A Look Back - 2013 (Part One)

I hope your holidays are going well!  If you are already back at work or just bored sitting around at Grandma's, now is a good time to look at 2013 in review.  Specifically I'm talking movies.  You ever wait for the People Magazine or Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Movies/Books/Music/TV Moments/Smoothie Flavors of the year to come out?  I do!  I eat that sh#t right up!

Gotta catch up on the stuff I missed out on!  Next year I'll watch more movies, listen to more music, read more books...until I get too lazy by February and then just waste time playing Arkham Asylum again for the 90th time.  Well, a girl can dream.

I wanted to kick off Part One of my fabulous retrospective with MOVIES!!  I love movies, so much so that my degree is in Film but I won't go all obnoxious film school on you because that's dumb and boring.

Tragically enough I don't get to the movie theatre often because I almost always have to go alone but when I do it's almost always for a superhero movie of some sort, because I'm also a comic book nerd to some degree.  I mean I stopped buying comics because I wouldn't read them right away and then began building a stockpile for no discernible reason.  Now I mostly catch up with the paperback trades or try to, because comic books are incredibly expensive.

So what, pray tell dragged my ass from my couch?  Well....

Guillermo Del Toro is my homeboy.  Mexican directors represent!

When the line to see Hunger Games is a million people long, you could worse than Thor 2.

Katniss.  Pita Bread!  The gang is all back, plus Capote!

Iron Man has to save the U.S. from terrorists and the other Avengers couldn't care less.

Cumberbitches unite!  And express mild surprise that an awesome villain has been whitewashed.

Had to watch.  I'm a DC girl.  Also Faora is scarier than Michael Shannon, how the hell did that happen?

Quite a balanced and varied tableau, no? Yeah, I'm a nerd, spending my nerd dollars on nerdy things, just so I can complain about the nuanced differences later.  Don't even get me started on the pronunciation of this guy.

Is it "Ras" like "Nas"? (Me)"Well let me explain...do you have a spare hour?"

I tend to watch more movies on Netflix, the DVDs not Instant, cuz' I'm old school (not).

Here is my finished Netflix queue for the year 2013, for sh#ts and giggles.  Also so you can judge my taste in movies. Please judge awaaaaaaaaaaaayy!

Tower of Druaga: Part 1: Disc 2	You rated this movie: 5.0
Black Blood Brothers: Vol. 3: Resurrection	You rated this movie: 4.0
Red 2	Average rating: 3.6762
Tower of Druaga: Part 1: Disc 1
Black Blood Brothers: Vol. 2: Emergence
Black Blood Brothers: Vol. 1: Bad Tidings
Universal Soldier: Regeneration
The Specials	You rated this movie: 3.0
Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Movie	You rated this movie: 2.0
This Is the End	You rated this movie: 2.0
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox	You rated this movie: 4.0
From Up on Poppy Hill	You rated this movie: 4.0
Exit Through the Gift Shop	Average rating: 3.9205
Fast Five	You rated this movie: 4.0
Star Trek: Into Darkness	You rated this movie: 3.0
Upstream Color	You rated this movie: 2.0
Heavy Metal	You rated this movie: 2.0
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time	You rated this movie: 3.0
Eastbound & Down: Season 2: Disc 2	You rated this movie: 3.0
Eastbound & Down: Season 2: Disc 1
Premium Rush	You rated this movie: 2.0
Skyfall	You rated this movie: 3.0
Superman: Unbound	You rated this movie: 3.0
Hellsing Ultimate: Vol. 4	You rated this movie: 2.0
Black Lagoon: Season 1: Disc 1	You rated this movie: 1.0
Black Lagoon: Season 1: Disc 2
Hellsing Ultimate: Vol. 3	You rated this movie: 1.0
Hellsing Ultimate: Vol. 2	You rated this movie: 3.0
Chicken with Plums	You rated this movie: 2.0
Holy Motors	You rated this movie: 3.0
Django Unchained	You rated this movie: 4.0
The Place Promised in Our Early Days	You rated this movie: 3.0
Hesher	You rated this movie: 2.0
This Girl Is Badass	You rated this movie: 3.0
Fright Night	You rated this movie: 4.0
Goon	You rated this movie: 4.0
Girls: Season 1: Disc 2	You rated this movie: 5.0
Romeo x Juliet: Part 2: Disc 2	You rated this movie: 3.0
Romeo x Juliet: Part 2: Disc 1
Girls: Season 1: Disc 1
Romeo x Juliet: Part 1: Disc 2	You rated this movie: 4.0
Moonrise Kingdom	You rated this movie: 3.0
Romeo x Juliet: Part 1: Disc 1
The Pirates! Band of Misfits	You rated this movie: 3.0
Snow White and the Huntsman	You rated this movie: 4.0
Dredd	You rated this movie: 3.0
Magic Mike	You rated this movie: 4.0
A Cat in Paris	You rated this movie: 5.0
Pitch Perfect	You rated this movie: 4.0
Beasts of the Southern Wild	You rated this movie: 5.0
Looper	You rated this movie: 4.0
Portlandia: Season 1	You rated this movie: 2.0
Portlandia: Season 2	You rated this movie: 2.0
Lockout	You rated this movie: 4.0
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns: Part 1	You rated this movie: 5.0
Superman vs. The Elite	You rated this movie: 4.0
Midnight in Paris	You rated this movie: 3.0
Primer	You rated this movie: 3.0
A Town Called Panic	You rated this movie: 3.0

Premium Rush, I watched solely for some JGL goodness and I didn't realize I liked Magic Mike that much, as is it a severely depressing movie.  My top rated movies were Beasts of a Southern Wild, the animated version of Frank Miller's the Dark Night Returns and A Cat in Paris. Django Unchained was also one of my favorites because I took it as the unofficial sequel to Blazing Saddles.

What movies killed it for you?  What do you recommend I catch up for 2014?  Tell me, I want to know.

Later my pop culture ninjas!
Marg

PS - Join me for Part Two when we go over music, books, and TV.