MY TOP 6 FILMS THAT YOU PROBABLY MISSED IN 2012
This is my list of movies that was pretty good last
year, however these films haven't performed as well at the box-office. So these are my five films, which
you may have over-looked when you went to the cinema last year. Therefore you
should be renting or purchasing these movies now!
6. SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS
Directed by Martin McDonagh, this was a good black comedy
that failed to pull in the crowds, even with its star-studded cast. The film
has a awesome plot, a lot of humor and its basically a well written story with
a Fresh 81% approval rating on Rotten
Tomatoes, which should count for something!
Make sure to check it out.
Budget: $15M
Box-Office: $23M
5. HAYWIRE
What do you get when you take a female MMA Champion fighter
(Gina Carano) put her in front of the camera under the direction of Ocean 11’s
director Steven Soderbergh?? Not exactly a masterpiece but still one vigorously
fashioned spy thriller that beckons audiences attention to catch up on
narrative twist and plots.
Gina Carano makes her big screen debut in this film, and
although her acting was less then stellar, her background as a Mixed Martial
Artist’s certainly makes for some impressive fight scenes.
The film is certainly beautifully shot, edited and sound
mixed. It holds a Fresh 80% approval
rating on Rotten Tomatoes proving, its more then just Gina’s pretty face, that will hold your attention
You can see Gina opposite Dwayne Johnson in Fast Six
releasing later this year.
Budget: $23M
Box-Office: $33M
4. DREDD
I have to admit, I wasn’t too excited for this film upon initial release. After all we got the Stallone Judge Dredd film a few years back and that was horrible! As for this remake, there was nothing that convinced me for a split second that this film would actually be good, especially the trailer which made the film look lacklustre. But surprise, surprise DREDD was quite good and very entertaining.
The film plays everything straight. It doesn’t take
unnecessary detours by trying to add insignificant plot details or twist.
Instead it’s a straight up action with some deadpan humor and a small touch of self-satire.
As a character Dredd doesn’t have any sort of arc, his stunted as a character
but in a very good entertaining way.
The film holds a Fresh
77% approval Rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Budget: $45M
Box-Office: $36M
3. SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
The film is based on a book of the same name by Matthew
Quick and its quickly establishing itself as one of the best films of the year.
It received eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture and Best
Director for O. Russell, in addition to achieving the rare feat of being
nominated in all four acting categories, (Best Actor – Bradley Cooper, Best
Actress – Jennifer Lawerence, Best Supporting actor – Robert De Niro and Best
Supporting Actress – Jacki Weaver) Four Golden Globe Award nominations (Jennifer Lawrence won for Best Actress), Three
BAFTA nominations, Four Screen Actors Guild nominations and Five Independent
Spirit Award nominations.
A Fresh 91%
approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes
Budget: $21M
Box-Office: $48M
2. BEAST OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
This film came out of nowhere really, from a director that I have never heard have before in my life, with a cast that nobody has ever heard of in their lives. Yet, Beast is considered to be on of the best films of the year and its really not that difficult to understand why.
The film is an emotional charged story that has a underlying
allegory in it that could pertain to so many different things. The film is bold
in its imagination and creativity, mixing human emotion, with love, drama and a
touch of mythical fantasy. It certainly goes beyond most Hollywood conventions,
but this piece of a film is truly a small remarkable miracle that doesn’t
happen all so often. Aided by wonderful performances and heart felt moments, you will find yourself laughing, smiling and cheering the characters on in the endeavours.
A Fresh 86%
approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has already picked numerous awards
and is nominated for dozens of awards including four Academy Awards, including
a Best Actress nomination for young Quvenzhane Wallis.
Budget: $1.8M
Box-Office: $11M
1. CLOUD ATLAS
This has to be the most divisive film of the year. This is
probably the most polarizing ambitious movie experience ever in the history of
film.
Cloud Atlas is a film with six different narratives where
each narrative takes place in a different period of time in history, beginning
in 1849, 1936, 1973, 2012, 2144 and ending in 2321.
Like half the people that watched the film, I absolutely
adored this film. Its scope, visuals, aesthetics, intertwining of stories and
just the sheer size and ambition of this film, was really something of wonder.
From beginning to end I was amazed and entertained.
While the other half of the population who managed to watch the film didn’t like it as much. For them the
story was to unwieldy, they got caught
up trying to identify the six main actors who play the roles in the six
different stories. Some also failed to see how all these stories correlate to
each other, trying to find a thread between each tale. However truth be told, each
narrative only has one simple truth behind it, and that’s human nature. As the
film goes from 1849 to the year 2144 or 1973 or 2321, for all the differences
in culture, clothes, language and technology, the one thing that remained the
same is, good, evil, love, joy, pain, jealousy, passion and all these inherent
forces that keeps human the same in an ever changing world. That’s the only
connection. Each story is its’ own.
While this film has been snubbed by the Academy, and will not be
picking up an outrageous amount of awards (which quite frankly is shocking) and has completely bombed at the
box-office, I think that regardless of what anyone says about the film,
everyone should watch this and make up their own mind about what’s
undeniably the most ambitious film made. Then you can decide whether it’s a masterpiece or
masterful failure.
Barely a Fresh 66%
approval Rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Proving that even Critics are Polarised by it.
Budget: $102M
Box-Office: $71M
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