The Help

The Help

The 2011 film was, in my views, the best film of 2011. The film was based off of the book, and was about the hardships faced by the blacks in the 60's in Alabama. It had an amazing cast and got two Oscar nominations for Viola Davis(Best Actress) and Octavia Spencer(Best Supporting Actress).The film had amazing success, getting an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. I felt this film was very good. The writing was very good, as was acting and directing. 9/10.

Director:Tate Taylor

Music: Thomas Newman

Cast: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Sissy Spacek, Mike Vogel and Cicely Tyson

Release Date: 2011
Rating: PG-13 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

The end of the amazing magical film series was in 2011, striking 3rd in box office records of all time, only to be broken the next year by The Avengers in 2012. The film to me was the best of all of the films. This is one of the first film series based off of a fantasy book series, the series starting in 2001 along side the Lord of the Rings trilogy also starting that same year. Ironically enough the Lord of the Rings series is the only other film series to do better than this one in the category of "based off of a fantasy book series". The film lasted 10 years, the exact same of amount of time it took to write and publish the books. Also coincidentally the film series started and ended four years after the book series started and ended. This film brought back all of it's previous cast. The film was mostly the Battle of Hogwarts which is not a bad thing seeing as they did a very good job with the big battle. I actually wish they had showed more on the battle. Altogether it was a great film series. In my opinion the rates on the movies go, from best to worst(Deathly Hallows Part 2, Sorcerers Stone, Half Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows Part 1, Chamber of Secrets, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, and finally Prisoner of Azkaban). Good film series! Wonderful writing, acting, directing, and especially music all around! I loved this movie especially! 7/10.

Director: David Yates

Music: Alexandre Desplat

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Matthew Lewis, Tom Felton, Bonnie Wright, James and Oliver Phelps, Evanna Lynch, Maggie Smith, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Mark Williams, David Thewlis, Emma Thompson, Timothy Spall, Kelly Macdonald, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Issacs, Helen McCrory, John Hurt, Helena Bonham Carter, Warwick Davis, Domnhall Gleeson, Clemence Poesy, Devin Murray, Freddie Stroma, Jessie Cave, Ciaran Hinds, Katie Leung, Alfie Enoch, Josh Herdman, Louis Cordice, Miriam Margolyes, Natalia Tena, George Harris, Dave Legeno, with Gary Oldman and Michael Gambon

Release Date: 2011
Rating: PG-13 

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

This film is the last of the amazing award winning trilogy helmed by Peter Jackson. The film is the sequel and finale to the trilogy and is based on the book series by J.J.R. Tolkien. The film brought back all of the cast of the past films. It was nominated and won all 11 awards at the Academy Awards in 2003(including Best Picture and Best Director), one of the only films ever to do so, while also being the only fantasy film to do so, as well as being the second sequel(after The Godafther Part II). The film had a score made by Howard Shore once again, as he has done all Lord of the Rings films, and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and it's song "Into the West" by Annie Lennox winning Best Original Song and Score that year at The Academy Awards as well. Award winning special effects combined with all of the above gives this film a 8/10.

Director: Peter Jackson

Music: Howard Shore
Cast: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Viggo Mortenson, Ian Mckellan,John-Rhys Davies, Orlando Bloom, Bernarnd Hill, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Miranda Otto, Hugo Weaving, Karl Urban, Dvid Wenham, Liv Tyler, Harry Sinclaire, Cate Blanchett, with Ian Holm, Sean Bean and Andy Serkis as Gollum
Release Year: 2003
Rating: PG-13 

X-Men First Class

X-Men First Class

2011 brought 3 superhero movies all owned by MARVEL(Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, and X-Men First Class). In my opinion this film was the best out of the three. The films cast was very good, and the directing was very good, as was writing. What mostly stood out to me was the music, acting and writing. Henry Jackman blew me away with the music! Very good. A+! Now the acting was very good with many new faces and many well known faces, but all around good acting. The script was my favirote of all the X-Men films, and I loved it very much. altogether wonderful film. 8/10.

Direcotr: Matthew Vaughn

Music: Henry Jackman

Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Rose Byrne, Nicholas Hoult, Oliver Platt, Lucas Till, Zoe Kravitz, Jason Flemyng, Alex Gonzalez, with January Jones and Kevin Bacon

Release Year: 2011
Rating: PG-13 

The Amazing Spider Man

  

The Amazing Spider Man

The second premiering MARVEL film of 2012 and the second opening superhero movie of 2012 came out with a bang! The new trilogy now directed by Marc Webb, replacing Sam Raimi,  and starring The Social Network's Andrew Garield(who replaced Tobey Maguire) also had a completely new storyline, one that in my opinion was much better than the original trilogy's storyline. The film had very good special effects and a hilarious script! The new heroic Spider-Man tune by James Horner was amazing, and very different from the old one by Danny Elfman. Altogether it was a very good film. Much better than the old trilogy, in fact. This reboot deserves a 8/10.

Director: Marc Webb

Music: James Horner

Cast: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary,  Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, with Martin Sheen and Sally Field

Release Year: 2012

 Rating: PG-13

The Social Network

 The Social Network

The Social Network is a biopic of the creation of Facebook and the aftermath of the creation. The film had an amazing cast with Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg. The film was very good getting 8 Academy Award nomiations(including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor(Eisenberg)) winning Best Film Editing, Best original Score, and Best Adapted Screenplay as well as winning Best Picture-Drama, Best Director,Best Original Score, and Best Screenplay at the Golden Globes. I loved the music and I was saddened by the amazing story. Amazing Movie: 9/10.

Director: David Fincher

Music:Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer, Max Minghella, Josh Pence, Brenda Song and Rooney Mara

Release Year: 2010
Rating: PG-13 

The Avengers

The Avengers

Joss Whedon brings us the 3rd top grossing film of all time and a superhero classic with The Avengers.The film stars superhero stars Robert Downey Jr.(Iron Man), Chris Evans(Captain America) and Chris Hemsworth(Thor). The visual effects earned itself an Oscar nomination. The acting was very good as well as the directing and writing. The music by Alan Silvestri brought itself greatness. The film was one of the three comic book films of 2012. It had an all star cast, and was very good in all reality. Sadly it did not bring the exact amount of greatness as I wanted. 7/10.

Director:Joss Whedon

Music: Alan Silvestri

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Scarlett Johanson, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddelston, Clark Gregg, Cobie Smulders, Paul Bettany, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alexis Denisof, with Stellan Skarsgard and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury

Release Year: 2012
Rating: PG-13