Most Anticipated Movie of 2012

Posted by Vinnie Leduc on January 17, 2012

The Amazing Spider-Man
The Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
John Carter
Prometheus
The Raid
Skyfall
Snow White and the Huntsman
Total Recall

2011 wasn’t a great year for cinema. But looking ahead to 2012 and possibly the end of humankind, let’s hope Hollywood goes out with a bang! And let’s hope December 21, 2012, doesn’t really usher in the apocalypse; otherwise, we’ll miss Quentin Tarantino’s next film, Django Unchained, which features an incredible ensemble cast and is due for release on Christmas. Speaking of JC, Disney is launching the $250 million behemoth known as John Carter, based on a highly influential sci-fi series that began exactly a century ago. And speaking of sci-fi, we’ll see a potential prequel to the classic Alien as Ridley Scott revisits the universe with Prometheus, and we’ll see another classic remade when Total Recall will try to open… your miiiiiiiiiiiiind.

Foreign film The Raid looks to take martial arts and action to another level of frenetic intensity, and there’s already talk of an American remake. James Bond returns in Skyfall, which is armed with Oscar-winner Sam Mendes as the director and Oscar winner Javier Bardem as the villain. Snow White and the Huntsman looks to cast off any of your Disney memories of singing dwarfs and cheery animals.

Not surprisingly, 2012 will also spotlight a handful of much anticipated superhero movies. The Amazing Spider-Man reboots the Marvel franchise with The Social Network‘s Andrew Garfield as the web-slinger. Marvel’s other major film, The Avengers, unites many of the superheroes from its films of the last decade in a star-studded blockbuster. However, it’s rival DC Comics’ The Dark Knight Rises that has caught our attention for most of the year. With some stellar additions to the cast and a monster marketing campaign that’s teasingly stoked the fire, we can’t wait to see how Christopher Nolan concludes his legendary epic trilogy. Just please fix Bane’s voice. Winner: The Dark Knight Rises.

Honorable Mentions: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, American Reunion, Battleship, Chronicle, The Dictator, The Grey, Men in Black 3, Project X, Taken 2, Underworld: Awakening

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http://twitter.com/amirk Amir F. Karimuddin

apparently the most successful movie this year (to date) is The Hunger Games and it’s not on your list. Looking forward for The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises as two of the most anticipated movies of the year
- http://moviestinger.com Vinnie Leduc
  
  Paul will take the fall for pushing for box office flop John Carter, a movie I was definitely not looking fwd to, right, Paul? =P But none of us saw The Hunger Games blowing up or were looking fwd to it. Maybe cuz we’re not ages 12-17?
- http://MovieStinger.com Paul Curtin
  
  Haha the award isn’t “Most Likely To Preform Best at 2012′s Box Office,” it’s for which movies WE were looking most forward to seeing in 2012. It was obvious The Hunger Games was going to blow up based on all the hype it was getting and fanbase it had already built up with the books just like Harry Potter and Twilight. But even with its success, I personally still could care less about it because all it looks like to me is a more serious kids version of crappy movies like The Condemned or Death Race. The only good part of either of those two movies was the violence that Hunger Games shys away from to get a PG-13 rating so it can make more at the box office. And John Carter was a great action flick, really could care less about what tweens who read a more recent book would rather see.