The Last Movie You Watched (no spoilers)

[BigFin]

Inception was the most clever movie I've ever seen. I liked it more than The King's Speech, and I really liked The King's Speech. If you have the time:

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

Hmmm, I really enjoyed True Grit and The Fighter that year. But from a cinematography aspect, Kings Speech did it for me.

Yeah I enjoyed all of them (except I have not seen Winters Bone nor The Kids Are All Right yet) and Black Swan was a little strange, but most Aronofsky films are. I feel like this year was a bunch of pretty good films.

However, 2015 nominee list... might be the best complete list of movies in my life time and last great movie year. That list has...

2015 Nominee List
Whiplash
American Sniper
Birdman
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Imitation Game
Selma
The Theory of Everything
Boyhood

My personal pick for Best Picture this year would have been Grand Budapest Hotel.

 

[Clayton]

I'd take 1994, 2007 and 2008 before the best picture list of 2015 for sure. Maybe a few other years, too.

I'll admit that I haven't seen Selma or Boyhood, though.

 

[BigFin]

I just finished all 10 Miyazaki-written AND directed Studio Ghibli movies. Here's how I rank them:

1. The Wind Rises - Very powerful, real-world film

2. Porco Rosso - A fun movie. His most underrated.

3. Princess Mononoke - Very well-done. Some intense moments.

4. Spirited Away - Grandiose, but plot is a little thin

5. Naussica: Valley of the Wind - Pretty Good

6. My Neighbor Totoro - His most overrated film

7. Castle In the Sky - OK

8. Kiki's Delivery Service - Not bad. Does nothing for me.

9. Ponyo - I don't see how this appeals to any non-child.

10. Howl's Moving Castle - A couple of interesting things, but kind of a messy and incoherent movie.

 

[BigFin]

1994 was a crazy year for movies.

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

I'd take 1994, 2007 and 2008 before the best picture list of 2015 for sure. Maybe a few other years, too.

I'll admit that I haven't seen Selma or Boyhood, though.

1994
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and A Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
Shawshank Redemption

2007
No Country for Old Men
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood

2008
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader


To each their own, but I wholeheartedly disagree. Don't get me wrong, there are good movies on these lists, great even, but taking the lists as a whole... 2015 list is wholly better.



Edit: When I mentioned the 2015 list that was for movies from 2014. Were you saying 94, 07, and 08 for the prior years as well? Did I mix this up lol?

 

[Clayton]

1994
Forrest Gump
Four Weddings and A Funeral
Pulp Fiction
Quiz Show
Shawshank Redemption

2007
No Country for Old Men
Atonement
Juno
Michael Clayton
There Will Be Blood

2008
Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader


To each their own, but I wholeheartedly disagree. Don't get me wrong, there are good movies on these lists, great even, but taking the lists as a whole... 2015 list is wholly better.



Edit: When I mentioned the 2015 list that was for movies from 2014. Were you saying 94, 07, and 08 for the prior years as well? Did I mix this up lol?

Ah, what I meant was I would take my favorite movies from 1994, 2007 and 2008 over the nominee list from 2015. Maybe not the fairest comparison from the 2015 list also has more than 5 movies.

I actually did a search on the 2015 movies that I saw. I have:

Birdman: A
American Sniper: B+
Theory of Everything: B
Imitation Game: B
Whiplash: C+

A lot of 'omelet breaking' movies about exceptional people breaking some eggs along the way. And Birdman.

 

[Judge Fudge]

Blockers.

If you a parent with pre-teenage daughter. WATCH THIS MOVIE

 

[UVA_Guy81]

Father Figures - I had no expectations for this one and enjoyed it. I laughed quite a bit. 3 out of 5 stars

 

[The Q]

I just watched the new Netflix basketball movie "Amateur" last night.

If you like college basketball it's definitely worth watching.

 

[Dusty]

An old war movie entitled “Operation Pacific “ with John Wayne on Comcast On Demand.

 

[The Q]

I'm watching Fate of the Furious tonight.

We'll see how that one goes.

 

[Hank Kingsley]

The Beast - 1988

Russian T-55 tank trapped in a one way out valley by Mujaheddin fighters.

George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin.

Quite liked it and had never heard of it previously.

 

[Blackshirts BLVD]

Ah, what I meant was I would take my favorite movies from 1994, 2007 and 2008 over the nominee list from 2015. Maybe not the fairest comparison from the 2015 list also has more than 5 movies.

I actually did a search on the 2015 movies that I saw. I have:

Birdman: A
American Sniper: B+
Theory of Everything: B
Imitation Game: B
Whiplash: C+

A lot of 'omelet breaking' movies about exceptional people breaking some eggs along the way. And Birdman.

Fair enough. My opinion...

Birdman: B+
American Sniper: B
Theory of Everything: C+
Imitation Game: B+
Whiplash: A-
Grand Budapest Hotel: A+ (big fan of this movie)
Boyhood: B-
Selma: B

I've been told I'm overly critical of some movies lol

 

[mr.hockey4242]

Ah, what I meant was I would take my favorite movies from 1994, 2007 and 2008 over the nominee list from 2015. Maybe not the fairest comparison from the 2015 list also has more than 5 movies.

I actually did a search on the 2015 movies that I saw. I have:

Birdman: A
American Sniper: B+
Theory of Everything: B
Imitation Game: B
Whiplash: C+

A lot of 'omelet breaking' movies about exceptional people breaking some eggs along the way. And Birdman.

Whiplash at a C+ is criminal

 

[Clayton]

Whiplash at a C+ is criminal

JK Simmons is awesome.

The movie is totally unbelievable and promotes narcissism. I'm fine giving it a C+

 

[mall3013]

I just watched one of my all time favorites from the 80s "The Lost Boys." That movie never gets old for me. I was 14 back when this film was made in '87. Back then my parents really didn't monitor the shit my brother and I watched on TV. We had the big ugly dish that we could watch anything and didn't get charged like people do today. Anyway, glad Netflix has it on again. Love the soundtrack as well.

 

[mr.hockey4242]

JK Simmons is awesome.

The movie is totally unbelievable and promotes narcissism. I'm fine giving it a C+

Honestly it’s Tellers performance mixed in that makes it so good.

I think he was right on par with Simmons and had the much more challenging role

 

[Sharkonabicycle]

A Quiet Place: 2.5/5 stars. For all the purposeful silence and attempted build-up of suspense, I was left rather bored at times throughout this movie.

Do not understand the hype in that movie. The premise and how the creatures/people react to the environment is totally implausible. I see a LOT of people saying, "Oh don't over analyze it..." when you mention farts, burps, they don't react to a waterfall but react to EVERY little creak/noise and are INSTANTLY on top of you.. the military can't figure out how to deal with a creature that has ultra sensitive hearing and NO other senses? C'mon...

Yet movies like Tremors... completely plausible. The monsters are isolated and it's explained why the military can't easily deal with them ("We are COMPLETELY cut off! Cliffs to the north, mountains to the east and the west. That's why I had me settled here in the first place, geographic isolation"), the vibration environment makes sense and the monsters actually have a legit travel time that people can react to (not some monster just snatching someone up at the FIRST sound/vibration), the actions by the characters are believable, and the monsters didn't show up until the area started gaining more population (livestock getting loose, couple building a home, road construction, etc.).

Quiet Place just failed to establish a believable environment to which the creatures reacted. You can't play with Monopoly pieces because they are TOO loud and have to walk barefoot because... SHOES are loud? LOL okay... yet farting, burping, snoring, house settling, wood creaks, all the building they had to do to 'soundproof the home' are all louder... so wtf is the point? Not to mention it's stated they harvest/grow crops for food. Good fucking luck doing that quietly (even without machinery).

It just didn't make sense. So ANY TIME a sound is made the creatures are just INSTANTLY near you? Whaaaat? In Tremors there are tons of instances where people are walking around/driving, etc. and the monsters never attack because they're not near them. So you're telling me all these aliens just camp by the farm house 24/7? Mmmmmk..... then why can't they see them?

 

[Clayton]

Honestly it’s Tellers performance mixed in that makes it so good.

I think he was right on par with Simmons and had the much more challenging role

I wouldn't be surprised if the next generation looks back at Whiplash and wonders why the movie's lead a white male.

I don't think anyone believes one incidental moment can ruin the life of an upper middle class white male with exceptional talent. People in the top .1% or top .01% of talent in whatever they do can get away with bloody murder in America. Something like "I, Tonya" will age a lot better.