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The list can be found here -> http://www.avclub.com/article/the-15-worst-films-of-2013-200611
Below are the 15 selections.
They are selected by critics Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, A.A. Dowd, Nick Schager & Scott MacDonald all of whom are great critics and included as top critics on RT and MC.
1. A Good Day to Die Hard
2. Dealin' With Idiots
3. And While We Were Here
4. Man of Steel
5. A Haunted House
6. Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
7. Austenland
8. Gangster Squad
9. The Big Wedding
10. Dario Argento's Dracula
11. Wrong
12. Battle of the Year
13. Planes
14. Hatchet III
15. Girl Most Likely
Here is the write-up for Man Of Steel
One of the most hilariously pretentious scenes in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises was the football stadium apocalypse, which was scored to a boy soprano singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel sustains that same level of pomposity over 143 interminable minutes. Snyder wants viewers to ponder Superman as a moral being, but someone really needs to tell him (and Nolan) that superheroes—impossibly powerful, infallibly good—are maybe the least appropriate vehicles imaginable for moral inquiry. Why, for instance, are we supposed to care that (SPOILER ALERT) Superman kills Zod at the end when he has spent the previous 40 minutes completely demolishing Metropolis, presumably killing a good portion of its inhabitants? And what are we supposed to think when Supes has his first big romantic clinch with Lois standing amid the debris? With this single movie, the trend toward “serious” superhero stories officially achieves entropy. Also: Has a big blockbuster ever contained more cynical, blatant product placement?
MOS is the only superhero film they singled out. Other blockbusters included are A Good Day to Die Hard and Planes.
What do you think of the list?
And do you think critics are right to include MOS as amongst the worst films of 2013?
Below are the 15 selections.
They are selected by critics Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, A.A. Dowd, Nick Schager & Scott MacDonald all of whom are great critics and included as top critics on RT and MC.
1. A Good Day to Die Hard
2. Dealin' With Idiots
3. And While We Were Here
4. Man of Steel
5. A Haunted House
6. Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
7. Austenland
8. Gangster Squad
9. The Big Wedding
10. Dario Argento's Dracula
11. Wrong
12. Battle of the Year
13. Planes
14. Hatchet III
15. Girl Most Likely
Here is the write-up for Man Of Steel
One of the most hilariously pretentious scenes in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises was the football stadium apocalypse, which was scored to a boy soprano singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Zack Snyder’s Man Of Steel sustains that same level of pomposity over 143 interminable minutes. Snyder wants viewers to ponder Superman as a moral being, but someone really needs to tell him (and Nolan) that superheroes—impossibly powerful, infallibly good—are maybe the least appropriate vehicles imaginable for moral inquiry. Why, for instance, are we supposed to care that (SPOILER ALERT) Superman kills Zod at the end when he has spent the previous 40 minutes completely demolishing Metropolis, presumably killing a good portion of its inhabitants? And what are we supposed to think when Supes has his first big romantic clinch with Lois standing amid the debris? With this single movie, the trend toward “serious” superhero stories officially achieves entropy. Also: Has a big blockbuster ever contained more cynical, blatant product placement?
MOS is the only superhero film they singled out. Other blockbusters included are A Good Day to Die Hard and Planes.
What do you think of the list?
And do you think critics are right to include MOS as amongst the worst films of 2013?
