2012: the golden year for movies

[sasha_feather]

I was thinking yesterday about how I saw a lot of movies in the theater in 2012. Partly this was due to an unusually hot summer, but largely it was because there were many movies I was interested in seeing. This year there don't seem to be any such films available. Perhaps 2013 is the fallow period after a great harvest. I saw so many good movies that I was spoiled for choice, and maybe rated some of them lower than I would have in a lesser year.

Of the movies I saw in the theater last year, several featured women or girls in leading roles:
Brave
The Hunger Games
Snow White and the Huntsman
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Pitch Perfect (I saw this later at the bargain theater)

A couple were good or decent-quality super hero movies:
The Avengers
The Amazing Spider Man

I saw Looper and the Perks of Being a Wall Flower at the bargain movie theater, and enjoyed both of them. SkyFall I also enjoyed relative to my ability to enjoy Bond films. The Bourne Legacy wasn't terrific but I enjoyed it for what it was.

Two smaller films that were utter gems:
Premium Rush, a film about bike messengers with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
End of Watch, a surprising movie about two cops in L.A. that I saw on a whim and ended up loving.

The only movie I didn't enjoy was The Dark Knight Rises. That's a total of 14 movies.

This year I've only seen Iron Man 3.
eta, I saw a film festival movie called Winter Nomads, an independent foreign film.

Comments

[holyoutlaw]

This isn't as good a year as 2012, that's for sure. And there are a lot fewer good roles for women as well.

If you like Shakespeare and/or Joss Whedon, let me recommend Much Ado about Nothing, which I enjoyed.

[lilysea]

Thanks for the reccs!

I just watched Premium Rush and *really* enjoyed it! ^_^

[lilysea]

Things I've seen in 2013 and enjoyed:

Seven Psychopaths
Django Unchained
Cloud Atlas
Lincoln

[antarcticlust]

My theater usage has ramped up considerably in the last five years, I'd say. I think the awesomeness of Sundance did a lot for that. Last year was a much better year for women in film than this year.

Okay, I had to use the internet to help with this, but so far, I've seen:

Warm Bodies (cute!)
Stoker (incredible indie film, very creepy and dark but gorgeous cinematography)
Iron Man 3 (enjoyable, some issues)
Star Trek (no comment other than I actually enjoyed it much less the second time)
The Great Gatsby (meh, though superb acting from Leonardo diCaprio)
What Maisie Knew (indie, one of the few women-starring films this year, amazing, in the feels)
Man of Steel (I really liked it! Awesome female characters!)

Imminently planning to see Much Ado About Nothing, WWZ, and The Bling Ring (I love Sophia Coppola).

Excited about: Elysium, The Butler (holy star lineup), Riddick, Grvity (space horror!), Ender's Game (which I plan on not paying for), Catching Fire.