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150,000 Flickcharters Pick The Top 20 Films of 2012
31, Dec 2012
by Nathan Chase
Over 40 million rankings have been made in 2012. You’ve added every movie you’ve seen from the year to your Flickchart, and pit them head-to-head against the best movies of all time. This breakdown of the year’s best is the result of each and every one of your rankings aggregated together to form the combined chart of the highest ranked, best movies of 2012.
Without further adieu – out of over 1000 total movies released this year – here are your current picks for the Top 20 of 2012:
- In: Flickchart News
- Tags: 21 Jump Street, Argo, best films of 2012, best of 2012, Brave, Chronicle, Django Unchained, Flickchart, Life of Pi, Lincoln, Looper, Moonrise Kingdom, Prometheus, Skyfall, TED, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Avengers, The Cabin in the Woods, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hunger Games, The Master, top 20, top 20 of 2012, top movies of 2012, Wreck-It Ralph
Memorable Matchups of 2012 – Part 1
26, Dec 2012
by Ryan Stuckey
Last year I decided it would be in my, and by extension your, best interest to do a year-end review in the Flickchartiest way possible. The four people who read it were very vocal about how it was an adequate way of spending their break at work therefore I decided to repeat the feat this year. Luckily for you I watched an absurd amount of movies this year – too many – and to make me feel like I didn’t waste much of my time and money I will be doing a series of battles throughout the next few weeks. To get us warmed up for the ensuing blood bath, the first movie will be about a bunch of teenagers killing each other…
Women Be Shootin’
The Hunger Games was the first big release box office wise of the year. While it seemed to satisfy most of the diehard fans of the franchise many people who hadn’t smashed through the books in 5 total days had reservations. The biggest complaint was that it took too many ideas from Battle Royale, but it also garnered a heavy amount of questions beyond potential idea borrowing. Why did the elite have such bizarre hair styles? Why did the citizens of District 12 give their children such dumb names? What the hell was going on in those shaky-cam action scenes? Am I not supposed to be disconcerted with the idea of children killing each other? Some of these complaints will be satiated by Gary Ross being replaced by a new director for the sequels. A director who hopefully doesn’t keep his camera at the end of a rope that he is swinging around in a circle above his head.
Not to be outdone in the “first” department, Brave was the first big disappointment of the year for most people. Pixar has been spoiling us for so long that when they released a movie that was simply “good” we as a society rejected it and marked it as a major let down. While it had its problems I still think it was a good movie and a nice change of pace from the normal princesses that young girls get to see in movies. It’s important that they see strong females on the screen whose sole purposes in life are not finding the perfect man.
- In: Uncategorized
- Tags: 2012, 21 Jump Street, Aaron Johnson, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Alex Pettyfer, Anna Karenina, Benjamin Walker, Brave, Channing Tatum, Chris Pine, Christopher Lloyd, Contraband, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Radcliffe, David Hasselhoff, Emily Blunt, End of Watch, Ewan McGregor, Gary Ross, Gina Carano, Haywire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jemaine Clement, Josh Brolin, Jude Law, Keira Knightly, Lincoln, LOL, Magic Mike, Mark Wahlberg, Matthew Macfadyen, McG, Men in Black 3, Michael Pena, Miley Cyrus, Mirror Mirror, Paul Scheer, Piranha 3DD, Reese Witherspoon, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Tarsem Singh, The Hunger Games, The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, The Woman in Black, This Means War, Timur Bekmambetov, Tom Hardy, Tommy Lee Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Smith
Guilty Pleasures Holiday Edition: ‘Mixed Nuts’
24, Dec 2012
When filmmaker Nora Ephron brings together an all-star cast led by Steve Martin, you expect something terrific. Mixed Nuts was Ephron’s follow-up to her smash success Sleepless in Seattle, and when it was released by TriStar Pictures on December 21, 1994, she was greeted with some of the most visceral reviews of her career, and experienced a spectacular failure that would briefly scare her career.
An adaptation of the successful (but obscure to American audiences) 1982 French farce Le Pere Noel Est Une Ordure (loosely translated: Santa Claus is a Bastard), Mixed Nuts retained very little of what made the French farce so dark and uncompromising. At the same time, Ephron tailored the film to something more along her style and managed to give the characters of the piece some hope and love through a cynical story. Right here, it’s easy to see why the film failed at the box office: The film wanted to be hopeful and dark at the same time, and a comedy can’t quite succeed when they’re trying to counter-balance that. It is a weird holiday film made for those who are looking for something a little different than films like A Christmas Story or National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
- In: Guilty Pleasures
- Tags: 1994, Adam Sandler, Anthony LaPaglia, Christmas, Christmas Eve, comedy, Delia Ephron, holiday films, Joely Fisher, Juliette Lewis, Liev Schreiber, Madeline Kahn, Mixed Nuts, Nora Ephron, Rita Wilson, Rob Reiner, Robert Klein, Santa Claus is a Stinker, Sleepless in Seattle, Steve Martin, This is My Life, TriStar Pictures, workplace comedy
“Django Unchained” – A Flickcharter’s Review
20, Dec 2012
by Ross Bonaime
“This is my world, you gotta get dirty.”
These lines are uttered by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Calvin Candie in Django Unchained, but could easily have been uttered by writer-director Quentin Tarantino about the worlds he has created. Whether he tackles samurai films (Kill Bill), gangsters (Reservoir Dogs) or World War II (Inglourious Basterds), Tarantino takes well-tread ground and makes it his own, a universe where the blood flows freely and spouting off thoughtful monologues is commonplace. It is always fascinating to inhabit a new Tarantino world every few years, even when the experience isn’t as thrilling as you hoped it would be, as is such the case with Django Unchained.
by Nigel Druitt
It’s been nine years since the Battle of Pelennor Field. Nine years since Aragorn was coronated, Gollum drowned in the fires of Mount Doom with the One Ring, and Frodo Baggins set sail from the Grey Havens. Nine years since Peter Jackson released the third part of his epic adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “unfilmable” novels, and actually finished shooting the film after it won the Oscar for Best Picture (with pickup shots for the Extended Edition DVD).
Since then, fans of Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy have waited with baited breath for news that Tolkien’s prelude novel, The Hobbit, would get a similar big-screen treatment. A long wait, to be sure, and there were many times when it seemed the road really would go ever on and on, out from the door where it began.