Here’s 11 Reasons Why ‘Cloud Atlas’ is Not the Worst Movie of 2012

It’s getting to be the end of the year, so lists of the best and worst films, performances and everything from 2012 are going to be trickling onto the internet. Yesterday, TIME magazine was the first to publish their list of the Worst Films of 2012 (here’s their Best of 2012, too). And yes, it included some worthy terrible films from this year. But then I saw the top two films on Mary Pols’ worst list, and my mouth hung wide open. John Carter was at #2 (that’s a whole separate conversation that needs to be had), but Tom Tykwer and Andy & Lana Wachowski’s ambitious and provoking film Cloud Atlas took the top spot. Obviously this just screams evidence of a magazine in a dying industry desperate for any attention, but still, what the hell? And so, because I so vehemently disagree with this choice (and a glance at the …