Best of 2013 Episode 15
Holly: “Hi there, guys! Welcome back to Best of 2013 Double
Bill Mother’s Day Special! We’re back for another one hour!”
Nick: “We’re counting down the video number 45 to 41 of
2013! And we’re also counting down the top 5 movies of 2013!”
Holly: “Before we start, where’s Drew?”
Drew: “*arrives* I’m here.”
Nick: “How’s your meeting with Luke and Blake?”
Drew: “It was bananas!”
Nick: “Bananas?”
Drew: “I mean ‘amazing’, Nick.”
Holly: “Guys, we still have The Saturdays and Union J in the
Live Lounge, as well as Lea Michele, who will be talking with us on the blue
couch about her new album and Cory Monteith’s death. *sobs* I miss Cory
Monteith.”
Drew: “Oh, don’t be sad…”
Nick: “While waiting for Holly to be calmed, here are the
nominees for the Best Female.”
Best Female
Delta Goodrem
Ke$ha
Rihanna
Selena Gomez
Taylor Swift
#45. Girls’ Generation – I Got a Boy (27356 pts.)
Nick: “That was Girls’ Generation – I Got A Boy at the
number 45! The Saturdays are performing up next after this segment, first we’re
checking out the top 5 best movies of 2013! Number 5 goes to The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug! Who
could guess, after the meandering first feature in a seemingly unnecessary
eight-hour trilogy of films based on a novel of less than 300 pages, that Peter
Jackson had such a vigorous and thrilling middle episode in store? With Bilbo,
Gandalf and the dwarves finally done with introductory dawdling, they dive into
a nonstop adventure among the noble Elves, the rough-hewn humans of Laketown
and the ferocious dragon Smaug. This time, Andy Serkis has not lent his
presence to Gollum, but his work as second-unit director is spectacular. Each
complex encounter, especially a flume-ride escape of the dwarves, boasts a
teeming ingenuity of action and character. A bonus: the budding romance of the
warrior Elf Tauriel and the dwarf hunk Kili. In all, this is a splendid
achievement, close to the grandeur of Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films.”
Holly: “While the number 4 goes to… Frozen! Princess Elsa has powers of sorcery beyond her control: she
can and does cast a nuclear winter on her northern kingdom. Her sister Anna is
the normal one, falling in love at the first sight of any eligible male, yet
bound to confront her sister and save their realm. The first animated feature
in the Walt Disney studio’s glorious history to offer two princess heroines,
Frozen transforms Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Snow Queen” into a fable of
modern, timeless sisterhood. For this full-musical enchantment, Writer Jennifer
Lee and co-director Chris Buck tapped some of the Broadway musical’s brightest
lights — composers Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez and actor-singers Idina
Menzel, Kristen Bell and Jonathan Groff — and poured all comic inspiration into
the snowman character. His show-stopping set piece “In Summer” provides the
finest two minutes of cinema you’ll seer this year.”
Drew: “And the number 3 goes to Fast and Furious 6! Planes, trains and automobiles collide
spectacularly in the fourth Fast & Furious movie to be directed by Justin
Lin and written by Chris Morgan. In a reunion of Vin Diesel, the late Paul
Walker, their gang and girlfriends and DEA agent Dwayne Johnson, Furious 6
vrooms from Tenerife to Moscow to London, with astounding stunts in each
location, and hitches a ride on a military cargo plane for the final brawl.
Where Fast Five heralded the New Hollywood’s exaltation of sensational action
over subtle character, Furious 6 revs everything up, purifies and
improves it to a level even cooler and more aerodynamically delirious than its
predecessor, if such a thing is even mathematically possible. This
adrenaline-stoking series is addictive, for its chases, crashes, crushes — and
for its poetic limning of the closest camaraderie many men can ever know: with
their cars.”
Nick: “Well, guys, we will reveal the top 2 later after our
interview with Lea Michele on the blue couch, but first please welcome The
Saturdays!”
#44. Blake Shelton feat. Pistol Annies & Friends – Boys ‘Round
Here (27482 pts.)
Drew: “That was Blake Shelton – Boys ‘Round Here at number
44, I’m now on the blue couch now alongside with Nick.”
Nick: “And our Glee star, Lea Michele! Good to see you, you
look really pretty.”
Lea Michele: “Thank you very much! I’m excited to be here!”
Drew: “How are you?”
Lea Michelle: “I’m doing well after you know rough year, but
I’m glad there’s good people here.”
Nick: “So, I understand that you had difficult times after
your boyfriend, Cory Monteith, died.”
Lea Michele: “Yeah, he was so wonderful, he was helpful, he
was awesome, and it’s too bad he died before Glee went into production for
season five, it’s really intense,”
Drew: “Lea, I watched the tribute episode again, I feel
really sad, you really cried on the show.”
Lea Michele: “It’s really emotional for the cast and crew,
especially me, it’s really hard. But it makes me stronger than ever.”
Nick: “The episode was amazing.”
Drew: “Well, Lea, you’re also promoting your debut album,
and your debut single, Cannonball, is
out on iTunes, it’s from your debut album, Louder.”
Lea Michele: “Yeah, this is different, finally I have my own
solo album, I’m feeling myself when I record this album. I started working on
it September last year and I finished in June. With this record, I’m being me.”
Nick: “Well, you’re going to sing your first single, Cannonball in the studio, live. But
first, here’s video number 43, and Union J is performing in the Live Lounge
next!”
#43. Daft Punk feat. Pharrell – Get Lucky (27809 pts.)
Please welcome Union J!!
Holly: “That was Union J performing in the live lounge. And
performing her debut single, Cannonball,
please welcome Lea Michele!”
Drew: “That was Lea Michele with her debut single, Cannonball. And we have the top two
movies of 2013! It’s between American
Hustle and Gravity!”
Nick: “First is Gravity!
When NASA travellers Sandra Bullock and George Clooney get lost in space, all
awe breaks loose. Losing contact with Mission Control, as well as access to
their oxygen supply, they are alone together, with time and options running
out. An epic of desperate peril and profound wonder, Alfonso Cuarón’s thrilling
3-D drama is a testament to human grit and groundbreaking technical ingenuity.
It deserves to be seen once for the wow factor and a second time to try to
figure out how Cuarón and his digital savants managed to make the impossible
seem so cinematically plausible. No one had dared even to imagine this stuff —
like the astounding 13-minute take that opens the movie — yet here it all is,
vividly and sumptuously realized. In depicting the fearful, beautiful reality
of the space world above our world, Gravity reveals the glory of
cinema’s future; it thrills on so many levels. And because Cuarón is a movie
visionary of the highest order, you truly can’t beat the view.”
Drew: “We also have American
Hustle. History remade as sparkling farce: the FBI’s late-70’s Abscam
investigation of political corruption, which led to the conviction of a U.S.
Senator and seven Congressmen, becomes this headlong tale of romance and
recklessness. In director David O. Russell’s third consecutive movie about
mismatched couples and their crazy families, after The Fighter and Silver
Linings Playbook, A New York con artist juggles a mouthy wife (Jennifer Lawrence)
and a cunning girl friend while reluctantly cooperating with the sting —
supervised by a federal agent — of a New Jersey mayor. “Some of this actually
happened,” reads the movie’s opening text; but Russell and cowriter Eric Warren
Singer aren’t going for verisimilitude. This portrait of the ’70s revels in the
decade’s gaudiness — its disco dancing and casino dreams, its ugly coiffures
and facial hair — and in the eternal abrasion of sexy women and covetous men.
The five stars form a fabulous ensemble cast, in the year’s most knowing
explosion of flat-out fun.”
Nick: “And the Best Movie of 2013 goes to… Gravity!!”
Drew: “Before we reveal the winner of the Best Female,
please enjoy the video number 42!”
#42. Avicii – Wake Me Up (27949 pts.)
Holly: “Okay, that’s almost the end of the show, and the
winner of Best Female goes to… Taylor Swift! Wow! She won two awards tonight!
Congratulations!”
BEST FEMALE
TAYLOR SWIFT
Drew: “Well, that’s it for the Mother’s Day Double Bill
special, make sure you tune in Christmas Eve for another Double Bill special!”
Nick: “And Christmas Day of course!”
Holly: “Happy Mother’s Day, everyone, good night!”
Nick: “Here’s video number 41! Good night!”
#41. Ke$ha – C’mon (28567 pts.)
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