Best Movies Of 2012 According To Dante

I have watched 46 films this year not including things I watched on DVD that I missed in theaters which is by far the most I’ve ever seen especially when I remember that at the end of 2011 I was looking forward to only three movies coming out (click here to see what I loved last year). This was a year of really surprisingly good films across the board ranging from really big budget films to very small ones to films with massive budgets that were just terrible nonsense.

This list isn’t going to be in any particular order. Just the ones I felt were the best and the worst to me. I know that my taste in films is…different. Some of you have seen some of these and will disagree with me in which case you can write your list on your blog or write to me and I will raise my left eyebrow and take a deep breath as I figure out a polite way to let you know that your opinion doesn’t count. I’m kidding. But totally not.

Theater Whore: Robot & Frank

This past weekend I went to the Sundance Theater that has been built up on Sunset Blvd. That place is ten times better looking than it used to be. Me and Miss E had to get away from this Africa like heat and saw Robot & Frank. This turned out to be a very good decision. Some of these smaller films, like Beasts of the Southern Wild, have been some of my favorite movies of the year. The night before I saw this movie I had heard a review and it sounded really interesting so I gave it a go. 

This movie is set “in the near future” and is about this old man named Frank played by Frank Langella who is starting to get worse with his mind. He forgets things and his temper jumps all over the place. Oh, and he is a thief. Not just because he is old, because we all know old folks steal, but because he used to be an actual thief. His lifestyle caused him to go to prison a few times for years and he missed out on a lot of his children’s lives. His son Hunter played by James Marsden gets sick of spending so much of his time visiting his father so he gets him a robot caretaker.