2K13 Summer Recap

Top 3 Films

1. Pacific Rim

Pacific Rim brings all those awesomeness and the joy of summer movies in a super intense two hours of robots fighting monsters. The action is crazy great, the actors are awesome and they definitely cancelled the apocalypse. What really sucked for me about this film is that I didn't get the chance to see this film in its full on awesomeness in IMAX 3D. Everything just falls into place in this film. Everything is perfect. I can't talk bad about this film, really. Best of the summer






2. Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek reboot in 2009 was one of the finest reboot ever made by Hollywood. The cast is young and hip and perfect. It has great action, great sci-fi concept, great story too. And now four years later, all of that still stands strong. Add Sherlock star, Benedict Cumberbatch to bring menace to everyone in the galaxy and you'll get a really cool film out of it. For me, Into Darkness is better in Captain Kirk's story while as a whole it's still on par with the 2009 film, which means it's far from bad.





3. Man of Steel
Chris Nolan had his magic touch in the Batman saga for three films. Who's to say he's not going to extend that magic to most recognizable superhero in the universe? The result is a darker take on the king of superheroes. Henry Cavill is definitely Superman and kids will forever recognize him as Superman. The film has amazing supporting cast and a more-than-enough action set pieces. Since it's a different take from the Superman we know, people dismissed the film as untrue to the mythology while it's just the beginning of something great in the years to come.




Honorable mention: Gore Verbinski's fun adventure that not enough people see, The Lone Ranger

Most Surprising Film
World War Z
World War Z has troubles almost as many as the troubles my country has on a regular basis. However, those troubles proved to be an extra promotion point. People become aware of Brad Pitt starring in a zombie film. The promotion for this film is also quite intense, delivering promises of a great zombie thriller. And yes, baby, it delivers. Apart from the out-of-place climax, the film is definitely one of the best zombie films out there and Brad Pitt may make long hair hip for men (hope not).





Most Underwhelming Film
The Hangover Part III
I'm a fan of raunchy, dirty comedy. Like a super fan. The first two Hangover films has all the qualities I want in a comedy film. It's offensive, it's crazy, it's fun and for Hangover films, it's unexpected! However, say goodbye to all those qualities for the third part of the Wolfpack's night of mayhem. The film is nowhere offensive and crazy. I laughed only twice or three times during the whole film. It's so safe that it could be rated PG-13. The biggest fun I had when watching this was during the post credits scene.





Honorable mentions:
- Shyamalan & the Smiths' cheap looking, yet passable sci-fi After Earth. It's not on the top of the disappointing films because we already have no expectations for it to be great.
- Shane Black's awful black comedy script and please-kill-me-now-it's-so-bad twist on Iron Man 3. It's not as disappointing as Hangover 3 because it still has its great moments in the film.


Next week: Elysium review!!
Ah and yes, if you noticed, I changed the layout of the blog since the black-white-red was so 2009.