There's no stopping the juggernaut of bland single-word titles. They're even making my year-end lists. But in twenty years who will remember what certain films were about? Like these: The Family, Enemy, The Internship, Epic, The Purge, Adore, Hours, Paranoia, The Call, The Past. Meanwhile, I'll continue to yearn for titles that are evocative and descriptive like: The Spectacular Now, The Wolf Of Wall Street and Inside Llewyn Davis. Or let's check back in a couple decades to see if you remember 12 Years A Slave vs. The Butler. Whether you liked them or not, chances are you'll remember what the more imaginative titles were about. Hollywood is almost brain-dead, so maybe all these movies will be re-released by then with truncated titles, and it'll be just be Slave vs Butler. Who knows?
Here are my picks for 2013:
1. Gravity
2. Prisoners
3. American Hustle
4. 12 Years A Slave
5. Fruitvale Station
6. The Spectacular Now
7. Blue Jasmine
8. Short Term 12
9. Her
10. Mud
11. Side Effects
12. Stoker
13. The Stories We Tell
14. The Conjuring
15. You're Next
16. The World's End
17. Dallas Buyer's Club
18. All Is Lost
19. Coherence
20. The Wolf Of Wall Street
21. This Is The End
22. The Heat
23. The Hobbit: Desolation Of Smaug
24. Spring Breakers
I confess I still need to see Blue Is The Warmest Color, Kill Your Darlings, Don Jon, Saving Mr Banks and all this year's Oscar-nominated documentaries. The most overrated movies I saw this year? Nebraska and Inside Llewyn Davis (and I'm a huge Coen Bros fan). Oh, well. I'll keep shelling out money to see our collective dreams on the big screen. Cheers!
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