Best of 2014

Guardians Of the Galaxy
Edge of tomorrow
Winter Soldier
Gone Girl
Nightcrawler
John Wick
X-men
Lego Movie
Budapest Hotel
Birdman

Notable Mentions
22 Jump
Boyhood
Foxcatcher

1. Guardians of the Galaxy
2. Interstellar
3. Captain America: Winter Solider
4. Edge of Tomorrow
5. Birdman (probably the "best" movie I saw, but the 4 above were more entertaining)
6. Nightcrawler (same as above 2nd "best" movie)
7. X-Men: DoFP
8. Lego Movie
9. 22 Jump Street
10. John Wick

Haven't seen but might have made the list: Hobbit 3, The Imitation Game, Boyhood, Grand Budapest Hotel, Foxcatcher

I really didnt know how to rank them but pure entertainment was Guardians, Wick, Edge, Winter Soldier, and 22. Had a blast watching all those with friends

Chef
Selma
Edge of Tomorrow
Foxcatcher
Jorodowsky's Dune
The LEGO Movie
The Imitation Game
The Theory of Everything
Nightcrawler
Big Hero 6

I have yet to see Birdman, Foxcatcher, Nightcrawler and Whiplash that seem to have the potential to enter this list, but so far I have seen 9 4out of 4 stars movies in 2014. In alphabetical order:

Black Coal Thin Ice: Chinese Neo Noir set in a mining city.

Blind: A Norwegian woman lost her eyesight, but tries to keep her brain active to not forget how the world looked like. A film making tour-de-force and a blunt, honest story about self-image and becoming handicapped.

Historias Extraordinarias: A very long and very strange kind of collage movie from Argentina. Very inventive and with the strangest brand of tongue in cheek humor (can be seen on youTube).

Nymphomaniac Part 1: The latest Von Trier. A nymphomaniac tells her life story to an old and cultured loner and it's the source of many strange parallels and digressions. Part 1 and Part 2 really form a single movie together, but the Part 1 is superior in my book.

Pee Mak: Hillarious Thai comedy based on a ghost story.

The Attorney: Historical drama about a greedy attorney that find himself the defendant in a kangaroo court designed to send to jail left wing students but who find a moral bone in his body and decides to not play along.

Venus Talk: Dramedy about 3 women in their 40s and their love/sex life. The anti sex in the city.

Wolf Children: Anime movie about the children of a woman and a werewolf. Quickly becomes about motherhood, education and choosing a life for oneself.

Why Don't You Play In Hell: Sono Shion blows a gasket and makes a frantic gore comedy about Yakuza, amateur film-makers and an insane wannabe idol.


If you want a list of english language films (no order) here are the 4 and 3 stars ones I saw this year.

- Nymphomaniac Part 1
- Wish You Were Here
- 12 Years A Slave
- Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Jimmy P.
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Short Term 12 / States of Grace
- Sils Maria
- The Grand Budapest Hotel
- The Spectacular Now
- Under The Skin
- X-Men: Days of Future Past
- Housebound
- White Bird in a Blizzard
- The Journey (a big chunk is in english).

Some were released in 2013 in the US (12 Years a Slave for sure), but... I saw them in 2014 and that's the question Fight asked! (Historias Extraordinarias is even from a few years back).

Guardians was my favorite movie by far, with John Wick/Edge of Tomorrow/Cpn. A: Winter Soldier tied for second.

Im surprised people have equalizer high, I thought it was ok where John Wick was pure awesome action

same list as you guys (gotg x-men etc) i'd add calvary, chef, 22 jump street.

not a lot of pure action moves though beyond equalizer and john wick, most of the big budget action moves sucked - transformers, apes, expendables 3, sin city.

Maybe it was because I knew what was going to happen but the John Wick ending didnt bother me nearly as much the second time watching but then again I had a buzz going. Dredd and Wick need sequels

Kirun_sl said:

It just went on too long. That's my main gripe. It should've ended right after he..

Spoiler

Kills Theon Greyjoy.

Especially with how awesomely/abruptly it happens.

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1. Foxcatcher
2. The Theory of Everything
3. Birdman
pretty much the only three good movies I saw this year in the theaters.

Not a whole lot of love for LEGO Movie here. I only saw five movies in theaters this year, that was one of them. Also Guardians, X-Men, Captain America, and the 30th anniversary limited run of Ghostbusters.

1a. Guardians
1b. Ghostbusters
2. Captain America
3. LEGO Movie
4. X-men