And I'm staying tuned to blu-ray.com, waiting for that Saving Mr. Banks release date. I got my screener copy and I'm already preparing for the evisceration that'll be known as the Saving Mr. Banks commentary.

When it comes to The Lone Ranger, I feel that in today's cinema, Westerns just don't draw the way sci-fi or fantasy does now. I don't think there was a true way to make this film a monetary success in today's movie industry. I think this movie should've followed the path the movie Dredd did, where playing the film more seriously like in 2012's Dredd as opposed to the Stallone incarnation could have lead to a more critically successful film. I'm unsure as to what changes could have turned it into the blockbuster the studio thought it could've been, that's why I'm not a movie exec. I'm also not convinced Hammer can be a lead, but to me he wasn't what was the main reason for its failure.

Anyway, here's my Top 5 (haven't yet seen: Blue is the Warmest Colour, Her, and The Wolf of Wall Street)
1. Gravity
2. Prisoners
3. American Hustle & Act of Killing (tie)
4. All Is Lost
5. Dallas Buyers Club
Honorable Mention: Side Effects, Oblivion, Blackfish, Inside Llewyn Davis, The To-Do List, This is the End

Top 5 Worst:
1. Movie 43
2. After Earth & The Mortal Instruments (tie)
3. Elysium
4. Jack the Giant Slayer & Warm Bodies (Nicholas Hoult your terrible)
5. The Lone Ranger

Next Top 5 Worst (yeah its that kinda year)
6. Star Trek Into Darkness
7. Kick Ass 2
8. Identity Thief
9. The Host
10. Disney's Planes
Dishonorable Mention: Paranoia

However, this year I think gave us a lot of interesting possible WAYDM Candidates, some of which I'd be interested in are for good or bad:
1. The World's End
2. Pacific Rim
3. Elysium
4. Hunger Games: Catching Fire
5. Man of Steel
6. World War Z
7. Monsters University
8. The Purge

Lastly, I think this would be more fitting for the Are Video Games Art? thread, but if we could include them, I'd put the story told in "The Last of Us" in my Top 5. The script Neil Druckmann penned for this PS3 exclusive game follows a number of zombie/apocalyptic tropes and subverts some along the way. With the occasional comedic relief to lighten the mood, the game carries a sense of dread that is inescapable, with every death along the way (infected or not) having weight to it as if you feel the impact of taking every life. You can tell that Druckmann is well versed in the art of screenwriting, as setups are paid off largely through the narrative. The story of weaved between the two main characters and the complex relationship shared between them only begins to engrossing you the longer you play, learning the nuances of characters and watching them grow closer only leads to a greater potential sense of loss. What makes the game phenomenal is the fact they can convey so much emotion so subtly without much/if an dialogue during some scenes. It's a game where you could argue that the cutscenes are better than the gameplay itself.I'm not going to spoil any part of the game for anyone who hasn't had the benefits of experiencing The Last of Us, but to say the beginning & ending of the game left me speechless, would be an understatement. I've read some video game articles claiming TLoU has given video games, "The citizen Kane moment in gaming", I wouldn't go that far but if you have a PS3 (or a generous friend who'd allow you to borrow theirs) and about 13-15 hours to dedicate to this story, it's an experience that will stick with you long after you've put the controller down.

I guess I should clarify my Eddie Murphy comment. Yes, I'm a fan of movies Murphy has been in like Beverly Hills Cop and Best Defense, however I personally cannot separate the Eddie Murphy I adored in Best Defense from the Eddie Murphy in Norbit or Pluto Nash. Sometimes my brain can't separate those details when I turn on my television. When I watch a Lakers game, I can't look at Kobe Bryant and bask in his great skill at playing the game of basketball, I only see a guy who I believe got away with alleged-rape twice due to witness tampering & intimidation. Not saying Eddie is a rapist, although you may disagree if you sat through all of Norbit. Unfortunately, I have trouble separating those facts, one day I'll be able to watch BHC the way I could before some of the aforementioned piiles of s*** he laid later in this career but unfortunately today isn't that day.

Wow, decisions..decisions. Like most, this thread isn't capable of holding the plethora of terrible films that get the green light. I could include any film with Eddie Murphy, the Joel Schumacher Batman films, any of the Friedberg & Seltzer movies, along with retarded science-fiction films like Apollo 18 & that supposed Alien prequel (fuck you Ridley Scott!).

However, for me the cardinal sin in film-making is shear laziness & incompetence and the piece of shit film that was the worst film experience of my life is Movie 43. An anthology comedy movie that is completely devoid of any semblance of humor in it. The film's biggest crime it commits is not that it's relies entirely on offensive (and racist) gross-out humor, but that it does it with a cast of A & B list across that hacks like Friedberg & Seltzer could only dream of employing. While F&S have Carmen Electra, Drake Bell, and Kevin Sorbo; Movie 43 has Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Naomi Watts, Kieran Culkin, Kate Winslet, Gerard Butler, Kristen Bell, Chloe Moretz, Richard Gere, Elizabeth Banks, and Patrick Warburton, just to name a few.

Movie 43 is a movie whose humor can't supersede the mentality of a 4th grade boy and even with all those talent actors, they created a film that will make a 10 year-old boy cringe more than laugh. Like Teague said during the Apollo 18 commentary; "You (Apollo 18) tried to shit on my face and you shit on my neck...you can't even do that right."
And this movie has wasted enough o