Movie of the Year: Sharknado
Just kidding! While Sharknado was an extremely entertaining movie, being one of the most hilarious things you can watch for continuity and cheesy dialogue, it wasn't actually good.
Here are my real Top 10 Movies seen in 2013:
1. Gravity 3D. The most cinematic film of the year.
2. This is the End. Hands down best comedy, I wanted to watch it again that night! Will be extremely quotable after repeat watches.
3. Pacific Rim 3D. Giant robots vs giant monsters. That is all.
4. Mystery Road. Beautifully filmed, powerhouse Aussie film.
5. Django Unchained. Brutal, funny, Christoph Waltz.
6. The Square. Essential eye opening documentary about the power of protest. Now up for an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.
7. World War Z. The most tense film of the year. Yep more than Gravity. I repeat: not a zombie movie.
8. Iron Man 3. A blockbuster with dialogue and humour equally as good as the action. Best twist of the year! There's a reason this has moved to the 5th highest grossing film ever (not adjusted for inflation).
9. The Way Way Back. Gentle funny coming of age with a difference.
10. Only Lovers Left Alive. A sexy mood piece of incredible style and a totally different take on the vampire genre.
11. Kon-Tiki. A true story of an incredible adventure, told grippingly.
OK I have had to make it 11. Sorry! I could not decide between those last 2 spots!
Most Disappointing/Worst
1. Hyde Park on Hudson. Distasteful topic and strange humour, lifted somewhat by the King and Queen of England.
2. Kick Ass 2. Take the best thing about the first movie (Hit Girl swearing and killing people) and drastically cut that back and focus on other characters. Darker is not always better!
3. Man of Steel. Was going pretty well, if a little serious, until Zack Snyder just took the ending way over the top in destruction and darkness. Supes saves earth but kills thousands of people in the meantime?
4. We're the Millers. A comedy that was rarely funny but often predictable.
5. Lords of Salem. For some reason Rob Zombie has gone from making weird, smart horror movies to making senseless, dull, stupid ending movies that are barely scary.
Great Acting
These were the standout performances for me this year:
- Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle
- Jennifer Lawrence in Silver Linings Playbook
- Liam James in The Way Way Back
- Sam Rockwell in the Way Way Back
- Steve Carell in the Way Way Back
- Aaron Pedersen in every scene of Mystery Road
- Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained
- Tom Hiddleston in Only Lovers left Alive and Thor: The Dark World
- Surat Sharma as Pi in Life of Pi
- Naomi Watts went through the wringer on The Impossible
Worst Acting
Everyone in Pacific Rim, especially the "Australians". Although to be fair it's probably the script and not entirely the actors' fault.
Favourite moment:
As per last year, my favourite film moments appeared in Marvel films. The first is the reveal of the twist in Iron Man 3 and the second was Kat Dennings' exclamation of "Hey it's miaow miaow" in Thor: the Dark World (an in joke from the first film where she can't pronounce Mjolnir, Thor's hammer).
If you agree or disagree with these lists, please let me know - I love to hear what others think. You can leave a comment below with your name or Anonymous if you prefer.
Australian Box Office Top 20
All stats below are courtesy of Box Office Mojo website
Interesting stats I've picked out of the Box Office list:
- Tom Cruise's 2 movies can't get higher than #31 and #32. Poor Tom is not the box office draw he used to be.
- The Hobbit did incredibly well at #8 given it was only out for 5 days in the year.
- Dr Who made #99 for a 'one day only' movie!
- There were some unexpected monetary flops - Lone Ranger only hit #30, Pacific Rim #42 (beaten by Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa at #35!!!), Will Smith's vanity project After Earth #68, One Direction vanity doco #81, Kick-Ass 2 #93, The Incredible Burt Wonderstone #85.
- Movie version of Stephanie Myer's adult novel The Host did not benefit from the Twilight fanbase - it only got to #88.
- It was not a good year for comedies that in previous years would have hit big - films from Jim Carrey, Steve Carrell, Vince Vaughan, Melissa McCarthy were not as funny as the trailers indicated and audiences stayed away. Anchorman 2 excepted which hit #23 off a week and a half of box office in 2013.
- Kid flicks, sequels, franchises and book conversions were the only real way to make money. Gravity at #12, Django Unchained at #13, Now you See Me #16 and The Heat #22 were the highest ranked original concepts.
| Rank | Movie Title | Distributor | Gross | Release |
| 1 | Iron Man 3 | Disney | $36,164,486 | 4/25 |
| 2 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Roadshow | $33,559,179 | 11/21 |
| 3 | Despicable Me 2 | UPI | $32,712,318 | 6/20 |
| 4 | Life of Pi | Fox | $28,420,882 | 1/3 |
| 5 | The Great Gatsby (2013) | Roadshow | $25,282,416 | 5/30 |
| 6 | Fast & Furious 6 | UPI | $24,693,368 | 6/6 |
| 7 | The Croods | Fox | $23,752,747 | 3/28 |
| 8 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | WB | $23,059,265 | 12/26 |
| 9 | Man of Steel | WB | $22,342,258 | 6/27 |
| 10 | Monsters University | Disney | $21,747,029 | 6/20 |
| 11 | Thor: The Dark World | Disney | $20,494,942 | 10/31 |
| 12 | The Hangover Part III | WB | $19,150,236 | 5/23 |
| 13 | Gravity | WB | $18,787,616 | 10/3 |
| 14 | Django Unchained | Sony | $16,521,964 | 1/24 |
| 15 | World War Z | PPI | $16,421,768 | 6/20 |
| 16 | Now You See Me | E1 | $16,163,376 | 8/8 |
| 17 | Oz The Great and Powerful | Disney | $15,877,141 | 3/7 |
| 18 | Star Trek Into Darkness | PPI | $14,866,428 | 5/9 |
| 19 | The Wolverine | Fox | $14,391,290 | 7/25 |
| 20 | Silver Linings Playbook | Roadshow | $14,272,799 | 1/31 |
Full list is here: http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/australia/yearly/
Global Box Office 2013
The world box office was very similar to Australia. Interestingly the charts are dominated by movies released recently and not the big US summer tentpole movies. Congratulations to Baz Luhrman for getting The Great Gatsby at #20 worldwide! Several movies were much more popular overseas than in America (the domestic column) with Pacific Rim being a clear standout - obviously the Asian audience boosted this a lot after barely making $100million in the US.
| Rank | Title (click to view) | Studio* | Worldwide | Domestic / % | Overseas / % | ||
| 1 | Iron Man 3 | BV | $1,215.4 | $409.0 | 33.7% | $806.4 | 66.3% |
| 2 | Despicable Me 2 | Uni. | $921.2 | $368.0 | 39.9% | $553.2 | 60.1% |
| 3 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | LGF | $832.8 | $409.4 | 49.2% | $423.4 | 50.8% |
| 4 | Fast & Furious 6 | Uni. | $788.7 | $238.7 | 30.3% | $550.0 | 69.7% |
| 5 | The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | WB | $761.2 | $234.2 | 30.8% | $527.0 | 69.2% |
| 6 | Monsters University | BV | $743.6 | $268.5 | 36.1% | $475.1 | 63.9% |
| 7 | Gravity | WB | $670.3 | $255.8 | 38.2% | $414.5 | 61.8% |
| 8 | Man of Steel | WB | $668.0 | $291.0 | 43.6% | $377.0 | 56.4% |
| 9 | Frozen | BV | $644.7 | $302.6 | 46.9% | $342.1 | 53.1% |
| 10 | Thor: The Dark World | BV | $630.6 | $203.6 | 32.3% | $427.0 | 67.7% |
| 11 | The Croods | Fox | $587.2 | $187.2 | 31.9% | $400.0 | 68.1% |
| 12 | World War Z | Par. | $540.0 | $202.4 | 37.5% | $337.6 | 62.5% |
| 13 | Oz The Great and Powerful | BV | $493.3 | $234.9 | 47.6% | $258.4 | 52.4% |
| 14 | Star Trek Into Darkness | Par. | $467.4 | $228.8 | 49.0% | $238.6 | 51.0% |
| 15 | The Wolverine | Fox | $414.8 | $132.6 | 32.0% | $282.3 | 68.0% |
| 16 | Pacific Rim | WB | $411.0 | $101.8 | 24.8% | $309.2 | 75.2% |
| 17 | G.I. Joe: Retaliation | Par. | $375.7 | $122.5 | 32.6% | $253.2 | 67.4% |
| 18 | The Hangover Part III | WB | $362.0 | $112.2 | 31.0% | $249.8 | 69.0% |
| 19 | Now You See Me | LG/S | $351.7 | $117.7 | 33.5% | $234.0 | 66.5% |
| 20 | The Great Gatsby (2013) | WB | $351.0 | $144.8 | 41.3% | $206.2 | 58.7% |
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