I work at a movie theater, and because of that I'm always talking to people about different movies, current, past, and future, and as such I learn a lot about different peoples' interests from their movie likes and dislikes.
So far my favorite is Pitch Perfect 2. Though I did quite enjoy both Terminator Genisys, and Jurassic World.
What has been you favorite, or what movie are you most excited for?
Without a second thought the new Star Wars. I wasn't alive when they first came out all those years ago, but my parents introduced me to the world when I was really really young. I'm really stoked. With George Lucas having very little to do with these new movies I'm at least a bit hopeful that this one will really revitalize the franchise for future generations to come.
I have a four year old daughter. It was hard to potty train her. I told her that Luke couldn't become a Jedi until he pooped on the potty. She asked, "when he pooped on the potty, then did he get his light saber?" I said, "yes." One day, I'm working downstairs and I hear, "daddy, daddy, come quick...." I ran up the stairs and saw her sitting on the toilet. She had successfully pooped. It was a big deal. Without skipping a beat she looked up at me and asked, "so, where is my light saber?" I have a cool kid. I hauled ass to Target and bought her a light saber. It's actually pretty cool, it lights up and has sound effects. Every night I tell her bed time stories that revolve around the star wars universe. being a dad is awesome.
I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEW FILM!!!
That's great! My son likes Star Wars, but isn't interested in it, if that makes sense. So he will get excited and announce "Daddy it's STAR WARS!" when he sees something related, but he refuses to watch the movies. He has watched the Clone Wars cartoon (the old Tartakovsky one not the newer one) and enjoyed those, and likes Yoda... but generally it's more to humour me. He does like my lightsaber though and loves swinging that around, so maybe I should get him and his brother some of the cheap ones to fight with...
I like that you have a light saber. That immediately makes you alright in my book.
May I start with you sound like an awesome dad. It reminds me of when my father introduced me to the Star Wars. We used to recreate the destruction of the death star with poorly constructed pillow X-Wings. I really hope these new Star Wars movies allow me to share these moments with my children whenever I have them.
You sound like an awesome dad who raised an equally awesome daughter!
I think Star Wars will end up being the movie of the year, sales wise. It's a massive franchise with just as massive of a fan base that spans multiple generations. The movie will literally sell tickets on title alone. If it's even half as good as I hope it will be, I'll leave the theater satisfied. The best movie I've seen yet though is Mad Max: Fury Road. I'm not going to lie. The trailer didn't make it seem like anything special, but people would not stop talking about it on the internet. So I gave it a shot. Then I went back two more times. It was absolutely phenomenal. I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a movie so much.
I agree on both counts with you. Star Wars has a lot of support behind it that honestly even if the movie was awful it is still going to make more money than most movies out in 2015. Mad Max: Fury Road was unbelievable as well. I couldn't tell you why I loved it because I just loved the entire movie. I mean the characters were deep enough to care about, but not too deep that it took away from the action or scope of the movie. The imagery was just gorgeous and it was a freakin' desert! I really hope they keep the franchise on track because they have a lot to work with.
Oh I agree with how beautiful it looked. Every single frame could have been its own painting. The color pallets were great. The composition was great. The whole movie though just fell together perfectly, from the pacing, to the dialog, to the actual story. I have to say though, that my absolute favorite bit about the whole movie was the evolution of Nux's character. It was poetic.
I think my favorite part of the movie was Max himself. The mysteriousness of his fears, and hallucinations hooked me. I found myself imagining what it would be like to deeply regret something in that setting. To have every thought or feeling intensified by the screaming and roaring of madness. After watching the movie I felt compelled to watch the original Mad Max movies. I still haven't done that yet, but I've been trying to haha.
Same here. I remember so vividly the day my parents took me to go see Revenge of the Sith. It was a good day. I used to sit and watch the original trilogy so much. But I would always pick just one to watch a BUNCH of times. And I'm gonna be honest, I actually enjoyed the prequels and I feel like they get too much hate, but maybe that's just me.
I enjoyed Inside Out a lot. I thought the premise was great, the execution was done wonderfully, and the movie was adorable (both the characters and the outcome). As for what turned everything around for her, I'm not really sure what I would put it on. I'm sure that the story's creators want it to be Joy realizing what Sadness can do to help, but I'm not sure that that can cover her entire life pulling a full 360 through the movie... What are your thoughts?
yes, yes, yes. Sadness is essential -- Joy (like R's parents) won't let Sadness touch the memories and be part of R's experience. Joy first starts to get it when Sadness listens to the imaginary friend's feelings (I think) -- and the imaginary friend feels better. This is reflected with the parents when R finally expresses her feelings to her parents and they say that they feel sad too and miss Minnesota too. R doesn't have to carry her sadness around by herself. At the end we see Joy handing the core memories to Sadness and each memory changes colour somewhat. Each memory is tinged with sadness, as our memories are in life, because they are past. Joys and sorrows both. caeli says it well also -- emotions and memories become more complex and nuanced as we grow up. Empathy includes letting another person feel her feelings and work through them: "Cry if you want to/I won't tell you not to/I won't try to cheer you up/ I'll just be here if you want me/to be/near you."
Ex-Machina is my favorite so far. But I have to say, Fury Road was a close contender. Worst was probably Chappie, what a piece of crap.
I haven't seen Chappie yet, but I'd be hard pressed to believe it beat out Jupiter Ascending as the worse movie this year. If I wasn't at that movie with a bunch of friends, I would have walked out and ask to trade my ticket in to see Spongebob instead. No. I'm not joking.Worst was probably Chappie, what a piece of crap.
I'm definitely excited for Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. Other than MI:2, I've had fun with every entry in the series (my favorite being MI:3). Can't bruise the Cruise. So Abrams has directed my favorite MI film, I've enjoyed the Star Trek reboots and Super 8...so I can't wait to see what he does with Star Wars. I'm gonna ignore the critics and check out Terminator: Gynisys. I've seen T2 more than any other movie, with the possible exception of Back to the Future...so at this point the franchise pretty much automatically gets my money. It's a childhood nostalgia thing :/
I'm quite excited to see Ant Man, I'm interested to see how they do with a hero with no previous movies, and (that I know of) doesn't tie in to The Avengers. That, and obviously Star Wars 7. I watched them as a kid with my father, and hope to watch them with my kids.
I could be wrong, but I'm sure I heard somewhere that Ant Man will tie in with the rest of the universe in some way. Like I said though I might be wrong. I'm also looking forward to that I think it's very underrated due to it following AoU, but I think it'll be better. AoU was definitely not one of my top Marvel movies.
Age of Ultron could have definitely been tighter. I only saw it once, but I remember leaving the theater feeling that with a few changes here and there, the whole story could have been more compelling. In all honesty, it's my least favorite Marvel movie so far. I have decent hopes for Ant Man, only because I enjoy stand alone stories more. Though I'm sad to hear that Edgar Wright left the project because Marvel was being too controlling, which incidentally ties in to why I tend to support creator controlled comics over Marvel's and DC's offerings.AoU was definitely not one of my top Marvel movies.
Yeah I was upset about that as well. My friend said they had to come up with an entire new script for Ant Man after Wright left, so even if this is a great movie, he's gonna leave knowing he's' missing out on a potentially better story. But who knows really. We get what we get.
My husband and I tried out some "dumb fun" movies this year and were thoroughly surprised. San Andreas and Furious 7 were surprisingly enjoyable, and I imagine we will be rewatching them after they come out on DVD. We also enjoyed Jurassic World the first time around, but we watched it a second time with a friend who hadn't seen it and the poor (imo) writing really showed through. Spy was also hilarious. I'm psyched for the new Hitman (HUGE Hitman game fan), although definitely cautious about it, and Star Wars later this year.
Mad Max will probably be the best movie of 2015 with the least amount of awards.
Hands down Hateful Eight. I can't wait, loved the script (only read the first 40 pages or so as not to spoil anything too much) and love Tarantino. Runners up are Spectre, Star Wars (duh), and MI: Rouge
Max, Mad Max, Inside Out, Jurassic World, and Tomorrowland were all my favorite movies that I can remember from 2015 so far. I work at a movie theater as well!
Like many others, my favorite movie so far this year was Mad Max. Still have some smaller films to watch like Buzzard, It Follows, and Timbuktu before that's cemented though. For a movie I'm looking forward to that might not be quite as hyped as Star Wars (and trust me, I'm super hyped) is Knight of Cups. Malick is my favorite living director. The Tree of Life is one of my favorite movies and I have loved most of his others (though his filmography is quite small). The movie isn't very well received right now by early reviewers, but The Tree of Life was pretty divisive too. And I'm still willing to decide for myself. Hell, I'm even willing to give To The Wonder another shot.
Definitely Ant Man, Star Wars, and I still want to see Inside Out even though it's been out for a bit. Heard a lot of good things about it. I freaking loved Mad Max. Everything about it. It was just a fun and entertaining movie to watch through and through. I was really looking forward to Jurassic World and the only thing I can say about that is that it was pretty much exactly what I expected. I also saw Pitch Perfect 2 with my girlfriend and enjoyed it a lot. Anna Kendrick can have everything I own.
I'm really really excited about Goosebumps! I love R.L. Stine. I admittedly still read Goosebumps books as a 24 year old married man. I also watch the series frequently on Netflix. So I look up to R.L Stine as a reader and what he created. I know that the movie is a fictional movie with Stine as a character, but I'm very excited to see if they capture the feel that I see Stine's life being. Plus, I am very excited to see how Jack Black is going to portray him.
I love the original trilogy even with the flaws that Lost World and III had. I didn't hate Jurassic World, but I didn't like it and there's a main reason for that: the dialogue. I love Chris Pratt and I thought the premise was just fine. But oh my gosh did the script have to be full of the cheesiest one liners ever?! Maybe the trilogy had those too. Maybe I'm just used to it in those. But throughout the entire movie, I blew air out of my nose at the dumbest one liners said through the whole movie. That is my main problem with Jurassic World.
I like Chris Pratt too, but his character was forgettable. Maybe because it was too perfect, smooth, polished? Alan Grant was a real man, he was plausible as the great paleontologist who has to grapple with a new and strange situation that challenges him both intellectually and physically, and that was part of what made him interesting. Pratt on the other hand was just this handsome, nice, funny, competent, tough guy who talks to raptors and is basically better than anyone else. He barely interacts with anyone other than the female protagonist and the bad guy, and those interactions are terribly predictable and one-dimensional. While watching the movie I got the feeling that they were trying to do too many things at once, because some of the side characters were utterly useless and could/should have been sacrificed in favour of more screen time for the main ones. I'm just going to stop here because I have a lot of problems with Jurassic World.
I agree. I really like Jurassic World because I went in expecting entertainment and dinosaurs, much like the people who went to the theme park. The dialogue is definitely choppy and a bit cringe-y at times but at the end of the day I was highly entertained. Also this might be blasphemy but I think my favorite one was The Lost World. I remember when I was younger I would watch that one again and again and again. Much more than the first one, though that one was amazing in a different way.
I think I liked Jurassic World because it was a similar premise to the first movie, but like the I-Rex, they needed it to be bigger, badder, and scarier to achieve the greatness that was Jurassic Park (Though I don't think any of Jurassic World was as scary as the Kitchen Scene in Jurassic Park)