MOVIES of the year thread
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This is a goddamn terrible opinion.
Hell or High Water was very good.
Hacksaw Ridge was phenomal.
The Accountant was very watchable.
Strange Beasts or whatever was terrible.
The Nice Guys was unwatchable. It made no sense and had no plot. I'm not the only one that felt this way.
Ben is a very good director/producer/whatever. The Town was awesome.
My top Five of the year (based on how much I liked watching them) in no particular order are:
Hacksaw Ridge
Moana
The Magnificent Seven
Finding Dory
The Nice Guys
I don't buy into the "serious drama/Oscar contender" crap and never really have. Not to say I wont watch those movies, but I see movies to unwind and have a good time, not to see a serious drama piece about a love triangle during the building of the Hoover dam or some $h!t like that. If it's a drama with an interesting plot (Sully,Manchester By The Sea) I'll watch it, but just because it's got a lot of Oscar buzz does not necessarily mean it's a good movie.
It's like when people add Woody Allen movies to the "best of [year]" lists. I've seen 'Cafe Society' listed several times on best of 2016 lists and I can not believe it! 'Cafe Society' was just one more example of a boring, rehashed Woody Allen plot. Just because it's a Woody Allen movie does not mean it should get an instant seal of approval of being a great picture. Woody Allen is the most overrated writer/director (outside of Spike Lee) in the history of cinema and yet his movies (which never make money at the box office) routinely are in consideration for Oscar contention. Don't get me wrong, the man's written and directed a handful of good films (Annie Hall, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sister's, Radio Days, Midnight in Paris), but for every good movie he's written/directed, there are 3 to 4 bad ones, yet he never gets recognized for these films being boring or downright awful. They just pat him on the back (like when your kid brings you a finger painting that you say is amazing but everyone else looks at as pedestrian, even by kindergartner standards) and tell him good job and nominate him for some awards. It's pathetic really.
Hacksaw Ridge
Moana
The Magnificent Seven
Finding Dory
The Nice Guys
I don't buy into the "serious drama/Oscar contender" crap and never really have. Not to say I wont watch those movies, but I see movies to unwind and have a good time, not to see a serious drama piece about a love triangle during the building of the Hoover dam or some $h!t like that. If it's a drama with an interesting plot (Sully,Manchester By The Sea) I'll watch it, but just because it's got a lot of Oscar buzz does not necessarily mean it's a good movie.
It's like when people add Woody Allen movies to the "best of [year]" lists. I've seen 'Cafe Society' listed several times on best of 2016 lists and I can not believe it! 'Cafe Society' was just one more example of a boring, rehashed Woody Allen plot. Just because it's a Woody Allen movie does not mean it should get an instant seal of approval of being a great picture. Woody Allen is the most overrated writer/director (outside of Spike Lee) in the history of cinema and yet his movies (which never make money at the box office) routinely are in consideration for Oscar contention. Don't get me wrong, the man's written and directed a handful of good films (Annie Hall, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sister's, Radio Days, Midnight in Paris), but for every good movie he's written/directed, there are 3 to 4 bad ones, yet he never gets recognized for these films being boring or downright awful. They just pat him on the back (like when your kid brings you a finger painting that you say is amazing but everyone else looks at as pedestrian, even by kindergartner standards) and tell him good job and nominate him for some awards. It's pathetic really.
How can anyone say this was a bad year for film? Just in the Super Hero Genre alone we had Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange and Deadpool. I see a crap ton of family/kids movies with my daughter and Zootopia; Moana; Kubo and the Two Strings; and the Little Prince were all great.
On the horror/thriller side of things there was Don't Breathe, Witch, Under the Shadow and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
Add in Arrival, Patterson, Monlight, Silence, The Lobster, Florence Foster Jenkins, Son of Saul, Embrace the Serpent in addition to some that were already mentioned and overall it was a pretty good year for film.
On the horror/thriller side of things there was Don't Breathe, Witch, Under the Shadow and 10 Cloverfield Lane.
Add in Arrival, Patterson, Monlight, Silence, The Lobster, Florence Foster Jenkins, Son of Saul, Embrace the Serpent in addition to some that were already mentioned and overall it was a pretty good year for film.
I watched Hell or High Water last night. It was down to that or Manchester by the Sea. There was no a stream on Exodus for MBTS so Hell or High Water it was. Pretty good movie, the ending was pretty thought out.
Kind of weird movies I thought where interesting :
The Pet
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Kind of weird movies I thought where interesting :
The Pet
The Autopsy of Jane Doe