Top 10 films of 2013

[Rorschach2012]

Man of Steel
Prisoners
Iron Man 3
This is the End
The Conjuring
Mud
Gravity
The Wolverine
Monster's University
Mama

 

[Octoberist]

Mud
Kings of Summer
12 Years a Slave
Gravity
This is the end
World's End

 

[Tony Clifton]

I know im forgetting some that are obvious, blanking. But ones I can remember:

Captain Phillips
Short Term 12
Pacific Rim
The Conjuring
This is the end
Place beyond the pines
Monsters U
Youre next (not saying it was one of the best-but definitely had fun)

 

[weezerspider]

1. Mud
2. Spring Breakers
3. Gravity
4. Aint Them Bodies Saints
5. The Kings Of Summer
6. Only God Forgives
7. Prisoners
8. 12 Years A Slave
9. Elysium
10. The Way Way Back/Place Beyond The Pines

 

[Tony Clifton]

1. Mud
2. Spring Breakers
3. Gravity
4. Aint Them Bodies Saints
5. The Kings Of Summer
6. Only God Forgives
7. Prisoners
8. 12 Years A Slave
9. Elysium
10. The Way Way Back/Place Beyond The Pines

Never had a chance to see Only God Forgives, I really wanted to. You enjoyed it? I know most people bashed it. But from the critisicm I read it never seemed like a sound argument. Mostly "Too violent" "Too many colors"

 

[Kane52630]

For me it's too many dull moments and too pompous.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

It's the most disappointing movie of the year for me. It's not even because of the violence or the colors, but more because of how cold and empty I felt it was, in addition to saying whole not of nothing in many scenes. You could have easily taken out 15, 20 minutes out of this already short movie and it probably could have worked a little better, but I found too many of the characters uninteresting, and I think focusing the movie on Gosling's character was a huge mistake. Chang should have been the main character.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Based on what I've heard I do definitely want to see it, I just never got it in the theater I work at so I'm waiting for it to pop up on Netflix, since they have drive and Valhalla rising I'm sure they'll get this lol

 

[Rowsdower!]

Never had a chance to see Only God Forgives, I really wanted to. You enjoyed it? I know most people bashed it. But from the critisicm I read it never seemed like a sound argument. Mostly "Too violent" "Too many colors"

How about "boring," "pretentious," and "full of characters that manage to simply be weird without ever truly being interesting?"

The violence and the colors (the cinematography) were the only good parts.

And this is coming from someone who absolutely loved Drive and Bronson. But Only God Forgives was a classic example of a director believing he had a brilliant idea after brilliant idea and no one around him had the balls to tell him, "No."

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

I loved Drive, and was very excited for this movie after Refn described it as "a Western version of Drive in Thailand," but I never got the drive vibe from it. I got a bit of a Western vibe, like I said earlier, I think Refn tried to hard to be artsy and what I got from it is a cold, empty movie that for the most part does a whole lot of nothing.

It's like Refn took the more flawed aspects of Drive and accentuated those instead of what made Drive great aside from the gorgeous cinematography.

It's sad that this movie was disappointing to me because it really is gorgeous cinematography wise.

 

[The Shape]

Top 10 in no particular order, besides Prisoners as my favorite so far:

- Prisoners
- The Place Beyond the Pines
- Gravity
- Side Effects
- This Is The End
- Fruitvale Station
- Man of Steel
- Mud
- Spring Breakers
- Iron Man 3 (I'll never understand the widespread disdain for it among fans)


Honorable Mentions:

- Enough Said
- Insidious 2 (I'm a big horror fan and like what this "series" has done so far)
- Pacific Rim (incredible VFX, lots of fun)
- Oblivion (surprised this wasn't more well received, it's better than Elysium)
- We're The Millers

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

Personally, I feel like the Iron Man 3 has a lot of dislike among fans is misguided because their minds got tricked by marketing. I thought the twist was pretty funny. The villain should have had a better motivation beyond "Tony stood me up!".

With that said the movie had bigger issues than "The Mandarin isn't who he is from the comics!"

 

[The Shape]

Personally, I feel like the Iron Man 3 has a lot of dislike among fans is misguided because their minds got tricked by marketing. I thought the twist was pretty funny. The villain should have had a better motivation beyond "Tony stood me up!".

With that said the movie had bigger issues than "The Mandarin isn't who he is from the comics!"

I quite liked the twist, as well. It served the movie experience well, if you could get past that you'd been duped by the marketing. I particularly enjoy films with a mystery element, where you don't exactly have a clear-cut villain from Point A to Point B.

The film itself suffered from most of the same flaws that all Marvel movies have, although I don't think this one is really a step below the rest. Between Iron Man 2 and 3, I'll take IM3 any day of the week. And thankfully, it wasn't bogged down by relentless cameos/easter eggs and SHIELD references.

It was what I expected it to be -- a fun time at the movies with some awesome superhero action. I also think it was respectful to the Tony Stark character. He had a nice arc in this one.

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

It's astonishing how many fans went as far as to say their faith in Marvel was hurt with IM3 because of the twist. There was so much ridiculous panic over a villain most people never gave a second look at before.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Yeah, like we pretty much the mandarin in big trouble in little china...and to a lesser extent in the shadow.

 

[Sawyer]

Comic fans, yo. Even if they "screw up" something we only barely cared about to begin with, it is, hands down, the end of the world as we know it.

 

[DarkSovereignty]

But he doesn't have teh ringz!

 

[CapedCrusader14]

Now updating the list with home video entries from here on which are marked by an "*". Thought it may diversify the list more.

1. Trance
2. Gravity
3. Prisoners
4. Man of Steel
5. The Wolverine
6. The World's End
7. Rush
8. Mud*
9. Star Trek Into Darkness
10. Metallica: Through The Never
11. Kick-Ass 2
12. Iron Man 3
13. This Is The End
14. Pacific Rim
15. Fast and Furious 6
16. World War Z
17. Elysium
18. Monsters University
19. Oz: The Great and Powerful
20. Oblivion
21. Gangster Squad
22. Riddick
23. Epic
24. Olympus Has Fallen
25. The Last Stand

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Adding don Jon


1. The worlds end
2. Much ado about nothing
3. The grandmaster
4. Star Trek into darkness
5. The wolverine
6. Don Jon
7. Pacific rim
8. The conjuring
9. The bling ring
10. This is the end

Updated
1. The worlds end
2. Much ado about nothing
3. The grandmaster
4. Star Trek into darkness
5. The wolverine
6. Don Jon
7. Pacific rim
8. John dies at the end
9. Aerosmith: rock of the rising sun
10. The bling ring

 

[antsman41]

-A-
1. Gravity
2. The Kings Of Summer
3. Scenic Route
4. Drinking Buddies
5. The Way Way Back
6. Prince Avalanche
7. Upstream Color
8. The Place Beyond The Pines

-B-
9. Pain & Gain
10. Side Effects
11. Man Of Steel
12. Elysium
13. Oblivion
14. Only God Forgives
15. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part II
16. Furious 6
17. Pacific Rim
18. John Dies At The End
19. Evil Dead

-C-
20. Ain't Them Bodies Saints
21. This Is The End
22. The Bling Ring
23. Star Trek Into Darkness
24. Iron Man III
25. 42
26. The Great Gatsby
27. Warm Bodies

-D-
28. Kick-Ass 2
29. The Conjuring
30. Spring Breakers
31. Oz, The Great & Powerful

-F-
32. The Purge
33. Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
34. Monsters University

 

[CFE]

Top Favorite Films of 2013 (to date – updates in Bold):

**** A+ to A (Great)

1: “Gravity”
2: “The Counselor”
3: “Populaire”
4: “Only God Forgives”
5: “Blue Jasmine”
6: “Much Ado About Nothing”
7: “The Way, Way Back”
8: “Twenty Feet From Stardom”
9: “Frances Ha”

***1/2 A- to B+ (Very Good)

10: “Prisoners”
11: “Wadjda”
12: “Hannah Arendt”
13: “The Act Of Killing”
14: “The World’s End”
15: “Trance”
16: “Pacific Rim”
17: “The Place Beyond The Pines”
18: “Man of Steel”
19: “Star Trek Into Darkness”
20: “Rush”
21: “Captain Phillips”
22: “The Hunt” (Jagten)
23: “Salinger”
24: “Unfinished Song” (Song For Marion)
25: “Mud”
26: “Don Jon”
27: “The Spectacular Now”
28: “Iron Man 3”
29: “The To Do List”
30: “Disconnect”
31: “Stoker”
32: “Blackfish”
33: “Blancanieves”
34: “The Wolverine”
35: “Side Effects”

*** B to B- (Good)

36: “The Grandmaster” (Yi dai zong shi)
37: “The Bling Ring”
38: “The Great Gatsby”
39: “Süskind”
40: “Fruitvale Station”
41: “Now You See Me”
42: “I’m So Excited!” (Los amantes pasajeros)
43: “Elysium”
44: “The Lone Ranger”
45: “White House Down”
46: “Emperor”
47: “Thanks For Sharing”
48: “Passion”
49: “The East”
50: “In A World…”
51: “To The Wonder”
52: “World War Z”
53: “Kon-Tiki”
54: “The Iceman”
55: “Kick-Ass 2”
56: “Gangster Squad”
57: “The Fifth Estate”
58: “A Hijacking” (Kapringen)

**1/2 C+ to C (Fair)

59: “Jobs”
60: “The Butler”
61: “Closed Circuit”
62: “Still Mine”
63: “The Attack”
64: “The Conjuring”
65: “Oblivion”
66: “42: The Jackie Robinson Story”
67: “Runner Runner”
68: “The Company You Keep”
69: “Lovelace”
70: “Broken City”
71: “Girl Most Likely”
72: “Fill The Void”
73: “Byzantium”
74: “2 Guns”
75: “Red 2”
76: “Ginger & Rosa”
77: “Dead Man Down”

** C to D+ (Disappointing)

78: “This Is The End”
79: “Oz The Great And Powerful”
80: “Upstream Color”
81: “Jack The Giant Slayer”
82: “Pain & Gain”
83: “Paranoia”
84: “Dead Man's Burden”
85: “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”
86: “Olympus Has Fallen”

*1/2 D to D- (Very Disappointing)

87: “The Last Stand”
88: “Evil Dead”
89: “A Good Day To Die Hard”
90: “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone”
91: “Spring Breakers”

* F (Awful)

92: “R.I.P.D.”
93: “Bullet To The Head”
94: “The Numbers Station”
95: “After Earth”

 

[DarkSovereignty]

Updated
1. The worlds end
2. Much ado about nothing
3. The grandmaster
4. Star Trek into darkness
5. The wolverine
6. Don Jon
7. Pacific rim
8. John dies at the end
9. Aerosmith: rock of the rising sun
10. The bling ring

1. Gravity
2. The worlds end
3. Much ado about nothing
4. The grandmaster
5. Star Trek into darkness
6. The wolverine
6. Don Jon
8. Pacific rim
9. John dies at the end
10. Aerosmith: rock of the rising sun

 

[echostation]

Easily Prisoners, Gravity, Man of Steel (best fun I've had in summer movie going in years along with the Avengers), Star Trek

 

[CFE]

Top Favorite Films of 2013 (to date and restructured – updates in Bold):

**** A+ to A (Great)

1: “Gravity”
2: “12 Years A Slave”
3: “The Counselor”
4: “Populaire”
5: “Only God Forgives”
6: “Blue Jasmine”
7: “Much Ado About Nothing”
8: “The Way, Way Back”

***1/2 A- to B+ (Very Good)

9: “Twenty Feet From Stardom”
10: “Frances Ha”
11: “Prisoners”
12: “Wadjda”
13: “Hannah Arendt”
14: “The Act Of Killing”
15: “The World’s End”
16: “Trance”
17: “Pacific Rim”
18: “The Place Beyond The Pines”
19: “Man of Steel”
20: “Star Trek Into Darkness”
21: “Rush”
22: “Captain Phillips”
23: “The Hunt” (Jagten)
24: “Salinger”
25: “Unfinished Song” (Song For Marion)
26: “Mud”
27: “Don Jon”
28: “The Spectacular Now”
29: “Iron Man 3”

*** B to B- (Good)

30: “The To Do List”
31: “Disconnect”
32: “Stoker”
33: “Blackfish”
34: “Room 237”
35: “Blancanieves”
36: “The Wolverine”
37: “Side Effects”
38: “The Grandmaster” (Yi dai zong shi)
39: “The Bling Ring”
40: “The Great Gatsby”
41: “Süskind”
42: “Fruitvale Station”
43: “Now You See Me”
44: “I’m So Excited!” (Los amantes pasajeros)
45: “Elysium”
46: “The Lone Ranger”
47: “White House Down”
48: “Emperor”

**1/2 C+ to C (Fair)

49: “Thanks For Sharing”
50: “Passion”
51: “The East”
52: “In A World…”
53: “To The Wonder”
54: “World War Z”
55: “Kon-Tiki”
56: “The Iceman”
57: “Kick-Ass 2”
58: “Gangster Squad”
59: “The Fifth Estate”
60: “A Hijacking” (Kapringen)
61: “Jobs”
62: “The Butler”
63: “Closed Circuit”
64: “Still Mine”
65: “The Attack”
66: “The Conjuring”
67: “Oblivion”
68: “42: The Jackie Robinson Story”
69: “Runner Runner”
70: “The Company You Keep”
71: “Lovelace”
72: “Broken City”
73: “Girl Most Likely”
74: “Fill The Void”

** C to D+ (Disappointing)

75: “Byzantium”
76: “2 Guns”
77: “Red 2”
78: “Ginger & Rosa”
79: “Dead Man Down”
80: “This Is The End”
81: “Oz The Great And Powerful”
82: “Upstream Color”
83: “Jack The Giant Slayer”
84: “Pain & Gain”

*1/2 D to D- (Very Disappointing)

85: “Paranoia”
86: “Dead Man's Burden”
87: “G.I. Joe: Retaliation”
88: “Olympus Has Fallen”
89: “The Last Stand”
90: “Evil Dead”
91: “A Good Day To Die Hard”

* F (Awful)

92: “The Incredible Burt Wonderstone”
93: “Spring Breakers”
94: “R.I.P.D.”
95: “Bullet To The Head”
96: “The Numbers Station”
97: “After Earth”

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Top 10 (seen at the cinema in blue, latest in bold):

1. Prisoners
2. Mud
3. Elysium
4. Rush
5. The Way Way Back
6. Aint them Bodies Saints
7. Star Trek Into Darkness
8. The Kings of Summer
9. John Dies at the End
10. The East

And the Rest:

Great:

The Place Beyond the Pines
The Iceman
Stoker
Song For Marion
Philomena

Good:

Man of Steel
The Heat
Warm Bodies
Olympus Has Fallen
How I Live Now
The Conjuring

Pacific Rim
Iron Man 3
The World's End
Gangster Squad
Girl Most Likely
What Richard Did
This is the End
Thor: The Dark World
The Bling Ring
Kick Ass 2
Epic
Monsters University
We're the Millars
Oz the Great and Powerful
Jack the Giant Slayer
Hansel and Gretal
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2
Odd Thomas
Turbo
Sharknado
Insidious 2
One Chance
The Internship

Okay:

Now you see me
The Great Gatsby
Disconnect
Oblivion
Superman: Unbound
Wrong
Maniac
Dark Skies
All Superheroes Must Die
The Croods
Escape from Planet Earth
After Earth
The Lone Ranger
Byzantium
Pain and Gain
21 and Over
Admission
The Host
Spring Breakers
Beautiful Creatures
Side Effects
RIPD
Despicable Me 2
The Hangover pt 3
Welcome to the Punch

Drinking Buddies

Lost on me:

The Wolverine
Spring Breakers
Upstream Color
Trance
The Last Stand
The Purge
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns pt 2
Bullet to the Head
Identity Theif
Upside Down
Ender's Game
GI Joe: Retaliation
I Give it a Year
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Scary Movie 5
Movie 43

Total = 85 films