It’s amazing we’re now halfway through 2012, a year that has offered plenty in the way of both blockbuster films and the smaller, more intimate indie fare. Taking that into account, it seems only fitting to offer up something a long the lines of a best of/worst of post for the first half of 2012.
The weekend box-office totals are in, as Liam Neeson’s R-rated feature The Grey has taken the crown handily. One for the Money, based off the best-selling novel by Janet Evanovich, was hurt by a 3% Rotten Tomatoes score, yet managed third place thanks in large part to a Groupon deal. More information and a complete top five from the weekend after the jump!
Telling the important story of the Tuskegee airmen, the first all-African American fighter pilots during World War II, Red Tails becomes increasingly bogged down by a very weak script filled with bad dialogue, bland characters, and numerous cliches we’ve come to expect from your run-of-the-mill war movie, as well as executive producer George Lucas.