Best of 2016 (so far)
Update: More than halfway through the year now, what are your favorites (or least favorites) so far?
My picks: BEST FILM 1.) The Lobster * 2.) Cemetery of Splendour 3.) Thunder Road 4.) Weiner 5.) O.J.: Made in America 6.) Under the Shadow 7.) Green Room 8.) Krisha 9.) Love & Friendship 10.) Everything Will Be Okay Honorable mention: Dheepan, In Transit, How Was Your Day?, The Fits, Cameraperson, Hail, Caesar!, Midnight Special, The Witch, Swiss Army Man, Tower BEST DIRECTOR Apichatpong Weerasethakul -Cemetery of Splendour * Babak Anvari -Under the Shadow Yorgos Lanthimos -The Lobster Robert Eggers -The Witch Anna Rose Holmer -The Fits BEST ACTOR Jesuthasan Antonythasan -Dheepan * Jake Gyllenhaal -Demolition Ryan Gosling -The Nice Guys Paul Dano -Swiss Army Man Andre Royo -Hunter Gatherer BEST ACTRESS Krisha Fairchild -Krisha * Kalieaswari Srinivasan -Dheepan Jenjira Pongpas -Cemetery of Splendour Narges Rashidi -Under the Shadow Kate Beckinsale -Love & Friendship BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Jim Cummings -Thunder Road * Alden Ehrenrich -Hail, Caesar! Tom Bennett -Love & Friendship Simon Shwarz -Everything Will Be Okay Daniel Radcliffe -Swiss Army Man BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Jarinpattra Rueangram -Cemetery of Splendour * Cate Blanchett -Knight of Cups Rachel Weisz -The Lobster Claudine Vinasithamby -Dheepan Layla Alizada -Day One BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Yorgos Lanthimos -The Lobster * Jeremy Saulnier -Green Room Joel and Ethan Coen -Hail, Caesar! Apichatpong Weerasethakul -Cemetery of Splendour Babak Anvari -Under the Shadow BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Whit Stillman -Love & Friendship * Bryan Sipe -Demolition John Hodge -The Program BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Diego Garcia -Cemetery of Splendour * Drew Daniels -Krisha Emmanuel Lubezki -Knight of Cups & Last Days in the Desert Jarin Blaschke -The Witch Larkin Seiple -Swiss Army Man BEST EDITING Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, & Ben Sozanski -O.J.: Made in America * Julia Bloch -Green Room Jay M. Glen -Demolition Chris Barwell -Under the Shadow Trey Edward Shults -Krisha BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC David Wingo -Midnight Special * Daniel Bensi & Saunder Juriaans -The Fits Brian McOmber -Krisha Andy Hull & Robert McDowell -Swiss Army Man Cliff Martinez -The Neon Demon BEST DOCUMENTARY Weiner * O.J.: Made in America In Transit Cameraperson Tower BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Cemetery of Splendour * Under the Shadow Everything Will Be Okay Dheepan Shok BEST ANIMATED FILM Sausage Party * Zootopia Finding Dory (merely by default, don't care for any of them) |
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I've only seen The Witch and The Brothers Grimsby. So many movies from 2015 are still in theaters...
I completely agree with Robert Eggers doing an excellent job directing, and Anya Taylor-Joy doing very well as the lead. I think Harvey Scrimshaw and Ralph Ineson's performances were also praise worthy. And I see you had the cinematographer up there too. Yeah, the cinematography in The Witch was amazing. |
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"Triple 9" is the best so far.
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Hail, Caesar! it's ok..
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"Triple 9" & "Zootropolis" were very good.
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1. Deadpool
2. 10 Cloverfield Lane 3. The Witch As for directors, we have some new and exciting talent in the form of Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) Robert Eggers (The Witch) and Tim Miller (Deadpool) It's quite interesting that the 3 Best Films of 2016 so far (according to me :D) are the work of first-time directors. Also, Anya Taylor-Joy seems like a gem, Mary Elizabeth Winstead should get more good roles and Ryan Reynolds has at last scored his breakthrough blockbuster role. |
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I'd probably say 10 Cloverfield Lane is the best of the year so far, but I haven't gotten the chance to see Krisha and Midnight Special, which have peaked my interest.
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Originally Posted by Zotis (Post 1480151)
I've only seen The Witch and The Brothers Grimsby. So many movies from 2015 are still in theaters...
I completely agree with Robert Eggers doing an excellent job directing, and Anya Taylor-Joy doing very well as the lead. I think Harvey Scrimshaw and Ralph Ineson's performances were also praise worthy. And I see you had the cinematographer up there too. Yeah, the cinematography in The Witch was amazing. I am from Grimsby. :') |
Originally Posted by Rhys (Post 1480833)
How was Grimsby? lol
I am from Grimsby. :')
Originally Posted by Zotis (Post 1478966)
The Brothers Grimsby
(2016) Comedy, Action http://cdn.indiewire.psdops.com/dims...imsby-asde.jpg The main reason I went to see this was because there wasn't much else catching my eye, and I actually do find Sacha Baron Cohen pretty funny. Most of his material has entertained me in the past: The Ali G Show, Borat, Bruno, and The Dictator. But based on the trailer I had fairly low expectations. The movie turned out way better than I was hoping. It was actually hilarious. It was so funny that I was in pain laughing so hard several times. It's a kind of stupid funny drawn out mostly by the absurdly idiotic behavior of Cohen's character. There were constant laughs and a good amount of original jokes. This was the funniest movie I've seen in a long time. I still chuckle when I think about how crazy some of the scenes were and the hilariously stupid things Cohen did. |
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Seems a little early for a thread like this. That or I'm just annoyed that circumstances have made it so that the only 2016 theatrical release I've seen so far is Deadpool (which I don't think would make my "best of" list anyway, but who knows).
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Deadpool, Hail Caesar, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and I have yet to see any other good movies this year, ( I haven't seen Zootopia or the Witch yet).
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I've only seen 3 2016 movies so far; Deadpool, The Witch, and Zootopia.
For me it's Zootopia—one of the best animated films I've ever seen, so something really good has to come out this year for me to say that it won't be the best of 2016. |
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If I was a spy and they wanted information from me, I'd tell them everything they wanted to know after half an hour of Zootopia.
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Originally Posted by Zotis (Post 1481434)
If I was a spy and they wanted information from me, I'd tell them everything they wanted to know after half an hour of Zootopia.
+1000 for the truth. If it's got Pixar/Disney/Dreamworks anywhere on it, I stay far, far away from it. I've seen some direct to video releases so far that have been alright. But the only film I've seen in theaters since the new year is The Witch,and I gave that film because it's one of the most enjoyable films I've seen in a long, long time. My best of lists usually don't contain Hollywood blockbusters or anything most people would deem "Good" though, a lot of cheap/violent horror and British/Japanese crime films. |
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Well I know about the dark and spooky kind of music you all listen to, so I'm not surprised you wouldn't like Zootopia. :p ;)
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I thought the animation quality of Zootopia was good, but I couldn't stand the characters, story, and lame jokes.
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I loved the characters and story and the city itself, and sure a lot of the jokes didn't have you rolling on the floor, but some of them were brilliant. The sloth scene of course is brilliant, even if it was spoiled with it being shown before Star Wars, it was still just as funny seeing it in the actual movie.
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The sloth scene wasn't very original though. I've seen similar jokes many times before.
I only watched about 40 minutes of the movie. My friend and I walked in randomly to check it out and I saw until the Godfather parody. The main rabbit character reminded me of those people who are overly apolagetic to the point of being annoying. Apologising when there's nothing to apologise for out of an absurdly exagerated notion of courtesy. And I grew sick of their preaching of niceness and donut stuffing imbeciles to the point where I begged my friend to leave the theater, and when that didn't work I tried desprately to fall asleep. Hope I didn't offend you False Writer. No matter what, I think you're a cool dude. My friend liked it too so I wouldn't fault anyone for liking it, but I couldn't stand the movie. |
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Originally Posted by Zotis (Post 1481593)
The sloth scene wasn't very original though. I've seen similar jokes many times before.
I only watched about 40 minutes of the movie. My friend and I walked in randomly to check it out and I saw until the Godfather parody. The main rabbit character reminded me of those people who are overly apolagetic to the point of being annoying. Apologising when there's nothing to apologise for out of an absurdly exagerated notion of courtesy. And I grew sick of their preaching of niceness and donut stuffing imbeciles to the point where I begged my friend to leave the theater, and when that didn't work I tried desprately to fall asleep. Hope I didn't offend you False Writer. No matter what, I think you're a cool dude. My friend liked it too so I wouldn't fault anyone for liking it, but I couldn't stand the movie. And likewise on the cool dude thing. We're all just a bunch of cool guys (and girls) on this forum. ;) |
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BUMP and update 4 months later.
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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout (Post 1549626)
BUMP and update 4 months later.
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So far now it's:
1. The Neon Demon 2. The Witch 3. Spotlight 4. The Lobster 5. Free State of Jones 6. The Brothers Grimsby 7. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping And I'm looking forward to Swiss Army Man. |
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I managed to see The Lobster when it got theatrically released here last year (and included it on my "best of 2015" list, no less) so I'm not sure whether or not I should include it on any 2016 lists. I would count Green Room and The VVitch as 2016 films, though - by that logic, I could theoretically count Carol or The Revenant as 2016 films due to distribution issues. It's...complicated.
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I forgot The Lobster was actually a 2015 movie. I don't really know what makes a movie decidedly from one year or the other. I guess it's when it does it's initial festival showing?
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Something like that, though it seems like a lot of people around here are willing to take it from the year of the wider release instead of the limited initial release. Trying to factor in how Australia tends to get delayed distribution for films anyway and it gets even murkier, hence why I cited The Revenant since it is also a 2015 film that didn't see release here until 2016.
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I live in the US and use the same standard as most critics and awards bodies in the country for determining what year to count a movie: initial public screening (meaning non-film festival, something anybody could walk up and buy a ticket to) in the US. All the films on my list had their original American theatrical releases in 2016, whereas Carol, The Revenant, etc. were indeed 2015 releases in America even if they didn't expand to wide markets until 2016.
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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout (Post 1550117)
I live in the US and use the same standard as most critics and awards bodies in the country for determining what year to count a movie: initial public screening (meaning non-film festival, something anybody could walk up and buy a ticket to) in the US. All the films on my list had their original American theatrical releases in 2016, whereas Carol, The Revenant, etc. were indeed 2015 releases in America even if they didn't expand to wide markets until 2016.
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1- The Conjuring 2
2- Green Room |
Originally Posted by Zotis (Post 1550145)
So... Anybody could walk up and buy a ticket even before the wide release? Or do you mean no one who isn't American is anyone? :p
Has nothing to do with how wide or limited a release may be, how many other theaters it's playing at, etc. And in this case doesn't have anything to do with any theaters outside the U.S. since I live in the U.S. and am referring to my list of movies. There are of course some people who go by first screening anywhere (which would make, for instance, The Hurt Locker a 2008 movie since it premiered at Venice a year before it was properly released and went on to win Best Picture of 2009) but that means you'll be endlessly revising lists of years past because there's so often one or two years between an initial release in a film's native country before it ever plays in America, so you wouldn't be able to highlight worthy foreign films as well if you just go by whenever it was ostensibly first screened. The vast majority of critics and awards bodies apply the same standard I do of first official public release in their home country, whenever and wherever that may be. In the case of films that never play theatrically (Netflix originals, straight-to-DVD, etc.) it's the same guiding principle: when was it first available for public consumption in my country? |
Originally Posted by Daniel M (Post 1550004)
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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout (Post 1550256)
You must have missed the context here, which is any theater located in the U.S. and screening a movie that's open to the public. Anyone physically at a particular theater screening a movie would be able to buy a ticket and attend, no badges or passes or credentials are necessary.
Has nothing to do with how wide or limited a release may be, how many other theaters it's playing at, etc. And in this case doesn't have anything to do with any theaters outside the U.S. since I live in the U.S. and am referring to my list of movies. There are of course some people who go by first screening anywhere (which would make, for instance, The Hurt Locker a 2008 movie since it premiered at Venice a year before it was properly released and went on to win Best Picture of 2009) but that means you'll be endlessly revising lists of years past because there's so often one or two years between an initial release in a film's native country before it ever plays in America, so you wouldn't be able to highlight worthy foreign films as well if you just go by whenever it was ostensibly first screened. The vast majority of critics and awards bodies apply the same standard I do of first official public release in their home country, whenever and wherever that may be. In the case of films that never play theatrically (Netflix originals, straight-to-DVD, etc.) it's the same guiding principle: when was it first available for public consumption in my country? |
1. Green Room (2015)
2. The Nice Guys 3. Zootopia 4. Captain America: Civil War 5. Triple 9 |
1. Dirty Grandpa
2. Green Room 3. The Witch 4. 13 Hours |
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Another bump and update now that the year is nearly over.
BEST FILM 1. Moonlight 2. Manchester by the Sea 3. The Lobster 4. Shin Godzilla 5. Cemetery of Splendour 6. Jackie 7. Thunder Road 8. Weiner 9. O.J.: Made in America 10. Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience BEST DIRECTOR Barry Jenkins -Moonlight * Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi -Shin Godzilla Apichatpong Weerasethakul -Cemetery of Splendour Pablo Larrain -Jackie Yorgos Lanthimos -The Lobster BEST ACTOR Casey Affleck -Manchester by the Sea * Jesuthasan Antonythasan -Dheepan Jake Gyllenhaal -Demolition & Nocturnal Animals Andre Royo -Hunter Gatherer Ryan Gosling -The Nice Guys BEST ACTRESS Natalie Portman -Jackie * Krisha Fairchild -Krisha Kalieaswari Srinivasan -Dheepan Jenjira Pongpas -Cemetery of Splendour Amy Adams -Arrival & Nocturnal Animals BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Mahershala Ali -Moonlight * Alex Hibbert -Moonlight Lucas Hedges -Manchester by the Sea Jim Cummings -Thunder Road Alden Ehrenrich -Hail, Caesar! BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Lily Gladstone -Certain Women * Kristen Stewart -Cafe Society & Certain Women Michelle Williams -Manchester by the Sea Greta Gerwig -20th Century Women Jarinpattra Rueangram -Cemetery of Splendour Gillian Jacobs -Don't Think Twice BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Yorgos Lanthimos -The Lobster * Kenneth Longergan -Manchester by the Sea Mike Mills -20th Century Women Apichatpong Weerasethakul -Cemetery of Splendour Mike Birbiglia -Don't Think Twice Noah Oppenheim -Jackie BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Barry Jenkins -Moonlight * Hideaki Anno -Shin Godzilla Whit Stillman -Love & Friendship Kelly Reichardt -Certain Women Kieran Fitzgerald & Oliver Stone -Snowden Eric Heisserer -Arrival BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Paul Atkins -Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience * Diego Garcia -Cemetery of Splendour James Laxton -Moonlight Drew Daniels -Krisha Vittorio Storaro -Cafe Society BEST EDITING Hideaki Anno & Atsuki Sato -Shin Godzilla * Bret Granato, Maya Mumma, & Ben Sozanski -O.J.: Made in America Sebastian Sepulveda -Jackie Nat Sanders & Joe McMillan -Moonlight Nels Bangerter -Cameraperson BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Seong-hie Rye -The Handmaiden * Jess Gonchor -Hail, Caesar! Santo Loquasto -Cafe Society Pichan Muangduang -Cemetery of Splendour Jean Rabasse -Jackie BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC Nicholas Brittell -Moonlight * David Wingo -Midnight Special Daniel Bensi & Saunder Juriaans -The Fits & Last Days in the Desert Brian McOmber -Krisha Johann Johannsson -Arrival Jo Yeong-Wook -The Handmaiden BEST DOCUMENTARY Weiner * O.J.: Made in America Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience Do Not Resist 13th BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Shin Godzilla * Cemetery of Splendour Under the Shadow Everything Will Be Okay Dheepan BEST ANIMATED FILM Kung Fu Panda 3 * Sausage Party Zootopia Finding Dory (all nominees merely by default, don't care for any of them) |
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Your Name was I think the only great 2016 movie I watched and it was indeed amazing, best animated film since Spirited Away.
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Originally Posted by Guaporense (Post 1613307)
Your Name was I think the only great 2016 movie I watched and it was indeed amazing, best animated film since Spirited Away.
My current list: 1. The Neon Demon 2. The Witch 3. Spotlight 4. Manchester by the Sea 5. Knight of Cups 6. Arrival 7. The Handmaiden 8. Brothers Grimsby 9. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping I still want to see Swiss Army Man, Moonlight, and Mean Dreams. I saw the first 15-20 minutes of On the Edge of Seventeen and it sucked. |
1. Ghostbusters (2016)
2. The Jungle Book (2016) 3. Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them I feel like 2016 has been the year of the reboots. |
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One of the best movie for me this 2016 is Max Steel. Since I was a kid maxsteel is one of my favorite anime. Oh I forget about the Rurouni Kenshin is one of t he greatest movie this year too.
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just watched hacksaw ridge it was amazing
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1.Hell or High Water
2.The Phenom 3.Hacksaw Ridge 4.The Lobster 5.Green Room |
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STRANGER THINGS
ARRIVAL DON'T BREATHE |
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Stranger Things is a TV series and doesn't count.
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