- The Avengers - Wonderful payoff for three years of build-up from Marvel Studios. They've done everything - EVERYTHING - right so far. Here's to hoping that they can keep rolling.
- Chronicle - The budget wasn't huge, but the performances were. The story arc is far from predictable, and the exploration of what would happen if weird super-power-origins happened to a maladjusted teenager. The entirety is surprising.
- The Dark Knight Rises - Great capper to a great trilogy, easily the finest superhero trilogy we've gotten yet. Nolan attacked themes, and that granduer, that scale and scope and ambition combined with Nolan's spot-on world building absolutely kills this one.
- The Descendants - Beautiful family drama with outstanding performances
- The Diving Bell & the Butterfly - heart-breaking story of a man trapped with locked-in syndrome is perfectly acted...perfectly acted by Mathieu Amalric
- Ides of March - This one feels almost dated after the ugliness of our year-long campaign. I'd like to see it again to see how it feels now.
- Looper - There weren't many movies that left my jaw on the floor, but this one absolutely did that to me. Wonderful film with an ad campaign that didn't remotely give away the film. Thank you for that
- Moonrise Kingdom - Wes Anderson's best yet, and that's saying something.
- Moneyball - Brad Pitt's moving up on the best actors of the generation list very quickly.
- Skyfall - Anything that could rival Casino Royal must be a hell of a film. This one's the perfect Bond film.
- Honorable mention: Crazy Stupid Love (refreshingly entertaining), Harold & Kumar Christmas (not as good as the first but with some great NPH action), Bad Teacher (bad role models but fun time), Friends with Benefits (wonderful leads but semi-predictable), The Secret of Kells (gorgeous), Forgetting Sarah Marshall (funny flick, great puppets), Hunger Games (good start to the trilogy), Cabin in the Woods (turned the horror genre upside down)
What's the best movie you saw this year?
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I had a really good year for movies, 8 is probably a record for released movies in a year since post-college days. Here they are in order of best to worst: Argo, The Avengers, Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit, The Cabin in the Woods, The Amazing Spider-Man, and The Bourne Legacy. You know I'm getting old when my favorite movie of the year is an Oscar-contender. Notice all the others are action movies.
All pretty solid choices...how was Hobbit?
The Hobbit is good, well worth seeing. Slow start, but then lots of action and didn't feel long, but definitely is long. It's one of those movies that you just have to see. Saw it in 3D, some parts were a bit blurry from too fast camera movement.
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