Episode 39; 2013: VARIOUS!

A bit of a change-up today, as I meander around all over the place talking about the best movies of 2013, without actually settling on my favourite! Still, it was a bumper year, so wont you please join me once again..for Milestone Movies!?

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And welcome back once again to Milestone Movies. I'm Dave. This is the 39th episode, 39 of 50, the podcast where I talk about the favourite movies of every year of the last 50 years to celebrate myself turning 50 last year. We are on 2013 now, and this one is going to be a little bit different to the usual episodes, although not massively different. So what normally happens is I spend a bit of time talking about all the other films that have come out in this particular year, and then I would spend a bit more time talking about my favourite film of the year. Although, as it's gone on, to be fair, and a few people have mentioned, I'll spend, you know, two-thirds of the time talking about all of the films, and then a little bit of time talking about the main film. So this is going to be more weighted to the fact that I haven't really got a favourite film of this year. There's a lot of good stuff out, which I'll talk about in a minute, and if forced to pick my favourite of the year, I would go with Iron Man 3, because I think it's an absolutely brilliant film, one of the best ones in the MCU. And the only reason I didn't want to do a full-on episode about it is because it's not very long. It was only the 2008 episode that I talked about the MCU and particularly the Iron Man films. And so I talked quite a bit about Iron Man 3, so I didn't really want to do that again. Likewise, probably my next favourite on there is also the MCU film. So bearing in mind this is the beginning of um phase two of the Marvel Cinematics Universe. And Thor Dark World, which is the second Thor. Not a lot of people's favourite Thor, but um it's got some great stuff in there. Um but I'm pretty sure that when we get to Thor Ragnarok, which is the third one, I'll probably be talking a lot about that. So I thought I'll probably talk about the Thor franchise a bit more in that. Uh there's also things like the Second Hobbit, but I've done a Lord of the Rings episode already. There's a new Die Hard, but I talked about Die Hard already. So all these sort of ones, you know, the world's end, but I've talked about the Cornetto trilogy, stuff like that. So I didn't really just want to go over old ground. Um so I thought what I'll just talk a little bit about each of the films that I really like in this year, and that'll probably fill the episode pretty much how we normally fill it anyway. So hopefully you bear with me. But yeah, I realise it probably looks like a lack of focus on that one, even from a cover photo that I've put on there today. Uh you'll see it's kind of a bit of everything rather than just one particular film. So, you know, a little bit of a change to the norm, and it's not, you know, I don't intend for this to be the same way all the way through the rest of the podcast, bearing in mind we will only have uh 10-11 episodes left. So business as usual should be resumed shortly. But for 2013, uh join me while I take a little walk back through the best films of the year, according to me. So, in terms of box office, the biggest one was uh the second Hunger Games film, so catching fire, uh, which was uh obviously building on the success of the first one. Uh in the time that since the first one came out, Jennifer Lawrence had become huge, you know, probably the biggest female star um at the time. Uh, you know, could do no wrong. Uh Hunger Games was really catching on. Obviously, it'd gone outside of its sort of young adult target audience and had sort of gone completely into the mainstream as well. Uh you noticeably got a lack of things like the Harry Potter films, Twilight films out this year. So all of the sort of audiences from them, I guess, have also some migrating towards uh Hunger Games as well. So now I think I mentioned before I've seen some of the Hunger Games films, but not all of them. Nothing against them, just never sort of sat down and gone from start to finish. Uh I know obviously there's prequels around as well, so there's a new one out this year. Um so yeah, Hunger Games was the most successful film of uh Hunger Games 2, I should say. Uh biggest film of 2013. So second biggest one was the aforementioned Iron Man 3. Absolutely love this film. Uh Shane Black, who you know I've been a fan of ever since Lethal Weapon, uh Predator, Last Boy Scout, particularly. Um, you know, fantastic um writer director. Uh we talked briefly about Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and nice guys and stuff that he'd done as well. Um and in between those two there was Iron Man 3. And it's just brilliant. His dialogue in particularly um Robert Downey Jr.'s mouth, you know, brilliant. Uh they he just talks the talk, Don Cheadle as well, I think, really earns the uh you know, he's part of the war machine in this one, whereas before he was probably you know struggling a little bit because he was replacing a previous actor, whereas it's really his own now, you know, and he comes into it. So by the time of you know things like Endgame and Um Infinity War, he's very much, you know, a very, very integral part of the uh well, the Avengers, really. So yeah, he sort of earns his stripes there. You've got some brilliant support from the likes of um Guy Pierce and uh Rebecca Hall in there. Uh I think Gwyneth Poultra's really been better than she was in this one as well, though she doesn't really remember um being in it by all accounts. And very notable, noticeable as well, no notable, I was right the first time, very notable for uh the debut of Ben Kingsley in the MCU. So initially, um, and this may be a spoiler, but probably not since there's been a recent uh resurgence of him as well, uh, playing the Mandarin, uh the culturally inappropriate villain, but turns out that he isn't actually the Mandarin, he's actually just an actor. Uh Trevor Slattery, uh who was the toast of Croydon, and you know, he's just a brilliant, brilliant mentally crazy, funny, funny character who is not at all evil, he's literally just an actor doing a job, and he's just you know he's high and drunk and uh just doing it to get out of debts and stuff like that, and he's just basically a front for um uh the real villains, but he's brilliant, and they sort of teased him back a little bit in Shang-Chi a few years later, and then this year uh he's just been the star or one of the stars of Wonder Man, which is the latest um MCU TV series on Disney Plus, where he's playing again, Trevor Slathery, obviously, um, and again a bit of a double agent sort of thing, but very just I mean Ben Kingsley's usually a very serious actor, he's also well known for things like sexy beast, the character he did in that one was just crazy, um crazy evil in that case. But yeah, absolutely brilliant. And the first time you watch Iron Man 3 and that that sort of rug pull, you know, that wrong footing that they give you of him just behind the scenes, and then when you realise he's actually just you know an out of work actor from England, it's just brilliant. Um I love all the little references in there to you know little provincial theatre, and you know, in in Wonder Man, he's you know he's even talks about how he was sort of guest star on Coronation Street and it's a rite of passage and all that sort of stuff. And it's like brilliant to see that sort of stuff uh in you know major Hollywood fair. It really is cool. Um but yeah, Iron Man 3, brilliant, uh fantastic sequence towards the end, um, where all of the Iron Man suits are all coming to help out, and yeah, just brilliant, brilliant action, really, really good film. So, yeah, that that that was me not talking about Iron Man 3, which I just mentioned in quite a bit. Um, the third biggest one, uh Frozen. So, to give it some context, 2013 is the year in between me having children, so as in I had a child in 2012 and child in 2014. If you listen to the podcast, you'll have met my children already. Uh they're obviously now, you know, well, one's a teenager and one's on the cusp of it, uh, obviously. Yeah, because that's how time works. And they were uh very ripe for this next film, uh Frozen, which obviously a big, big, big Disney hit. Uh, and that really hit at the right time for them. So by the time that came out, particularly on, you know, DVD and stuff like that, you know, they were you know massive fans in it. They're all you young girls just go through a phase, it seems, of Disney princesses, um, and they go out of it as quick as they come into it. But you know, in the meantime, you've spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on pink plastic crap that fills your house, and then uh they'd no interest in it anymore. Uh had similar thing a few years ago with uh Gabby's Dollhouse, but let's not go down that route. But yeah, frozen, so obviously it's a uh Disney princess, it's basically a story of two sisters who um they did fall out. I don't probably seen the thing in fragments hundreds of times, but basically one has a sort of uh ice power uh and can't sort of play with the other one anymore in case she kills her, injures her, whatever. So she's locked away in a tower, um and the other sister is you know trying to it misses her and trying to get back to her, but it's it it you know, it's a very cool little relationship thing. Uh and then there's like an evil prince and uh there's a you know, this funny talking snowman, which obviously was the breakout sort of star O laugh of that. Uh and it just it was one of those ones that you know every Disney film is accompanied by loads of merchandising and loads of hype and all that sort of stuff, but Frozen just absolutely you know blew bigger than anybody was expecting. It was, you know, that Christmas, if you could get something with Frozen on it, you could, you know, people were fighting tooth and nail to get it. You know, by the following year when they cottoned onto the fact that the merchandising, you know, it was just saturation point and it was everywhere and you know it was all being marked down for sale and stuff like that. But you know, there was that initial sweet spot that they kind of missed because it was just so massive, just the film just kept playing and playing and playing. Um and yeah, it could do no wrong, really. And obviously, by the time Frozen 2 came out, the bubble burst a little bit, but you know, arguably, probably a better film, Frozen 2. But uh, yeah, it's good, like I say, when you've got kids, particularly that age, particularly with things like a Disney film, they are you know they'll watch it in rotation for weeks and weeks on end, and so you begin to get a little bit sick of some of them, but frozen to be fair, never had any issue with you know some funny characters in there. Olaf's pretty good in small doses. Um uh you've got Sven is Sven the the the moose? I think he is, and Christoph. Yeah, so there's some funny lines, some funny characters, some good little action sequences in there, and obviously, music-wise, you know, Let It Go was you know the hit of the year. Uh it was a massive, massive film, it really was. Um, and the next one, the fourth biggest film of the year, was also an animated one, but this time a sequel, Despicable Me Too. Uh and this was the one really that put the minions on the map. For some reason, they really just caught fire with people. Um, you know, they'd been in the first one, obviously, these little weird assistant characters for the for the main villain who's the main focus of the story. Um, but in the second one it just you know took off in a big, big way. Uh minions were suddenly everywhere, literally. Um, you know, we talked with frozen about the m the merchandising sort of thing, you know, you couldn't move for minions everywhere. Uh, to the point where they then got their own spin-off film and um you know there was more Despicable Me sequels, I think more coming possibly, little shorts everywhere. They became the sort of um the logo almost of uh Illumination Studios. So uh each of those films that come out regardless of what the actual film is, there'll always be the little sort of title sequence almost with a um you know title card for illumination, and it's basically a little mini uh little minions thing. And yeah, it's uh I can see why they caught on me. You know, they're c I don't know, kind of like Smurfs, they're all sort of similar, but they've all got slight different little characteristics and slightly different outfits and all that sort of stuff. So obviously very collectible in terms of um toys and things as well. Uh yeah, no, you they were ubiquitous in things like Happy Meals and stuff as well, just just everywhere, minions, minions, minions, as far as you could see. Um Man of Steel, the fifth biggest film of the year. So had a whole episode very early on, 1978's episode, um, which was about Superman. So I sort of tackled all of the different versions of Superman on the screen and um whatnot. And really, it's a bit of a missed opportunity. Again, you I've talked before, MCU I think that you know does everything right. DC stuff, aside from the Arrowverse series on TV, with the movies, it's just so hit and miss. It's like, are they a part of a you know combined universe? Are they separate? You know, is this one going on in this continuity? Is there another? And it's just so disjointed. But I think this was originally supposed to be, you know, coming off of the back of the Dark Knight trilogy, it was sort of linked to it, but not really. There were sort of producers in common. Uh, this was obviously uh Zack Snyder, who had formed, to be fair, with comic book stuff, you know, very good um version of uh Watchmen. I really like that. Uh a few years before. Oh do beg pardon. Um and so yeah, he's he's you know, he had the chops for it, um, and he seemed to have the love for it, but it kind of got just a little bit overblown and that as he went towards the the sort of I mean uh Superman oh Man of Steel. So this is Henry Cavill's uh Man of Steel. Um he is Clark Kent, uh Amy Adams is Lois Lane, you've got Kevin Costner as Jonathan Kent in there, who I'm you know a big fan of, and I thought he was really good in the film. Um and who else? Yeah, Russell Crowe as his other dad, uh Drell. Um and who do you yeah, didn't there wasn't Lex Luther in this one, was it? It was no Michael Shannon was uh Zod in this. So you know it it does work, but it's sort of less than the some of its part somehow, the whole, really, in this film. It just Harry Cowell's fine, he's not he's not you know, he's obviously no um Christopher Reeve, but you know, he's good in it. Um it's just a little bit it doesn't really know if it wants to be like a you know a popcorn blockbuster or whether it wants to be a serious sort of study of it, and it sort of falls in neither camp and there's a little bit yeah, here nor there really. So uh it never really got a proper sequel. It got uh we'll see the Superman Batman, which was when they brought Ben Affleck in, but then he's kind of overshadowed by that, and then he wasn't really in the Justice League film, or certainly wasn't in them um sort of advertising for it because they were trying to pretend that he was still dead from the previous film, uh, even though we all knew he was going to be back in it. Uh so yeah, and by that point, you know, by the time they got to the Justice League, you know, there was too many sort of other things going out there, and you know, Grant Gust uh not Grant Gustin, Grant Gustin was a good flash. This was um Ezra Miller, yeah, just yeah, it never worked for me. Uh I like Jason Momoa, but he's not you know, he's not Aquaman, let's be honest. Um he's about to, but you know, he's having another go at it, I think, as um Lobo in the Supergirl film that James Gunn's doing now. So I don't know, I don't know which way it's going, but certainly at this point, you know, it wasn't a consistent universe, and they don't seem to be honouring anything that went before it either, so you know, chalk it up to another uh missed opportunity, I think. But if you know, regardless of that, plenty of people went to see it. It made enough money that it was the fifth biggest film of the year, so there we go. What do I know? Um so yeah, briefly touched on Thor, Dark World. So this was the second Thor film and the second film in phase two of the MCU. Uh how as you may know, each phase generally, particularly beginning, was you know, some solo films followed by a team up film, Avengers, then more solo films, and another team-up film, and that would be the next phase. Um, and so yeah, this was basically following on from the Avengers, ramping up towards um the next one, Age of Ultron, but this phase also took in some new characters, so things like uh Guardians of the Galaxy and stuff were still to come uh before Avengers Age of Ultron. So yeah, Thor Dark World I think is very good. There's some really good sort of mind-bending uh there's a sort of fight where they're falling through sort of dimensions and stuff like that towards the end. Really good sort of interplay between the brothers, you know, Thor and Loki. Um very, very good. Anthony Hopkins, of course, is great in it as well. Um, and yeah, it's one of those early sort of MCUs where the villains weren't perhaps the best they could be, you know. Christopher Eccleston of all people was um Malakeith, the accursed in it. So yeah, it's uh it was still good with Natalie Portman, their little relationship and stuff like that. But yeah, generally speaking, the characters were sort of a little bit treading water perhaps to get to the next big sort of team-up adventure sort of thing. But you know, the whole Thor, you know, the the world that they build, um, is just so impressive. Do you know what I mean? It looks absolutely brilliant, um, you know, from Asgard and stuff like that, just the way that's designed, and there's some brilliant stuff in here with um, you know, where it's invaded and all that sort of brilliant stuff. So yeah, I love Thor the Dark World. So I think it gets for some reason sort of fairly maligned, I don't know why. Um, but yeah, it was really building up to um Ragnarok, which was the third and I think the best Thor film so far, but we will get to that in due course. Uh what else do we have? So uh Two Guns, which was a pretty interesting action film with uh Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg, so both very reliable action stars. Uh this is a very action-packed, very funny story about two um basically they're agents on either side of a you know, they're they're opposing agents essentially, but they're forced to go on the run together. Um and they're actually sort of, you know, there's might maybe one, maybe both, are double agents as well. So yeah, some you know, cracking action stuff in there. Um directed by someone called Balthazar Kormacur, who's not anyone I'm particularly familiar with. Um so this one did come a little bit out of the blue, but uh yeah, both the leads in it, very, very good, very reliable people to watch when you want an action movie. Uh so yeah, give that one a go. Two guns. So more in the sort of veteran action star stakes, uh, you had the proper return of Arnold Schwarzenegger. So we he sort of he teased us a little bit, you know. Obviously, he'd been away for ten years in real life being the governor of um California, and he had sort of dipped his toe back in in the first Expendables with a little cameo, and um obviously in CGI form he was in uh Terminator Salvation. But just as a sort of CGI character. So this was the year, 2013, that he came back in a big way, uh, with two sort of star and roles, one of which was the last stand, which is one I find a lot of fun, really good. I understand of all people, Johnny Knoxville, uh Forrest Whitker as well. A hell of a like weird cast to be honest, but very, very good. So, yeah, last stand, it's basically it's set in a town called Somerton, which uh every time there's a town close to me called Somerton, and every time I drive through it and there's a big sign that says welcome to Summerton, I have to say it to myself in Arnie's voice from this one, welcome to Summerton. Uh, and it just makes me laugh. Just makes me chuckle. Um one of those little things. But yeah, basically he's um he plays a guy called Ray Owens, he's a sort of small town sheriff, uh, and there's these criminals that sort of come through. So rather than this sort of sleepy town that there normally is, you know, it becomes a huge sort of um well last stand for um you know people against these villains. But yeah, it's proper, you know, it's almost vintage Arnie. He's he's back, he's got massive guns, there's stuff blowing up everywhere, he still looks great. Um yeah, and you know, it he could have sort of walked off the set of a Terminator film and straight into this one, really. It's it's proper one of the last proper Arnie action, as I I would say, really. Um but also in this year, he teamed up properly, so I say teased it a little bit with Expendables, but he teamed up properly with Sylvester Stallone for a film called Escape Plan, which is they're both basically locked up in a high security, in an inescapable prison, um, as villains, and you know, they're locked up and they're bitter enemies as well. But the only way that they work out they can break out of this prison is to sort of team up and you know go at it together. And uh again, it's really good. It's it's quite confined, it's almost I mean, it's not you know, not exactly a little independent film. You've got all sorts of rest of Stallone in it, but um, you know, it's got it's it's a smaller feel than some of those bigger sort of blockbusters that both of them have sort of become famous for. Uh but yeah, none the worse off for it, really. It's a really good fun film. Uh, and it's actually spawned a couple of sequels, none with Arnie, but Stallone has done them with um Dave Batista from um Guardians of the Galaxy. So obviously uh at the point of the first Escape Plan coming out, Batista's just a wrestler, really, at that point. So, you know, by the time Guardians has come out, Guardians of the Galaxy, um, you know, he was he had enough cachet, I suppose, to sort of co star with Stallone in Escape Plan 2 and 3, which I think was straight to video, but uh yeah, decent enough. Um and while we're talking about Agent Action Stars, uh this is the last out in this year for John McLean by Bruce Willis. Played by Bruce Willis in the fifth Die Hard film, A Good Day to Die Hard. Slightly disappointing Arnold and Arnold from Bruce Willis film, really. Obviously, none of us knew at this point that, you know, sadly, Bruce Willis was sort of beginning to suffer from dementia and you know he was losing his sort of faculties and he's pretty much sort of phoning in performances in lots of sort of straight to video ones at this point. So he's not quite the drawer he was, he's certainly not the actor that he was. And this one, as in the previous um diehards, diehard always worked better when it was Arnie Arnie, what talking about Arnie? When it was John McClain by himself up against Impossible Odds. As soon as you team him up with someone, so like Samuel L. Jackson in the third one, or in this case, um they team him up with his grown son, so you know Sonny was a a small child in the uh original, uh, he's played by Jai Courtney in this one. Um and he's okay, you know, as an action star, he's okay. Um if you can buy that he's uh John McClain's son, it's okay. Uh it's actually most of it's set in Russia, uh, which was uh it's a brilliant poster actually I've still got from pre-release poster because I was still I think we're still working in the cinema at the time when this one came out. Um and it's Yippie K Yippikye Mother Russia on the poster, which if you know what the normal quote is from John McLean, the Yippikai one. Uh I thought that was very clever. So I like that one a lot. But um, yeah, the movie is a little bit hit and miss, and it doesn't help actually. I went to see it on the day it came out, and there was a lot of it just in Russian, with no subtitles, no translations, anything like that, and it was just like it was really difficult to follow what was going on. Uh and I uh after I left for Sino, I was walking down the road and I bumped into the guy I worked with who's a projectionist up there. Uh actually it might have been different, it might have been a different day, actually. Um, have you been to cinema much? Yeah, I went to see the new diad, I didn't think much of it, I didn't really know what was going on. He goes, Oh, you you didn't see it on that first day during the day, did you? I was like, Yeah, he goes, uh yeah, they forgot to put the uh subtitle track on on the digital print. So yeah, watch a film that is you know largely spoken in Russian with no subtitles and no so not surprisingly, I didn't understand what's going on. Went to it again with the subs, made a bit more sense, but um, yeah. You know, by this point, it'd be like with the Fast and Furious films, the longer those sort of franchises go on, the more sort of far-fetched and you know, super heroic the characters become. And it's a little bit like that with this one. Um, you know, even though John McClain has uh diced with death all the all the way through that series, but yeah, um, but unfortunately, you know, they never got a chance to sort of go back and and do another one. So unfortunately, with the state that Bruce Willis is in nowadays, it's really not going to happen. So but a shame, a bit of a bit of a sorry end to a great series there. Um but there we are. Yeah, that's uh that's life, unfortunately. Uh what else was that? Was some fun little comedies there. So we had um We're the Millers, which was very good for um uh Jennifer Aniston, you know, one of her sort of breakout comedies after um being so successful for so long in Friends. Uh she's great in that. Uh Will Porter, who was a brilliant um young British actor who'd been on some TV stuff like School of Comedy and whatnot, and he'd been brilliant in Son of Rambo, if you've seen that one. Um yeah, great. And this was his sort of big Hollywood calling card, and he's carried on doing quite a few sort of Hollywood films since, so they've sort of adopted him as one of their own over there, which is cool. Um what else was there comedy-wise? We had uh World's End, yes. So I mentioned we'd done the um Cornetto trilogy, so the Shorten of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, talked about them. This is the third, uh, but apparently not final one in the trilogy. Well, finally in the trilogy, but there may be another Cornetto movie in the work. So according to something I was reading the other day, um Simon Peg and Nick Frost and Edgar Wright might be getting back together to do something new, so can't wait for that one. But yeah, World's End, basically about a pub crawl that's interrupted. It's a load of old friends going on a pub crawl, and it's interrupted by essentially an alien invasion. So very good, very crazy. Some really, really good sequences in there, some absolutely you know banging British comedy talent in there. Really, really good. Um what else was there? So not a comedy at all, but Captain Phillips, uh, which is Tom Hanks, and this is basically about um pirates, so real-life pirates and Somalian seas, I think. Um Somali have seas. Somalian pirates, uh, hijacking um Captain Phillips' ship. Um, and yeah, there's some harrowing stuff in there, but as ever, Tom Hanks is brilliant value, really, really good. Uh Wolf of Wall Street, so this is uh Leo Leonardo DiCaprio's um story of Jordan Belfour, I think he's called, uh, who's basically a kid who sort of strikes it lucky on the stock market and you know becomes a bit of a douchebag to be fair. But this one most notable for you know breakout role for Margot Robbie, you know, who after this you know is still one of the leading Hollywood actresses, you know, uh a good 10-13 years later, you know, she's still you know, Barbie was huge last year, um Brotherin Hoyt's is at the cinema at the moment, so yeah, she just you could do no wrong, you know, she it was basically from you know neighbours, the Australian soap opera straight into um Wolf of Wall Street. So, you know, hell of a break for her. Um and she was fantastic in it. Um and yeah, she's uh she's a great little talent, actually. Good she's good good to watch. Uh what else we've got about time, which is Richard Curtis's um romantic comedy, and he's obviously the guy from you know behind Notting Hill and uh Four Weddings and Um Love Actually, as well as all the TV stuff like Black Adder and Vicker of Dibbly. Um I think this is his last film to date, actually. I think he's possibly talked about he's retired anyway, but this is uh um a sort of a time travel comedy, you know, there's elements of of time travelling and being able to do stuff over again, um, which is good. But yeah, no, it didn't hit quite as big as um those previous films, but still uh good good watch. Um you've got another actual film Olympus Has Fallen, so this was uh Gerald Butler, uh who I think I only knew from the sort of voices from how to train your dragon and stuff like that at this point, but it's um it's a kind of a silly actioner, uh in which he's basically a former bodyguard for the president, who ends up being at the White House when there's a siege, so terrorists take over the White House. So it's you know, it's kind of your diehard in a dot dot dot, but this is in the White House. It's good fun, I really like it. Spawned a couple more sequels, uh Angel Has Fallen and London Has Fallen, not in that order, and you know it's unexpectedly a massive hit, particularly given this is one of those years where occasionally you get it where there's sort of rival films, similar sort of films that come out. So, you know, I'm thinking about you know when Ants was up against The Bug's Life and um Deep Impact up against Armageddon. So similar films that just happened to come out uh at the same time, and at the same time as Olympus has Fallen came out, you also had White House Down, which was Channel Tatum and Jamie Foxx as the president. Similar sort of setup, you know, not a different film, not a rip-off of anything, it's just you know happened to be the same sort of thing around at the same sort of time, you know, could easily have been, I guess, a you know, diehard sequel or something, or you know, Stephen Sigal Under Siege 3 or anything anything like that. But yeah, it just happened to sort of come out at the same sort of time. So um I think history's probably been kinder to Olympus has fallen, given it's got um sequels and stuff, but uh yeah, it's uh that was out. Um Evil Dead, so this was kind of a remake, kind of a continuation of Sam Raimi's um, you know, Bruce Campbell star uh trilogy. Um but this was going in a new direction with new cast and new director, and it ties into it's sort of linked in a sort of roundabout way to um the originals. Uh you've also, you know, since then you've had another Evil Dead Rise, Evil Dead Rise, Evil Dead Rise is a couple years ago, uh, which again, similar new story, but but you know, still about the Book of the Dead and sort of ties into Ash being there and stuff. There's also been you know spin-off series, Ash vs. Evil Dead. So, yeah, that was good, but a lot a lot scarier, you know, more of a traditional sort of horror than uh the sort of comedy of the um later sort of uh Sam Raimi versions. Uh we talked at length about the Hobbit, but yeah, the second one, Desolation of Smell, was out this year. Very good. Particularly recommend the extended versions, as I've said before. Uh, a couple of really good Disney ones, as well as um Frozen. You also have Planes, which despite um being a spin-off of the Cars universe, uh, isn't a Pixar. So Cars was Pixar, but Planes is just Disney, but they are sort of set in the same world. So um there's sort of little links and little in-jokes and stuff like that, but essentially instead of um anthropomorphic cars, these are anthropomorphic planes, and it's all sort of set in the sky, so the world above cars, if you like. Um, and some of the little um animated shorts, I think one of the Mate's Tall Tales sort of makes a reference to it uh and says, Oh, you can make a whole film about these planes sort of thing. So that's good. But yeah, more sort of sequels out as well. Star Trek into Darkness, um you know, the second of the what became known as the Kelvin Universe ones, sort of a remake of the Wrath of Khan, but not quite. Um, you know, wasn't helped by the fact that it was one of those where they sort of denied that it was gonna be a remake of the Wrath of Khan, but you know, that ended up exactly what it was. Uh Fast and Furious 6 continued on with um from the fourth and fifth one with the old original castback, uh, with the additions of you know, people like you've got Dwayne Johnson in there, the rock. Um he's now sort of fully fledged character in the universe. Um what else we've got? Now you see me. So that was uh one about sort of a thriller about young magicians, which is continued. There's still another sequel of that this year, so there's been three of those so far. Uh oh, Pixar, there was a Pixar which was Monsters University, so sequel to Monsters Inc. So you're loads of good stuff out this year. World War Z, um or Z if you like, which was the uh Brad Pitt sort of end of the world apocalypse sort of thing. Uh most notable because this had uh Peter Capaldi as well his characters doesn't have a name, but in the credits he's the so basically he works at the World Health Organization. They go to a lab where it's the World Health Organization. So his credit is WHO Doctor, and just after this film came out, he was actually announced as the new Doctor Who. So he went from H uh WHO Doctor to Doctor Who, and yeah, that's kind of a funny little thing, and that's probably what I remember most about World War Z, but I don't mind it, I didn't mind it at all. Uh Red 2, so yeah, again, Bruce Willis was still sort of cranking them out at this point. Red 2, I think probably preferable. I think it's a better film than the first Red. Uh what else? Pretty much covered them all there, I think, haven't we? Just scanning my little list. Oh, Lone Ranger, so a little bit of a Disney misfire, but probably caught up in the same sort of negativity as last week's focus film, John Carter, that I talked about, um, which I've um yeah been getting a lot of love for actually from the little comments and stuff I noticed, so it's very good. Um someone put me on to I've just turned up today, actually, sat on the table in front of me. There was a prequel comic that uh I think Dark Horse did um for prior to that movie coming out, which I'm looking forward to reading. Should be good. Um but yeah, so Lone Ranger was Johnny Depp again. Um obviously I think it was directed by Gore Vabinsky from um Pirates of the Caribbean as well. So kind of trading on the the goodwill of Pirates of the Caribbean, um and obviously Lone Ranger is a you know well-established property, um going back to sort of early uh action films, and so yeah, Disney basically trying to start a new franchise and do what they did with um Pirates of the Caribbean, but unfortunately didn't sort of hit too too well and sort of pretty much sank without trace, unfortunately. Didn't do Army Hammer's career much good either. Um but yeah, not terrible. I've seen it, it was fun, don't remember much about it, but it was okay. Um but yeah, and on that note that's 2013. So as you can see, I've managed to waffle on for well over half an hour just talking about um everything that was out and my little opinions, but hopefully, normal business will be resumed next week with uh a particular film to talk about. Uh I'm not sure what that is yet. I haven't sat down and got the list together, so it may even be more of the same like this, but I reckon it'll be back to uh to standard episodes very, very shortly. But in the meantime, thank you ever so much for joining me. I hope you don't mind me w waffling on so much as I do. Uh I would say we are rapidly approaching the end of the 50 episodes now, so um if you would be ever so kind to stay with me, I would very much appreciate it. Um thank you for all the comments and all the love that I get for this. It's really, really fun. I still just really enjoy doing it as well, uh, which is my main basis for it. But the fact that other people are getting fun and enjoyment from it as well um is all the more gratifying. So thanks ever so much. Please try and watch as many movies as you can this week, uh, as in every week, is it should be your priority in life, really. Okay. But in the meantime, we'll see you back here, same time uh next week, for more milestone movies when we will be talking about 2014. What a year. Take care, we'll speak to you soon. Bye bye.