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The Best Films of 2013

Oh yeah, the good stuff.  What did you miss this year?

 

HONORABLE MENTIONS

best20132Iron Man 3

Tony Stark returns
And villains destroy his crib
While he’s still in it

Dead Man Down

Mobsters and revenge
Pair of broken survivors
Redemption? Maybe

Nebraska

Ancient curmudgeon
Thinks Nebraska holds his prize
Clearly mistaken

12 Years a Slavebest201303

Being a – hey wait!
I already haiku’d this
In the blog review

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister and Pete

Title says it all
Yet their parentless trap is
Still worth attention

Lone Survivor

Outnumbered badly
In Afghani wilderness
Choices, action, death

best20134Hunger Games: Catching Fire

It’s Panem, Round 2
Punished for her defiance
Kat must kill, again

Dallas Buyers Club

Everybody’s got
AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! AIDS! And awards!
Awards and awards!

 

THE TOP 10

10. Coming of age after school ends: The Kings of Summer & The Way, Way Back

Life holds no favorbest20135
When people who protect you
Make everything worse

9. The Conjuring

Count me among those
Who will never, never play
Hide ‘n’ Clap. Never.

8. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

I don’t blame you, but
If your Stiller hate is staid
You might enjoy this one

7. Warm Bodies

♪Zombie lovin’, had
Me a blast, zombie lovin’
Happened so fa – ast♫

best201366. The Wolf of Wall Street

I’m a douche, he’s a
Douche. Wouldn’t you like to be
All douche-y, too, yeah?

5. This Is the End

The rapture has come
Actors are to be judged last
Avoid Hermione

4. World War Z

Zombies as insects
Infection in twelve seconds
Save humanity, Brad!

3. Her

Dating your iPhone —
It’s artificial all right
But intelligent?

2. Lee Daniels’ The Butlerbest20137

Twelve Years got the nod
This film is relegated
To wait on hand, foot

1. Gravity

Astronaut Sandra
Loses Space Station Clooney
Shot on location

 

♪ Parody Inspired by “Summer Lovin’ “

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