5) The Amazing Spiderman - This seemed like a remake a little too soon. i'll be honest, I had no interest in watching Andrew Garfield play Peter Parker. But its spiderman, I HAD to see it. It stays much truer to the Comic book with a little bit of glamour. but you need a certain new age spin on it. I think we can all agree that Toby McGuire is a little less than the spiderman look. He was pretty good in the first one, the second one was just kind of like getting a hand-job... the third held no excitement at all. But back to my point, this is how the movie should have been made. Despite the absence of MJ and the replacement love affair with Gwen Stacy, played by the charming Emma Stone, the movie just holds together.
4.) The Avengers - There isn't a single person in america that can say they have not seen The Avengers. This movie is packaged with all the hollywood product placement, make-up, multi million dollar sets and ridiculous hackneyed costume designs. But damn is this movie entertaining. It pulls you in with the action. The arguments of the different heroes is entertaining and comedic (thanks to Robert Downey Jr.). This movie lived up to the hype, it serves as a spectacle of how advanced technology in cinema is getting. You can argue that some of the movies leading to this one were a little terrible, some predictable and a very few were okay. Whatever. This is a great movie.
3.) The Hunger Games - Gary Ross methodically and masterfully pulls this one off. Some Movies will never be as good as the books, it's a truth in many books that become movies. This was not as good as the book by any means, but it was very well done. The casting of this movie is what sells it. Jennifer Lawrence is no stranger to drama, She shows very good promise as a great actress, I believed her all through the movie. Her physical ability, her beauty and her skillfully portrayed fearful tragic girl caught in the middle was spot on Katniss. Josh Hutcherson is creating space between the child star he once was to a very "Leading Man" actor. Throw in great performances from Elizebeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Woody Harrelson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci, Wes Bentley and the one and only Donald Sutherland and you have a movie. A great movie at that.
2.) Moonrise Kingdom - Take a quirky plot and great actors and you have a genuine heart warming tale of two twelve year olds who fall in love and run away together. Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward are astonishing and perfect as Sam and Suzy. The cinematography is so abstract and vintage, the two just seem to dance all over the screen. This movie is an instant classic. The story is a frenzy of a mess as everything falls apart after they run away together. Written and Directed so seemingly effortlessly by Wes Anderson, it's definitely Oscar worthy as far as Best Original Screenplay is concerned.... not to mention the big names such as Bruce Willis, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman and Harvey Keitel all putting there spin on their characters in such a profound and silly way. The story is set in 1965 and wonderfully inventive. It's an honest and heartfelt movie. One of my personal favorites.
1.) The Dark Knight Rises - Well the end of Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy has come to a close, but went out with a bang... Literally. There isn't a bad thing to say about Christian Bale, he plays Bruce Wayne as a wounded helpless old man who rises from the ashes to save Gotham City. Bale does a good job playing the last minute hero. I did notice the elephant in the room in the movie... well, Tom Hardy. Hardy's Bane is just the thing of nightmares. Full of destruction, powerful, huge and god dammit scary as hell. Bane's voice is like a terrible echo in your mind of cruel thoughts, wonderfully acted. Anne Hathaway puts an interesting take on Catwoman, vengeful and full of deceit. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is magnificent as the lone wolf fighting for Gotham when all hope is lost. Michael Caine is great in the little bit of movie he is in, not to mention Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Morgan Freeman, and Matthew Modine. The Dark Knight Rises is the best movie of the year.... So far that is.
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