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For me:

1. The Hobbit
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. The Hunger Games
4. The Avengers
5. Les Mis

I found the Dark Knight & Hunger Games much more enthralling than the Avengers, although it's hard for me to determine which I think is best...I'll probly rewatch the Avengers more often than either of the other two (more humor, and more popular with a wider range of people), but at the same time I felt that the storyline really didn't draw me in.

A few more short opinions:
*Skyfall: decent, but nothing remarkable. Can't say I'm much of a fan of Daniel Craig
*Silver Linings Playbook: good acting, but not my style of movie
*Life of Pi: haven't watched it yet
*Argo: good movie, but like the typical Hollywood movie, they tried to rewrite Canada out of history and give all the credit to the US. As a result, I can't really endorse it too much
*Lincoln: I started it, and I like history, but it was just too slow to keep me interested. I hear they try to rewrite history in it as well
*Cloud Atlas: Actually a pretty good movie. Weird philosophy though

Ray Rider wrote:For me:

1. The Hobbit
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. The Hunger Games
4. The Avengers
5. Les Mis

I found the Dark Knight & Hunger Games much more enthralling than the Avengers, although it's hard for me to determine which I think is best...I'll probly rewatch the Avengers more often than either of the other two (more humor, and more popular with a wider range of people), but at the same type I felt that the storyline really didn't draw me in.

Have you seen Django?

Army of GOD wrote:

Ray Rider wrote:For me:

1. The Hobbit
2. The Dark Knight Rises
3. The Hunger Games
4. The Avengers
5. Les Mis

I found the Dark Knight & Hunger Games much more enthralling than the Avengers, although it's hard for me to determine which I think is best...I'll probly rewatch the Avengers more often than either of the other two (more humor, and more popular with a wider range of people), but at the same type I felt that the storyline really didn't draw me in.

Have you seen Django?

Naw, I just watched the trailer on IMDB and it looks like an excuse to fit as much shooting into 165 minutes as possible--looks pretty lame. The rating is quite high though.

I heard it got pretty slow in the middle
when the death rate was paused.

django was good, and i enjoyed the hobbit a lot.

i'd put skyfall, avengers, dkr, in one group together, all pretty decent, but what we came to expect, and nothing spectacular.

hunger games disappointed me, but mostly because it didn't live up to the book.

argo was good, but too straighforward and not part of history i lived through or was particularly interested in.

life of pi was horrific, although it looked good, it was way too preachy and dumbed down for my liking (haven't read the book in a long time though so I can't say how it compares)

haven't seen lincoln, les mis, or zero dark thirty.

I'm going to see Django tomorrow morning.

Metascore's fifteen best in 2012 right now:
Zero Dark Thirty - 95
Amour- 93
Almayer's Folly - 92
A Man Vanishes (1967) - 92
This Is Not a Film - 90
The Gatekeepers - 87
How to Survive a Plague -87
Barbara - 87
Elena - 87
The Kid with a Bike - 87
Wake in Fright (1971) - 87
Lincoln - 86
Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters - 86
Argo - 86
The Master - 86

It's sad, but I've only heard of four of them.

Other notable films (i.e. ones I've heard of):

Moonrise Kingdom - 84
Looper - 84
Django Unchained - 81
Skyfall - 81
The Secret World of Arrietty - 80
Life of Pi - 79
The Dark Knight Rises - 78
The Impossible - 74 (we're on page 2 now)
Wreck-It Ralph - 73
The Pirates! Band of Misfits - 73
Magic Mike - 72 (watched this one 17 times)
The Cabin in the Woods - 72
ParaNorman - 72
Wuthering Heights - 70
The Avengers - 69
21 Jump Street - 69

So yeah, that's some from the first two pages. Avengers got ranked rather low, but 69 is still good on Metacritic.

http://www.metacritic.com/browse/movies ... 012&page=0

Of the ones I've seen on this list, here's my top 5:

1. Skyfall
2. Looper
3. The Dark Knight Rises
4. Wreck-it Ralph
5. The Avengers

(I really need to see more films.)

thegreekdog's Top Five Movies from 2012 (the ones that I saw):

(1) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(2) Batman: The Dark Knight
(3) The Muppet Movie
(4) Sesame Street: Elmo's Big Adventure

I only saw four movies in 2012, so that's all I'm posting here. I saw Return of the King and The Dark Knight prior to 2012, but they were worth an additional watch in 2012. The Muppet Movie was disappointing. Elmo's Big Adventure was straight crap.

Django - haven't seen
The Hobbit - have seen, and enjoyed it
The dark knight rises - have seen, was a bit disappointed
Lincoln - haven't seen
Argo - haven't seen
Life of 3.14 - haven't seen
Zero Dark - haven't seen
The avengers - have seen, was a bit disappointed
Les Miserables - haven't seen


Someone also mentioned Skyfall. Seen it and really didn't like it. More than just disappointed.

Django - haven't seen
The Hobbit - haven't seen
The dark knight rises - haven't seen
Lincoln - haven't seen
Argo - haven't seen
Life of 3.14 - haven't seen
Zero Dark - haven't seen
The avengers - haven't seen
Les Miserables - haven't seen



Having said that, Django wins, cause Tarantino.

Totally forgot about Looper. That movie was really excellent, and one of the best time travel movies (ie it isn't full of paradoxes) I've seen since Primer.

The movies that macbone listed are all probably "good", but not necessarily movies I'd enjoy. And I noticed one was a re-release, and a few were foreign films. But it's a given that the critics will love a lot of movies that I just wouldn't necessarily want to see.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1194173/


Pretty much all other films I saw in 2012 were disappointing at best. Hobbit was okay until Frodo came on screen... then it was okay until they brought in that ridiculous revenge-orc-story. And then they split the 300-page book up into three parts and I wept.

Haven't seen Django yet. Tarantino is a good writer, though, so it'll probably be good.

Do people say "Les Mis" because they can't pronounce "Miserables"?


("I say it because it's shorter." BULLSHIT.)

BigBallinStalin wrote:Do people say "Les Mis" because they can't pronounce "Miserables"?


("I say it because it's shorter." BULLSHIT.)

It's like an in-joke that everyone is in on.

Moonrise Kingdom was the best film that I saw this year. For me it was like watching a preview for people who will be psychologically fucked up in their adult lives before they become fucked up, you can't really go wrong with some Bill Murray. The Dark night was good as well, and another film I saw that was good to watch was 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'

Crazyirishman wrote:Moonrise Kingdom was the best film that I saw this year. For me it was like watching a preview for people who will be psychologically fucked up in their adult lives before they become fucked up, you can't really go wrong with some Bill Murray. The Dark night was good as well, and another film I saw that was good to watch was 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'

Dang, totally forgot about Moonrise as well. That was amazing. I really loved it. I typically like anything by Wes Anderson though, but I found that the humor in this movie was a lot more accessible than some of his other darker stuff.

Tonight, I just watched Dredd. It was pretty awesome, although I wouldn't put it anywhere near the top of the list for 2012. I never saw the original, or read the comics it was based on, so I really don't know how to compare it to anything else. It was shot pretty cool, and has a ridiculous cast of people you'd recognize but couldn't necessarily place (for example, Julius from Remember the Titans, the queen from 300, Bill Weasley from the last 2 harry potter movies, and led by Karl Urban, who plays Bones from the Star Trek movies).

Django Djano only just came out here in Australia.


f*ck you, Australia.

whitestazn88 wrote:

Crazyirishman wrote:Moonrise Kingdom was the best film that I saw this year. For me it was like watching a preview for people who will be psychologically fucked up in their adult lives before they become fucked up, you can't really go wrong with some Bill Murray. The Dark night was good as well, and another film I saw that was good to watch was 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'

Dang, totally forgot about Moonrise as well. That was amazing. I really loved it. I typically like anything by Wes Anderson though, but I found that the humor in this movie was a lot more accessible than some of his other darker stuff.

Tonight, I just watched Dredd. It was pretty awesome, although I wouldn't put it anywhere near the top of the list for 2012. I never saw the original, or read the comics it was based on, so I really don't know how to compare it to anything else. It was shot pretty cool, and has a ridiculous cast of people you'd recognize but couldn't necessarily place .

But you at least played the SNES version of it right?

Django was crap. The only redeeming quality of that movie is Christophe Waltz' performance. I firmly believe Tarantino only made that movie so he had an excuse to write the "n" word into his script 200 times. Utter crap movie that I will probably never watch again.

My favorite so far of 2012 is Moonrise Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook, and Lincoln (and Zero Dark Thirty is up there too). Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson's best movie since Rushmore (though my personal favorite is The Life Aquatic). Silver Linings was really good. Bradley Cooper was fantastic and portrayed someone with bi-polar probably as good as anyone ever will. I really liked Lincoln because it wasn't a full biography, but focused exclusively on the passage of the 13th Amendment. The West Wing is one of my favorite shows of all time (despite its liberal bias) and it was fun to watch the political maneuvering that took place to get the Amendment passed. Tommy Lee Jones was great in it as well. I can see the flaws in Zero Dark Thirty, but I love espionage type movies that focus on the Middle East, so I really enjoyed it.

I refuse to watch The Hobbit. Like someone else said, it pisses me off they took a short book like the Hobbit and made a trilogy out of it. I won't watch them until they have all been released. The Dark Knight Rises was entertaining, but was a pretty big let down after The Dark Knight. Argo and Life of Pi were both meh to me.

Does "Most Popular" = "Best"? http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title_ ... &year=2012

I think this list would be more accurate. http://www.imdb.com/search/title?year=2 ... ating,desc

So I just watched Django and I'm disappointed.

Tarantino's worst movie imo.

Haggis_McMutton wrote:So I just watched Django and I'm disappointed.

Tarantino's worst movie imo.

True but that doesn't mean it's bad. I watched it yesterday. I liked the character the ex-Nazi detective played but the story was dull and predictable, with gunfire being the main attraction. I might as well watch any other western.

The music was pretty good though.

Haggis_McMutton wrote:So I just watched Django and I'm disappointed.

Tarantino's worst movie imo.

Have you seen Death Proof (within Grindhouse 2007)?

nolefan5311 wrote:Django was crap. The only redeeming quality of that movie is Christophe Waltz' performance. I firmly believe Tarantino only made that movie so he had an excuse to write the "n" word into his script 200 times. Utter crap movie that I will probably never watch again.

My favorite so far of 2012 is Moonrise Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook, and Lincoln (and Zero Dark Thirty is up there too). Moonrise Kingdom is Anderson's best movie since Rushmore (though my personal favorite is The Life Aquatic). Silver Linings was really good. Bradley Cooper was fantastic and portrayed someone with bi-polar probably as good as anyone ever will. I really liked Lincoln because it wasn't a full biography, but focused exclusively on the passage of the 13th Amendment. The West Wing is one of my favorite shows of all time (despite its liberal bias) and it was fun to watch the political maneuvering that took place to get the Amendment passed. Tommy Lee Jones was great in it as well. I can see the flaws in Zero Dark Thirty, but I love espionage type movies that focus on the Middle East, so I really enjoyed it.

I refuse to watch The Hobbit. Like someone else said, it pisses me off they took a short book like the Hobbit and made a trilogy out of it. I won't watch them until they have all been released. The Dark Knight Rises was entertaining, but was a pretty big let down after The Dark Knight. Argo and Life of Pi were both meh to me.

I don't understand why people feel the need to rail against the use of the "n-word" in Django. In my viewing of the movie, I thought the purpose of the excessive use of the "n-word" was to prove that it no longer has power in today's society. We should be over the use of the term in a derogatory manner, and it should be able to be used freely by everyone. We all know that slavery is ridiculous, so why is it that a term used by morons (as portrayed in the movie; I don't know any real slave owners, so I can't speak to their intelligence) can have such an affect on our supposedly post-racial society (or at least moving in that direction and further from a racial society than it is to a post-racial society). That's about all I have to say on that matter, and I'm happy to discuss it further if anyone has objections or questions.

f*ck anyone that says anything bad about Django

And I don't get the people that have the problem with the n-word either. It's a fucking history piece, do you want them to act like the word never god damn existed?