2012: My year in review

- Some random awards I just made up for the 260 films I watched this year!

Welcome readers, I really enjoyed looking through all of the films I viewed to select the best and even the worst films for me in 2012. Thanks for reading and I'll hopefully see you all in 2013.

Movie Review #41 Rise of the Guardians (2012)

- 20% Christmas movie

Dreamworks is at it again and this time they didn't even even take off a Pixar flick, though I'll give some time for Pixar to take off this movie. In any case Dreamworks has, in my opinion, been the bigger budget in voice actors but has less bang for your buck when it comes to story and even sometimes animation. Not that I'm taking a hit at Dreamworks animation department, but I feel that for the most part it is second place to Pixar. But here we are with an almost Christmas movie from Dreamworks and Pixar had their summer blockbuster with Brave.

Movie Review #40 The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)

- When rap music entwines with Asian cultures

We've got ourselves another weird one here folks. I've seen a few movies over the years that mix the mean streets of inner-city youth along with the quiet flow of honour and law of some Asian cultures. For example Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), albeit that took place in America with Asian culture, our movie today is a full-blown Asian movie with one rapper in a critical role and a soundtrack that is almost entirely rap music. Wire jumping, enough martial arts to shake a stick at, and some really terrible acting by almost all counts.

Movie Review #39 The Bourne Legacy (2012)

- The box office showed there would never be just one

I loved the first three Bourne films, though I felt as each one went by the next was certainly a little weaker, but then maybe I just love Franka Potente too much for my own good? Well we're back for the fourth film, after Matt Damon said he was done with the series, especially with Paul Greengrass not taking the helm for this one, and with a couple of years in limbo one would assume after some crazy rewrites we have The Bourne Legacy. The story takes place mostly during the timing of The Bourne Ultimatum but by the end of it it is after the fact so it is, in fact, a sequel not a concurrent movie or a prequel. This may be important to some people as without this knowledge and understanding of the previous three movies the first hour of this movie is going to be pretty messy for those of you new to the series.