What Are Your Best/Worst 2012 Blind Buys?

[Member-222782]

Hey folks

As the year quickly barrels down to a finish, let's look back at the movies we have purchased on our favorite format that have become our best & worst in the "Blind Buy" category. We have all done it: stared at a box (if in a store) or read a synopsis on imdb 20 times before putting on the blindfold and jumping off a digital cliff to buy movies we've never seen before. Mine are:

BEST 2012 BLIND BUYS

NIGHT OF THE DEVILS. Truly creepy and atmospheric Italian horror flick. My favorite blind buy of 2012
IRON SKY. Above-average and fun sci-fi flick. I don't usually blind-buy newer films but the trailer to this looked interesting. Turns out I didn't waste money this time.
DEATH WARRANT. Great little vintage (1990) Van Damme action flick.
DENVER & RIO GRANDE. Entertaining 50's Railroad-rivalry adventure, nice action.
GREED IN THE SUN. If you enjoyed WAGES OF FEAR, you'll like this one. Not as good as "Fear", but a good film overall.

WORST BLIND BUYS OF 2012

THE DAY. The film was passable entertainment but nothing I haven't seen before. Plus CGI blood turns me off big-time.
WRONG TURN 5. Sets rejected/left over from Sesame Street, CGI blood, nothing to see here, folks.
THE IRON ROSE. Pretentious Rollin BS. If I can't figure out what the heck is going on in the first 15 minutes, it's time to find something else to watch.
REC 3: GENESIS. Nothing to do story-wise with the first two. The 28 Days Later-look is tired by now.
BOUNDTwo hot chicks getting it on is always a plus but the story didn't do anything for me. And the one-location setting gave me cabin fever. Overrated.


What are your best and worst blind buys?

[brownsfan1]

Best:

Cabin In The Woods
The Innkeepers


Worst:
Underworld:Awakening

[octagon]

Ooooh, good topic. I'm going to go look...

Best
The Other Guys (2010) Grabbed it for two bucks at a Blockbuster that was closing and didn't really expect all that much: laughed my ass off
Chronicle (2012) These kids managed to do in 90 minutes what George Lucas couldn't do with seven hours: turn an average kid into a supervillian and have you actually believe it
The Machinist (2004) I expected it to be pretty good, I didn't expect to be blown away
Synecdoche, New York (2008) My head still hurts. In the good way.

Worst
Bernie (2011) If I wanted a Jack Black album I would have looked for a Jack Black album
Dead and Buried (1981) I was one of the lucky few who actually got my Horror Movie Empire order and (so far) this is the only one I kinda regret
The Counterfeiters (2008) not exactly bad but pretty disappointing. I've had worse blind buys but usually I half expect them to be bad

[Jr7936]

not sure if it counts, but bond 50 for best blind buy. I've seen maybe 6 of the films but the rest of them were blind buys
so i am putting that as the best blind buy of the year

[Sky_Captain85]

Best - Drive, Patton, They Live

Worst - Clash of the Titans, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

[wallstreet25]

Best

127 Hours
American History X
Bad Boys (1983)
Basic Instinct
Beavis and Butt-Head: Volume 4
Big Trouble in Little China
Blade Runner (heard so many good things i had to buy it.)
The Deer Hunter
Enter the Dragon
Flyboys

worst
Get Him to the Greek
Natural Born Killers

[Abdrewes]

(In no order)

Best:
Fallen Angels
Happy Together
Lonesome
Bound
Quadrophenia
Identification of a Woman
Dirty Pretty Things
Take Shelter
Vanya on 42nd Street
Last Temptation of Christ
Harakiri
Revanche
Belle de Jour
People on Sunday
Yi Yi
World on a Wire
Playtime
Pale Flower
Music Room
Branded to Kill
Waltz with Bashir
Jeremiah Johnson
Hellboy 2

Worst:*
Green Hornet
Chitty Chitty Bang Band
The Tale of Despereaux
Cliffhanger
Teen Wolf
Contraband
Terminator Salvation
Gangster No. 1
In Time

[djgcue]

Worst:
Cabin in the Woods
Prometheus

Best:
SM3
The Avengers

[Mandalorian]

best:
Jaws (saw it years ago, but didn't remember it at all)
Kramer v Kramer
JLA Season One and Two
Antwone Fisher
North By Northwest (technically free, thanks to WB Shop, but still hadn't seen it)
All-Star Supes
Batman TDKR Part 1
Executive Decision

worst:
Haywire
Madagascar 3

not yet watched:
From Hell
ParaNorman
Dances with Wolves
John Adams
Pride and Prejudice
Crazy Heart

And the rest were decent to good, but not the best. Certainly no other bad ones.

[Jayze]

Best: Hunger Games
Snow White and the Huntsman
Men In Black 3
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax
The Expendables 2


Worst: Underworld: Awakening (still enjoyed it but not at the same level as
my best blind buys)

[Visco.]

My best is probably Wilfred, Prometheus, and Bridesmaids.

My worst is The Ides of March. I was so excited to buy it and I thought it was so boring. Mleh.

[JRC2010]

Best:
Bond 50 (Never seen any before Goldeneye)
Brazil
Cabin In The Woods
Prometheus
The Hunger Games
Breaking Bad Seasons 1-4
The Woman In Black
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Worst:
Wrath Of The Titans

[expatCanuck]

Best blind BD buy:
BD:
anatomy of a murder
pan's labyrynth
dark city
rango

DVD
miller's crossing
L.A. Confidential

Worst blind BD buy:
zodiac
ts3

[JavaJulien]

Best:
Casino Royale

Worst:
Fight Club

That's a stretch though because Casino Royale and Fight Club were technically my only two blind buys. Also, if I hadn't have cracked and watched Super 8 on Netflix the night before ordering it, that would've been my best Blind Buy.

[josephga]

Best: Rise of the planet of the apes
Worst: Fright Night remake

[cryvksr]

Best:
The Cabin in the Woods

Worst:
Act of Valor
The Hunger Games

[benderal]

Best Blind Buys:
The Adventures of Tin Tin
Get the Gringo

Worst:
Immortals
The Three Musketeers

[Femmeslover]

Best Blind Buys:
The Grey
The Lorax
The Worst:
The Dark Knight Rises
Cabin in the woods

[sk33tr]

best: the dark knight rises
honorable mention: tin tin (i REALLY enjoyed this movie but it narrowly lost out to tdkr)

worst: haywire
**note: i didn't hate or even dislike this movie. it's just that, although i did like this movie, i liked it least of all of my blind-buys from this year

[Guydowood]

THE BEST

The Help
The Ides of March
Warrior
Real Steel
Drive
Sanctum
Hugo
Footloose (2011)
The Adventures of Tintin
The Messenger
The Three Musketeers (2011)
Straw Dogs (1971)
Winter's Bone
War Horse
Universal Soldier: Regeneration
Contraband
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Wrath of the Titans
Get the Gringo
Safe House
Snow White and the Huntsman
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter




THE WORST

Killer Elite
The Ugly Truth
The Thing (2011)
The Smurfs
Trespass
Blitz
J. Edgar
Straw Dogs (2011)
Conan The Barbarian (2011)
Journey 2 The Mysterious Island
Immortals
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
Battleship
Haywire
Safe
Lockout
Men in Black 3