Film Room's Top 10 Movies of 2016 - Moonlight won

[Tasha And]

I personally thought Nicole Kidman's "why I adopt" monologue towards the end of Lion was godawful, particularly the dreaming about brown people shyt


I thought the first half of Lion was amazing. That kid deserved more award buzz than Patel, but kids never really get acknowledgement (Last year proved it as well with Room and Beasts of No Nation). But the parts with Patel and his girlfriend just didn't do it for me. The editing in it was also really weird and distracting, but again, only during the Patel parts. The ending was pretty great though

 

[StraxStrax]

I personally thought Nicole Kidman's "why I adopt" monologue towards the end of Lion was godawful, particularly the dreaming about brown people shyt

:sean_:

That scene was fukking amazing.

 

[Tasha And]

:sean_:

That scene was fukking amazing.

So I've been told. I hated that scene. "I saw a brown skinned boy in my vision and it was like electricity in my bones"

I can do without that kind of white guilt/white savior hokey monologue

 

[TheGodling]

Kidman was incredible in that scene but other than that it really is a weird-as-fukk adoption commercial.

 

[OJ Simpsom]

These two carried the film to GOAT status for me.
That last scene.

 

[FlyRy]

Is this the official Lion thread? :smugford:

 

[illwittdeez]

Hidden Figures
Fences
Nice Guys
The Magnificent 7
Civil War
Dr. Strange
War Dogs
Deadpool
Sausage Party
Zootopia

 

[TheGodling]

Is this the official Lion thread? :smugford:

For a while this was the Angry Birds movie thread so we're moving up the ladder.

 

[StraxStrax]

Is this the official Lion thread? :smugford:

Lion (Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman)

Watch the movie and join the discussion

 

[pickles]

Is this the official Lion thread? :smugford:

Yep.

 

[pickles]

I liked it but it wasnt THAT damn good!
What bugged me the most was this muthafukka lookin like Slum Dog Jesus Christ Superstar and of all the broads he coulda bagged he fukks with Rooney Mara ol Lydia Deetz lookin ass




Lil homie that played young slum dog was great imo tho

 

[StraxStrax]

No Birth Of A Nation on the lists so far
Given the hype and a thread with almost 1300 posts I expected BoaN to be close to the top for many.
I'm not saying it will be on my list but still...

 

[FlyRy]

I swapped Moonlight and Arrival making Arrival my #2.

And Manchester got moved to HM for Black Phillip

 

[OJ Simpsom]

No Birth Of A Nation on the lists so far
Given the hype and a thread with almost 1300 posts I expected BoaN to be close to the top for many.
I'm not saying it will be on my list but still...

I think Hollywood has done way too many slave movies/miniseries/tv shows. Enough already. I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels that way. I still ain't seen 12 Years A Slave. After Django, I'm good on slave films.

 

[Tasha And]

No Birth Of A Nation on the lists so far
Given the hype and a thread with almost 1300 posts I expected BoaN to be close to the top for many.
I'm not saying it will be on my list but still...

I just thought it was a solid but not great movie. The final scene was great though, especially that final shot, had me like