BOT: THE REVISITING -- TOP 25 of 2012 | accursed Nolanites are triumphant again

[Plain Old Tele]

#13

Looper
written and directed by: Rian Johnson
starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt

 



 



Number of first-place votes: 0

IMDB synopsis: In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

Rian Johnson’s twisty time-travel character study was influenced by many movies: THE TERMINATOR, WITNESS, AKIRA, DOMU: A CHILD’S DREAM, 12 MONKEYS, TIMECRIMES, and HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD. About his movie, Johnson says: “Even though it's a time-travel movie, the pleasure of it doesn't come from the mass of time travel. It's not a film like Primer, for instance, where the big part of the enjoyment is kind of working out all the intricacies of it. For Looper, I very much wanted it to be a more character-based movie that is more about how these characters dealt with the situation time travel has brought about. So the biggest challenge was figuring out how to not spend the whole movie explaining the rules and figure out how to put it out there in a way that made sense on some intuitive level for the audience; then get past it and deal with the real meat of the story.”

LOOPER was produced on a very modest budget of about 30 million, and it garnered a lot of critical praise. It grossed 66 million in the US and 176 million worldwide.

Tomato meter: 93%, 8.1/10 average rating

Academy Awards: 0 wins, 0 nominations

Random critic comment: “This is an exciting, exceptionally well-made futuristic thriller that also happens to be loaded with lived-in touches and punchy ideas.” —Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

Random RTM comment: “Movie Review Haiku for LOOPER:
...see this movie please!
Brilliant from start to finish.
Don't think, go now and…” —@Rallax

[BadAtGender]

Too low for Looper.

[Jake Gittes]

I thought one of the great things about Lincoln was that Kushner's writing + DDL's performance so believably showed him as both a human and a mythic larger-than-life figure. 

[grim22]

81-100

 

81	Here Comes the Boom
82	Kon-Tiki
83	The Lorax
84	Much Ado About Nothing
85	Cosmopolis
86	No
87	A Royal Affair
88	End of Watch
89	Parental Guidance
90	Taken 2
91	This is 40
92	The Sessions
93	Get the Gringo
94	Smashed
95	Joyful Noise
96	Ice Age: Continental Drift
97	The Vow
98	Journey 2 - The Mysterious Island
99	Hitchcock
100	Le Jour de Corneilles

[aabattery]

2 minutes ago, grim22 said:

81-100

 

81	Here Comes the Boom
82	Kon-Tiki
83	The Lorax
84	Much Ado About Nothing
85	Cosmopolis
86	No
87	A Royal Affair
88	End of Watch
89	Parental Guidance
90	Taken 2
91	This is 40
92	The Sessions
93	Get the Gringo
94	Smashed
95	Joyful Noise
96	Ice Age: Continental Drift
97	The Vow
98	Journey 2 - The Mysterious Island
99	Hitchcock
100	Le Jour de Corneilles

 

lmao @ Taken 2 being on someones list.

[Ethan Hunt]

4 minutes ago, aabattery said:

 

lmao @ Taken 2 being on someones list.

Its the best taken movie

[TalismanRing]

Kon-Tiki made #82 and it wasn't even eligible.

 

Top 25 next year here we come. 

 

Go watch it.

[Ethan Hunt]

Also disappointingly low for Perks

[baumer]

4 hours ago, Tele Came Back said:

#14

 

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
written and directed by: Stephen Chbotsky, based on his book
starring: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson

 



 



Number of first-place votes: 2

IMDB synopsis: An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real world.

First published as a popular teen book, PERKS got the interest of various filmmakers from the start. John Hughes actually got the rights first, but he never finished his screenplay (which he envisioned as a black comedy). Ron Howard, Richard Linklater, McG, Joel Schumacher, Ryan Murphy, and Danny Boyle were also interested in the project. However, author Chbotsky had a desire to make the movie himself, and when the producers of JUNO agreed, a deal was made. Chbotsky read Hughes’ script and felt parts of it would work, so he negotiated the rights from Hughes’ heirs and ended up using roughly half of Hughes’ material. The production was inexpensive — about 13 million — and a modest hit, grossing 33 million worldwide.

Tomato meter: 86%, 7.5/10 average rating

Academy Awards: 0 wins, 0 nominations

Random critic comment: “Stephen Chbosky's script is insightful about the exhilaration of soul-piercing first love, and the misery of being swept into a relationship with someone who's forceful, determined and utterly wrong for you.” —Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Random RTM comment: “It's a film adaptation that replaces the cliche mainstream swagger with some painful realities and simply lets the audience understand the whole point of it.” —@Heretic
 

 

 

 

   

 

You fucking PEOPLE!

 

Way way too low.

 

Now I'm melting down for sure.

 

[aabattery]

1 minute ago, baumer said:

 

   

 

You fucking PEOPLE!

 

Way way too low.

 

Now I'm melting down for sure.

 

 

If it makes you feel any better, it's probably under TDKR as well!

[Plain Old Tele]

1 minute ago, aabattery said:

 

If it makes you feel any better, it's probably under TDKR as well!

 

Interesting that you assume TDKR made it. 

 

@MrPink

[baumer]

3 hours ago, Tele Came Back said:

 

Interesting that you assume TDKR made it. 

 

@MrPink

 

I will fart the theme to JAWS if TDKR misses.  

[Fancyarcher]

34 minutes ago, TalismanRing said:

Kon-Tiki made #82 and it wasn't even eligible.

 

Top 25 next year here we come. 

 

Go watch it.

 

It was on my list. 

[Arlborn]

1 hour ago, grim22 said:

 

 

97	The Vow

 

Meh

Edited May 13, 2017 by Arlborn

[MrPink]

36 minutes ago, Tele Came Back said:

 

Interesting that you assume TDKR made it. 

 

@MrPink

 

[narniadis]

I would be thrilled if TDKR actually missed but I just can't see it being the case. 

[Plain Old Tele]

Sorry for the delays on this, #12 and #11 coming up shortly and then I hand things back to @grim22 for 10-6...

[Plain Old Tele]

#12

Zero Dark Thirty
written by: Mark Boal
directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
starring: Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle

 



 



Number of first-place votes: 1

IMDB synopsis: A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.

The film's working title was FOR GOD AND COUNTRY. The final title — ZERO DARK THIRTY — is military slang for (technically) 30 minutes past midnight and (broadly) a time in the dark of night well before dawn. It’s also, of course, a metaphor for the dark espionage campaign to track Bin Laden and hunt him down. Bigelow and Boal had initially worked on and finished a screenplay centered on the December 2001 Battle of Tora Bora, and the long, unsuccessful efforts to find Osama bin Laden in the region. The two were about to begin filming when news broke that bin Laden had been killed.

They immediately shelved the film they had been working on and redirected their focus, essentially starting from scratch. “But a lot of the homework I'd done for the first script and a lot of the contacts I made, carried over,” Boal remarked during an interview with Entertainment Weekly. He added, “The years I had spent talking to military and intelligence operators involved in counter-terrorism was helpful in both projects. Some of the sourcing I had developed long, long ago continued to be helpful for this version.”

The final movie received rave reviews and did well at the box office, grossing 132 million worldwide (the bulk of this coming from the United States) on a 40 million dollar budget. It did attract some controversy from both political sides, some claiming it was too “pro-torture” and over-emphasized the data received from “enhanced interrogation” and some claiming that the movie was pro-Obama propaganda with a release date aimed at influencing the 2012 election.

Tomato meter: 92%, 8.6/10 average rating

Academy Awards: 1 win, 5 nominations

Random critic comment: “From the very first scenes of Zero Dark Thirty, director Kathryn Bigelow demonstrates why she is such a formidable filmmaker, as adept with human emotion as with visceral, pulse-quickening action.” —Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

Random RTM comment: “Over 2.5 hours long and not a single moment feels wasted. Some parts are unbelievable tense like the ending raid, and others are extremely hard to watch like the first twenty minutes which are basically just a guy getting tortured. Great cast all the way down to the smallest roles.” —@CoolioD1

[grim22]

66-80 (75 was double counted, moved it up a spot)

 

66	Goon
67	Searching for Sugar Man
68	The Bay
69	Mud
70	A Cat in Paris
71	Bourne Legacy
72	Lords of Salem
73	Rock of Ages
74	Wuthering Heights
76	Think Like a Man
77	The Expendables 2
78	Oslo, August 31
79	Headhunters
80	Snow White and the Huntsman

[Plain Old Tele]

#11

 

 

The Raid
written and directed by: Gareth Evans
starring: Iko Uwais, Joe Taslim, Yayan Ruhian

 



 

 

Number of first-place votes: 1

IMDB synopsis: A SWAT team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.

Director Gareth Evans came across the idea for the film when he moved to Indonesia to film a documentary about the country's martial art, Pencak Silat. Evans and his producers began work on a Silat film project called BERANDAL, a large-scale prison gangster film. A teaser trailer was shot, but the project proved more complex and time consuming than anticipated. After a year and a half, Evans and the producers found themselves with insufficient funds to produce BERANDAL, so they changed the film to a simpler but different story with a smaller budget. They called the project THE RAID and Evans designed it to be a "full-on" action film. They shot the movie using prosumer HD cameras and replica paintball guns, digitally creating the shells and muzzle flashes. The result was a small-scale hit that won instant acclaim and put Evans, Uwais, and Ruhian on the international film scene.

Tomato meter: 85%, 7.5/10 average rating

Academy Awards: 0 wins, 0 nominations

Random critic comment: “A slam-bang, knock-your-socks-off action bonanza with some of the most peerlessly shot, performed and choreographed fight sequences you're likely to see on screen.” —Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

Random RTM comment: “I'm probably going to sound like a little kid here but holy fucking shit! Everything you have heard about this film is absolutely true.” —@baumer