Your favorite movie of 2014

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Pick your favorite movie of 2014!

  • The Grand Budapest Hotel

  • 22 Jump Street

  • Whiplash

  • Gone Girl

  • John Wick

  • Guardians of the Galaxy

  • Kingsman: The Secret Service

  • Edge of Tomorrow

  • The Lego Movie

  • X-Men: Days of Future Past

  • American Sniper

  • Interstellar

  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier

  • Boyhood

  • Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

  • Godzilla

  • It Follows

  • Ex-Machina

  • Nightcrawler

  • Birdman


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Inherent Vice? I've heard it's terrible.
You heard wrong playboy. Keith "The Dead of Mean" Jardine should have won for Best Supporting Actor.

It's a bizarre and comedic noir, kind of like The Big Lebowski, but more serious. I liked it a lot. I think I've picked films by Paul Thomas Anderson as my favorite for three different years now.
 
1. Whiplash
2. Gone Girl
3. Interstellar
4. Guardians of the Galaxy
5. John Wick
6. Kingsmen
7. Ex Machina
8. Edge of Tommorrow
9. Nightcrawler
10. Big Hero Six
 
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I thought Interstellar was a huge disappointment. Story is flat out retarded and that one scene where the girl tries to give this big spiel about what love is was so cringeworthy, some of the worst acting I've seen in such a critically acclaimed movie.

Another total shit year for movies for me. I hate to be the debbie downer in all of these threads but thats just the way it is. This year is just as bad if not worse than 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013. Out of all these I'd go with the Planet of the Apes movie, probably give it a 6.5/10. Foxcatcher I'd put in 2nd place but even that I felt like was a big disappointment, Steve Carrell's performance was good but the story was changed around with all the homo elements thrown in there by the director, just felt like they could have done a way better job of telling the real story of what happened there. The more intriguing elements of that story were just ignored or glossed over in the movie, like Dupont's stand off in his home for however many days that was, also Shultz' UFC fight just months after all that happened. That scene at the end where he's fighting in the UFC was so so bad. Movie was just nowhere near as good as I thought it would be. I'd still take it over the rest of this schlock released this year.
 
Lots of great movies on that year. I'll go with Whiplash with Edge of Tomorrow as a very close second.
 
Interstellar and Nightcrawler. Can't separate the two.
 
What a great year. No idea how to order what I liked, and still a bunch I'm looking forward to seeing.
 
Honourable mention to Godzilla.

MUCH better than in had any right to be for me although the rest of it doesn't really live up to the opening with Cranston with is a great blend of drama and mystery.

As I said in the Nolan thread I think Interstellar has some great individual scenes in it like that giant wave(plucked right from the nightmares of my youth) that get across a significant level of awe but for me doesn't quite hold together enough to be the best of the year feeling a bit clunky at points although I felt Hathaway was fine.

Marvels best ever year as well with WInter Solder and Guardians probably being my two favourite films in the MCU dispite going in opposite directions tone wise.

Enjoyed Birdman as well even with the hype although I felt Nightcrawler and Ex-Machina were superior and went with the latter as my choice on the poll. Good to see it getting some votes as I felt it was a bit underrated on release since rather like Sunshine it ended up being a bit of a misdirection, not really a film about AI so much as gender/sexual politics. The best and creepiest scene of the year as well...

 
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MUCH better than in had any right to be for me although the rest of it doesn't really live up to the opening with Cranston with is a great blend of drama of mystery.

As I said in the Nolan thread I think Interstellar has some great individual scenes in it like that giant wave(plucked right from the nightmares of my youth) that get across a significant level of awe but for me doesn't quite hold together enough to be the best of the year feeling a bit clunky at points although I felt Hathaway was fine.

Marvels best ever year as well with WInter Solders and Guardians probably being my two favourite films in the MCU dispite going in opposite directions tone wise.

Enjoyed Birdman as well even with the hype although I felt Nightcrawerl and Ex-Machina were superior and went with the latter as my choice on the poll. Good to see it getting some votes as I felt it was a bit underrated on release since rather like Sunshine it ended up being a bit of a misdirection, not really a film about AI so much as gender/sexual politics. The best and creepiest scene of the year as well...




I just really dig giant monsters fighting, destroying stuff. Godzilla was dominant, did not give a fuck about humans and their shit.

Birdman = the emperror has no clothes.
 
I just really dig giant monsters fighting, destroying stuff. Godzilla was dominant, did not give a fuck about humans and their shit.

Birdman = the emperror has no clothes.

The action certainly wasn't bad at all, loved the sense of scale Edwards brought to it although I think dramatically it became less interesting when Cranston was killed off. The sense of strangeness/mystery around the MUTO early on was not something you see done that well very often in monster films. You could argue I spose it suffered a bit from being a film not of its time, the lighter Marvel/Abrams metacomedy style arguably being at its peak popularity 3 years ago and Edwards film being totally straight.

Birdman was I think actually much less arty than the hype, behind the high concept and long takes a lot of it was simply just good comedy and drama for me although the critic character was perhaps rather clichéd.
 
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Loved Ex Machina, Edge of Tomorrow, It Follows, and Nightcrawler
 
Great year! Wow. Had to go with Winter Soldier. But days of future past, guardians of the galaxy, intersteller, edge of tmrw, gone girl, and several others are all very good.
 
Not trying to troll, but I thought Edge of Tomorrow was terrible.

It seemed really cool to start, but they really shoved the concept down your throat and beat you over the head with it over and over until it became stale to me.
 
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I'd say these three are my favorites.

Three way tie (almost.)

Slight edge for Interstellar.
 
Guardians of the Galaxy is one my all time favorite movies so gonna go with that.
 
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