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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 18:05:16 GMT
I can think of very few 'great' movies in the 2010's even, think it h a s been a very poor decade, the last two years particularly.
I think TV shows (such as Breaking Bad) really have surpassed the movie experience, which is very sad as a great movie in a packed cinema is hard to beat as an experience.
I h a very recently been watching old classics on the big screen, and thoroughly enjoyed the special screenings I have seen of Die Hard, Blazing Saddles (amazing, constant laughter) and Godfather 2.
Spotlight was such a 'nothing' movie, yet it won the Oscars, this year I have had no interest in any of the nominated movies, except maybe Arrival.
I think Silence had the potential to be an all time great movie, but that first half was so slow (great second half) but half a great movie is the best I can come up with.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2017 21:59:48 GMT
Hmm. The only really great movies I can think of our Hacksaw Ridge and La La Land, both of which I'm sure I'll be rewatching for years to come.
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Post by louise on Feb 9, 2017 13:14:26 GMT
no. i didn't care greatly for anything i saw last year. Nothing above a 6.
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Post by mslo79 on Feb 10, 2017 11:07:16 GMT
Nope. only one movie from 2016 would be amongst my favorite movies in general which is... The Magnificent Seven (2016) (7/10) (i need to see how that holds up on a re-watch though as i have only seen it once so far).
that would be within my Top 200 movies in general and would be within my Top 54 (basically Top 50) of the current decade. basically... it's somewhere between my 23rd-50th spot of the current 2010's decade currently.
but ill say 2016 is the weakest overall year for me since 1998 as i would have to go back to 1998 to find a weaker overall year.
p.s. The Witch is one of the best of 2016 for me though. but in the end i only gave it a 6/10 (a mild Thumbs Up). as mentioned by Ashy Williams... it's pretty much the atmosphere that carries the movie as it has it's little moments here and there.
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Post by becauseiambatmanoffg on Feb 10, 2017 11:25:30 GMT
None so far.
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Post by THawk on Feb 11, 2017 3:15:03 GMT
Hacksaw Ridge, and especially Silence, were two absolute masterpieces.
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Post by larryv on Feb 11, 2017 3:31:48 GMT
For an all out fun non stop action popcorn movie, "Civil War" makes the list.
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Post by thag on Feb 11, 2017 3:52:53 GMT
Arrival would be close. But 2016 wasn't really a great year for the best movies.
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Post by kevin on Feb 21, 2017 7:15:31 GMT
Possibly La La Land and/or Arrival
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Post by ashverses on Feb 21, 2017 21:08:38 GMT
No. Arrival, Hacksaw and Green Room are in my top 3 of 2016, but I can't find room in my top ten of the last 10 years.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 21:13:44 GMT
I did enjoy THE BRONZE alot (my favorite of 2016) But no  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 23:34:54 GMT
Nope.
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Post by Salzmank on Feb 22, 2017 4:48:44 GMT
Allied.
I thought it superb, beautifully filmed and acted. It used elements from Casablanca and other classics but changed them enough to tell a completely different story that was all its own. And, needless to say, Mlle. Cotillard (1) gives a brilliant, unbelievably good performance and (2) is so lovely that she lights up the screen with her smile.
It is old fashioned not only because of when it is set but because of how it is filmed, even in spite of the CGI. People just do not direct movies like this anymore, as my film teacher kept telling me. (I was the only in the class who ever directed linear stories--Westerns, private eye pictures--by the way. Everyone else was making gloomy, depressing, existential things in which I had no interest. I still don't know whether that teacher was paying me a compliment or criticizing me by telling me that my work was "just not done nowadays.")
More than anything, Allied really cares about its characters; they are real people who live and breathe, not dummies to pad out a scene. How many recent, big-budget, Hollywood movies have you seen that deeply care about their characters?
I have no qualms with putting it on my list of favorites of the decade. I think it brilliant.
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