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10 Lessons We Took Home From The Movies In 2012

Looking back across the cinematic pasture that was last year with the precision of a hawk-man hybrid, it's apparent that where 2012 is concerned, we have a lot to be thankful for. Here emerged, after all, some genuinely spellbinding films which deserve to be embraced and celebrated and watched over and over again until, hey, why did I like this again? But mostly embraced and celebrated.

5. People Also Like Movies Dealing With Real Issues Now, Apparently

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Even though we’re now super-obsessed with getting as far away from reality as possible with all those superhero flicks, we’re also super-interested in movies that are super-serious and super-realistic, too. That’s going by the last quarter of the year’s haul of “real issue” movies alone, which includes slavery “epic” Lincoln, its bizarro-world buddy Django Unchained, the Osama Bin Laden manhunt flick Zero Dark Thirty, and Ben Affleck’s CIA thriller Argo, all of which have proven successful (or will undoubtably prove successful once they hit theatres) at the box-office. There’s hope for mankind yet, and it’s all because of you.

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