Favorite Movies of 2012

Sometimes ideas for the blog come to me out or the blue, or during an innocuous conversation amongst friends. The next series of post was conceived from the latter. At a surprise party for one of my good friends, avid reader of Off the Mark Thoughts and real life compadre, Anthony, brought up the question: Who will be the Best Picture nominees this year?

While it would be an awesome project, it would also be a completely uneducated guess at which movies would populate what essentially is the Academy's top-ten list. Only because I have not seen enough "Oscar-Caliber" films to compile a competent list.

So in lieu of that, I thought I'd rank the top-twenty movies that I've seen in 2012. Yay!

If you haven't figured it out yet, I have this OCD issue where I need to list every thing in order from favorite to least favorite. Video games, songs, movies, breakfast cereal (Honey Nut Cheerios, end of story) nothing is off-limits. Most lists are fluid, some are solid, and they are all usually more time consuming than they need to be.

How this will work is that numbers 20-16 will be in one post on December 5th, 15-11 will follow on December 12th, 10-6 will be on December 19th, and the top-five will each get an individual post starting December 26th. The time between each post will be allotted to discussions/arguments about the rankings and/or post from guests to defend or disagree with my opinions.

As a little tease, I will reveal the (not so) honorable mentions because I paid money to see 22 films this year and I think I should mention them all.

22.

ATM

Release date: April 6th

Reason for ranking: Don't see this movie. Please, don't see this movie!

Recommendation: Run far away.

21.

Casa de mi Padre

Release date: March 16th


Reason for ranking: Nothing really wrong with this movie, but nothing really made it stand out from the rest of the list, either.

Recommendation: Definitely rent it. Funny, but not overly memorable.