The 25 Best Movies of 2012

I am wrapping up my Best of 2012 post (click the label at the bottom to see all of them) with my favorite movies of the year. I should note that I hate going to movie theaters so these are basically the best movies released on Blu-Ray in 2012 (or late 2011). Click on the cover to purchase the movie on Amazon.

1. Marvel's The Avengers

2. The Dark Knight Rises

3. The Cabin in the Woods

4. Drive

5. Attack the Block

6. Safety Not Guaranteed

7. The Muppets

8. Marley

9. 21 Jump Street

10. Ides of March

11. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

12. The Five Year Engagement

13. Chronicle

14. The Grey

15. The Sitter

16. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

17. John Carter

18. The Hunger Games

19. The Amazing Spider-Man

20. Haywire

21. Immortals

22. Moneyball

23. Safe House

24. 50/50

25. Restless

On the Next Arrested Development…

After Jericho fans flooded the CBS studios with peanuts, studios have came up with a new way temper the anger of obsessive fans by floating the idea of a movie that never ever materializes be it Veronica Mars, Angel, or Party Down. Arrested Development actually started this trend by inserting a line into the series finale, after failing to get Showtime, HBO or any other cable network, about turning the fake documentary show into a movie as suggested by the show’s narrator Ron Howard.

Years of rumors got me fed up to the point I put an Arrested Development ban until I actually saw a final product. But what you know, Netflix ended up reviving the series, the fourth season has been filmed and will be dumped all at once sometime this spring (hopefully which will be followed by a DVD release because I really do not have any desire to sign up, but I could always use their two week free preview they are always e-mailing me about) ten years after the show first premiered. Everyone will be back including guest stars Henry Winkler, Liza Minnelli, and Mae Whitman (her?)

Can the cast catch lightning in a bottle seven years after being off the air? Hopefully Mitch Hurwitz post Arrested Development endevores is not an indication (Sit Down Shut Up, Running Wilde) even if they featured numerous Arrested Development alumni. But during its original three season run, Arrested Development, this month’s induction into the Scooter Hall of Fame, was absurdist comedy at its most hilarious.

The show followed the Bluth family, who run a shady and inept real estate business that the lone good guy in family is trying to turn around. Making it even harder is his criminal father out of touch mother, the older brother who has way more confidence than he should, a younger brother with none, his superficial sister and probably gay husband. And do not forget the voice of God provided by Ron Howard. There is no joke the show could not pass up like having Fonzie literally jumping over a shark. I am not sure if the new episodes (or potential movie) will be any good but at the very least it makes for a good reason to dust off the DVD’s of the first season, or add them to your collection if they are not already there.

Now if only someone would pick up Veronica Mars: The CIA Years. Netflix? Amazon? DirecTV? Hey, it is not like The CW currently has anything better on their current schedule, maybe they can right their wrong and become an actual credible network for the first time since unceremoniously dumping Veronica Mars for something called Farmer Takes a Wife.