Best Movies of 2013; Halfway Point

It's mid June and a good time to look at the first half of the year and rate your favorite movies so far!

List your top 10 or top 5, whatever you want

To start off, here are mine; with ratings


1. Monsters University 9.5
2. Before Midnight 9.5
3. The Place Beyond the Pines 9
4. Trance 9
5. To the Wonder 9
6. The Great Gatsby 9
7. Upstream Color 9
8. The Internship 8.5
9. Pain & Gain 8.5
10. The Sapphires 8.5

Seriously, 'Monsters University' at the top spot?

1. Trance 07/10
2. The great Gatsby 06/10
3. Iron man 3 06/10
4. GI Joe retaliation 05/10
5. A good day to die hard 05/10.

Sorry, I have seen only 5 movies so far... But you seem way too generous with your ratings.

I've only seen 10 so far, so here they are ranked.

1. Mud 10/10
2. Star Trek Into Darkness 10/10
3. Warm Bodies 9/10
4. Iron Man 3 9/10
5. The Croods 9/10
6. 42 8/10
7. Mama 8/10
8. Oz the Great and Powerful 8/10
9. Snitch 7/10
10. Epic 6/10

By the way, 'Monsters University' has not even been released yet...

1. Gangster Squad 8/10
2. Oblivion 7-8/10
3. Iron Man 3 7/10

I've only seen these 3 so far, Gangster Squad easily being my favourite at the minute, Oblivion and Iron Man were good but I remember being more interested during Oblivion.

Haven't seen too many good films from this year yet, mostly crap or mediocre stuff. Here's the good ones:
Stoker 4/5
Only God Forgives 3½/5
Evil Dead 3½/5
Fast & Furious 6 3½/5
The Last Stand 3½/5

Really a boring year for film thus far.

I haven't seen many films from this year either, but here's the best of the few I've seen...

1. Before Midnight
2. John Dies at the End
3. Sleepwalk with Me
4. Stoker
5. Wrong

@Johan

He might be generous, but after looking at your ratings, and seeing that you rarely give any movie a rating below 5/10 even if you state in your "reviews" that they're terrible, seems way more generous if you ask me.

For me:

* Stoker
* Oblivion
* The Last Stand
* Warm Bodies
* Before Midnight

@Jcase, I love movies, all of them, and I rarely see something which deserves a rating lower than 5 (the last one was probably 'Biker boys' for which I gave a 4). The point is that, in my opinion, there is always a specific context. For example, if you take an average action flick (let's say 'Drive Angry', a movie I just saw last week), I might have been disappointed by the whole thing but I still gave it a 5 rating because of the context surrounding this feature.

1. Was it actually suppose to be something deeper? Absolutely not.
2. Would the fans of the genre appreciate it? Probably.

With this mind and the fact that some 100 of professionals were involved to make this look decent, makes me think that it still deserves a 5 even though I didn't like it much. Does it make sense to you?

Have you ever read the reviews written by the late Roger Ebert? He always looked at all the details involved in a movie and very often could find some redeeming features even with some really average feature and even though he would be highly critical in his text, it would still end up with a 4 or 5 rating.

On the other hand, to rate 'Monsters University' with a 9.5 when it is clearly a weaker effort from Pixar (just check the various reactions on the internet or wait for my review in a couple of weeks ;) ) is rather dubious. Above all with this rating, you basically put it in the same league as classics such as 'The Godfather' and there is no way it is that good.

Anyway, rating a movie is a very personal thing and everybody has there own set of personal rules so I guess me and Stehako, we just have a different approach concerning this matter.

I've been pretty disappointed with the movies this year, so far. Here's hoping the next half of the year brings some great ones.

1. Star Trek Into Darkness
2. Man of Steel
3. Fast & Furious 6
4. 42
5. Side Effects
6. The Croods
7. The Great Gatsby
8. The Internship
9. Iron Man 3
10. Snitch

1- EVIL FUCKING DEEEAAADDD!!! Best in years for me.
2- FAST & FURIOUS 6
3- IRON MAN 3
4- OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL
5- MAMA
6- DARK SKIES
7- OBLIVION
8- 42
9- HANSEL & GRETEL WITCH HUNTERS
10- GANGSTER SQUAD

The Croods - okay
Sleepwalk With Me - okay
Oblivion - okay
Man of Steel - okay
Warm Bodies - terrible

I guess that's my top five, if you ask me in six or seven years I could probably give you a top 10 of movies I actually liked from this year (a lot like thenoah, I don't get to the theaters very often)

Thanks for the responses so far guys. Some good lists. But I hope you all start watching more movies from the year, there are a lot of good ones out there!

And thanks for not judging me on how I rate my movies, haha

LOL at the people posting Iron Man 3

1. Star Trek Into Darkness 8.5
2. Man of Steel 8.5
3. Evil Dead. 8.0
4. The Place Beyond the Pines 8.5
5. This is the end 8.5
6. The Conjuring 8.0

Really want to see The Hunt and Mud They both look great

2013 hasn't really been a great year for movies. I mean there were a decent amount of good movies that came out this year, but it doesn't have many great movies like 2012 did.

But here's my top 10:

1. Man of Steel 10/10
2. The Place Beyond the Pines 9/10
3. Olympus Has Fallen 8/10
4. Now You See Me 8/10
5. This is the End 8/10
6. The Last Stand 8/10
7. Dark Skies 8/10
8. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone 8/10
9. Warm Bodies 8/10
10. Snitch 8/10

1. Monsters University 9.5 2. Antes de medianoche 9,5 3. The Place Beyond the Pines 9 4. Trance 9 5. Al Wonder 9 6. The Great Gatsby 9 7. Upstream color 9 8. El Internado 8.5 9. Dolor y ganancia 8.5 10. Los Zafiros 8.5

According to me the few best movies of 2013 are

1) Fast and Furious 6
2) Iron man 3
3) Good movie

Bollywood

1) Bhaag Milka Bhaag
2) Raanjhana

1. Stoker -- 5 stars
2. Mud -- 5 stars
3. Frances Ha -- 4.5 stars
4. Before Midnight -- 4.5 stars
5. Gimme the Loot -- 4.5 stars
6. Trance -- 4.5 stars
7. The Great Gatsby -- 4 stars
7. Room 237 -- 4 stars
8. The Place Beyond the Pines -- 4 stars
9. Pacific Rim -- 3.5 stars
10. Jack the Giant Slayer / Star Trek Into Darkness / The Lone Ranger / Evil Dead all more or less tie for 10th -- 3.5 stars

Gangster Squad, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, This is the End, Iron Man 3, Mama, Oz The Great and Powerful, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters, and Admission all received 1.5 or 2 star ratings from me.

And then there are 5 or 6 movies that fall in between.

2013 has actually been a slightly stronger year so far than I would've guessed.

I thought Evil Dead and Only God Forgives were awesome, Burt Wonderstone, Stoker and Gangster Squad were pretty crap.

Pacific Rim for the visuals and giant robots fighting giant monsters - shame the middle section was a futile attempt to have a "story"

Iron Man 3 - enjoyable but dumb

The Great Gatsby - good first half but dropped the ball in the second

Evil Dead - a fairly pointless re-make vastly over-rated

The Conjuring - ho hum horror

Elysium - good but let down by a woefully predictible story arc

Oz The Great And Powerful - okay Sam Raimi on auto-pilot

Posted : 3 months ago at Jun 10 9:21 -
It's mid June and a good time to look at the first half of the year and rate your favorite movies so far!

List your top 10 or top 5, whatever you want

To start off, here are mine; with ratings


1. Monsters University 9.5
2. Before Midnight 9.5
3. The Place Beyond the Pines 9
4. Trance 9
5. To the Wonder 9
6. The Great Gatsby 9
7. Upstream Color 9
8. The Internship 8.5
9. Pain & Gain 8.5
10. The Sapphires 8.5

@thenoah

You really thought Mama was that bad? I thought it was pretty much passable as whatever the hell it was trying to be.

Also, after Toronto International Film Festival a couple months ago I have to say I don't think any movie this year is going to top Why Don't You Play in Hell?.

@thenoah . can you provide some info about the original short for Mama - I liked the movie though the ending is just too fantastical for my tastes

Yeah, that short is what got me interested in seeing it. Clearly that was the case for many, looking at the US box office and its opening weekend - $28 Million

Here's my favorite 5 so far:

-The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
-Prisoners
-Oblivion
-Star Trek Into Darkness
-Pacific Rim

In no Particular order, just stand out films that come to mind as I write this

Captain Phillips
Rush
This is the End
Star Trek: Into Darkness
Prisoners
12 Years a Slave
Out of the Furnace
The Family

@thenoah

a belated thanks for the link

Oh I got around to seeing Man Of Steel - If I had known it was directed by Zack Snyder I would have passed on it....BUT surprise surprise its actually a great movie and I stick my neck out and say its the best superhero film made yet...it gets the gravity and epicness down to a tee...the only other superhero flick up to that level is Chronicle

Now You See Me was a good candy floss mindbender...totally preposterous once you start to analyse it though!

I've just hit 40 movies from 2013 (list) here's my current top ten:

1. Why Don't You Play in Hell?
2. Her
3. Inside Llewyn Davis
4. The Dirties
5. Moebius
6. The Kings of Summer
7. 12 Years a Slave
8. Blue is the Warmest Color
9. Evil Dead
10. The Past

prisoners

Only God Forgives... the best movie of 2013