Your Movies of the Year list

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Ukerric_sl said:
Some blockbusters may have earned big amounts, but Rerolled has more finicky tastes... (I'm looking at you Jurassic World at 0.11 average)
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That dude (Trevorrow) is directing Episode 9.... so y'all should LEARN to like it. Or watch Safety Not Guaranteed, which was his better movie.
 
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Homsar_sl said:
Really? Galahad Bar scene, exploding heads, Eggsy vs Gazelle or the entire shoot out at the end?
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I don't get the Kingsman love either.

I chalk it up to yuropoors, just like that whole soccer thing.
 
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Kingsman was good and SLJ had me cracking up, but it was a little too predictable. thats not to say the acting was not good. i enjoyed all the acting and the action was decent, though it started getting too stupid by the end. i know the good guy needs to win, but honestly he should have died many many times over.
 
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Mad Max
Martian
Ant Man
Man from Uncle
Kingsman and Spy - I think some of the love for these are that they were way better than I thought they would be
Trainwreck

Have not seen Sicaro, Creed or Straight Outta Compton yet.
 
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I watched The Big Short a couple nights ago and it was really good. I'd put it in my top 5.
 
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Thanks for the tally... but how many losers have to cut their dicks off because Mad Max wasn't their #1? Can we get a tally on that?
 
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We're letting the net widen a little bit, give it time. Someone's BOUND to nominateDiary of a Teenage Girl.
 
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Szlia_sl said:
My list is still a work in progress as there are several films I have yet to see (The Revenant, Creed, Star Wars, Inside Out, Bridge of Spies, Crimson Peak, etc) and in my notes I have like 50ish movies that I rated 3 or 4 stars. Some of those where 2014 films in the US though (Birdman, Inherent Vice, A Most Violent Year...). If I cull those I am left with:


4 stars:

The Taking of Tiger Mountain- ultimate guilty pleasure, but I don't feel so guilty.
Marshland(La isla minima) - great spanish noir
Son of Saul(Saul fia) - hungarian art house tour de force in Auchwitz
When Marnie Was There(Omoide no Marnie) - the latest Ghibli (not the final score)
Taxi(the recent iranian movie, not the old french movie - will probably be downgraded to 3)
The Duke of Burgundy- beautiful, smart and funny film about SM (and I really dont care about SM)
Meeting Dr. Sun- the weirdest, slow burn, tongue in cheek comedy from Taiwan. Masterfully directed.

3 stars:

Mad Max Fury Road
Ex Machina
Fish & Cat- iranian indie single take movie
Irrational Man
La loi du march?- french social drama
Les m?tamorphoses- french poetic take on Ovid's classic
Mia Madre- thematically dense italian dramedy
The Martian
Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse- French director Desplechin continues his auto-fiction.
Our Little Sister(Umimachi Diary) - Kore-eda adapts a subtle slice of life manga
Over Your Dead Body- Miike on the shooting of a famous ghost story
Fires on the Plain- Tsukamoto's take on Nobi (WWII drama)
The World of Kanako- japanese over the top noir
10 Minutes- korean social drama (office politics)
A Girl at My Door- korean social drama (cop meets abused girl)
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari- very odd compilation of mari folk tales (a minority in russia)
Corn Island- beautiful and almost wordless tale of man vs nature + coming of age
Filmistan- hilarious indian comedy about a film lover kidnapped by pakistani talibans (yep).
Sand Dollars- the lesbian love/manipulation/power relationship between an aging tourist and a young dominican.
Bridgend- sublimely shot movie about an unexplained teenage suicide epidemic.
Slow West- great anti-western (there is a topic on rerolled somewhere)
Tokyo Tribe- Sono's crazy japanese rap opera.
Ryuzo And His Seven Henchmen- Comedy with Kitano as an old yakuza fighting young yakuza.
Calcutta Detective- indian version of Guy Richie's Sherlock Holmes
Ecotherapy Getaway Holiday- strange japanese comedy about aging women getting lost in the wood.
Ode To My Father- korean Forest Gump boosted to 3 stars because of an amazing passage.
Brotherhood of Blades- swordfighting spies double cross each others!
TAZZA: The Hidden Card- over the top korean gambler blockbuster
Make Room- super indie japanese comedy about a day in the make up room of a japanese porn shoot.
Cart- korean social drama (supermarket employees)
Uncle Victory- super weird chinese tongue in cheek comedy
0.5mm- strange and very long japanese dramedy about a woman who bullies her way into the life of others to make it better.
My Brilliant Life- korean dramedy about a kid with progeria (yep)
Unsung Hero- an ode to japanese stunt men and women.
Caf?. Waiting. Love- taiwanese romantic comedy with absurdist elements


The over-representation of asian cinema is mostly due to the fact early in the year I went to a film festival where I saw 60ish asian films.
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Well, I was able to find:

Duke of Burgundy
Meeting Dr. Sun
Filmistaan
Tokyo Tribe
Brotherhood of Blades
Marshland
Taking of Tiger Mountain

Was not able to find Cafe. Waiting. Love. But did find a movie called You are the Apple of My Eye, that someone mentioned they liked more.

Also Tazza - The Hidden Card apparently had a first film Tazza - The High Rollers, so am getting both of those.
 
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Barraco Bisi_sl said:
In my downloaded queue.

I'll let you know
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LOL it wasn't terrible it but it's too artsy fartsy to mingle in the same company as Fury Road.

Maybe folks should list their fave REAL movies, our fave cuckfag movies and favorite documentaries of 2015 as separate categories?

Best Actual Real Movies:

1. Mad Max
2. Ex Machina
3. The Martian
4. Episode 7
5. The Big Short

Best Docs

1. Best of Enemies
2. Cartel Land
3. (T)error
4. Montage of Heck
5. Uncertain

Best Cuckfag Movies:

1. Hard to be a God
2. Son of Saul
3. Spotlight
4. Results
5. Brooklyn
 
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Jorren_sl said:
Mad Max
Martian
Ant Man
Man from Uncle
Kingsman and Spy - I think some of the love for these are that they were way better than I thought they would be
Trainwreck

Have not seen Sicaro, Creed or Straight Outta Compton yet.
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This exactly, minus Man from Uncle.
 
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Hard to be a God is monumental but I must say that I have no love for these films that feel like never ending fever dreams such as The Hourglass Sanatorium or some (but not all) of the movies of Guy Maddin or Aleksandr Sokurov... now that I write that, I remember enjoying Lars von Trier's The Element of Crime that kinda falls into the same category... mmmh...


For Intrinsic: I would say Marshland, Filmistan and the Duke of Burgundy are the most conventionally good movies on the list. The others are probably more divisive. I should also note that part of my enjoyment of TAZZA might have come from the fact I did not see the first movie making the plot even more of a joyful mess.

Also, I am surprised you did not find Slow West, but maybe you saw it already?
 
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Missed it, grabbing it now, thanks. Admittedly skipped looking for a few of the ones you only listed as 'Korean social drama' or such and there's a couple of others in the queue but probably won't finish for months b/c of only 1 or 2 seeds.
 
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Mad Max
Hateful 8
Star Wars 7
Kingsman
The Martian
- anything that wasn't in the above 5, in order.

Avengers Age of Ultron would have been an easy 6, but it always feels weird ending outside of a 5/10/20 paradigm.
 
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Sylas_sl said:
I never really cared too much about the rocky franchise either. Only ever saw Rocky, Rocky Balboa, and Creed. Creed was fucking amazing.

Let me tell you the story of a movie released this year. A 7th installment of a franchise, featuring aging actors returning to the roles they had played 30+ years ago, in a sort of sequel/soft reboot of said franchise, that pays homage to the original while at the same time is really a passing of the torch from the old actors to a new, younger set of actors to continue the saga. This film will basically be the same story/plot as the first movie of the franchise. It will also utilize some dramatic and plot elements that happened twice before, basically telling the same narrative for a 3rd time.

Yet this movie will feature a tender yet rich emotional story with engaging character development. It will feature real human struggle and growth, overcoming obstacles and becoming stronger from adversity. Even if it's the same story already told twice before in the franchise, it never feels like a copy, it's a film that stands on it's own, the call backs add to it's strengths and progresses the plot, it never feels like fan service. It is a rewarding and engaging experience on it's own merits, a movie with real heart and a soul.

That movie is called Creed.

Some faggot named JJ abrams tried the same thing under similar constraints but failed in nearly every aspect of the above. In fact had I never seen Creed and saw how a movie like this could and should have been made, I probably would of given the force awakens 6 out of 10, rather than the 4.5/10 which is what that soulless meh film deserved.
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Heh we watched Creed tonight and couldn't stop thinking about this post. I liked TFA much more than you but so much of this post was accurate, pretty hilarious. Creed was very good. Probably would be 5/6 on my list of the year but that is weighted with a ton of sentiment and nostalgia. Everyone did a great job and I thought it was great.
 
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If we're including TV documentaries, definitely Montague of Heck is up there, but #1 in that category would be Going Clear, the documentary about Scientology. Also, #2 would be Prince of Pennsylvania, about the John Dupont murder of wrestler Dave Schultz. That ESPN documentary is actually way better, and more accurate than the movie "Foxcathcer."
 
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