2012: Most Anticipated List Revisited

Here was my list of my most anticipated movies of 2012, that I made back on 12/22/11:

1. THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (Christopher Nolan)
2. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (Peter Jackson)
3. DJANGO UNCHAINED (Quentin Tarantino)
4. LOOPER (Rian Johnson)
5. SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (Martin McDonagh)
6. THE BURIAL (tentatively titled) (Terrence Malick)
7. SKYFALL (Sam Mendes)
8. THE WETTEST COUNTY (John Hillcoat)
9. COGAN'S TRADE (Andrew Dominik)
10. GRAVITY (Alfonso Cuaron)
11. PROMETHEUS (Ridley Scott)
12. MOONRISE KINGDOM (Wes Anderson)
13. ARGO (Ben Affleck)
14. ONLY GOD FORGIVES (Nicolas Winding Refn)
15. THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (Derek Cianfrance)

Out of these, several had name changes (The Burial became To the Wonder, The Wettest County became Lawless, Cogan's Trade became Killing Them Softly), and several weren't even released in 2012 theatrically (To the Wonder, Gravity, Only God Forgives, and The Place Beyond the Pines were all pushed to 2013).  So of the 11 that were released in 2012, I saw them all, and my ratings were:

1. THE DARK KNIGHT RISES - C-
2. THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY - B+
3. DJANGO UNCHAINED - A+
4. LOOPER - A+
5. SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS - A
7. SKYFALL - B+
8. LAWLESS - C
9. KILLING THEM SOFTLY - A
11. PROMETHEUS - A-
12. MOONRISE KINGDOM - A+
13. ARGO - B

So I think I did a pretty decent job of anticipating (5 of my top 10 are in the above), but it's hard to anticipate movies like Beasts of the Southern Wild because there's not much word about them until they actually get released (or play Sundance in Beasts' case).  I also didn't anticipate liking major releases like Lincoln or Jack Reacher nearly as much, and while I was looking forward to seeing Killer Joe, it just didn't register on this list.

The biggest oversight was The Master, which I realized right after making the list that I forgot it, and said in a comment that I thought it would've been around #5 or #6.

So, again, my 2013 most anticipated list is below.  We'll see how close I am next year:

1. THE COUNSELOR (Ridley Scott)
2. BEFORE MIDNIGHT (Richard Linklater)
3. TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE (Steve McQueen)
4. THE MONUMENTS MEN (George Clooney)
5. THE WORLD'S END (Edgar Wright)
6. GRAVITY (Alfonso Cuaron)
7. TO THE WONDER/KNIGHT OF CUPS/VOYAGE OF TIME/UNTITLED (Terrence Malick)
8. OUT OF THE FURNACE (Scott Cooper)
9. MUD (Jeff Nichols)
10. CALVARY (John Michael McDonagh)
11. ONLY GOD FORGIVES (Nicolas Winding Refn)
12. THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES (Derek Cianfrance)
13. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin Scorsese)
14. A MOST WANTED MAN (Anton Corbijn)
15. INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Joel & Ethan Coen)
16. THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (Peter Jackson)
17. SIDE EFFECTS (Steven Soderbergh)
18. CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (Paul Greengrass)
19. THE ZERO THEOREM (Terry Gilliam)
20. TRANCE (Danny Boyle)

Already I realize I left out a few films that would make the list if I made it today (AIN'T THEM BODIES SAINTS, ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE, NYMPHOMANIAC, and FOXCATCHER would easily replace 17-20 on this list, some would be higher than that), but if I could just edit the list on a whim it wouldn't really mean anything to make the list in the first place, because it's not just fun to see good movies, it's also fun to look back a year afterwards and brag about how right you were about certain movies, right?

Could I be wrong in overlooking the big tentpoles of the year?  Could IRON MAN 3 or MAN OF STEEL end up being amazing?  I doubt it, but that'd be cool.