Film of the Year - And the winner is... - The Bear and Badger

Vela

Secret Life of Walter Mitty was pretty good.

ShabbyMcCrabby

Not good enough to be a best of though.

Gravity, Django, Stoker, Mud, something else

beano

I really liked Rush.

stonechalice

A bit of that movie was shot at my work. Got to meet Chris Hemsworth and the like.

beano

Nice.

JonB

So, anyone want to do some voting?

Up to a max of top 5, in order. Reasons for choices optional.

Stopharage

Seen very few films this year and a lot of those mentioned so far are on the list to watch.

Seen pretty much every kids film release in the cinema though, and there's an awful lot of dirge out there - Planes, Justin the Knight and Smurfs 2 were particularly painful.

Wouldn't say the crop of films I've seen have been that great but these 5 would be the best for varying reasons:-
Robot & Frank (quirky with heart)
Despicable Me 2 (Minion mayhem)
The Act of Killing (Chilling)
Gravity (Technically great)
Cloud Atlas (Ambitious if flawed)

Gamermike

I'm currently going through quite a large backlog of films, haven't had a lot of time this year. Watched Prisoners, Wolf of Wall Street and 12 years a slave this week. Appreciate some of those are classed as 2014.

Prisoners I was especially impressed with though, exactly the kind of film I love.

So far my top 3 are:

Prisoners
Gravity
Django

[Deleted User]

Not been a big film watching year for me but these three were each great in their own ways, and get my votes, for this most obscure of awards.

1.Blue Jasmine
2.Gravity
3.Mud

Cos

My top 5 then

1. Gravity
2. Django Unchained
3. Captain Phillips
4. Don Jon
5. American Hustle

Not much to separate one and two there really. Gravity is a great film, an awesome cinematic experience and technically brilliant so it does stand out. There's a section towards the end of Django that I thought was unnecessary and just dragged it out a bit too long but it didn't affect my overall enjoyment of the film.

Captain Phillips I had almost written off as being predictable for some reason but it made me eat my inner monologue. Excellent work by Greengrass and Hanks.

Think I've seen a couple of the contenders for next year's Golden Badger already.

Vela

1. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty - Walked a fine line between absurd and sentimental almost to perfection.
2. Gravity - Absolutely stunning sense of being there - very disorientating. A few too many lucky saves though.
3. Pacific Rim - Soundtrack is top, scale and heft of the robots is brilliant, but it dwindles a bit on repeat viewings.
4. Anchorman 2 - insane. 93 degrees.
5. Django Unchained - I think it went on a touch too long. Loved Dr Schulz's arrogance in general, and the Klan night-time scene. I think this will grow on me with repeat viewings.

jdanielp

Here's my top 5 of 2013 and my Twitter summaries:

1. Stoker – brilliant psychological thriller
2. Mud – excellent coming-of-age drama
3. Gravity – spectacular disaster experience
4. The Place Beyond the Pines – gripping crime drama
5. Prisoners – powerful abduction drama

Moot_Geeza

jdanielp wrote:

Here's my top 5 of 2013 and my Twitter summaries: 1. Stoker – brilliant psychological thriller 2. Mud – excellent coming-of-age drama 3. Gravity – spectacular disaster experience 4. The Place Beyond the Pines – gripping crime drama 5. Prisoners – powerful abduction drama

My list is quite similar to this. I just finished watching Prisoners. I'm up at 5am, but I'm glad it did it in one sitting. Fantastic film. I watched Stoker with a mate the other day but I think we did too much chatting, might watch it again.

My list, which I need to put in order tomorrow:

Mud
Prisoners
The Place Beyond the Pines
Bullhead
Gravity

beano

Her (Sublime.)
Rush (Just good, time flew!)
Django (Jamie Fox, nailed it.)
Gravity (Just look at it! Acting too, Clooney is the perfect dick.)
Filth (Hahahah, sick!)

b0r1s

Gravity - technically amazing and the first film I've enjoyed with Sandra Bullock in.

Rush - great story, great racing

Star Trek Into Darkness - still enjoying what JJ is doing with the franchise despite the ending

Hobbit 2 - much improved on the first one, just don't watch the HFR version

Trance - Boyle back to his roots with a great thriller and Dawson full frontal to top it off :-)

JonB

I'll start adding these up soon. And do my own final list.

jdanielp

Moot_Geeza wrote:

jdanielp wrote:

Here's my top 5 of 2013 and my Twitter summaries: 1. Stoker – brilliant psychological thriller 2. Mud – excellent coming-of-age drama 3. Gravity – spectacular disaster experience 4. The Place Beyond the Pines – gripping crime drama 5. Prisoners – powerful abduction drama

My list is quite similar to this. I just finished watching Prisoners. I'm up at 5am, but I'm glad it did it in one sitting. Fantastic film. I watched Stoker with a mate the other day but I think we did too much chatting, might watch it again. My list, which I need to put in order tomorrow: Mud Prisoners The Place Beyond the Pines Bullhead Gravity

ooh, good choices! I didn't see Bullhead – will have to catch that at some point...

Moot_Geeza

1. The Place Beyond the Pines
2. Prisoners
3. Mud
4. Django Unchained
5. Gravity

A slight re-think after a chat in the pub last night. I enjoyed Django immensely. Gravity pips Bullhead for the viewing experience - I had to eat humble pie with my 'fuck 3D' stance.

Skerret

We could send the winner a bottle of this:

JonB

As if the pride of winning wasn't enough.

Skerret

I wouldn't know.

JonB

Ok, I'm going with this order:

Stoker
By some margin. Just thought it captured the relationship between different aspects of the psyche and the idea of psychosis in a really interesting way.
Django
Funny and entertaining, even though it probably loses momentum a bit after the opening part, and also just a refreshing take on films about US slavery
American Hustle
Just very well written, acted and directed, and entertaining.
Side Effects
Reminded me of a Hitchcock film (even in the sense of having at least one pretty dodgy plot hole), and went in a way I wasn't expecting.
The Paperboy
Again, not what I was expecting, and pretty dark in places with some fascinating characters.

JonB

Also, I'm adding up the votes so far.

@beano - Her doesn't count, it's not really out yet. I'll move your other choices up a spot for the time being.

JonB

So, 10 people's votes counted so far - all those who posted a list from 1st Feb onwards. Gravity is in the lead.

I'll leave it open for the rest of the month, if anyone fancies adding their 2p worth.

beano

But it was the best film of 2013!!!

JonB

Even the main US release wasn't 2013, and it's out in UK this week. Sorry old bean.

beano

bad_hair_day

My list are movies that surprised me, one way or another.

1. Captain Phillips
2. Gravity
3. The Way, Way Back
4. Django Unchained
5. Oblivion

Diluted Dante

JonB wrote:

Even the main US release wasn't 2013, and it's out in UK this week. Sorry old bean.

What if the film you want to vote for only got a limited theatrical release then?

JonB

We'd go with that.

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