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I'm reading through the old Avengers over 350m club and it's quite entertaining to see all the predictions, and the only person early on guessing accurate numbers was the extreme marvel fanboy dissing anything DC, WB, or TDKR.

I haven't set a solid deadline yet but I'll say the deadline is Friday the 17th (I'd do the 10th but I'm super busy that weekend and wouldn't be able to get results in) and post the results throughout Saturday and Sunday of that week.It's a little long but the deadline just works for my personal schedule.

Good list, baumer.

If we're getting movies like Frozen, can't say im disappointed about that.

Nope, this is a first.

Wow, the ONLY 2013 movie I went to see more than once in theaters was Gravity, that's a first, I will usually see a few. I got a second viewing of This is the End as well. I also plan on seeing Inside Llewyn Davis again when it expands, I'll definitely see Gravity again on Blu-Ray, if I can bring myself to it I will watch 12 Years a Slave again (I don't know if I can bear Fruitvale again though). It also depends on what else gets a nomination, I usually try to see all the Oscar nominees after they get nominated (and if I already saw them then I will get a second viewing in). Although if I count earlier this year I saw Life of Pi three times in theaters (two in 2012, once in 2013) and once at home, and I saw Les Miserables twice in theaters and once at home. I also saw Silver Linings Playbook 3 times (all of which were this year), and I saw Django Unchained twice.

Best Film - 12 Years a Slave Worst Film - Movie 43 Biggest Surprise - This is the End Biggest Disappointment - Man of Steel Most Overrated Film - Lee Daniel's The Butler Most Underrated Film - Short Term 12 Best Foreign Film - Philomena Best Blockbuster - Gravity Worst Blockbuster - The Lone Ranger Best Animated Film - Frozen Worst Animated Film - Free Birds Best Adaptation - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Worst Adaptation - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Best Sequel - Before Midnight Worst Sequel - A Good Day to Die Hard Genre Best Action - Gravity Best Comedy - The Wolf of Wall Street Best Drama - 12 Years a Slave Best Fantasy - Frozen Best Horror - The Conjuring Best Romance - The Spectacular Now Best Sci Fi - Star Trek: Into Darkness Best Superhero - Iron Man 3 Best Quality Genre - Drama Worst Quality Genre - Comic Book Acting Best Actor - Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis Best Actress - Judi Dench, Philomena Best Supporting Actor - Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave Best Supporting Actress - Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a Slave Best Voice Actor/Actress - Josh Gad, Frozen Worst Voice Actor/Actress - Nicholas Cage, The Croods Best Casting Decision - Sandra Bullock, Gravity Worst Casting Decision - Mila Kunis, Oz: The Great and Powerful Weirdest Casting Decision - Ben Affleck and Gal Gadot, Batman vs. Superman Best Performance in a Bad Film - Idris Elba, Mandela: A Long Walk To Freedom Worst Performance in a Good Film - Guy Pierce, Iron Man 3 Hammiest Performance - That asian dude in Olympus Has Fallen Flattest Performance - Keanu Reeves and Google Translate, 47 Ronin Most Surprising Performance - Jonah Hill, The Wolf of Wall Street Biggest Breakout Star - Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station Most Overlooked Performance - Brie Larson, Short Term 12 Which Actor/Actress had the Best Year - Jennifer Lawrence Which Actor/Actress had the Worst Year - Ryan Renolds Direction Best Director - Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity Worst Director - Those Directors of Movie 43 Best Film by a Director you consider(ed) Bad - Saving Mr. Banks, John Lee Hancock Worst Film by a Director you consider(ed) Good - The Counselor, Ridley Scott Best First Time Director - Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station I'll do the rest later.

Meta-Crisis Tennant I found as a cheap way for Moffat to waste a regeneration (The Doctor gets 12 naturally, meaning 13 forms), basically Tennant kind of regenerated back into himself and if I remember correctly that ended up cloning him (and that clone got stuck in the parallel universe with Rose). This had never been counted as an actual regeneration before until recently when Moffat decided to randomly count it. The Valeyard is a manifestation of all the negative emotions of the Doctor that appears after his 12th regeneration, now since Meta-Crisis apparently counted as a regeneration (which I didn't believe) and since there was a regeneration we didn't know about until the finale in the Spring (John Hurt), when Tennant regenerated into Smith the valeyard should have appeared. However, since again I didn't think Meta-Crisis should count (it had never been counted as one before this year when they needed it to count for plot purposes) then when Smith regenerated into Capaldi then the Valeyard should have appeared somewhere. Now unless they actually wanted the Valeyard lore to mean the 12th version of the doctor than Meta-Crisis would actually make since and the clone of the Doctor would actually be the Valeyard, which was not how the Valeyard was supposed to be entirely, but it would tie up that lore. Still I wanted a season with a Valeyard villain, but no Moffat thinks having the Doctor go up against an alternate version of himself is stupid. The last really good villains introduced in Who were the Weeping Angels and The Silence, however both of those have been so overused that they lost their creepy factor. The Valeyard could have been an awesome plotline, like literally when I saw young Smith standing there I thought he was the Valeyard because he was walking creepier and talking creepier, and I was half-expecting Capaldi to jump out. But no, no valeyard...

Yeah, I also just wasn't huge on the story of the Christmas special. I much preferred the 50th, much more time to flesh everything out (thank the Lord, no commercials so it was a full movie length pretty much), and the story was just much better. I also don't buy the Time Lords being willing to just help the Doctor even though he wouldn't save them from the time-lock. I was also EXTREMELY disappointed that there is no Valeyard, the only reason because Moffat doesn't like the idea despite that being established in Doctor lore.

Then you'd enjoy Frozen.

It would eventually disperse because everyone is going to see Frozen.

Oh...First movie in theaters? I'm not even sure what mine was...

That's actually a decent topic though, the first movie you saw or remember seeing. The first movie I distinctly remember seeing was either Pinocchio or The Wizard of Oz, I remember seeing them both when I was really little but im not sure which I saw first. I also remember loving the Star Wars movies so much i'd run around the house and yard with a stick and pretend I was Luke Skywalker and re-enact the movies. But that wasn't until I was a bit older.

I just saw Walter Mitty, So my last movie of 2013 was Saving Mr. Banks and my first of 2014 was Walter Mitty, im alright with Banks closing 2013 with me but I wish I could have opened 2014 with something a bit better. I didn't dislike it, but it wasn't particularly memorable either. It got some decent chuckles throughout, but there were just so many long travel scenes with an indie song in the background that would go in between actual story telling scenes as big filler. It was also fairly predictable, and it seemed like it was trying to hard to be deeper than it actually was. The cinematography was fantastic though, and at least it was decent indie music in the background instead of pop songs that take away your suspension of disbelief. It was also really far-fetched at places (that weren't dreams), like him picking up his cell phone on the top of the mountain, or that he was able to even climb that mountain so easily when he was only in decent shape (I've gone on mountain trips, hiking is not an easy stroll). However it did keep me engaged enough, I never really got bored (just ancy during the travel montages waiting for the story to pick back up), and the story was decent enough (despite being predictable). The acting though was on the verge/in between of good and bad acting, it just seemed kind of bland. The trailer did an awesome job sticking out and sticking to my memory with just one viewing, the movie however I don't think is going to be all that memorable.

That's it then, Belieb is going to be the next Dark Knight with these legs.

I'm at my local theater and it's packed to no other, and 90% of the people here are families, I wonder what movie is selling out right now...

Another thing to take as a lesson, If you are famous don't treat your fans like shit and don't trot around like a douchebag, people will stop liking you.

I'm thinking from a technical standpoint, if you showed a person who had been used to black and white movies their whole life Transformers 2 (a piece of shit movie) they'd most likely be amazed at the visuals they saw, whether or not the story was great. It's kind of like how the first motion pictures were literally things like a moving train and they were considered classics. So in a generation that probably hasn't even had the idea of CGI might lend them to think a movie like Transformers 2 was fantastic if they saw it.

Here is my running list, still need Nebraska, Her, Dallas Buyer's Club, Lone Survivor, and Secret Life of Walter Mitty. These also are not in order of the actual ratings I gave the movie, because I reviewed them all at different times and so 1 I won't change the original score I gave a movie, and 2 I may love a movie but have an objective reason to count off and so forth. 1. 12 Years a Slave - 10/10 2. Inside Llewyn Davis - 10/10 3.Gravity - 10/10 4.Fruitvale Station - 10/10 5.The Wolf of Wall Street - 7/10 6.The Spectacular Now - 9.3./10 7.Mud - 9.5/10 8.Frozen - 9.5/10 9.Saving Mr. Banks - 8.75/10 10.This is the End - 9/10 11.Rush - 9.5/10 12.The Way Way Back - 9.2/10 13.Before Midnight - 8.7/10 14.American Hustle - 8/10 15.Philomena - 7.5/10 16.The Act of Killing - 8.5/10 17.Short Term 12 - 7.5/10 18.Blackfish - 7.5/10 19.The World’s End - 7/10 20.The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - 8.5/10 21.Star Trek: Into Darkness - 8.5/10 22.Much Ado About Nothing - 8/10 23.Captain Phillips - 7.5/10 24.The Conjuring - 8.3/10 25.Pacific Rim - 7.4/10 26.Prisoners - 7/10 27.Iron Man 3 - 7.5/10 28.Monster’s University - 8/10 29.Warm Bodies - 7/10 30.Spring Breakers - 7.5/10 31.Blue Jasmine - 7/10 32.Kill Your Darlings - 6.5/10 33.Don Jon - 7/10 34.Side Effects - 6.5/10 35.42 - 7/10 36.Despicable Me 2 - 7.2/10 37.Kings of Summer - 6.8/10 38.Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues - 6.4/10 39.Thor: The Dark World - 7/10 40.The Heat - 6.75/10 41.Fast and Furious 6 - 6.5/10 42.About Time - 7/10 43.Oblivion - 6.25/10 44.Kick-Ass 2 - 5.8/10 45.The Croods - 6/10 46.2 Guns - 5.7/10 47.Mama - 6/10 48.John Dies at the End - 6/10 49.The Wolverine - 4.5/10 50.Snitch - 4/10 51.We’re the Millers - 4.5/10 52.Olympus Has Fallen - 4.5/10 53.Out of the Furnace - 4.25/10 54.Now You See Me - 4/10 55.Insidious Chapter 2 - 4/10 56.The Bling Ring - 5.25/10 57.Emperor - 5/10 58.World War Z - 6/10 59.How to Make Money Selling Drugs - 4.75/10 60.Evil Dead - 5/10 61.Oz: The Great and Powerful - 7/10 (I don't know what I was thinking when I reviewed this, after a rewatch I realized it was dread awful) 62.RED 2 - 4.5/10 63.Byzantium - 5/10 64.Turbo - 4.25/10 65.Epic - 4.75/10 66.Riddick - 4.5/10 67.You’re Next - 4/10 68.Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 - 4/10 69.Jackass: Bad Grandpa - 4.75/10 70.Last Vegas - 4.5/10 71.Machete Kills - 3.75/10 72.The Counselor - 3.25/10 73.The Book Thief - 4.5/10 74.Ender’s Game - 6/10 75.Homefront - 5/10 76.The Last Stand - 5.5/10 77.Madela: Long Walk To Freedom - 6.25/10 78.Carrie - 3/10 79.Escape Plan - 2.75/10 80.Instructions Not Included - 5/10 81.Bullet to the Head - 2.25/10 82.Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters - 2/10 83.The Canyons - 3.25/10 84.White House Down - 4.25/10 85.The Purge - 4/10 86.The Internship - 3.75/10 87.Gangster Squad - 4.5/10 88.The Hangover Part III - 4/10 89.Parker - 3/10 90.Beautiful Creatures - 3.25/10 91.Broken City - 2/10 92.Escape From the Planet Earth - 2.75/10 93.Jack the Giant Slayer - 3.25/10 94.21 and Over - 1.75/10 95.G.I. Joe Retaliation - 4/10 96.After Earth - 3.5/10 97.Getaway - 1.5/10 98.The Family - 2/10 99.Dead Man Down - 2.65/10 100.The Call - 3/10 101.Safe Haven - 2.25/10 102.The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - 1.85/10 103.Stoker - 1.5/10 104.The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - 2.5/10 105.Elysium - 4.5/10 106.Planes - 3/10 107.The Great Gatsby - 4.5/10 108.Grown Ups 2 - 2/10 109.Pain and Gain - 3.5/10 110.Lee Daniels the Butler - 5/10 111.RIPD - 3.5/10 112.Man of Steel - 5/10 113.47 Ronin - 1.75/10 114.The Lone Ranger - 1.5/10 115.Only God Forgives - 0.5/10 116.The Host - 1/10 117.A Good Day to Die Hard - 1.25/10 118.Movie 43 - 0/10 Wow, I never realized, this year may have been a stacked year of great films, but there are about 40ish of them before they start heading into mediocre and crapfest territory. (And the top 25ish are the ones I'd probably end up recommending to go out and buy if you haven't seen them)

The scenario is this, some guy invents a time machine and decides to take a movie like Jack and Jill, The Last Airbender, or Movie 43 back to the 30s, how would this movie be recieved? Would it be regarded as a classic for being so ahead of its time in technology and be considered as something never seen before? Or would it still be reveled and considered trash?

I just noticed how close Gravity is to having a higher gross than Man of Steel World Wide and being Warner Bros highest grossing movie of 2013 and it's so frustrating. COME ON OSCARS JUST GIVE GRAVITY A 10M BUMP!! At least Gravity is their most profitable movie of 2013 due to half the budget, and less money spent on advertising.

A new studio has come to the block, and here are their current plans in development Over the Tavern A film based off of Tom Dudzick's famous play, currently director John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks, The Blind Side) most production details at this moment are secret, but a late December release is being pushed for around 1000 theaters and a January expansion of around 3000 later. The working synposis of this film is currently the same as the original play, "In that most idealized period of 20th-century America, the Eisenhower years of the 1950s, the Pazinski family has a lot going on in their cramped Buffalo apartment. The youngest of the bunch, 12-year-old Rudy, is a smart, wise-cracking kid who's starting to question family values and the Roman Catholic Church. When Rudy goes up against the ruler-wielding Sister Clarissa and announces that instead of being confirmed he'd rather shop around for a more "fun" religion, all hell breaks loose. A warm and hilarious look at family, growing up, and God." Reviews for the play included (which is rumored the film will be faithful too) "“Over the Tavern”, Tom Dudzick’s beguiling family comedy, is just what the doctor ordered. Set in Buffalo, the playwright’s hometown, its story carries us back to that most idealized period of 20th Century America, the Eisenhower years of the 1950s, and introduces us to the Pazinskis: Mom, Dad and their four children, Eddie, Annie, Georgie and the hero of our tale, 12-year-old Rudy, a precocious kid who’s starting to question family values and the Roman Catholic Church. (He believes God put us on earth to “have fun,” and he’s trying to figure out why his family isn’t having any.At first, as Rudy matches wits at school over his catechism lessons with the awesome Sister Clarissa, this looks like another variation on the endless nun comedies of the last few decades. Well, it is and it isn’t. True, Sister Clarissa carries a clicker and a sturdy wooden ruler for discipline, but she’s more than a caricature and an object of nostalgia. Like everyone else in this play, she may be idealized, but, she’s also achingly human in her flaws and feelings.Once Rudy comes home to the crowded family apartment over his father’s tavern, it becomes clear, too, that he is not living in a “Father Knows Best” environment.His dad is a physically and psychologically wounded man who leaves work “in a bad mood,” yelling at his kids and long-suffering wife. His sister Annie is suffering through the confusion of sexual awakenings, his older brother Eddie is a rebellious teen trying to start his own life, and Rudy himself, an imaginative youngster with a quick wit, has the responsibility of looking after the mentally challenged Georgie.Both the cliches and the truths of Dudzick’s script about the joys and travails of this family blend into a heartwarming drama filled with telling details. When Mom and Dad fall into each other’s arms in a sprightly late-night polka in their living room, it’s a little bit of heaven." "Three years ago Studio Arena Theatre optioned Dudzick’s play and, the truth is, had no idea what it was getting into. The critical reception was warm yet guarded. Dudzick himself was not entirely satisfied with some of the writing. The next thing the Studio knew, though, audiences were clamoring for tickets. Performances sold out. The run was extended. Clamor for tickets continued even after the play had to close. The Studio and Dudzick agreed to do it again the next season. They did. Same thing. It sold out. It’s now back for a third year." "Thankfully, Dudzick does not succumb to "Leave It To Beaver" cliches. And there’s a dark undercurrent to the characters’ seemingly clean-cut facades. In a subtle way, the playwright takes to task that hackneyed and erroneous notion of the 1950s being an "innocent" time." "Yes, it’s pretty much just a staged sitcom with a dash of pretend blasphemy, but it has real heart." "Basic. Beautiful. Brilliant." "Though Tavern has endured for the better part of two decades, it is, frankly, a little difficult to see why. Dudzick’s one-liners are clearly set up in advance. You can almost anticipate that pre-live-taping canned laugh track for every one of them. The playwright is somewhat better, however, when he zeroes in on the religious rigidity and theological claustrophobia that characterized Roman Catholicism at the midpoint of the 20th century"

Just got back from Interstellar, man what a movie!

Exactly, there are a lot of divisive films up there, despite my opinion on them I don't compare them to anything and everything.

FYC 12 Years a Slave, Inside Llewyn Davis, Gravity, Fruitvale Station, and The Wolf of Wall Street