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Lets Talk This Year in Movies

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It looks like its the beginning of awards season, and so i figure this is the time to talk about what movies are in play to win the awards, and what we thought the best movies this year were.

Im seeing that Lady Bird, Call me by your name, and The Florida Project are all getting strong love. Anybody watch these and can give the low down? The most disappointed ive been from these indie-creative drama type of movies was Boyhood.

For me, Baby Driver and Three Billboards outside Ebbing are the best films i've seen this year. All in all, enthralling, superbly paced films. After that, id imagine Get Out gets some love. As a surreal psychological thriller, you don't really get better than that. Dunkirk was amazing. Logan was as well, but comic book movies will never win anything remotely significant is The Dark Knight couldn't.

What say you guys?
-The best films of the year
-Which films you think will take in the awards.
 
I haven't been to the movies much this year.

I saw Get Out, Baby Driver, Rouge 1, and IT.

Probably enjoyed IT the most
 
I dont know if it will be taking any awards but Logan is the best movie I saw all year. Get out and Split were also good. Baby Driver was good but not award worthy imo
 
Seen way too many movies this year I forgot probably 80% of them at the moment.

Thor Ragnarok was dominant.
Rogue 1 was dominant (didn't that come out last Dec though?)
Logan was dominant
Wonder Woman was hot
Spiderman was dominant
Get Out was good
War for the Planet of the Apes was dominant
Guardians of the Galaxy II was dominant
John Wick II was dominant
Ninjango was dominant
 
Split was also dominant

M. Night Shyamalan crew checking in
 
I couldn't sit through SPLIT. It annoyed the hell outta me when I tried to watch it.
 
Best film:John Wick 2
Most overhyped: Dunkirk and Bladerunner 2049(still good but no where what the critics made them out to be)
Most unfairly bashed: Valarian and the City of 1000 Planets
 
Ghost in the Shell and Baywatch were good.

Transformers 5, Fast and Furious 8, and Valerian were God awful.
 
Mondo Freaks said:
Ghost in the Shell and Baywatch were good.

Transformers 5, Fast and Furious 8, and Valerian were God awful.
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I thought Valarian was unfairly criticized. What exactly was so bad about it? The visuals were really good and while the story was not too extrodinary, its not like horrible in a Transformers way. Seemed decent enough for a galaxy type movie
 
lost at John Wang's 'Ninjago was dominant'

I wont' lie, my kid watches that shit, it goes pretty hard for a kids show
 
ookii said:
I thought Valarian was unfairly criticized. What exactly was so bad about it? The visuals were really good and while the story was not too extrodinary, its not like horrible in a Transformers way. Seemed decent enough for a galaxy type movie
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The acting was sooo bad. The girl cant act at all. She was decent in Suicide Squad but just awful in Valerian. The action wasnt that great either. Lots of great visuals but thats about it.
 
Mondo Freaks said:
The acting was sooo bad. The girl cant act at all. She was decent in Suicide Squad but just awful in Valerian. The action wasnt that great either. Lots of great visuals but thats about it.
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She was pretty terrible when playing the sorceress as well I'd say. Besson tends to stand and fall a lot by the quality of the acting in his stuff IMHO, without Johansson, Freeman and Choi Min-sik for example I think Lucy could have turned out to be pretty bad.

Personally I find I can only really make a decent judge of the best films released in a year at least 12-18 months afterwards, living in a small town theres so much in terms of smaller or foreign cinema I only pickup on with the home release so at the time its mostly just blockbusters.

I did manage to see KIlling of a Sacred Dear though and that was certainly very good although I suspect too strange/unsettling to get much mainstream awards tension, I'm guessing Lanthimos more mainstream critical breakthough might be The Favourite next year.
 
I like Valerian, just saw it. Not as good as The fifth Element, but not far behind Imo. It transitioned really well scene to scene.
 
Was Hell or Highwater this year? If so it should be in consideration.
 
Piece of Sheet said:
3 billboards was a good film but would've been great if it ended better.
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I liked the ending. It was pretty clear to me that the guy was going to be whacked, and that she'd get her catharsis due to how he approached her early.
 
best movie- War for the Planet of the Apes
best actor- Andry Serkis as Caesar
best actress- that girl who played Nova
best supporting actor- tie between Bad Ape and Maurice


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Caesar Bless
 
I'll be seeing a lot of these in December since many are limited release. I plan on seeing lady bird and billboards this week and then prob darkest hour this weekend.

It's been a long running tradition my family and I have to watch all the movies and then do our own betting pool. But the last couple of years the academy has been so full of shit with their best picture awards that we really trimmed back our involvement.

Like we used to watch each best picture movie 2-3 times each. That's how much we liked it. Now we just watch them once unless it's one we really like.

The academy has gone full blown pretentious with best picture wins. They care more about social significance than they do art or quality. Last year moonlight should not have won, what a horrible film. Not to mention if they were scared of black people bc of the will smith thing they should've given it to Denzel and fences. I love low budget films like that that are pure art and story telling.

And the year before that with spotlight, Jesus Christ what an embarrassment. Of that entire list, spotlight was the most boring, uninteresting cliche on the list. We had two titanic films in mad max and the revenant that were splitting all the Oscars and they snub them on best picture. A fucking travesty.

This year I won't be betting on the actual best picture. I'll bet on the one with the most social cliches. Combine gay / poor / minority / crying and see what has the most. Guarantee that'll win best picture regardless of not winning anything else
 
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