Top movies of 2012

eeriepadave

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

Pap

To Rome with Love

musicismylife78

moonrise kingdom was the best film of the year.

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

mookeywrench

Good & Would Watch Again:
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

peacefrompaul

I've only seen The Man With The Iron Fists this year

I guess I saw The Hobbit too

B-Rock

Me and my mates sneak in to the cinemas every monday night (sometimes pay as its cheap monday night) so I've seen quite a bit.

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.

djklambake

Movies I enjoyed...

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

Pap

Fat Kid Rules the World

81

Django
Skyfall
Jack Reacher
Hunger Games
Avengers
Argo
Dark Knight
Looper
The Raven
Ted
Resident Evil Retribution
Cabin in the woods

dankind

I didn't get to see many, but Moonrise Kingdom was a great film (one of the best I've seen in a long time), The Dark Knight Rises was the only Nolan/Bale Batman that I liked (and I like it very much), and The Avengers was fun.

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.

davidtrios

brilliant year for movies:

flight
the intouchables
cloud atlas
zero dark thirty
life of pi
silver linings
hunger games

F Me In The Brain

Wow I guess I didn't see movies enough this year! I think this is all of them, although there are a shit ton I want to see and have not made time yet.

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

polaris_x

being away the last few weeks - there are a few films i'd like to see that might make this list (django)

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 ...

Digital Twilight

Moonrise Kingdom
Beasts of the Southern Wild
The Dark Knight
Ted

davidtrios

polaris_x wrote:

being away the last few weeks - there are a few films i'd like to see that might make this list (django)

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 ...

really liked best exotic marigold hotel..what a cast!

Pap

dankind wrote:

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.

That's true.

PHATJ

Loved Moonrise Kingdom and Django Unchained.

STAYSEA

B-Rock wrote:

Me and my mates sneak in to the cinemas every monday night (sometimes pay as its cheap monday night) so I've seen quite a bit.

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.

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.

BinauralJam

Didnt see that many this year, but Les Mis was pretty Epic.

DURP

mookeywrench wrote:

Wanted To See But Never Got Around To It:
Bernie
Jeff Who Lives At home

Don't bother they both came up very short and ended up being a waste of time.

81

did anybody see killing them softly? we were going to double dip it on christmas, but it was pulled just before then.

i thought it looked good, but it was given mediocre reviews.

STAYSEA

81 wrote:

did anybody see killing them softly? we were going to double dip it on christmas, but it was pulled just before then.

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:

81

STAYSEA wrote:

81 wrote:

did anybody see killing them softly? we were going to double dip it on christmas, but it was pulled just before then.

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

wpg pearl

huh? its an average movie at best.the way you describe it i wonder if we watched the same movie? lol

Jason P

The Expendables 2
21 Jump Street

Those were the only two I saw.

musicismylife78

81 wrote:

did anybody see killing them softly? we were going to double dip it on christmas, but it was pulled just before then.

i thought it looked good, but it was given mediocre reviews.

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.

81

musicismylife78 wrote:

81 wrote:

did anybody see killing them softly? we were going to double dip it on christmas, but it was pulled just before then.

i thought it looked good, but it was given mediocre reviews.

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

musicismylife78

i actually really liked Jeff Who lives at home. That character is essentially me, and i completely related to the film. Plus any film directed by the Duplass brothers is going to be awesome. Ive seen pretty much every single film they've been part of, and liked nearly every single one. Only one i didnt love was Cyrus.

musicismylife78

Pap wrote:

dankind wrote:

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.

That's true.

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.

Pap

Anna Karenina

dankind

musicismylife78 wrote:

Pap wrote:

dankind wrote:

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.

That's true.

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!