Posted on 01/02/2014 at 11:36 PM
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I personally really liked both Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel.
Though Iron Man 3 didn't expand much of the plot and I wish it also showed more of other characters, I thought what it had was great plot-wise and I really liked the character development Tony went through, the action scenes were great, the humor really worked, and honestly, let's just say it actually clicked on me the movie and I thought it's the better one of the trilogy.
Man of Steel, I admit it had some flaws. It took a while to get settled into the movie, the shaky camera was bothersome at times, the blatant product placements, maybe some scenes weren't well developed and some awkward implications (for example, the ship with the Kryptonian embryos getting blow up). Both other than that, it had great action scenes, score, special effects, acting, and overall the story, characters and ideas were great and I really felt like Henry Cavill was Superman. Just my 2 cents.
I do agree with you about Now you See Me. Stupid, contrived but also fun.
I think you pretty much know I loved Catching Fire and I consider it my second favorite film of the year only behind Gravity. Oh, and you should watch Gravity now that I mentioned the movie.
Sadly, either of lazyness or time, I couldn't watch a lot of movies in 2013. Still need to see Into Darkness, Pacific Rim, Wolverine, The World's End and Desolation of Smaug.