THE OFFICIAL TOP 10 OF 2012... and the worst

[Ezee E]

It appears Boner M/Winston aren't doing it, and I'm curious at the results now.

SPOILER your top ten, and your worst five.

This will be closed at the end of the month. We'll start posting soon after.

Winston/Boner M, I'd love your help with the screengrabs. We'll still do the Match and Cut....

Looking forward to the results.

[Ezee E]

TOP:
1. Life of Pi
2. Django Unchained
3. The Grey
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. Looper
7. End of Watch
8. Skyfall
9. Amour
10. Argo

WORST:
1. Dark Shadows
2. Pitch Perfect
3. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
4. Chronicle
5. John Carter

[baby doll]

Suddenly this place seems to have gone list crazy for some reason.

Arrietty the Borrower (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2011/07/20/arietty-mon-amour-arietty-the-borrower/)
The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
The Forgotten Space (Noël Burch / Allan Sekula)
Le Gamin au vélo (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Impardonnables (André Téchiné) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/01/29/old-europe-amour-impardonnables/)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/04/05/unsolved-mysteries-the-master/)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2012/10/13/tout-les-garcons-et-les-filles-damsels-in-distress-moonrise-kingdom/)
Post Mortem (Pablo LarraÃ*n) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2011/08/13/the-man-who-wasnt-there-post-mortem/)
Tabu (Miguel Gomes) (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2013/03/05/collected-tales-bella-addormentata-tabu/)
The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)

Worst: Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)

[TGM]

Top:
1. Dredd
2. Cloud Atlas
3. Lincoln
4. The Avengers
5. Seven Psychopaths
6. The Amazing Spider-Man
7. Magic Mike
8. The Raid: Redemption
9. Chronicle
10. Resident Evil: Retribution

Worst:
1. John Carter
2. Silent Hill: Revelation
3. The Dark Knight Rises
4. Ted
5. Underworld: Awakening

[Mr. McGibblets]

Worst: Battle Royale (Kinji Fukasaku)

This movie is more than 10 years old.

[ThePlashyBubbler]

1. Sister
2. The Color Wheel
3. Damsels in Distress
4. The Imposter
5. Tabu
6. Only the Young
7. Attenberg
8. Detropia
9. Take This Waltz
10. The Master

[Lazlo]

Best:
1. Cloud Atlas
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. Life of Pi
4. The Master
5. Amour
6. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Moonrise Kingdom
9. Mud
10. Lincoln

Worst:
1. Act of Valor
2. Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning
3. Battleship
4. The Bourne Legacy
5. Cosmopolis

I included Mud because it's IMDb date is 2012 but if we're excluding movies with theatrical 2013 dates, move Lincoln up a spot and put Looper at 10.

[Boner M]

Sorry, should've tabulated earlier but I just don't post here that much anymore.

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

Bottom
1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2. Hitchcock
3. Project X
4. Seven Psychopaths
5. The Hunger Games

[Derek]

Sorry, should've tabulated earlier but I just don't post here that much anymore.[/SPOILER]

:(

[Gizmo]

top 10:
10. Lincoln
9. The Hunger Games
8. The Dark Knight Rises
7. Cabin in the Woods
6. Zero Dark Thirty
5. Argo
4. Les Miserables
3. Amour
2. Django Unchained
1. Moonrise Kingdom

Bottom 5:
5. Act of Valor
4. Man on a Ledge
3. The Lorax
2. The Dictator
1. Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2

[baby doll]

This movie is more than 10 years old.It was awful then. It's awful now. It will continue to be awful until the end of time.

(Also, it only got a US release date in 2012.)

[Ivan Drago]

BEST:

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


WORST:

33. Ted
34. Flight
35. The Loneliest Planet
36. Prometheus
37. Men in Black 3

[Pop Trash]

Sorry, should've tabulated earlier but I just don't post here that much anymore.


Are you posting more elsewhere or is this cuz of irl commitments?

[Pop Trash]

1. Holy Motors
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
4. The Master
5. The Grey
6. Side by Side
7. Beasts of the Southern Wild
8. Django Unchained
9. Take This Waltz
10. The Innkeepers

Worst:
1. Cosmopolis
2. Killing Them Softly
3. Wanderlust
4. Brave
5. The Cabin in the Woods

[Lucky]

BEST
1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. Oslo, August 31st
3. Django Unchained
4. Goodbye First Love
5. The Master
6. Argo
7. Seven Psychopaths
8. Killer Joe
9. Magic Mike
10. To Rome with Love

WORST
1. Cosmopolis
2. Chronicle
3. Anna Karenina
4. Prometheus
5. Friends with Kids

[eternity]

BEST
1. Detention
2. Killer Joe
3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. Cosmopolis
5. Magic Mike
6. It's Such a Beautiful Day
7. Life of Pi
8. Paranorman
9. This Is Not A Film
10. Zero Dark Thirty

WORST
1. Chronicle
2. Detachment
3. Lockout
4. Snow White and the Huntsman
5. Prometheus

[Sycophant]

1. Moonrise Kingdom
2. I Wish
3. Django Unchained
4. Damsels in Distress
5. Wolf Children
6. The Innkeepers
7. The Dark Knight Rises
8. Secret World of Arietty
9. Brave
10. Anna Karenina


WORST:
1. Rock of Ages
2. John Carter
3. Treasure Buddies

I didn't see many 2012 movies. Looks like only 17. What I saw was mostly pretty good, though. (Not sure if I Wish and Moonrise Kingdom got US releases in 2012, though, so they may not qualify for this list or whatevs.)

[Ezee E]

What was the point system used for this in the past?

[B-side]

1. Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg)
2. V/H/S (Various)
3. Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold)
4. Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson)
5. Magic Mike (Steven Soderbergh)
6. The Deep Blue Sea (Terence Davies)
7. In Another Country (Sang-soo Hong)
8. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
9. Frankenweenie (Tim Burton)
10. The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr)

Worst:

1. American Reunion (Jon Hurwitz/Hayden Schlossberg)
2. Skyfall (Sam Mendes)
3. This is 40 (Judd Apatow)
4. Side by Side (Christopher Kenneally)
5. The Dark Knight Rises (Christopher Nolan)

2-5 aren't particularly bad, but they're the worst of the rest of my viewings.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Sister
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Beasts of the Southern Wild
4. Bullhead
5. Tabu
6. Amour
7. Django Unchained
8. The Impossible
9. The Kid with a Bike
10. Oslo, August 31st

[Gizmo]

What was the point system used for this in the past?

I imagine it was an inverted point system... 10s get 1 point, 1s get 10 points, etc.

[ledfloyd]

1. Tabu
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Holy Motors
4. Cosmopolis
5. This is Not a Film
6. The Turin Horse
7. The Kid With a Bike
8. The Master
9. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
10. Oslo, August 31st

Worst:
1. Beasts of the Southern Wild
2. The Comedy
3. The Dictator
4. John Carter
5. Keyhole

[Stay Puft]

1. Goodbye First Love
2. Oslo, August 31st
3. A Simple Life
4. Norwegian Wood
5. This is Not a Film
6. Looper
7. The Raid
8. ParaNorman
9. Redline
10. The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

WORST
1. The Devil Inside
2. Prometheus
3. Dredd
4. The Viral Factor
5. The Bullet Vanishes

[ContinentalOp]

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

Bottom 5
1. Seven Psychopaths
2. Contraband
3. The Campaign
4. Ted
5. Lawless

[Melville]

1. The Grey
2. The Turin Horse
3. Oslo, August 31st
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. The Kid with a Bike
6. Django Unchained
7. Snowtown
8. The Master
9. The Dark Knight Rises
10. The Deep Blue Sea

Worst
1. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2. Cosmopolis
3. Damsels in Distress

[eternity]

I'm not sure if we should be looking at people's selections, let alone commenting on them, but it's alarming how one of the year's best movies is potentially going to be designated by the community here at large as *the* worst.

[B-side]

I'm not sure if we should be looking at people's selections, let alone commenting on them, but it's alarming how one of the year's best movies is potentially going to be designated by the community here at large as *the* worst.

If you're talking about Cosmopolis, then yeah, I agree. Really disappointing. You have to wonder how many bad actually bad films these guys have seen.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Can we edit our list if we see something before the end of the month, or do we need to post a new list in that case?

Here are my lists as it stands now:


Best
1. It's Such a Beautiful Day
2. The Master
3. Zero Dark Thirty
4. The Kid With a Bike
5. Moonrise Kingdom
6. ParaNorman
7. The Deep Blue Sea
8. Amour
9. The Raid: Redemption
10. Cabin in the Woods

Worst
5. The Bourne Legacy
4. Prometheus
3. Safety Not Guaranteed
2. The Dark Knight Rises
1. Snow White and the Huntsman

[Ezee E]

I would edit the original post. I won't tabulate until later this week.

I may have to postpone the presentation a bit due to moving and all, so take your time.

[Pop Trash]

If you're talking about Cosmopolis, then yeah, I agree. Really disappointing. You have to wonder how many bad actually bad films these guys have seen.

American Reunion > Cosmopolis...which is painful for me to say since I'm generally a big Cronenberg fan.

[B-side]

American Reunion > Cosmopolis...which is painful for me to say since I'm generally a big Cronenberg fan.

SARS > you... which is painful for me to say since I'm generally a big SARS fan.

[Winston*]

Winston/Boner M, I'd love your help with the screengrabs. We'll still do the Match and Cut....

I have next week off work so I'm happy to help.

[Ezee E]

I have next week off work so I'm happy to help.

I'll try and get results sent to you immediately. If I'm gone, that should be ample time for you to get pics ready. Nice.

[Henry Gale]

Man, there was way too much greatness last year to fit into a Top 10 that does everything justice. Not to mention a lot of this I've still yet to get around to. I can't even have an opinion on Cosmopolis yet!


TOP:

1. Holy Motors (Carax)
2. The Cabin In The Woods (Goddard)
3. Amour (Haneke)
4. It's Such A Beautiful Day (Hertzfeldt)
5. Cloud Atlas (Wachowski/Wachowski/Twyker)
6. The Master (Anderson)
7. This Is Not A Film (Panahi/Mirtahmasb)
8. Samsara (Fricke)
9. Life Of Pi (Lee)
10. The Grey (Carnahan)

WORST:

1. Piranha 3DD (Gulager)
2. Lockout (Mather/St. Leger)
3. The Possession (Bornedal)
4. Taken 2 (Megaton)
5. Ted (MacFarlane)


And watch some worse movies, people! I mean... you get what I'm saying. If anything, the consensus is going to look more like a "Movies We Had Higher Hopes For" list than a truly terrible bottom five. Even my five are slightly modified towards thing I expect anyone else has actually saw.

[baby doll]

And watch some worse movies, people! I mean... you get what I'm saying. If anything, the consensus is going to look more like a "Movies We Had Higher Hopes For" list than a truly terrible bottom five.The Siskel and Ebert rule is to go after big, well-promoted movies because they're the ones that do the most damage. However, the average Match-Cutter is far more likely to suffer through Cosmopolis than Piranha 3DD or Taken 2.

[Dukefrukem]

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

5. Apartment 143
4. The Man with the Iron Fists
3. Nitro Circus: The Movie
2. Resident Evil: Damnation
1. Silent Hill: Revelation

[Dukefrukem]

Man, there was way too much greatness last year to fit into a Top 10 that does everything justice. Not to mention a lot of this I've still yet to get around to. I can't even have an opinion on Cosmopolis yet!

Agreed. Last year was one of the best years of cinema since 1968.

[Henry Gale]

The Siskel and Ebert rule is to go after big, well-promoted movies because they're the ones that do the most damage. However, the average Match-Cutter is far more likely to suffer through Cosmopolis than Piranha 3DD or Taken 2.

But the latter two are still indisputably terrible movies I checked out exactly the same I did the films I adored, regardless of prior expectations. They deserve spots on a bottom five a million times more than something like Chronicle. Hell, I even think John Carter works a lot better than I think most give it credit for, if not without its clunky portions.

And regarding Prometheus, I don't know how I'd go about defending it, but I still really enjoy it and have watched it multiple times now. I'll never understand why the biggest (seemingly only) complaint about it is that the characters don't act relatably or believably when to me film's entire conflict stems from Fassbender's android's drive to break down, reverse engineer, and pit his human crew members against each other because, despite being their creation, he lacks the same sort of empathy, emotional understanding (or in Rapace's character's case, faith) they do, and is motivated by the same sort of curiosity and lack of caution the similarly all-intelligent Engineers themselves exhibited when they created the humans (which in turn, lead to their own near-extinction). It's all cyclical, prying at exactly which aspects of one's nature are lost when they try to replicate or better ourselves through technology and unnatural biology.

The sort of "whoopies, shouldn't'a touched that alien snake!"-laziness begins and ends with that scene for me.

[baby doll]

But the latter two are still indisputably terrible movies I checked out exactly the same I did the films I adored, regardless of prior expectations. They deserve spots on a bottom five a million times more than something like Chronicle. Hell, I even think John Carter works a lot better than I think most give it credit for, if not without its clunky portions.I see what you're saying, but it strikes me as a bit redundant to criticize Piranha 3DD because it's not like anybody's going to offer a spirited defense of the movie, whereas Cosmopolis and Prometheus both have their admirers.

[B-side]

Putting Prometheus and Cosmopolis in the same ballpark is madness. The latter is brilliant, the former is passable entertainment.

inb4 selective quotes with response "lol yeah it is madness cuz prometheus is actually good loooooool"

[Mysterious Dude]

In my old age, I don't feel compelled to see bad movies on purpose.

[Gizmo]

In my old age, I don't feel compelled to see bad movies on purpose.

This. I have a hard time finding time (and sometimes money, though mostly what I watch now is netflix/showtime) to watch anything. When I have the time, or make the time, I will watch something that received good reviews or a major blockbuster that everyone talks about (good and bad), just so I can be a part of the conversation. It's been quite some time since I've just grabbed and watched 3 or 4 movies a week, without much regard to what it was.

Generally my bad movies these days are what my wife or 4 year old pick that I watch with them.

[dreamdead]

1. Girl Walk // All Day
2. It's Such a Beautiful Day
3. Holy Motors
4. Oslo, August 31st
5. The Master
6. Zero Dark Thirty
7. The Kid with a Bike
8. The Cabin in the Woods
9. Cosmopolis
10. The Deep Blue Sea

[baby doll]

Putting Prometheus and Cosmopolis in the same ballpark is madness. The latter is brilliant, the former is passable entertainment.Just to be clear, I wasn't putting them in the same ballpark (although Cronenberg and Scott both became famous around the same time for making science fiction and horror movies). My point is that, for the people who don't like them, it makes more sense to put these films on a worst-of list than a Piranha or a Taken because they're films by respected auteurs that Match-Cutters are likely to go out of their way to see, and it gives the films' admirers a chance to stick up for them.

[Dukefrukem]

Just to be clear, I wasn't putting them in the same ballpark (although Cronenberg and Scott both became famous around the same time for making science fiction and horror movies). My point is that, for the people who don't like them, it makes more sense to put these films on a worst-of list than a Piranha or a Taken because they're films by respected auteurs that Match-Cutters are likely to go out of their way to see, and it gives the films' admirers a chance to stick up for them.

That's where I come in...

[B-side]

Just to be clear, I wasn't putting them in the same ballpark (although Cronenberg and Scott both became famous around the same time for making science fiction and horror movies). My point is that, for the people who don't like them, it makes more sense to put these films on a worst-of list than a Piranha or a Taken because they're films by respected auteurs that Match-Cutters are likely to go out of their way to see, and it gives the films' admirers a chance to stick up for them.

Right. But just the notion of something as excellent as Cosmopolis being given that label is annoying to say the least.

[baby doll]

Right. But just the notion of something as excellent as Cosmopolis being given that label is annoying to say the least.Personally, I didn't care for it (http://lesamantsreguliers.wordpress.c om/2012/12/11/charmless-men-dark-horse-cosmopolis/), but then I have an admittedly old-fashioned bias against narrative movies that don't have any characters in them.

[B-side]

It has several characters, but whatever. Its most impressive qualities are in its contextualization of those characters and the brilliant formal control Cronenberg displays.

[NickGlass]

Hmm, let's go with this. In regards to order, I'm only really sure about my #1.

1. Tabu
2. In the Family
3. Starlet
4. Take this Waltz
5. Holy Motors
6. Keep the Lights On
7. Kid with the Bike
8. The Loneliest Planet
9. Oslo, August 31st
10. Goodbye First Love

Worst:

1. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

[Fezzik]

BEST 10


The Cabin in the Woods
Zero Dark Thirty
The Avengers
Life of Pi
Django Unchained
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Looper
Cloud Atlas
The Perks of Being a Wallflower


WORST 5


Meeting Evil
Hick
Battleship
Bel Ami
Total Recall

[Mr. McGibblets]

Looper
Damsels in Distress
The Cabin in the Woods
Haywire
Django Unchained
Tabu
The Avengers
Searching for Sugar Man
Moonrise Kingdom
The Pirates!: Band of Misfists


Worst:


Hope Springs
This Means War
Liberal Arts
Peace, Love & Misunderstanding
Wanderlust

[Bosco B Thug]

1. The Deep Blue Sea
2. Tabu
3. Zero Dark Thirty
4. Cosmopolis
5. Oslo, August 31st
6. Lincoln
7. Brave
8. The Pirates! Band of Misfits
9. Amour
10. The Wicker Tree

WORST:

1. THE APPARITION
2. The Hunger Games
3. Ice Age: Continental Drift
4. Ted
5. The Woman in Black

[Watashi]

1. It's Such a Beautiful Day
2. The Grey
3. Life of Pi
4. Moonrise Kingdom
5. The Cabin in the Woods
6. The Master
7. Girl Walk // All Day
8. Oslo, August 31st
9. Zero Dark Thirty
10. The Raid: Redemption

5. The Expendables 2
4. The Campaign
3. Silver Linings Playbook
2. Beasts of the Southern Wild
1. Flight

[Thirdmango]

Thought I'd quickly throw this in since I don't see you've officially cut it off even though it's July 1st.


1. It's Such a Beautiful Day
2. Django Unchained
3. The Wolf Children Ame and Yuki
4. Safety Not Guaranteed
5. Sleepwalk With Me
6. 21 Jump Street
7. The Avengers
8. The Cabin in the Woods
9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
10. Silver Linings Playbook

5. Rock of Ages
4. Magic Mike
3. The Hunger Games
2. The Campaign
1. Lay The Favorite

[Bandy Greensacks]

1. Holy Motors
2. Starlet
3. Killer Joe
4. Lore
5. Paradise: Love
6. Moonrise Kingdom
7. Zero Dark Thirty
8. Errors of the Human Body
9. The Comedy
10. Dredd

5. The Bourne Legacy
4. The Impossible
3. Ted
2. Maniac
1. The Paperboy

[Derek]

1. It's Such a Beautiful Day
2. The Master
3. Tabu
4. Whore's Glory
5. Zero Dark Thirty
6. Amour
7. Wuthering Heights
8. Cosmopolis
9. The Kid With a Bike
10. Sister

[Ezee E]

AND... Locked.

[Ezee E]

I have this tabulated. Does anyone want to do the annual "screen-edits?"

[Dukefrukem]

Screen edits?

[Fezzik]

I have this tabulated. Does anyone want to do the annual "screen-edits?"

Is the the tradition of adding funny quotes via MS Paint or is this something else?

[Ezee E]

Is the the tradition of adding funny quotes via MS Paint or is this something else?

That. Yes.

[eternity]

I don't have anything to do tonight, so if there's anything I can be ordered to do, let 'er rip.

[Winston*]

I would, but I already spent all my comedic energy on this post.

http://matchcut.artboiled.com/showthread.php?1-Random-Thoughts&p=491653&viewfull=1#post491653

[Sycophant]

I could do a screen edit or two. I don't know much about many of these movies, which will either make it better or worthless.

[Lucky]

I'm not good with the comedy, but I'd be glad to help search for the Match and Cut quotes if you need it.

[Ezee E]

I'm not good with the comedy, but I'd be glad to help search for the Match and Cut quotes if you need it.

Winston isn't feeling funny :(
eternity is working on it.

Lucky, I'll PM you the info. I'll be in Telluride for the next ten days, and won't exactly be in the mindset to pull quotes.

[Izzy Black]

is it too late to post my list?

[B-side]

Izzy's list must be incorporated, lest the list be considered invalid.

[Izzy Black]

:D

[Grouchy]

I'll post mine too:

1. The Master
2. Django Unchained
3. Holy Motors
4. Amour
5. Moonrise Kingdom
6. Reality
7. Cloud Atlas
8. Looper
9. The Cabin in the Woods
10. Killing Them Softly

Worst:

1. Ted
2. To Rome with Love
3. A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III
4. Bad Ass
5. Broken

[Ezee E]

Sorry guys, :)

[eternity]

I already made all the images, but if E wants to accept them and the results change, I could make adjustments.