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Re: Best & worst films of 2013

#11 Post by RickyRaj » Wed Dec 11, 2013 1:57 pm

Hangover 3 was a dreadful film too - defo my worst so far. Identity theif was bad too which I stopped watching after half an hour of torture.
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Re: Best & worst films of 2013

#12 Post by Beate » Wed Dec 11, 2013 1:58 pm

caitlinmorton wrote: Beate, weren't you the one who walked out of my screening of The Paperboy, or am I making that up?
Nah, I think I watched that one to the bitter end.
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Re: Best & worst films of 2013

#13 Post by caitlinmorton » Wed Dec 11, 2013 2:03 pm

Beate wrote:
caitlinmorton wrote: Beate, weren't you the one who walked out of my screening of The Paperboy, or am I making that up?
Nah, I think I watched that one to the bitter end.
And bitter it was. Definitely on my worst list.

I'll have to have a think about this to pick my lists, as I don't rank them like the rest of you. :P

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Re: Best & worst films of 2013

#14 Post by Jayman » Wed Dec 11, 2013 6:28 pm

Rush, Gravity and Star Trek make my best.
Spring Breakers, The Internship and The Master make my worst.
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Re: Best & worst films of 2013

#15 Post by jcolombi » Wed Dec 11, 2013 8:22 pm

Best (In No Particular Order):

Walter Mitty
We Are The Millers
Django Unchained
Selfish Giant
Prisoners
Philomena
Monsters University
Gatsby
Zero Dark Thirty
Les Mis
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Re: Best & worst films of 2013

#16 Post by Celini » Wed Dec 11, 2013 9:42 pm

My 10 favourite films
Lincoln
Wadjda
Mud
Much Ado About Nothing
Only God Forgives
The Selfish Giant
Only Lovers Left Alive
Blue is the Warmest Colour
Blue Jasmine
Nebraska

I am happy to say that I haven't seem many stinkers this year, the top of the worst would be... drum roll...
Justin and the Knights of Valours
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Re: Best & worst films of 2013

#17 Post by McG » Wed Dec 11, 2013 10:29 pm

Best films of 2013: in no particular order.
1. Les Miserables
2. Frozen
3. Lincoln
4. Philomena
5. Saving Mr Banks
6. Star Trek
7. Gravity
8. Monsters University
9. Olympus has Fallen
10. Mandela

Worst films of 2013: :X
1.The Paperboy
2. The Moth Diaries
3. Black Rock
4. Machete Kills
5. Dom Hemingway
6. Kill the Darlings
There were a few other films which were reported as being so awful that I chose not to even go and see them!
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Re: Best & worst films of 2013

#18 Post by canadian_turtle » Thu Dec 12, 2013 3:09 pm

My lists, ranked in order:

Worst films

01. Spring Breakers
02. A Good Day to Die Hard
03. Summer in February
04. Man of Steel
05. Justin and the Knights of Valour
06. Free Birds
07. Beautiful Creatures
08. Love Is All You Need
09. A Late Quartet
10. Borrowed Time

(*just* didn't make the cut: Hyde Park on Hudson, Cheerful Weather for the Wedding)


Best films

01. Frozen
02. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
03. Much Ado About Nothing
04. The Lone Ranger
05. Populaire
06. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
07. Any Day Now
08. Les Misérables
09. Cloud Atlas
10. Saving Mr Banks

(*just* didn't make the cut: Star Trek: Into Darkness, Austenland, Monsters University, Despicable Me 2)
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Re: Best & worst films of 2013

#19 Post by martadelas » Thu Dec 12, 2013 3:57 pm

This was a year of:

WORST

Justin and the Knights of Valour
Free Birds
G.I. Joe: Retaliation
Beautiful Creatures
Borrowed Time
The Last Stand
Love Is All You Need
A Good Day To Die Hard
Safe Heaven
Man of Steel

But fortunately it was also a year of:

BEST

Much Ado About Nothing
Hunger Games Catching Fire
Blue Jasmine
Frozen
Cloud Atlas
Star Trek Into Darkness
Austenland
Populaire
The Way Way Back
Captain Phillips
Warm Bodies
Tomorrow Is a Latter Day

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Re: Best & worst films of 2013

#20 Post by yogi » Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:10 pm

Worst films of the year (In order I saw them)
I Give It A Year
This is 40
A Good Day to Die Hard
Identity Thief
The Paperboy
The Place Beyond the Pines
Man of Steel
21 and Over
The Big Wedding
The Moth Diaries
Pain and Gain
About Time
How I Live Now
RIPD
Bad Grandpa
Parkland
Kill Your Darilings

Favourite Films of the Year (In order I saw them)
Flight
Song For Marion
Django Unchained
Searching for Sugarman
Good Vibrations
Iron Man 3
This is the End
The Heat
Despicable Me 2
Alan Partridge - Alpha Papa
Rush
Sunshine on Leith
Captain Phillips
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2
Saving Mr Banks
Philomena
Gravity
Frozen
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2021: A Quiet Place 2 8.5/10
2020: Little Women, Richard Jewell 8.5/10
2019: Wild Rose, Shazam!, Avengers, Eighth Grade, Shaun the Sheep, The Farewell 9/10
2018: Coco, Three Billboards, Missouri, Avengers, MI: Fallout, Quiet Place, Stan & Ollie - 9/10
2017: Paddington 2 10/10
2016: Sing Street, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, I, Daniel Blake, Sully 10/10
2015: Star Wars, Whiplash, Ex Machina, Minions - 9.5/10
2014: Pride, The Imitation Game 10/10
2013: Good Vibrations, Song for Marion, Alan Partridge, Captain Phillips - 9.5/10
2012: Muppets, Untouchable, Argo 10/10
2011: ROTPOTA, The Artist, Mi4 - 9.5/10
2010: Kick Ass, Toy Story 3 - 9.5/10
2009: Up 10/10


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