Skip to content

Menu 1

  • Home
  • About
  • The Archives
  • Home Releases – New on BluRay, DVD, and Streaming
  • Twin Cities Live
  • Interviews with the Cast and Crew
  • My Criterion Collection
PAUL'S TRIP TO THE MOVIES

PAUL’S 2013 MID-YEAR MOVIE RECAP

By Paul McGuire Grimes
On July 2, 2013
In Movie Reviews
Tagged Bradley Cooper, Channing Tatum, James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Side Effects, Star Trek Into Darkness, Steve Carell, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Way Way Back, Toni Collette

PAUL’S 2013 MID-YEAR MOVIE RECAP

I alway like to keep a running tally of all of the new movies I have taken in over the year. Whether they are the new 2013 releases, movies from the last few years I’m catching up on, or taking advantage of the old classics, I like to see how my movie watching is growing or decreasing and what the 2013 movie year is shaping up to be like. Let’s see how this year has panned out so far:

The Sessions
Promised Land
Broken City
Side Effects
Amour
Take This Waltz
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Oz, The Great and Powerful
Side By Side
A Separation
Wreck-It Ralph
Compliance
Admission
The Silence
The Prodigal Son
Evil Dead
Flashdance
Days of Heavan
Jurassic Park 3D 
Double Indemnity
Room 237
To the Wonder
The Place Beyond the Pines
ParaNorman
Iron Man 3
The Paperboy
The Great Gatsby
Bernie
Star Trek Into Darkness
Oblivion
Now You See Me
All Good Things
End of Watch
Lars and the Real Girl
The Way Way Back
Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil
Behind the Candelabra
Man of Steel
Beautiful Creatures
Stoker
Not Fade Away
Identity Thief
Mama

That’s a total of 45 movies. Only three down from the 48 movies I saw at this point in 2012 Here’s the 2012 list. In my opinion, 2013 has been kind of a dud regarding the quality of films released this year. During the springs months, there seemed to be flop after flop opening each weekend, and I just did not feel moved to waste money on a movie that did not look good just for the sake of seeing a new movie. I recently got married and went on a honeymoon, so my theater going was also put on the back burner throughout most of this past year. I turned to Netflix Streaming to catch up on some of the classics or other movies I may have missed in the past years. 

Back to the films of 2013. There were some definite standouts, but overall I found myself disappointed in many movies. Evil Dead and Oz, The Great and Powerful should have been great, but I left just appauled about how bad they were. I wanted to love The Great Gatsby, but left disappointed. What’s worse, a movie that is bad because it’s bad or a movie that is bad when it had the potential to be oh so good?  We still have the rest of the summer blockbuster season and the fall movie calendar looks to have some great selections, so I will be curious to see if 2013 redeems itself.

Best of the 2013 Releases So Far…

The Way Way Back
Side Effects
The Place Beyond the Pines
Star Trek Into Darkness

Worst of the 2013 Releases So Far…

Evil Dead
Oz, The Great and Powerful 
**Boo on Sam Raimi for BOTH of these choices

I’d love to hear your thoughts!  What are your picks for best and worst of 2013?

2013-07-02
Previous Post: Movie Trailer: ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES
Next Post: Movie Review: THIS IS THE END

KSTP’s Twin Cities Live 2/8 – The Lego Movie 2, What Men Want, Widows

https://youtu.be/ZL3MESYay4I

Now In Theaters

Isn't It Romantic- 3 Ticket Stubs
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part - 3 Ticket Stubs
What Men Want- 2.5 Ticket Stubs
Serenity - 1 Ticket Stub
Ben is Back - 3.5 Ticket Stubs
Glass - 3 Ticket Stubs
Destroyer - 2.5 Ticket Stubs
The Upside - 2.5 Ticket Stubs
On the Basis of Sex - 3 Ticket Stubs
Bumblebee - 3.5 Ticket Stubs
Vice - 2 Ticket Stubs
If Beale Street Could Talk - 4.5 Ticket Stubs
Second Act - 3 Ticket Stubs

Now Streaming: VELVET BUZZSAW (2019, Netflix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPIzWkaVJlI&t=25s

Now on Blu-Ray/DVD: WIDOWS (2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4GKGZwf11U&t=16s

“Nobody’s Fool” Tyler Perry & Tiffany Haddish Interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ_DUiJSzLU&t=1s

“Beautiful Boy” Q&A with Timothée Chalamet & Nic Sheff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIPQIu04c9Q

Archives

  • Retrospectives
    • MARVEL
      • Marvel Cinematic Universe-Phase Three
      • Marvel Cinematic Universe-Phase Two
      • Marvel Cinematic Universe-Phase One
      • X-MEN
    • Stand By Me (1986)
    • The Bond, James Bond Challenge
    • “HALLOWEEN” RETROSPECTIVE
  • Interviews with the Cast and Crew
  • Home Releases – New on BluRay, DVD, and Streaming
  • The Archives

Designed using Chromatic WordPress Theme. Powered by WordPress.