Happy Holidays from Your Friends at Film Junk!
I know this post is a few days late but I just wanted to wish all of our readers and listeners a happy and safe holiday season as we head into 2013. It’s been a busy year for Film Junk and we are very grateful that you have all joined us for another year of obsessing over these silly little things they call “motion pictures”. We are in the process of preparing our Best of 2012 lists, which will be unveiled on the next episode of the Film Junk Podcast along with the winners of this year’s Reader’s Choice Awards.
Things will continue to be a little slow around the website over the next few days, so unless any earth-shattering news happens to hit, I’d like to invite you to keep the discussion going amongst yourselves. What did you think of Django Unchained? Did you see any other noteworthy films over Christmas? We’ll be back in a few days and I think we’ll have plenty of stuff to talk about. Until then, kick back and relax with a nice tall glass of egg nog.
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Happy Holidays Film Junk and Film Junk listeners!
Not much to say.. but Django Unchained will be on my Top 10 though.
Posted by Loren on December 27th, 2012The year end episode of film junk is always worth the wait. Looking forward to those best of 2012 lists and to listening to you guys in 2013.
Posted by Cy-Ed on December 27th, 2012Christoph Waltz should win… everything.
Posted by Somnium on December 28th, 2012Looking forward to another great year from the best site and podcast on the web!
Posted by rjdelight on December 28th, 2012Is Django Unchained part of 2012 or 2013 in your top films? I don’t know about Canada, but the film won’t be released until the end of January here in Scandinavia.
Posted by La Menthe on December 28th, 2012Django Unchained doesn’t match Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, or Inglorious Basterds, but I thought it was better than Jackie Brown and Death Proof.
A middle of the road tarantino film, and While I like Inglorious Basterds a lot, I think he has been making the same type of movie since Kill Bill 1&2. I hope he tries something a little different for his next movie.
I also saw Les Miserables and Jack Reacher. Both were pretty entertaining films that I have no desire to rewatch any time soon!
Posted by Matt on December 28th, 2012yeh
happy holidays film junk and to all you folks
Posted by MrHorse on December 28th, 2012about that list, please watch Headhunters – that’s my no1, no contest.
Posted by MrHorse on December 28th, 2012I got Albert Brooks’ MOTHER and THIN RED LINE for Christmas and gave JCVD, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS and LEPRECHAUN 4. Watched MOTHER and laughed so hard tears came out of my eyes. Anybody seen this thing?
Posted by Scott on December 28th, 2012happy holidays to you too peeps. listening to you guys talk is one of my favourite things to do! thanks so much for yet another ~52 weeks of good times, 2012 was great one.
Posted by anton on December 28th, 2012Any reason why you guys don’t wait a few more weeks to catch up with all the movies before you make the list? Zero Dark Thirty seems to be in everyone’s top 10 and it’s not even out for another 2 weeks. It could very well top some of your lists and the reader lists. Do you guys just use the calendar as the cutoff for list making?
Posted by Ben on December 29th, 2012Yeah I’m a little torn on how to deal with these awards contenders that don’t get a wide release until January. Waiting another month to do year end stuff makes it kind of irrelevant. Heck, even the end of December is kind of late to do it. But it does leave you with movies that fall in between both years and usually get left off lists altogether. I guess we can always update our lists afterward.
Posted by Sean on December 29th, 2012I openly wept 3 times during django unchained!
Posted by Jonny Ashley on December 30th, 2012I agree, everyone’s list is already in and if you don’t have it out by now it almost feels like you’re late to the party, it just sucks for the people who have to wait for wide releases to make their lists.
Posted by Ben on December 30th, 2012Happy New Year to all at Film Junk. You guys have literally given me hundreds of hours of entertainment and I can’t thank you enough for all the good times.
Anyone care to post their best and worst movies of 2012? Here’s mine:
Top Ten:
10. The Imposter
9. Lawless
8. Killer Joe
7. Chronicle
6. Untouchable
5. Berberian Sound Studio
4. Martha Marcy May Marlene
3. Samsara
2. Marvel’s Avengers Assemble
1. Beasts of the Southern Wild
Honourable mentions: Argo, The Cabin in the Woods, Dredd 3D, Ill Manors, In Darkness, Life of Pi, Moonrise Kingdom, Ping Pong, A Royal Affair, Searching for Sugar Man
Bottom Ten:
Posted by Dan Morgan on December 31st, 201210. The Sitter
9. The Watch
8. Cosmopolis
7. Total Recall
6. Goon
5. The Sweeney
4. A Fantastic Fear of Everything
3. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
2. Intruders
1. All in Good Time
Merry Christmas and happy New Years guys!!
Posted by Jeremy B on December 31st, 2012Leave a Reply