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My Top 10 Movie Scenes of 2012

I’ve done mini-versions of this in prior years, usually just a list within a list of things I liked in a year, but I thought I’d blow it up this year and dedicate a whole blog about it, especially as we near the Oscars. When watching movies, we all have scenes and sequences that stand out for us in more ways than one, whether its the staging, the impact, the acting, or the thrill. There are scenes that are so memorable, so well-done, so good that we never forget them, whether the film as a whole is good or bad, and that’s what makes this list so interesting to me. Even if I disliked a film, there might be a scene in it that I thought was so special.

For example, I didn’t like Prometheus very much, but the alien abortion scene is so brutal to watch that you can never forget it. Though that scene doesn’t make my Top 10 (though it came close), it’s a good starting point, as we begin with number 10. I kept each film to one scene to avoid repeating, so here we go:

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My Top 25 Favorite Films of 2012 (Part 2: 10 to 1)

Now for what you’ve all been waiting for (or not), my Top 10 Favorite films of 2012! These 10 films I think represent the solid year that not just American but cinema had as a whole. Films from the 11 to 15 spots were jockeying for positions in the Top 10 at one point in time but ultimately I decided that these 10 represented my favorites of the past year, and I am damn proud of them. Part 1 can be found here.

My Top 10 Favorite Films of 2012 starts after the cut, which includes two superhero films, a couple of films that focus on human heroism, an animated film, one foreign language film, and two that star Chris Hemsworth. Go ahead!