Temporal Top Ten – 2013

Number of movies seen from this year – 199
Number of movies reviewed – 264 (Including 65 Encore Reviews)

2013 was my first year blogging, so as you can see by the stats most of the movies seen also have a review.

The list differs slightly from my year end top ten because time changes one’s perspective and because I’ve seen a few new films from this year since then.

You will also notice that very few of the Oscar Best Picture Nominees appear here including the eventual winner.

My favorites differ extremely from the Academy completely and I think that my #1 really should have won the coveted statue.

Updated 4 Sep 2018 – Blue is the Warmest Color is now my #5, all subsequent films have been moved down

My Top Ten

Honorable Mention – Before Midnight

10. Frozen

9. Saving Mr. Banks

8. Monsters University

7. The Way Way Back

6. Nebraska

5. Blue is the Warmest Color

4. Star Trek: Into Darkness

3. Blackfish

2. All is Lost

1. Gravity

Here’s a complete list of movies that I’ve seen from 2013

17 thoughts on “Temporal Top Ten – 2013”

sgliput · 7 April , 2015 at 3:54 PM · · Reply

Been meaning to see 2, and I wasn’t that crazy about 6, and I’d have to include Catching Fire and Captain Phillips, but some great choices otherwise. Is that too many caveats?

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- movierob · 7 April , 2015 at 11:52 PM · · Reply
  
  I really liked catching fire before I read the book and afterwards it dropped like a stone because the adaptation was so off. I liked the first half of CP but felt the second half just wasn’t as strong. Perhaps I should rewatch it soon. Never too many my friend! You shoukd see #2 but be forewarned there is virtually no dialogue so its like watching a silent movie where u get to hear the sounds of the ocean. #6 just felt nostalgic for an 80’s kid like me
  
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  - sgliput · 8 April , 2015 at 12:56 AM · · Reply
    
    Really? I thought I’d heard Catching Fire was pretty faithful to the book (which I still have yet to read). I agree that the end of CP was too drawn out, but it was still tense and Tom Hanks should have gotten at least a nomination. As for All Is Lost, I don’t mind no dialogue. Some of the best scenes of Castaway were wordless.
    
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    - movierob · 8 April , 2015 at 6:13 AM · · Reply
      
      Very true about Cast Away. Faithful in some ways but they couldn’t transfer the way I felt for the story or the characters to the screen in any of the HG books IMHO
      
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ConMan · 7 April , 2015 at 4:07 PM · · Reply

No ‘Her’?

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- movierob · 7 April , 2015 at 11:48 PM · · Reply
  
  No. Barely misses the cutoff. Tnx for stopping by and commenting!
  
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sidekickreviews · 8 April , 2015 at 5:00 AM · · Reply

I was going to pick The Way Way Back for your GG on coming of age movies but I got sidetracked. I should really check it out and your #5 I’ve heard so many good things about Nebraska. Solid picks Rob!

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- movierob · 8 April , 2015 at 6:15 AM · · Reply
  
  I’ve recently become a big fan of Payne’s stuff. He really knows how the write interesting characters and storylines. Woulda been a great choice for GG
  
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  - sidekickreviews · 8 April , 2015 at 6:51 AM · · Reply
    
    Another Payne movie I’d like to catch up on is The Descendants, I’ve heard good things about that one too.
    
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    - movierob · 8 April , 2015 at 6:56 AM · · Reply
      
      great choice! My favorite is still Sideways
      
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      - sidekickreviews · 8 April , 2015 at 6:57 AM · · Reply
        
        Sideways is great, a friend of mine is a wine lover and kept raving about that movie haha.
        
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jjames36 · 14 April , 2015 at 5:03 PM · · Reply

It surprises me on how few of these agree. The only one I didn’t like at all was Before Midnight, but the rest wouldn’t (and didn’t) break my Top Ten. Only Blackfish and Frozen even approach it, honestly.

I think most of them solid flicks, to be sure, but not great ones.

Interesting.

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- movierob · 15 April , 2015 at 6:19 AM · · Reply
  
  We can’t always agree on everything 😉
  
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  - jjames36 · 16 April , 2015 at 5:22 PM · · Reply
    
    Nope
    
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    - movierob · 16 April , 2015 at 5:27 PM · · Reply
      
      Mostly tho… 😉
      
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Ben · 7 May , 2015 at 11:50 PM · · Reply

More great choices but Gravity was never going to be beaten. That was my movie of that year and the competition wasn’t even close.

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- movierob · 8 May , 2015 at 6:43 AM · · Reply
  
  totally agree. very far ahead of the pack!
  
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