Monday, December 30, 2013

The Top 10 Overrated Movies of 2013

These movies made a lot of money and wooed a lot of critics....but were they really that great?


10. This Is The End: A raunchy, buddy comedy about celebrities surviving the apocalypse made a decent amount of profit and had a lot of great reviews. Some moments where surprisingly funny but it just felt like an excuse to make Hollywood inside jokes and get pretty darn blasphemous.

Two women wearing sunglasses, one holding a rocket launcher. Image is stylized using only black, red, and white.
This-is-the-End-Film-Poster.jpg9. Spring Breakers: A heralded good-girls-gone-bad flick. James Franco as alien is about the only good thing in here...except the time when the credits roll

8. Identity Thief: I have this Melissa McCarthy lower on the list then her other because it wasn't as loved but it was a little better. But not that much.

7. 2 Guns: Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington in a buddie cop movie. It's not that bad bud it's not nearly the gem that critics raved it to be.

6. The Heat: High hopes for the pairing of Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy but unfortunately it reverts to familiar tropes of the buddie cop film...somehow critics still loved it and audiences couldn't stay away.

The Wolf of Wall Street movie poster5. Despicable Me 2: Critics and audiences loved this animated sequel... but it truly lacked the heart that made the first one such a delight.


4. Lee Daniels' The Butler: A decade trotting, power house of talented actors about a black butler serving in the white house during the times of change. It was all facts and lacked the emotional power that ruled the far superior 12 Years a Slave.


American Hustle movie poster3. Gravity: True it reinvented modern movie making but strip all the technical marvels and you have a simple story line with not a lot of interesting characters.



2. The Wolf of Wall Street: Scorsese at his best or worst depending on how you look at it. This tale of sex, drugs, and thievery is truly loved by critics but as its put in the movie "Its obscene."


1. American Hustle: Star studded cast, true story, Oscar bait. Critics loved it and its raking in the cash but the one word that truly describes this tale? Underwhelming.

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