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The list of the most anticipated comedies here, fantasy films here, Finnish movies here and science fiction movies here.

While Scifi geeks have fun with loads of interesting films coming up in 2012, the low-brow, I-want-to-see-things-explode -audience and the superhero fans have it a bit dry. Yes, there’s new Batman – and it looks cool, I have to admit – but other than that, it feels like an in-between year for the good old blowing-shit-up. I picked the following films not because I’m overtly enthusiastic about them, but because there wasn’t much to choose from.

Directed by Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception)

Wanna guess the most pirated film of all time? The Dark Knight Rises will snatch that title in a heartbeat. Will it be a good conclusion to Bale-starred, Nolan-directed Batmans? Sure it will. Will it be interesting, or fresh, or something radical? Absolutely not. I’m expecting The Dark Knight Rises to wrap up what Nolan started with excellent Batman Begins, and followed with mediocre The Dark Knight. I’m expecting to see a lot of money being blown in the air and Christian Bale (over)doing “the agony of being Batman” like never before, and I expect to be entertained, but I’m not expecting to walk out of the theater feeling like a new man.

And that’s just fine. Bring it on. I’m ready. I don’t care.

Directed by David Koepp (Ghost Town)

A dream for every fixie hipster in New York, Premium Rush is a story about a bicycle messenger who picks up an envelope from Columbia University, and gets chased down by a dirty cop who’s desperate to get the delivery.

The film is all about bicycling as fast as possible among the New York traffic, and at least according to the trailer, they’ve really grasped the life-threatening feeling of traffic-cycling on tape. So much that the main actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt almost got killed during the shooting: he smashed in the back of a taxi and took a good swan dive into the windscreen.

The film sounds like loads of fun, and David Koepp is a great writer and a his film Ghost Town made a big impression on me few years back. One tip, though. Don’t watch the trailer more than 5 seconds. It’s one of those “let’s scan through the story of the film so there’s no reason to go see it anymore” -trailers…

Directed by Simon West

First installation of The Expendables wasn’t anything to write home about, although I was expecting a lot of the film. My mistake. I wanted to see 80′s action with humor, self-irony and great action scenes, but I got nothing but a boring, noisy mess of a film that took itself way too seriously. The only thing that redeemed The Expendables was Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s appearance. And that’s going to be the only reason I’m walking back to theaters with part 2 as well, eagerly paying whatever they are asking for it. It’s Arnold, for God’s sake, and a bunch of old farts.

Directed by Joel Carnahan (The A-team, Smokin’ Aces)

Directed by Joel Carnahan, The Grey is a Liam Neeson -film about a bunch of plane crash survivors fighting a pack of wolves in Alaska. There seems to be nice, gray, gritty look and feel on the film, ruthless survival action and well, a bunch of wolves, with which I hope don’t follow the “we-have-to-do-wolves-otherwise-we-don’t-exist” -trend which was so popular in the beginning of 2000′s and resulted some of the worst CG creatures in recent history (See: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Day After Tomorrow)

Directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition)
There’s absolutely nothing interesting or edgy about the new James Bond -movie. Trust me: nothing. Everything about the film smells like well-made but rather boring – only remarkable thing is that Sam Mendes is directing, and we know him being a good and innovative director. But no matter how I look at Skyfall, it’s just another Bond-movie. It’s the same ballet we’ve seen a million times before; Bond falling for a bunch of hot chicks, having trouble with his superiors, a charismatic villain and a lot of explosions. Only this time it’s probably more about the drama and less on the action. Hopefully better than Quantum of Solace, but never going to rise to the excellency of Casino Royale.

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