Rate the films you've seen in 2012.

Bang.

Now how do I make it sticky?

1. Se7en
2. Heat
2. Metropolis (1927)
3. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
4. Metropolis (1984)

Latest additions underlined
Bond films italicised.

Cinematic Brilliance
Tomorrow Never Dies
From Russia With Love
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The World Is Not Enough
Thunderball
Dr.No
Goldeneye
For Your Eyes Only
The Living Daylights
A Streetcar Named Desire
Casablanca
Atonement
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
An Education
Quantum of Solace
Goldfinger
Skyfall
Raging Bull
Goodfellas
The Godfather
Shame
Taxi Driver
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Pride and Prejudice
La Vie En Rose
Forrest Gump
Doctor Zhivago
The Thin Red Line
The Lion King
North By Northwest

Excellent
A View to a Kill
Octopussy
Casino Royale
Casino
Never Let Me Go
Inglourious Basterds
Melancholia
Apocalypse Now
Rabbit Hole
Pulp Fiction
Lolita (Stanley Kubrick)
Love, Actually
Schindler's List
On The Waterfront
Precious
The King's Speech
The Young Lions
Gangs of New York
A Clockwork Orange
Good Will Hunting
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Shawshank Redemption
The Reader
Black Swan
The English Patient
Cold Mountain
The Silence Of The Lambs
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Fincher)
The Departed
You Only Live Twice
Live and Let Die
Licence to Kill
The Edge Of Love
The Man With The Golden Gun
Diamonds Are Forever
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Shining
American Beauty
Moonraker
Die Another Day
Road To Perdition
The Fugitive Kind
Last Night
Cape Fear
The Aviator
Once Upon A Time In America
A Dangerous Method
The Count of Monte Cristo
Shutter Island
Hugo
Moneyball
Sabrina (Billy Wilder)
Nine
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut
Heat
Monster's Ball
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
Reservoir Dogs
Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express
Fight Club
Dirty Dancing
Reds
500 Days Of Summer
Revolutionary Road
Titanic 3D
Primal Fear
Vicky Christina Barcelona
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Very Good
Good Night, And Good Luck
Carnage
The Player
Seven Psychopaths
Dead Poets Society
The Skin I Live In
Pure
Indecent Proposal
The Way Back
Crazy, Stupid, Love
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Midnight In Paris
The Jacket
Notting Hill
The Descendants
Up In The Air
London Boulevard
The Constant Gardener
Poirot: Third Girl
My Week With Marilyn
Legends Of The Fall
Fracture

Good
Once
The Ides of March
Barry Lyndon
Looper
Jason and the Argonauts
The Avengers
Captain American: The First Avenger
Memoirs of a Geisha
Iron Man
Iron Man 2
The Dark Knight Rises
The Holiday
Pay It Forward
Silk
Chocolat
The Iron Lady
Sabrina (Pollack)
Entrapment
Something's Gotta Give
Skin

Mediocre
Eye For An Eye
Margin Call
Kung Fu Panda 2
Total Eclipse

Poor
The Devil's Advocate
The Incredible Hulk
The Vow
Arthur
District 9
Smurfs

Abysmal
Killervision


For my own amusement:
January: 25 Films
February: 13 Films
March: 10 Films
April: 18 Films
May: 6 Films
June: 5 Films
July: 10 Films
August: 5 Films
September: 12 Films
October: 15 Films
November: 16 Films
December: 18 Films
Total: 153

Excellent :5*:
Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)*
Taxi Driver (1976, Scorsese)*
You Only Live Twice (1967, Hamilton)*
Drive (2011, Refn)
Sleuth (1972, Mankiewicz)*
The Big Shave (1968, Scorsese)

Good :4*:
The Hunter (1980, Kulik)
Trainspotting (1996, Boyle)
Death Wish (1974, Winner)
Torn Curtain (1966, Hitchcock)*
For Your Eyes Only (1981, Glen)*
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968, Jewison)
Control (2007, Corbijn)

Half Decent :3*:
Prometheus (2012, Scott)
The Inglorious Bastards (1978, Castellari)
Following (1998, Nolan)
The Secret Agent (1996, Hampton)

Rather Poor :2*:
Who Dares Wins (1982, Sharp)
Jaws: The Revenge (1987, Sargent)

Awful :1*:
Terminator Salvation (2009, McG)



* Rewatch

TAKEN!

Fae wrote:

TAKEN!

BY ME!

Anyway, consider this my benchmark. Bookmark even.

Excellent (5/5)
The Cruel Sea
The IPCRESS File
Lawrence of Arabia
The Hunt for Red October
Road to Morocco
Citizen Kane*
A Night to Remember
Das Boot
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

between 4 & 5, thereby verges on absolute excellence>>>>>
Rushmore
Good Night, and Good Luck.
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
The Royal Tenenbaums
Lady from Shanghai
Touch of Evil
Dark Blue World
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan
Shane
Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Venus
Lost in Translation
007# On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Superman

Good (4/5)
Dean Spanley
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Body Heat
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
David Copperfield (1935)
The Young Victoria
Morning Departure
McLintock!
Transiberian
In the Valley of Elah
I Was Monty's Double*
The Hurt Locker
The Bridge on the River Kwai
(500) Days of Summer
LA Confidential
Went the Day Well?
Whiskey Galore
Jaws*
Support Your Local Sheriff
Operation Petticoat
Tailor of Panama
Kelly's Heroes
The Squid and the Whale
Man on the Moon (1999)
Crimson Tide
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Million Dollar Baby
Die Hard
The French Connection
Vanishing Point (1971)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Director's Edition*
The Blue Lamp
The Stranger (1946)
League of Gentlemen (1960)
The Way Ahead
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
The Lavender Hill Mob
Lifeboat*
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Moby Dick (1956)
The Fisher King
Ice Cold in Alex
Guns of Navarone
Yangtse Incident*
Bigger than Life
The Bedford Incident
Hannah and Her Sisters
Match Point
A Town Like Alice
The Poseidon Adventure
The Dark Knight Rises
The Way to the Stars
Journey into Fear
The Ladykillers (1955)
Vertigo
Primary Colours
Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1
The Life of Brian
A Fish Called Wanda
Stripes
The Towering Inferno
007# Dr No
007# From Russia With Love
007# Thunderball
Railway Children
The Dam Busters
007# Skyfall*
ET
007# Licence to Kill
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Wonder Boys
The 39 Steps (1935)

the dreaded between 3/5 and 4/5 thus 3.5...3.75 score
Revolutionary Road
Dark Command
Norman Wisdom#6 Man of the Moment
Doubt
Open Range
Bottle Rocket
The Iron Lady
The Ghost
Jurassic Park II
I Know Where I'm Going
The Shooting Party
The Wrong Arm of the Law
Cop Land
The Third Man
The Love Bug
Meet the Parents
The Final Countdown
The Dark Knight
Election (1999)
The Darjeeling Limited
Bright Young Things
The Eagle Has Landed
Tension at Table Rock
Capricorn One
Point Blank
The Cowboys
Lord of the Flies
Star Trek IV The Voyage Home
Hell Drivers
Tiger Bay (1959)
Small Time Crooks
Titanic (1997, 3D)
The Quiller Memorandum
The Shootist
Batman Begins
Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country
Macbeth (1948)
An Incident in a Small Town
The Malta Story
The Longest Day
The Story of GI Joe
The Fugitive
Gideon of Scotland Yard
District 9
The Good Die Young*
Air Force One
Klute
Beginners
Waterloo
Robin & Marian
Educating Rita
Rio Bravo
Carry on Sergeant
Summer Holiday (1963)
Saving Private Ryan
Batman Returns
Robin Hood (1973)
Jesse Stone: No Remorse
The Purple Plain
The Bad and the Beautiful
Star Trek III The Search for Spock
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
Two Way Stretch
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt
Battle of Britain
Harper
Space Cowboys
A Prophet
The Campaign
Star Trek The Motion Picture
The Greengage Summer (a.k.a. Loss of Innocence)
Kind Hearts and Coronets
007# Goldfinger
007# You Only Live Twice
Rocky Balboa
Geneivieve
The Sea Wolves
007# DIamonds Are Forever
007# Live and Let Die
Valkyrie
The Night of the Generals
Blithe Spirit
Bridge at Remagen
The Inbetweeners Movie
Memphis Belle
Scrooged
Air Force
Superman II
Holiday Inn
White Christmas
Doctor in the House
The Plank (1967)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Nor Here...Nor There (3/5)
Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
Tropic Thunder
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
Adventureland
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
Robin and the Seven Hoods
Gray Lady Down
Norman Wisdom#5 On the Beat
55 Days at Peking
The High and the Mighty*
The Sum of All Fears
Rollerball (1975)
Jaws 2
Island in the Sky
Mousehunt
Jurassic Park III
Jackboots on Whitehall
Brighton Rock (2010)
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Meet the Fockers
That Darn Cat (1965)
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Black Dynamite
Independence Day
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek V The Final Frontier
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Starter for 10
Brandy for the Parson
Carry On Jack
His Majesty O'Keefe
Lake Placid
The Riddle of the Sands
Town on Trial
Charlie Wilson's War
The Admirable Crichton
The Perfect Storm
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Carry On Cruising*
Police Academy 2
Doctor at Large
Team America
Don't Lose Your Head
The Queen
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Sands of Iwo Jima
Deathtrap
The Eiger Sanction
Three Faces West
Torpedo Run
Wimbledon
Poseidon (2006)
Herbie Rides Again
Wake Up Ron Burgundy
The Saint in New York
The Saint Strikes Back
The Saint in London
The Saint's Double Trouble
The Saint Takes Over
The Saint in Palm Springs
Date Night
The Saint's Vacation
The Saint Meets the Tiger
The Secret of my Success (1987)
Up in the Air
Hot Tub Time Machine
Sirens
The Gay Falcon
A Date with the Falcon
The Falcon Takes Over
The Falcon's Brother
The Falcon in Danger
The Falcon and the Co-Ed's
The Falcon Out West
The Falcon in Mexico
The Falcon in Hollywood
The Falcon in San Francisco
The Falcon's Alibi
The Falcon's Adventure
In the Electric Mist
Carry On Up the Jungle
Trouble in Store
On the Buses
Mutiny on the Buses
MacArthur
Indiscreet (1958)
Howl (2010)
El Dorado
The Prince and the Pauper (1977)
Down Periscope
The A-Team
The Train Robbers
Brannigan
Accepted
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Elf
Superman III
Lemon Drop Kid
Dad's Army

Average, falls slightly (2/5)
Herbie Fully Loaded
007#Quantum of Solace
Wolf (1994)
Zeppelin
Police Academy 4
Doctor in Distress
Carry on Girls
Hellfighters

Turgid (1/5)
Ben Hur (2011)
Jaws 3
Jaws 4
Titanic (1996)

--
Films of the 30s- 6
Films of the 40s- 44
Films of the 50s- 50
Films of the 60s- 41
Films of the 70s- 42
Films of the 80s- 25
Films of the 90s- 28
Films of the 00's- 58
Films of the 10's- 17

Total: 311 (Mayday)

Rewatches (and number therein) denoted by *

#-rewatch

Top Class
Rear Window (1954, Hitchcock)
Vertigo (1958, Hitchcock)
Dirty Harry (Siegel, 1971)
The Tree of Life (Malick, 2011) #



Excellent
True Grit (2010, Coen Brothers)
Hugo (2011, Scorsese)
Skyfall (2012, Mendes)



Very Good
Dances With Wolves (1990, Costner)
The Parallax View (1974, Pakula)
Scarlet Street (1945, Lang)
The Social Network (2010, Fincher)
The IPCRESS file (1965, Furie)
Black Swan (2010, Aronofsky)
Magnum Force (1973, Post)
Senna (2011, Kapadia)
The Last Picture Show (1971, Bogdanovich)
Obsession (1976, DePalma)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011, Alfredson)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012, Nolan)



Decent
Bugsy (1991, Levinson)
The Young Victoria (2009, Valle)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971, Stevenson)
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012, Madden)
The Artist (2011, Hazanavicius)
Unbreakable (2000, Shymalan)
The Iron Lady (2011, Lloyd)
The Ides of March (2011, Clooney)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011, Ritchie)


Mediocre
A Man Called Horse (1970, Silverstein)
The Enforcer (1976, Fargo)
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012, Webb)



Poor



Crap

Order of preference, best to worst:
Se7en

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Children of Men

The Tailor of Panama
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Eastern Promises

The Wind and the Lion

Blade Runner (final cut)
Best in Show
Stranger Than Fiction
Jaws

A Mighty Wind
Ronin

Battle Beyond the Stars (listening to 1st commentary track)
The Andromeda Strain (theatrical Wise version)

Breakheart Pass



Star Trek III (could not finish)

Star Trek the Abrams Thing (09) could not finish this either

Haven't seen much this year but was so impressed by KILL LIST that I watched it twice. Revisited SEXY BEAST and found it a far better film than I'd remembered (although the standout performance isn't Ben Kingsley's - it's Ian McShane's). Saw a wonderful microbudget comedy from a few years back called BIG DREAMS LITTLE TOKYO. Gave my FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Blu-ray another spin in order to raise my excitement for SKYFALL and the Blu-ray box set. That's about it, I think. Haven't seen much yet, but what I've seen I've enjoyed.

The White Tuxedo wrote:

Now how do I make it sticky?

polite bump of the topic as it were before it slips onto the third page and obscurity :)

FieldsMan wrote:

Cinematic Brilliance
Doctor Zhivago

Told you you'd like it. ;)

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO was the beginning of the end for Lean.

Sharky wrote:

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO was the beginning of the end for Lean.

Of the post-DOCTOR ZHIVAGO stuff, I've only seen A PASSAGE TO INDIA, which didn't entirely endear itself to me, but was by no means a total loss, either.

I wish he had been able to make his NOSTROMO adaptation.

Harmsway wrote:

Sharky wrote:

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO was the beginning of the end for Lean.

Of the post-DOCTOR ZHIVAGO stuff, I've only seen A PASSAGE TO INDIA, which didn't entirely endear itself to me, but was by no means a total loss, either.

It's a flawed film, but still worthwhile in many respects. I just think by the time of DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, Lean's films began to get more focused on romance and spectacle alone, rather than the profound social commentary and spiritual subtext of LAWRENCE, THE SOUND BARRIER, BRIEF ENCOUNTERS, and GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Why I prefer PASSAGE TO INDIA to ZHIVAGO is that it's got more to it underneath.

Harmsway wrote:

I wish he had been able to make his NOSTROMO adaptation.

Yes, that would have been something out of this world.

G section wrote:

FieldsMan wrote:

Cinematic Brilliance
Doctor Zhivago

Told you you'd like it. ;)

I had already seen it

Could someone possibly make this a sticky? Thanks. :)

Here are all the 2012 films I've seen, going by the New York release rule (it had a theatrical run of a week or more in New York City in 2012).

THE AVENGERS
BATTLE ROYALE
BERNIE
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES
DARK SHADOWS
DREDD
HAYWIRE
LET THE BULLETS FLY (Partial)
THE MASTER
MOONRISE KINGDOM
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (Partial)
PROMETHEUS
TO ROME WITH LOVE
SINISTER
THE WOMAN IN BLACK

MOONRISE KINGDOM is certainly the most impressive. I've cooled a bit toward THE MASTER quite a bit, but it's nevertheless more striking than many of the films on this list.

I outright hated BATTLE ROYALE, DARK SHADOWS, and DREDD.

I didn't make it through ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA; either it really is as dull as I found it to be, or I just wasn't in the right frame of mind. I didn't "get" LET THE BULLETS FLY, which I chalk up to cultural differences, which is why I turned that one off partway through, too.

The rest end up in the middle somewhere.

I saw Battle Royale in 2001 on my return from 1940.

Erica Ambler wrote:

I saw Battle Royale in 2001 on my return from 1940.

It only received an "official" release in the USA this year, which is why it's listed there.

Ah. Well, I can tell you that in 2001, it seemed very funny and radical. Ten years on, not so much. Context is everything.

Erica Ambler wrote:

Ah. Well, I can tell you that in 2001, it seemed very funny and radical. Ten years on, not so much. Context is everything.

I wonder what that says about a blatant imitation like Hunger Games. Not much good I would guess.

There might be an interesting book to be written on the influence of Japanese film on Hollywood.

153 films I reached last year! Much more than 2011, and only half of what I'll get this year... :)