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

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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.

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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.

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Highly recommended film

Trucker

Best boy-in-Scotland-instead-of-girl-in-Ozarks Winter's Bone-type of film.

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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

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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

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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

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Second best "Look, it's Peeta!" sighting

Red Dawn

Best TV series about High School, ever

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Best individual performances by every actor making the collective whole amazing

Freaks and Geeks