical movie for the ages (excuse the pun).
Trailer follows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USxhXb5VC5E
Skyfall
November
Not a whole lot of information is known about Skyfall, other than in it Bond himself delves into M’s mysterious past and finds out if she is really who she says she is. The reason I am excited for it is because it’s a Bond movie with Daniel Craig. Casino Royale was my favorite bond movie ever made, and I like to pretend that the abysmal sequel Quantum of Solace never happened. I have very high hopes for Skyfall and hopefully it can redeem the piece of steaming crap that was Quantum and make the new rebooted era of James Bond movies, something to be held up in front of its predecessors and marveled at like Casino Royale was six years ago. Alas my friends, I do not have a trailer for this movie as there hasn’t been one released yet, but there should be in the next couple months, as soon as I hear of it coming out I will update this page. Now onto our next movie.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyDecember 14
This is the movie all lord of the rings nerds have been clamoring for since Frodo threw his ring into Mount Doom with a little aid from Gollum. This is a prequel to the lord of the rings novel series, in case you have been sheltered much of your life.
This movie is a part one of two parts, with the following part to release a year after. The First part for all you people who did not read the Hobbit in grade school, is about a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins ( shocker). Bilbo is greeted at his doorstep one day by the wizard Gandalf the grey and thirteen dwarves from the Lonely Mountain, which is an ancient dwarven kingdom far to the east.
The Dwarves and Gandalf propose to Bilbo that he journey with them to the Lonely Mountain and try and steal back the treasure that was taken from them and is now guarded by the great dragon Smaug.
I am really looking forward to this movie as it tells not only the tale of Bilbo and Gandalf more but it really starts the path towards the Lord of the Rings movies. Not to give too much of the movie away but Bilbo meets Gollum on his journey, deep within the misty mountains and finds there a ring that might be of some importance in the future….
Well here is the trailer for the hobbit part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0k3kHtyoqc
Well folks that is my list of the movies I am most looking forward to in the year 2012, I will add any the list if I see the need to thanks for reading and until the next post.
PS If you want to read more on me and Austin’s favorite types of media read the post top 10, it has our top 10 favorites of movies, television, games and music. Cheers!
#Justin
