Best movie 2014 so far ?

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  1. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

    Make that 2D/3D/3D.
    Went with a friend who was dissapointed. Thought 'First Class was much better. Well that's it till the Steel Book later in tbe year.
     
  2. PNeski@aol.com

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    another vote for Grand Budapest Hotel and I am not a big fan of his movies ,this was his best
     
  3. jh901

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    Didn't care to start another 2014 film thread, so hopefully we can discuss here.

    FILM COMMENT 50

    I've not seen many from 2014 yet as I enjoy blu-ray on my home theater. There are going to be films on this list each year which defy logic for even an avid movie-goer, but generally, the list linked above is a good resource. On that note, of the top 10, there is no freaking way on earth that porn belongs- Stranger By the Lake is, in my view, a terrible film with no redeeming value. If it weren't for the shock value, then no one would have heard of it.

    Moving on, I enjoyed Grand Budapest, Ida and Under the Skin. I expect that Boyhood and Birdman will be quite good and I'm excited to see them. Beyond their top 10, I kinda liked Only Lovers Left Alive, but top 20? Snowpiercer was something, but maybe a bit high on the list.

    Ooh, I forgot to see Gone Girl. Netflix queue updated! I enjoyed We Are the Best. Listen Up Phillip looks interesting. I'll see Interstellar when the blu comes out. Seems that I'll end up seeing a good 30 of the 50 eventually. Be sure to check out Locke (#42)- amazing, really.

    Metacritic best of 2014 by genre

    Ok, make sure I don't miss anything. What are the can't misses for 2014!?
     
  4. jh901

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    BUMP for comments on 2014 films.
     
  5. kanakaris

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    I Origins
     
  6. jh901

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    Pro reviews are very mixed, but I like sci-fi. I didn't see Another Earth, so I'll probably catch both of these.
     
  7. fitzysbuna

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    The Imitation Game
     
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    Alphabetically: American Sniper, Boyhood, Whiplash
     
  10. Guardians of the Galaxy is my personal favorite of 2014. Loved Jake Gyllenhaal's performance in Nightcrawler as well.
     
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  11. R. Cat Conrad

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    + 1 for Guardians of The Galaxy -- most fun at the movies all year.

    There were more sophisticated films, for sure, but few provided that indescribable feeling of child-like joy one gets when experiencing a very special movie, a gem, a classic of the genre, one that surpasses all expectations.

    Yeah, I kinda liked Guardians! :laugh:
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  12. jh901

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    I enjoyed Guardians, but the Metacritic score is higher than I'd have thought. It's fun, but I doubt it will sneak into my top 50.
     
  13. michaelscrutchin

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    Still a bunch to see, but I've seen about 100 movies released in 2014 so far.

    My top 10 list right now (order doesn't feel 100%, rewatches could shuffle them around):

    01. Inherent Vice
    02. Under the Skin
    03. Nightcrawler
    04. Snowpiercer
    05. Boyhood
    06. Ida
    07. We Are the Best!
    08. Night Moves
    09. Force Majeure
    10. Happy Christmas

    Also really liked (in alphabetical order):

    --- Blue Ruin
    --- Coherence
    --- Cold in July
    --- Horns
    --- It Felt Like Love
    --- Joe
    --- The One I Love
    --- Palo Alto
    --- Starry Eyes
    --- Whiplash

    I also dug some of the big blockbusters like Guardians of the Galaxy, Interstellar, Gone Girl, and Edge of Tomorrow -- just not enough to make break my top 20.

    And just for fun, my bottom five for the year would be Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, RoboCop, Life After Beth, Deliver Us from Evil, and Bad Words. I didn't really hate any of them, but Cabin Fever: Patient Zero came mighty close.
     
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  14. drbryant

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    Guardians of the Galaxy! Enjoyed it so much I watched it twice in a row! OK, I was stuck on a plane, but . . .
     
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  15. Claus

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    Snowpiercer
    Interstellar
     
  16. jh901

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    Boyhood finally shipped from Netflix. Figure I'll see it within a few days.

    Did anyone enjoy Locke?
     
  17. Interstellar.

    Under the Skin was very good too.
     
  18. 93curr

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    1. Nymphomaniac - director's cut
    2. Inherent Vice
    3. Enemy
    4. Veronica Mars
    5. Under The Skin

    still haven't seen Nightcrawler, though.
     
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  19. mikeyt

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    That's a really interesting list. My favorite film of the year is far and away Birdman.
     
  20. 93curr

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    Birdman's in my top ten, but didn't clear the top five - maybe once I've bought the BluRay and seen it a few more times I'll reappraise UTS down a peg.
     
  21. mikeyt

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    What is it about Nymphomaniac that gets your number one spot? I haven't seen the director's cut, but the theatrical cut kept flipping between being really interesting and the kind of strange that I'm not into (fly fishing... allegory?).
     
  22. 93curr

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    Yeah, von Trier is pretty intentionally trying to annoy the audience (in both cuts). Just as Joe's story starts to get interesting, it gets sidelined by some tangential nonsense and veers way off track, repeatedly. It's not really until part two (the religious stuff, mainly) that she's figured out that sex holds no interest whatsoever to her audience and starts to try and convince him what a horrible person she is by adapting the stories to what he's shown holds his interest. Of course, von Trier is counting on the film's audience to be the exact opposite and get frustrated. And the film just lets that frustration mount for far too many hours. Almost all of von Trier's films rely on daring the audience to endure them - this is the first one to out-do 'The Idiots' as it moves from the singular (her childhood and individual social needs) through to the general (trying to be a productive member of society; motherhood, marriage, keeping a job) and back to the singular again (his views of religion vs. her contradictory wants - what he sees as objective rules that he can't relate to she narrates as sadomasochistic emotional torment).

    Or, to quote from an old Cramps song:

    How do you keep a ***** in red-hot suspense?
    I'll tell you that later, but first I'll tell you this.
     
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  23. progrocker71

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    There are several films I still haven't seen yet: Birdman, Nightcrawler, Boyhood, The Theory Of Everything so it will probably be March before I can put together a "favorite films of 2014" list.

    At the moment my two favorite movies were The Grand Budapest Hotel and Whiplash.
     
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  24. 93curr

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    It's the most ambitious film I saw all year, and successful in its ambition. The rest all felt like very good short stories, but 'Nympho' felt like an entire novel.
     
  25. chacha

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    Birdman for me.
    Budapest and Boyhood not far behind.
     
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