3. 10 Things You Should Know About Dating a Cinephile
Part of being a rabid film fan is accepting that we are difficult to live with - especially when our partner isn't as much of a film fan. We will spoil films and everyday situations just as much as non-film-watchers (even more so in some cases), and like Gremlins it's important to know the rules of what you're getting into before you start a relationship with someone who refuses to wear anything but obscure film T-shirts. This exceptional article by Cameron Carpenter celebrated the quirks of being a cinephile, in a way designed to warn or educate potential partners, and it went down as one of the most popular and well-received articles of the year, not least with the site's Editors.
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2. 10 Major Plot Holes You Probably Missed
Another from Assistant Editor Simon Gallagher, this time focusing on some of the biggest, but least queried plotholes and narrative errors in modern cinematic history. From terrible storm-trooper armour through to Jurassic Park's ninja mountaineering T-Rex, this humour-focused article pointed out the silliest errors in Hollywood's biggest films that no-one seems to notice much.
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1. Benji Taylor's Prometheus Series
Thanks to an unprecedented commitment to vagueness, and a script full of holes, Prometheus was one of the most hotly-debated films of the year, leaving an awful lot more unanswered questions than it actually answered, and by far some of the finest coverage of the entire year came from
Benji Taylor, who picked apart the film with incredible detail and a commitment to solving some of the problems that Ridley Scott seemed all too happy to leave open to interpretation. It's this sort of commitment to film talk that makes us proud to be in this industry and long may it continue.
Prometheus: 8 Mythological & Literary Motifs In The Film Prometheus: 6 Answers To The Key Questions Prometheus: 5 Things We Want To See In A Sequel We hope you had as much fun revisiting the best articles of 2012 as we did.