Nov 30, 2014

Post every 2014 film you have seen in here. Posts your lists. Your favorite actor, director, score, cinematography, song, theater experience etc. etc.

How I do my list as far as release date goes because s--- gets sketchy sometimes; For it to be considered a 2014 film. It must be released in it's country of origin by December 31, 2014.
So films like Wolf of Wall Street, which might not have reached other countries outside of the U.S. until this year do not count as a 2014 film. Make suggestions to other users in here. I still have quite a lot to see and when the fall semester is over I usually watch 1 a day.

 

Dec 1, 2014

Top 20. Have seen like 19 more but I'm too lazy to list them.

1.) Boyhood
2.) The Grand Budapest Hotel
3.) Under the Skin
4.) Nymphomaniac, Vol. 1
5.) Gone Girl
6.) The Immigrant
7.) Captain America: The Winter Soldier
8.) Edge of Tomorrow
9.) Enemy
10.) Maps to the Stars
11.) Guardians of the Galaxy
12.) The Raid 2
13.) X-Men: Days of Future Past
14.) Blue Ruin
15.) Interstellar
16.) The Babadook
17.) Coherence
18.) Snowpiercer
19.) The Guest
20.) The Double

Best theater experience: Interstellar/Guardians
Best Director: Richard Linklater
Favorite Actor: Ben Affleck
Favorite Actress: Marion Cotillard (honorable mentions - Uma Thurman in Nymphomaniac, Pike in Gone Girl)
Score: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Soundtrack: The Guest
Cinematography: Enemy/Under the Skin

 

Dec 1, 2014

I'm very behind on movies this year. But Interstellar, Guardians and the X Men movie were all excellent

 

Dec 1, 2014

I haven't seen s--- from 2014 yet. Haven't even gotten to Boyhood and Linklater's one of my favorite directors.

Available to me as of 2014
1. Under the Skin
2. Calvary
3. Gone Girl
4. Starred Up
5. Grand Budapest Hotel
6. Enemy
7. The Double
8. Black Coal, Thin Ice
9. Big Bad Wolves
10. Blue Ruin

Saw in 2014 (No Order)
Frances Ha
Uzak (Distant)
Blue is the Warmest Color
The Hunt
Medium Cool
Blue Jasmine
Hoop Dreams
Barton Fink
8 1/2
Apocalypse Now

 

Dec 1, 2014

I'm too broke to buy a ticket at the moment. Dodging spoilers has been a chore so far.
Nolan always delivers on some level. I mean, I even liked Dark Knight Rises.

 

Dec 1, 2014

Top 15 goes a little like this:

1. Under the Skin
2. The Double
3. Winter Sleep
4. Mommy
5. Force Majeure
6. Guardians of the Galaxy
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. Calvary
9. Frank
10. Interstellar
11. Geronimo
12. Boyhood
13. Leviathan
14. The Immigrant
15. Edge of Tomorrow

 

Dec 1, 2014

Too early for me to make an actual list because I'm waiting on some big ones like Mommy, Inherent Vice, Winter Sleep & Leviathan. Also, it's a long shot but I really hope Phoenix makes its way online by the end of the year, that would make me very happy.

 

Dec 2, 2014

Gone Girl, Interstellar, and Planet of the Apes >>>

 

Dec 2, 2014

One of my least favorites of the year.

 

Dec 2, 2014

Man ive been so behind in movies this year. This thread is great for ideas though. Will get round to watching these on my christmas break.

 

Dec 2, 2014

Really? I guess I can see how it annoy people, though. If you don't mind me asking, what made you dislike it that much.

On the other hanf, I really don't see the fuss about Frances Ha. But then again, French New Wave generally doesn't do anything for me. Great list though, I'm still behind Gone Girl, Black Coal, Thin Ice and Starred.

 

Dec 2, 2014

The film wasn't half as experimental or fresh as the music its characters were supposed to be making. For a film about cult musicians, it was pretty mild and bland. SLC Punk encapsulated punk rock while also providing a captivating arch with well defined characters. The style of your film should compliment the subject matter, not contradict it. Frank presented a mythology and failed to justify it. In retrospect, I remember the most about the main character who was representative of the audience and was therefore the least interesting.

As a young and aimless person, Frances Ha really identified with me. The black and white was exceptionally accessible and warm; the friends I've watched it with didn't even mind it. What I expected to happen often didn't. For instance, the trip to France and the love interests being minor. It had all the best qualities of Girls (HBO) without the narcissism and self-importance. I think it captured the state of my generation in a more accurate light than a lot of other material.

It's all perspective though.

 

Dec 2, 2014

What made Frank standout for me is the transition from a movie about creative process to a small tragedy about broken people and outsiders. The lead character, whose name I don't even remember, was not one of them. h---, there are parts where he wishes he had problems like them so that he can be like them. This reversal worked great for me. The normal ones wanted to be in the outsiders' group. So to my mind, him being the least interesting one was not a problem. Also I really liked the music, which is a big plus for the movie.

As for Frances Ha, I don't know I think the aimlessness was a big part why I didn't like it. I had to force myself to see it to the end. It just didn't flow for me. Well, like you said, different strokes for different folks.

I'll look for SLC Punk!, sounds like I'd like it.

 

Dec 2, 2014

It kind of broke the "show instead of tell rule" here. The main character repeatedly expressed this (by plainly saying this almost word for word) and the majority of the time the movie showed this it was with vague dialogue detailing their backstories. It played a mental illness (and a stabbing) for comedy the entire time. That kind of undermines their plight.

 

Dec 2, 2014

Spoiler

I may be turning an blind eye to the "showing instead of telling" here but that's true. The movie doesn't have animosity against the characters, though. Maybe making light of the situation is the director's way of showing his love towards these characters. I have to check but I don't remember the lead character being used for the comedy the way Frank and the others were used and yet, in the end I ended up feeling close to the rest of the group, not the lead character and I was even happy that he left them to their own devices.

 

Dec 8, 2014

bump ya plebs

 

Dec 8, 2014

Gone Girl

 

Dec 8, 2014

2014 films I've seen:
1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Under The Skin
3. Gone Girl
4. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
5. X-Men: Days of Future Past
6. The Immigrant
7. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
8. Godzilla

Still have yet to see Boyhood, Interstellar, or Inherent Vice, which are the big three I know I need to catch up on. I've wanted to see The Babadook but nowhere around me picked it up.