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Top/Bottom 13 of 2013 in Lists
By: Sinister Kid Date: January 10, 2014, 4:23 pm
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This will be shorter than the stuff I put up on Tumblr, but I'm
bored and I like to make lists, so here we go. Feel free to make
your own lists (top 10, 5, 3, 6, whatever)
TOP 13
13. Iron Man 3
12. Catching Fire
11. Saving Mr. Banks
10. Fruitvale Station
9. The Place Beyond The Pines
8. Star Trek Into Darkness
7. The World's End
6. Gravity
5. Her
4. 12 Years A Slave
3. This is the End
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
1. Frozen
BOTTOM 13
13. Walking With Dinosaurs
12. Planes
11. The Family
10. John Dies at the End
9. Grudge Match
8. A Madea Christmas
7. The Last Exorcism: Part II
6. Upstream Color
5. Scary Movie 5
4. Now You See Me
3. Baggage Claim
2. Lords of Salem
1. Movie 43
13 VILLAINS
13. Smaug - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
12. Mandrake - Epic
11. Muriel - Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters (shut up)
10. Bathsheba - The Conjuring
9. Evanora - Oz The Great and Powerful
8. [spoiler]Danny McBride[/spoiler] - This is the End
7. Edwin Epps - 12 Years A Slave
6. Adbuwali Muse - Captain Phillips
5. [spoiler]Hans[/spoiler] - Frozen
4. President Snow - Catching Fire
3. [spoiler]Khan[/spoiler] - Star Trek Into Darkness
2. Zod - Man of Steel
1. Jordan Belfort - The Wolf of Wall Street
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Re: Top/Bottom 13 of 2013 in Lists
By: Sinister Kid Date: January 12, 2014, 8:04 am
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Okay, you fucking dickheads, I see that you can read my threads,
so can you throw me a goddamn bone or humor me or whatever and
maybe contribute to the conversation every once in a while?
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Re: Top/Bottom 13 of 2013 in Lists
By: DanishPrince Date: January 12, 2014, 10:36 am
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Sorry man but I just don't find list making interesting.. I'm
not able to make favorites on movies because each movie I've
seen is great in its own way and I can't decide which is better
than others.
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Re: Top/Bottom 13 of 2013 in Lists
By: Sinister Kid Date: January 12, 2014, 11:14 am
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No that was my bad, I overreacted...though I have felt like that
regarding other threads. I dunno why I like making lists but I
guess they're my own way of killing time.
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Re: Top/Bottom 13 of 2013 in Lists
By: DanishPrince Date: January 12, 2014, 11:55 am
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I feel you on the 'no response' part. There have been several
threads where I would have loved some more activity but if the
other posters doesn't have anything to contribute there isn't
much to do about that..
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Re: Top/Bottom 13 of 2013 in Lists
By: Enterprising Young Man Date: January 12, 2014, 1:22 pm
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I still have a handful of movies to watch so I was hoping to
watch them first and then post here.
The Wolf of Wall Street and Captain Phillips are my #1 and #2 at
the moment though.
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Re: Top/Bottom 13 of 2013 in Lists
By: Sinister Kid Date: January 12, 2014, 1:36 pm
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Did you ever post your full thoughts on Wolf?
I was at least hoping for you to post something, Maazinator :P
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Re: Top/Bottom 13 of 2013 in Lists
By: Enterprising Young Man Date: January 12, 2014, 1:50 pm
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No I watched it just today actually. I posted just this much on
another board:
I have to say, I think The Wolf of Wall Street is the most
Felliniesque film I've seen not directed by Fellini himself. I
find that term "Felliniesque" has been abused a lot with some
people just using it to describe any "surreal" film, but the
mixture of debauchery, decadence, excess, humor, grotesquery,
and entertainment on evidence here is pure Fellini, yet it
doesn't lose Scorsese's personal touch. I haven't been quite as
enamored with Scorsese's most recent work in the way some others
have - the last film of his I liked was The Departed, but this
is a terrific film and perhaps even better than The Departed in
many ways. I do think it's Leo DiCaprio's best performance to
date though and shows that he truly does have a passion for
acting and for filmmaking in general.
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Re: Top/Bottom 13 of 2013 in Lists
By: Enterprising Young Man Date: January 12, 2014, 2:58 pm
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Michael Koresky (of Reverse Shot) hits the nail on the head btw
regarding the controversy surrounding "Wolf":
[quote]Only in our social-media era of opinion overload would
such a non-starter of a conversation like the one that
accompanied the release of The Wolf of Wall Street have given
way to a major critical debate. Does Martin Scorsese’s
rollicking, sickening comedy of debasement indulge in or gape
horrified at the decadence of real-life protagonist Jordan
Belfort? A little of the former; a lot of the latter. That this
is a critique of its milieu is fairly evident if you do this one
crucial thing: Watch the movie. Pay attention to niggling things
like camera angles and compositions, cuts between shots, music
cues, performance style. It’s difficult to believe that anyone
who didn’t show up at the theater with his or her knives already
sharpened could possibly take this portrait of a latter-day
Sodom and Gomorrah as anything other than a wade through a
culture choking on its own excesses. Is it also amusing? Yes,
the film wouldn’t make sense without a modicum of seduction,
which here comes in the form of a bona fide movie star: Leonardo
DiCaprio, as consistently charming as he is repellent. He’s our
Beelzebub, guiding us through hell and purgatory, daring to make
us laugh while everything around him—and us—crumbles. That a
general ambiguity seems to have been perceived about how we’re
supposed to take The Wolf of Wall Street is certainly a credit
to the film as a work of provocation. But at the same time, I
believe that those unsure how to read such a scene as the one in
which DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and their cronies sit around a
boardroom table and have a Final Solution–like conversation
about whether or not to classify dwarfs as human beings probably
need to examine themselves more than the film at hand.[/quote]
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