Sunday, January 6, 2013

Movies 2012 - Good, Bad and Ugly


Here's the collection of 100 movies I watched in 2012.

Classics: Watched a few classics like some of Scorsese's - Casino, Raging Bull, Goodfellas (at Roof Top Film Festival), Alien & Aliens (leading up to Prometheus), Batman Begins & The Dark Knight (leading up to TDKR), Shaun of the Dead, Mystic River and Total Recall (1990). There is no meaning in classifying them into the categories below. So they are excluded.



Excellent:

Real Steel | Avengers | The Dark Knight Rises | Intouchables | Looper | Pizza

Very Good:

Midnight in Paris | Megamind | Puss in boots | Spirited Away | Kari-gurashi no Arietti | Sherlock Holmes: A game of shadows | Man on a ledge | Prometheus | Le diner de cons | Amazing Spider-Man | Naan E | The Cabin in the woods | Naan | Serbuan maut (The Raid: Redemption) | Men in Black 3 | We bought a zoo | Safety not guaranteed | Skyfall | Life of Pi | The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Frankenweenie | Naduvula Konjam Pakkatha Kanom | Kumki | Thuppakki

Good:

Friends with Benefits | The Hunger Games | Carnage | Nanban | Vazhakku en: 18/9 | Kalakalappu | Seeking Justice | Event Horizon | Limitless | Madagascar 3 | Dawn of the Dead | Billa 2 | Arthur Christmas | Wrath of the Titans |The Lorax | 21 Jump Street | Battleship | The Bourne Legacy | Supermen of Malegaon | The Pirates!Band of Misfits | The Grey | Band Baaja Baaraat | Infernal Affairs 3 | The Proposal | The Best Exotic Marigold hotel | 10 things I hate about you | Exam | Abraham Lincoln: The Vampire Hunter | Brave | Paranorman | Moonrise Kingdom | Liberal Arts | Beasts of the Southern Wild | Taken 2 | Untraceable | Premium Rush | Mounaguru | ZNMD | Kadhalil Sothapuvadhu Yeppadi

Average:

Beginners | The Immortals | Journey 2 - The Mysterious Island | In Time | Tower Heist | Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader | Johnny English Reborn | Paranormal Activity 3 | Ice Age 4: Continental Drift | American Reunion | Thaandavam | Sundarapandian | Maattrraan

Bad:

Vampires Suck | Aliens in the attic | OKOK | John Carter | Charulatha | Neethane En Ponvasantham | Resident Evil - Retribution | Piranha 3DD

World Cinema:

Cantonese - Infernal Affairs 3 (The Cantonese trilogy original from which The Departed was inspired. 1st part was the best!)
French - Le diner de cons (The Dinner Game) | Intouchables
Indonesian - Serbuan maut (The Raid: Redemption)
Japanese - Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi (Spirited Away) | Kari-gurashi no Arietti (The Secret World of Arrietty)

These are some of the movies from 2012 am yet to watch!

Argo | Zero Dark Thirty | Lincoln | Silver Linings Playbook | Cloud Atlas | Flight | Les Misérables | Amour | Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

Also planning to watch more Hindi movies in 2013. Realised that I watched none of the mainstream Bollywood releases from 2012. Only one I watched was an Indie film 'Supermen of Malegaon'.