Been some crackers this year.
Nominate 5 films each and in 7 days we'll have a vote for the winner.
Oscars, smoshcars.
Some reminders...
IMDB Top films of 2015
http://www.imdb.com/year/2015/
Mark Kermode's Top 10 of 2015
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015...lling-brooklyn
Variety Magazine
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/be...ty-1201664464/
Rotten Tomatoes Top 100
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/top/bestofrt/?year=2015
From what I have seen, The Martian.
Are we going by the IMDB release date? If so, I've only seen 19, but for what it's worth, bearing in mind that I haven't seen Star Wars yet...
Mad Max: Fury Road
Ex Machina
Far from the Madding Crowd
Brooklyn
Black Mass
1. Inside Out
2. Mad Max
3. Ex Machina
Not seen some, but that from what I have seen.
No 9's on 10's on my IMDB from 2015 but these I have as 8's:
Room
Mad Max: Fury Road
Beasts Of No Nation
Straight Outta Compton
Ex Machina
Fair few I haven't seen yet but will be next week once I finish work like Black Mass, Brooklyn, The Martian, Amy, Sicario and Star Wars
Read that as 'Breasts of No Nation' and thought you were talking about a porno.
I guess that's a different thread.
For me..
The Martian
Me, Earl and the Dying Girl
Room
Whiplash
Ex Machina
Goodnight Mommy
Ex Machina
Sicario
Room
The Lobster/The Martian
Older than Ireland. Only 2015 film I've seen.
That's six.Originally Posted by Dark Soldier
You don't say. Was a placeholder til I got to watch The Martian again.
The Martian, and then American Sniper. Mad Max by far the worst.
The only 2015 films I've seen are:
Straight Outta Compton (awesome)
Hunger Games (absolute garb)
Inside Out (alright but hardly amazing)
Maze Runner (poo, especially compared to the first)
And ten minutes of Fifty Shades.
So my only nomination for best film of 2015 is Straight Outta Compton.
I'm a twit
I've barely watched anything new this year, looking out for some of the suggestions online though.
My ratings for 2015 movies are:
The Lobster 8
The Martian 9
The Hunger Games 6
The Intern 6
The Visit 5
The Man from UNCLE 6
Straight Outta Compton 7
The Gift 8
Southpaw 6
Jutrassic World 6
Insidious Chapter 3 4
Inside Out 8
Mad Max Fury Road 8
Avengers 2 7
Danny Collins 6
So my top 5 are:
The Martian
The Gift
The Lobster
Inside Out
Mad Max
Good shout on The Gift, forgot all about that.
2015 has been a very movie-free year for me.
Jurassic World (5)
Pitch Perfect 2 (5)
Avengers: Age of Ultron (4)
Fast & Furious 7 (5)
Yep, basically only saw movies when dragged to the cinema by others.
Forgot all about seeing FF7.
It Follows is worth a mention.
Not sure how many 'new' films I've seen this year.
The Martian was wonderful, so I'll go with that.
Ex Machina
Me & Earl & the Dying Girl
The Martian
Bridge of Spies
Those are the best off the top of my head. Last year was much better.
That Mark Kermode link in the OP doesn't seem to be working.
It was an excellent year for films, but three stand out way ahead of the pack:
1. The Martian
2. Inside Out
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
All three are fantastic films that I'll rewatch plenty of times. Most years are lucky to have one.
Is Mad Max a love/hate affair? I've seen plenty mention it as the best and worst film this year.
It's got a bit of a feminist subtext which has been divisive with some people.
I forgot about Whiplash. What a film
It was fucking boring. Never mind the subtext.
Oh shit; Entourage!
ENTOURAGE ENTOURAGE ENTOURAGE
BEST FILM OF THE 2010's.
I'm a twit
Best film I've seen last year was Er Ist Wieder Da / Look Who's Back? Everything else I've seen is just drivel in comparison.
Fixed. Guardian website fannying around.
Jesus
I read the book of 'Look Who's Back' recently. It's absolute genius.
Yeah I read that, great stuff.
I forgot about Kung Fury:
The best film I've seen from 2015 so far is comfortably The Martian with the worst being Mad Max.
Having checked IMDB I'd forgotten about one film worse than Mad Max.
The Martian 9
Black Mass 7
San Andreas 6
Spectre 6
Maggie 6
Home Sweet Hell 6
Ex Machina 6
The Gift 5
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation 5
Knock Knock 5
Man Up 5
Jurassic World 5
Terminator Genisys 5
Focus 5
The Boy Next Door 5
Spy 3
The Marine 4: Moving Target 3
Mad Max: Fury Road 3
Fifty Shades of Grey 3
The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) 2
Makes me realise I haven't seen that much from 2015.
The Gift, 5? Ex Machina, 6? I can forgive Mad Max as it appears to polarise people, but those two strike me as odd scores. Who'd have imagined people have different tastes?
The Gift's alright, but ultimately not much more than a good one off BBC drama, the premise is telegraphed a mile off as well.
Ex Machina's just a rehash (albeit done well) of 90s sci-fi like the Outer Limits.
San Andreas was the best put your brain on hold action film I've seen in years. Because it's been a shit year, I'd be tempted to go with that (haven't seen The Martian).
There's not enough ridiculous action these days. I'd much rather see Nicholas Cage and John Travolta swap faces than Spiderman trying to destroy Mordor or whatever.
It's a bit sneaky to imply people are only being turned off by feminism. It's boring, one-note action fluff. There's barely enough there to support a subtext.It's got a bit of a feminist subtext which has been divisive with some people.
I forgot about Whiplash. What a film
Kermode was right about what's being perceived as the subtext aswell, for what it's worth. For a 'feminist' film, the camera doesn't half leer at those poor girls in their pants.
Inside Out is the best film I've seen this year. Ex Machina was brilliant, and there's no doubt a few others I'm forgetting, but I have a feeling the rest of my top five will be made up of things I'll be watching over the next few days.
Nothing sneaky about it, its just the biggest complaint I've heard.
Haven't seen many films this year (not that I ever watch many).
The ones I've seen are:
Spectre (awesome)
Jurassic World (pretty good)
Avengers Age of Ultron (didn't watch it until end, but was OK up until then)
50 shades of grey (some chinese censored version) (terrible)
Ex Machina (was OK, a little slow + points for having a swedish actress)
It follows (wasn't very good, but decent job with no budget I guess)
Yeah, hmm I think those are all the new films I've seen this year.
Soo, Spectre, I guess.
How has that complaint been presented? People just moaning that there's too many women in it, or have people genuinely been telling you there's too much feminism and fuck feminism?
It was just a throwaway post. Does it matter?
If you're going to claim that people are largely disliking the film because feminism the reasoning for it does matter a little, yes.
That said, I'm actually just curious. It seems odd that anyone smart enough to read a subtext would be upset by an apparently feminist one.
There was loads of backlash going around the internet for it supposedly ruining the old films with its SJW AGENDA or whatever the men's rights activists thought.
John, you don't half pick on the most random of posts to focus on, and take issue with.
Its a bit baffling, isn't it. I was just echoing that some people had moaned about the feminism stuff in it.
The dream team rides again.
Hammer, I gave you the credit of assuming you weren't citing men's rights twats. Was I wrong to do so? Outside of agenda driven wankers I can't see anyone hating the film on the grounds of feminism or whatever, so I was genuinely interested that you seemed to have actually heard that complaint. If you were just parroting internet froth then carry on.
Fucking hell, it's a nightmare dealing with people this precious.
Who's precious? Bemused more like.
John, give it a rest you big bore. It's nearly Christmas.
I like that he's formulated this previous dream team in his mind out of the sheer inability to just lighten the fuck up. Not everyone needs their opinions reinforced or questioned by the gospel according to John.
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