Best Movie 2015 ....... So Far

MadDog76

The Boy Next Door

b318isp wrote: »

Interstellar, The Theory of Everything, Whiplash and Brooklyn - none of which are in the poll! From the poll, I did enjoy ExMachina most - but it was too drawn out. Any others listed, which I've seen, are ho-hum.

The reason "Brooklyn" isn't in the poll is it wasn't released at the time I started the thread/poll ......... hence the "So Far" part of the thread title ........ I'll let you guess why the other movies you mentioned were also not included.

Sad Professor

That’s enough, guys. Anymore off-topic bickering and this thread will be locked and bans handed out.

MadDog, going by films released in Irish cinemas in 2015 is perfectly reasonable in an Irish discussion forum. If you choose define a film as a 2014 release because you watched a screener before it was released in Ireland, that’s your choice, but you don’t get to impose it on everyone else contributing to the thread.

Now back on topic everyone please. If anyone has any issues with what I’ve just said, PM me.

yerwanthere123

In that case then so... another vote here for Whiplash :pac:

MadDog76

The Boy Next Door

Looks like Mad Max is gonna be the Best Movie of 2015!

Sad Professor

It’s still a work in progress, but my top 25 as it currently stands would look something like this: (These are films I’ve seen rather than just those released in Ireland in 2015 and includes some that are still in UK/Irish distribution limbo.)

Carol, Mad Max Fury Road, Birdman, The Duke of Burgandy, Whiplash, You’re Sleeping Nicole, Girlhood, The Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Me Earl and the Dying Girl, Les Combattants, The Tribe, Inherent Vice, Inside Out, Phoenix, Breathe, A Girl at My Door, Before I Disappear, The Falling, Testament of Youth, Ex Machina, Force Majeure, The Man from Reno, Enemy, Faults, Paper Towns.

Carol and Fury Road are a tie for my best film of the year. I can’t really decide which I loved more, they are so different. It’s a been a great year I think. And I missed a few things as well.

Tomagotchye

Brooklyn or Sicario are the ones I enjoyed the most.

e_e

Jurassic World

Won't be seeing any more new movies so this is my top 25:

25. National Gallery
24. Inside Out
23. Sicario
22. Song of the Sea
21. From What Is Before
20. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
19. Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater
18. The Look of Silence
17. Black Coal, Thin Ice
16. Heaven Knows What
15. The Duke of Burgundy
14. Blind
13. Birdman
12. Inherent Vice
11. Goodbye to Language 3D
10. Steve Jobs
9. Force Majeure
8. Taxi Tehran
7. Whiplash
6. The Force Awakens (Will be interesting to see how this holds up)
5. Blachhat
4. Horse Money
3. Mad Max Fury Road
2. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence
1. Carol

It's been another excellent year, I've a top 50 and the lowest rated movie on it still got 7/10 from me.

Sad Professor

I saw Brooklyn the other night and ugh didn’t care for it all. I love the subject matter of Irish immigration in the '50s having studied it a bit in college, but the film was a far too rose-tinted and sanitised a depiction of it for my liking. Whose idea was it get Hornby to write this? What was the pitch: Nicholas Spark for the grey pound audience?

You liked Blackhat, e_e? Like really? I dunno, I just can’t get over how Mann has become Howard Hawks: remaking the same movie over and over. I’m just sitting there thinking why am I watching this when I could be watching Heat for the 100th time instead? Part of the problem is that I’m huge Mann fan and I notice when he reuses the same dialogue and music from previous films. Also I just can’t take Hemsworth seriously as the hacker with a great bod who can fire a gun and engage in hand-to-hand combat.

e_e

Jurassic World

I loved Blackhat. Took me two viewings to properly connect (ahem) with it but I think it's Mann's most aesthetically rich and exciting film to date. No other film looks and moves like it imo, not even Miami Vice and Collateral. I love too how it's a sci-fi movie about now that looks at cityscapes, networks and land in ways we really haven't seen before on screen. I'm a little confused at the near constant complaints about Hemsworth's casting too, as if a scrawny 5 foot guy with thick rimmed glasses would have made the film better.



Plus that cinematography.

So much to say about it for me but I'll just throw in a few more positive reviews to counter the critical dogpiling it got: http://letterboxd.com/film/blackhat/reviews/by/activity/

Sad Professor

It wasn’t Hemsworth’s casting I had a problem with, more all the Mann-isms he demonstrated which I considered unrealistic for a computer hacker. My criticism is really of Mann’s writing. But you’ve convinced me I should revisit it.

PressRun

Sad Professor wrote: »

I saw Brooklyn the other night and ugh didn’t care for it all. I love the subject matter of Irish immigration in the '50s having studied it a bit in college, but the film was a far too rose-tinted and sanitised a depiction of it for my liking. Whose idea was it get Hornby to write this? What was the pitch: Nicholas Spark for the grey pound audience?

I haven't had a chance to see Brooklyn yet, but I was worried that it was going to be a really romanticized depiction of Irish immigration and a bit 'Oirish', if you get me. That period seems to be rarely seen through anything other rose-tinted glasses and I'm not sure I'm all that interested in watching a film that just turns the experience into something 'quaint' and 'charming'.

colossus-x

"Best Film" is sooo subjective. I watched the Film 2015 review of Brooklyn and as good a review they gave it I know it would bore me to tears. Sweet naive Irish girl goes to the big smoke and misses the doting mother and the farm. When I moved away I couldn't wait to get away and when I did I had a ball !

PressRun

colossus-x wrote: »

"Best Film" is sooo subjective. I watched the Film 2015 review of Brooklyn and as good a review they gave it I know it would bore me to tears. Sweet naive Irish girl goes to the big smoke and misses the doting mother and the farm. When I moved away I couldn't wait to get away and when I did I had a ball !

Okay, but to be fair, the film is set in the 1950s. Irish society wasn't as saturated with American culture then as it is now. I'd imagine it's much easier for people emigrating now to know what they're letting themselves in for and to be somewhat prepared than it was for people back in the day. That's not to say that there weren't people in the 50s who were happy to leave Ireland and live elsewhere, but I'm sure there were plenty who emigrated who didn't want to and really missed home when they did.

What I'd be more wary about with films like Brooklyn is the aesthetic, where everything is so "charming" and nostalgic.

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