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With well over 110 movies seen this year, may I unleash my annual movie list upon you - as I don't want to wait to see where The Interview might place!
The Best
American Sniper
Captain America the Winter Soldier
Dance of Reality
The Grand Hotel Budapest
Grand Piano
The Homesman
Nightcrawler
Selma
Snowpiercer
Whiplash
The Runners Up
Big Bad Wolves
Belle
Blue Ruin
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Drop
Exodus
The Hundred-Yard Journey
Love Is Strange
The Railway Man
A Walk Among the Tombstones
The Most Entertaining
Big Hero 6
Godzilla
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Guest
Housebound
The Lego Movie
Lucy
Maleficent
Nurse 3D
Odd Thomas
The Worst
Enemies Closer
Enemy
The Expandables 3
Inherent Vice
A Most Wanted Man
The Rover
Transcendence
Transformers Age of Extinction
The Zero Theorem
The Most Disapointing and Overrated
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Boyhood
Calvary
Chef
The Equalizer
Foxcatcher
Fury
Interstellar
Jersey Boys
Noah
As for scores, check them out in conjunction with Filmmusicmag.com at:
http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=13882
Now let's hear your opinions
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On the Score: I agree with most of your choices, but I'm wondering if you could elaborate on why you dislike Inherent Vice. I haven't seen it yet, but I would think the combination of Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon couldn't be that bad. A disappointment maybe, but one of the ten worst of the year?
It will probably take until the middle of 2015 before my top 12 of 2014 is finalized. There are still many potential films I'll like that I still need to see including Inherent Vice (I missed an advance screening last weekend, damnitall), Winter Sleep, Leviathan, While We're Young (a 2014 film fest debut, but not getting a general release for another two or three months), Boyhood (will be getting a copy from the library soon), Peter Bogdanovich's She's Funny That Way (produced by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach - I have no idea when this will be available), Foxcatcher (which finally opens here in Seattle this weekend) and others.
My current top 5 is:
The Better Angels
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Low Down
Whiplash
Gone Girl is first-rate Fincher, although I find it more a guilty pleasure than a great movie (but it will probably end up on my top 12 list anyway.) I will need to see Interstellar again to see how well it holds up - I found it to be very entertaining, but it plays in my mind as undernourished a month after seeing it.)
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On the Score: I agree with most of your choices, but I'm wondering if you could elaborate on why you dislike Inherent Vice. I haven't seen it yet, but I would think the combination of Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon couldn't be that bad. A disappointment maybe, but one of the ten worst of the year?
It will probably take until the middle of 2015 before my top 12 of 2014 is finalized. There are still many potential films I'll like that I still need to see including Inherent Vice (I missed an advance screening last weekend, damnitall), Winter Sleep, Leviathan, While We're Young (a 2014 film fest debut, but not getting a general release for another two or three months), Boyhood (will be getting a copy from the library soon), Peter Bogdanovich's She's Funny That Way (produced by Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach - I have no idea when this will be available), Foxcatcher (which finally opens here in Seattle this weekend) and others.
My current top 5 is:
The Better Angels
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Low Down
Whiplash
Gone Girl is first-rate Fincher, although I find it more a guilty pleasure than a great movie (but it will probably end up on my top 12 list anyway.) I will need to see Interstellar again to see how well it holds up - I found it to be very entertaining, but it plays in my mind as undernourished a month after seeing it.)
I found Inherent Vice to be an incomprehensible, utter bore of a film, with really the sole redeeming factors being Greenwood's score and Josh Brolin's performance. It's just irritating. And nothing irritates me more than pretentious twaddle which people fall down on their knees praising when it comes to Cineaste directors - whom in Anderson's case varies between brilliance and awfulness, often in the same film
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