The Kings Speech
Inception
127 Hours
The Social Network

see caviat below

The Inbetweeners (even if just for the dance scene alone).

So we can nominate any film that we've seen this year, regardless of the year it was released ...

Drive
Melancholia
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Midnight In Paris
Black Swan
Blue Valentine

All of those films were from 2010

Oh eck

OK, move one...I'm looking at films that were primarily Box Office in 2011

That would help me. Last new film I saw was Return Of The King.

The King's Speech & 127 Hours were UK box office releases in 2011 (so they're okay to be included IMO), Inception & The Social Network were released last year over (so don't count)...

I was having a friendly dig @ bluenosey's selections ...

My suggestions (based on UK release dates ):

I Saw The Devil
Black Swan
The Fighter
X-Men: First Class
TrollHunter
13 Assassins
Super
Animal Kingdom
Biutiful
Stake Land

Submarine

Not seen a single 2011 release yet if they've not reached Sky....

This always proves to be a stumbling block for this thread as a lot of us tend to catch movies for the first time via rentals/subscription/freeview.

Here's a not quite comprehensive list of flicks (released in UK cinemas during 2011) for anyone that can't quite remember what they have & haven't seen:

127 Hours
The King's Speech
Season Of The Witch
Blue Valentine
The Green Hornet
Black Swan
The Dilemma
I Spit On Your Grave (remake)
John Carpenter's The Ward
Biutiful
Hereafter
The Mechanic (remake)
Tangled
The Fighter
Rabbit Hole
Sanctum
Gnomeo & Juliet
Never Let Me Go
True Grit (remake)
Paul
I Am Number Four
Animal Kingdom
Drive Angry
No Strings Attached
The Rite
West Is West
The Adjustment Bureau
Rango
Unknown
Battle: Los Angeles
Fair Game
The Resident
The Lincoln Lawyer
Route Irish
Submarine
Limitless
Cave Of Forgotten Dreams
The Eagle
Faster
Wake Wood
Source Code
Sucker Punch
Rio
Your Highness
Red Riding Hood
Scre4m
Fast & Furious Five
Arthur
Thor
I Saw The Devil
Insidious
Tracker
Water For Elephants
13 Assassins
Hanna
Priest
Attack The Block
Pirates Of The Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides
The Hangover Part II
X-Men: First Class
Senna
Kung Fu Panda 2
Bad Teacher
The Beaver
Green Lantern
Stake Land
Bridesmaids
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
Super
The Tree Of Life
Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Hobo With A Shotgun
Cars 2
Horrible Bosses
Captain America: The First Avenger
Super 8
The Devil's Double
Cowboys & Aliens
The Inbetweeners
Conan The Barbarian (remake)
Final Destination 5
Fright Night (remake)
Kill List
Friends With Benefits
TrollHunter
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Drive
Tucker & Dale vs Evil
Warrior
Red State
Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark
Footloose (remake)
Real Steel
Contagion
Paranormal Activity 3
We Need To Talk About Kevin
The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
The Ides Of March
In Time
Machine Gun Preacher
Straw Dogs (remake)
Immortals
The Rum Diary

My missus is a teacher and she loved the film 'Bad Teacher', so I suppose that gets my (her) vote from the list Razorback provided.

As for me, I was massively disappointed with the penultimate Harry Potter, but thought the final one made amends!

Have to say, I thought Horrible Bosses and Hit List were both great viewing, so they'd get my vote...

I saw 'I Am No.4' this week on Sky.

OK but not worthy of my vote or nomination.

The Fighter
Drive
Sucker Punch
Black Swan
Source code

I have only seen 39 of those 100+ movies, I thought Adjustment Bureau was most entertaining, but The Kings Speech was worthy of all the acolades it received, great performance from Captain Barbossa. Special mention though for Bad Teacher and Source Code.

Moneyball for me. Really got into Baseball this year and read the book earlier in the year without realising the film was due out. Not sure if released in the UK yet but well worth watching if you have any interest in Baseball

I'll go for Senna if only for the fact that when the credits rolled not a soul got up and left and also that the usual backdrop of munching and slurping just was not evident at all.

The Guard

I saw Rise of the Panet of The Apes on a plane the other day, and thought it was jolly good

(the film is Rise of the Planet of The Apes , not Rise of the Planet of The Apes on A Plane, although the latter sounds OK as well )

Gnomeo and Juliet was a cracking film!

everyone was asleep

Or CY was alone in the cinema throughout


(That 'usual backdrop' of eating, phones and chatting is a large part of why I never go to the cinema and so am not placed to voting in this category. Looking forward to 'Senna' when it hits the small screen so I might vote for it anyway )

I remember the theatre trailers for Senna quite catagorically stated 'you do not have to be motor racing fan to enjoy this film'.
I beg to differ, they should have tagged that line with 'but it helps'.

Bleedin Nora - It would take me 127 hours to set up the poll

Ive seen 8 off that list (about 7 of which I've been on a plane for).

In fairness, most were brilliant as well.

The King's Speech - Really good film 8.5/10
Black Swan - really good 8.5/10 (would have been an 8 if it werent for 'that' scene)
No Strings Attached - not my bag, treated Mrs Zimm to a rom-com in a moment of airplane weakness
The Adjustment Bureau - pretty disappointing with a sickening/lame love angle. Tried to be clever (matrix/inception-esque). 5/10
Tree of Life - started it on the plane… looked to have a lot of potential, but i abandoned after about 30mins as its one that looked to need concentration (and good picture/sound not offered on my flight)
Submarine - brilliant, loved it. 8/10
X-Men: First Class - for this sort of film, was very good (only previously seen the first x-men movie).
Senna - more documentary than film. Was very good, but not a cinematic masterpiece. For me 8/10 as a documentary, 7/10 as a "film".

Cave Of Forgotten Dreams.

Another good documentary I saw last weekwas Great White Silence. It's the official record of Scott's race to the Pole and was filmed 100 years ago, but was restored this year by the British Film Institute.

Saw Kill List at the weekend but it didn't really live up to the hype for me. Not seen The Rum Diary yet but looking forward to it.

Like murf, I rarely go to the cinema these days because too many films have been ruined for me by people who seem to be at a loose end for something to do, and would rather chat/eat popcorn than watch the movie. So I tend to see films a year or so after they've been released, usually on Sky Movies. The best one I've seen this year is the astonishing Winter's Bone, no contest. Runner up would be The Kids are Alright.

The most recent film I've seen is Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, which was charming and quirky but I doubt it would make my eventual 2012 Top Twenty (I'll let you know in a year's time!)

Not seen any of the films on the list

Out of interest, is the Rum Diary based on the Hunter S Thompson book?