by Hanley! » Nov 04, '13, 6:37 pm
Every time we want to go to the movies recently something comes up and we end up cancelling. As a result, the only movies I've seen this year are Django Unchained, Pacific Rim, Star Trek: Into Darkness and Chinatown.
That makes the best film I've seen easy - it's Chinatown. Great acting, interesting plot and a terrifying villain. I really enjoyed it. This was my first time watching the movie so it was cool to be able to see it on the big screen.
I have a hard time picking the worst though. The other three were all a bit mediocre. I didn't hate any of them, but none of them were great. Pacific Rim was just a throwaway destruction porn film, which was pretty entertaining in its more whimsical moments but I thought the film still took itself too seriously. Star Trek: Into Darkness was another generic destruction porn film - this one a little better acted than Pacific Rim, but it suffered by constantly comparing itself to a far superior movie. And then there was Django: a movie that I considered far better than these two after the first hour and a half, but that I was begging to end by the time it finally wound up. Lack of editing really hurt this film. It's another demonstration of a successful director taking less and less feedback and the movie suffering for it.
I reckon Pacific Rim still underwhelmed me the most, so I guess that was the worst film I saw in the cinema this year? But it still wasn't that bad. Just nothing special, by any means.