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Movies Watched in 2012 | Our Idiot Brother

This was fucking stupid. 

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Movies Watched in 2012 | The Amazing Spider-Man

I wasn’t as impressed with this as I was hoping to be. Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield were cute together, but I hated whoever wrote their dialogue because it was melodramatic and stupid. I did really like the “spider” movements and the way he used the webs in action sequences though. The overall plot? Also kinda meh. I look forward to the sequel, I think these characters will be better when they’re not also in an origin story.

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Movies Watched in 2012 | The Hobbit

Great movie but I’m really bummed I missed out on the 9 minutes of Star Trek footage.

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Movies Watched in 2012 | Anaconda

Because I saw How Did This Get Made? LIVE at The Bell House in Brooklyn and it was THE BEST NIGHT EVER EHRMAGEHRD. 

I still can’t get over how much the anaconda’s mouth looked like a vagina. 

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Movies Watched in 2012 | Princess Mononoke

Probably my favorite Studio Ghibli movie that I watched this year. 

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Movies Watched in 2012 | Looper

Can we just talk about how fucking stupid the end of this movie was? Ugh, what a waste of two hours. I don’t think I’ve hated the ending to something so much since I watched the last 120 seconds of the BSG finale. 

I wanted to like this, too. But holy hell, the ending was a total cop-out and completely ruined the rest of the movie for me. I think part of the reason I’m so annoyed by the ending is that the rest of the movie and the Looper universe had so much potential for a genuinely interesting story and instead just, ugh. It totally flopped. Hated it. Absolutely hated it. 

Don’t go see this movie. 

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Movies Watched in 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook

Holy crap you guys. Go see this movie. I can’t even put into words how great it was, but oh man. So good. I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen such fully developed, nuanced, and well-realized characters on a movie screen. On TV, sure. But in a movie? That’s a rare find. 

So…should I read the book?

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Movies Watched in 2012 | Seven Samurai

Watching this movie was a gift to my boyfriend for his birthday back in October. I’m not great at sitting through super long movies, so basically I enjoyed having seen this movie more than I enjoyed actually watching it. I’m glad I saw it. I appreciate its place in the history of cinema. Would I watch it again? Probably not.

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Movies Watched in 2012 | Dredd 3D

This movie did not need to exist. THAT SAID, it was surprisingly progressive-ish, as action movies go, in that the female characters were actually more developed and interesting than the male characters, so much so that Alyssa Rosenberg at ThinkProgress made a very strong case for it being a superheroine movie. Also, if you enjoyed The Raid: Redemption, it’s basically a souped-up, special-effectsy version of that. 

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Movies Watched in 2012 | Spirited Away

This was way weirder than anything I previously knew about it led me to expect. I feel like I would have appreciated it more had I seen it as a kid first, but it was still a really fun story and I liked the little girl’s character journey a lot. 

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Movies Watched in 2012 | My Neighbor Totoro

I want one of those cat-bus things. And one of…er…whatever Totoro was. 

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Movies Watched in 2012 | Road House

These guys are hella serious about their bar bouncer duties.

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Movies Watched in 2012 | Skyfall

Hnnnnng Daniel Craig. Adore Judi Dench. But let’s be real, how freaking adorable was the new Q? 

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Movies Watched in 2012 | Super Mario Bros

This was like a bad fever-dream. I still can’t get over these guys. And oh god, Aunt Petunia.

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Movies Watched in 2012 | The Graduate

The other day I realized I’ve only ever seen clips of The Graduate in my film classes and hadn’t actually seen the whole film in it’s entirety. Well, now I have. It was quite good.