20 Great Movie Moments From 2012

I have spent the last two weeks reminiscing on the best and worst of 2012 in film, starting with my Top 10 Films of 2012 and Runner-Up lists, continuing with the Top 10 Film Scores of 2012, going in another direction with the 10 Worst Films of 2012, and sharing, over on my personal blog, The Top 10 TV Shows of 2012.

That’s a lot of lists, but this was a good year for entertainment, so before we bid 2012 a fond farewell, it is time for one more retrospective. This time, instead of looking at films as a whole, I thought it would be a nice idea to look back at some of the great movie moments from 2012, the scenes and sequences that stand out most from the year in film. I have compiled 20 of my favorite moments – arranged alphabetically by film title – and I would ask, as always, that you remember these choices reflect only on personal tastes. If you feel I left something off, I would love to hear about it in the comments; there were many great scenes this year, and 20 picks barely scratches the surface.

As always, clicking on the title of each movie will bring you to my original review, and some links will take you to my personal blog, where I wrote before joining the staff of We Got This Covered.

And before getting to the official list, we start things off with one important honorable mention…

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http://viewster.com/ Viewster

thanks, really like it
Faiz

no love for any of The Raid’s fights?
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Lack/100000619690152 Jonathan Lack
  
  Great scenes, no doubt about it. I guess they would not make the list of individual moments because there are so many good fights in The Raid, I tend to think of the whole movie as one great extended series of fights, rather than in particular scenes that stand out from one another.
  - Faiz
    
    fair enough, i also thought u should have picked TDKR’s opening scene instead of the back-breaking
    
    and the ending of Cloud Atlas was also such a strong moment…
    
    i
    - http://www.facebook.com/people/Jonathan-Lack/100000619690152 Jonathan Lack
      
      Opening of TDKR is good, but I feel the Bane vs Batman scene has a lot more emotional/narrative heft to it, because it comes later in the movie.
      
      I had lots of moments from Cloud Atlas in contention for this list, but I ultimately felt the entire movie is so strong from start to finish, it wasn’t worth picking an individual scene. It’s just uniformly great.
      - Evan Bolick
        
        I am very glad you did not use the TDKR opening scene. You pegged, easily the best moment of TDKR (possibly the only better was Bane’s betrayal of his corporate financier). The o pening scene merits nothing as it was almost a point-for-point re-shot of the opening of Dark Knight. To me, the opening scene’s complete lack of ingenuity foreshadowedthe wholesale disappointment that was Dark Knight Rises.
Evan Bolick

I know you hated Prometheus (and rightly so), but to exclude the C-section scene is simpley an oversight. It was easily the most tense horror scene I have seen in years.
Patrick

I’m surprised there weren’t any scenes from life of pi on here
- http://viewster.com/ Viewster
  
  exactly ..
  I am a bit disappointed
Homer_the_badman

The Dictator?!?! Great trailer, completely rubbish, overblown, boring movie. That one inclusion has just ruined this whole list
not486

Did you not see Killer Joe? I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, but the infamous “chicken leg” scene solidified Joe as a top-tier movie villain.