2. 1) Action – These types of movies are high
octane, big budget movies that show many
physical stunts. If there is heroism, fights
involving guns, swords or karate moves,
horseback action or any destructive forces of
nature, your keyword is Action. In these movies,
it’s usually a fight between the good guys and
bad guys, i.e. Fight Club
2) Adventure- Do you like thrilling stories that
take you to wondrous places? They are similar to
action films but the action may be less and more
weight will be given to experiences. Indian Jones
movies belong to this category.
3. 4) Crime and Gangster Films- Such
films trace the lives of fictional and
true criminals, gangs or mobsters.
Serial killer films may be included
here, i.e. Gangs of New York.
5) Drama films- They are sensible
movies with a strong plot. Dramas
depict true stories or real-like
situations. The character
development is note-worthy, i.e. Little
Women.
6) Epics/ Historical films – An epic
involves elements like war, romance
and adventure. The sets are created
4. 7) Horror- You either love them or hate
them. These films expose our fears and
give rise to nightmares. For some, horror
films provide catharsis but others can
barely sit through a movie, due to the
violence and gory scenes. i.e Jaws.
8) Musicals/ Dance films – These are
entertaining films that are based on full
scale scores or song and dance. They can
either be delightful, light-hearted films for
the while family (i.e. The Sound of Music)
or contain a dark aspect (Sweeney Todd)
that is explored through music.
9) War films- These are very true to real
life and often depict the waste of war.
Attention is given to acts of heroism, the
5. 10) Westerns- This genre is central to
American culture and to its film
industry. They speak of the days of
expansion and the trials with Native
Indians. The plots and characters are
very distinctive. Remember Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid?
11) Animation- Computer graphics and
special affects are the backbone of
these films which are enjoyed by the
young and old. i.e. Finding Nem
12) Thrillers- They differ from Horror
because they are more provocative
than scary. i.e. The Bone Collector
13) Sci-Fi – If you like futuristic
6. Big Movie Of 2012
After a couple of tense meetings, long discussions, and at
least one shouting match, we have put together a list of the
best flicks of 2012. There were a lot of movies that we
wanted on the list that didn't quite make it, from big-budget
blockbusters like "Dark Knight Rises" to bizarre art house
faves like "Holy Motors." But by the end, we managed to
cobble together a pretty good list. Check out the Yahoo!
Movies 25 films of 2012:
25. 21 Jump Street
24. The House I Live In
23. Compliance
22. The Beasts of the Southern Wild
21. Marvel's The Avengers
20. Rust and Bone
19. Lincoln
7. 18. Silver Linings Playbook
17. Wreck-It Ralph
16. The Raid: Redemption
15. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
14. End of Watch
13. Magic Mike
12. Lawless
11. The Cabin in the Woods
9. 9. Moonrise Kingdom
Observing quirky characters played by
some of Hollywood's finest, a sense of
throwback that recalls a simpler time, and a
yarn that lies somewhere between bizarre and
sublime, you definitely know you're watching a
Wes Anderson film. But with "Moonrise
Kingdom," the writer-director gives us
something he hasn't since "Rushmore": A
protagonist we can truly root for. In Sam
Shakusky (Jared Gilman), we get a doe-eyed
youngster, untainted by shark attacks or
Tennenbaums, whose underlying motivation is
love, and young love at that. It's the ingredient
that's been missing from Anderson's recent
work, and it's the gel that brings all of
Anderson's idiosyncrasies together so
10. "The Central Park Five" is a tough and perfect
feature documentary by Ken Burns ("The Civil War"),
his daughter Sarah, and her husband David McMahon.
It's about a tough and imperfect moment in Manhattan
history: when a group of boys went "wilding" in Central
Park in 1989, a jogger was raped, and the police put
two and two together and got five. Like a reverse view
of "Law & Order," the movie captures how these dark-
skinned boys aged 14 to 16 were rammed through the
system, made to fit the crime by a team of detectives,
and convicted without physical evidence based on
confessions given under duress -- and an entire city
fanned on by tabloid newspaper covers allowed a
shameful miscarriage of justice to occur. Many know
about the convictions -- very few know that a judge
freed the accused when a single serial rapist already in
the police system confessed to the crime years later. --
Thelma Adams
11. Michael Haneke's "Amour" is an unrelenting look at
an aging woman's decline and death and her husband's
valiant attempts to look after her in her last days. True to
its title, this movie is indeed about love. But it's not
about the oft-told beginning of a love affair; it's about
the messy 'til death do us part" ending of one. Haneke
tells this story almost entirely from the confines of the
couple's apartment, using long takes, a mostly fixed
camera, and no score. This seemingly simple way of
making a movie is in fact staggeringly difficult to pull off.
Without using most of the cinematic tools in a director's
toolbox, Haneke rests all the weight of the movie on his
actors' performances. And wow, what performances! In
a perfect world, veteran actors Emmanuelle Riva and
Jean-Louis Trintignant would get Oscars for their work
in this movie. I watched this movie a couple of months
ago during a mid-afternoon press screening, filled with
some of the most jaded filmgoers you're likely to find.
By the end of the movie, the entire audience was on the
12. Quentin Tarantino's latest feature, an epic
Western fantasy of love and revenge set in the
slavery-era South, is everything you've come to
expect from the celebrated video store warrior
turned auteur -- shocking, ultraviolent, and
wickedly entertaining, in all its anachronistic
glory. In what other western could you witness
a John Woo-style shootout -- even the blood
splatter has its own choreography -- set to a
2Pac/James Brown jam? It's so Tarantino, it
hurts. Populated with the director's usual
rogues gallery mix of marquee stars and nearly
13. "Cloud Atlas" is an easy movie to ridicule. This is
after all the flick that had Halle Berry play a male
Korean doctor. But for all its goofiness, Tom Twyker
and Lana and Andy Wachowski's adaptation of David
Mitchell's novel is perhaps the most ambitious and
unrepentantly romantic movie of the year. It is also so
dense that it demands multiple viewings, jumps back
and forth between six very different narratives,
including an 18th-century nautical adventure and a
sci-fi saga set in Korea during the 22nd century. For
the first hour, the stories seem utterly unconnected,
and you might be left wondering what the hell you're
watching; but as the film gathers steam, the individual
plots start to resonant off one another in strange and
striking ways. What's the deal with the birthmark? By
the end, the narrative brilliantly pulled together leaves
you feeling surprisingly moved and flush with an
14. Writer-director Rian Johnson's original sci-fi
thriller is a crafty new take on the well-worn
time travel narrative. It turns out, organized
crime in the future will not be so different from
the current state of things, with one significant
difference: time travel. What happens when an
assassin's job is to dispatch his older self, sent
back 30 years from the future? Not all goes as
planned. "Looper's" smart, fully realized plot
includes enough great twists to keep you on
your toes, and just when you think you've got it
figured out, it takes a few more fearless leaps to
15. Having a screenwriting background and being
overly nitpicky, I don't often see a film without
obvious and distracting holes. From a story
standpoint, Ben Affleck's "Argo" has none, gaping or
otherwise. Another thriller, "Zero Dark Thirty," may
be the only other film I saw this year in which a story
gap didn't jolt me from being fully immersed. Though
"ZD30" is certainly one of the best films of the year,
it's nowhere near as enjoyable as "Argo." Both
thrillers are taut, timely, and deal in matters of
perplexing gray. But "Argo" is also subtly balanced,
with comic relief laced deftly throughout, luring you
in with laughs, shedding just enough light to make
the dark more glaringly scary. Because of this, the
tension is ratcheted up nice and slow, and the result
is captivating. The end of the film was the first time
in two hours I realized I was actually sitting in a
16. The one thing that the 23rd film in a 50-year-old
franchise shouldn't be able to do is surprise you.
And yet, amazingly, "Skyfall" did just that. Coming a
half-century after "Dr. No" first hit the big screen,
007's latest outing wasn't just a great Bond flick, but
a great film, period. This was due in no small part to
the Oscar-caliber talent both in front of and behind
the camera. Javier Bardem was unforgettable as sly,
entrancing, and seriously frightening Silva, and
Ralph Fiennes added a good measure of stiff-upper-
lip Britishness to the proceedings.
Of course, returning stars Daniel Craig and Judi
Dench also got to stretch further than they'd ever
been allowed to in a Bond picture, with a story that
for the first time highlighted Bond's physical and
emotional vulnerability. Credit is also due director
Sam Mendes, screenwriter John Logan,
cinematographer Roger Deakens, and composer
17. I fell in love with "ZD30" at first sight in a way that was
as unequivocal and driven as Oscar-winning director
Kathryn Bigelow. In her ninth theatrical feature,
Bigelow reunites with "The Hurt Locker" screenwriter
Mark Boal for an uncompromising edge-of-your seat
drama about the decade-long hunt for Osama bin
Laden. And, in this most male of genres -- a hybrid of
espionage thriller and military action-adventure -- the
driving force is a pretty, petite CIA agent. Maya (Jessica
Chastain) acts tough not because she has a chip on her
shoulder or Daddy issues, but because she's the chief
crusader on a mission to eradicate bin Laden. It's a
dirty job but somebody has to do it. And, as Maya
enters one torture chamber after the next, violently
extracting intel that could lead to bin Laden's hiding
place, she may employ another man's muscle to beat
out a confession, but she understands that she is the
power behind the fist. She's culpable. "Zero Dark
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21. TOP3.
ORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING
Director : Peter Jackson
ter : J.R.R. Tolkien (Novel), Fran Walsh (ScreenP
ast : Noel Appleby, Alexandra Astin, Sean Astin,.
: Won 11 Oscars. Another 106 wins and 68 nomi
22.
23. TOP5.
THE ENGLISH PATIENT (1996)
Director : Anthony Mingella
Writer : Michael Ondaatje (Novel),
Anthony Mingeela (ScreenPlay)
Cast : Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche,
Willem Dafoe,...
Awards : Won 9 Oscars. Another 41
wins and 37 nominations
24. I will talk about my predictions for the top
5 biggest money making blockbusters from
May to August 2012. I will have my
predictions for the opening weekend (OWG),
domestic total (DTG), and international total
(ITG) box office grosses. The next 2 articles
are my guesses for the top 15 best critically
reviewed movies and my list of the ones I
want to see. I have researched on such
various websites as IMDB, Box Office Mojo,
Rotten Tomatoes, Entertainment Weekly, and
Empire as well as The New York Times. I’ll
say why I think these movies will be big and
why they might not be big. Plus I’ll throw in
a few funny jokes and more.
25. Release Date: May 25 Why it will be big:
The previous 2 Men in Black movies were massive
box office smashes. The first film got 91% fresh on
Rotten Tomatoes, but the second got a 39% splat,
even though it was a box office success. That
means 10 years after the third will have to be really
good, make a lot of money, and do well with critics,
in order for the series to continue. This will have to
be a case like the Indiana Jones series, where the
first one has good box office and does well with
critics, the second one only does good at the box
office but then the third one they bring in a new
actor, Sean Connery, or in this case, Josh Brolin and
the series is better than ever. Based on the funny
and action-packed trailer, there’s no reason why this
shouldn’t be a smash. Why it might not be big: As I
said before the second MIB movie didn’t do well with
26. Release Date: June 22 Why it will be big: The
people who work at Pixar are the best animation makers
in the world. They also do good at the box office. Toy
Story 3 made $110 on it’s opening weekend, $415 million
domestically, and $1 billion internationally. It also got a
99% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and easily earned back
it’s $200 million budget. Meanwhile their next film, Cars
2 made $66 million on it’s opening weekend, $191
domestically, and $559 million internationally. It also got
a 38% on Rotten Tomatoes and earned back it’s $200
million budget. Well let’s hope that Brave is more like
Toy Story 3 (which has a better trailer than Brave) than
Cars 2 (which does not have as good a trailer as Brave).
Anyway medieval action sword fights, a strong cast of
characters, and Pixar’s classic comedy plus a female
heroine should prove to be a strong combination. It’s
also a good idea to release Brave at the end of school,
27. Release Date: July 3 Why it will be big: This
movie will swing amazingly into 3rd place., many
people are hoping for a more emotional story
than the previous 3 Sam Raimi directed, Tobey
Maguire starred, movies. That’s because the
director Marc Webb’s only other movie is the
independent hit (500) Days Of Summer and the
star of this version is The Social Network actor
Andrew Garfield. Add in there a cool villain The
Lizard played by Rhys Ifans, a love interest
played by Emma Stone, some awesome 3-D,
great web-slinging action, and a script by Harry
Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves and TA-
DAAAAAAAA!!!!! I have high hopes. Why it
might not be big: People are saying this is too
28. Release Date: May 4 Why it will be big: Marvel
used this technique with both the Iron Man
movies and Thor being released on May 2nd, May
7th, and May 6th, respectively. They debuted at
$98 million, $128 million, and $65 million,
respectively. Meanwhile Captain America: The
First Avenger, on July 22, with $65 million. The
Incredible Hulk was released on June 13th and
made $55 million on the opening weekend.
Combining all these super hero characters
together will surely pay off in some aspects: It
will be fun watching them battle each other, and
with so many actors they’ll have to have great
chemistry..Will the focus be on Iron Man? I hope
29. Release Date: July 20 Why it will be big: This
movie will rise to 1st place. With Christian Bale
returning as Batman, fans are going crazy. And for
fairly good reason. Batman Begins grossed $48
million on it’s opening weekend, $205 domestically,
and $372 internationally. It also got an 85% fresh
on Rotten Tomatoes, earned back it’s $150 million
budget, and became the 12 biggest superhero
movie of all time. Meanwhile the 2008 sequel to
the 2005 prequel, The Dark Knight, did the
impossible. Making $158 million on it’s opening
weekend (beat only by HP 7 part 2, but at the time
the best ever), $533 domestically, and $1 billion
internationally. It also received a 94% on Rotten
Tomatoes, got back it’s $185 million budget, and
1. The Dark Knight Rises
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