Movie/TV Roundup 2013

2013 had many movies that I really, really wanted to catch. Time just wasn't on my side this year.

Excellent:
Pacific Rim
Iron Man 3
Now You See Me

Star Trek Into Darkness

Despicable Me 2

Monsters University

Argo (2012)

Not Bad:

Odd Thomas
Kick-Ass 2

Life of Pi (2012)

The Wolverine
White House Down

World War Z 

Indifferent:
2 Guns
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Curse of Chucky
Elysium
Escape from Planet Earth
Fast & Furious 6
Jack Reacher (2012)
Riddick
Rise of the Guardians (2012)
The Last Stand
Turbo
Warm Bodies

Didn't hold my attention; but I plan to finish:
G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Oblivion

Man of Steel

Red 2

Waste my time:

A Good Day to Die Hard

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 

Jack the Giant Slayer 

Pain & Gain
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Oz the Great and Powerful

R.I.P.D.

Red Dawn (2012)
The Host
The Lone Ranger
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

Queued to [must] watch:
47 Ronin
About Time
Ender's Game

Frozen
Gravity
Saving Mr. Banks

The Butler
The Wolf of Wall Street
The World's End
Thor: Dark World

Queued to [maybe] watch:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Don Jon
Epic
Captain Phillips
The Great Gatsby
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

TV was a huge time-sink with many promising new shows, and final seasons of really excellent shows. Definitely binge watching in batches whenever I can. 1.5x and 2x speeds without pitch shift is a wonderful feature on VLC player :-)

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - new; so far so good
Almost Human - new; so far so good
Alpha House - new; slowed down a bit mid-season, hoping it picks back up
Boardwalk Empire - going strong
Breaking Bad - ended with best wrap-up in recent memory!
Castle - still going strong
Continuum - get that story arc moving, may drop
Dexter - ended; meh
Doctor Who - excellent 50th anniversary features and extras!
Elementary - can't really hold a candle to the BBC's Sherlock, may drop
Game of Thrones - going strong
Homeland - what a twist
House of Cards - Kevin Spacey nailed it!
Misfits - powers of new cast suck; may drop
Orange is the New Black - hope season 2 doesn't drop into a rut
Person of Interest - cast is getting a bit unwieldy
Sons of Anarchy - meh; may drop
Spartacus: War of the Damned - ended; feel a bit guilty watching this one, not much story but plenty of violence and nudity
The Blacklist - new; writing story arc checks that it might not be able to cash
The Crazy Ones - new; Robin Williams is hilarious
The Good Wife - holding on despite the excessive inter-personal drama
The Mentalist - finally, Red John is dead! time to move on
The Newsroom - flashback format; hate that; hope season three avoids this
Sherlock - and he's back!
True Blood - less talk, more action needed

Dropped:
Brooklyn Nine-Nine - not getting the laughs after third episode
House of Lies - bogged down, angsty
Suits - gotten too soapy
The Walking Dead - comics are so much better
Touch - yawn
White Collar - gotten predictable