2015 in film.

Top ten box-office films of 2015:

1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
2. Jurassic World
3. Furious 7
4. Avengers: Age of Ultron
5. Minions
6. Spectre
7. Inside Out
8. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation
9. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
10. The Martian

What are your top three films for 2015? We will keep a running tally and eventually have some sort of bracket. For me it would be:

1. Arabian Knights
2. Knight of Cups
3. Cemetery of Splendour

What are some of the forgotten gems from the year? What is overrated? What did you discover at a young age and what did you discover later?

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Blackhat, The Treasure, A Very Murray Christmas, and Right Now, Wrong Then were all close. The worst movie was The Danish Girl, in a walk.

 

1. The Lobster
2. Anomalisa
3. The Witch

4. Mad Max: Fury Road
5. Tangerine
6. World of Tomorrow
7. Hardcore Henry
8. Room
9. Inside Out
10. Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens


Also love Bone Tomahawk, Spotlight, Krisha, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, Visaranai, Our Little Sister, 45 Years, Green Room, Masaan, Embrace of the Serpent, Mistress America, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Big Short, Men and Chicken, The Second Mother, The Martian, Sicario, Carol, Love, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, The Visit and Brooklyn.

 

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Inside Out
3. Bridge of Spies

Also love Tangerine, Jupiter Ascending, World of Tomorrow, Dope, Chi-Raq.

I contributed to the kickstarter for Anomalisa in 2012 and was promised a copy of the movie, so when it came to theaters in 2015 I didn't go see it and as of now (2021) I still have not received my copy (and if you look at the comments for the kickstarter there's hundreds of people saying the same thing). Anyway, I've never seen Anomalisa, The Witch, Creed, Crimson Peak and a few other notables.

 

1. Sicario
2. Bone Tomahawk
3. Krampus

 

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Magic Mike XXL
3. Carol

This was a really hard year to narrow down. Tangerine, A Bigger Splash, Anomalisa, the Lobster, the Witch, Bridge of Spies, and Green Room were all experiences I enjoyed a lot.

 

1. Room
2. The Big Short
3. Straight Outta Compton

Not a big year for me. Enjoyed Spotlight too. Still haven't seen The Martian or The Revenant, which I'm kind of embarrassed about.

 

Skip the Revenant

 

1. The Witch
2. Carol
3. Tangerine

 

Sicario
Mad Max: Fury Road
Carol

HM: 45 Years, Inside Out, The Witch, The Hateful Eight, Green Room, The Martian, Spotlight, Tangerine, Bone Tomahawk, Dope, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Cemetary of Splendor

 

I'm so confused.

 

1. Embrace of the Serpent
2. Blackhat
3. Magic Mike XXL

Leaving out Sicario and Green Room was hard. Realistically you could shuffle those 5 movies around in any order and on any given day I would probably be OK with it

 

confused as to why I like those movies or why I didn't go with MMXXL as my #1?

 

You bring up Magic Mike XXL in every conversation.

 

I think number 2 to Mad Max: Fury Road is a strong endorsement! And not every conversation, at least not in awhile. But as a quasi-musical/story about authenticity in art/masculinity it's singular, plus some of Soderbergh's best work as a DP.

 

Not the strongest year, but I really love the top 3. Fury Road is one of my all-time favorite moviegoing experiences.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Big Short
3. The Lobster

Honorable mentions:

Carol
Green Room
The Witch
Inside Out
Magic Mike XXL
Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
Bone Tomahawk
Sicario
The Hateful Eight

 

Mad Max isn't on my list, but it is probably the best big-budget action film in this century. It isn't even doing anything particularly unique, instead just taking the audience for a ride while cutting out so much of the fat in these three hour superhero movies. It even earns a genuine emotional moment, when Furiousa and Max nod to each other at the end.

 

The choreography is remarkable. The action scenes have so much kinetic energy, and yet it's totally clear and easy to follow. So many action scenes are overstuffed with CGI and edited in a rapid-fire motion so you have no idea what's actually happening. Mad Max does neither.

 

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Inside Out
3. The Martian

 

1. Mad Max: Fury Road (also the best film of the decade imo)
2. Inside Out
3. Steve Jobs

Honorable mentions:
Ex Machina
Furious 7
Tangerine
Creed
Sicario
The Big Short
Anomalisa
Mistress America
What We Do in the Shadows
Phoenix
It Follows
Paddington

 

1. Green Room
2. Mad Max: Fury Road
3. 7 Days in Hell

Also very much enjoyed:

The Witch
Blackhat
The End of the Tour
The Overnight
The Invitation
Slow Vest
The Lobster
Turbo Kid
The Night Before
Digging for Fire

 

1. The Witch
2. Bone Tomahawk
3. Mad Max: Fury Road

 

Gathering a lot of ammo for my "Bridge of Spies is criminally underrated" gun from this thread

 

Bridge of Spies is very good.

 

Bridge of Spies is great.