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Screen Rant’s Summer 2012 Movie Awards
by Kofi Outlaw
(26 of 25)
2012 Summer Movie Awards
Summertime is over, and 2012 was certainly a monumental one for movie fans, with two big cinematic events ruling the box office (The Avengers and Dark Knight Rises); a celebrated director returning to a genre he pioneered (Ridley Scott's Prometheus); reboots (Amazing Spider-Man, Dark Shadows) and remakes (Total Recall) offering fresh spins (or not so fresh spins) on familiar properties; and literary adaptations (Lawless) trying work the magic of the page on the silver screen.
But what are the moments from the 2012 summer movie season that deserve serious (and not-so-serious) recognition? Find out in our very own Screen Rant Summer 2012 Movie Awards, presented in no particular order via the following list of winners.
But what are the moments from the 2012 summer movie season that deserve serious (and not-so-serious) recognition? Find out in our very own Screen Rant Summer 2012 Movie Awards, presented in no particular order via the following list of winners.
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not sure how batman vs bane didn’t win best fight.
to be fair the sewer fight was the best fight of the movie. the end fight was a total f**k up because the it degraded it totally. how exactly did batman beat him so easily?
…bla…bla…bla Yeah i know, He’s Batman.
The avengers was better that is how i feel and im sure most people did too.
completely agree.. the end fight was a huuuuuuuugee let down. I still cant believe that Nolan thought that was the way to do it. Too bad bc the rest of the movie was awesome, including their first fight.
WHOOAA!! Clearly you are forgetting all the pushups, pullups, and situps Bruce did while in that prison!
he did it after a s*** ton of push ups. Training in the prison wasn’t just for the climb after all, good sir. He’s not Batman, that’s just a symbol. He’s Bruce f***ing Wayne!
The last fight he was clearly more patient and blocked before striking unlike in the first were he just attacked. did nobody see Tom hardy go ballistic after batman hit his mask? Those were the most ferocious realistic punches I’ve seen all year.
I agree completely. When bane cracked that pillar I got chills. Bane and Batman’s two fights in that movie were some of the best I’ve ever seen. Especially the end. Only complaint is that it could have lasted just a bit longer.
Tom hardy is the most spot on puncher in Hollywood especially in warrior
batman was doing push ups in the pit…bane was sitting around city hall watching people get judged…peace cost him his strength, victory defeated him in the end.
exactly, thats what i would choose as best fight
Cause it wasn’t? Come on. That fight used to many cuts that you can’t make a single thing out of it. Avengers showed much more when talking about fighta than TDKR, but it’s OK, because TDK franchise is not about that!!!
Avengers vs Chitauri was like a dream of mine… but Bane vs Batman (first time) deserved a runner up mention just due to the pure brutality of it.
This is coming from a Marvelnite so to speak (find the Batman films very overrated) but that scene was done perfectly.
the avengers fight was more epic but not really a fight more of an was whooping. only seldomy was any pain inflicted
“Avengers vs Chitauri was like a dream of mine… but Bane vs Batman (first time) deserved a runner up mention just due to the pure brutality of it.”
^^Exactly that.
I loved the first Batman vs Bane fight… it was like you said, just pure brutality. Very emotional and very well done. It definitely deserves an honorable mention methinks.
Why? BECAUSE HE’S BATMAN!
I love Ted, but the most hilarious scene would have to be the after credits Shwarma scene in the Avengers, or the scene where Hulk punches Thor, or when Hulk smashes Loki. The unexpectedness of those scenes made it that much more funnier.
Superhero movies are lame. Mindless drivel.
then what are you doing on this website? There are plenty of others who surely cater to your trolling tastes.
He thinks he’s being clever and mature…sort of like a toddler.
Now, now Stove…the sign says “Don’t feed the trolls”
Except for the funny bits involving the Hulk, in my opinion nothing matched so many of the great moments in TDKR. People will b**** about pretty much anything these days no matter how good something is. You can pick any film that is considered a masterpiece and nitpick at every little thing in it and say “well it doesn’t make sense, because his mustache was longer in this scene but shorter in the next, why did it shrink all of a sudden…” I enjoyed Avengers, it was a good, but I also enjoyed many other movies this summer, my favorite was TDKR. It might not be perfect, but no movie is.
though it’s all in good fun, at number 25: how is it so hard to believe a man who could find a secret building a top a snow caped mountain in the dead of winter could not find one woman walking around a somewhat deserted urban winter street? this same man traveled days(minutes in the movie, but days according to Morgan Freeman’s freckles) and long distances with no cash (not like he learned to do that before with complete audience acceptance in a previous movie, unless we count Batman Begins) yet I am baffled as to how often these two things get brought up as plot holes (though not mentioned as such in 25, i’m just a grouch and hate this non-argument)… a true plot hole is when something doesn’t make sense… these are actions clearly provided with prior back stories giving them a canonical feeling, much like the comics eventually provide after enough time as passed to allow such a canon at all in the first place. Bruce Wayne showed him self to become a resourceful man through out the trilogy. “Because he’s Batman?” No, because he’s Bruce Wayne.
I think it took him 3 weeks to get back to Gotham, which is mentioned by other characters when they were referring to the time to detonation.
People probably expect a flash sequence they do in Guy Richie films, showing Bruce Wayne hitching a ride, shaking hands with his rich friends, a passport, Bruce sitting down on the airplane, having a drink, beat up a few henchmen, use his devices to track Selina, and boom! Selina eating the apple.
This is not even including how he fixed The Bat’s autopilot, giving the GPS device to the orphange for Blake to pick up later on, setting up the bat symbol, tracking down Blake and the police, parking the Bat before fighting Bane, fix his wound from Talia’s knife stab, ejecting himself from The Bat, finding Selina again, and sitting through all the cafe in Florence to find Alfred.
Oh, and probably another quick scene of Bruce crying in the batsuit inside the City Hall bathroom after getting stabbed by Talia.
People, this might be included in the director’s cut, according to my anonymous but reliable resource =P
I LOVED Dark Shadows so it really doesn’t matter to me what anyone(besides those who actually enjoyed it) thought of it let alone the people at Scree Rant.
the last fight between batman and bane was not a letdown. bane showed speed and strength when he punched those pillars which was BADASS. batman beat bane easily because the bomb was gonna blow and he had to stop it since he thought catwoman wouldnt help plus batman was told about bane mask keeping pain away, so the logical thing a smart fighter (which batman is) would do is attack him on the face. seriously dont get why it was a letdown to some.
I too find the Dark knight Rises ending emotional, but for me, the ending of Safety Not Guaranteed (which was seen by practically no one, which probably explains why its not on the list) is the most emotional one for me.
Its a movie about a group of people with their fading aspirations, so when the film ends, the ending is so out there, so big for an indie, yet so incredibly hopeful for all the dreamers out there, that I’m still smiling after seeing it.
No theatre in my area got it. what a shame
How come I’m not seeing any awards on this post besides 2 or 3
Nvm
How The Bourne Legacy is a disapointment! his boxoffice run is farfrom over especially since it has yet to open in many countries1
I haven’t seen Bourne Legacy yet (still two weeks to go before it’s released here), but yeah, IMO Prometheus was the biggest disappointment this year.
That opinion might change after seeing BL, but I’m not so sure… I was really looking forward to Prometheus and it just didn’t live up to the hype.
Haywire to me was the biggest disappointment. I thought it was terrible
“IMO Prometheus was the biggest disappointment this year.”
Agreed. I left the theater shaking my head.
And I loved Bourne Legacy so go see it and subsequently enjoy it.
Curious. what did you not like about Prometheus? besides all the un explained crap lol
‘Cause, its a movie that was building up to a fight between Renner’s Aaron cross and Edward Norton and his agency, but instead the closest thing we got to a climax was some random agent introduced a few minutes before the climax and no conclusion to the story, just a build up to another sequel.
Talk about a non-ending.
Totally agree with your list. Except for one movie MIA.
Moonrise Kingdom.
Best movie of the summer for me. Avengers second.
A lot of these categories were singling out specific movies. “Most Meme’d”, “Most Efficient Traveler” “Best Use of an Unknown Cast”. This article shouldve been called “Most Memorable movies of the Summer Movie Season” not Awards
i would like to see an actual award format set up for the summer season (May-August). Best Action Sequence, Funniest Character, Worst Actor. Have runner-ups as well so we know what it was up against.
Also, Moonrise Kingdom didnt get any love, for shame
I agree.
As for rectifying the glaring omission of Moonrise Kingdom, I personally would have bumped the ending of ‘Dark Knight Rises’ for Most Emotional Moment and replaced it with the ending of Moonrise Kingdom. That scene at the end with Sam Shakusky painting and then climbing out the window, was very moving for me.
TDKR ending was ruined for me because of Batman’s cockpit speech to Catwoman. Not only was it bad timing due to the ticking time bomb about to go off, but Batman’s squirmingly bad dialog was delivered in Batman’s “rough” voice…… and at this point Catwoman already knew he was Bruce Wayne. Right? Why bother disguising your voice? Macho posturing? Anything that happened in TDKR after that terrible scene couldn’t produce a lump in my throat. I just didn’t care about Batman after that.
He probably just used batman voice out of habit. Batman is a whole new persona to himbut I get your point. Moorish was great BTW
I love TDKR, it was the most emotional ending of the Summer, it have me on the edge of my seat!!
Gordon: Batman hurry, the bomb is about to blow up!
Batman: one second, i gotta make out with Catwoman
*smooch*
Batman: ok
Gordon: now be careful, this is a megaton nuclear bomb, it’s very fragile
Batman: no problem, let me just hook it to the Bat-Jet
*Jet flys away, dragging the bomb across the street, swinging it into the side of a building, knocking over street lights in the process*
Gordon: Damn-it Batman, I said be careful!
lmao!!!
agreed sir. for me, the emotion i felt at the end of TDKR was anger…that i sat through this 2 hr 40 min crap-fest, and people are hailing this film as the best thing since citizen kane. nolan is god my @$s!
Yep Bourne Legacy was a big let down.
Its funny how people are saying now tdkr is overrated. Avengers was ok, the only credit i give the avengers was how each hero didnt outshine each other.
That, also it was funny, the action was great, and the story line (though nothing special) was not complete gibberish. The Avengers as itself was an alright movie, but when you consider how many things couldve gone wrong, you realize that its pretty awesome.
Its like looking at a work of art: “it’s no mona lisa but it’s ok”. Then someone tells you it’s made completely out of crayons. And your like “damn, thats pretty impressive, i wouldnt expect something so good come from a place i’m use to less then spectacular things coming from” (maybe that allusion is not perfect, but you get what i mean, on paper that movie would not work at all, but everyone seemed to enjoy it overall)
Great list Kofi (it kinda reminds me of the annual Top Gear awards: a lot of them make a lot of sense and are pretty well thought out, while some of them are just plain hilarious – referring here to the “Most meme’d” and “most efficient traveler” award
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There are still a few flicks that I have to check out (Ted, Bourne and Expendables to name the big ones), but from all the movies I’ve seen, I can’t find any fault with the list… and it’s awesome to see that my favorites of the year all got at least one “award”!
If I had one criticism it would be to add an extra category for “most surprising movie hit of the summer” – it would be nice to know which summer blockbuster surprised you guys the most (where you had low expectations, and came out of the theater feeling blown away or very surprised at the quality)
Avenger, since you are a regular here, I will add that just for you!
I’ll drop a comment when it’s added.
^Now that’s what I call service
Thanks Kofi.
idk about surprise hit money wise but some movies that I surprisingly loved were Pirates! Band of misfits and cabin in the woods
You hit the nail on the head!
Great article, Screen Rant!
*expects retarded, childish fanboys form both sides explaining why their movie was better
Oh, no..
They are already here!
Most Successful…the Avengers? I believe you’re forgetting about a little 3D documentary covering the life of the latest ex-wife of Russel Brand and her spinning peppermint bra. I’m pretty sure that movie pulled in 50 or 60 bucks.
Great job Kofi! I enjoy these types of articles.
While I’m not going to dispute Avengers winning best fight over Batman vs Bane, because I do think the consensus is that it was better, I just personally don’t get why people think so.
The Avengers vs Chitauri was big and had that very neat, tidy choreography, but there were no stakes. No one’s at risk of dying, and we don’t even see it as being particularly dangerous to the city (unlike that deleted scene). It’s epic purely because of the geek factor of seeing the Avengers stand in the same scene and go all tag-team on the Chitauri. There wasn’t much of it that was new or creative as far as action set pieces go (think TDKR’s football field scene, or plane-jacking scene).
In fact I think the neat fighting works against it. It’s just so…obviously choreographed that it feels more like I’m seeing the characters work out a well-rehearsed routine rather than go to war. Maybe it’s just me (which is why I don’t dispute the results) but the explosions just don’t cut it for me anymore.
Batman vs. Bane was pretty damn epic the first time. Whether you’re a Batman fan or not, there’s that edge-of-your-seat kind of feeling in watching the fight and thinking that Batman might just take a beating this time – and then he did.
The second fight was pretty unimpressive, granted, aside from Bane’s few wall-breaking punches. But I don’t think we’re counting that one, are we?
I actually think the second fight was ALMOST as good as the first, but for very different reasons. Unfortunately, my feeling of victory and love of the moment of Batman finally destroying Bane was stolen by the rather late-in-the-game and ill-timed reveal with the knife in the side. Well done, but poorly timed. It really stole away Batman’s win.
I agree, after all the buildup about Bane being Batman’s equal if not superior, the twist just made Bane less important and diminished Batman’s win. I think the fans were all excited that the Talia rumours were true (I know I was) but in the end I think it would’ve been better if they just left it out.
I think with a little better fight choreography and maybe some actual ninja moves from Batman the final fight could have been as awesome as it seemed to be when I first saw it. I didn’t think it was bad at all, though.
Come on, guys. Where is the Batman love? Only two entries and one was sarcasm. It should have easily won best fight, for the first Bane vs. Batman. This replaced my favorite fight of all time: 1986 Prime vs. Megatron. Honestly, it was perfectly done and flawless. The Avengers, while amazing, was anything but flawless. Nolan gave everyone, especially hardcore fans what they wanted with that fight, and more. I feel like it became a bit trendy to bash the new Batman film, almost to the point where its greatness was overlooked in favor I taking a road of going against it, which the media seemed to do from the get-go. Almost an “I told you it wouldn’t be as good as TDK” approach. Actually, in many ways, it’s better! Most just didn’t see it.
Exactly. No mention about the plane-jacking scene – ‘Most Mindblowing Scene’, maybe?
Was the Red Light Green Light thing in BATTLESHIP really that cnfusing to people? It was clear to me by the second time I saw it that the Red was identifying bad/potentially amful tech/life and the Gree was indetifying safe/OK to avoid .
To be fair, this is pretty much the “Comic Book Movie Awards”
right on with that list, best one was # 23
I’m continually baffled as to how people seem to warp their own minds to consider the most insipidly uninspiring nolan-crap to be great.
The first (arthritic-)Batman vs (mini-)Bane fight shouldn’t be mentioned in the same breath as THE AVENGERS action sequences. It was stale, boring, uninpsired, poorly-choreographed, and unimaginative. Nolan cannot do great action….it’s obvious!!! The Black Widow vs thugs fight in THE AVENGERS was a better action scene than anything in tdkr, and in fact the entire tdk trilogy. Three movies…..over 7 hours of Batman and not one truly memorable action scene.
Darksteel…
Your loud expression of your own biases discredit you. Nolan’s films have been considered, for the most part, successful, both critically and popularly. Despite your arrogant self-love, the world seems to disagree with you. So…WHOSE mind is actually warped?
Plus, your last statement leads me to believe you didn’t really pay any attention to the Batman films…and, thus, should NOT give a random, tring-to-sound-hip-and-cool opinion.
Sigh…that should be “discreditS”…ah, the joys of subject-verb agreement.