[Closed] Your "Film Of The Year"?

Don't keep us waiting...

Of the things I have see (not hit the cinema enough)
1) Blade Runner 2049 - just immense and incredible visually and with great depth in the story.
2) Trainspotting 2 - Thank you one and all for not cocking that one up
3) Logan - Exactly what he should have been from day 1

Oh balls. Can't get IMG to work...

A Ghost Story.

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That's the one!

Ta. 😀

I'll add it to the list then

The Florida Project.

not a movie, got season 7 for me.

A Ghost Story?

Wibbling hipster pie eating nonsense 🙂

Definitely not "best films" but 3 I enjoyed were;

Logan
John Wick 2
American Made

Mindless escapism is my preference it seems...

Jackie Chan in "Foreigner"

I was expecting the usual, which I enjoy, but this is a much much better film. Maybe it was the contrast to the usual run of Jackie Chan movies, but this was seriously well done.

Gerry Adams and Theresa May look almost like the real thing. 🙂

Blade runner 2049
A film star never dies in Liverpool
Get out
Baby driver

Special mention to Thor ragnock for the rock paper scissors joke

Stalin.

Handmaiden - sumptuous adaptation of Sarah Waters' novel "Fingersmith" set in feudal Korea. Sounds weird but it's brilliant.

I've still got a few I'd like to get through. These are the ones off the top of my head that I thought were quite good. Some might be from 2016 but they were not in UK until 2017.

Dunkirk
Hidden Figures
The Hero
[b]Mudbound[/b]
The Foreigner
American Made
Good Time
Bad Day for the Cut
Hacksaw Ridge
Manchester by the Sea
It Comes at Night
Wind River

Mudbound probably gets the nod as my film of the year.

So American Made isn't just Tom Cruise 11?

Bladerunner 2049.

Horribly sad.

Horribly plausible.

Looked and sounded amazing.

Loved the constant theme of parental guilt and failure, both at the personal level of Deckard's lost child, and in the wider sense of both humanity's replicant "offsping" and those elements of humanity who've been left behind on a dying planet.

A superior sequel which weirdly manages to elevate the original.

Didn't want it to end.

Trainspotting or The Death of Stalin, principally because they are the only non minion or lego based films I've seen at the cinema this year. Both were however ace.

Wish Death of Stalin was out here before I left, will be catching that on streaming somewhere.
arrpee - summed up BR2049 perfectly there, it's a future that I can see happening which is what made it so good.

After my top 3 also honorable mentions to
Thor Ragnarok for just being so damm funny
Baby Driver for being probably the last good KS film we will see

Dunkirk - wow just wow, I love Nolans story telling
Wonder Woman for being a great film where the women are there for the right reasons
Free Fire -

The concept of only letting them shoot the bullets they have is fantastic and makes it work so well
Logan Lucky as it took me a long time to work out that was James Bond

and the music of John Denver which seems to hit the best moments of all the good films

Bladerunner 2049 for me visually stunning.

Yes Blade Runner for me, followed by Paddington 2

Looking forward to Sicario 2

Was hunt for the wilderpeople this year ? If so that . Really enjoyed Thor , Wonder Woman , Dunkirk and baby driver .
I’m was also relieved that I liked Star Wars .
We watched bright last night on Netflix and whilst maybe not as good as the above worth a watch .
Still to see Stalin and missed out on blade runner
Really liked captain underpants , in fact I liked it more that my 4 year old

Honestly loved Wonder Woman, it'd be great even if it were a marvel film but for DC to come out with it is like if Maeve Binchy wrote The Road

We watched bright last night on Netflix and whilst maybe not as good as the above worth a watch .

So did we, really enjoyed it.

Bright was Ok I rekcon as TV series it may have been better as it could of painted a background story as you had to fill quite a bit of what each race was about and more history on the powers.

I enjoyed Thor: Ragnarok, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Logan and Rogue One (cos we waited until the new year to go and see it.)

Another one for mindless escapism here. If I want gritty reality and misery I can just have a walk into the town centre on any day of the week.

edit- Spider-Man: Homecoming was decent too but we waited to get the DVD rather than go to the pictures to see it.

edit again- and Trainspotting 2!

Watched ‘Bright’ last night, have to admit I tuned out fairly quickly. Good premises but unspectacular film Imho.

Blade Runner 2049 was probably my film of the year, it’s all the things it was meant to be, it’s just great and I look forward to seeing it at home.

Honourable mention for ‘IT’ it scared to bejeaus out of me.

2018 looking forward to Sicario 2 and Solo.

Quite liked matt damon in suburbicon

It was a great film an appealed to my sick sense of humour 😉
Trainspotting was good. I need to see star wars again.

Hidden Figures.

Baby Driver. Not deep, not an amazing story, but the the absolute best piece of film making I've seen in ages. A movie made by someone who loves movies for people who love movies.

Honourable mentions to Blade Runner 2049, Dunkirk, Logan and Spiderman: Homecoming.

Not seen Thor Ragnarok yet...

Mad to be normal was great.Did you not see it Mr Woppit?Suppose because I have big respect for RD Laing.

The beast about Dennis Skinner was very moving.I was also inspired by seeing American honey in January.

i haven't seen many films this year
bladerunner

are there 2 versions of babydriver i watched the shittyworstfilmintheworld one

I thought the Trainspotting movie was very overated.

Mine's not allowed cos its 2016, but I saw it at cinema and hadn't heard of it in 2016, so it's still 'War On Everyone'. It's just [i]my sort of film[/i].

If not allowed it'd be 'Dunkirk' or 'Blade Runner 2049'. Both brilliant,
but flawed in their own very different ways. 'Get Out' was also superb, but I didn't see that at the cinema.

[i]Worst[/i] I saw this year was between the appallingly scripted Justice League and the dismal nonsense Kingsmen: Golden Circle. If I didn't have a teenager I wouldn't go and see such films, but man, they were terrible.

I went to the cinema twice... Dunkirk and Star wars so Dunkirk is my film of the year but also think it would be nowhere near as good not in a cinema

Really liked captain underpants , in fact I liked it more that my 4 year old

Not just me then. Tra La LAAA!

I think my favourite film this year was IT or Hunt for the Wilderpeople. My sense of time is rubbish though and I have a sneaking suspicion Wilderpeople was last year

Dunkirk
Okja
Baby driver

Thor and Guardians of the galaxy vol 2 we’re also both very good.

T2. The only film I made two visits to at the flix.

Could've been so bad but was fantastically melancholic, humourous and thrilling.

Bladerunner and Atomic Blonde. The cars, the music, the chases and the stories from one of my flying instructors about being an "observer" in East Berlin and being arrested, chucked in the back of a truck with lots of East German border troops before being swapped. He then did GCHQ before breaking it to me that I was rubbish as a pilots.

Apparently, 'beyond skyline' has been fairly well received.

DVD release Jan 8!

I agree 100% with Woppit. Ghost Story wasn't perfect, but it was excellent, and continues to resonate many months after I first saw it.

Kermode lost it with his "Mad Max is sexist" rant ( with is illogical, given the story), his continued support for LaLa Land which was rubbish ... and disposable piece of nonsense ...

TBh ... I have not seen a decent film. in 12 months. a Ghost Story so art schools pretentiousness of the first degree ...
Star Wars is a rip off...
Blade Runner was just really, really dulll ....

Dunkirk was a good attempt , mind ...

You mean you don't go and see any decent films.There gave been a good number if you had bothered to do some research.

Being a pretty 2 dimension person, of those films I've seen:
Thor Ragnarok and Guardians 2.
Do want to see Ghost Story.

Bladerunner 2049

Another one for The Florida Project

You mean you don't go and see any decent films.There gave been a good number if you had bothered to do some research.

Yep, I've seen a whole ton of amazing films this year. HTH! 🙂

I was in Vegas when I went to see Dunkirk. Mainly to get out of the heat.

1.Blade runner. Visually and audibly stunning at the imax.

2. Lion. Incredibly moving true story.

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Thats mine.

I only watched 2 films this year. Which is more than the the last few years!

Blade Runner was dull and too long.

Detroit - I was dragged out by a mate one evening, I wouldn't have chosen to watch it. I didn't even know what it was about before I went in! Was actually really good.

Really must try to watch a few films but only normally like light hearted funny stuff and good ones like that are hard to find. Something like A Knights Tale suits me, shallow lightweight that I am

For me it has to be the eight billionth remake of Spider-Man, or one of the dozens of Marvel spinoffs. Brilliant, all of them. Thankyou Hollywood for your inventiveness.

Not seen many films this year but enjoyed Guardians of the Galaxy.

Question about Blade Runner, do you have to have seen the first one to get it?

Question about Blade Runner, do you have to have seen the first one to get it?

It certainly helps, and I think you get far more from the experience if you have.

Question about Blade Runner - why would you not have seen the first one? 😉

Thor Ragnarok - Awesome film!

i've watched most of the big scores, movies are just meh to me now though there's hardly a real great film about now.

still to see blade runner and thor(i refused to, but going off here , i might)

baby driver was pretty well done, guardians 2 was a crap story , but visually good. bright was watchable.

Sadly I didn't get to the cinema much this year, certainly not enough to have any kind of list. I mostly caught up on films I'd missed from the previous years and it looks like I'll be catching up on the best of 2017 sometime in 2018/2019. The vast majority of my watching time was taken up by netflix and amazon series.

Can’t say I’ve enjoyed many new films this year.. The Florida Project I’m looking forward too, but yet to see.

But that doesn’t stop me from nominating this, purely for the fracas it caused on here (pure entertainment)

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Oh god, Alien Covenant! I forgot how bad that was! Definitely worse than Justice League! Turkey of the Year by quite a long way

Jackie Chan in "Foreigner"

I was expecting the usual, which I enjoy, but this is a much much better film. Maybe it was the contrast to the usual run of Jackie Chan movies, but this was seriously well done.

Gerry Adams and Theresa May look almost like the real thing.

Watched this last night have to agree it was very entertaining

Question about Blade Runner, do you have to have seen the first one to get it?

We hadn't seen the first one and it was film of the year for me.

Wonder Woman
Bladerunner
Star Wars

Hacksaw Ridge. Wasn’t expecting a lot. Turned out to be better than Saving Private Ryan for me.
Looking forward to Gary Oldman as Churchill in February

Only went to see rogue one and baby driver this year.

The former was much better, but I'm aware it probably doesn't count.

Baby driver was pretty good but too long and I've disliked Kevin Spacey for ages (way before it was cool).

Manchester by the Sea and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 were both fantastic, but in very different ways!

In no particular order:

Prevenge
Hacksaw Ridge
Hidden Figures

dunkirk
hacksaw ridge
wilderpeople film
logan

Really struggling for a "Film of the Year"

Bladerunner 2049 was the biggest disappointment. Despite the original being my favourite film I found the sequel self indulgent, slow and poorly plotted, much like Villeneuve's other work. Big case of the emperor's new clothes here, although it did make me appreciate again how bloody awesome the original is.

Logan was a big disappointment too after all the hype.

Guardians of the Galaxy II was OK but went a bit too "Flash Gordon"

That leaves Trainspotting T2. A re-run of the original story, but that was the whole point, no happy Hollywood ending (well hopefully one for Spud) that honoured but did not supersede the original. So out of a poor bunch this is probably my pick of the year.

Also a vote for John Wick II. Unpretentious entertainment for the non-PC

I’m surprised no one has mentioned “The Death of Stalin - Armando Iannucci” yet, definitely my fav film of the year.

Think baby driver is my favourite film this year, it's not perfect but it brought me so much joy at times watching it
Logan ran it close, never thought it would get so dusty watching a superhero movie.
Last Jedi had some stunning visuals including 'that silent bit'
Death of Stalin gets a high ranking. I don't think I've ever muttered "F***ING hell" and "oh god" so many times during a film. Brilliant and shocking

Edit: @somafunk - great minds

It's on the list to catch, released in Australia just after I leave 🙁

Bladerunner 2049 was the biggest disappointment. Despite the original being my favourite film I found the sequel self indulgent, slow and poorly plotted, much like Villeneuve's other work. Big case of the emperor's new clothes here, although it did make me appreciate again how bloody awesome the original is.

There were some earlier mentions of Death of Stalin. I was about disappointed with it, tbh.

Watched Manchester by the Sea this evening. Very subtle. Casey Affleck was brilliant in it.

Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri

Just watched 'Detroit' - that is one powerful film. Wish I'd seen it at the cinema, would probably be no. 1 if I had.

Gonna be a toss up between 2049 & Made in America, but admitadley I prob didnt watch that many 2017 films.

Logan stayed with me for a while because it made me sad with the subject of enevitable decline (something I think hits home to most 40+ ers) but it was very good.

Best eye candy was Valerian though , visually striking.

Oops , American Made 😳

Probably "free fire" for me, I still can't work out how they made a fully fleshed out film, out of what appears to be an idea for a 5-10 minute scene. But they did and it was full of action with darkly witty dialogue and characters.

I don't get the love for baby driver and logan at all.

In baby driver the kid "baby" was so poorly portrayed it beggared belief, he came across as a spoiled middle class entitled brat straight out of drama school, not a troubled kid who had lost his parents and ended up on the wrong side of the law.

Logan was just a generic super hero movie that attempted to b adult by adding in a bit of bad language and gore, and stripping out the joy and hop. The script and dialogue was still childish.

Did anybody else see The Red Turtle last year?
I managed to catch up with it last night.
Simply wonderful, hand drawn animation, no words, just a visual delight, with a simple, touching, captivating tale about the milestones of life a human being.
It really got to me this film.
I urge everyone who hasn't to go and see it.
Also, Blade Runner 2049 was ace.