EWB's Favorite Movie of 2012: The Voting Thread

[Your Mom]

How is Les Mis a British film? Am I missing something?

[Jimmy]

It's made by Working Title which is a British company; also had a British director at the helm.

[Your Mom]

Thats still an odd distinction to make. Are we really looking that far into it?

[Jimmy]

I would've thought it was eligible cos I count it as part of this year because it was up for Academy Awards and all that. Also, likelihood being most people will forget about it by the time we make our list next year. But it's up to GoGo, obviously.

[HailtotheYo]

UK, US, Japan, Australia, Spain, Canada releases in 2012 .... pretty sure that's significant enough to be a 2012 qualifier.

[GA!]

The best way to judge if a film came out in 2012 is IMDB. Simple as. Wreck-It Ralph was only released in the UK this month. And bizarrely, Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty were nominated for BAFTAs before they were released over here in late January.

Staggered release dates in the age of the Internet is just stupid but there we go.

[KONGO]

1. Avengers

2. The Man with the Iron Fists

3. Amazing Spider-Man

4. Prometheus

5. Skyfall

I fell asleep through most of Skyfall (movie wasn't boring, I was tired going in) but I still saw some of it and this is all I could think of. Avengers and Iron Fists were great, though.

[GoGo Yubari]

Les Mis counts. I always forget these technicalities once a year passes. I'm going to say that if a movie gets wide release in North America it counts, even if it hasn't premiered in the country the studio is from.

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

1. Argo

2. The Avengers

3. Lincoln

4. The Dark Knight Rises

5. Flight

6. Silver Lining's Playbook

7. The Hunger Games

8. Zero Dark Thirty

9. Les Miserables

10. Django Unchained

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

1. The Dark Knight Rises

2. The Hobbit

3. Django Unchained

4. The Avengers

5. The Hunger Games

6. This is 40

7. Argo

8. The Amazing Spiderman

9. Brave

10. Wreck-It Ralph

[Walker]

"Country of origin" is pretty useless when talking about movies. There is that many countries involved in terms of production and financing that most of the biggest films will be truly multi-national. e.g. Harry Potter was a British film ... but not really because it is a Warner Bros film as well. I think a better distinction would be date of first wide release.

1. Looper

2. Seven Psychopaths

3. The Avengers

4. Cabin in the Woods

5. Wild Bill

6. Frankenweenie

7. Friends with Kids

8. Argo

9. Pitch Perfect

10. The Imposter

Hon Mentions: Moonrise Kingdom, Searching for Sugarman, Wreck-It Ralph, Django Unchained, The Raid, ParaNorman, Ruby Sparks, Killer Joe, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Life of Pi, and a tonne more. 2012 has been a great year.

[Skummy]

I didn't watch a lot of movies last year, and a lot of the "big" ones I didn't like.

1. Searching For Sugar Man

2. (The Secret World Of) Arrietty

3. Lawless

4. Dredd

5. The Man With The Iron Fists

6. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

7. Wreck It Ralph

8. The Avengers

9. Prometheus

10. Cosmopolis

Honourable mention goes to Jack Reacher for the bloody mental, yet brilliant, decision to cast Werner Herzog as the villain.

Of those films, I watched Arrietty in the cinema in 2011 (in Japanese; I think the English language version was released in 2012?), and Wreck-It-Ralph and The Hobbit in 2013. But eh.

[TheSqauredCircleMessiah]

The Muppets (which was great) came out in 2011

[Phobia]

1. Django Unchained

2. Argo

3. Dark Knight Rises

4. The Avengers

5. The Hobbit

6. Wreck-It Ralph

7. Cabin in the Woods

8. Looper

9. Prometheus

10. Skyfall

Hon Mentions: Moonrise Kingdom, The Raid and Sinister.

Edited February 28, 2013 by Phobia

[ndqw]

Wow, I think I've only watched one movie that came out in 2012. OH GOD BLESS AMERICA! OH RIGHT TED!

1. God Bless America

2. Ted

3. Smiley

Edited March 2, 2013 by ndqw

[Skummy]

The Muppets (which was great) came out in 2011

Ahhh, you're right. It got a UK release in 2012. I'll come back and edit later once I've thought of something else to make the list...

[Jimmy]

It actually won last year's list, didn't it?

[Skummy]

Okay, my list has been edited. I'm still probably forgetting a big one, I know it.

[Benjamin]

GoGo, can you keep this open for a week longer? I haven't watched Lincoln yet, and I'm only free to watch it then.

[Berober]

1. Wreck It Ralph

2. The Avengers

3. Looper

4. Skyfall

5. 21 Jump Street

6. Django Unchained

7. The Amazing Spider-Man

8. The Dark Knight Rises

Those are the only films from last year that I watched, so I guess that's how far I go...