According to IMDB, Django Unchained=best of 2012

[Army of GOD]

And I agree.

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Also, I'm probably missing some so tell me you cunts

[Ray Rider]

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

[Army of GOD]

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?

[Ray Rider]

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.

[oVo]

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

[whitestazn88]

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.

[macbone]

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]

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.

[Gillipig]

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.

[Haggis_McMutton]

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.

[whitestazn88]

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.

[aage]

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.

[BigBallinStalin]

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


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

[DoomYoshi]

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.

[Crazyirishman]

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'