Summer 2012 Winners and Losers from The Reel Breakdown

Summer 2012 Winners and Losers from The Reel Breakdown

Some fun comments on the summers Winners and Losers(the loser comments are the most enjoyable)

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By TheDon - Aug 27, 2012 10:08 AM EST
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Some fun comments by Thelma Adams from The Reel Breakdown on the summers winners and losers(the Loser comments are the most enjoyable) Take that Kristen Stewart!!!!!!!


Winners :

1. Joss Whedon and "The Avengers": The summer's opening -- and best -- studio tent-pole blockbuster. Now, Whedon will direct the sequel, too.

2. Matthew McConaughey: The hunky actor got a career infusion with his Oscar-baiting male stripper in the surprise hit "Magic Mike." Continue to take it off, Matt! (Add in the underrated "Bernie" and "Killer Joe," too, for a massive and interesting comeback.)


3. Wes Anderson and "Moonrise Kingdom": Anderson's most successful live-action movie also boosted the careers of Bill Murray and Bruce Willis.

4. Jeremy Renner and "The Bourne Legacy":Renner proved that he could open a movie and make audiences forget Matt Damon as Jason Bourne -- and he also had a piece of "The Avengers" action as "Hawkeye."

5. Tom Hardy and "The Dark Knight Rises": Hardy is the summer's breakout action star with dramatic chops -- see also "Lawless" -- and he rises with the Dark Knight franchise.

6. Seth MacFarlane, Mark Wahlberg, and "Ted": A sleeper hit about a dirty-mouthed stuffed bear and his arrested-development owner drew on "The Family Guy" fan-base and Wahlberg's ability to pull off comedy or action with understated charm.

7. Quvenzhané Wallis and "Beasts of the Southern Wild": The indie Oscar-bait movie has its staunch supporters and cynical detractors, but no one is doubting the eight-year-old star's performance and we're betting on an Oscar nom

Losers:


1. Kristen Stewart: With the unfaithful kiss seen round the world, KStew put a stake in the heart of her participation in the sequel to "Snow White and the Huntsman" and her fairy-tale romance with Robert Pattinson.

2. "Battleship": Sunk.


3. "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter": Not all vampire movies are created equal, and this big-budget fiasco sucked at the box office.

4. "Total Recall": The most forgettable of the big-budget remakes.

5. "Dark Shadows": They were crying into their Count Chocula on this one, but Johnny Depp-Tim Burton collaborations tend to remain undead, and this movie, which had a decent global gross, may have legs beyond 2012.

6. "Savages": Oliver Stone lights up and misfires in this underwhelming adaptation of Don Winslow's terrific novel about the clash between the Mexican Baja Cartel and smug Southern California dope peddlers -- and the death of hippie naiveté. It may be more disappointing because expectations were so high.
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Knightrider
Knightrider - 8/27/2012, 1:18 PM
Wow, how could someone be so on-the-mark and off-the-mark in the same article.

Couldn't agree more with her 'losers', but my lord some of her winners are just a joke.

Avengers, Tom Hardy and Ted (Although not great, a surprise) seem like sound choices, but then comes Matthew McConaughey - Sadly, I have seen this movie, which is what you get when you drag the misses to Avengers and TDKR, and it is terrible.

Acting, and I use that term lightly is laughable at times and Matthew McConaughey plays, well, Matthew McConaughey like he does in every movie and don't even get me started on the only reason I get acting jobs is because I must be sleeping with the directors Channing Tatum.

Then she follows that stinker up with Jeremy Renner who wasn't bad, but nothing to remember and was so far off the intensity of Matt Damon it isn't even up for discussion, plus the whole movie was terrible anyways so that probably won't help his case.
Knightrider
Knightrider - 8/27/2012, 1:21 PM
Haven't seen others so can't comment. Although the Indie flick better be good, as so fed up with reviewers in film magazines basically being a movie snob going, "Oh it is in indie movie so must be better than anything Hollywood produces, because they are just cop orate monsters, oh better yet I hope it has subtitles as foreign movies are just fab"

Wow quite the rant this morning and it is only 8:25am, I must need my meds.
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