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13.07.12 # Top Ten # 18 Comments15th. Chronicle
Starring: Alex Russel, Dane DeHaan, Michael B. Jordan
Director: Josh Trank
Released: 3rd February 2012
Three high school friends discover an alien object underground that gives them slowly-developing superpowers. Soon the fun of their abilities takes a darker turn and their friendship is pushed to the brink. This is a found-footage movie, so think ‘Cloverfield’ meets ‘Unbreakable’. It’s an inventive script, creatively shot and they were wise to focus on the character they did. It’s let down a bit by too much forced laughter and ***SPOILERS*** mishandling its two major character death scenes (one could have had great impact if we’d seen it properly, the other was oddly timed given all he was doing was smashing glass and pushing people).
14th. The Grey
Starring: Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts
Director: Joe Carnahan
Released: 27th January 2012
A handful of Alaskan workers are stranded in the freezing wilderness when their plane crashes. Soon a blood-thirsty pack of wolves is on their trail. Liam Neeson has got better with age and he’s superbly watchable here. The movie was mis-sold though, he doesn’t really ‘fight back’, it’s an extremely bleak movie, as they get picked off, dying in agony. While the atmospherics, and the message that ‘nature sucks and there is no God to help you’ do leave a lasting impression, the plotting is predictable once it gets going and the ending somewhat unsatisfying.
13th. Comic-Con: Episode IV – A Fan’s Hope
Director: Morgan Spurlock
Talking Heads: Stan Lee, Joss Whedon, Kevin Smith, Eli Roth, Seth Rogen
Documentary from the director of ‘Super Size Me’ that follows a wannabe comic-book artist, an aspiring costume designer, a desperate comic-book retailer, and other types at Comic-Con. If you don’t know what Comic-Con is then skip this but if you’re curious to find out more about the event and get a different insight into geek culture then you’ll thoroughly enjoy it. Even if the talking heads are a bit repetitive.
12th. John Carter
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Mark Strong, Willem Dafoe (voice)
Director: Andrew Stanton
Released: 9th March 2012
An American Civil War vet accidentally transports himself to Mars, where a war rages between two human-like settlements and a native species. There he meets a princess who begs him to fight for her dying cause. The movie is disjointed in places, sometimes boring, sometimes touches on Flash Gordon cheese and the native species are too cartoony and hard to tell apart. But Disney put one of the biggest ever budgets behind this and much of it can be seen on screen. It is a grand, old-fashioned sci-fi adventure that many will get a kick out of. Risk-taking filmmaking should be rewarded.
11th. Men In Black III
Starring: Will Smith, Josh Brolin, Jemaine Clement, Tommy Lee Jones
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Released: 25th May 2012
Agent J (Smith) travels back in time to the 60′s to save his partner and prevent a world invasion. No, it’s not a necessary sequel but it actually holds together well and is much superior to the second movie. There’s invention in the storytelling and the visuals, the villain is entertaining and it’s fun watching Brolin doing a young Tommy Lee Jones impression. The twist ending works. A mainstream movie that is interesting and coherent until the end seems to be a bit rare these days.
10th. Prometheus
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green
Director: Ridley Scott
Released: 8th June 2012
An expedition lands on an alien planet in hopes of discovering who created mankind. A mixed bag of a movie that’s worth seeing for the beautiful cinematography, (some) great acting, a tense build up, and several excellent sequences. As a whole it doesn’t hang together, due to lazy plotting (the biology for one, sucks) and it doesn’t tie into the first 20 minutes of Alien in a satisfying way.
The Avengers and The Amazing Spider-Man.. *thumbs up
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I’m not sure his year in movies has been so bad we need to fill spaces with junkers like John Carter and Chronicle, do we?
I thought they were decent for the reasons mentioned in the post, but not fantastic. Question is, what would you put in their place?
I think your order is wrong for starters. MIB3 plus John Carter are inferior to the all the movies in the 20-12 spots. Plus no love for Get the Gringo? We Bought a Zoo was a good family flick. Piranhaconda? (That last one was a joke.)
The worst movie of the year. Dark Tide with Halle Berry.
It’s going by U.S. release date so We Bought a Zoo was last year. Get the Gringo is an interesting shout, slipped through the net by going straight to video-on-demand in the U.S., I’ll need to check it out.
All and all its been disappointing so far. The Hobbit and Dark Knight Rises better be worth it. If not I’ll have to wait for the Fantastic Four reboot. Wait? What?
Better than those two? I can randomly pick OK movies that were better than them: Underworld: Awakening, Mirror Mirror, Contraband, This Means War, The Vow, Haywire, American Reunion.
Movies that should be on this list, though: Friends With Kids, Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World, Take This Waltz (?), Your Sister’s Sister, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen, The Five Year Engagement.
Just because a movie is unique doesn’t mean it’s good or needs any kind of recognition. Chronicle was bad because of how much they lost site of “found footage.” Helicopter or cop dashboard cams aren’t “found footage.” In that case they should have dropped it altogether and focused on a decent story.
And how much money you throw at a movie doesn’t mean anything either. A movie like Avatar should be recognized for how it looked and how much it cost because it was a good movie. Superman Returns and those God-forsaken Transformers movies cost a lot, but I’m not going to acknowledge them except to blame Superman for destroying Brandon Routh’s career.
It’s been a bit ho hum.
I like Ted, mainly because of the flash Gordon stuff and the thunder buddies song.
The Raid is pretty good,
Safe House was a sold thriller.
Despite the criticism, I really liked Prometheus.
The Grey was a lot better than I expected.
Not really watched any of the superhero films and didn’t really like Cabin in the Woods. Please someone make a horror film without the dreaded inverted commas of “irony”.
Man on a Ledge, did feature a man and he was on a ledge, so it won my vote for cinematic tautology if nothing else.
John Carter, I liked the Moon maiden or what ever she was, but the film was all of the place and the CGI was like watching a cartoon. Where the budget went, I have no idea.
I Watched The Avengers in 3D
I Watched The Amazing Spider-man in 3D
If I could I would Watch The Dark Knight Rises in 3D.
Also I can’t wait for IRON MAN 3, THOR: The dark world, The Amazing Spider-man 2 and 3 and mostly just because of the source
matireal CAPTAIN AMERICA 2: WINTER SOLDIER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I couldn’t belive Thor was fighting the Hulk! That part in the movie had my nerd side UNLEASHING!!!!!!!!!!!
The Woman In Black…good, solid movie. A nice first step away from HP for Daniel.
21 Jump Street had me rolling in the theater. I didn’t think I’d be wild about it but it was funny as hell. Even when they played into cliches, they played into them well.
u missed battle ship
any adam sandler movie rocks. deal with it! i <3 every-one.
THX FOR 2ND MOVIE THE RAID REDEMPTION ( INDONESIA ) SO FAR IN MY COUNTRY NOT BEST BOX OFFICE MOVIE BUT THIS MOVIE VERY GREAT , 1ST ACTION MOVIE WITH MARTIAL ART BEFORE “MERANTAU 2010″ SAME DIRECTOR
And Where Is Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2
I think 1st rank goes to The Dark Knight rises and then 2nd place for Avengers..
twilight breaking dawn part 2 is d best
wer is twilight??u guys srsly dont hav any propr ratings!!!!twilight breakin dawn is d best n it beats avengers!!
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