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Posted: December 8th, 2013, 11:47am Report to Moderator
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I thought this year had lots to offer! I'll wait a bit before a top ten, but there was Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, John Dies at the End, To The Wonder, Stoker, I'm So Excited, Oz, Spring Breakers, The Call, Wrong, Evil Dead, Upstream Colour, Oblivion, It's A Disaster, At Any Price, Before Midnight, Only God Forgives, This is the End, Pacific Rim, The World's End, The To Do List, You're Next, Hell Baby, Prisoners, Gravity, Escape Plan…

Tons of super solid, super fun stuff, in my opinion!

Plus Spike Lee went down like a sucker and The Lone Ranger flopped hard!


Yeah I have to back up your offer of Stoker, Spring Breakers, The Call, Evil Dead, Oblivion, Only God Forgives, Pacific Rim, The World's End, Prisoners and Gravity.

A huge variety of pretty solid films.


A bad writer, trying to become decent...

Thank you for all who put up with my work and try and help me improve.

Practice will hopefully pay off for my writing.
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Officially caught up with all my must-sees for 2013 (except for two with 2014 U.S. releases). I did try to come up with a rough order for a top 10 but some of the films were so different, I just said fuck it. Here they are in alphabetical order (except for Her, which was my favorite film this year):

Her
12 Years A Slave
Frozen
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Only God Forgives
The Place Beyond The Pines
Spring Breakers
This Is The End
The Wolf of Wall Street

Honorable mention (alphabetical):

Before Midnight
A Field In England
Frances Ha
Magic Magic
The World's End


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I'm going to update this once I've seen the Oscar-bait releases with their UK delay.

In no particular order:

Compliance
This Is The End
You're Next
Drinking Buddies
Man of Steel
Place Beyond The Pines
Chasing Mavericks
Elysium
The Way Way Back
The Counselor
Prisoners
The Bling Ring
Spring Breakers
Before Midnight
Side Effects
Blue Jasmine
Philomena
Don Jon
The Spectacular Now

Most fun in the cinema this year:
This Is The End/You're Next

Least fun in the cinema this year:
Iron Man 3/Kick Ass 2


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Got to give Nick Nevern's, The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan 2, a little shout out. Much like the first one... although the story wasn't as good, the cinematography and acting is very good. One little bug about the film was that they seemed to blow a certain portion of the budget flying to exotic locations. They could have been written around... and I can't help but think that they just used them as an excuse to travel and party. At least they had a good time making it, I suppose. I hope it makes them a tasty profit.
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They could have been written around... and I can't help but think that they just used them as an excuse to travel and party. At least they had a good time making it, I suppose. I hope it makes them a tasty profit.


Having worked with Nick, I can tell you, unequivocally, that 60% of the time, that's correct every time.


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I thought that this year, for me anyway, was way better than 2012 when it came down to quality of film.  Here's my Top 10 watches in no particular order --

- Spring Breakers
- The Place Beyond The Pines
- Mud
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Wreck-It Ralph
- Short Term 12
- The Conjuring
- Don Jon
- The Kings of Summer
- Kick Ass 2

Honorable Mentions:
(Catching Fire, The Heat, Evil Dead, You're Next, Good Vibrations, The Way Way Back, 2 Guns, Fruitvale Station)

I still haven't had the chance to see The Spectaculor Now, which might possibly make it onto my top ten list.


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Quoted from Andrew


Having worked with Nick, I can tell you, unequivocally, that 60% of the time, that's correct every time.


I met him briefly at the Vendetta after party, but I didn't really know who he was at the time. I got a bit hammered myself that night.
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I still haven't had the chance to see The Spectaculor Now, which might possibly make it onto my top ten list.



Wasn't what I was expecting (I thought it was PG-13 at first), but it was an ok/good movie.

Could have been better.


--Steve

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I met him briefly at the Vendetta after party, but I didn't really know who he was at the time. I got a bit hammered myself that night.


Be rude not to. Exactly the same myself at Hooligan wrap. If you're going to the Groucho and not getting hammered, you're taking up valuable space.


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Wasn't what I was expecting (I thought it was PG-13 at first), but it was an ok/good movie.

Could have been better.


--Steve



I've read the script and enjoyed it, some people I know who have seen it have been singing its praises.  I need to see it soon to make my own mind up, it's been on my watchlist for ages



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1. Despicable Me 2
2. The Heat

This year sucked to me. I can't even pick more than a few that I liked. *sigh*
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I could probably pick quite a few. I've just forgotten them all. I quite liked that Tom Cruise thing where he discovers at the end he is just one of many clones.

I just googled "that Tom Cruise thing where he discovers at the end he is just one of many clones" and came up with the film, Oblivion. Isn't google amazing. That's why I don't have to remember anything. Google is like an extra hard drive.

Anyway I thought it was brilliantly done. Few actors and locations. Also a cool story. The kind of story I wish I'd thought of.

There are definitely more I liked too. I just can't remember them. Even if I saw the titles it wouldn't ring a bell. But I do remember the story if it was good.
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1. Despicable Me 2
2. The Heat

This year sucked to me. I can't even pick more than a few that I liked. *sigh*


I loved The Heat.  IMO, the best comedy of 2013.  It had me crying with laughter.  So good!


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I think 2013 was okay for movies, not the best but not the worst by far , here's my top 10 in no order.



Django Unchained, Christoph Waltz, classic actor , steals the show.

We're the Millers , good happy film and J. A. has a nice ass.

The Lone Ranger, not as good as I thought it would be but good all the same.

Gangster Squad, no great performances but it works.

2 Guns, Denzel does his stuff again, need I say more. Mark walberg does a good job too.

I'll have to leave it at that, my friends just dropped in but that's a good start.
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A few of my favourites, in no particular order:

Place Beyond The Pines
Gravity
The Way, Way Back
Rush
Spring Breakers
Captain Philips
Trance
The Counsellor
This is the End


And two which were 2012 releases in most places, but didn't get released until 2013 in the UK:

Django
Zero Dark Thirty


And a few films which probably would have made my list, had I seen them:

Blue is the Warmest Colour, Nebraska, The Selfish Giant, Before Midnight, Fruitvale Station, Her, 12 Years a Slave, Don Jon


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