2012

Just thinking about it makes my head hurt, not only are we paying billions of pounds for what will only be the most expensive farce in British history but we shall be subject to another Royal event when Her Majesty the Queen will celebrate 60 years as Britain’s monarch.

Also world pride 2012 will be coming to London for a two week long party, World Pride is a festival promoting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues on a global scale and is expected to attract over one million visitors from around the world.

Then just to add insult to injury the Mayans believe that on the 21 December 2012 the world as we know it will end.

To sum up we will have spent all our money on a couple of stadiums and a giant swimming pool and endured over half a century of England’s biggest tourist attraction, but at least we can all go out with a bang at the world’s biggest (and probably the most fun) party, starting 8pm at G.A.Y. invite not required, leather trousers optional.

All however is not doom and lube, there will be some exceptional movies coming to a cinema near you.

There is a long list of fantastic movies set for 2012 but let’s start with The Dark Knight Rises.

The third in the saga of the new Batman films starring probably one of the best actors to portray Batman, Christian Bale. I personally think the last film The Dark Knight with Heath Ledger playing the Joker; will be a hard one to beat. (Probably one of the best films of the decade) and with them adding the villain BANE played by Tom Hardy, to the mix (if anyone has seen Batman & Robin, hmmmm) I think that the film is destined to flo\p.

Bane is one of Batman's more physically and intellectually powerful foes. Born in a prison, serving his escaped father’s life sentence, Bane develops extraordinary skills. He reads as many books as he can get his hands on and builds up a reputation after killing several people, and establishes himself as the king of the prison. Bane is forced by the prison controllers to become a test subject for a mysterious drug called Venom which has killed every other test subject. Bane miraculously survives and the drug increases his physical strength, however he is forced to take the drug every 12 hrs pumped directly into his brain to prevent the side effects.

So being on a permanant steroid trip Bane becomes one of Batman’s strongest enemies.

Hopefully however the movie might be redeemed by Anne Hathaway who is set to be playing, fingers crossed, a very sexy Catwoman, and combined with the usual quality from Christian Bales version of Batman and the other permanent supporting characters it could turn out to be as big as the previous two blockbusters. I will reserve my judgment.

Now for all you 80s fans, here comes what I think could be a great sequel ….

Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters 3!

 WOW! I can’t wait, yeah ok I think it’s probably going to be a big fat cheese fest just as Scream 4 was, but who cares, I enjoyed it.

 There isn’t much detail out there about the film yet unless you want to watch some fan made trailers on YouTube, (yawn) but the basic story is that the original cast of Ghostbusters are back! (Yey) however it looks like they will be giving up their Proton packs and handing over the keys to that legendary Ectomobile to a new crew, I suppose this is room for making further sequels if this hits it off.

I know we look back on these films, knowing there is going to be a sequel over 20 yrs on and think OMG! Please noooooo! however (and I had to look this up) Ghostbusters 1, released in ’84 grossed approximately USD$240 million in the U.S. and over $50 million abroad during its theatrical run, more than the second Indiana Jones instalment, making it the most successful film in America that year and one of the most successful comedies of the 1980s. The American Film Institute ranked it 28th in its list of the top 100 comedies of all time.  Something you didn’t know (or expect)

Anyway we will have wait and see for this one as the release date is not until the end of the year for 2012. But here’s probably one of my favourite bits of the original. CLICK ME

Anyway last but by no means least, the one that I will be looking forward to the most and will be going to the cinema, most likely on my own, to see is the one, the only.

Thunder, Thunder, ThunderCats…. HOOOOOOO!

Yes guys and girls, mainly the guys, ThunderCats is coming to the big screen!

ThunderCats was a cartoon from the 80’s; yes ok I’m an 80’s fan, but who isn’t? The storyline consisted of a group of humanoid cats that must flee their planet of Thundera after it's destroyed. Once crash-landing on another planet, Third Earth, they must thwart Mumm-Ra, an evil sorcerer, bent on killing them off.

The original charecters consisted of Lion-O, Tygra, Panthro, and Cheetara and my favourite character Snarf “Snarf”

The cartoons were great and like the He-man series they always seemed to have a moral to the story which they described to the kids at the end of the show.  

The new film will consist of CGI graphics and is due to be released in 2012 however Warner Bros have had this on and off for the last four years now so I’m not very optimistic. There is however a new cartoon series which is aired on Cartoon Network this September, I’ve not seen it yet but I may have to relive my youth and blame it on my kid! (Of 7 months)

Anyway check out the link below, which really got me excited, and guys see if you can refrain from shouting along with the Sword of Omens chant at the end.

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