ANDERSON'S BEST OF 2012: The Final Chapter

[Anderson]

1) Moonrise Kingdom
2) Django Unchained
3) Beasts of the Southern Wild
4) Silver Linings Playbook
5) Argo
6) Cabin in the Woods
7) Les Miserables
8) The Grey
9) The Perks of Being a Wallflower
10) The Avengers

The runners-up

11) Hitchcock
12) Samsara
13) Anna Karenina
14) Lincoln
15) Skyfall
16) Rust and Bone
17) Brave
18) The Odd Life of Timothy Green
19) Prometheus
20) Amour

[B_Metal]

Every thing you have listed that I've seen I have enjoyed immensely. Although I'm sketchy on Anna Karenina, that looked like boredom in cinematic form to me from previews.

[Anderson]

Every thing you have listed that I've seen I have enjoyed immensely. Although I'm sketchy on Anna Karenina, that looked like boredom in cinematic form to me from previews.

They staged it like a living play and they actually found a way to make Tolstoy compelling for the first time in ages.

[FilmNerdJamie]

Surprised Seeking a Friend For the End of the World wasn't there.

[PHEDG]

Any Life of Pi or Safety Not Guaranteed honorable mention? Cloud Atlas? Flight? I have seen none of them yet, but wanted too.

[Anderson]

Surprised Seeking a Friend For the End of the World wasn't there.

I went back and forth on that. But, I went with Amour. If there was a number 21, that would go to Seeking a Friend. However, Amour has been sticking with me more.

[Anderson]

Any Life of Pi or Safety Not Guaranteed honorable mention? Cloud Atlas? Flight? I have seen none of them yet, but wanted too.

Life of Pi = Pretty garbage
Flight = Decent plot, lackluster movie
Safety Not Guaranteed = almost made it, but fell short.
Cloud Atlas = pedestrian movie

[Martin]

Cloud Atlas is a top 3 for me....

So far, it's:

1- Django Unchained
2- Cloud Atlas
3- Moonrise Kingdom
4- Cabin in the Woods
5- Looper
6- The Raid: Redemption
7- Beasts of the Southern Wild
8- Silver Linings Playbook
9- The Avengers
10- The Grey

Seriously Troy, no Looper?

[Anderson]

Cloud Atlas is a top 3 for me....

So far, it's:

1- Django Unchained
2- Cloud Atlas
3- Moonrise Kingdom
4- Cabin in the Woods
5- Looper
6- The Raid: Redemption
7- Beasts of the Southern Wild
8- Silver Linings Playbook
9- The Avengers
10- The Grey

Seriously Troy, no Looper?

I liked it, but it would've been a 21-25.

[Matt]

For me (so far):

1. LINCOLN
2. ARGO
3. JACK REACHER
4. THE AVENGERS
5. DJANGO UNCHAINED
6. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
7. SKYFALL
8-10 a bunch of others.

Haven't seen THE GREY, CLOUD ATLAS, CABIN IN THE WOODS, LOOPER, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, LES MIS, or ZERO DARK THIRTY yet.

[Martin]

Haven't seen Skyfall, and fuck Les Miserable. I hate Victor Hugo.

[Ben Thomas]

In no particular order, though the top 3 were the most enjoyable for me:

The Raid
Cabin in the Woods
Jack Reacher
The Dark Knight Rises
Sightseers
The Impostor
Take This Waltz
Moonrise Kingdom
Shame
Avengers Assemble
The Grey
Into the Abyss
The Descendants
Argo
Brave
21 Jump Street
Nostalgia for the Light
Headhunters
The Hobbit
Skyfall

[Ben Thomas]

Wait, take off Hobbit and throw in Killing Them Softly.

[Captain Russ]

No amount of wizard sleeves, fairy queefs or an extra 24 frames of a dry-heaving pygmy can touch that closing line.

[Matt]

Forgot to add SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS to my list of top films.