My Top 10 Films Of 2012!

So yeah, a lot of greats films were released in 2012. There were laughs, cries and all out action. This is my post of my top 10 films that I saw during 2012 and that I thought were good enough for this list. It's took about a month to type this up but here it is.
Some people might read this and say "you haven't really seen any of the other good films" and yes, I know I've missed out on seeing "Total Recall", "Bourne Legacy", "Hunger Games", "Looper", "Snow White And The Huntsman", "Taken 2", "Jack Reacher", "Cabin In The Woods", "End Of Watch", etc. I will try and make an effort and see them this year on DVD or just on Sky Movies. Once I've seen the ones I missed, I'll add them into my top 10 and revise this post later in the year if they deserve to be in top 10, might even expand to top 20. I did though see most of the greats like, well obviously "Avengers Assemble", "The Amazing Spider-Man", "Skyfall" and "The Hobbit", "Prometheus", etc. I saw "Act Of Valor", "The Muppets", "Chronicle" and "Men In Black" and "The Expendables 2" also, but they weren't top 10 material, more like top 20, still good though.
So here is my list of my favorite films of 2012. I'll right a wee thing about them, but not a BIG overall review or anything like that. I'll say something short and sweet. Let's begin:

10. American Pie: Reunion

Jim, Stiffler and the whole gang are back after nearly 10 years of being off-screen. After 4 very unsuccessful spin-offs, the original creators thought it was time to bring the original kids back to show the new generation of Pie lovers how to party. The only thing that's stopping them is old age. Can they really compete with the teens of today? Stiffler still thinks he can. Jim and Michelle are having trouble with their marriage and Ox and Heather realize that they still love each other but can't show their feelings because they both have new partners.
The film in a whole was fucking brilliant and it's great to see how the gang are doing now, but I think the creators were trying just a wee bit too had to make it as funny as it was back in the first film over 10 years ago. How far can Stiffler really go in a movie. Never the less, it was a commercial and critical success and the cast and crew are planning to return for a fifth slice. I will say one thing, this one definitely beats "American Pie: The Wedding" anyway.

9. TED

Well, what can I say about good old Ted......................"FUCK ME!!!!!" That was some god damn film to sit though. It had the type of humor that I think fits perfectly with the youth of today. I really think "American Reunion" could have done some edgy humor like this, but then again, I am talking about the creator of "Family Guy" and "American Dad" here people. Still could have helped though. I never gave a shit about this film until I saw it for the first time!!! Never done posts on it's posters, trailers, nothing. I was wrong to do that!!!
Fucking Marky Mark Wahlberg is a 30 something year old man with a CGI walking/talking bear, voiced by Seth McFarlane, who's know for voicing Stan Smith (American Dad) and Peter Griffin (Family Guy) and Wahlberg's long tern girlfriend, Mila Kunis. Kunis wants to settle down with Wahlberg, but Ted is holding them back because he still stays with them. Ted realizes that he can't stay with Marky Mark forever, so he tries to make a life of his own by getting a job, a flat and a trailor-park trash girlfriend.
The film is fucking hilarious!!! It's funny, it's sad, the humor is edgy as fuck. It's got dick jokes, it's got fart jokes. Stonner moments and bonner moments. If you love "Family Guy", then you'll love this!!!

8. The Dark Knight Rises

Now, before I start, I was seriously thinking of not placing this film in my top 10, because I had and still have serious mixed feelings on this final chapter in Nolan's "Batman" franchise. It is Batman, and I'll also have a place in my heart for this franchise and the ending was fucking EPIC, hence why it's for sure in my top 10!!!
Chris Nolan and the gang return with new faces to give fans the ultimate ending to his overwhelming take on the favorite comic-book character, Batman. As a whole, the film was good, but not as great as what it could've been. In my opinion, "The Dark Knight" was well better. Tom Hardy's Bane was brutal and brilliant, but I just felt as though he was predictable, whereas Heath Ledger's Joker was off the wall crazy and no one knew what was coming next from the character. Anne Hathway's Selina Kyle/Catwoman was sexy and amazing. I literally fell in love with her after just seconds of seeing her for the first time on screen. The story itself is good, but some parts were a bit iffy though. We saw Batman rise and fall and rise and fall and rise again, good and bad, because the falling got a bit repetitive, but still, it's fucking Batman, so of course I'm going to enjoy it at other times though.
The film was shocking, the beginning......great, but I think it got a bit boring in the middle and I just felt as though everything was lost and I felt as though it dragged out. Then the ending came with the final fight and the whole thing just fell into place and the last moments were both breathe taking and exciting and sad and happy and............JUST FUCKING AWESOME!!! Watch this film if you haven't already seen it!!!

7. DREDD 

Karl Urban IS Judge Dredd!!! How awesome was this film?! 2012 was truly a year for action filled films and the film that stood out the most, even more than "The Expendables 2", was the new "DREDD" reboot. It was an amazing 3D experience that should have made more money in the box office. The action was non fucking stop all through the film as Dredd and his psychic partner Judge Anderson have to go through floor to floor taking down bad guys in crazier and crazier ways has they climb higher to the top to take down the top dog......Mama, played by Lena Headey. It did though get a tiny bit repetitive, but fuck it, it was awesome!!! The 3D and the slow-mo sequences were just bloody stunning to look at and watch, especially the 3D. Like most 3D films lately, it's more projected imagery 3D rather than things flying at you or anything exciting like that, nothing like "Avatar" anyway. "The Amazing Spider-Man" and "DREDD" are the only two films that I can think of right now that have amazing 3D sequences that are the REAL 3D!!!
It was praised by critics but done so poorly in the money making section. My answer to why it never made much was that it never got much promotion till near the time of it's release. It was the production companies fault that it never made much. Hopefully they will make some more of the money back during the DVD and Blu-Ray releases.

6. Prometheus

"Prometheus" was fantastic!!! It wasn't as amazing as the first or second "Alien" films, but it was well better than the third and fourth ones anyway. Shit, forgot, this ain't an "Alien" film.....WHOOPS!!! It bloody is an "Alien" film. It's work perfectly as a stand-alone prequel or if you want to say "running up to" to the "Alien" films. Visually, it's as stunning as you'll probably get an "Alien" film to look these days. Great mix between CGI and practical effects, not like the shitty 2011 "Thing" prequel.
Ridley Scott returned to the type of genre he knows and does best.......SCI-FI and with an amazing cast. They were all on the ball. Michael Fassbender was the ever so friendly, but strange cyborg. Noomi Repace was the very sexy and smart new version of Ripley. Idris Elba was the captain and he was awesome! And Charlize Theron was the sexy and bossy well boss. The crew wanted to find new life, but it wasn't the kind of life they wanted really.
The story was great, a bit stiff at times, but we got there in the end and WOW, what an epic ending it was for fans of the long-running "Alien" franchise, even though this isn't a prequel, but the ending says it is though. I loved the music, literally the whole soundtrack was cool, fast moving, creepy and just great to listen to in certain scenes at certain times.
I don't want to talk about it anymore because I don't want to give much away........JUST WATCH IT IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT!!!

5. 21 Jump Street

"21 Jump Street"........Now there's an interesting case right there. When I first saw the very first teaser trailer for this big-screen sequel/reboot to the old Johnny Depp series, I was like "this looks shite". The trailer just tried to hard to look funny. I laugh at anything, but I just didn't gel with this films first teaser. After a few more trailers, I kind of started to enjoy them, then I watched the 4 minute preview and I was pissing myself with laughter. I literally could not stop watching Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill trying so hard to be good cops and just cocking things up. It was hilarious to watch. And again, when I went to see the film in the cinema with mt friends, we all just couldn't stop laughing from start to finish. Thankfully the film stepped away from the more serious feel of the 80's TV show and was made more of a piss take, like Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson's "Starsky & Hutch" film.
In a whole, the film had a great story. Channing Tatum can actually act in this film. Some action stars can't really go from action to comedy, but I think because this is the best of both worlds, he can do that and do it extremely well in my opinion. He's actually much better in this type of genre than anything serious and dramatic. He should seriously just stick with action and comedy. Is was also seriously surprised with Jonah Hill too. That guy is actually good in the action sequences. I know the film is a comedy action film, but it is more comedy, but even in the serious action scenes, he was really good. He also lost so much weight which also helped him look like the actioner type guy.
Tatum and Hill play two cops who think they are amazing at what they do, Tatum more in that situation. To save the Captains ass on the humiliation, he sends them away to 21 Jump Street to work in an undercover division to catch out drug dealers in high school. This is when all the funny stuff happens, especially the night before they start school again. Just seeing them trying to think the would fit in and trying on different clothes was just hilarious to watch. What's funny about the school scenes is that popular Channing Tatum is stuck with the nerds and turns out he ain't as cool as he once thought he was and even when he was all nerdy, he did manage to stay cool by shouting out "FUCK YOU SCIENCE" during the scene where he and Hill were as high as kites on drugs. The drug scene between Hill and Tatum was the most EPIC scenes in comedy history!!!
The film is just packed with action, comedy, romance, awkwardness, etc. It's definitely a film to watch before you die, even if you're not a massive fan of Channing Tatum or Jonah Hill. OH, and there's also two surprise and amazing cameos at the end..........never going to believe who they are!!!

4. The Hobbit

"The Hobbit", for people who know me, was not really a film I was planning to see anytime soon. I thought it looked really, well shite actually. Now I was never a MASSIVE "Lord Of The Rings" fan, but I enjoyed them enough to watch them whereas when I saw the trailers for this, I was like "Not for me thanks"...........I WAS SOOOOO FUCKING WRONG PEOPLE!!! This film ruled!!! It was visually amazing, as per usual when it comes to a Peter Jackson film. The landscape shots of New Zeland got a bit too much after a while, but in a whole it was stunning. Gollum is becoming more realistic as we go on. Andy Serkis was awesome once again as the creepy little creature. The chemistry between him and Martin Freeman's Bilbo Baggins was superb, same as the scenes between Bilbo and Gandalf, once again played by the great Sir Ian McKellen. The dwarfs did become a bit too much with all of their silliness, because at times I felt as though I was watching a Disney film and yes, it was meant to be more light-hearted, but it was a tad too light-hearted, but none the less, a great film to watch for fans and new comer fans to the much-loved franchise. We can already tell that the sequels will be just great and hopefully a lot darker, like the same as the way the "Harry Potter" films went. Like I always say, I don't want to tell you guys anything about the plot, just about the way the characters are, but the plot is pretty simple, the first films, without the ring, or is the ring in it, woops, said too much. JUST WATCH IT PEOPLE!!!

3. The Amazing Spider-Man

When this reboot was announced a few years back, I was like "give it sometime to rest first before starting all over again" and then I heard who was directing it and who was going to be in it and what the film was going to be about and I thought........FUCK YEAH!!! The film was really amazing.
Andrew Garfield takes over the role of Peter Parker aka Spider-Man in the new 2012 reboot, with the very amazing and sexy Emma Stone playing Gwen Stacy. Rhys Ifans plays the villainess Dr Curt Connors aka The Lizard. He was good, but I think he could have been better. The CGI for The Lizard was fantastic, but Rhys Ifans playing Connors was a bit off I think. I think Dylan Baker's Connors was better. I didn't really feel sorry for Ifans's character until the second time around, but even then, Baker was better. He should have became The Lizard.
Visually it was the best of all the Spider-Man films. There was a lot more practical effects like they had a stunt actor actually web-sling through the city via some green screen wire and a harnest. Even the CGI was better this time around. It was just all visually stunning. The 3D was real and wasn't like the usual projected imagery, which was good to see for once, well this and "DREDD".
Marc Webb really done a great job with bringing new life into the "Spider-Man" film franchise. The only downside is that this film promised us "the untold story", which wasn't shown really. And there was a few vital parts in the trailer taken out of the final cut of the film. The good thing is that "the untold story" is said to get expanded through the rebooted trilogy instead on just one film. So we'll find out about the death of his parents, who really shot Uncle Ben and who Peter Parker really is in the next two films!!!

2. Avengers Assemble

"Avengers Assemble" was fucking fantastic!!! One, if not the greatest comic book film of all time. Future comic book films will be totally different now because of this film. A lot of them will surely be influenced by this highly-anticipated adaption. Comic book films once to influence from Chris Nolan's "Dark Knight" franchise, now they should take it from this and Joss Whedon.
"Avengers Assemble" was totally perfect. The cast were fantastic because they all just gelled together and everyone got right amount of time on-screen. Joss Whedon really should be getting an Oscar for this film and taking control of the cast and crew. I watched all the behind the scenes footage and fucking hell, he was busy as fuck!!! If you haven't yet seen the new film, seriously watch it. I don't want to give too much away about the films plot but basically Loki, Thor's brother, travels to Earth to create mayhem and destruction. Nick Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D call on Earth's Mightiest Heroes to come together and take a stand against this evil. It's tough and hilarious to watch them coming together, but it's amazing and every comic book fan would love this........WATCH IT!!! The music, the visuals, the acting........WATCH IT!!!

1. SKYFALL

And my number 1 film of 2012 was "SKYFALL". The new James Bond saw an epic return for Daniel Craig's 007 and was a fantastic instalment in the long-running British spy franchise, which last year saw it's 50th anniversary and what a film to celebrate it. Oscar winning director Sam Mendes took the rains of the latest Bond film, he had been signed on for many years, but MGM went bankrupt and the film was placed on hold for quite a while which was worrying for the franchise. Good old Sam stuck by the franchise and the film was revived and it got made and shown to the world.
The film to a story of hurt, revenge, betrayal and just Bond being Bond. It was action-packed with a hell of a story and had fantastic James Bond references to the older films. You knew that the cast and crew were trying hard on making this the best Bond film ever!!! Dame Judi Dench gave a great performance as M, Daniel Craig was just as great as ever. He really acted in this film. Craig's Bond was pushed to the limit this time around. Blood, sweat and honor for James Bond in this film. Let's not forget about the lead villain, Javier Bardem......fuck me what a character he was in the film. He was extremely creepy and you felt as though Bardem took some inspiration from Heath Ledger's Joker in 2008's "The Dark Knight".
The music, scores by Thomas Newman and the official theme were brilliant. Adele should get a chance to come back and sing some more. She could be the modern day Shirley Bassey of the Bond songs. The story was different. It didn't feel like the usual Bond film, but neither did "Casino Royale" and that turned out amazing.
Sam Mendes and the crew have definitely redefined the James Bond franchise and kind of in a wee way rebooted it again to fit in with the 50th. Good things will definitely come out of this and for further instalments in the franchise. "SKYFALL" was and is and highest grossing James Bond film ever and has just reached over a billion pounds in the box-office. If this is Craig's last film, what a film to go out with. He started with a hit, middle was okay, but the last film was spectacular and ever better than his first, "Casino Royale" back in 2006.

My "Dark Knight Rises" Review!

It's been like two weeks or so since I saw Christopher Nolan's final chapter in the EPIC "Dark Knight" trilogy, which I know consider it as "THE TRILOGY". I saw it on the first day it was released, as I usually do with all BIG films.
Obviously the build up to it was amazing. It looked so EPIC, but a part of me was still asking, "Can Nolan pull this one off after the last film?" and now that I've seen it, I can say that it was a brilliant film, with so much action, breath-taking fight scenes, sad moments, great acting and a well deserved ending to end the trilogy off in an extremely satisfying way, but it wasn't "The Dark Knight". Bane was a good villain to end the three films, but he wasn't thee villain. Heath Ledger's Joker was thee villain of the reboot franchise. Bane was sadistic as fuck, well more than the Joker, but the Joker had something that Bane never, good lines, the shock factor and the scare factor. The Joker was messed up. Bane took down Batman physically whereas the Joker took batman down mentally. You didn't know what was coming next, whereas Bane, you began to know what was coming next, and that is something you don't want. His voice was the best part, like I said, he never had great lines, some were good, but not as cringe worthy as Jokers, but just that voice.......FUCK ME!!!
Story wise, it starts off with "hermit" Bruce Wayne hidden away in his mansion wanting nothing to do with the world. Then he realises that he must rise up and become Batman again because Bane's rolled into town wanting to cause chaos. Batman rises and meets Bane, Batman falls. Batman goes away for a while and learns how to rise again, but this time........stronger! He does and returns to plan his next move on how to take Bane on in round 2. Batman falls slightly again. Batman thinks "FUCK YOU BANE!!!" and comes back for the final round which leads to a triumphant ending. Finally Batman...........well I think I've said too much on that. That's not what the films only about, there are other parts to the film. I'm just saying this so I don't have to type up every bit of detail. You get the just from this. Some sites are doing a full-on spoiler review and telling people not to read it whereas I'm do a short review, without any spoilers at all, which is hard to do with this film. I really can't say much about the story without giving much away. There were times where you did think, "fucking hurry up and get to the point" and I wasn't the only person thinking this, but yes it still was a brilliant film, but it wasn't the best. Now I don't want to give much away if you still haven't seen it yet. You'll know what I mean when I said that it's not "The Dark Knight" but is still really good, I mean Nolan could never do what he did with the last film to this film, it's highly impossible.
At points, the story does drag on which gets really annoying, but then fans are hit with lots of action that make up for the slow parts. And the film is pretty long, like 2 hours and 40 something minutes. Bit more than the last one. It's a good thing and a bad thing. You want to keep seeing more and you wish it never ends, then you're hit with the slow boring parts and then you think the film should've been shorter.
Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne/Batman is trying so hard in this film. He truly is fighting for Gotham in this one, I will give him that. There are times where he just gives up and you think, "Get the fuck up!!!" but yeah, Bale is at his best this time round. The scenes with Bane are the breath-taking moments in the film. That and the "rise again" moments, which some times did drag on though, but they got better. He went through shit in this film. He was put to the test from the minute he met Bane to the end! One more thing, I loved the grey side hair that Bale dawned in the film. The grey really gave Wayne a slightly older look as though he's been Batman for like 20 years.
Anne Hathaway's Selina Kyle/Catwoman was indeed the beez-kneez! People didn't take to well to her at first, me included, but when you first see her, she's fucking amazing. I fell in love with her straight away. There's a certain shot in the film where I think Nolan just wanted to please the fan boys. Not telling you which shot, but you'll know what i mean when you see it. If you have seen it, you'll definitely know what I'm talking about!
There are so much characters to talk about and I don't want to give much away on them. Joseph Gordon Levitt should be in a cop film because he's good at playing a cop for sure, so yeah I ain't saying anymore on him. At times, I thought that there was a bit too many characters. Some had more screen time than others, not naming them and others never had enough, again not naming them. I felt as though it was like a mashed up "Avengers" film, and yes I'll probably get kicked in the balls for saying that, but it's true. All characters in "The Avengers" flowed perfectly and all were on and off screen for a certain amount of time, whereas here, they didn't.
Now let's talk about the lead up to the ending of all comic book movie endings. This has got to be the best ending ever thought of in a comic book ending. I was crying, cheering and gob-smacked all at the same time. Like I said above, it's so satisfying and literally rounds up the three films and ties up all the loose ends. The action throughout the end is just full-on. You are at the edge of your seat from the start of the end scenes to the.......well end shot.
All in all I'd give "The Dark Knight Rises" a whopping 8 out of 10. Nolan and the whole cast and crew have done fans proud with this trilogy. Even though the film wasn't perfect, it sure ended a true farewell to the franchise I just hope the next "Batman" will be as good as these ones. Please don't fuck up Warner!!!

Nolans Goodbye Message To His "The Dark Knight" Franchise!

This beautiful farewell message by director Chris Nolan, has been taken from "The Art And Making Of The Dark Knight Trilogy" book,

Alfred. Gordon. Lucius. Bruce . . . Wayne. Names that have come to mean so much to me. Today, I’m three weeks from saying a final good-bye to these characters and their world. It’s my son’s ninth birthday. He was born as the Tumbler was being glued together in my garage from random parts of model kits. Much time, many changes. A shift from sets where some gunplay or a helicopter were extraordinary events to working days where crowds of extras, building demolitions, or mayhem thousands of feet in the air have become familiar.

People ask if we’d always planned a trilogy. This is like being asked whether you had planned on growing up, getting married, having kids. The answer is complicated. When David and I first started cracking open Bruce’s story, we flirted with what might come after, then backed away, not wanting to look too deep into the future. I didn’t want to know everything that Bruce couldn’t; I wanted to live it with him. I told David and Jonah to put everything they knew into each film as we made it. The entire cast and crew put all they had into the first film. Nothing held back. Nothing saved for next time. They built an entire city. Then Christian and Michael and Gary and Morgan and Liam and Cillian started living in it. Christian bit off a big chunk of Bruce Wayne’s life and made it utterly compelling. He took us into a pop icon’s mind and never let us notice for an instant the fanciful nature of Bruce’s methods.

I never thought we’d do a second—how many good sequels are there? Why roll those dice? But once I knew where it would take Bruce, and when I started to see glimpses of the antagonist, it became essential. We re-assembled the team and went back to Gotham. It had changed in three years. Bigger. More real. More modern. And a new force of chaos was coming to the fore. The ultimate scary clown, as brought to terrifying life by Heath. We’d held nothing back, but there were things we hadn’t been able to do the first time out—a Batsuit with a flexible neck, shooting on Imax. And things we’d chickened out on—destroying the Batmobile, burning up the villain’s blood money to show a complete disregard for conventional motivation. We took the supposed security of a sequel as license to throw caution to the wind and headed for the darkest corners of Gotham.

I never thought we’d do a third—are there any great second sequels? But I kept wondering about the end of Bruce’s journey, and once David and I discovered it, I had to see it for myself. We had come back to what we had barely dared whisper about in those first days in my garage. We had been making a trilogy. I called everyone back together for another tour of Gotham. Four years later, it was still there. It even seemed a little cleaner, a little more polished. Wayne Manor had been rebuilt. Familiar faces were back—a little older, a little wiser . . . but not all was as it seemed.

Gotham was rotting away at its foundations. A new evil bubbling up from beneath. Bruce had thought Batman was not needed anymore, but Bruce was wrong, just as I had been wrong. The Batman had to come back. I suppose he always will.

Michael, Morgan, Gary, Cillian, Liam, Heath, Christian . . . Bale. Names that have come to mean so much to me. My time in Gotham, looking after one of the greatest and most enduring figures in pop culture, has been the most challenging and rewarding experience a filmmaker could hope for. I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he’ll miss me, but he’s never been particularly sentimental.

Few More Images From "The Dark Knight Rises"

More Images From The Final Batman!

The Dark Knights Triumphant Journey Trailer!

A trailer of Nolan's "Batman" trailer has been released featuring footage from 2005's "Batman Begins", 2008's "The Dark Knight" and this summer's "The Dark Knight Rises". The trailer is very good. It's not as good as the one shown at the MTV Movie Awards, but I can't seem to find that one. That was a very emotional video. Batman has been through some heavy shit in this amazing trilogy. No other Batman will go through what Bale's Batman has went through. Now I haven't seen the last one yet, but look at what he's going up against. He's fucked!!!
Here's the link to the official released trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCjhLVTqctQ
And here's the link to a fan-made one, which is a true journey video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xvQL0XtjNE
OH YEAH, and I just found this poster above online on some fan-made site. It's fucking EPIC ain't it?! I just had to use it for this post!!!

Two New Posters For "The Dark Knight Rises"

Images From "The Dark Knight Rises"

Final Trailer For Nolan's Final "Batman" Film!

The final, final, final trailer for this Summers "The Dark Knight Rises" has been released online courtesy of Nokia. I generally think that Warner and DC should just release the whole bloody film online seeing as we've seen so much footage from the final Batman film. There's a lot more of Batman vs Bane in this final trailer, which is so much "shivers down my spine" feel to it, especially the part when Bane walks towards Batman and just says "Mr Wayne" to him.........fucking shiver and a half.
Here's the link to the trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASQqjK47c04

Screenshots From New "Dark Knight Rises" Preview!