13. Scary Movie 5
Now I will say this, I liked the first Scary Movie, I wasn't a fan of the second one, I thought the third and fourth ones were pretty funny, with the fourth one probably being my favorite. I have been waiting for a Scary Movie 5 since 2007, there were some rumors saying that it would parody the Omen, Silent Hill, and An American Haunting. But after years of some inferior parody movies and seeing the REAL SM5 trailer recently, I am looking forward to it. And even though I am a bit dissapointed that Anna Faris and Regina Hall aren't in it, let's hope it is better than the Seltzerburg parodies.
12. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Sea of Monsters
If y'all were lucky to see my not so great review of the first movie, you would know that while that the movie does not stay true to the essence to the book, the movie wasn't that bad. Now word of a movie based on the second book, "the Sea of Monsters" is in production, I was very skeptical about it until I saw some of the set photos and Alexandra Daddario who was Annabeth from the first movie and the recent "Texas Chainsaw 3D" saying that this will stay true to the book. So far there is no trailers are released yet and once it's released, let's hope this is better than the first movie.
11. G.I. Joe: Retalliation
Now I will say this I thought that "G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra" was a really bad movie, though some of the action scenes were cool, the movie was boring, had nothing to do with the figures/cartoon and the actors really didn't play the parts of the characters they represent. But with the addition of such action juggernauts such as Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson and Bruce Willis and though it was supposed to released last year, this one actually looks to be better than the first one, let's hope.
10. Machete Kills
(Yes, Lady Gaga's in this movie, just go with it.)
Now, I really enjoyed Robert Rodriguez's "Machete" being a tribute to classic 70's grindhouse flicks, a really bloody and violent movie. And at the end, it says that they revealed a sequel called "Machete Kills", and like the "Percy Jackson" sequel, no word or trailers have been shown of this movie so let's hope this will be a good movie.
9. 300: the Rise of an Empire
No word has been said about this movie except that it is a prequel to Zach Snyder's epic adaptation to Frank Miller's graphic novel "300" about Xerxes.
8. Carrie
A new look on Stephen King's classic novel (not a remake of the Sissy Spacek movie) featuring Chloe Grace-Moretz. Now judging from the teaser trailer, the very creepy poster and the very eerie "Call Carrie" (look it up on YouTube), it looks to be a very chilling movie. And speaking of Chole Grace-Moretz....
7. Kick-Ass 2
Now if you want my thoughts on the first "Kick-Ass", the title says it all, the movie kicked ass. And now word of a sequel, obviously based on the sequel to the graphic novel, I am expecting it to be more kick-ass than the first. And though I think Jim Carrey is a weird choice to play Col. Stars and Stripes, but let's see how he will do in this movie, this isn't his first comic book movie he's done (the Mask and Batman Forever).
6. Disney's Frozen
and
Pixar's Monsters University
Frozen: Disney is back with a return to the classic musical fairy tale formula that made them famous. Based on the story "the Snow Queen", the movie looks and seems to have the feel and vibe of their 2010 hit, "Tangled".
MU: Finally, as a kid I have ALWAYS wanted to see a sequel to one of my childhood movies, "Monster's Inc.", though I am a little dissapointed it's a prequel, but hey, Pixar is doing something different. I mean a sequel-prequel, it worked with Indiana Jones (Temple of Doom) and it didn't work too well with the Flintstones (Viva Rock Vegas) but let's wait and see if this will work or not.
5. Evil Dead
As a fan of this horror franchise, I was somewhat skeptical of them remaking this movie. But after checking out the two red band trailers of this movie, I am really looking forward to this. Also, note that the original director, Sam Raimi, and the original actor, Bruce Campbell, are producers of the movie, it uses practical effects and not relying on CG,and it is said to stay faithful to the original movie. This might possibly be the most grusome movie of the year.
4. Oz: the Great and Powerful
Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy, Evil Dead trilogy) returns to bring L. Frank Baum's world of Oz to life, this time as a prequel to show how a magician became the Great and Powerful Oz! Though for some feel it has the vibe of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" (If you ask, yes, I like AiW), but we'll wait until March to see how things will turn out.
3. the Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug
Even though I thought "the Hobbit: an Unexpected Journey" was not as good as the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I still thought it was a really good movie. And if you saw a bit of the end of the movie, you see a glimpse of the eye of the dragon Smaug hinting the next movie. Let's hope that this one will be a really a good movie, though Legolas wasn't in the book but oh well, and I can't wait to see what Smaug is going to look like.
2. Man of Steel
Superman has had a really tough time being translated to the big screen. Though 1978's "Superman: the Movie" and 1981's "Superman II" were good, the series downhill and the last movie "Superman Returns" bombed and the fans were outraged by it. And now "300" and "Watchmen" director Zach Snyder and "the Dark Knight Trilogy" director Christopher Nolan as producer are giving a new turn on Superman and we'll see if they will give the Man of Steel justice like how Nolan did for Batman.
and the #1 most anticipated movie or in this case movies of 2013 are:
Iron Man 3
and
Thor: the Dark World
That's right, everyone, after the awesomeness that was "the Avengers", it looks like Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is ready to go and what better way to start than with everyone's favorite hero, Iron Man. After seeing the trailer to "Iron Man 3" I feel that this one is going to blow the other two movies out of the water. The movie is expected to be much darker than the first two and is being a lot more serious tone to it, and it looks like Tony Stark is facing some serious crap in this one, examples being his Iron Man suits blowing up, his house getting destroyed and even him going through surgery. That's dark, even for Marvel, and I've seen "Hulk". And from "Thor: the Dark World", the premise sounds better than the first, being Thor battling a new enemy to save the Nine Relms. Let's hope the two movie of Phase 2 will start with a bang.
Honorable mentions:
the Lone Ranger
the Croods
Epic
Turbo
Well, that's it for my top 13 most anticipated movies of 2013. Let's hope that these movies are as good as they sound. This is Clayton saying prepare foor Hollywood to pay the price we had to pay.
