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The Best Movies of 2012
MovieBob gives us a Christmas present with the best movies of 2012.
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I'm finding it increasingly harder to put forth any sort of in depth rebuttal, so my apologies in advance. I think 2012 can be summed up in one word: mediocre. Looking at your list, many came out in Nov/Dec shortly before this list was made. By merely stating what was good this year, you are saying more about the year as a whole than the list does to say what was good. Its noticeable because of whats NOT on the list. Many big name movies and only two are on the list. The rest are minor almost indie movies with mostly niche appeal. In a way, that's really freaking awesome, and on the other, it is telling that the big name movies were blarg at best. Spiderman, Batman, Expendables 2, Prometheus, The Grey, Total Recall, Men in Black 3, Res Evil number whatever, Brave, Judge Dredd, John Carter of Mars, Battleship, Wrath of the Titans, Madagascar 3. Ice Age: why can't we stop making these, The Bourne Legacy, whatever that James Bond movie was Skyfall?, Hunger Games, Hotel Transylvania, and so on.
cabin in the woods - you still aren't spoiling this why? No seriously, just tell us what you really think and why already. This mediocre movie with a M Knight Shamalongiling ending isn't that special or awesome. Ooo, monsters in closets in the deep earth. wooo.
cloud atlas - wait wat? when did this thing come out? pardon me for missing this, but did it not get any press? "shhh, if we don't tell anyone about the movie, then no one will go see it and say how bad it was."
django unchained - NO. Let me phrase that again. NO. two letters, one word. Easy to say, and hard to grasp apparently. Oh look, its a movie about a black guy murdering white people. Count me in! Oh and ps, the white people are all evil. All of them. Cause white men are evil. Can we talk about how white men are evil some more? Killing white men is not evil.
paranorman - mediocre movie, made okay by the ending. more of a wish fulfilment movie than a story. Acceptable, but not great. Wreck it Ralph was much better.
ted - didn't see it, never want to see it.
the avengers - omg a AAA movie on a list filled with mediocre niche movies. It was good. But not because it was going to be good, but because it HAD to be good. If it didn't do not just good, but Amazingly Awesome Wonderful Perfect, then superhero movies would have died on the spot.
the hobbit - Going to see it, haven't yet, heard it was too long. Not really worried about this movie's length, as I'm expecting an epic tale to take a while to pace itself. About time long form movies came back.
wreck it ralph - freaking amazing. this is a gold standard of how to tell a story in an American animation. All of the other animated movies that came out this year must be compared to this one.