Avengers.

Withholding any year-end stuff until I see zero dark thirty and django. That being said, I'd say while the summer was pretty terrible this year, the early spring and fall have been really pretty packed.

At the beginning of the year we got haywire, the grey, chronicle, cabin in the woods, and the raid, of which the first was pretty solid, and the latter 4 I'd consider perfect movies.

Fall we got looper, dredd, skyfall, the master, seven psychopaths,
and now zero dark thirty and django. I'd say that's a really solid lineup. I'm walking out of the year with 10 new movies I thought were good to fucking outstanding, and that's not including other stuff I loved that many didn't, like Dark Knight Rises and Expendables 2.

Edit: shit forgot about avengers as well, though tbh I don't like it as much as dkr or most of the ones on my list.

Last edited by bullet3 (2012-12-15 18:19:05)

Yes, I also forgot Avengers which tells you something, but yes, it was entertaining at the time.

I wonder how much psychology is at play here: the expectations with regard to Avengers were low, but it was better than any of us thought it had a right to be, so it's labelled success, but with TDKR we're expecting another The Dark Knight, and it didn't meet those expectations and so were slightly disappointed. Ditto for The Hobbit.

One thing I learned this year is to take 10-20 points off Rotten Tomatoes. My tastes used to be in tune with it throughout much of the decade, but when Prometheus gets near 80% upon first release and Skyfall gets over 90%, that rating system is unreliable.

I wouldn't exactly call Prometheus a clusterfuck... but it had the potential to be much more than it is. IMO it's much better than The Phantom Menace, which was the worst bummer of its decade.

Compared to Alien 3 & 4 and Alien vs Predator movies, Prometheus is not bad at all.

+1

The Dark Knight Rises didn't disappoint me, since I already knew nobody could out-Legder Heath Ledger anyway.

I found Men In Black III, American Reunion and The Hunger Games pretty entertaining, but not mind-blowing.

But that wasnt' the problem with TDKR. It's everything else

I had no problems with TDKR apart from one dodgy edit and the fact that it was a tad underwhelming compared to TDK. I still enjoyed it though. And the second half 'change' of Looper didn't bother me either. I don't think it changed genre just tone. It got darker but the TK stuff was there from the start, it didn't just appear half way through which I have heard from some people. I thought Prometheus, The Expendables 2, Total Recall and The Amazing Spider-man were a bit 'meh'. I haven't seen The Hunger Games, Brave, Argo, Paranorman, Frankenweenie, Dredd or Battleship and have no desire to see The Hobbit or that Twilight nonsense.

My own personal top five of the year-

1. The Avengers
2. The Raid
3. Skyfall
4. Cabin in the Woods
5. The Dark Knight Rises

I've not yet seen many of the films from 2012 that I'd like to, but have enjoyed:

The Avengers, because they pulled it off.
Skyfall, because I like Bond and appreciated the fan service.

Exhaustive? Hardly. But it's been a busy year, so cut me some slack, a'ight?

Pitch Perfect is... just, such my shit. Non-a capella enthusiasts I know have enjoyed it muchly (Frommeyer, for one), but dude. That movie is solid Teague Porn.

Replace flight with skyfall and you're on the right track

I don't go out to the movies too much these days so I didn't see that many new movies this year.

1. The Master
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. Beyond the Black Rainbow
4. The Comedy
5. Cabin in the Woods
6. Looper
7. The Avengers
8. Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (Don't judge me)

Last edited by JessicaMonroe (2012-12-16 02:39:06)

I'm glad a friend told me The Master was a character study before I saw it, if I didn't have that info I probably wouldn't have liked it.

Jesus fucking christ, would someone for once explain me, IN WRITTEN FORM SINCE I HAVEN'T HEARD THE COMMENTARY, what's up with all the fucking hatred for Prometheus? 3 People are telling me to see it, the rest of the world, apparently, tells me not to. It looks cool! So what's the big deal that completely ruins it in all aspects?