Best 2013 movie you've seen

i had the same feeling when i saw inside llewyn davis, and i thought anthony davis articulated the issue quite well in his new yorker review.

when the SPOILER ALERT f. murray abraham character tells llewyn davis that he's not a leading man, he's right—not just musically, but for a movie. that llewyn davis is a very good-but-not-great musician is in a way what makes the movie so distinctive, but it's also in a way what limits its scope.

 

I had been told going into "Llewyn Davis" that there really wasn't much of a plot. I was prepared for that. It's hard to describe, I didn't dislike the flim, but I just sort of felt like it didn't reach it's potential. I love Carey Mulligan and could watch her in anything. She strikes me as a young Cate Blanchett and the scenes with her were my favorite part of the movie.

 

I'm pretty sure this is every 2013 movie I've seen. I'm sure I will catch a ton of shit for how much I loved Olympus Has Fallen.

Lone Survivor - A
Frozen - A
Despicable Me 2 - A
Wolf of Wall Street - A
Dallas Buyers Club - A
Saving Mr. Banks - A
American Hustle - A-
We're the Millers - A-
Olympus has Fallen - A-
This is the End - A-
Her - A-
Enough Said - A-
Monsters University - B+
The World's End - B+
August: Osage County - B
Iron Man 3 - B
The Family - B
Kick Ass 2 - B
Fast and Furious 6 - B-
Heat - B-
Inside Llewyn Davis - B-
Side Effects - B-
The Croods - B-
Lovelace - C+
White House Down - C+
Bad Grandpa - C+
Identity Thief - C+
Turbo - C+
Planes - C+
Spring Breakers - C+
Oz, the Great and Powerful - C+
Pain and Gain - C
Anchorman 2 - C-
Smurfs 2 - C-
A Good Day to Die Hard - C-
Don Jon - C-
Oblivion - C-
The Lone Ranger - D
The Internship - D
Epic - D
Hangover 3 - D
Incredible Burt Wonderstone - D-
42 - D-
Canyons - D-

 

Do you 1099 your babysitter?

 

It's misleading. We take the kids to the Drive-In a lot. They watch Turbo, fall asleep and then my wife and I watch White House Down. That's why there are a lot of movies on my list that under normal circumstances I never would have seen in a million years. I also see a ton of movies from Thanksgiving through the first week in January because I always have to burn a lot of time off and my company shuts down from Christmas week through the first week in January. It helps that movies come out on DVD or on demand a lot faster than ever before.

 

Mizzou, have to disagree on 42. If I had to grade it, I would
likely have to give it a "B". Think it did a good job of
telling the story to the younger generations who would
have known little about them.

 

It's been a long time since I saw it, but I was bored and there were a few things that were changed in the story that really bothered me. I've read quite a bit on Jackie and when I can sit there and say, "Yeah, it didn't happen like that..." it ruins a bio pic for me. I know this is hardly the first bio pic to take creative liberties, but the ones in 42 bothered me more than most.