I thought this movie didn't look very good from the trailers and kind of like Transformers rip off. boy was a wrong this turned out to be an awesome Monsters Versus Machines post Apocalypse movie. that took the time to get you care about the characters, and in 3D it's just smashing cool!
This movie really surprised me I know the acting was going to be good, having Seen Asa Butterfield in "Hugo" not to mention Harrsion Ford, Viola Davis, Hailee Steinfeld and Abigail Breslin. but the story was actually pretty close to the book, and told with care and it was emotional and deep and the end kind of crushes you. and the visuals were just amazing!
This was almost a tie with the next film on the list, but this movie is intense, and the fact that almost the whole is two people in space trying to get back to earth and isn't boring says something about, I saw it in 3D and it was one of the best 3D experiences I've seen if not the best, it feels like your there with Sandra Bullock's character and it's terrifying and amazing at the same time. and so intense. one weakness is there isn't a whole lot of story there, but it's still a remarkable film and a visual achievement.
The Wolverine, I found this Wolverine, to be an improvement over "Origins" and a really good X-Men film overall. plus it's the first film to take place after X-Men 3! so it was nice to finally some continuity. High Jackman was spot on in his performance as Logan aka "The Wolverine" it had some awesome action sequences and the Japanese setting didn't hear, plus some quite good humor. it fall a little flat at the end but still very good. and I can't wait for X-Men Days of Future Past!
8.2/10
11# Favorite film of 2013
"The Host" for some reason got some of the worst reviews of the year, probably because it was based of a book of the same author of the "Twilight" Series. and while I could see why everyone might not like it and it's far from perfect. I just really liked this movie a lot. about to persons in one body, having to work together that strange love . .square. I just found it a fascinating sci-fi romance thriller. and thought it was very unique.
if you haven't seen it you should give it a chance!
8.1/10
12#
"Despicable Me 2" I actually don't remember a whole lot about this movie.. except that it was super funny, probably the funniest movie I've seen all year, and I even think the Minions are a little over rated. but this is just a good movie for a laugh. go and see it if you haven't yet!
My 13# Favorite film of 2013
This movie turned out to be a pleasant surprise to be, I liked "Monsters University" but it was by no means my favorite Pixar animated film. and I thought this would be a entertaining little film. it takes place before Mike and Sully were the best scare team ever, when they went to "Monsters University" collage for scarers.
I thought this was a great film and I'm not usually into Pixar films like most of the world, I found a good touching story about friendship with some nice humor thrown in. I think I even like it better then the original! 8/10
14# film of 2013
"Warm Bodies" set in a post-apocalyptic world, where most of the world is Zombies "R" a bit different he saves a girl "Julie" and kind of likes her, and as he slowly devours her boyfriends brain gets glimpses of her past and starts to fall in love with her she's freaked out at first but slowly grows to like him. causing him to become "human" again. this was just weird and awesome and cool and funny.. and not for everyone but if you have a tough stomach and like a good romance comedy with well zombies when this for you!
7.5/10
and now on to good things, I was going to wait until I saw more movies to do this list, but I'd probably be waiting until like well whenever "12 Years a Slave" gets a Dvd release. to post and I don't want to wait that long and I want to do my most anticipated 2014 movies this month so. there were so many really good movies this year, I felt a top 10 wouldn't mention all the movies I wanted to so I'm going to do a top 15 list.
starting with 15.
"42" based on a true story about Jackie Robinson the first major league black baseball player I thought this was a really good moving and touching film Harrsion Ford his baseball manager and give his best performance I've in over a decade. a great film about enduring persecution to follower your drama friendship and brotherhood. really good, highly recommend 7.5/10
My Biggest Disappointment of 2013
Now this does not necessarily mean the movie was bad, but my expectations versus what I actually thought of the movie.
Now lets just say, that I was super excited for this movie, and the trailers for it looked amazing, probably aside from "Man of Steel, and Catching Fire's" the best trailers of the year for a movie, it was coming off "The Avengers" my favorite superhero film of all time, so when It came out, I was expecting. an awesome deep action drama. got plenty of action. what I wasn't expecting was all that Humor.. so the Avengers was quite funny, and I was expecting there to be some, and you can do a quite serious action drama and still incorporate quite a bit of humor (Spider-Man 2 for example). but it just felt out of place at parts and while some of it was good, not all was. and the script just seemed a little weak. a very weak villain, It just failed to live up to my expectations. now I did watch it again and I did like better the second time. I would even call it a solid movie. quite enjoyable, but still when you compare it to the first Iron Man or even the First Captain America or Thor. it just doesn't hold up to them, to me I'd give it a B+ when I was hoping for a grade that I probably shouldn't have been expecting an A or maybe an A+ Film. but I'd give "Iron Man" an A+ so is it really? I actually liked it a little better then "Thor 2" but by the time that came out I had quite lower expectations-that and the trailers weren't very good. I understand that alot of people liked this movie and that's fine I could see how you could. and I'm pretty much over being disappointed now and I've actually been wanting to watch it again, and will probably even buy it eventually and who knows maybe it will grow on me even more. when I saw "The Dark Knight" I gave it like a "C-" Now I'd give it an "A" Captain America: The Winter Soldier looks really really good, I hope it can revive my faith in "Marvel/Disney" it would help sent my fears for Star Wars VII at ease.
