Your Top 10 of 2012

[Watashi]

The Grey is that good?
You won't like it.

[Gizmo]

Only seen 17, so I'll top 5 it for now.

1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. Les Miserables
3. The Cabin in the Woods
4. The Dark Knight
5. Looper

[The Bad Guy]

I've seen 138 films from 2012 so far, but I will not be writing my year end top 50 list for about a month. I'm trying to keep my favorites to myself for the time being.

I'll probably share my top 50 in a separate thread here when the time comes, if that's kosher.

[Bosco B Thug]

1. The Deep Blue Sea
2. Lincoln
3. Brave
4. Django Unchained
5. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
6. Amour
7. Holy Motors
8. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
9. The Wicker Tree
10. Moonrise Kingdom

11. Looper
12. The Hole
13. Anna Karenina
14. Argo
15. The Master

Not crazy about this year.

[Melville]

The Grey is that good?
I think you'd dislike its corniness and find it mildly entertaining at best. But the ending has stuck with me more than anything else I've seen in the last couple years. Some of my thoughts on it are scattered over its thread.


I'll probably share my top 50 in a separate thread here when the time comes, if that's kosher.
Everyone likes a countdown thread.

[Gizmo]

Everyone likes a countdown thread.

some day I may countdown my favorite countdown threads.

[MadMan]

I've seen 138 films from 2012 so far, but I will not be writing my year end top 50 list for about a month. I'm trying to keep my favorites to myself for the time being.

I'll probably share my top 50 in a separate thread here when the time comes, if that's kosher.Hurray. Your 2012 list thread was pretty awesome.

[Fezzik]

Updated with Django Unchained


The Cabin in the Woods
Django Unchained
The Avengers
Les Miserables
Seven Psychopaths
21 Jump Street
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Cloud Atlas
Looper
Lincoln


11. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
12. Life of Pi
13. The Raid: Redemption
14. The Amazing Spider-Man
15. Argo
16. Moonrise Kingdom
17. Rock of Ages
18. The Grey
19. Premium Rush
20. Wreck-it Ralph
21. Magic Mike
22. The Dark Knight Rises
23. Pitch Perfect
24. Dredd
25. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
26. Brave
27. The Hunger Games
28. Hope Springs
29. End of Watch
30. Men in Black III
31. Celeste and Jesse Forever
32. The Five-Year Engagement
33. Total Recall
34. Battleship
35. John Carter
36. Bel Ami
37. This Means War
38. Goon
39. The Woman in Black
40. The Bourne Legacy
41. Lockout
42. Hick
43. Meeting Evil

[Dead & Messed Up]

Kill List (Ben Wheatley)
The Cabin in the Woods (Drew Goddard)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Looper (Rian Johnson)
Chronicle (Josh Trank)
The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)
The Avengers (Joss Whedon)
The Innkeepers (Ti West)
The Road (Yam Laranas)
Compliance (Craig Zobel)
21 Jump Street (Lord & Miller)
The Tall Man (Pascal Laugier)
The Raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans)
Brave (Andrews & Chapman)
The Pact (Nicholas McCarthy)
The Woman in Black (James Watkins)
The Campaign (Jay Roach)
The Possession (Ole Bornedal)
Penumbra (Adrian y Ramiro Garcia Bogliono)
Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W. S. Anderson)
Beyond the Black Rainbow (Panos Cosmatos)
The Devil's Carnival (Darren Lynn Bousman)
Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (Heidecker & Wareheim)
Entrance (Hallam & Horvath)

[Sxottlan]

I still have a "fifth quarter" of catching up on remaining films in theaters and from Netflix. Probably another two months of Netflix movies and maybe another three or four movies in theaters.

Here's what I have at the end of the calendar year :

1. The Avengers: ****
2. Moonrise Kingdom: ****
3. The Dark Knight Rises: ****
4. Skyfall: ****
5. Django Unchained: ****
6. Anna Karenina: ***1/2
7. Cabin in the Woods: ***1/2
8. Killing Them Softly: ***1/2
9. Cloud Atlas: ***1/2
10.The Master: ***1/2

Most surprising film: ParaNorman
Worst film: Branded
Most disappointing film: Prometheus


At the three-quarters mark:

1. The Avengers: ****
2. Moonrise Kingdom: ****
3. The Dark Knight Rises: ****
4. The Master: ***1/2
5. Cabin in the Woods: ***1/2
6. The Amazing Spider-Man: ***1/2
7. The Grey: ***1/2
8. ParaNorman: ***1/2
9. Looper: ***1/2
10.The Raid: ***1/2

[B-side]

1. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
2. Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
3. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
4. In Another Country (Sang-soo Hong)
5. Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
6. Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)
7. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)
8. Marfa Girl (Larry Clark)
9. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (John Hyams)
10. Ashes (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

1. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
2. Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
3. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
4. Student (Darezhan Omirbayev)
5. In Another Country (Sang-soo Hong)
6. Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
7. Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)
8. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)
9. Marfa Girl (Larry Clark)
10. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (John Hyams)

[Ivan Drago]

1. Cloud Atlas
2. The Cabin in the Woods
3. It's Such A Beautiful Day
4. Looper
5. The Dark Knight Rises
6. Seven Psychopaths
7. Cosmopolis
8. Argo
9. The Comedy
10. The Avengers
--------------------------------
12. Killer Joe
13. The Master
14. Lincoln
15. Moonrise Kingdom
16. The Dictator
17. Rock of Ages
18. Dredd
19. The Amazing Spider-Man
20. The Expendables 2
21. Prometheus
22. Men in Black 3

1. Django Unchained
2. The Cabin in the Woods
3. It's Such A Beautiful Day
4. The Dark Knight Rises
5. Cloud Atlas
6. Looper
7. Take This Waltz
8. Seven Psychopaths
9. Cosmopolis
10. The Comedy
--------------------------------
11. Argo
12. The Avengers
13. Killer Joe
14. The Master
15. Lincoln
16. Moonrise Kingdom
17. The Dictator
18. Rock of Ages
19. Dredd
20. The Amazing Spider-Man
21. The Expendables 2
22. Prometheus
23. Men in Black 3

[ContinentalOp]

1. Silver Linings Playbook- ****
2. The Dark Knight Rises- ****
3. The Raid- ****
4. The Kid with a Bike- ****
5. The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1- ****
6. Bernie- *** 1/2
7. The Hunter- *** 1/2
8. Killer Joe- *** 1/2
9. Jack Reacher- *** 1/2
10. Lincoln- *** 1/2

[Melville]

The Grey
The Turin Horse
The Master
Moonlight Kingdom
Oslo, August 31st
The Deep Blue Sea
The Kid with a Bike
The Dark Knight Rises
Attenberg
Killer Joe


11. Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below
12. Goodbye First Love
13. Wuthering Heights
14. Prometheus
15. Holy Motors
16. Magic Mike
17. The Amazing Spider-Man
18. Cosmopolis
19. Damsels in Distress

Still to see: This is Not a Film; Amour; Bernie; Django Unchained; End of Watch; Looper; Once Upon a Time in Anatolia; Zero Dark Thirty; Tabu; The Day He Arrives; Two Years at Sea

[Dukefrukem]

Finally updated.

1 The Raid: Redemption
2 The Avengers
3 The Dark Knight Rises
4 The Cabin in the Woods
5 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
6 Argo
7 Prometheus
8 Haywire
9 Intouchables
10 The Grey

11 The Hunter
12 21 Jump Street
13 Looper
14 Moonrise Kingdom
15 Oslo, August 31st
16 Damsels in Distress
17 ParaNorman
18 Skyfall
19 Django Unchained
20 Bernie
21 The Bourne Legacy
22 The Tall Man
23 Lincoln
24 Contraband
25 Chronicle
26 The Innkeepers
27 The Snowtown Murders
28 The Dictator
29 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
30 Total Recall
31 The Woman in Black
32 Beyond the Black Rainbow
33 Ted
34 The Hole
35 Safe
36 Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
37 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
38 Goon
39 John Carter
40 Game Change
41 The Deep Blue Sea
42 Hell
43 Brave
44 Lockout
45 Wrath of the Titans
46 The Expendables 2
47 Dark Horse
48 Killing Them Softly
49 Taken 2
50 Resident Evil: Retribution
51 Dark Shadows
52 The Hunger Games
53 Battleship
54 The Amazing Spider-Man
55 Men In Black 3
56 Savages
57 The Watch
58 Magic Mike
59 Underworld: Awakening
60 Keyhole
61 Man on a Ledge
62 The Loneliest Planet
63 Snow White and the Huntsman
64 Apartment 143
65 Nitro Circus: The Movie
66 Resident Evil: Damnation

[Ivan Drago]

1. Django Unchained
2. The Cabin in the Woods
3. It's Such A Beautiful Day
4. The Dark Knight Rises
5. Cloud Atlas
6. Looper
7. Take This Waltz
8. Seven Psychopaths
9. Cosmopolis
10. The Comedy
--------------------------------
11. Argo
12. The Avengers
13. Killer Joe
14. The Master
15. Lincoln
16. Moonrise Kingdom
17. The Dictator
18. Rock of Ages
19. Dredd
20. The Amazing Spider-Man
21. The Expendables 2
22. Prometheus
23. Men in Black 3

1. Life of Pi
2. Django Unchained
3. Les Miserables
4. The Cabin in the Woods
5. It's Such A Beautiful Day
6. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Cloud Atlas
8. Looper
9. Take This Waltz
10. Seven Psychopaths
--------------------------------
11. Cosmopolis
12. The Comedy
13. Argo
14. The Avengers
15. Killer Joe
16. The Master
17. Lincoln
18. Moonrise Kingdom
19. The Dictator
20. Rock of Ages
21. Dredd
22. The Amazing Spider-Man
23. The Expendables 2
24. Prometheus
25. Men in Black 3

[Boner M]

1. Holy Motors
2. Oslo, August 31st
3. Two Years at Sea
4. Tabu
5. The Turin Horse
6. The Master
7. Only the Young
8. Bestiaire
9. The Loneliest Planet
10. Neighboring Sounds

RU: Amour, Almayer's Folly, Whores' Glory, The Comedy, The Kid With a Bike, The Snowtown Murders, Kill List, Sister, Chronicle, Cabin in the Woods, The Grey

[ThePlashyBubbler]

1. Sister (Ursula Meier)
2. The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)
3. Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman)
4. The Imposter (Bart Layton)
5. Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
6. Detropia (Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady)
7. Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
8. The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
9. The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-Soo)
10. Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley)

Not including The Kid With a Bike, Loneliest Planet, or Miss Bala, as I saw them in 2011, otherwise they might all make it.

[Rowland]

Fuck it, at this point I can do a top 30 I really like:

1. It's Such a Beautiful Day
2. This Is Not a Film
3. The Loneliest Planet
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Wuthering Heights
6. Girl Walk // All Day
7. Oslo, August 31st
8. Django Unchained
9. Beyond the Black Rainbow
10. The Grey
_______________________

11. Killer Joe
12. Cosmopolis
13. Attenberg
14. The Paperboy
15. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
16. The Dark Knight Rises
17. Resident Evil: Retribution
18. Looper
19. The Raid
20. Perfect Sense
21. Tabu
22. The Innkeepers
23. Cloud Atlas
24. Jiro Dreams of Sushi
25. The Road
26. The Tall Man
27. Alps
28. The Deep Blue Sea
29. Life of Pi
30. Magic Mike

And there are a bunch more I like as well. This has been a great year for me, and I still have so many I want to see.

[Fezzik]

Probably my final update:

Updated with Django Unchained


Zero Dark Thirty
The Cabin in the Woods
Django Unchained
The Avengers
Les Miserables
21 Jump Street
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Cloud Atlas
Looper
Lincoln




11. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
12. Life of Pi
13. The Raid: Redemption
14. The Amazing Spider-Man
15. Argo
16. Seven Psychopaths
17. Moonrise Kingdom
18. Rock of Ages
19. The Grey
20. Premium Rush
21. Wreck-it Ralph
22. Magic Mike
23. The Dark Knight Rises
24. Pitch Perfect
25. Silver Linings Playbook
26. Dredd
27. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
28. Brave
29. The Master
30. The Hunger Games
31. Hope Springs
32. End of Watch
33. Men in Black III
34. Celeste and Jesse Forever
35. The Five-Year Engagement
36. Beasts of the Southern Wild
37. Total Recall
38. Battleship
39. John Carter
40. Bel Ami
41. This Means War
42. Goon
43. The Woman in Black
44. The Bourne Legacy
45. Lockout
46. Hick
47. Meeting Evil

[NickGlass]

Here's a tiered sketch, with Tabu being the only one I'm truly gobsmacked by. Soooo, alphabetical order just to drive you more bonkers.

Tabu

Bernie
Elena
Goodbye First Love
Holy Motors
How to Survive a Plague
Keep the Lights On
Kid with the Bike
The Loneliest Planet
Oslo, August 31st
Starlet
Take this Waltz

Almayer's Folly
Damsels in Distress
Farewell My Queen
In Another Country
The Master
Moonrise Kingdom

[Ivan Drago]

1. Life of Pi
2. Django Unchained
3. Les Miserables
4. The Cabin in the Woods
5. It's Such A Beautiful Day
6. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Cloud Atlas
8. Looper
9. Take This Waltz
10. Seven Psychopaths
--------------------------------
11. Cosmopolis
12. The Comedy
13. Argo
14. The Avengers
15. Killer Joe
16. The Master
17. Lincoln
18. Moonrise Kingdom
19. The Dictator
20. Rock of Ages
21. Dredd
22. The Amazing Spider-Man
23. The Expendables 2
24. Prometheus
25. Men in Black 3

1. Django Unchained
2. Life of Pi
3. The Cabin in the Woods
4. It's Such A Beautiful Day
5. Les Miserables
6. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Killer Joe
8. Your Sister's Sister
9. Cloud Atlas
10. Looper
--------------------------------
11. Take This Waltz
12. Seven Psychopaths
13. Cosmopolis
14. The Comedy
15. Argo
16. The Avengers
17. The Master
18. The Five-Year Engagement
19. Beasts of the Southern Wild
20. Lincoln
21. Moonrise Kingdom
22. The Dictator
23. Rock of Ages
24. Silver Linings Playbook
25. Dredd
26. The Amazing Spider-Man
27. Ted
28. The Expendables 2
29. Flight
30. The Loneliest Planet
31. Prometheus
32. Men in Black 3

[Dukefrukem]

My list is finally updated

1 The Raid: Redemption
2 The Avengers
3 The Dark Knight Rises
4 The Cabin in the Woods
5 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
6 Argo
7 Prometheus
8 Haywire
9 Intouchables
10 The Grey

11 The Hunter
12 21 Jump Street
13 Beasts of the Southern Wild
14 Moonrise Kingdom
15 Oslo, August 31st
16 Zero Dark Thirty
17 Damsels in Distress
18 ParaNorman
19 Silver Linings Playbook
20 Skyfall
21 Django Unchained
22 Bernie
23 The Bourne Legacy
24 The Tall Man
25 Lincoln
26 Contraband
27 Chronicle
28 The Innkeepers
29 The Snowtown Murders
30 The Dictator
31 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
32 Total Recall
33 Looper
34 The Woman in Black
35 Beyond the Black Rainbow
36 Ted
37 The Hole
38 Safe
39 Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
40 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
41 Goon
42 John Carter
43 Game Change
44 The Deep Blue Sea
45 Hell
46 Brave
47 Lockout
48 Wrath of the Titans
49 The Expendables 2
50 Dark Horse
51 Killing Them Softly
52 V/H/S
53 Taken 2
54 Resident Evil: Retribution
55 Dark Shadows
56 The Hunger Games
57 Battleship
58 The Amazing Spider-Man
59 Dredd
60 Men In Black 3
61 Savages
62 The Watch
63 Magic Mike
64 Underworld: Awakening
65 Keyhole
66 Man on a Ledge
67 The Loneliest Planet
68 Snow White and the Huntsman
69 Apartment 143
70 Nitro Circus: The Movie
71 Resident Evil: Damnation

[Ivan Drago]

1. Django Unchained
2. Life of Pi
3. The Cabin in the Woods
4. It's Such A Beautiful Day
5. Les Miserables
6. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Killer Joe
8. Your Sister's Sister
9. Cloud Atlas
10. Looper
--------------------------------
11. Take This Waltz
12. Seven Psychopaths
13. Cosmopolis
14. The Comedy
15. Argo
16. The Avengers
17. The Master
18. The Five-Year Engagement
19. Beasts of the Southern Wild
20. Lincoln
21. Moonrise Kingdom
22. The Dictator
23. Rock of Ages
24. Silver Linings Playbook
25. Dredd
26. The Amazing Spider-Man
27. Ted
28. The Expendables 2
29. Flight
30. The Loneliest Planet
31. Prometheus
32. Men in Black 3

Most likely my final update.

1. Django Unchained
2. The Cabin in the Woods
3. It's Such A Beautiful Day
4. Life of Pi
5. The Master
6. Les Miserables
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Killer Joe
9. Your Sister's Sister
10. Shut Up and Play The Hits
--------------------------------

11. The Comedy
12. Skyfall
13. Cloud Atlas
14. Looper
15. Take This Waltz
16. Seven Psychopaths
17. Cosmopolis
18. Argo
19. The Avengers
20. The Five-Year Engagement
21. Beasts of the Southern Wild
22. Lincoln
23. Moonrise Kingdom
24. The Dictator
25. Rock of Ages
26. Silver Linings Playbook
27. Dredd
28. Zero Dark Thirty
29. The Amazing Spider-Man
30. A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman
31. Ted
32. The Expendables 2
33. Flight
34. The Loneliest Planet
35. Prometheus
36. Men in Black 3

[baby doll]

Masterpieces
Arrietty the Borrower (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)
Le Gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Post Mortem (Pablo LarraÃ*n)

Must Sees
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
Bernie (Richard Linklater)
Dark Horse (Todd Solondz)
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
La Fée (Dominique Abel / Fiona Gordon / Bruno Romy)
Five Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat / Guy Davidi)
Footnote (Joseph Cedar)
The Forgotten Space (Noël Burch / Allan Sekula)
Impardonnables (André Téchiné)
Keyhole (Guy Maddin)
Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
Poulet aux prunes (Vincent Paronnaud / Marjane Satrapi)
Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul)
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
Snowtown (Justin Kurzel)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)

Worth Seeing
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
Breathing (Karl Markovics)
Corpo celeste (Alice Rohrwacher)
Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman)
Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Haywire (Steven Soderbergh)
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
Looper (Rian Johnson)
Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo)
Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Perfect Sense (David Mackenzie)
Safety Not Guaranteed (Colin Trevorrow)
This Must Be the Place (Paolo Sorrentino)
Un été brûlant (Philippe Garrel)

Has Redeeming Facet
Amour (Michael Haneke)
Les Bien-aimés (Christophe Honoré)
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman)
The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
God Bless America (Bobcat Goldthwait)
Kill List (Ben Wheatley)
Let the Bullets Fly (Jiang Wen)
Oki's Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
The Paperboy (Lee Daniels)
Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
Total Recall (Len Wiseman)
Trishna (Michael Winterbottom)
The Woman in Black (James Watkins)
The Woman in the Fifth (Pawel Pawlikowski)

Worthless
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
Café de Flore (Jean-Marc Vallée)
John Carter (Andrew Stanton)


On my radar

Abendland (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)

Les Adieux Ã* la reine (Benoît Jacquot)

Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Barbara (Christian Petzold)

Bestiare (Denis Côté)

Bonsái (Cristián Jiménez)

The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)

The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)

Dissolution (Nina Menkes)

Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)

L'Enfant d'en haut (Ursula Meier)

La Folie Almayer (Chantal Akerman)

For Ellen (So Yong Kim)

The Forgiveness of Blood (Joshua Marston)

The Gatekeepers (Dror Moreh)

The Green Wave (Ali Samadi Ahadi)

Hello, I Must Be Going (Todd Louiso)

Hipsters (Valeriy Todorovsky)

Holy Motors (Leos Carax)

How to Survive a Plague (David France)

In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)

It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)

Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs)

The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)

Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors (Rirkrit Tiravanija)

The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)

The Matchmaker (Avi Nesher)

Max et les ferrailleurs (Claude Sautet)

Michael (Markus Schleinzer)

Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

Only the Young (Elizabeth Mims / Jason Tippet)

Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier)

Photographic Memory (Ross McElwee)

Pom Poko (Isao Takahata)

Red Hook Summer (Spike Lee)

Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller)

Room 237 (Rodney Ascher)

De Rouille et d'os (Jacques Audiard)

The Sheik and I (Caveh Zahedi)

Starlet (Sean Baker)

Tatsumi (Eric Khoo)

This Is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb / Jafar Panahi)

To Rome With Love (Woody Allen)

Un amour de jeunesse (Mia Hansen-Løve)

Walk Away Renee (Jonathan Caouette)

Whore's Glory (Michael Glawogger)

Wurthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)

You Are Here (Daniel Cockburun)

You Are Not I (Sara Driver)

Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)Updated and reconjiggered for the end of February.

[Irish]

Updated and reconjiggered for the end of February.

Hm! Well, a few of those are shooting to the top of my list then ("Moonrise," "Kid with the Bike," "Magic Mike").

I'm surprised you rated "Killer Joe" and "Looper" quite that highly. And while it's not your kind of movie, "Battle Royale"? Worthless? Really?

[Boner M]

Apparently Battle Royale is so worthless that it transcends years.

[baby doll]

Hm! Well, a few of those are shooting to the top of my list then ("Moonrise," "Kid with the Bike," "Magic Mike").

I'm surprised you rated "Killer Joe" and "Looper" quite that highly. And while it's not your kind of movie, "Battle Royale"? Worthless? Really?Really. This has gotta be one of the purest example of a Dead Teenager Movie I can think of: the kids are alive when the movie starts and it doesn't stop until everybody's dead. The film's enduring popularity in certain corners of the interweb never ceases to amaze me--but then, notwithstanding a once-in-a-blue-moon masterpiece like Eraserhead, the term "cult movie" is more or less synonymous with crap.

[baby doll]

Apparently Battle Royale is so worthless that it transcends years.It's far and away the worst film of 1895.

[Lazlo]

Just posted my year-end list on my blog: gzv.tumblr.com (http://gzv.tumblr.com)

/shameless traffic drive

[Irish]

Really. This has gotta be one of the purest example of a Dead Teenager Movie I can think of: the kids are alive when the movie starts and it doesn't stop until everybody's dead. The film's enduring popularity in certain corners of the interweb never ceases to amaze me--but then, notwithstanding a once-in-a-blue-moon masterpiece like Eraserhead, the term "cult movie" is more or less synonymous with crap.

Well, doesn't it get any points for purity? :P

I dunno. I loved it because it was so relentless and so shocking. I viewed it more as a horror/thriller than anything else, and on that level, enjoyed it quite a bit. (Unlike a lot of other work in this area, "Battle Royale" also didn't feel cheap and exploitative).

[ContinentalOp]

1. Silver Linings Playbook- ****
2. The Raid- ****
3. The Kid with a Bike- ****
4. The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1- ****
5. Bernie- *** 1/2
6. The Hunter- *** 1/2
7. Argo- *** 1/2
8. Killer Joe- *** 1/2
9. The Dark Knight Rises- *** 1/2
10. Jack Reacher- *** 1/2

The Dark Knight Rises has fallen after about five viewings. I really don't like anything about Anne Hathaway's part anymore; everything about it seems like a miscalculation. Almost makes it unwatchable now.

[Izzy Black]

There have been masterpieces released in 2012? Ugh, I'm seriously watching the wrong movies.

[Ivan Drago]

Are we going to be tallying these up soon?

[Boner M]

I totally forgot about the yearly presentation. I'm up for it, providing Winston* is too.

[Neclord]

The Master
The Avengers
Skyfall
Looper
The Dark Knight Rises
The Campaign
The Grey
Lockout
Prometheus
Casa de Mi Padre


11. The Amazing Spider-Man
12. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

I may be a bit behind.


The Master
The Avengers
Lincoln
Looper
Skyfall
Moonrise Kingdom
Seven Psychopaths
Silver Linings Playbook
Django Unchained
Argo




The Dark Knight Rises
Side by Side
The Imposter
The Campaign
Jack Reacher
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Sleepwalk With Me
The Queen of Versailles
Lockout
The Grey
Prometheus
Casa de Mi Padre
The Amazing Spider-Man
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Red Lights

[Weeping_Guitar]

01. Moonrise Kingdom
02. Lincoln
03. The Dark Knight Rises
04. Skyfall
05. Looper
06. Zero Dark Thirty
07. The Avengers
08. Silver Linings Playbook
09. Life of Pi
10. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

[dreamdead]

If there is going to be a tally involved, might I suggest that it start no earlier than the end of the month. I've got The Master, This is Not a Film, It's Such a Beautiful Day, and a few others out, and I'd like to feel confident about such issues. Plus, there's Spring Break for those taking classes, whereby they might be able to squeeze in another film or two...

[Spinal]

I'm seeing The Master on Tuesday. Will post a list after that.

[EyesWideOpen]

I'm pretty happy with this:

1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. Django Unchained
3. I Wish
4. Amour
5. The Kid with a Bike
6. Zero Dark Thirty
7. The Invisible War
8. Damsels in Distress
9. Killing Them Softly
10. Looper

[Pop Trash]

I totally forgot about the yearly presentation. I'm up for it, providing Winston* is too.

Yes plz, but start a new thread and tally our top five worsts as well.

[Winston*]

I totally forgot about the yearly presentation. I'm up for it, providing Winston* is too.

Yup.

[Spinal]

I'm seeing The Master on Tuesday. Will post a list after that.

Actually, no I won't. Still only have 6 films I would list. Guess I have to pass.

[D_Davis]

1. Bones Brigade: An Autobiography

[B-side]

1. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
2. Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
3. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
4. Student (Darezhan Omirbayev)
5. In Another Country (Sang-soo Hong)
6. Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
7. Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)
8. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)
9. Marfa Girl (Larry Clark)
10. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (John Hyams)

1. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
2. Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
3. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais)
4. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
5. Student (Darezhan Omirbayev)
6. Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
7. In Another Country (Sang-soo Hong)
8. Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)
9. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)
10. Marfa Girl (Larry Clark)

[B-side]

1. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
2. Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
3. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais)
4. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
5. Student (Darezhan Omirbayev)
6. Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
7. In Another Country (Sang-soo Hong)
8. Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)
9. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)
10. Marfa Girl (Larry Clark)

1. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
2. Paradise: Love (Ulrich Seidl)
3. Spring Breakes (Harmony Korine)
4. You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais)
5. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
6. Student (Darezhan Omirbayev)
7. Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
8. In Another Country (Sang-soo Hong)
9. Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)
10. Resident Evil: Retribution (Paul W.S. Anderson)

[Sxottlan]

My final list for 2012 after catching up on all that I could through Netflix. Didn't see Holy Motors until Saturday, but at least I was able to see it on the big screen. The last film (The Comedy) was tonight.

Overall, a decent year. Kind of surprised that big mega-franchises ended up delivering as well as they did. And yet there were many films that I was really looking forward to that have faded quickly in my memory. When I emerged into daylight after seeing my #1, I knew that I wouldn't see anything the rest of the year that would be any better.

1. The Avengers: ****
2. Moonrise Kingdom: ****
3. Skyfall: ****
4. Django Unchained: ****
5. Holy Motors: ****
6. The Dark Knight Rises: ****
7. Cabin in the Woods: ***1/2
8. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: ***1/2
9. Killing Them Softly: ***1/2
10. Cloud Atlas: ***1/2

Most surprising film: ParaNorman
Most disappointing film: Prometheus

Bottom Ten of 2012:
1. Branded: *
2. Battleship: *1/2
3. The Turin Horse: *1/2
4. The Lorax: **
5. Lockout: **
6. Dark Shadows: **
7. Snow White & the Huntsman: **
8. Prometheus: **
9. Lawless: **
10. The Hunger Games: **1/2

Favorite scene or moment in films from 2012:
1. The machine gun headlights on the old Aston Martin still work in Skyfall.
2. Death stalks a simulated car crash in Bernie.
3. The Erebor prologue of The Hobbit.
4. Markie gets whacked in Killing Them Softly.
5. Steve Rogers is a man out of time in a deleted scene from The Avengers.

Favorite shot of 2012:
1. Upside down shot tracks wicked queen as she passes through mirror, and then tilts up out of a pool of water in Mirror Mirror.
2. Camera precedes man thrown off a cliff as he fires back at a car in Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance.

Total films seen from 2012: 77



1. The Avengers: ****
2. Moonrise Kingdom: ****
3. The Dark Knight Rises: ****
4. Skyfall: ****
5. Django Unchained: ****
6. Anna Karenina: ***1/2
7. Cabin in the Woods: ***1/2
8. Killing Them Softly: ***1/2
9. Cloud Atlas: ***1/2
10.The Master: ***1/2

[baby doll]

Masterpieces
Arrietty the Borrower (Hiromasa Yonebayashi)
Le Gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Post Mortem (Pablo LarraÃ*n)

Must Sees
Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin)
Bernie (Richard Linklater)
Dark Horse (Todd Solondz)
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
La Fée (Dominique Abel / Fiona Gordon / Bruno Romy)
Five Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat / Guy Davidi)
Footnote (Joseph Cedar)
The Forgotten Space (Noël Burch / Allan Sekula)
Impardonnables (André Téchiné)
Keyhole (Guy Maddin)
Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
Poulet aux prunes (Vincent Paronnaud / Marjane Satrapi)
Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul)
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
Snowtown (Justin Kurzel)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes)
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)
Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers)

Worth Seeing
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
Breathing (Karl Markovics)
Corpo celeste (Alice Rohrwacher)
Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman)
Elena (Andrei Zvyagintsev)
Girl Model (David Redmon / Ashley Sabin)
Haywire (Steven Soderbergh)
Here (Braden King)
The Hunger Games (Gary Ross)
Killer Joe (William Friedkin)
Looper (Rian Johnson)
Miss Bala (Gerardo Naranjo)
Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
Perfect Sense (David Mackenzie)
Polisse (Maïwenn)
Safety Not Guaranteed (Colin Trevorrow)
This Must Be the Place (Paolo Sorrentino)
Un été brûlant (Philippe Garrel)

Has Redeeming Facet
Amour (Michael Haneke)
Les Bien-aimés (Christophe Honoré)
Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman)
The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)
The Forgiveness of Blood (Joshua Marston)
4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara)
God Bless America (Bobcat Goldthwait)
Jack Reacher (Christopher McQuarrie)
Kill List (Ben Wheatley)
Let the Bullets Fly (Jiang Wen)
Oki's Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
The Paperboy (Lee Daniels)
Prometheus (Ridley Scott)
Take This Waltz (Sarah Polley)
This Is Not a Film (Mojtaba Mirtahmasb / Jafar Panahi)
Total Recall (Len Wiseman)
Trishna (Michael Winterbottom)
The Woman in Black (James Watkins)
The Woman in the Fifth (Pawel Pawlikowski)

Worthless
Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)
Café de Flore (Jean-Marc Vallée)
Headshot (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
John Carter (Andrew Stanton)


On my radar

Abendland (Nikolaus Geyrhalter)

Les Adieux Ã* la reine (Benoît Jacquot)

Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Barbara (Christian Petzold)

Bestiare (Denis Côté)

Bonsái (Cristián Jiménez)

The Color Wheel (Alex Ross Perry)

The Day He Arrives (Hong Sang-soo)

Dissolution (Nina Menkes)

Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino)

L'Enfant d'en haut (Ursula Meier)

La Folie Almayer (Chantal Akerman)

For Ellen (So Yong Kim)

The Gatekeepers (Dror Moreh)

The Green Wave (Ali Samadi Ahadi)

Hello, I Must Be Going (Todd Louiso)

Hipsters (Valeriy Todorovsky)

Holy Motors (Leos Carax)

How to Survive a Plague (David France)

In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo)

It's Such a Beautiful Day (Don Hertzfeldt)

Keep the Lights On (Ira Sachs)

The Loneliest Planet (Julia Loktev)

Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors (Rirkrit Tiravanija)

The Matchmaker (Avi Nesher)

Max et les ferrailleurs (Claude Sautet)

Michael (Markus Schleinzer)

Neighboring Sounds (Kleber Mendonça Filho)

Only the Young (Elizabeth Mims / Jason Tippet)

Oslo, August 31st (Joachim Trier)

Photographic Memory (Ross McElwee)

Pom Poko (Isao Takahata)

Red Hook Summer (Spike Lee)

Robinson in Ruins (Patrick Keiller)

Room 237 (Rodney Ascher)

De Rouille et d'os (Jacques Audiard)

The Sheik and I (Caveh Zahedi)

Starlet (Sean Baker)

Tatsumi (Eric Khoo)

To Rome With Love (Woody Allen)

Un amour de jeunesse (Mia Hansen-Løve)

Walk Away Renee (Jonathan Caouette)

Whore's Glory (Michael Glawogger)

Wurthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)

You Are Here (Daniel Cockburun)

You Are Not I (Sara Driver)

Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow)Updated for the end of March-beginning of April.