Match Cut's Top 10/Bottom 5 of 2012 Revealed!

[Ezee E]

Starting with the worst....

#5 - Chronicle

That was a 75-minute facepalm.

Ew, guys, there's way too many people to love this movie which I essentially found to be a live-action Rage comic.

[Ezee E]

#4 - TED

Oh wow, just, no. This movie was fucking horrible. Seth MacFarlane has truly fucking lost it.

And what the hell else does the movie have to offer? The plot is standard romantic comedy bullshit, all things considered. The last third of the film basically just decides to take Ted seriously like he's E.T. or something and has... no laughs!

[Boner M]

You assholes, Chronicle's great.

[Ezee E]

#3 - JOHN CARTER

There were a few glimmers of liveliness and humor, but it's mostly as dull and dusty as the specatacularly boringly expensive spans of desert that frame every shot that isn't a made-for-TV closeup. Attack of the Clones 10-year anniversary edition.

[Ezee E]

#2 - COSMOPOLIS

This was awful. Pattinson was utterly unconvincing, but I put a lot of that on Cronenberg's direction. It felt like an amateur production in every respect. Poorly lensed, written and acted. It becomes an absolute chore to sit through by the halfway point.

It's like Cronenberg took all the most ponderous (and pretentious out of context) lines out of Delillo's novel, forgetting the humor and pathos, and made a script out of them. Nay.

[dreamdead]

Huh, I moderately to happily like both of these last two. The Disney film loses a lot because the narrative's been appropriated so much, and the deadpan irony of Cosmopolis worked for me. Not sure if I buy that that and Holy Motors are so intrinsically linked, but I laughed.

[eternity]

Cosmopolis is fantastic, you guys. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought Chronicle reeked.

[Bandy Greensacks]

Not exactly off to a good start.

Did people not see stuff like The Paperboy, Maniac, The Impossible, The Expendables 2 and The Bourne Legacy?

[B-side]

The fact that Cosmopolis is in the bottom 5 is just plain absurd. That film must have really flown over the heads of a lot of individuals because I can't help but think it's simply too unique to be glanced at and enjoyed. It's so insular and alien. It needs a special kind of attention and appreciation for its deadpan humor and bubble of urban decay.

[Pop Trash]

Cosmopolis is an anticinema pedestrian snore of a copy + paste screenplay by a guy who should know better by now.

[baby doll]

I didn't like Cosmopolis either but I have no idea what Pop Trash is talking about when it calls it "anticinema." Also, B-Side's post almost could've been written by Armond White, given the shrill confidence with which he declares that people who don't like the same movies he does must be too stupid and lazy to appreciate them.

[baby doll]

Did people not see stuff like The Paperboy, Maniac, The Impossible, The Expendables 2 and The Bourne Legacy?

Aside from The Paperboy, I'm happy to say I didn't.

[B-side]

I didn't like Cosmopolis either but I have no idea what Pop Trash is talking about when it calls it "anticinema." Also, B-Side's post almost could've been written by Armond White, given the shrill confidence with which he declares that people who don't like the same movies he does must be too stupid and lazy to appreciate them.

Trash's sentiment is nonsensical considering the film's strict visual language. And my point wasn't that people who don't like it are too stupid to do so. I am, however, saying that laziness may very well have played a large factor in some people's distaste for it. Laziness and lack of intellect are two very different things. I've watched films lazily and only later came to appreciate them; often times after reading some rather enthusiastic and detailed praise. No one is immune to it.

[Dukefrukem]

None of those fucking movies deserve to be on the WORST MOVIES OF 2012 list.

[Dukefrukem]

Btw Ezee, this format is fantastic. I'm excited for the rest of the lists regardless of how much I disagree with them.

[Raiders]

Chronicle is the correct definition of anti-cinema; didn't see Ted; John Carter was crushingly disappointing but earnestly entertaining; Cosmopolis is one of the best films of the year.

My useless two cents.

[B-side]

Cosmopolis is one of the best films of the year.

My useless two cents.

This and your love of Ferrara are what make you awesome.

[Spinal]

Weird. When I cast my initial 'nay' vote for Chronicle, I think I was the lone dissenter at that point.

[Kurosawa Fan]

I for one think Chronicle is right where it should be. Didn't see any of the other bottom feeders thus far. Only one I was even slightly interested in was Cosmopolis, but the Pattinson factor gave me pause. Haven't gotten around to hitting play yet. Probably won't.

[eternity]

I saw a lot of rancid movies last year (shocking, I know) and Chronicle might have been the worst of all of them. It was at least the worst found footage movie I watched last year, and I saw Project X, Grave Encounters 2, and The Bay for crying out loud.

The rest of these movies don't belong here, but that is what tends to happen when a group of people who tend to only watch movies if they have decent suspicion that they're good or at the very least worth watching for discussion's sake. I've always regarded the "worst of" section of these to mean most disappointing; why else would David Cronenberg, Andrew Stanton, et. al be included?

[Skitch]

You assholes, Chronicle's great.

*high five*

[ledfloyd]

Cosmopolis is an anticinema pedestrian snore of a copy + paste screenplay by a guy who should know better by now.

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/s...cinematic.html

Featuring Cronenberg, in a delightful bit of serendipity.

[Dead & Messed Up]

I'll take the "anti-cinema" of Chronicle over the stuffy, self-indulgent dreck most of you losers masturbate to.

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I love you guys, and I have no issue with what cinema you enjoy and/or masturbate to.

But I really did enjoy Chronicle.

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[Dukefrukem]

So what's number 1? Silent Hill?

[Rowland]

So what's number 1? Silent Hill?

It has to be something that a lot of people saw.