The Movie List from A Film Look for 2012

For other years click: Movies 2011; Movies 2013

Once again I have made a list of the year’s films I’ve had opportunity to see so far, categorized and ranked.

This year unfortunately I was only able to watch less than half as last year, and some of the many missing titles in my must see, include: Amour, Anna Karenina, The Cabin in the Woods, The Guilt Trip, The Intouchables, Holy Motors, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Rust and Bone,  Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, and Seven Psychopaths among others.

As these and others are thrown in the bucket, I will update the list.  For now, here it is:

Top Ten

All genres for 52 movies.

Rank	Genre	Title	Score	Grade
1	Comedy	Moonrise Kingdom	10	A
2	Drama	Life of Pi	10	A
3	Comedy	Silver Linings Playbook	10	A
4	Drama	Argo	9	A-
5	Drama	Les Miserables	9	A-
6	Drama	Zero Dark Thirty	9	A-
7	Action	Prometheus	9	A-
8	Action	Skyfall	9	A-
9	Action	The Hunger Games	9	A-
10	Drama	Django Unchained	9	A-

———–

 

Top Five, listed by genres.  Categories listed by amount of movies seen in that category

DRAMA

17 Movies – Thirteen out of the top twenty five in the full list are in this category.

Rank	Genre	Title	Score	Grade
2	Drama	Life of Pi	10	A
4	Drama	Argo	9	A-
5	Drama	Les Miserables	9	A-
6	Drama	Zero Dark Thirty	9	A-
9	Drama	The Hunger Games	9	A-

———–

COMEDY

15 movies – The comedies this year were not top of the game, though perhaps that is why I find the top two to be such standouts.  In all fairness, among my list of must sees (above) there are a couple that potentially rank high, certainly above 17.

Rank	Genre	Title	Score	Grade
1	Comedy	Moonrise Kingdom	10	A
3	Comedy	Silver Linings Playbook	10	A
17	Comedy	Ted	8	B
21	Comedy	Hope Springs	8	B
24	Comedy	The Five-Year Engagement	8	B

———–

ACTION

12 movies – Some real good ones this year.

Rank	Genre	Title	Score	Grade
7	Action	Prometheus	9	A-
8	Action	Skyfall	9	A-
10	Action	Django Unchained	9	A-
11	Action	Looper	9	A-
14	Action	The Dark Knight Rises	8	B+

———–

 

As of now, I have only seen two 2012 HORROR movie: The Woman in Black and Chronicle.  Good scares and edits, I rank them at 2730 and 33 respectively with a Score of 8 and a B Grade for the first and 7 and B- for the second (consistencies, you know…).  Other horror movies on my list to see include Cabin in the Woods, The Raven, and The Possession.

As for ANIMATED movies, this year’s crop seems lackluster.  So far I have only seen Brave, a disappointing film with incredibly good animation technique, which ranks at 34 (with a 7 and a B-).   Still on my list to see Wreck-it-Ralph and Frankenweenie.

 

THE FULL LIST 

Rank	Genre	Title	Score	Grade
1	Comedy	Moonrise Kingdom	10	A
2	Drama	Life of Pi	10	A
3	Comedy	Silver Linings Playbook	10	A
4	Drama	Argo	9	A-
5	Drama	Les Miserables	9	A-
6	Drama	Zero Dark Thirty	9	A-
7	Action	Prometheus	9	A-
8	Action	Skyfall	9	A-
9	Drama	The Hunger Games	9	A-
10	Action	Django Unchained	9	A-
11	Action	Looper	9	A-
12	Drama	Lincoln	8	B+
13	Drama	The Impossible	8	B+
14	Drama	Hitchcock	8	B+
15	Action	The Dark Knight Rises	8	B+
16	Drama	Beasts of the Southern Wild	8	B+
17	Drama	Arbitrage	8	B
18	Comedy	Ted	8	B
19	Drama	End of Watch	8	B
20	Drama	Flight	8	B
21	Drama	The Sessions	8	B
22	Comedy	Hope Springs	8	B
23	Action	The Bourne Legacy	8	B
24	Action	Safe House	8	B
25	Comedy	The Five-Year Engagement	8	B
26	Drama	Big Miracle	8	B
27	Action	MIB 3	8	B
28	Action	Marvel’s The Avengers	8	B
29	Drama	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel	8	B
30	Horror	The Woman in Black	8	B
31	Drama	The Master	7	B-
32	Drama	The Paperboy	7	B-
33	Horror	Chronicle (2012)	7	B-
34	Comedy	The Campaign	7	B-
35	Drama	Seeking a Friend for the End of the World	7	B-
36	Drama	Detachment	7	B-
37	Animated	Brave	7	B-
38	Comedy	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island	7	B-
39	Comedy	Dark Shadows	7	B-
40	Comedy	Rock of Ages	6	C+
41	Comedy	Pitch Perfect	6	C+
42	Action	The Amazing Spider-Man	5	C
43	Comedy	Wanderlust	5	C
44	Action	Snow White and the Huntsman	5	C
45	Comedy	American Reunion	5	C
46	Action	Battleship	5	C
47	Action	Taken 2	5	C
48	Action	Contraband	5	C
49	Comedy	This Means War	4	C-
50	Comedy	21 Jump Street	4	C-
51	Comedy	A Thousand Words	4	C-
52	Comedy	That’s My Boy	4	C-