My 2013: The 5 Films That Surprised Me

In this look back, I'm focusing on 5 films that pleasantly surprised me this year.  These are films that for all intents and purposes looked bad from the trailers, had production problems, had people behind or in front of the camera I usually don't like...whatever the case may be...I was really surprised to find when these films came out, and I saw them on my own accord or was recommended them by a peer, and really enjoyed them and was pretty surprised that I'd qualify them as good/great/enjoyable.  And I'm well aware I just wrote the run-on sentence to end all run-on sentences just now.  I'm presenting them in no preferential order, just alphabetical.

Poster For WORLD WAR Z Has Brad Pitt Overlooking Fallout Of Zombie Apocalypse

Here's a new one-sheet for this summer's zombie epic WORLD WAR Z that dropped today.  While the poster doesn't showcase any sort of zombies themselves, their havoc can be seen from above.  The poster definitely evokes the scale this movie is going to have.  This is the biggest, most expensive zombie movie ever made, yet has been riddled with well publicized production troubles.  The fear we have, is that the film will turn out to be one big giant mess.  But, you never know, the suits or whoever decided to go and reshoot things might have done the correct thing.  My new worry is the likely to be PG-13 bloodless zombie film we will be partaking in.  In the era of THE WALKING DEAD being the most popular show on cable television, people have become used to brain splattering and limbs being torn off on weekly basis.  This might be "wimpy" for people who aren't even gore hounds.  But, if the film manages some great action sequences and suspenseful situations wrapped up in a decent narrative it shouldn't matter.


WORLD WAR Z opens June 21 in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D


Brandon