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Top 10 Movies Of 2012

This was a fantastic year for movies, maybe not as great as 2011 (with films like The Ides of March, Limitless, Source Code, X-Men: First Class, Warrior, Drive, 50/50 and Take Shelter), but it definitely had it's bright spots. Here are my favourites (I haven't seen The Hobbit, Django Unchained, Argo and Zero Dark Thirty yet, but I'll this list later-on if those films impact my opinion in some way).
10Cage The Elephant
Cage The Elephant

21 JUMP STREET: A lot of people found Ted to be their favourite comedy of 2012, but I choose differently. It's been a bit since I last laughed at a comedy nearly every minute of it's runtime, but this was one of those laugh-a-minute riots that totally took me by surprise. I was expecting this to be another overrated comedy, like Superbad, but it actually turned out to be a smart and silly comedy all-in-one. Even though the last act kinda falls apart towards the end, with the car chase and what-not, this movie still holds up (and the scenes involving the synthetic drug, HFS, are laugh-out-loud hilarious).
9Rage Against The Machine
The Battle of Los Angeles

END OF WATCH: Very good movie. From the director of two of my all-time favourite crime movies, Harsh Times and Training Day, End of Watch now focuses on the police in the more traditional sense then the director's two previously mentioned movies, in which nearly every cop is corrupt or able to bend the rules. This could very much exist in the same universe as Harsh Times and Training Day because the environment is just as terrifying (if not more so in this movie because of the way they portray the action). Most of this is shot like a documentary-style film, but the last act drops that, and for good reason, it's really intense. Gyllenhaal and Pena are fantastic as the two cops we follow throughout the story, they keep you invested throughout and are often the reason you'll be sitting on the edge of your seat throughout the film's scary shootouts and rescue missions.
8Big Wreck
Albatross

THE GREY: This is Liam Neeson's best performance in years and thankfully the script allows him to extend his abilities as an actor, unlike his recent string of generic action movies (Taken 2 and Unknown in particular). This is a very dark, often times brutally violent movie that shows the parallels between man and animals. One scene involving the decapitation of a dead wolf is particularly unsettling and brings you to a point in the movie where you almost wanna start routing for the wolves to catch their prey. It's a great movie that has a message in it's violence and in the words shared in-between.
7Mark Tremonti
All I Was

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: People give this film a lot of flack, and I'm honestly baffled as to why it gets all the flack that it does. This is a fantastic conclusion and, in my opinion, it's the best in the series by far. Not being such a huge fan of The Dark Knight, I was very impressed with how Rises made me recall Begins and the journey that Bruce Wayne has to endure in order to become The Batman. Begins was much better than it's predecessor as well, but Rises is better than both because of it's ambition and the fact that it made me care about Bruce Wayne and Batman again. The Dark Knight felt cold and distant, much like The Joker, Rises handles that tone better by having more supporting characters to cheer on and a better pace that doesn't make it's near 3-hour runtime feel like ages. Bane was a great villain, the action scenes are way better than the predecessors (my favourite being a tie between the final chase and the first Bane vs. Batman fight), the cinematography is breathtaking, and the score is absolutely first-rate (should have been nominated for an Oscar for sure). Definitely the best soundtrack I've heard all year for a movie.
6Minus The Bear
Planet Of Ice

LIFE OF PI: Initially, I was worried about seeing this film because I thought that it'd be a bit of a mess, but it'd be a beautiful mess at least, so I decided to see it with the roommate and it turned out to be an extraordinary visual masterpiece. The story didn't do much for me, but that's what the book's for. This film, based solely on it's visuals, is a masterpiece because it tells it's story through the images that you see on-screen, often by not even using dialogue. This movie works on the level of Cast Away, but it might even be a bit better than that movie because of the stakes involved and the twist at the end that changes your perspective of the whole tale in general. This is a brilliant film in every sense.
5Pearl Jam
Yield

LAWLESS: Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain are both amazing in this movie, but, surprisingly enough, Shia Labeouf is pretty great in it as well. Though the movie tends to jump around it's history quite frantically at times, the characters make you route for it and the villain, played brilliantly by Guy Pearce, is one of the scariest people I've ever seen on the screen before. The outlaw heroes get their asses kicked many times throughout the movie, and you could play a drinking game for how many times it appears that a character's been killed off (I counted three times I thought that he was dead for sure).
4Deftones
Diamond Eyes

DREDD: Much like The Raid: Redemption, the action tells the story in this one and it never fails to impress. The 3D scenes using the slo-mo drug are the best uses of the technology I've seen yet (especially when they throw the three guys off the roof). Karl Urban is first-rate as Judge Dredd and Olivia Thirlby is just as great as Judge Anderson, definitely the character you care about the most throughout (plus, she's gorgeous to look at in every shot she's in too, so that helps as well). The story's nothing to write home about, they make it clear that this is a straight-up, balls-to-the-wall action shoot 'em up that doesn't let up... at all, especially when the ruthless last kill arrives (which is gloriously brutal and beautiful all-in-one). This is a cult-classic already in the making and I sincerely hope they come back and do a sequel, it deserves it.
3Sevendust
Seasons

SKYFALL: Quite possibly my favourite Bond movie ever. My only complaint is that I wished they had cast Sean Connery in a crucial role near the end, especially since, at first, I thought it was him (but it wasn't). But, that's my only complaint about it. Much like The Dark Knight Rises, this film makes us care about 007 again by showing us his flaws rather than his tendency to be a perfectionist (like he is in almost every Bond movie to an unbelievable extent at times). This is the direction they needed to take the series, and it paid off big-time. It's now the highest grossing Bond movie of all- time, and it comes very well deserved. Daniel Craig is perfect as Bond (proving that the third time sometimes is a charm), Javier Bardem is excellent as Silva (even though he could have had a wee bit more screentime), and Judi Dench is wonderful as M, and it's nice to see her included in the action later-on in the film's fantastic climax. Overall, this is the Bond movie everyone deserves to experience, it's a masterpiece.
2Autopilot Off
Make a Sound

LOOPER: Definitely the best script of the year, and of course the Oscars don't even recognize it, but, like District 9, it's definitely a science-fiction classic in the making. This is like Terminator 2 meets Blade Runner in the slickest way imaginable. Joseph Gordon Levitt is definitely the star here, so don't walk in thinking that it's Bruce Willis like I did because he's more like The Terminator in this movie, and he continues to push his acting skills to a tee. This film has a lot of twists and turns that will make you wanna re-watch the movie over-and-over until everything starts to come together like a jigsaw puzzle. Plus, this film has some of the coolest effects scenes that I've ever seen; the man who starts to lose pieces of his body with each passing moment is the main example, probably the most eerie death scene I've ever seen in a film.
1Soundgarden
King Animal

THE AVENGERS: Growing up such a huge fan of comic-books and movies in general, I can't tell you how thrilled I was to see that The Avengers was not a disappointment, it was simply raising the bar for all future comic-book movies to come. When I say that this movie is epic, I do not use that term lightly, this film is epic, historically awesome indeed. The four leads (Downey, Evans, Hemsworth and Ruffalo) have pitch-perfect chemistry and they bounce off of each other's lines brilliantly thanks to Whedon's incredible scripting and direction. This guy was made to make big, amazing superhero adventures like this and on his very first venture in that territory, he succeeds to a bigger extent than anyone ever before him. He gets these characters, he gets why people care for them, and he allows his actors to have fun with the material, which in turn allows the audience to sit back and have the time of their life (at the movies). This is also the funniest movie I've seen in 2012, every punchline is a hit. I love this movie!
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