films of 2012

[Vic Sage]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_in_film

What i saw this year:

[u:6d8shel9]liked so far:[/u:6d8shel9]
THE AVENGERS
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
DJANGO UNCHAINED
THE GREY
THE HUNGER GAMES
JOHN CARTER
LES MISERABLES
LIFE OF PI
LINCOLN
SKYFALL
TED

[u:6d8shel9]eh:[/u:6d8shel9]
ABRAHAM LINCOLN:VAMPIRE HUNTER
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN
BRAVE
CHRONICLE
DR. SEUSS'S THE LORAX
DREDD
DARK SHADOWS
FRANKENWEENIE
HOBBIT
PROMETHEUS
SNOW WHITE & THE HUNTSMAN
TOTAL RECALL
UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING

[u:6d8shel9]hated:[/u:6d8shel9]
21 JUMP STREET
BATTLESHIP
GHOST RIDER 2
PROJECT X
THREE STOOGES
WRATH OF THE TITANS

What i still intend to see:

HAYWIRE
MOONRISE KINGDOM
SEEKING A FRIEND FOR THE END OF THE WORLD
SAVAGES
KILLER JOE
BOURNE LEGACY
ARBITRAGE
THE MASTER
LOOPER
PARANORMAN
ARGO
7 PSYCHOPATHS
THE MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS
WRECK-IT RALPH
CLOUD ATLAS
HITCHCOCK
KILLING THEM SOFTLY
ZERO DARK THIRTY
JACK REACHER
THE SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Flight
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Safety Not Guaranteed
Ruby Sparks

[u:6d8shel9]my current top 10:[/u:6d8shel9]
LIFE OF PI
LINCOLN
DJANGO UNCHAINED
THE AVENGERS
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
THE GREY
JOHN CARTER
CABIN IN THE WOODS
LES MISERABLES
SKYFALL

But based on what I've read and heard so far, I'd project my final top 10 will end up looking more like this:

LIFE OF PI
-ARGO
LINCOLN
-ZERO DARK THIRTY
THE AVENGERS
DJANGO UNCHAINED
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
-MOONRISE KINGDOM
-BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
-SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

Edited January 2, 2013 by Guest

[Benjamin Grimm]

Wow; I've only seen Avengers, Dark Knight, and Brave. There are a bunch that I do intend to see once they get to cable.

[Edgy MD]

Dude, Madea's Witness Protection?

[Guest sharpie]

What I've seen this year:

SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN*
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
LINCOLN
ARGO
DJANGO UNCHAINED*
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK*
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD*
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN
FOOTNOTE
MOONRISE KINGDOM*

Top 5 are asterisked.

[seawolf17]

Just off Vic's list, I've seen pretty much the kid movies (Lorax, Brave, Paranorman, Ralph), plus The Hunger Games. Want to see Ted, Vampire Lincoln, Hobbit, and Django.

(We don't do movies much.)

[Edgy MD]

What I saw, in order of goodness:

1. Moonrise Kingdom
   
2. Safety Not Guaranteed
   
3. John Carter
   
4. Brave
   
5. Battleship
   
6. The Amazing Spider-man
   
7. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
   
8. The Avengers
   
9. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
   
10. Trouble with the Curve
    * * *
    Plus:
    
11. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    
12. Ruby Sparks

Basically, I didn't see anything all that wonderful. The best new film I saw was on the plane coming back from Africa, but it was a French film that didn't get a stateside release.



What I missed, in alphabetical order:

[Rec] 3: Genesis
10 Years
17 Girls
21 Jump Street
30 Beats
4:44 Last Day on Earth
5 Broken Cameras
6 Month Rule
A Cat in Paris
A Little Bit of Heaven
A Royal Affair
A Thousand Words
About Cherry
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Act of Valor
Addicted to Fame
Albatross
Alex Cross
All In: the Poker Movie
All In: the Poker Movie
American Reunion
Americano
Amour
Anna Karenina
Any Day Now
Arbitrage
Argo
ATM
Attenberg
Bachelorette
Backwards
Bad Ass
Bangkok Revenge
Barfi!
Battlefield America
Beauty and the Beast 3D
Being Flynn
Bel Ami
Beloved
Bernie
Beware of Mr. Baker
Big Miracle
Blue Like Jazz
Brake
Branded
Bringing Up Bobby
Bully
Butter
California Solo
Casa De Mi Padre
Celeste and Jesse Forever
Chasing Mavericks
Chernobyl Diaries
Chicken with Plums
Chico & Rita
Chimpanzee
Chronicle
Cirque Du Soleil Worlds Away
Cloud Atlas
Comes a Bright Day
Comic-Con: Episode IV: a Fan's Hope
Compliance
Contraband
Coriolanus
Cosmopolis
Damsels in Distress
Dark Horse
Dark Shadows
Dark Tide
Darling Companion
Deadfall
Detachment
Detention
Detropia
Diana Vreeland: the Eye Has to Travel
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Django Unchained
Don't Go in the Woods
Dr. Seuss' the Lorax
Dragon
Dredd
Ek Tha Tiger
Elena
Elena
End of Watch
Excuse Me for Living
Extraterrestrial
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Farewell, My Queen
Finding Nemo 3D
First Position
Flight
Flying Swords of Dragon Gate
Footnote
For a Good Time, Call...
For Ellen
For Greater Glory
For the Love of Money
Francine
Frankenweenie
Freelancers
Fun Size
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Girl Model
Gone
Good Deeds
Goodbye First Love
Goon
Grassroots
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
Haywire
Headhunters
Hecho En Mexico
Hello I Must Be Going
Here
Here Comes the Boom
Hermano
Hick
High School
Hit and Run
Hit So Hard
Hitchcock
Holy Motors
Hope Springs
Hotel Transylvania
House at the End of the Street
How to Grow a Band
How to Survive a Plague
Hyde Park on Hudson
Hysteria
Ice Age: Continental Drift
In Darkness
Intruders
Jack Reacher
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jesus Henry Christ
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Journey 2: the Mysterious Island
Joyful Noise
Katy Perry: Part of Me
Keep the Lights On
Keyhole
Kill List
Killer Joe
Killing Them Softly
Kumare
L!fe Happens
Last Call at the Oasis
Last Ounce of Courage
Lawless
Les Miserables
Liberal Arts
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Little Birds
Little White Lies
Lockout
LOL
Lola Versus
Looper (They made a film about Braden Looper?)
Loosies
Love Birds
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Madea's Witness Protection
Magic Mike
Man on a Ledge
Marley
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
MIB 3
Middle of Nowhere
Mirror Mirror
Miss Bala
Monsieur Lazhar
Monsters, Inc. 3D
Musical Chairs
My Uncle Rafael
Nate & Margaret
Not Born to Be Gladiators
Not Fade Away
October Baby
On the Road
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
One for the Money
Paranormal Activity 4
ParaNorman
Parental Guidance
Patagonia Rising
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
People Like Us
Perfect Sense
Piranha 3DD
Pitch Perfect
Playback
Playing for Keeps
Polisse
Post Mortem
Premium Rush
Price Check
Project X
Prometheus
Promised Land
Pusher
Rampart
Red Dawn
Red Hook Summer
Red Lights
Red Tails
Resident Evil: Retribution
Return
Rise of the Guardians
Robot & Frank
Rock of Ages
Ruby Sparks
Rust & Bone
Safe
Safe House
Samsara
Savages
Seattle
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
Seeking Justice
Serving Up Richard
Seven Psychopaths
Side by Side
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
Silent House
Silent Night
Sing Your Song
Sinister
Skyfall
Sleepwalk with Me
Smashed
Snow White and the Huntsman
Solomon Kane
Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
Something from Nothing: the Art of Rap
Sound of My Voice
Sparkle
Star Wars: Episode I - the Phantom Menace 3D
Step Up 4
Stolen
Surviving Proress
Take This Waltz
Taken 2
Talaash
Ted
Teddy Bear
That's My Boy
The Ambassador
The Apparition
The Assault
The Awakening
The Barrens
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Bourne Legacy
The Cabin in the Woods
The Campaign
The Central Park Five
The Cold Light of Day
The Collection
The Cup
The Dark Knight Rises
The Day
The Deep Blue Sea
The Devil Inside
The Dictator
The Divide
The Do-deca-pentathlon
The Expendables 2
The Eye of the Storm
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
The Five Year Engagement
The Flowers of War
The Good Doctor
The Grey
The Guild Trip
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hole
The Hunger Games
The Hunter
The Inbetweeners
The Innkeepers
The Invisible War
The Iron Lady
The Island President
The Lady
The Lion of Judah
The Loneliest Planet
The Lucky One
The Man with the Iron Fists
The Master
The Moth Diaries
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
The Oogieloves in the BIG Balloon Adventure
The Other Dream Team
The Paperboy
The Perfect Family
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
The Possession
The Queen of Versailles
The Raid: Redemption
The Raven
The Runway
The Samaritan
The Sessions
The Silver Linings Playbook
The Tall Man
The Three Stooges
The Tortured
The Trouble with Bliss
The Turin Horse
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
The Vow
The Waiting Room
The Watch
The Wicker Tree
The Woman in Black
The Woman in the Fifth
The Words
Thin Ice
Think Like a Man
This Is Forty
This Means War
This Must Be the Place
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
Titanic 3D
To Rome with Love
To the Arctic 3D
Total Recall
Touchback
Toys in the Attic
Trishna
Turn Me On, Dammit!
Twixt
Unconditional
Undefeated
Underworld: Awakening
Union Square
Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
Virginia
W.E.
Wanderlust
War of the Buttons
We Have a Pope
We Need to Talk About Kevin
West of Memphis
What to Expect When You're Expecting
Why Stop Now
Woman Thou Art Loosed!: on the 7th Day
Won't Back Down
Wrath of the Titans
Wreck-It Ralph
Wuthering Heights
You May Not Kiss the Bride
Your Sister's Sister
Zero Dark Thirty

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I threw up a poll for every flick I saw this year, so they should all be here. Do the community a solid and do the same in 2013!

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

I saw no films in 2012.

[seawolf17]

Is that the complete list of 2012? Then I missed a few. Saw Magadascar 3, Star Wars 3D, Pirates! Band of Misfits, and the indescribably awful Casa De Mi Padre.

And add Sasha Baron Cohen's "The Dictator" to my "want to see" list, as part of it was filmed out here.

[Vic Sage]

it was as crappy a year in cinemAH as i can recall.

[Edgy MD]

I went to a multiplex last weekend to see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Turkey, and walking around the lobby, virtually every poster and cardboard cutout features somebody pointing a big sexy gun at me. At least three of the previews shown before Bilbo and Thorin go to Erebor were set amidst an apocalyptic scenario.

You see a film in the wake of Sandy Hook, you can't avoid it.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

We hardly get to the movies, but Silver Linings Playbook was the one that I made an effort to get to see, and it was totally worth it.

[Frayed Knot]

Judging from the above list, I didn't have a very movie-going year.
In rough order of goodness:

Argo
Premium Rush
Looper
The Grey
Ted
Safe House

Edited January 3, 2013 by Guest

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

In rough order of quality, not including re-releases:

AVENGERS
CABIN IN THE WOODS
DARK KNIGHT RISES
THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS
BRAVE
GOON
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN

Might be my least-fillum-ic year yet.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

This looks like my list.

Moonrise Kingdom
Safety Not Guaranteed
The Avengers
21 Jump Street
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Dr. Seuss' the Lorax
Ice Age: Continental Drift
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Liberal Arts
ParaNorman
Rise of the Guardians
Ted
The Dictator
The Hunger Games
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Why Stop Now

I'd still like to get to THIS IS 40, LINCOLN, DJANGO, ARGO and if what I read is accurate any/all 4 will top my 2K12 list. Was disappointed with most of what I saw this year.

[Edgy MD]

Can you rank those?

OE: Hey, wait. I know you saw Safety Not Guaranteed.

[Ceetar]

I wanted to see at least twice as many and just never got to them. I will.

in order:

Django Unchained
The Hunger Games
Wreck-It Ralph
The Avengers
Premium Rush
Ted
21 Jump Street
Bourne Legacy (I think..)
Alex Cross


Anna Karenina

[Guest sharpie]

Okay, ordering mine:

SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
DJANGO UNCHAINED
MOONRISE KINGDOM
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
LINCOLN
ARGO
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES
FOOTNOTE
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

It's hard to put all these in order, as they are all about the same. (Edit, adding in 3 films I forgot and/or weren't listed above)

Safety Not Guaranteed
Chronicle
The Dictator
Oslo, Aug. 31
Jeff, Who Lives at Home
The Hunger Games
The Avengers
Liberal Arts
Why Stop Now
21 Jump Street
Ted
Klown
Moonrise Kingdom

Cartoons and Kids Movies
None of these were outstanding, none were terrible (well, Ice Age deserves its spot on the caboose, but otherwise).
ParaNorman
Rise of the Guardians
The Pirates! Band of Misfits
Dr. Seuss' the Lorax
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Ice Age: Continental Drift

[Vic Sage]

WGA nominations announced --

adapted screenplay:
"Lincoln"
"Argo"
''Silver Linings Playbook"
''Life of Pi"
"The Perks of Being a Wallflower"

original screenplay:
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Flight"
''Looper"
''The Master"
"Moonrise Kingdom"

[metsmarathon]

in order:

1. wreck-it ralph
2. skyfall
3. mib 3

[Vic Sage]

2013 golden globe nominations:

-drama
ARGO
DJANGO UNCHAINED
LIFE OF PI
LINCOLN
ZERO DARK THIRTY

� comedy/musical
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL ?
LES MISERABLES
MOONRISE KINGDOM
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK

-animation
BRAVE
FRANKENWEENIE
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
RISE OF THE GUARDIANS
WRECK-IT RALPH

-Foreign Language
AMOUR (AUSTRIA)
A ROYAL AFFAIR (DENMARK)
THE INTOUCHABLES (FRANCE)
KON-TIKI (NORWAY/UK/DENMARK)
RUST AND BONE (FRANCE)

[Guest sharpie]

If the Golden Globes counting THE INTOUCHABLES as a 2011 film then I saw that, too (on a plane).

Revised list:

SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN
SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
DJANGO UNCHAINED
MOONRISE KINGDOM
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
LINCOLN
ARGO
THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES
THE INTOUCHABLES
FOOTNOTE
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN

[Vic Sage]

DGA nominations:

Ben Affleck - ARGO
Ang Lee - LIFE OF PI
Stephen Spielberg - LINCOLN
Kathryn Bigelow - ZERO DARK THIRTY
Tom Hooper - LES MISERABLES

Hooper over Tarantino? I don't think so. LES MIZ was nearly ruined by his direction.

[Vic Sage]

Best Picture Oscar nominees
http://cdn.media.oscar.abc.com/media/2013/pdf/2013/nominees.pdf

"Beasts of the Southern Wild"
"Silver Linings Playbook"
"Zero Dark Thirty"
"Lincoln"
"Les Mis�rables"
"Life of Pi"
"Amour" (foreign)
"Django Unchained"
"Argo"

the only surprises here i guess are the inclusion of the foreign language film AMOUR (which is somehow also eligible as best foreign language film) and the exlusions of MOONRISE KINGDOM, THE MASTER and FLIGHT, which all got some pre-nomination buzz.

Also:

[u:1vbmervd]Animated Feature Film[/u:1vbmervd]
"Brave"
"Frankenweenie"
"ParaNorman"
"The Pirates! Band of Misfits"
"Wreck-It Ralph"

[u:1vbmervd]Documentary feature:[/u:1vbmervd]
5 Broken Cameras
The Gatekeepers
How to Survive a Plague
The Invisible War
Searching for Sugar Man

[u:1vbmervd]Foreign Language:[/u:1vbmervd]
Amour (Austria)
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
No (Chile)
A Royal Affair (Denmark)
War Witch (Canada)

[Edgy MD]

Updated the list to include Lincoln on top.

And it's not like I lubbed it.

1. Lincoln
   
2. Moonrise Kingdom
   
3. Safety Not Guaranteed
   
4. John Carter
   
5. Brave
   
6. Battleship
   
7. The Amazing Spider-Man
   
8. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
   
9. The Avengers
   
10. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
    * * *
    Plus:
    
11. Trouble with the Curve
    
12. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
    
13. Ruby Sparks

[Benjamin Grimm]

Amour is from Austria? And they made it in French?

I saw The Impossible last week, and judging from the credits, it had every appearance of being a Spanish-made film, but it was entirely in English. Is this a new trend?

Also, I'm wondering, if Amour can crossover and be nominated in two categories, has a documentary ever been nominated as best picture? Or an animated film since that category was created?

[Guest themetfairy]

I'm pretty sure that Beauty and the Beast was the last animated film to be nominated for Best Picture (and it should have won - IMO it was better than Unforgiven), but that was the last year before the Best Animated Film category was created.

[Guest sharpie]

Pretty sure a documentary has never been nominated for best picture. Several times, however, that foreign films have also been nominated for best picture. I believe the last time might have been Life Is Beautiful and also The Postman (Il Postino) as opposed to the Kevin Costner The Postman which wouldn't make anyone's shortlist of anything positive.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

It's rumored that due to suspicions of CGI enhancements in many of last year's films, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences won't be giving Oscar awards to any of these films.