The Best (and Worst) Fassbender Movies of 2013

[Yamer]

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

I was forced to watch it. It's 10x worse than the first one - imagine that.

All I see is the gates to Hell.

[dammage79]

Could Atlas HAS to be the worst movie in a decade.

Best:
1. Captain Phillips
2. Gravity
3. Prisoners

[VANFLAMESFAN]

I'm having trouble giving any of the movies of 2013 any kind of number one status. There's been plenty that I liked, and liked a lot, but nothing to the point where I would definitively say "that's hands down my favorite of the year."

Top 10 Favs

10. Rush
9. Star Trek Into Darkness
8. Captain Phillips
7. Prisoners
6. The Conjuring
5-1 are interchangeable in my eyes
Gravity
Place Beyond the Pines
Wolf of Wall Street
American Hustle
12 Years a Slave

Worst Movies

Begins and ends with The Purge

Disappointing Movies-These movies aren't the worst, but I had relatively high hopes and they didn't come close to meeting them.

10. Iron Man 3-The Mandarin twist was just awful.

9. Hangover 3-actually had no hopes for this and it delivered. Awful.

8. Man of Steel-Far from terrible, but I walked out with a big meh reaction

7. Pacific Rim-Some fun parts for sure, but on the whole, was letdown

6. We're the Millers-heard plenty of good things, but didn't do it for me

5. This is The End-Heard SO MANY good things, but man, I could barely get thru it

4. 42-If you've seen a baseball movie or a movie about overcoming racism, you've seen this movie, just so bloody generic.

3. A Good Day to Die Hard-Can put this on the worst list for sure. Didnt have high hopes, but at least the 4th was fun. This was just generic action garbage and was pretty boring and lacked any semblance of a decent villain.

2. Carrie-was looking forward to this one as I felt the timing for this remake was good. The Depalma version doesn't hold up anymore the way other horror classic like Psycho and The Shining do. Go back and watch it, it's pretty lame. I though Chloe Grace Moretz was great casting and she more than held her own, but again, a big "meh" from me when walking out. Wouldn't call it horrible, but far from good and very disappointing.

1. Easily the most disappointing movie for me this year was Elysium. Neil Blomkamp's name alone had me very excited, then I read the premise and thought it was pretty cool. But man, this turned into a very ordinary sci fi action movie. It was all very predictable nad ordinary. Like with most on this list, far from horrible, but extremely disappointing.


Wow, I saw all these in the theatres this year and there's plenty more. I think I go to the theatres too much.

[DuffMan]

I liked We're the Millers.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

I liked We're the Millers.

Me too

[trackercowe]

I really didn't know what to make with The Wolf of Wall Street. I saw it on Christmas night, and it started late for some unknown reason. By the time the 50 commercials and trailers ran their course the actual movie didn't start til like 10:50 (it was supposed to start at 10:20). My buddy and I were also seated beside this idiotic couple who spent the 3 hours on their phone and nannering on about nothing. It was just a horrible experience, which is one reason why I came out not really liking the movie at all (would have given it a 5 out of 10).

Aside from that experience I did feel that the movie was about 30 minutes too long, and that some parts were either unnecessary or repetitive. The performances were good, although I could have lived with less Jonah Hill and more Matthew Mcconaughey. In the hands of a less capable director the movie could have been a complete disaster, especially in how it glorifies such despicable people. It's also not like Goodfellas or Casino, where you appreciate the characters motivations, and the fact they were only taking advantage of other criminals (not normal people). Also obviously white collar crime itself isn't all that interesting. But Scorsese did what he had to liven up the movie.

I couldn't think of the final movie to place on my list, so I put it on there thinking that one of these days I will probably really like the movie. It just has the Scorsese appeal that works so well in these type of movies. Also you do get to see Margot Robbie fully frontal... absolutely gorgeous woman.

[AcGold]

My problem with gravity was the fact that it's one of those movies that's just the worst thing that can go wrong over and over until the happy ending. Continuous obstacles in the place of a plot that actually tells a story does not make a good movie.

[JonDuke]

Gravity...
The editing, visuals and sound were amazing, but... every line that George Clooney spoke made me want to smash my TV. And anyone from the aviation world is screaming AS IF they didn't have the jump seat small talk and he already knows where she's from, if she married, etc. No...they instead choose to discuss that right after he tells her to breathe sparingly because she's running out of oxygen. The icing on the cake was the fire extinguisher jet pack to help her fly in space. Instantaneous eye roll. Mediocre, at best, and could have been much better if they canned all dialogue and made it a silent film instead.

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Originally Posted by JonDuke

Gravity...
could have been much better if they made it a silent film instead.

So happy you weren't involved with this film.

[Tinordi]

Room 237 is really really good

Kubrick is the freaking Da Vinci of film

[HalifaxDrunk]

Originally Posted by JonDuke

Gravity...
The editing, visuals and sound were amazing, but... every line that George Clooney spoke made me want to smash my TV.

Perhaps a good quality torrent would have made the difference...

[djsFlames]

Took in nearly 60 flicks of 2013, been thinking on this. Haven't solidified an order yet, but atm my rough lists are..


Best:

American Hustle
Rush
The Hunt
Captain Philips
Prisoners
Mud
Dallas Buyers Club
Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug
Elysium
Dark Skies (my annual oddball horror pick)


Worst:

Now You See Me - the "payoff" made me want to hang myself for sitting through it.
Texas Chainsaw 3D
Burt Wonderstone
Iron Man 3
Last Excorcism 2
21 and Over
Hangover 3
After Earth
Identity Thief

And I didn't even see it, but the mere fact that it was made means it automatically goes here,
Grown Ups 2


Honorables (in the good sense):

The Conjuring
Frozen
Wolf of Wall Street
You're Next (Brilliant satire)
Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Award for originality:
Pacific Rim

Side note:
I think Gravity gets a 10/10 on visuals all day long. But the story was bland and stupid, Clooney's character felt like a celebrity cameo that didn't belong in that kind of setting if it were to be realistic, and Sandra Bullock couldn't extract a drop of my sympathy through her flimsy character. Maybe she just has one of those faces, I don't know.. But I found her more convincing in The Heat.

Also, being a space nut, perhaps the whole thing just didn't freak me out as much as it was meant to.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

Side note:
I think Gravity gets a 10/10 on visuals all day long. But the story was bland and stupid, Clooney's character felt like a celebrity cameo that didn't belong in that kind of setting if it were to be realistic, and Sandra Bullock couldn't extract a drop of my sympathy through her flimsy character. Maybe she just has one of those faces, I don't know.. But I found her more convincing in The Heat.

Also, being a space nut, perhaps the whole thing just didn't freak me out as much as it was meant to.

Bullock and Clooney were the worst choices IMO for those roles. When you're used to seing Bullock in comedy movies I found it hard to take her role seriously and to a lesser extent with Clooney.

[djsFlames]

That's exactly it. ^

I would've loved to see someone like Fassbender in Clooney's role, just thinking of the types of characters he's played. But really, almost anyone other than those two and it would've been much better IMO.

[Ark2]

This forum's obsession with Fassbender is getting a little weird...

[Robotic]

Enders Game was one of my favourites this year.

[Diemenz]

Watched Lone Survivor tonight.

Sits in my top three for movies this year along with prisoners and captain Phillips.

I was blown away by the accuracy of the movie and the attention to detail.

[FlamesAddiction]

I haven't seen most of the movies talked about.

Of the ones I have seen, I would go in this order from good to terrible:

1. The Conjuring
2. The World's End
3. The Hang Over 3
4. Iron Man 3

[GreenLantern]

Originally Posted by Ark2

This forum's obsession with Fassbender is getting a little weird...

[RogerWilco]

Originally Posted by calgarywinning

I guess my favourite movies this year were:

1 and 2 were mind blowing documentaries. I've really tried to stop consuming bad movies, but I found that I got ripped on a few.

1. Exit through the gift shop
2. Fog of War
3. Prisoners
4. The impossible
5. End of watch

HM: Pacific Rim (reminded me of ghostbusters), Django was funny (wasn't it last year)

The bad:
Cloud Atlas
The Wolverine (son made me watch this)
Identity theft (melissa mccarthy or whatever)

I agree that "Exit Through The Gift Shop" is a great documentary, but it is about. 4 years old now.