TIME Magazine’s Top 10 Best and Worst Movies of 2012
Now that December has arrived, the various year end lists are slowly starting to pop up online with BFI’s Sight & Sound Magazine and France’s Cahiers du Cinema being among the first publications to post Best Of lists. Now TIME Magazine has also followed suit with a huge feature covering the Top 10 of Everything of 2012. What is generating even more discussion than their Best Movies of 2012, however, is what they chose as the Worst of 2012.
Topping that list is The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer’s Cloud Atlas and Disney’s John Carter, both of which were unmitigated commercial failures, making them easy targets. However, somehow it seems unfair to label such ambitious movies as being the worst of the year when there is so much other garbage to sift through. Did they even see Piranha 3DD? TIME’s Best Of list had a few surprising choices on there too including Todd Solondz’ Dark Horse of all movies. Do you agree with their selections? Check out both lists after the jump.
Best
1. Amour
2. Beasts of the Southern Wild
3. Life of Pi
4. Anna Karenina
5. The Dark Knight Rises
6. Zero Dark Thirty
7. Dark Horse
8. Dragon
9. Frankenweenie
10. The Invisible War
Worst
1. Cloud Atlas
2. John Carter
3. Hyde Park on Hudson
4. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
5. This Means War
6. The Lorax
7. Alex Cross
8. What to Expect When You’re Expecting
9. The Odd Life of Timothy Green
10. One for the Money
Comments (30)
Can we really quantify whether Frankenweenie is undoubtedly better than Lincoln? These lists are the height of pretension.
Posted by Mr. Pizza on December 5th, 2012I immensely enjoyed Piranha 3DD – best worst movie of the year!
Posted by Flo Lieb on December 5th, 2012I agree with Amour being the best of the year. Not so sure about the rest of the list.
Posted by Essie on December 5th, 2012I’m just glad Prometheus isn’t on the Worst Of list. That movie has taken enough bullying this year.
But saying that Cloud Atlas is the worst movie of the year if a fucking joke. That tells me all I need to know about the credibility of this list.
Posted by Steve on December 5th, 2012I’d be more intrigued than anything to know the demographics for who values movie opinions from TIME Magazine.
Posted by devolutionary on December 5th, 2012The answer is yes. Frankenweenie is better than Lincoln.
Posted by Darksiders on December 5th, 2012I can’t wait to see Amour and Cloud Atlas
Posted by Henrik on December 5th, 2012Cloud Atlas and The Odd Life of Timothy Green are in the worst of the year? That’s just dumb and wrong
Posted by Juan on December 5th, 2012I’d really like to hear a defense of the Invisible War. I know this is entirely subjective, but indirectly claiming that the Invisible War is better than the Master is just weird to me. IW was a snoozer with essentially no redeeming qualities, essentially an extended episode of 60 Minutes. No cred to this list.
Posted by FDB on December 5th, 2012John Carter on nr.2 worst? Fucking shit lidy. It may have flopped financially, but it was still a pretty alright film.
Posted by La Menthe on December 5th, 2012When I first glimpsed at this, I assumed Cloud Atlas would be in the top 10, but as it turns out, the people at Time don’t watch a lot of movies.
Posted by Zac on December 5th, 2012What a joke Time Magazine. ‘Worst of’ Lists are pretty lame to begin with, but naming Cloud Atlas worse than This Means War, What to Expect When You’re Expecting and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is insane. Just seems like a giant troll.
Posted by rjdelight on December 5th, 2012By this standard, McDonald’s is the best food and American Idol is the best show on TV. Why live like that?
Scott
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It’s been proven that companies buy their own products to make them look like successes.
Posted by Scott on December 5th, 2012Anyone who puts their house on the line to make their art has my respect.
Posted by Scott on December 5th, 2012I respect this persons opinion, but Cloud Atlas doesn’t belong with the worst.
Posted by Indianamcclain on December 6th, 2012These kinds of “expert lists” are usually garbage. No surprise this one is too.
Posted by Kasper on December 6th, 2012“Did they even see Piranha 3DD?”
I know, right? How did it not make the Top 10?
Posted by Wintle on December 6th, 2012I knew you’d catch that…
Posted by Sean on December 6th, 2012Seriously, I question the taste and expertise of TIME based on this article. How the heck is Alex Cross better than Cloud Atlas, you can’t even compare. Cloud Atlas is a smart film, this proves TIME is not smart enough to understand this film. It’s the worst, cause they got no brain. Embrassing! I guess they think they are smarter than Roger Ebert. They should have checked out Roger Eberts review before making that retarded
Posted by Vicky on December 7th, 2012statement. Thank god, I just unsubscribe my subscription, waste of my money.
Where is Skyfall and the Avengers in this list as the best in 2012??
Posted by Gerardo on December 7th, 2012are you a fucking idiot! this means war was a really good movie you fucking cunt
Posted by chris on December 7th, 2012i reject your reality and substitute my own. stupid list
Posted by jon on December 7th, 2012I havent seen every movie this year, and these lists are fucking opinons…. but my vote for worst goes to Lincoln hands down. Whoever tells you its a good movie is a liar and shouldnt be trusted.
Posted by mark on December 10th, 2012Sorry, Time magazine, but John Carter rocked. I liked JC slightly better than The Avengers and I LOVED The Avengers.
And some might call this blasphemy, but I liked it better than The Dark Knight Rises too.
John Carter had some of that fun Golden Voyage of Sinbad/Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger “mojo” from the 1970s; a really fun adventure with a cool hero and a hot princess.
Posted by kmcarlock on December 11th, 2012Different folks, different strokes. I would surely not include Nolan’s last batman movie into the list, since it is a recycled version of the previous two parts. And Cloud Atlas being the worst one? Well, there are many examples in the history when ridiculous critics misunderstood and doomed extraordinary efforts of some individuals we today consider jewels of music, cinematography, or literature.
Posted by Lorne Marr on December 12th, 2012D D Lewis and Lincoln are the best actor/movie in a very long time. The film served to remind me of the pathetic circus going on in our Congress today. They and the media keep claiming we are in the toughest spot ever…They are laughable. The US split up and 600,000 Americans slaughtered…all somehow managed by one Abraham Lincoln … I believe that trumps any domestic events of the modern day…Just think about this!!
Dick Brooks Phillips, maine
Posted by dick brooks on December 28th, 2012Mary Pols, as a film critic, seems to be way over her pay grade to have ranked Cloud Atlas as worst movie of 2012 & not to have included Lincoln or Django in the Top 10. She is so far out of step with the discerning public and seasoned cinema critics that Time should summarily dismiss her from further assignments.
Posted by Bruce Johnson on January 6th, 2013Critics who disagree with the consensus should indeed be fired.
Hmm, Cloud Atlas/Prometheus lovers seems to be very defensive. I wonder why?
Posted by kent88 on January 6th, 2013How can anyone with a fully functional brain put Cloud Atlas on a “worst” list? The only reason I can come up with is that Time magazine doesn’t want its readers to engage in a film that might promote thinking.
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