TOP 10 WORST MOVIES OF 2012

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Real does not equal Good. Acting is meant for actors.This is not a movie meant to glorify Navy Seals. It's a film that's riding off the success of the Call of Duty franchise. Terrible dialogue. Did the Navy Seals write the script. Horrible film

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The only good thing about this movie is that Act of Valour came out the same year, to take the number one spot. When will this guy be finished in the film making industry. Alex Cross is the most unoriginal character in the world of fiction. Being directed by the guy who made the Bruce Lee story says it all.

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First movie of 2012. And one of the worst.

4.

Discovery of a lousy way to make good profit from a cheap looking film.

5.

When did Steven Soderbergh become such a dull directed, more focused with style over substance.

6.

What's in the box? Not a good movie.

7.

Can this franchise get any worse?
8.

Can't wait til Disney get's a hold of this.

9.

Poor attempt at trying to make Denzel into Jason Bourne.

10.

Wrath of Sam Worthington's mediocrity.

The Best of 2012

Top 10 of 2012

Why?

10. The Collection

A horror flick with a cool killer but a bad ass hero. I've seen many horror films with heroic characters, Laurie Strode, Sidney Prescott. However, in those two franchises, it's the antagonists who gets all the glory in the end. With the The Collection and it's predecessor, it's more about Arkin and less about the killer.

9. Dredd

The Law has returned. Probably the most overlooked movie of 2012.

8. Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher > Vincent the hitman

7. 21 Jump Street

 

Best Comedy of 2012

6. The Dark Knight Rises

                     

Great Conclusion. Still, though. Burton's Batman's the best.

5. The Avengers

Of Course.

4.Django Unchained

Bloodiest western since The Dirty Dozen. When it comes to spaghetti westerns, Sergio Leone is the only director I'd deal with, until now.

3.Looper

 Best way to explain time Travel? Don't Explain Time Travel. 

2.The Grey

He's now acquired a new set of skill.

1. Skyfall

 

The Apparition

Once you believe, you die? How bout once you don't use common sense, you die, since absolutely no one in this movie and everyone who anything with creating this picture was simply void of. I've seen so many supernatural movies where the characters do the most illogical things to come off as so unrealistic, but in some strange way, when they do it right it can still be entertaining.The Apparition took characters that should have been written in Tom Arnold's The Stupids and made them the most unbelievable roles ever. Supernatural films before this one, at least, put the characters in situations where they would be exposed to events that could be rationalized. In this movie, there's so many wild things happening in the beginning that you would expect to happen during the 2nd or final act of the film. What's worse is the fact that there is no rationalizing done by any of the characters. They just see something and pop they're mouths open for a couple of minutes, go to bed and tomorrow, it's a fresh brand new day.

Surprisingly, I was never bored by this movie, but thought it lacked every typical standard in every formulaic ghost story.

The Expendables Vs Avengers

The Hulk Vs. Arnold-The Hulk's massive and incredibly strong but if you call the Devil a quire boy in his face and blow him back to hell no one can stop you.

Captain America Vs. Chuck Norris-Super Soldier Vs. A Mega God.................... Nough Said.

Thor Vs. Bruce Willis- Bruce because he's Unbreakable

Iron Man Vs Stallone????????????????????

The Bourne Legacy

Groundbreaking Incompetence in Movie History 

Have you ever seen a bad movie and wonder to yourself, 'how the hell could they have made something so horrendous'? I constantly asked myself this question throughout my viewing of The Bourne Legacy. Just what the hell was going on through the production of this movie. What made things worse is that this film had great marketing and was coming off of a blockbuster franchise. You could not be so fortunate.

Tony Gilroy, even though he worked on the previous three Bourne movies, should not have helmed this movie. Stop giving action flick productions over to non-action directors. I hated all three of Michael Bay's Transformers, but this knows and understand how to direct action sequences and keeping pace very well. Michael Clayton and Duplicity are the two directing credits from Gilroy. The Bourne Legacy is just a plague of supreme boredom. In addition, this film's consistence of pointless, dragging scenes makes things worse. There's really only one decent action scene, which is shot to close, Marc Forster style. The climax is just a big 'f*ck you'.

Jeremy Renner stars as the new protagonist, Aaron Cross, foreshadowing just how bad Alex Cross will be. Screw you Tyler Perry. The movie opens similar to the first Bourne movie's opening with Jason Bourne floating, which is just the beginning of the film's obsession with incompetently connecting the first three films into this retarded storyline. The Saw franchise did a better job with intertwining it's storylines in it's franchise. They brought back every living character from the previous films just so they can say some two bit lines, walk from one area to the next or to just die off. For me this act kind of diminishes the value of the Jason Bourne trilogy a little. Why destroy these characters that should have nothing to do with this installment. Hey, Tony, your not Paul Greengrass pal.

Jeremy Renner was spectacular as Cross. Nothing against Bourne, but Jason never really felt human to me. He's just a stoic character thrown into a cool action movie, which is nothing against Damon, who's also great. Cross has a lot more personality. I guess it has more to do with the writing of the characters. Rachel Weiss should go back to the Mummy franchise. She's just a pretty face to me with no potential. Her character is even worse. So whiny. Rose Byrne should have gotten this role. I barely paid any attention to Norton, except for those huge sacks of bags under his eyes. Seriously dude, I believe they have Olay for that.

Amazingly, I didn't hate this movie. I really have no love it or hate it feeling at all. It's just dull as hell. There's a scene where Renner is just rock climbing in the snowy mountains and it means nothing!! Why the mountains? Why!? I must know this. In closing, this franchise, to quote Jericho, will never EVERRRRRRR be on the level of Bond. Many have tried and all have failed. Bond's cool and he doesn't need drugs or some super duper special training to be cool. And to the people who have seen this movie, so was this guy, Cross, a Universal Soldier or what. 

July Chronicles

 For some reason, mid May and June have to appealing movies for me. July is where I jump back into action and continue my quest to find the best movie of the year.

 Starting off with Larry Crowne, I was slapped in the face with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts' boring romantic comedy. This isn't the same duo that brought us Charlie Wilson's War. If Tom Hanks wants to keep his career status, then stay away from the dwindling Roberts, who hasn't had a hit since Closer.

What's a Monte Carlo?

Unfortunately, my tolerance date for Jamie Foxx has expired, forcing me to miss out on Horrible Bosses.

If they would have brought Charlie Sheen in on Zookeeper as a camel, just saying Winning, I would have even gone after matinee.

Glad to see Harry Potter gone. Sad to see Winnie the Pooh's comeback.

Badly paced, Captain America, along with a slapped up script, only to have a lead in backstory for the supposedly big, proclaimed hit of next summer made this a very disappointing movie. I tell you want this Avengers movie had better be a masterpiece, if not, then that means I have gone through three bad movies for nothing: Iron Man 2, Thor and Captain America.

Cowboys and Aliens left me with good last feelings of this month.

Insidiously Impressive

Insidious is one of those movies I thought about skipping out on, looking like a typical haunted house flick. If it wasn't for James Wan being attached to this, I probably would have ended up not seeing this. James Wan looks as if he's stepping into the shoes of the early John Carpenter style. The way he sets up a chilling tone and delivers it effectively. Well, I'm glad I didn't skip out on Insidious because it's not your typical haunted house flick.

Leigh Whannell, the writer of Insidious and most of the Saw flicks, tells the tale of a family that moves into an old house and start experiencing paranormal activity after they're son, suddenly, slips into a coma. The film stars Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson, who needs to be in more starring roles.

Just by looking at the opening scenes, you could easily make a close to accurate prediction of what the budget is on this movie. The visuals and lighting are very dull, which by being a movie that's trying to give off a dark, horrendous tone is acceptable. Though, this is still a big step up for the producers of this who are the creators of Paranormal Activity, where the budget was nearly 50,000.

James Wan gives us a nice, fresh take on the haunted house sub-genre. I can't believe I'm saying this, but there is no severe overkill of jump scares, which seem to plague every plain haunted house movie ever made. In most haunted house films, no matter how much danger, no matter the circ*mstances, no matter what demon surfaces, the victims being haunted seem to never to anything about it, but just endure all the pain. The moment things start to get hectic this family gets the f*ck out. A lot of the scares came more from the film's tone and it's conventional, basic scare tactics that works more on your psyche than a hop. The audience great reactions made this film even more fun to watch.

If Insidious had a Siamese twin, it would definitely be Poltergiest, where this film seemed to pull out of it's ass all of a sudden, during the second act of the film. From the opening title sequence and first act, James Wan takes this simple formulaic sub-genre and creates a new impact to direct horror. Unfortunately, Insidious has a unusual turn in the second act, a Poltergiest rip off. I can't do anything else but call out the producers. Basically, Paranormal Activity was Poltergiest with a home video filming style. This looks like a hostile takeover of the producers taking over the director's film, to the point where it lost me and I felt like every thrill and mystery dissolved in the second half. This film could've been great but became a very mediocre, strangely received haunted house feature.