Top movies of 2012
eeriepadave
West Chester, PA Posts: 42,443
well what are yours? Here are my top 20. I saw about 45 
:oops:
1. The Avengers
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Raid: The Redemption
4. Dark Knight Rises
5. Argo
6. Looper
7. Skyfall
8. Moonrise Kingdom
9. Life Of Pi
10. Flight
11. Cabin in The Woods
12. Wreck It Ralph
13. Lincoln
14. Frankenweenie
15. Django Unchained
16. Ted
17. Paranorman
18. The Hobbit
19. The Hunger Games
20. The Amazing Spider-Man
most overrated: End Of Watch
worst films: Project X and The Campaign
:oops:1. The Avengers
2. Silver Linings Playbook
3. Raid: The Redemption
4. Dark Knight Rises
5. Argo
6. Looper
7. Skyfall
8. Moonrise Kingdom
9. Life Of Pi
10. Flight
11. Cabin in The Woods
12. Wreck It Ralph
13. Lincoln
14. Frankenweenie
15. Django Unchained
16. Ted
17. Paranorman
18. The Hobbit
19. The Hunger Games
20. The Amazing Spider-Man
most overrated: End Of Watch
worst films: Project X and The Campaign
8/28/98- Camden, NJ
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
10/31/09- Philly
5/21/10- NYC
9/2/12- Philly, PA
7/19/13- Wrigley
10/19/13- Brooklyn, NY
10/21/13- Philly, PA
10/22/13- Philly, PA
10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
4/28/16- Philly, PA
4/29/16- Philly, PA
5/1/16- NYC
5/2/16- NYC
9/2/18- Boston, MA
9/4/18- Boston, MA
9/14/22- Camden, NJ
9/7/24- Philly, PA
9/9/24- Philly, PA
Tres Mts.- 3/23/11- Philly. PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
Eddie Vedder- 6/25/11- Philly, PA
RNDM- 3/9/16- Philly, PA
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Things i liked
lincoln
life of pi
amour
rust and bone
liberal arts
The Master
the sessions
jeff who lives at home
sound of my voice
safety not guaranteed
your sisters sister
ruby sparks
perks of being a wallflower
holy motors
cloud atlas
this is 40
les mis
on the road
best actor: DDL, close second Joaquin Pheonix, third John Hawkes-sessions
Best actress: anne hathaway
5 Year Engagement
Moonrise Kingdom
Good, but once was enough:
Lincoln
Dark Knight Rises
Django
Skyfall
Disappointment:
Looper - Started off as a great action/crime movie, but once they got on that farm it took too heavy of a sci-fi turn.
Wanted To See But Never Got Around To It:
Bernie
Jeff Who Lives At home
The Master
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
I guess I saw The Hobbit too
Top 5
The Hobbit
Seven Psychopaths
The Avengers
Looper
Dredd
Honourable Mentions
Argo (Was in my top 5 originally)
Prometheus
21 Jump Street
Wreck It Ralph
Skyfall
Cabin In The Woods
Men In Black 3
Ted
The Man With THe Iron Fist
The Grey
The Watch
Worst Movies
Gone
Red Dawn
Amazing Spiderman
Savages
and sadly Dark Knight Rises was a mess. Should of been a 2 parter and less pretentious.
The Avengers (!!!)
Django Unchained
The Grey
Haywire
Looper
Argo
Wreck It Ralph
Movies I was ok with but expected a lot more from...
The Dark Knight Rises
Ted
Amazing Spider Man
Moonrise Kingdom
The Hunger Games
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Brave
Movie I had to put up with because my kids wanted to see it...
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Movies I heard a lot about but didn't see...
Lincoln
Skyfall
The Hobbit
The Silver Linings Playbook
Flight
Life of Pi
End of Watch
Movies I heard a lot about but won't see...
Les Miserables
Frankenweenie
Paranorman
Magic Mike
Movie I downright loathed...
The Campaign
6/29/06 - Milwaukee, WI
9/25/11 - Vancouver, BC
11/4/12 - (Eddie Vedder) Phoenix, AZ
11/1/13 - New Orleans, LA
11/19/13 - Phoenix, AZ
11/21/13 - San Diego, CA
10/12/14 - Austin, TX
10/22/14 - Denver, CO
8/22/16 - Chicago, IL (Wrigley 2)
5/9/22 - Glendale, AZ
5/18/24 - Las Vegas, NV
Skyfall
Jack Reacher
Hunger Games
Avengers
Argo
Dark Knight
Looper
The Raven
Ted
Resident Evil Retribution
Cabin in the woods
To Rome With Love was decent enough, probably better than most of the crap playing at the multiplexes, but Woody Allen has the misfortune of being judged against his previous work, and in that respect, this one was a stinker.
flight
the intouchables
cloud atlas
zero dark thirty
life of pi
silver linings
hunger games
The best of the lot:
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Avengers
Dark Knight Rises
Enjoyed These:
Wreck It Ralph
Hobbit
Safe House
John Carter
Ted
Basic Garbage Fare, won't ever watch again:
Amazing Spider Man
Hunger Games
Contraband
Trouble With The Curve
Give me my two hours back!:
Friends With Kids
The Dictator
Red Tails
my favourites this year in no particular order (not including documentaries):
cloud atlas
moonrise kingdom
silver linings playbook
beasts of the southern wild
best exotic marigold hotel
my absolute worst film of the year:
man with the iron fists ...
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Dark Knight
Ted
really liked best exotic marigold hotel..what a cast!
That's true.
Seven Psychopaths was my favorite. I wish it would have stayed in the theaters longer.
I will definitely need to buy when it's released.
Don't bother they both came up very short and ended up being a waste of time.
i thought it looked good, but it was given mediocre reviews.
It was horrifically violent, bloody and full of gore. I give it 4 out of 5. :corn:
hopefully it will be on hbo or cinimax shortly
21 Jump Street
Those were the only two I saw.
shown at cannes, and a brad pitt film. for me, i see those types of films based on those 2 facts alone. I thought it was a good movie. Not for the faint of heart. Brad Pitt and the director were grilled during cannes about the violence, and brad and the director seemed okay with it. They suggested the violence was cartoony, and deliberately fake looking. I also think violence was essential in the story and theme they were making
I thought this movie was essentially what Zero should have been. There were larger political points made throughout the movie. To me, the theme of the movie was that america is built on crime and it drives the economy. The use of obama and bush in the background in the cafe and bar scenes really hit home that point. And its a point i make often. Its ludicruous that people tell children to be nonviolent, and then the president lobs bombs and drones and tortures people. Kids pick up on that, and in my view its why alot of crime is committed, and although it isnt okay to do that stuff, im a pacifist myself and vehemently antiwar and violence, but as a sociologist, i see a connection between the outrageous nature of the news, and whats going on in families, what the president is doing, and the culture at large.
The point was subtle but brilliant. Having some violent scene, then having Bush or Obama talking about violence and war in the background on some tv, really was ingenious.
damn it, i hate political shit in movies....absolutely ruined machete for me.
i'll defiantly be keeping an eye for this tho....sounds like real folks generally like it
whats funny is Midnight in Paris was one of the best films of 2011 and i think will fit in nicely with the many classics he's made.
Absolutely. When you are as productive as Woody Allen is (basically, a film a year) and have made some of best films of the past 50 years, some of them are not going to stand up to your previous work, epecially when the last film you made was a masterpiece such as Midnight in Paris. (Vonnegut wrote some stinkers when measured against his other books, but they were still great reads.)
Like I said, I think To Rome With Love was probably better than most of the films that came out this year, and I enjoyed it as much as any other movie I saw this year, with the exception of Moonrise Kingdom, which really got to me.
Woody Allen is far from obsolete, as recent films such as Midnight in Paris, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Match Point prove, and he's 77 years old!
When Blue Jasmine is released, you can bet I'll be seeing it on opening weekend.
Long live the Woodman!