Monday, December 31, 2012

Patricia's 2012 Movie Awards

It would be incorrect to say I watched 108 movies in 2012.  Because I watched TV series too, and they are marked down on the same list as movies.  Also, I saw a few movies more than once (ahem Magic Mike, ahem Moonrise Kingdom) and my list doesn't account for that, either.  I have 108 entries on my "movies watched" list for 2012 and that uniquely qualifies me to give out awards.  So, without further ado, here are the 2012 Patricia Movie Awards.  You don't like the awards I gave?  Well, that's what the comments section is for.

If you want to read my individual reviews of each movie, you can use the search function, or scroll through the "three sentence movies" tag.

(In chronological order of viewing)

Best movie to flip the "Before Sunrise" concept on its head
Medicine for Melancholy

Best silent film of 2012
The Artist

Best version of Hamlet to exclude the "alas, poor Yorick, I knew him Horatio" line (note that I was NOT a fan of this action)
Hamlet 2000

Best series that had me regularly collapsing on the couch, weak from laughter 
Flight of the Conchords, season I

The movie in which I spent a lot of time staring at the actor's cheekbones
My Week with Marilyn

Quality flick and totally recommended, but not so much if you want to relax after a stressful week
The Grey

Marilyn Monroe movie I liked quite a bit and much more than the 2012 movie about the making of this movie (see "cheekbones" award above)
The Prince and the Showgirl

Avengers Assembly movie which I found strangely moving on second viewing
Thor

Best hilarious and sweet movie about a family keeping secrets from each other
City Island

Avengers Assembly movie that has the best "How it Should Have Ended" short
Captain America

Movie where I finally "got" the Kenneth Branagh thing
Hamlet

Best movie I completely enjoyed while watching and then couldn't tell you what the heck happened after it was over.
The Avengers

Best movie I would have enjoyed more if I hadn't seen the preview so many damn times
also
Best performance by actor playing a hotel manager ever
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Best guilty pleasure that did not hold up to a second viewing
Snow White and the Huntsman

Best use of 65 minutes of my time on a rather grumpy day
Glee, the 3-D Concert Movie, 2D version.

Best Horror Film I saw all year, and not just because it was the only horror film I saw all year.
also
Best use of "merman" as plot device
Cabin in the Woods

Movie who felt the need to tack on the traditional ending in a way that made me very grumpy
also
Best movie I got the boyfriend to watch the entire film only because he was worn out from a race
He's Just Not that Into You

Most awesome incorrect Historical Fiction Action movie with hot/nerdy lead
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter

Best movie you probably haven't seen
A Perfect Getaway

Movie I liked much, much, much more than I thought I would
Five-Year Engagement

Best movie I saw this year?
also
Best movie that I was still thinking about long after the DVD ended
Winter's Bone

Best overuse of adjective for underwhelming film
The Amazing Spiderman

Best movie I couldn't really hear very well
Batman: The Dark Knight Rises

Best movie to launch me on a surpisingly delightful personal film fest
also
Best movie I saw four times this year
Magic Mike

Series that inspired the most gushing discussion emails rife with exclamation points
Downton Abbey seasons 1 and 2

Most surprisingly funny remake of 80s TV series
21 Jump Street

Best Adaptation of Shakespeare I saw this year
She's the Man

Best movie with four main actors I really like
Stop-loss

Best dance film featuring a foster child as a main character
Step Up

Most surprisingly affecting movie
The Vow

Best probably correct historical fiction movie
The Eagle

Most perfect film in which my front teeth dried out because I was smiling the entire time
Moonrise Kingdom

Very interesting ensemble cast about a very interesting event
Battle in Seattle

Nicholas Sparks film I liked, even though I thought it was going to be very, very lame
Dear John

Worst film I watched in the Channing Tatum Film Fest
also
Film where Channing Tatum's 10 minutes on screen were far and away better then the entirety of the film
The Dilemma

Best of the kind of "awesome woman" film I would love to see more of
Haywire

Movie I wanted to like, but did not
I'm Not There

Best movie with an interesting concept
Limitless

Best movie saw in a movie theater with no air conditioning on a 90+ degree day
 Men in Black III

Most surprising big, dumb action film that I liked
GI Joe, Rise of Cobra

Best movie made by my Public Radio Boyfriend
also
Best movie to accurately cover that post-college-figuring-things-out life stage
Sleepwalk With Me

Best comedy I saw this year
Friends with Kids

Best tense/dramatic movie you probably haven't seen and would love
Take Shelter

Best movie to reassure me that wearing socks with my dresses during high school wasn't lame, it was actually fashionable
Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Best movie to practice deep breathing while watching
The Hurt Locker

Best "pretty good" movie that I bet you haven't seen
10 Year

Movie with great concept poorly executed
In Time

Best Romantic Comedy I saw this year
Ira and Abby

Best movie with a female lead where said female lead is not prostitute, etc.
also
Highly recommended film
Trucker

Best boy-in-Scotland-instead-of-girl-in-Ozarks Winter's Bone-type of film.
also
Film where subtitles are needed, even though English is being spoken
Sweet 16

Best movie with great sci-fi concept very well executed
(Note that this award is totally different than the award I gave to Limitless. Apparently it was a good year for cool concepts)
Looper

Best drama with lesbian couple I saw this year
also
Best "look it's Peeta!" sighting
The Kids are All Right

Really mediocre movie that didn't even have the decency to be bad enough to make fun of
The Trouble with the Curve

Best movie I resisted seeing for too long
The Savages

Best movie I was expecting the be okay, but was actually awesome
The Tourist

Best movie I watched even though the cover told me absolutely nothing about the story
Beautiful Thing

Best movie for setting and costumes
Anna Karenina

Best movie that I thought would be very tense (and it was) but also was quite funny in places
also
Best "toast" to come from a movie, ever.
Argo

Absolutely worst movie with female lead where she's not a prostitute, but might as well be
Jolene

Best remake I liked better than the original
also
Second best "Look, it's Peeta!" sighting
Red Dawn

Best TV series about High School, ever
also
Best individual performances by every actor making the collective whole amazing
Freaks and Geeks


1 comment:

  1. We finally saw Anna Karenina - oh how I loved it. You are right about the sets and costumes. I also ADORED Moonrise Kingdom! Love the awards. So inventive and clever!!!

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