AFI Picks The Top Ten Movies And TV Shows Of 2013. Snooze Away.
Well, the American Film Institute, a body that should not be picking top tens or best movies of this or any year, has returned once again to deliver the world’s most boring, inconsequential list of top movies and TV programs of 2013.
I’ve never liked these lists, 0r the short-lived awards ceremony, primarily because AFI should focus on the history and impact of motion pictures. Putting together a list like this leaves out films like Short Term 12, The Butler, Before Midnight and Spring Breakers for consensus fare. Their list always makes the Academy look like risk takers, that’s how conservative AFI is. And it’s certainly not the Sight and Sound list.
Hell, it’s not even capturing the biggest film’s of the year like Hunger Games: Catching Fire or Fast & Furious 6, movies that certainly have a greater cultural impact than most of the ones listed below. I’d take shamelessly commercial over boring any day. It is Hollywood, after all.
ANYWAY onto the lists, and snooze away:
MOVIES OF THE YEAR
12 YEARS A SLAVE
AMERICAN HUSTLE
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
FRUITVALE STATION
GRAVITY
HER
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
NEBRASKA
SAVING MR. BANKS
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
TV SHOWS OF THE YEAR
THE AMERICANS
BREAKING BAD
GAME OF THRONES
THE GOOD WIFE
HOUSE OF CARDS
MAD MEN
MASTERS OF SEX
ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK
SCANDAL
VEEP
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