Let's talk about EW's best movies of 2015 so far list :francis:

[FlyRy]

I was gonna make this thread at the beginning of June, but seeing this list prompted it.

2015's 10 best films so far | EW.com


We gonna act like it's not a crime for Mad max to not be on there? as well as Ex Machina IMO

This shyt makes me glad I didn't renew my subscription in 2004

@MartyMcFly @Sensitive Blake Griffin @HHR @TheGodling


what movies are on your list so far as we are past the half way point of the year brehs?

 

[ciubaca]

TBH i dont remember anything memorable in 2015 The kingsman and ex machina were cool but they did not blow me away and make me want to watch them again. The year so far was full of money grabbing action flicks . The second half of the year looks better Bridge of spies, Black mass, The Martian, The hateful eight; Mission impossible, Legend, The revenant

 

[TheGodling]

Why do you even entertain these lists, breh?

I wanted to click that X the moment I saw two documentaries in a row and another one at the end for good measure. Then you got movies like Mommy, Clouds of Sils Maria and Timbuktu which all feel incredibly borderline because they are 2014 movies that didn't see statewide releases until 2015 (but they were all in theaters here in 2014 and saw festival releases in the US in 2014 as well). The whole list is fukked and you're about a month and a half late to do this thread at 'the beginning of June' btw.

And since you asked (otherwise I wouldn't even bother compiling a list with so many undeserving movies on it):

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Inside Out
3. Avengers: Age Of Ultron
4. Ex Machina
5. Jurassic World
6. Michiel de Ruyter
7. Furious Seven
8. Chappie
9. Pitch Perfect 2
10. Lost River

 

[FlyRy]

Why do you even entertain these lists, breh?

I wanted to click that X the moment I saw two documentaries in a row and another one at the end for good measure. Then you got movies like Mommy, Clouds of Sils Maria and Timbuktu which all feel incredibly borderline because they are 2014 movies that didn't see statewide releases until 2015 (but they were all in theaters here in 2014 and saw festival releases in the US in 2014 as well). The whole list is fukked and you're about a month and a half late to do this thread at 'the beginning of June' btw.

And since you asked (otherwise I wouldn't even bother compiling a list with so many undeserving movies on it):

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Inside Out
3. Avengers: Age Of Ultron
4. Ex Machina
5. Jurassic World
6. Michiel de Ruyter
7. Furious Seven
8. Chappie
9. Pitch Perfect 2
10. The Marine 4: Moving Target

Breh. It was entertaining fukkery. But you cant constantly shyt on Inception yet have chappie in your top 10 films of the year

 

[TheGodling]

Breh. It was entertaining fukkery. But you cant constantly shyt on Inception yet have chappie in your top 10 films of the year

Don't ask people to make top 10 lists halfway through a shytty year then, breh! fukk! The last three movies are all 6/10 so don't blame me, blame yourself!

And I actually have to go back because I just realized Lost River wasn't in my 2015 list on IMDb because of its 2014 Cannes showing. Now I might have to go through my entire 2014 list to see what else I've possibly missed.

 

[satam55]

That list is movies nobody care about. "It Follows" is literally the only movie on that list I have any interest in watching.

 

[TKOK]

wow, only like 2 movies i've heard of.

1 mad max
2 ex machina
3 furious 7
4 avengers
5 Jurrasic World
6 Kingsman
7 Terminator

only movies i've seen, all good but for Genisys which was just so so.

 

[Cartier Murphy]

There really hasn't been shyt that's come out this year, aside from a handful of titles. The end of the year's pretty loaded. I don't know if I could even make a top 5 with what's been out so far. Basically Mad Max Fury Road > everything else by a couple miles though.

 

[FlyRy]

Don't ask people to make top 10 lists halfway through a shytty year then, breh! fukk! The last three movies are all 6/10 so don't blame me, blame yourself!

And I actually have to go back because I just realized Lost River wasn't in my 2015 list on IMDb because of its 2014 Cannes showing. Now I might have to go through my entire 2014 list to see what else I've possibly missed.

There really hasn't been shyt that's come out this year, aside from a handful of titles. The end of the year's pretty loaded. I don't know if I could even make a top 5 with what's been out so far. Basically Mad Max Fury Road > everything else by a couple miles though.

yea i'm struggling to make a solid top 5.. i mean i could but i'm not satisfied with it. i hope this fall/winter brings the heat like the past couple years.

i think most of us won't see revenant and hateful eight until 2016 though cuz of the limited launch

 

[Jello Biafra]

To spare everyone from having to click that link and go to EW's site, here is their (shytty) list:

1.Inside Out

The alchemists at Pixar have taken us to some strange, enchanting places (a kid's messy bedroom, a vermin-infested kitchen). But "Inside Out" is set in the most exotic locale of all: the mind of an 11-year-old girl named Riley. Thanks to the irrepressible Amy Poehler and a stable of ace vocal costars, Riley's brain is a scrum of emotions who teach us that we can only experience joy if we also know what sadness is.

2. Amy

British singer Amy Winehouse was only 27 when she died in 2011. If you listen to her songs, though, she always sounds older than her years. In this stunningly intimate documentary, we see her go from insecure, silken-voiced teen to global superstar, and also see the toll that journey took on her. Her death feels sickeningly inevitable.

3. Cobain: Montage of Heck

Avoid the impulse to pair this with Amy in a grim double feature—you'll want time to let this haunting Kurt Cobain doc sink in on its own. Morgen digs through the late Nirvana frontman's diaries and home movies and unpacks a necessary and humane corrective, revealing the man, not the myth.

4. Mommy

Released in January, Dolan's formally daring sucker-punch import about a desperate single mother trying to raise an uncontrollable teenage son is still the rawest and most harrowing film I've seen this year.

5. Danny Collins

Al Pacino gives his loosest performance in a decade as a fading singer who reevaluates his life on and off stage after receiving an old fan letter from John Lennon. This is the kind of midrange film Hollywood doesn't bother with anymore... and proof that it should.

6. About Elly

Actually made back in 2009, Iranian auteur Farhadi's searing drama about a group of young Persians whose seaside holiday takes a dire turn is part Antonioni's "L'Avventura" and part morality play. It's also one of the most affecting foreign films I've seen in ages. Seek it out.

7. It Follows

A throwback in mood, music, and texture to the John Carpenter classics of the '80s, "It Follows" takes a familiar horror trope—the young woman punished for her sexuality—and gives it a supernatural twist. Maika Monroe delivers a star-making performance as the film's Final Girl.

8. Clouds of Sils Maria

Anchored by a pair of revelatory turns from Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart, Assayas' playfully cerebral mystery has a backstage air of "All About Eve," not to mention something poignant to say about the anxieties of actors who blur the line between fantasy and reality—even when the camera isn't rolling.

9. Timbuktu

A nominee for Best Foreign Language Film at last year's Oscars, this visually dazzling film about Islamic fundamentalism's effect on the titular African city didn't reach U.S. theaters until early this year. It was worth the wait. Never has the clash between a peaceful, antiquated way of life and religious righteousness been painted with such devastating nuance.

10. Red Army

This thrilling doc follows the Soviet hockey dynasty of the '70s and '80s when the Cold War played out on ice.

 

[Conz]

I think I'm going to hell b/c I didn't really like Inside Out. I think I'm the 1 person on the planet.

Mad Max and Kingsmen are my favorite movies of the year though.

Montage of Heck was extremely overrated also. It Follows was even more.