Fatso's Top 20 Biggest Titles of 2012

Here it is, Fatso's Top 20 most rented titles of 2012! Game of Thrones - Season 1 was the champion by a surprising long shot (Season 2 is due in March).

1. Game of Thrones - Season 1
2. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
3. The Help
4. Crazy, Stupid, Love
5. The Hunger Games 
6. Boardwalk Empire - Season 1
7. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
8. The Iron Lady
9. True Blood - Season 4
10. The Descendants
11. Abduction
12. Friends with Benefits
13. Hugo
14. The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn
15. Drive
16. Hanna
17. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
18. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
19. In Time
20. Moneyball

The Worst Films of 2012 Review Themselves

The John Carter swipe's gotta hurt!

Source: Film.com
PS: If anyone's hanging out for A Thousand Words, it's coming to DVD and Blu-ray on January 2.

2012 Floods Subway

This is a cool marketing campaign from Sony Pictures for the release of Roland Emmerich's disasterific 2012 in Brazil. The film opens here on Thursday. More 2012 reading: Making Waves.

Making Waves

If you've been to the movies in the past few months you've probably seen those amazing-looking tsunamis in the trailer to Roland Emmerich's upcoming disaster juggernaut 2012. Yahoo Movies have just posted a little behind-the-scenes clip featuring the effects guys talking about creating those waves:



But for a funnier and more interesting 2012-related clip, watch this, a re-edit of the trailer which cuts out all the visual effects and leaves the actors "acting". Needless to say, this movie is not a showcase for them.

Trailer: 2012

Maybe the only other film this year with enough bloated sensory chutzpah to topple Michael Bay's throne of obscene blockbuster excess that is Transformers 2, Roland Emmerich's upcoming 2012 looks like it's nothing less than the Disaster Film to End All Disaster Films. Which says something, since the man's pretty much the go-to-guy if you want to see civilisations levelled, having built a career out of staging glossy CGI-rendered catastrophe of biblical proportions such as Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow. One can't help but laugh at the OTT-ness of this thing:



Also, have a look at the terrific spoof edit (I think it sums up the essence of Emmerich's cinema quite well):