Besides Life of Pi I watched today, here’s a list of all the movies I watched in 2012, number indicates box office ranking

1 Marvel’s The Avengers
2 The Dark Knight Rises
3 The Hunger Games
4 The Amazing Spider-Man
9 MIB 3
13 21 Jump Street
14 Taken 2
15 Prometheus
16 Safe House
19 The Bourne Legacy
22 Skyfall
24 The Expendables 2
25 Wrath of the Titans
26 Argo
27 Dark Shadows
31 Contraband
33 Battleship
36 Looper
42 Titanic 3D
51 The Grey
58 Savages (2012)
68 End of Watch
71 Lawless
90 Cloud Atlas
93 The Secret World of Arrietty
95 Man on a Ledge

My fav is almost on the bottom of the list:

Cloud Atlas, a epic saga about slavery, rebellion, and how everyone is connected across different time and space, costing 100 million dollars in production, is off the screens now and only managed to attain 20 million in box office.

The co-directors of this movie are Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, directors of the Matrix Trilogy and V for Vendetta

Besides Cloud Atlas, I watched 3 other movies from the lead director Tom Tykwer:

Run Lola Run
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
The International

While all are great movies, I also strongly recommend The International (2009), an hugely overlooked masterpiece about global organized conspiracy, following a detective’s eyes into the elusive evils conducted by a reputable global institution manipulating government and people.

Despite of its failure in US, and even though the director’s films are more often overlooked than not, I believe Cloud Atlas is gonna explode in Asia

“Seven times I have despised my soul:
The first time when I saw her being meek that she might attain height.
The second time when I saw her limping before the crippled.
The third time when she was given to choose between the hard and the easy, and she chose the easy.
The fourth time when she committed a wrong, and comforted herself that others also commit wrong.
The fifth time when she forbode for weakness, and attributed her patience to strength.
The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.
And the seventh time when she sang a song of praise, and deemed it a virtue.”

― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam