that time of year again...my list isn't complete but i wanted to get started.

1. MUD
2. GRAVITY
3. THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
4. HER
5. THE CONJURING
6. PRISONERS
7. SPRING BREAKERS
8. ONLY GOD FORGIVES
9. AMERICAN HUSTLE
10. 12 YEARS A SLAVE

still need to see: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR, TO THE WONDER, RUSH, THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, OUT OF THE FURNACE

still a lot left to see this year...too early to post

same here...

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Yep. I really haven't seen crap this year.

First Draft, gonna see how this changes after I watch more in the next few weeks (I've only seen a handful of movies this year).

1. Gravity
2. Prisoners
3. Side Effects
4. Elysium
5. The Way Way Back
6. We're The Millers
7. The Wolverine
8. Now You See Me
9. Spring Breakers
10. Rapture-palooza

The only other movies I've seen this year: The Internship, Grown Ups 2, Man of Steel, Monsters University, World War Z, The Heat, Scenic Route, Iron Man 3, The Hangover Pt 3, Pacific Rim, This is the End, The World's End and Identity Thief.

Will be playing catch up at some point and then re-evaluating this shitastic list. Good times.

I can give my top 5 so far:

Mud
Gravity
The Place Beyond the Pines
Pacific Rim
The Conjuring

I still haven't seen a lot of films that I think will crack my top ten but I'll list where I stand right now.

1. Gravity
2. Mud
3. Oblivion
4. A Place Beyond the Pines
5. The Wolverine
6. The Conjuring
7. Hungar Games: Catching Fire
8. The World's End
9. Iron Man 3
10. Now You See Me

I'm guessing after the next few weeks everything from 5 to 10 will probably drop off my list completely.

I feel dumb now that I missed some. Oblivion, The Wolverine, The World's End, Iron Man 3 would probably all make my list too.

Didn't really start watching a lot of films in the theater until August. Here's my top 10 of those I've seen:

1. Capt. Phillips
2. About Time
3. Gravity
4. Rush
5. The Way Way Back
6. Hunger Games: Catching Fire
7. Frozen
8. 2 Guns
9. Elysium
10. We're the Millers

Placement.

1st Draft:

12 Years a Slave
A Band Called Death
CBGB
The Wolverine
Seduced and Abandoned
Frances Ha
Lovelace
Escape From Tomorrow
Iron Man 3
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

01. Only God Forgives
02. Drug War
03. Enemy
04. The Counselor
05. The Wolf of Wall Street
06. Inside Llewyn Davis
07. Passion
08. Mud
09. TBD
10. TBD

I'm horrible at getting around to newer movies, so...

1. Star Trek Into Darkness
2. Pacific Rim
3. The Night She Came Home*

Now I want to see a lot more, just to put some distance between the terrific #1 and the lousy #2 and #3.


*Documentary on the Halloween 35th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray.

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
Gravity
Her
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Pacific Rim
Frozen
The Way Way Back
Star Trek Into Darkness
Prisoners
Frances Ha
12 Years A Slave
Rush
Captain Phillips
Much Ado About Nothing
Nebraska
Dallas Buyers Club
The Conjuring

I need to put these in order, still sorting out exactly where everything is going to land.

My official Top-10

1. Wolf of Wall Street
2. Her
3. Rush
4. American Hustle
5. The World's End
6. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
7. Pacific Rim
8. The Conjuring
9. Redemption
10. Europa Report

in no particular order:

“12 Years a Slave”
“Dallas Buyers Club”
“Philomena”
“Nebraska”
“Before Midnight”
“American Hustle”
“Stories We Tell”
“All is Lost”
“Twelve Feet from Stardom”

Aside from 1 & 2, these are really in no particular order. These are theatrical viewings only. There was still a lot of 2013 releases I didn't get a chance to see in the theater.

1. Gravity
2. Fruitvale Station
3. 12 Years A Slave
4. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
5. Oblivion
6. Side Effects
7. Prisoners
8. Iron Man 3
9. This Is The End
10. Wolf of Wall Street

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1. Only God Forgives
2. The Conjuring
3. Gravity
4. Oblivion
5. The Place Beyond The Pines
6. This Is The End
7. Evil Dead
8. Olympus Has Fallen
9. Blackfish
10. We're The Millers

Still haven't seen American Hustle, Wolf of Wall St., 12 Years a Slave, Her, Capt. Phillips, and a few more I had interest in watching.

Not sure I can do a Top 10 despite probably seeing 20 or more films this year. There are four movies that I saw that i think merit particular praise and are movies that still resonate with me and movies I remember.

1. Before Midnight - I love all three films and I really really want to catch up on them again in 9 years. Such a perfect movie for two of the deepest and most real characters ever put on film, with a snapshot of their lives that seems not to be a story but a chronicle of real life.

2. Blue Jasmine - I am not a big Woody Allen fan, but I think that this is one of his very very best films with an insanely great performance from Cate Blanchett. Another movie that feels shockingly real.

3. Only God Forgives - Kind of on the other end of the spectrum, a movie that seems like nothing in the real world but I found it to be completely engrossing and mesmerizing. The police captain to me is one of the more memorable and intriguing characters in a film I have seen, somewhat similar to the Chigurh character in NCFOM, but a more compelling and believable version of the unstoppable force that people felt associated with Chigurh

4. Prisoners A great film, that took a TV movie subject and setup and elevated to an incredibly high level. Terrifically acted and compelling it is only brought down a little bit by the way too predictable Hollywood twist at the end.

Best Releases of the Year
WOLF CHILDREN (2012/Japan, animated) Dir.: Mamoru Hosoda.
A TOUCH OF SIN (TIAN ZHU DING, 2013/China) Dir.: Jia Zhangke.
POKÉMON THE MOVIE: GENESECT AND THE LEGEND AWAKENED (2013/Japan, animated) Dir.: Kunihiko Yuyama.

1. Wolf of Wall Street
2. Gravity
3. Blue Jasmine
4. American Hustle
5. Prisoners
6. The Conjuring
7. Elysium
8. In A World...
9. Last Love
10. Man of Steel

really wanted to see Her, Nebraska and 12 Years a Slave.

[Wish I would've seen more [any?] foreign films this year. I'm usually good with seeing those, but they seemed to fall through the cracks this year.]


1. Wolf of Wall St.

2. World's End

3. Gravity

4. Inside Llewyn Davis

5. Her

6. 12 Years a Slave

7. Before Midnight

8. Upstream Color

9. Rush

10. American Hustle

I have yet to see "12 Years a Slave", "American Hustle" (seeing tomorrow), "The Wolf of Wall Street", "Inside Lewlyn Davis", "Captain Phillips" and "Nebraska". But here is my Top 10 until then (in no particular order):

"Side Effects"
"Dead Man Down"
"The Place Beyond the Pines"
"Mud"
"Oblivion"
"The Hunt"
"The World's End"
"Prisoners"
"Gravity"
"Fruitvale Station"

1. Stoker
2. Berberian Sound Studio
3. The Punk Singer
4. Gravity
5. You’re Next
6. The World’s End
7. Drug War
8. The Kings of Summer
9. Only God Forgives
10. The Last Stand

I haven't seen much in 2013. Of what I have seen:

1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. American Hustle
3. Metallica: Through The Never
4. Star Trek: Into Darkness
5. Inside Llewyn Davis
6. Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
7. Bad Grandpa
8. Frozen
9. Thor: The Dark World
10. Sound City

Top 10 NON-2013 Movies I Saw For The First Time in 2013

1. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
2. Cloud Atlas (2012)
3. The Court Jester (1956)
4. 3:10 To Yuma (1957)
5. Melody Time (1948)
6. Dredd (2012)
7. Colossus: The Corbin Project (1970)
8. Wild At Heart (1990)
9. Argo (2012)
10. Seconds (1966)