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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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