PAUL'S YEAR AT THE MOVIES: 2012 EDITION

PAUL'S YEAR AT THE MOVIES: 2012 EDITION

I started this blog two and a half years ago and have loved writing reviews and sharing my thoughts with all of my loyal readers. It brings me great joy whenever I get to share a passion of mine with others. Whether you have left comments on the blog or on my Facebook page, I THANK YOU! It means the world to me.

In 2011 I started tracking how many new movies I watched in a year. I wanted to track the number of movies, where, when, and how I saw the movie. I must give credit to my good friend, Max, who has been doing this list for years and where I got the idea from. According to my 2011 Edition of this list, I saw 96 movies that were new to me. I was surprised to learn that despite having a pretty busy personal life I managed to squeeze in even more than that. I saw 113 new movies, 63 were 2012 releases. I did not track every time I watched a movie, just the ones that I was seeing for the first time. Here is the grand list plus my Top 10 of 2012, Worst of 2012, and some other stats:

The Artist
War Horse
Man on a Ledge
The Devil Inside
Friday the 13th Part VII:The New Blood
The Iron Lady
We Bought a Zoo
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Hotel Chevalier
The Darjeeling Limited
Morning Glory
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The Vow
Being Elmo
Wanderlust
The Ten
Game Change
Friends with Kids
Water for Elephants
21 Jump Street
The Hunger Games
Mirror Mirror
Titanic 3D
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
Murder By Death
So I Married an Axe Murderer
American Reunion
The Cabin in the Woods
The Lucky One
The Five-Year Engagement
Rebecca
Marvel's The Avengers
She-Devil
Chocolat
Spellbound
Dark Shadows
What to Expect When You Are Expecting
La Vie en Rose
Men in Black 3
Battleship
The Last Picture Show
Prometheus
Snow White and the Huntsman
Rock of Ages
Hemingway & Gellhorn
Moonrise Kingdom
Magic Mike
The Girlfriend Experience
Haywire
AVP: Alien vs. Predator
The Amazing Spider-Man
Gentleman Prefer Blondes
How to Marry a Millionaire
Brave
No Reservations
The Dark Knight Rises
Thunderball
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Ted
Play Misty for Me
Total Recall
Hope Springs
The Bourne Legacy
You Only Live Twice
Shame
The Green
Lawless
Girls Will Be Girls
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Premium Rush
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Raiders of the Last Ark IMAX
Carnage
Babette's Feast
The Master
Frankenweenie
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Arbitrage
Looper
Diamonds Are Forever
The Man with the Golden Gun
The House of the Devil
Argo
The Innkeepers
Paranormal Activity 4
Moonraker
Prince of Darkness
For Your Eyes Only
Cabin Fever
Hellraiser
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Octopussy
The Living Daylights
Skyfall
Cloud Atlas
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2
Lincoln
Life of Pi
Silver Linings Playbook
Flight
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Hitchcock
The Girl
The Guilt Trip
Holiday Inn
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Jack Reacher
Meet Me in St. Louis
Pitch Perfect
This is 40
Les Miserables
Django Unchained


My Top 10 of 2012 Releases

These movies are the ten movies that left the biggest impact on me throughout the year. These are the movies that kept me thinking about them for days later. 2012 was one of the best years at the movies in recent memory. There were so many exceptional movies that pushed the boundaries of their genre, dared to tell a remarkable story, and had some amazing performances. This was a hard list to narrow down to just ten movies.


1. The Dark Knight Rises
2. Moonrise Kingdom
3. Lincoln
4. The Cabin in the Woods
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
6. Silver Linings Playbook
7. Django Unchained
8. Marvel's The Avengers
9. Skyfall
10. Argo

Honorable Mentions: Les Miserables, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Looper, and Life of Pi

*Please note I have not the following: Zero Dark Thirty, Beasts of the Southern Wild, End of Watch, Rust and Bone, The Sessions, The Impossible, Amour, and Promised Land.

The Worst Movies of 2012

I try not to see too many bad movies, so this list is quite short.
1. The Devil Inside
2. Mirror Mirror
3. Dark Shadows

2013 Resolutions
1. See more movies. OBVIOUSLY!
2. Write more
3. Spend time watching the classics. I tend to focus much of the blog on new releases that I tend to neglect all of the classics that inspired them.
4. More blog projects. I had great fun doing my "Bond. James Bond." challenge that I hope to do similar blog projects in the new year. If you have any ideas, I'd love to hear them!

What are your thoughts on all of the movies 2012 brought to you? Any highlights? What was your favorite or worst movie of the year? Feel free to sound off in the comments below!