movies

[Maclowery]

Should have been a hard R. I do like that they didn't show much of Leto's Joker. A fair amount of chatter is around that he went all out nuts for the role and generally freaked out a lot of people over it.

[Jocephus]

[cardinalkarp]

I seem to be in the very vast minority here, but I did not like Mad Max at all. I never really liked the originals and I went into Fury Road w/ and open mind and it was just not my cup of tea.

I guess explosion and explosion just doesn't do anything for me.

[Maclowery]

How could you not be vastly entertained by a long cut of 30 spiked-and-gunned cars driving very fast, with maniacal face-painted warriors dangling from 20 foot poles and shrieking about Valhalla?!

I suppose I have to forgive you, and only because I am forever jealous of you tossing that pitch at Busch.

But really. It's the best movie of 2015. And forever, really.

[thrill]

Movies I have seen and liked that were released in 2015

1. Sicario
THE BIG SHORT
2. The Revenant*
3. Spotlight
4. Mad Max Fury Road
5. Creed
6. Spectre
7. Brooklyn*
8. Dope
9. Seymour: An Introduction
10. What We Do In the Shadows
11. Star Wars Force Awakens*
12. Love & Mercy
13. Ex Machina*
14. The Martian
15. Far From the Madding Crowd



*Domnall Gleeson is in these. Domnall Gleeson had a very good year.

Update from last night.

[Vidor]

I read all the rave reviews about how "Mad Max Fury Road" is brilliant, and I think, "I should see this movie."

Then I read all the commentary about how it's a lesson in feminism, and I think "nah."

[Jocephus]

you ARE big on tradition

[Vidor]

you ARE big on tradition

It should have been in black and white, dammit.

[Radbird]

I seem to be in the very vast minority here, but I did not like Mad Max at all. I never really liked the originals and I went into Fury Road w/ and open mind and it was just not my cup of tea.

I guess explosion and explosion just doesn't do anything for me.

Sounds like we have similar tastes in movies.

[33anda3rd]

Mad Max was awesome. My wife, who hates loud action movies, loved it. And it is a bit feminist, but hey so was the new Star Wars and no one seems to be getting too up in arms that the new trilogy is gonna center around a woman warrior.

Thrill, I like that you have Dope on your list. I think it was one of the best movies I saw this year, definitely one of the most likable.