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So it’s that time a year when I stress over finding the best movies of the year. Other years actually haven’t been that tough but this year was a good year for movies and great movies at that. So this list was very hard to put together and I’m pretty sure I’m going to look at this list in a week or so and think it might not be right BUT this is the list and I’m going to stick to it, so here it is. Like always I’m going to start to list the Honorable Mentions
Honorable Mentions:
Bunraku
Drive Angry 3D
Battle: LA
Bellflower
Saving Private Perez
50/50
Moneyball
Ides of March
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Hanna
Thor
Contagion
Real Steel
Paranormal Activity 3
Hugo
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
The Adjustment Bureau
Don’t be Afraid of the Dark
Fright Night
Immortals
The Adventures of Tintin
Now for the big list, My Best Movies of the year (PLEASE DO REMEMBER THIS IS MY LIST, I’M NO EXPERT just a regular movie goer)
15. Horrible Bosses: Horrible Bosses was my best comedy of the year, the movie had me laughing or giggling the whole time.
14.Puss in Boots: Puss in Boots was my favorite animated movie this year (although I did only see three animated movies this year). I love the character and a origin story for one of the lesser character in Shrek was probably not on everybody’s mind but the movie turned out great. Also, unlike the animated movies of today Puss in Boot didn’t rely on cheesy pop references but the adventure element.
13. Insidious: Horror movies nowadays take a lot to actually scare me but this one actually gave me the chills. I love a haunted house story and this had a new twist that usually isn’t in movies nowadays.
12. Super 8: The movie had a lot of speculations around it because everyone wanted to know what the secret was that J.J Abrams had put together this time. To be honest I didn’t really care for the secret, it was the story of the main characters who were all kids that interested me. The secret of the film does crossover to the kids and from that point it was nice crossover.
11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2: The end of an era and a long successful film series came to end this year and it did not fail. The film gave fans the ending that we have been waiting to see and the fight between good and evil that we’ve been promised.
10. The Descendants: I had my doubts about this movie, mainly because I figured it wasn’t going to be good or boring. However, hearing all good buzz around it I decided to give it a chance and was surprised at how good it was. The movie has a element of lose and how you deal with it and it felt realistic to me and not just seeing George Clooney playing a character.
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: It’s no secret I like the Swedish version of the film and when I heard they were making a remake I was very hesitant to see it. The David Fincher and Daniel Craig entered the project but then Rooney Mara was cast as the iconic role of Lisbeth Salander and became hesitant again. However, Fincher and Mara did a great job of putting together a descent remake and Mara did pretty good job as Lisbeth.
8. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol: Although Mission Impossible III was my favorite of the series Ghost Protocol was a damn good follow up and addition to the series. Also seeing Brad Bird, an animated movie director, did an amazing job putting a MI movie together and if they make another movie I would actually like if he came back.
7. Warrior: MMA is rising sport and although some people thought this was just a MMA movie it really wasn’t, their wasn’t really any MMA fighting until the last half hour of the movie. Warrior is down to the bone a movie about family and has incredible performance by rising stars Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton but also by Nick Nolte. Truly one of the best movies of the year.
6. Attack the Block: Although it didn’t get a wide released like many of these other movies it still was a damn good movie. A true low budget horror/action/comedy movie with a great young cast including, at least in my eyes a star in the making, John Boyega. Highly recommend you watch this one.
5. Captain America: The First Avenger: Yes the final build up to The Avengers was not only a good period comic book movie but a great movie to make my top five movies. Chris Evans did a great job playing Steve Rogers aka Captain America as a regular guy who all he wants to do is defend his country. The movie also had probably the best love arc in a comic book movie that I can remember with Steve and Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell).
4. X-Men: First Class: That’s right two comic book movies in my top five and both Marvel. In all seriousness, I am a huge X-Men fan and First Class just like Cap was a great period comic book movie. Even though the film was about the first team of X-Men, the film was really about the relationship between Charles Xavier aka Professor X and Erik Lehnsherr aka Magento and Fassbender who plays Erik gives the best performance in the movie and probably one of the best of the year.
3. Drive: Some people will probably disagree with Drive being on the list and so high up but I really enjoyed it. The movie stars Ryan Gosling who along side Fassbender had a great year. Gosling plays a man named Driver (seriously) who is a wheel man and when a job goes wrong he tries to fix it when people are trying to kill him. Now the trailer was a bit misleading promising a more action thriller but trailers job is to kinda lie but none the less the movie was more of a slow burner and art film.
2. Fast Five: Surprised? So am I, the Fast and Furious series is a pretty good series (Yes I’m one of few who like Tokyo Drift) and although the last one was only okay they really did a great job of picking it up. Fast Five gave us everything we loved from the series; fast cars, attractive women, witty dialogue and some great chase sequences. Add in The Rock and you got yourself a blockbuster.
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes: I loved this movie, it was a reboot of a popular series that most of us know of and made us forget about Tim Burton’s movie. The film made actually hate humans to some point and made us root for the Apes and for the main character who was complete CG and the made who did the motion capture for him was none other than Andy Serkis (Gollum from The Lord of the Rings). Serkis made me care for a character was wasn’t human at all and quickly went from experiment to leader.
Movies I have let to see:
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Young Adult
The Artist
Midnight in Paris
Shame
Hesher
The Lincoln Lawyer
Limitless
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Trollhunter
The Help
