2013 hasn't been a great year for films so far. Dumb movies have sat at the top of the box office around the world for way too long, thanks to aggressive marketing campaigns and the championing of an agenda in film-making that values cheap and disposable thrills over real entertainment, or thought-provoking cinema. I'm not for one minute suggesting that films need to be terrible, but self-important and "weighty" to be considered worthy - that is not how cinema should be viewed by anyone, and it's an opinion pushed by the pretentious minority who view themselves as somehow above the masses. But then again, there's no way the reverse should be true. We shouldn't be furthering the perception of the normal cinema goer as an idiot, and we shouldn't be flocking to terrible films because they're sequels to something that was once good, or because a guy fell over in the trailer and some filmblog with an agenda to get on posters gave it four stars. The future will laugh at us, largely for the ridiculous amount of money we spent this year on frankly abominable films, and they will have good reason to, if this unhappy lot are anything to go by...