Top 10 Movies of the Year

[A Tasty Burgerr]

I wanted to crank this out before Dell and Buzzman make their superior lists, I'll just have a little blurb with each one.

Looking back I thinks this was overall the best year for movies in a really long time, tons of great movies all year.

 

[EmpireWF]

Was it as top heavy as the year with No Country for Old Men & There Will Be Blood?

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

Other Stuff

Movies I Missed That I Have a Feeling Could Have Made It
Holy Motors
Killer Joe
Let the Bullets Fly
Robot & Frank
Searching For Sugarman
The Imposter

Most Pleasantly Surprising Movie

Dredd
The biggest surprise of the year, and maybe the best movie ever made with "3D" in the official title. This is the kind of action movie I can stand behind. Over the top set pieces and action sequences with just the right touch of cheese in the dialogue. Its oo bad it bombed horrifically, I think a sequel with a bigger budget could have been fantastic.

Runner-Up: 21 Jump Street

Most Disappointing Movie

Prometheus
I was really excited when I got out of Prometheus and right away read about tons of symbols and metaphors from the director and fans that made the movie really deep and meaningful. Then I realized none of that shit was actually in the damn movie. It has some pretty mind blowing ideas but at its core it is a huge budget horror movie. There are tons of things to praise it for but it just couldn't bring it together like I hoped it could.

To be fair my expectations for it were way, way too high for a guy that hadn't made a sci-fi movie in 30 years.

Runner Up: The Dark Knight Rises

Worst Movie

Lockout
Guy Pearce doing his best at sounding bad ass spitting PG-13 one liners was literally the only redeeming quality. Amber Heard was so awful and annoying it offset her hotness completely.

Runner-Up: God Bless America

Best Worst Movie
The Man With the Iron Fists
Yeah it's awful. But its a kung fu movie with fat Russell Crowe written, directed, and starring someone in the WU TANG CLAN that ACTUALLY GOT MADE INTO A REAL MOVIE REALEASED IN REAL THEATERS. IN 2012! (!!!)

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

Was it as top heavy as the year with No Country for Old Men & There Will Be Blood?

Yeah I looked at 2007 as the only recent year being close with those, Hot Fuzz, The Orphanage, Zodiac, Assassination of Jesse James, American Gangster, etc. But for me this year ran 12-15 movies deep with really great stuff, and looking back in the past 10 years or so nothing comes too close to that many for me.

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

Honorable Mention Top 10


Dredd
see above

Argo
I thought the opening act of Argo with the mob of Iranians storming the U.S. Embassy was one of the best scenes of the year, probably the most thrilling sequence of any movie. When the absolute best part of a movie is the first 10 minutes though is that the rest of it had no chance of living up to it. Casting, costumes, performances were all great, but they were all held back by a pretty meh script imo. Anyone that knew the real life story had the ending spoiled as well.

Looper
This would maybe be my most disappointing movie, but it wasn't really the directors fault that Looper was marketed as a very different movie than it actually was. I was expecting an amazing flashy sci-fi thriller and I got a original, deliberately paced family drama. The premise was there, it just went in a completely different direction than I was expecting and I didn't enjoy it as much because of it.

It is a shame when I didn't think there was necessarily anything wrong with a movie but at the same time I can think of tons of ideas that would have made it much more memorable.

Skyfall
I've never seen a Bond movie that didn't have Daniel Craig so I felt weird putting Skyfall in my top 10. The intro chase was fun and Javier Bardem was a great villain. I wasn't completely sure about the decision to slow things down for the ending but it was at least an interesting change from the formula that I'm not

 

[Palooza]

Outside of potential like Zero Dark Thirty (haven't seen it yet), Django Unchained is the clear-cut best movie of2012. Only The Master and maybe The Avengers could be argued otherwise.

My top 10 so far
1. Django
2. The Master
3. The Avengers
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Looper
6. Killing Them Softly
7. Argo
8. Skyfall
9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
10. Killer Joe

 

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

Django Unchained
Skyfall
Argo
The Master
Avengers
The Dark Knight Rises

Dat be the Top 6. Best year for movies since 2007.

 

[Buzzman]

Worst Movie

Lockout
Guy Pearce doing his best at sounding bad ass spitting PG-13 one liners was literally the only redeeming quality. Amber Heard was so awful and annoying it offset her hotness completely.

Runner-Up: God Bless America

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

Oops hehe. Same thing.

 

[Palooza]

Just watched the Imposter. Pretty great stuff. Was initially disappointed, but now that I am thinking about it, I'm okay with how it all "ended".

 

[A Tasty Burgerr]

10. Safety Not Guaranteed - Indie rom-coms are usually too quirky for me to really like most of the time but this avoided that for the most part. Awesome premise, I just wish the made Aubrey Plaza a little less like April, although that might just be the best fit for the character anyways.

9. The Cabin in the Woods - I am a sucker for horror movies that play with the genre, and even though it isn't nearly as good in any subsequent viewings its still just a really fun movie.


8. The Dark Knight Rises - After seeing it a few times now there are times where it just seems outright silly, but at the same time there is enough good to make it really enjoyable as a whole.


7. Beasts of the Southern Wild - Completely unique to anything I've ever seen, visually and narrative-wise, while still being pretty accessible.


6. The Avengers - I think The Dark Knight is a better movie but as far as something encapsulating an ideal "super-hero" movie I don't think this will be beat.


5. Seven Psychopaths - Not as good as In Bruges, but still totally my kind of sense of humor with a really awesome cast.


4. The Raid: Redemption - Really, really spectacular fight sequences. Weak story was made pretty much irrelevant by how ridiculously entertaining the choreography was.

3. The Master - Loved everything about it except for the fact that it didn't have any sort of story arc, which held it back from There Will Be Blood levels of greatness. Maybe the most gorgeous movie I've ever seen.

2. Moonrise Kingdom - I have never been one to ride Wes Anderson's dick on anything else he's done but this was just charming as hell.

1. Django Unchained - Every aspect was fantastic in all its frantic and disorganized glory. Minus 2 points for Tarantino's stupid cameo but that is pretty much the only thing I disliked.

 

[relaxedanderson]

I've only seen Iron Sky from this year.

It wasn't good enough to get in my top ten.

 

[Fappin Raptor]

Off the top of my head. I may have only seen a few more movies than this this year.

10. Brave
9. The Amazing Spider-man
8. Ted
7. Wreck-it Ralph
6. Seven Psychopaths
5. Dark Knight Rises
4. Lincoln
3. The Hobbit
2. Moonrise Kingdom
1. Django Unchained

 

[Palooza]

Maybe I should post my top 97 from 2012 uft:

just kidding, still have another 53ish movies to go.