Only problem I had with that movie was the butt sex joke where they were trying to spoof James Bond but screwed it up. (that and Roxy being shot into space for no real good reason)
Inside Out Wow, I really enjoyed this film. This is probably second to Toy Story in my ranking of Pixar films. As an aside I really enjoyed how well the film makers were able to explain abstract and sometimes complex understanding of how memory works (or is postulated to work). Maybe the only thing that I was slightly irritated by was getting Joy and Sadness back from each of the core memory islands, although it was only moments, I can't determine how to improve this portion of the story without disturbing many other positive elements.
I'll definitely re-watch this and buy it.
Just watched it myself for the first time and basically agreed on all accounts (except I like Wall-E more but it beats out Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Up, which is quite the accomplishment). I loved this movie.
Also found this little troll job I noticed in the credits pretty funny:
Paula Poundstone as Forgetter Paula Bobby Moynihan as Forgetter Bobby Dave Goelz as Subconscious Guard Frank Frank Oz as Subconscious Guard Dave
Ridiculuos Six Watched this silly Adam Sandler movie with my brother. It was an Adam Sandler movie but had some extra fun cameos. Story and plot were stupid but the movie understood it. Not great, I guessed what the twist and the end of the movie in the first 10 - 15 minutes.
More interesting is that you can watch this movie in 4k. My projector is only 1080p and I didn't end up buying a 4k or 5k monitor so I can't try this out. Has anyone else tried streaming this at 4k?
Do not watch this movie unless you just want to see how 4k looks (there are short Youtube videos for 4k as well).
Christmas Movies Indiana Jones Trilogy On Christmas we watched the Indiana Jones trilogy (remastered audio and video) pretty great and reaffirms how many films are comparatively trash. The soundtrack itself tells a story better than many of today's films.
Beasts of No Nation I had no idea what to expect when going into this movie but was happily rewarded with a great movie. While my previous Netflix movie experience was trash this one was great. This is a war story set in an unidentified African nation that covers the constant disruption to life by the many conflicts and how the disillusioned and lost children are quickly lulled into the life of child soldiers. The movie really made me feel like the protagonist had no other option than to take the options he took, especially as a child.
Might not be your cup of tea or egg nogg for Christmas time, was great for us.
Movies I saw this year, in theaters, in order of quality: 1. Mad Max: Fury Road 2. Star Wars EpVII: The Force Awakens 3. Inside Out 4. The Martian 5. Bridge of Spies 6. The Good Dinosaur 7. Avengers: Age of Ultron 8. The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Really close call their at the end between 7 and 8.
I just watched Chronicle, which is written by Landis. I have no clue how I never heard of this film before considering that it is tied into the Superhero genre (though somewhat tenuously) and it made 10 times its production budget, including a first place at the box office. This may have actually worked in my favor considering the movie poster makes it look like a completely different film.
--------- Spoiler line ------------- The movie is about three high school students who find some alien device or something (it isn't properly explained) and develop telekinetic powers. The main character has chronicled this in his video archive, which he apparently has created to put a barrier between himself and his fucked up life. His mom is deadly ill, his father is an abusive drunkard, he is bullied in school and has no friends. The two other guys he is with when they get their powers are his cousin, with whom he doesn't have all that deep a relationship, and a friend of his cousin who is running for senior class president. Through the shared discover/abilities they become better friends but also become more stressed through it. At first they use it for pranks but as their abilities grow the main character also becomes more and more frustrated with his social situation because he knows that he is better than the people who are making his life worse. And then he snaps.
I really liked it. It constantly has that air of dread, of foreboding doom in it. It is somewhat exhausting that way but I believe that is the intended effect. It is a found footage film but it works to achieve this, though occasionally that seems a little bit contrived (i.e. the fact that there is a separate character also doing the "video archive" thing in order for them to occasionally have reverse shots and can show one scene where the main character isn't involved) but it has an interesting wrinkle in the fact that the "cameraman" is actually the main character of the thing.
There are some very neat camera tricks in here as the main character starts using his power to position the camera, some of which I still can't quite figure out. Some would say that is a cop-out from the "found footage" genre, but it does it in a neat way so it can be forgiven for that. The movie obviously relies on CG but holds up pretty well in that and it isn't very obvious.
However, what is most interesting about this film isn't really the technical aspects, but the story. As said earlier, it is classified into the "superhero genre" but that is a bit of a red herring here. You could say it is a sort of origin story, but it isn't that of a superhero but of a super villain, and it does a great job at that. You can see step-by-step where a somewhat downtrodden guy would just go nuts if he has the means to actually do so, and that is perhaps something we should learn from. That a) if we are this downtrodden guy to not let that happen to ourself and b) to treat others with respect and not pile onto people, even if inadvertently.
Finally, I find it somewhat sad that the marketing apparently focused on the last 10 minutes of the film after the main character snaps and goes on a telekinetic rampage (very Akira in that way) rather than the exploration of the characters, but I guess it would have been a lot harder to market it that way.
Saw Star Wars again, this time on an IMAX screen in 3D. I enjoyed it even more the second time and the movie is so much better on a huge screen like that.
Watched Prometheus tonight with a commentary track by Cameron Lauder and Alex Steacy of LoadingReadyRun. Really the only reason I watched it at all since I heard it sucked (e.g. Paul Chapman made an "emergency podcast" of the Greatest Movie EVER Podcast when it was still in cinemas to talk about how bad it was). And yeah, I was not disappointed in how disappointing this movie must have been to franchise fans and any intelligent person, and just the rudimentary plot details that the movie is simply incapable of handling well. Everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY in that film is an idiot, making the stupidest decisions for the worst reasons.
The most succinct point made in the commentary track is how in Alien Ripley refuses to let the contaminated people on board of the Nostromo (only to be screwed over by Ash because Ash is secretly working for Wayland-Yutani). In Prometheus they bring morons on a mission, remove their helmets within the first 15 minutes on a foreign planet that could contain Sejenus knows what kind of pathogens unknown to mankind up until now, then bring in alien material on board of their own ship without even the slightest containment protocol or even procedures to protect against reverse contamination of their test samples, etc. etc. etc.
And the worst part is that the idiot ball doesn't remain just in the hand of the humans either because I have honestly no explanation why the Engineer they wake up at the end of the film acts the way he does. The fact that his entire race basically created this kind of biological weapons agent is also not a point in their favor in the first place.
All of these things obviously stem from what the people behind the movie want to show and want to have in their movie, rather than what should and would logically happen. It is really pathetic when you can see the men behind the curtain so clearly.
Matt, are you seeing the roadshow, or just a 70mm projection, or what? New Jersey isn't listed as a place where the actual roadshow is happening.
Right off the official page there are three, one listed under New York market (Paramus) and two under Philly market (Hamilton and Chery Hill). Hamilton is 50min driving for me, so Hamilton it is.
I really considered taking off one day this week and doing a double-feature in the city with this the The Revenant, but I'm not 100% convinced on The Revenant, and since I'm a few days shy of max vacation carryover, just gonna save more for multiple conventions next year.
Got tickets to see Hateful Eight on New Year's. Not sure if it will be the full Roadshow experience or not (as it will be in full release on that day), but it will still be in 70mm.
2015 movie dump! It was a good year for movie watching. Way more good movies than bad.
My two least enjoyable movies of 2015 were Mission Impossible 2 and (I can't believe I'm writing this) The Godfather.
My movie of the year was Mad Max: Fury Road. My second top movie was Gone Girl. My top documentary was Touching the Void.
**In order:** Her The Godfather Midnight in Paris I Am Legend Karate Kid (1984) Iron Giant Chappie What We Do In The Shadows Star Trek 2009 (in German) Star Trek Into Darkness (in German) Guardians of the Galaxy The Sword in the Stone Avengers 2 Mad Max (1979) Mad Max: Fury Road Big Hero 6 Gone Girl Paddington Nightcrawler Ghostbusters Whiplash Iron Man 3 The Hunt for Red October On Her Majesty's Secret Service Back to the Future II An Honest Liar Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Stand By Me 12 Monkeys Tomorrowland Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The One I Love Mad Max: Fury Road Moneyball Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian Big Trouble in Little China The Emperor's New Groove Touching the Void Behind the Candelabra Tucker and Dale vs Evil Keep Surfing Spectre Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Good Will Hunting Fight Club Jurassic World Mad Max: Fury Road The Terminator Shaun the Sheep Mad Max: Fury Road Star Wars: The Force Awakens Mission Impossible 1 Mission Impossible 2 Mission Impossible 3 Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation The Wrecking Crew
**Seen before:** I Am Legend Karate Kid (1984) Star Trek 2009 (in German) Star Trek Into Darkness (in German) Guardians of the Galaxy The Sword in the Stone Mad Max (1979) Nightcrawler Ghostbusters The Hunt for Red October On Her Majesty's Secret Service Back to the Future II Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Stand By Me 12 Monkeys Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Mad Max: Fury Road Moneyball Mad Max: Fury Road Big Trouble in Little China The Emperor's New Groove Good Will Hunting Fight Club Mad Max: Fury Road The Terminator Mad Max: Fury Road Mission Impossible 1 Mission Impossible 2 Mission Impossible 3 Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
**First time:** Her The Godfather Midnight in Paris Iron Giant Chappie What We Do In The Shadows Avengers 2 Mad Max: Fury Road Big Hero 6 Gone Girl Paddington Whiplash Iron Man 3 An Honest Liar Tomorrowland The One I Love The Martian Touching the Void Behind the Candelabra Tucker and Dale vs Evil Keep Surfing Spectre Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Jurassic World Shaun the Sheep Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Wrecking Crew
**Yup! (remembered/heard it was good, was good):** Her Midnight in Paris I Am Legend Karate Kid (1984) Iron Giant Chappie What We Do In The Shadows Guardians of the Galaxy The Sword in the Stone Mad Max (1979) Mad Max: Fury Road Big Hero 6 Gone Girl Paddington Nightcrawler Whiplash The Hunt for Red October An Honest Liar Stand By Me 12 Monkeys Dirty Rotten Scoundrels The One I Love Mad Max: Fury Road Moneyball Mad Max: Fury Road The Martian The Emperor's New Groove Touching the Void Behind the Candelabra Tucker and Dale vs Evil Keep Surfing - never heard of it before Good Will Hunting Fight Club Mad Max: Fury Road The Terminator Shaun the Sheep Mad Max: Fury Road Mission Impossible 1 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation The Wrecking Crew
**Okay category A. The Anti-Disappointment (thought it would be bad or okay, turned out better than expected (either good or okay)):** Iron Man 3 (okay -> good) Back to the Future II (okay -> good) Tomorrowland (bad -> okay) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (okay -> good) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (okay -> good)
**Okay category B. Just Okay (knew/heard it would be okay, turned out okay):** Star Trek 2009 (in German) Star Trek Into Darkness (in German) Avengers 2 On Her Majesty's Secret Service Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Big Trouble in Little China Jurassic World Mission Impossible 3 Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
**Disappointment (heard/remembered it was good/okay, turned out barely okay/bad):** The Godfather (great -> bad) Ghostbusters (good -> okay) Spectre (good -> okay)
**Known bad (heard/knew it was bad, was bad):**
**Ultimate Disappointment (heard/remembered it was bad, turned out worse than I could imagine):** Mission Impossible 2
@Luke Burrage You seem to like Fury Road alot. It's good, but not THAT good. Saying that, I've watched Ocean's 11 more times than I can count on my hands.
I think I made it very clear I'm talking about my own personal favourite based on my own subjective enjoyment. There is literally nothing you will ever say that will change my mind.
If I was to rate the movies on an objective scale of "good" to "not good", no movie I watched for the first time this year, either recent or classic, would be at the top. So what's the pint?
Actually, Gone Girl and Touching the Void might be up there, but the second is a 10 year old documentary, and the first isn't even the best David Fincher movie I've seen in 2015 (that would be Fight Club), nor the best movie with Ben Affleck (that would be Good Will Hunting), nor the best movie about a psychopath (that would be Nightcrawler).
Deus Ex Great movie that I missed from 2015. I agree with how the sentient AI acted. The acting by the lead was pretty plain but this was clearly intended to allow for the viewer to be able to place themselves in the same position.
Also the antagonist was made too easy to dislike or maybe I needed fewer reminders.
I would recommend it, not the greatest but not the best movie based on AI / sentient androids.
@Luke Burrage You seem to like Fury Road alot. It's good, but not THAT good. Saying that, I've watched Ocean's 11 more times than I can count on my hands.
He clearly loved this film which itself is a reason to rate it highly as ranks on art are subjective. Actually you already made your point with Ocean's 11 lol.
@Luke Burrage You seem to like Fury Road alot. It's good, but not THAT good. Saying that, I've watched Ocean's 11 more times than I can count on my hands.
I'm with Luke; it's that good. Unless any of the Oscar movies I haven't seen this year overthrow it (The Martian, Room, Anomalisa, The Hateful Eight), it's likely my #1 as well.
@Luke Burrage You seem to like Fury Road alot. It's good, but not THAT good. Saying that, I've watched Ocean's 11 more times than I can count on my hands.
He clearly loved this film which itself is a reason to rate it highly as ranks on art are subjective. Actually you already made your point with Ocean's 11 lol.
Also, while Fury Road might not be the "best" movie when ranked among all movies, I think it is the best movie of some of its sub-sub-genres. It's the best car-based action movie, that's for sure.
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Mad Max: Fury Road
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The Martian
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Her
Big Hero 6
The One I Love
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Chappie
Jurassic World
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Tomorrowland
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Avengers 2
I mostly enjoyed it, but was also pretty deeply disappointed.
Also found this little troll job I noticed in the credits pretty funny:
Watched this silly Adam Sandler movie with my brother. It was an Adam Sandler movie but had some extra fun cameos. Story and plot were stupid but the movie understood it.
Not great, I guessed what the twist and the end of the movie in the first 10 - 15 minutes.
More interesting is that you can watch this movie in 4k. My projector is only 1080p and I didn't end up buying a 4k or 5k monitor so I can't try this out.
Has anyone else tried streaming this at 4k?
Do not watch this movie unless you just want to see how 4k looks (there are short Youtube videos for 4k as well).
Mission Impossible 2.
Mission Impossible 3.
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.
http://www.sfbrp.com/archives/1090
Indiana Jones Trilogy
On Christmas we watched the Indiana Jones trilogy (remastered audio and video) pretty great and reaffirms how many films are comparatively trash. The soundtrack itself tells a story better than many of today's films.
Beasts of No Nation
I had no idea what to expect when going into this movie but was happily rewarded with a great movie. While my previous Netflix movie experience was trash this one was great. This is a war story set in an unidentified African nation that covers the constant disruption to life by the many conflicts and how the disillusioned and lost children are quickly lulled into the life of child soldiers. The movie really made me feel like the protagonist had no other option than to take the options he took, especially as a child.
Might not be your cup of tea or egg nogg for Christmas time, was great for us.
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Star Wars EpVII: The Force Awakens
3. Inside Out
4. The Martian
5. Bridge of Spies
6. The Good Dinosaur
7. Avengers: Age of Ultron
8. The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Really close call their at the end between 7 and 8.
I just watched Chronicle, which is written by Landis. I have no clue how I never heard of this film before considering that it is tied into the Superhero genre (though somewhat tenuously) and it made 10 times its production budget, including a first place at the box office. This may have actually worked in my favor considering the movie poster makes it look like a completely different film.
--------- Spoiler line -------------
The movie is about three high school students who find some alien device or something (it isn't properly explained) and develop telekinetic powers. The main character has chronicled this in his video archive, which he apparently has created to put a barrier between himself and his fucked up life. His mom is deadly ill, his father is an abusive drunkard, he is bullied in school and has no friends. The two other guys he is with when they get their powers are his cousin, with whom he doesn't have all that deep a relationship, and a friend of his cousin who is running for senior class president. Through the shared discover/abilities they become better friends but also become more stressed through it. At first they use it for pranks but as their abilities grow the main character also becomes more and more frustrated with his social situation because he knows that he is better than the people who are making his life worse. And then he snaps.
I really liked it. It constantly has that air of dread, of foreboding doom in it. It is somewhat exhausting that way but I believe that is the intended effect. It is a found footage film but it works to achieve this, though occasionally that seems a little bit contrived (i.e. the fact that there is a separate character also doing the "video archive" thing in order for them to occasionally have reverse shots and can show one scene where the main character isn't involved) but it has an interesting wrinkle in the fact that the "cameraman" is actually the main character of the thing.
There are some very neat camera tricks in here as the main character starts using his power to position the camera, some of which I still can't quite figure out. Some would say that is a cop-out from the "found footage" genre, but it does it in a neat way so it can be forgiven for that. The movie obviously relies on CG but holds up pretty well in that and it isn't very obvious.
However, what is most interesting about this film isn't really the technical aspects, but the story. As said earlier, it is classified into the "superhero genre" but that is a bit of a red herring here. You could say it is a sort of origin story, but it isn't that of a superhero but of a super villain, and it does a great job at that. You can see step-by-step where a somewhat downtrodden guy would just go nuts if he has the means to actually do so, and that is perhaps something we should learn from. That a) if we are this downtrodden guy to not let that happen to ourself and b) to treat others with respect and not pile onto people, even if inadvertently.
Finally, I find it somewhat sad that the marketing apparently focused on the last 10 minutes of the film after the main character snaps and goes on a telekinetic rampage (very Akira in that way) rather than the exploration of the characters, but I guess it would have been a lot harder to market it that way.
It's a Quentin Tarantino flick.
Samuel L. Jackson. Crime. Wisecracks. Guns. Revenge porn. Bloodbath.
If I'm judging movies by whether I want to watch them a second time, Hateful Eight beats Star Wars for me.
The most succinct point made in the commentary track is how in Alien Ripley refuses to let the contaminated people on board of the Nostromo (only to be screwed over by Ash because Ash is secretly working for Wayland-Yutani). In Prometheus they bring morons on a mission, remove their helmets within the first 15 minutes on a foreign planet that could contain Sejenus knows what kind of pathogens unknown to mankind up until now, then bring in alien material on board of their own ship without even the slightest containment protocol or even procedures to protect against reverse contamination of their test samples, etc. etc. etc.
And the worst part is that the idiot ball doesn't remain just in the hand of the humans either because I have honestly no explanation why the Engineer they wake up at the end of the film acts the way he does. The fact that his entire race basically created this kind of biological weapons agent is also not a point in their favor in the first place.
All of these things obviously stem from what the people behind the movie want to show and want to have in their movie, rather than what should and would logically happen. It is really pathetic when you can see the men behind the curtain so clearly.
I really considered taking off one day this week and doing a double-feature in the city with this the The Revenant, but I'm not 100% convinced on The Revenant, and since I'm a few days shy of max vacation carryover, just gonna save more for multiple conventions next year.
My two least enjoyable movies of 2015 were Mission Impossible 2 and (I can't believe I'm writing this) The Godfather.
My movie of the year was Mad Max: Fury Road. My second top movie was Gone Girl. My top documentary was Touching the Void.
**In order:**
Her
The Godfather
Midnight in Paris
I Am Legend
Karate Kid (1984)
Iron Giant
Chappie
What We Do In The Shadows
Star Trek 2009 (in German)
Star Trek Into Darkness (in German)
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Sword in the Stone
Avengers 2
Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max: Fury Road
Big Hero 6
Gone Girl
Paddington
Nightcrawler
Ghostbusters
Whiplash
Iron Man 3
The Hunt for Red October
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Back to the Future II
An Honest Liar
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Stand By Me
12 Monkeys
Tomorrowland
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The One I Love
Mad Max: Fury Road
Moneyball
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
Big Trouble in Little China
The Emperor's New Groove
Touching the Void
Behind the Candelabra
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Keep Surfing
Spectre
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Good Will Hunting
Fight Club
Jurassic World
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Terminator
Shaun the Sheep
Mad Max: Fury Road
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Mission Impossible 1
Mission Impossible 2
Mission Impossible 3
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
The Wrecking Crew
**Seen before:**
I Am Legend
Karate Kid (1984)
Star Trek 2009 (in German)
Star Trek Into Darkness (in German)
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Sword in the Stone
Mad Max (1979)
Nightcrawler
Ghostbusters
The Hunt for Red October
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Back to the Future II
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Stand By Me
12 Monkeys
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Mad Max: Fury Road
Moneyball
Mad Max: Fury Road
Big Trouble in Little China
The Emperor's New Groove
Good Will Hunting
Fight Club
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Terminator
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mission Impossible 1
Mission Impossible 2
Mission Impossible 3
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
**First time:**
Her
The Godfather
Midnight in Paris
Iron Giant
Chappie
What We Do In The Shadows
Avengers 2
Mad Max: Fury Road
Big Hero 6
Gone Girl
Paddington
Whiplash
Iron Man 3
An Honest Liar
Tomorrowland
The One I Love
The Martian
Touching the Void
Behind the Candelabra
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Keep Surfing
Spectre
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Jurassic World
Shaun the Sheep
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
The Wrecking Crew
**Yup! (remembered/heard it was good, was good):**
Her
Midnight in Paris
I Am Legend
Karate Kid (1984)
Iron Giant
Chappie
What We Do In The Shadows
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Sword in the Stone
Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max: Fury Road
Big Hero 6
Gone Girl
Paddington
Nightcrawler
Whiplash
The Hunt for Red October
An Honest Liar
Stand By Me
12 Monkeys
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The One I Love
Mad Max: Fury Road
Moneyball
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Martian
The Emperor's New Groove
Touching the Void
Behind the Candelabra
Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Keep Surfing - never heard of it before
Good Will Hunting
Fight Club
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Terminator
Shaun the Sheep
Mad Max: Fury Road
Mission Impossible 1
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
The Wrecking Crew
**Okay category A. The Anti-Disappointment (thought it would be bad or okay, turned out better than expected (either good or okay)):**
Iron Man 3 (okay -> good)
Back to the Future II (okay -> good)
Tomorrowland (bad -> okay)
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (okay -> good)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (okay -> good)
**Okay category B. Just Okay (knew/heard it would be okay, turned out okay):**
Star Trek 2009 (in German)
Star Trek Into Darkness (in German)
Avengers 2
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Big Trouble in Little China
Jurassic World
Mission Impossible 3
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
**Disappointment (heard/remembered it was good/okay, turned out barely okay/bad):**
The Godfather (great -> bad)
Ghostbusters (good -> okay)
Spectre (good -> okay)
**Known bad (heard/knew it was bad, was bad):**
**Ultimate Disappointment (heard/remembered it was bad, turned out worse than I could imagine):**
Mission Impossible 2
Edit to add:
"Who is the guy who bows to Akeem at the basketball game? I know him from somewhere."
"Yeah, who is that?"
10 minutes later.
"The journalist in Daredevil!"
If I was to rate the movies on an objective scale of "good" to "not good", no movie I watched for the first time this year, either recent or classic, would be at the top. So what's the pint?
Actually, Gone Girl and Touching the Void might be up there, but the second is a 10 year old documentary, and the first isn't even the best David Fincher movie I've seen in 2015 (that would be Fight Club), nor the best movie with Ben Affleck (that would be Good Will Hunting), nor the best movie about a psychopath (that would be Nightcrawler).
Great movie that I missed from 2015. I agree with how the sentient AI acted. The acting by the lead was pretty plain but this was clearly intended to allow for the viewer to be able to place themselves in the same position.
Also the antagonist was made too easy to dislike or maybe I needed fewer reminders.
I would recommend it, not the greatest but not the best movie based on AI / sentient androids. He clearly loved this film which itself is a reason to rate it highly as ranks on art are subjective. Actually you already made your point with Ocean's 11 lol.