Your "Film Of The Year"?

Now that The Kermode has pronounced, let’s have a go at letting loose the STW critics.

Apparently, there’s this film about some wars in the stars that’s got everybody excited.

My film of the year, however, by far the most profound, moving and intense I’ve had the pleasure of soaking up, is:

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.

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
Mudbound
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 my sort of film.

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.

Worst 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.