JOSEFINO’S VERY LATE NA PERO PWEDE PA NAMANG TOP 15 MOVIES OF 2011 (HOLLYWOOD)

Yes. I know. It’s very late to have a list of my favorite movies of 2011. I was busy downloading and watching these movies. Disclaimer: NOT A FILM CRITIC. JUST A BUM WHO LOVES TO WATCH MOVIES BY MYSELF. And I’m bored so I made this list.

This is my Top 15 Hollywood Movies of 2011. This list is only based from my opinion. I ranked them from very good to “Nyetashet! Ang ganda!” And there are some movies that I watched but forgot to include them on the list. I also mentioned the movies I watched but didn’t make it and they’re at the bottom of the list.

*All movie information and posters are from www.rottentomatoes.com
*No Twilight & Never Say Never. PUTANG NA LOOB HA.

15) Everything Must Go

Starring:
Will Ferrell
Rebecca Hall
Michael Peña

 

Adapted and directed by Dan Rush, and based on a short story by Raymond Carver, Everything Must Go tells the story of Nick (Will Ferrell) a career salesman whose days of being on top are long gone. The same day Nick gets fired, for falling off the wagon one last time, he returns home to discover his wife has left him, changed the locks on their suburban home and dumped all his possessions out on the front yard. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line - or more properly, on the lawn - reluctantly holding a yard sale that becomes a unique strategy for survival. — (C) Roadside Attractions

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 74%

14) Moneyball

Starring:
Brad Pitt
Jonah Hill
Philip Seymour-Hoffman

Based on a true story, Moneyball is a movie for anybody who has ever dreamed of taking on the system. Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A’s and the guy who assembles the team, who has an epiphany: all of baseball’s conventional wisdom is wrong. Forced to reinvent his team on a tight budget, Beane will have to outsmart the richer clubs. The onetime jock teams with Ivy League grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in an unlikely partnership, recruiting bargain players that the scouts call flawed, but all of whom have an ability to get on base, score runs, and win games. It’s more than baseball, it’s a revolution - one that challenges old school traditions and puts Beane in the crosshairs of those who say he’s tearing out the heart and soul of the game. — (C) Sony Pictures

 Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 95%


13) Friends With Benefits

Starring:
Justin Timberlake
Mila Kunis 

Dylan (Justin Timberlake) and Jamie (Mila Kunis) think it’s going to be easy to add the simple act of sex to their friendship, despite what Hollywood romantic comedies would have them believe. They soon discover however that getting physical really does always lead to complications. — (C) Sony

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 71%


12) Thor

Starring:
Chris Hemsworth
Natalie Portman

 

The epic adventure Thor spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the mystical realm of Asgard. At the center of the story is The Mighty Thor, a powerful but arrogant warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war. As a result, Thor is banished to Earth where he is forced to live among humans. When the most dangerous villain of his world sends its darkest forces to invade Earth, Thor learns what it takes to be a true hero.— (C) Paramount Pictures

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 77%


11) Ides of March

Starring:
George Clooney
Ryan Gosling
Philip Seymour-Hoffman
Paul Giamatti

The Ides of March takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, when an up-and-coming campaign press secretary (Ryan Gosling) finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate’s shot at the presidency. — (C) Sony Pictures

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 86%

10) The Adjustment Bureau

Starring:
Matt Damon
Emily Blunt 

On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris (Damon) meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas (Emily Blunt)—a woman like none he’s ever known. But just as he realizes he’s falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. David learns he is up against the agents of Fate itself—the men of The Adjustment Bureau—who will do everything in their considerable power to prevent David and Elise from being together. In the face of overwhelming odds, he must either let her go and accept a predetermined path…or risk everything to defy Fate and be with her. Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. — (C) Universal Pictures

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 72%

9) X-Men: First Class

Starring:
James McAvoy
Michael Fassbender

 

X-Men: First Class unveils the epic beginning of the X-Men saga - and a secret history of the Cold War and our world at the brink of nuclear Armageddon. As the first class discovers, harnesses, and comes to terms with their formidable powers, alliances are formed that will shape the eternal war between the heroes and villains of the X-Men universe. — (C) Fox

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 87%

8) Hanna

Starring:
Saoirise Ronan
Eric Bana
Cate Blanchet

Hanna (Saoirse Ronan) is 16 years old. She is bright, inquisitive, and a devoted daughter. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her widowed father Erik (Eric Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of North Finland. Erik has taught Hanna to hunt, put her through extreme self-defense workouts, and home-schooled her with only an encyclopedia and a book of fairy tales. Hanna has been living a life unlike any other teenager; her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. But out in the world there is unfinished business for Hanna’s family, and it is with a combination of pride and apprehension that Erik realizes his daughter can no longer be held back. — (C) Focus Features

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 71%

7) Super 8

Starring:
Kyle Chandler
Elle Fanning
Joel Courtney 

In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined. — (C) Official Site

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 82%

6) Limitless

Starring:
Bradley Cooper
 Robert De Niro
 Abbie Cornish

Aspiring author Eddie Morra (Cooper) is suffering from chronic writer’s block, but his life changes instantly when an old friend introduces him to NZT, a revolutionary new pharmaceutical that allows him to tap his full potential. Soon Eddie takes Wall Street by storm, parlaying a small stake into millions. His accomplishments catch the eye of mega-mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro),who invites him to help broker the largest merger in corporate history. But they also bring Eddie to the attention of people willing to do anything to get their hands on his stash of NZT. With his life in jeopardy and the drug’s brutal side effects grinding him down, Eddie dodges mysterious stalkers, a vicious gangster and an intense police investigation as he attempts to hang on to his dwindling supply long enough to outwit his enemies.— (C) Relativity 

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 61%


5) Crazy, Stupid, Love

Starring:
Steve Carell
Ryan Gosling
Emma Stone
Julianne Moore

At fortysomething, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the dream-good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his “perfect” life quickly unravels. Worse, in today’s single world, Cal, who hasn’t dated in decades, stands out as the epitome of un-smooth. Now spending his free evenings sulking alone at a local bar, the hapless Cal is taken on as wingman and protégé to handsome, thirtysomething player Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). — (C) Warner Bros

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 78%

4) Drive

Starring:
Ryan Gosling
 Carey Mulligan

 

Ryan Gosling stars as a Los Angeles wheelman for hire, stunt driving for movie productions by day and steering getaway vehicles for armed heists by night. Though a loner by nature, Driver can’t help falling in love with his beautiful neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), a vulnerable young mother dragged into a dangerous underworld by the return of her ex-convict husband Standard (Oscar Isaac). After a heist intended to pay off Standard’s protection money spins unpredictably out of control, Driver finds himself driving defense for the girl he loves, tailgated by a syndicate of deadly serious criminals. But when he realizes that the gangsters are after more than the bag of cash in his trunk-that they’re coming straight for Irene and her son-Driver is forced to shift gears and go on offense. — (C) FilmDistrict

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 93%

3) Source Code

Starring:
Jake Gyllenhaal
 Michelle Monaghan
 Vera Farmiga

When decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) wakes up in the body of an unknown man, he discovers he’s part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. In an assignment unlike any he’s ever known, he learns he’s part of a government experiment called the Source Code, a program that enables him to cross over into another man’s identity in the last 8 minutes of his life. With a second, much larger target threatening to kill millions in downtown Chicago, Colter re-lives the incident over and over again, gathering clues each time, until he can solve the mystery of who is behind the bombs and prevent the next attack. — (C) Summit

  Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 91%


2) Warrior

Starring:
Tom Hardy
Joel Edgerton
Nick Nolte

Haunted by a tragic past, ex-Marine Tommy Conlon (Hardy) returns home for the first time in fourteen years to enlist the help of his father (Nick Nolte) to train for SPARTA, the biggest winner-takes-all event in mixed martial arts history. A former wrestling prodigy, Tommy blazes a path toward the championship while his brother, Brendan (Edgerton), an ex-fighter-turned teacher, returns to the ring in a desperate bid to save his family from financial ruin. But when Brendan’s unlikely, underdog rise sets him on a collision course with the unstoppable Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront each other and the forces that pulled them apart, facing off in the most soaring, soul stirring, and unforgettable climax that must be seen to be believed. — (C) Lionsgate

Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 82%


1) 50/50

Starring: 
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Seth Rogen
Anna Kendricks 

 

Inspired by a true story, 50/50 is an original story about friendship, love, survival and finding humor in unlikely places. Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen star as best friends whose lives are changed by a cancer diagnosis in this new comedy directed by Jonathan Levine from a script by Will Reiser. 50/50 is the story of a guy’s transformative and, yes, sometimes funny journey to health - drawing its emotional core from Will Reiser’s own experience with cancer and reminding us that friendship and love, no matter what bizarre turns they take, are the greatest healers. — (C) Summit Entertainment


Tomato Meter (via rottentomatoes.com): 93%

**Movies watched but didn’t make the list:

  • Horrible Bosses
  • Love and Other Drugs
  • No Strings Attached
  • Unknown
  • The Hangover 2
  • Captain America: The First Avenger
  • Transformers 3: Dark Side Of Moon

 

***Movies haven’t seen:

  • Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
  • In Time
  • The Muppets
  • Midnight in Paris 
  • Attack The Block
  • Cedar Rapids
  • Contagion
  • Rise of The Planet of the Apes
  • Real Steel 

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