What was your favourite movie released this year?

My top 5.

1.) Avengers

2.) Moonrise Kingdom

3.) Looper

4.) Lincoln

5.) The Hobbit

You people are silly. Skyfall for me.

Avengers or Dark Knight... and maybe Avengers most... which is crazy to say to me because of what I expect out of those Dark Knight movies and Batman over all other super heroes. Avengers was just so well done I thought. No movie has captured the fun, huge comic book feel better.

Also quite enjoyed Prometheus, even with some flaws.

Bat-Man.

Looper, Moonrise Kingdom and The Cabin in the Woods, from the top of my head.

The Hobbit

I really didn't see many movies, but easily The Expendables 2 for me. Don't care how unoriginal or simple the story line was. It's not a movie that is supposed to have a good story line, it's a movie that you're supposed to laugh at all the one liners and love all the completely over the top action. And I loved every minute of all that. XD

Simple answer being The Avengers. Yeah it's the big popular choice but when you think about what all had to happen for this movie to turn out as good as it did it's really amazing. This could've easily been a botched project and everything could've fallen apart at the last minute. But from start to finish everything turned out spectacular. Even with the absence of Edward Norton things still worked out. In fact I'm really eager to see an Incredible Hulk film starring Mark Ruffalo. I loved him as Bruce Banner and would welcome the chance to see him star in a Hulk movie of his own.

• The Avengers
• The Amazing Spider-Man (Though I'll always hold the Sam Raimi ones close to my heart.)
• The Dark Knight Rises
• Skyfall
• Moonrise Kingdom
• Wreck-It Ralph
• Brave (not my favorite Pixar movie, but still pretty solid, I genuinely loved it)
• Paranorman

I didn't see anything else all year, not anything new, that is. I'm waiting on Promethius until I see the other Alien movies. Going to see The Hobbit on Christmas, but I have mixed feelings on that because I've never been a Tolkien fan (can't explain why). Hopefully seeing Django Unchained and Rise of The Guardians, too.

I can't say yet as I haven't seen Zero Dark Thirty (which I have heard fantastic things about), but for now I'll go with Argo.

Maybe not the movie of the year, but I enjoyed Skyfall the most.

Moonrise Kingdom definitely. I wanna give The Raid: Redemption a mention too considering it was the best action movie I have seen since Casino Royale.

I watch so many movies I can't even keep track. I work at a mutual fund company but for some reason they give out $4 movie tickets. So we go all the time. Funny enough all the comic book movies were the best this year. Ted was probably the best comedy. Skyfall best action movie. Expendables 2 worst best action movie. But hands down ARGO was the best movie I saw this year and I want it to win all the Oscars. Prometheus was the WORST movie.

Even though it doesn't hold a candle to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit was pretty good. A lesser disappointment than The Dark Knight Rises at the very least.

Haven't watched it yet, but I know it's gonna be The Hobbit.

@Socialone said:

Even though it doesn't hold a candle to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit was pretty good. A lesser disappointment than The Dark Knight Rises at the very least.

Care to elaborate?

This thread is giving me sick Netflix ideas.

How could I forget 21 Jump Street! That was easily the funniest movie to come out this year.

Avengers and then the dark knight rises. Avengers was just a really fun time at the movies from start to finish. The dark knight was a little disappointing in some ways but still a very good movie.

How could I forget! Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Incredible spy movie, everyone should see it.

@TheDudeOfGaming said:

Haven't watched it yet, but I know it's gonna be The Hobbit.

@Socialone said:

Even though it doesn't hold a candle to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit was pretty good. A lesser disappointment than The Dark Knight Rises at the very least.

Care to elaborate?

I could try if you want.

The plot is near-nonsensical (see the two examples below) and the dialogue is often terrible; JGL is basically wasted; the second-half devolves into a boring mess (much like TDK); character motivation is a ruse in order to conceal a "twist" at the crux of the movie and is adjusted to this end, making much of the earlier two hours redundant and totally neutering the villian; the various macguffins/plot devices (auto-pilot/clean-slate) are used to manipulate the audience to the detriment of the story-telling. Miranda/Talia's death is absolutely awful.

• Bane re-captures the nuclear physicist in an elaborate heist, despite being in possession of him at the very start of the film, so that they can fake his death in order that they can have him build a bomb despite the fact that him being alive wouldn't have altered their plan. At all.

• Bane ensures that a transaction involving Wayne's funds/shares goes through 'legitimately' (it will take 'months to prove' despite Bane's assault on wall street being widely televised) in order that the board must vote on a new director in the belief that they will choose Miranda on a whim such that she will be given access to the fusion reactor.

Saying all that, I really like the film up until Bruce is dropped into the lazarus pit. As soon as the No-Man's Land plot kicks in, I lose interest.

1. The Master

2. Moonrise Kingdom

3. Holy Motors

4. Margaret (I'll count it as 2012 because of the release strategy)

5. Cloud Atlas

If I included TV in my top 5 I would bump at least one of these for Luck's first season and probably another for Girls's first season.

My bottom 5:

51. The Campaign

52. The Watch

53. Lincoln

54. American Reunion

55. Friends With Kids

Amour and The Master would probably be my favorites of the year so far. I also enjoyed Moonrise Kingdom quite a bit. I was actually planning on making a list for this year after I catch up on watching Beasts of The Southern Wild and some other films I missed out on.

I'd probably say The Avengers was my overall favorite movie this year. Runner Ups are Dark Knight RIses, Lincoln and Skyfall.

Beasts of the Southern Wild :)

Close second place for Moonrise Kingdom

I'd say my Favorite has to be Argo that was edge of your seat tension the whole way through with fantastic performances all round. That film has to get some recognition at the Oscars. I was so disappointed when I went to my local cinema, it was the second night it was on and I was the only one there in the biggest screen. Hands down the best film I saw this year.

I also really enjoyed Skyfall probably one of my top few Bond films. Avengers was fantastic as well the definition of a huge fun summer blockbuster and for all the flak it's got online since release I also loved The Dark Knight Rises and it would probably be the closest runner up to Argo the plot is a bit convoluted if you think about it but its still a great film and a brilliant trilogy. I'm sure The Hobbit will be on here too when I see it and Django along with Lincoln if they were out here before late January.

Cabin in the Woods or Looper.

Hunger Games, Ted, Moonrise Kingdom. In that order.

Probably Avengers. Dark Knight Rises fell a little flat in that it just didn't, or perhaps couldn't, live up to The Dark Knight. Also, Skyfall was good but didn't feel like a coherent whole film. it was like two different movies pasted together. The first half a pretty awesome Bond film, the second half... I don't even know.

I can't think of anything else at the moment that stands out. I didn't go out to the movies all that much, just for those three I mentioned and Act of Valor.

I just looked over a list of 2012 movies and realized that there are quite a few I want to see pretty badly but haven't, like Lincoln, Wuthering Heights, Argo etc. I just don't tend to go out to the movies to see movies like that, so I will have to wait and see if my choice is amended when I see those.

Checked my ratings of the year's movies, looks like a tie between Moonrise Kingdom, Haneke's Amour and V/H/S. If I had to pick a favourite, I'd go with Amour, but I can't really love that movie as it stands since my own relationship with the reality of death in my own life is still too... cold, I guess, is the word. A decade or so, and I'll probably think of it as Haneke's best.

Only saw I think three films from 2012--Avengers, Cabin in the Woods, and V/H/S--and Cabin easily takes it. V/H/S was just kind of average/mediocre and spoke to how utterly bored I am with found-footage horror movies, and The Avengers, while fun (especially concerning all of the Hulk scenes), was a little flat in spots.

EDIT: OH SHIT I FORGET ABOUT THE GREY! Yeah, The Grey, by far. Bloody loved it.

EDIT2: Fucking Hell I forgot about Chronicle, which was also pretty great.

ALMIGHTY EDIT: OK, there's also Haywire, which had some solid fight scenes, but little else of value, and Woman in Black, which was kinda 'eh' overall. In any case The Grey still takes it for me.

Movie is dumb entertainment right? With that in mind, Expendables 2 tops the list

@GetEveryone said:

@TheDudeOfGaming said:

Haven't watched it yet, but I know it's gonna be The Hobbit.

@Socialone said:

Even though it doesn't hold a candle to The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit was pretty good. A lesser disappointment than The Dark Knight Rises at the very least.

Care to elaborate?

I could try if you want.

The plot is near-nonsensical (see the two examples below) and the dialogue is often terrible; JGL is basically wasted; the second-half devolves into a boring mess (much like TDK); character motivation is a ruse in order to conceal a "twist" at the crux of the movie and is adjusted to this end, making much of the earlier two hours redundant and totally neutering the villian; the various macguffins/plot devices (auto-pilot/clean-slate) are used to manipulate the audience to the detriment of the story-telling. Miranda/Talia's death is absolutely awful.

• Bane re-captures the nuclear physicist in an elaborate heist, despite being in possession of him at the very start of the film, so that they can fake his death in order that they can have him build a bomb despite the fact that him being alive wouldn't have altered their plan. At all.

• Bane ensures that a transaction involving Wayne's funds/shares goes through 'legitimately' (it will take 'months to prove' despite Bane's assault on wall street being widely televised) in order that the board must vote on a new director in the belief that they will choose Miranda on a whim such that she will be given access to the fusion reactor.

Saying all that, I really like the film up until Bruce is dropped into the lazarus pit. As soon as the No-Man's Land plot kicks in, I lose interest.

I really disliked the ending being pretty much ripped straight out of Inception, a Batman ending should be pretty definitive, not a maybe or maybe not type of Inception ending.

@AssInAss: What is that Simsara about? Looks like something they play in TV stores to show off HD technology.

Prometheus and Dredd, for sure.

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

@AssInAss: What is that Simsara about? Looks like something they play in TV stores to show off HD technology.

Ever heard about Baraka? Wordless documentaries that show you really cool parts of the world shot on the best cameras, 70mm. Seeing this in a cinema is mindblowing. My eyes couldn't almost handle all the details and colors. Samsara is more about the uncanny valley of human faces as dolls vs androids, and it's a cool theme throughout.

The fact that I could glean a narrative out of it was amazing, really well edited and directed. It's an experience that doesn't require drugs :P

Prometheus, although I haven't yet seen the Hobbit.

Fuck cinema though, the second series of Sherlock takes the gold, as far as I'm concerned.

@AssInAss said:

@Bourbon_Warrior said:

@AssInAss: What is that Simsara about? Looks like something they play in TV stores to show off HD technology.

Ever heard about Baraka? Wordless documentaries that show you really cool parts of the world shot on the best cameras, 70mm. Seeing this in a cinema is mindblowing. My eyes couldn't almost handle all the details and colors. Samsara is more about the uncanny valley of human faces as dolls vs androids, and it's a cool theme throughout.

The fact that I could glean a narrative out of it was amazing, really well edited and directed. It's an experience that doesn't require drugs :P

Im sure they would help though

Like most people, I really liked Looper and Dark Knight. I still haven't seen Moonrise Kingdom, but I generally love Wes Anderson so I expect to enjoy it. Still need to watch Skyfall and Argo.

Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi, The Hobbit.

Holy Motors followed by The Master. Looper was a travesty.

i'm going to go with the hobbit. i saw that yesterday, i enjoyed every second of that long ass movie. i read that book like a dozen times when i was a kid, and the movie was just such a fun joyful adventure. apparently i had a huge dumbass grin on my face the entire time lol.

honorable mentions: the avengers, dark knight rises, cabin in the woods, skyfall. probably a few more i cant remember at the moment, if i did ill come back and edit.

The Comedy

@Video_Game_King said:

The Dark Knight Rises.

Agree.

Also, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. I know it came out last year but fuck sake is that movie good. I must have watched 6 times by now twice in the theater.

Last night I watched Get The Gringo and The Grey. Neither of those movies were incredible, but they were both really solid movies and got me hooked on them in one way or another. I was honestly very surprised by Get The Gringo. It is a Mel Gibson movie that, from the outset, looked completely stupid. I just put it on because I needed to have something mindless on in the background while I tried to get a little bit of work done. After about 30 minutes, though, I eventually just had to abandon my work so that I could focus completely on the movie. The Grey was also good, but depressing as all hell. It was made even more depressing by the fact that the character of Liam Neeson, the movie's main dude, has some very clear parallels with Liam Neeson himself (namely, the fact that his wife died). I can hardly watch a Liam Neeson movie anymore without feeling bad for him on account of the death of his wife, but to watch a depressing movie that invokes that tragic event is just too much.

I'm not very current in my movie watching... I guess God Bless America or maybe Safety Not Guaranteed.

Skyfall and Looper right behind it

I haven't seen Django Unchained yet.

Avengers

Probably between The Hobbit, Avengers and Skyfall.

I really like The Hobbit though.