2016 Mid-Year List

What's been everyone's favorite films/shows for the first half of the year? I'm treating this as a way for me to catch up. Haven't seen all too much.

Everybody Wants Some has been my favorite film

I'm about halfway through Horace and Pete but it blows everything else I've seen out of the water

 

When you finish H&P, it's gonna blow YOU out of the water

 

some other good ones in no particular order
Hail Ceasar
A Bigger Splash
Midnight Special

for shows Idiotsitter is the only show I can think of that premiered in 2016, Lady Dynamite too,
and my Crazy-Ex Girlfriend started in 2015 but this is the first season

 

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is my favorite thing this year.
other than the few episodes of steven universe that aired this year

 

Here's my current rankings.

There's a lot I need to see still, obviously. I see mostly horror and kids movies

1. The Invitation
2. The Witch
3. 10 Cloverfield Lane
4. Hush
5. The Conjuring 2
6. The Jungle Book
7. Finding Dory
8. Captain America: Civil War
9. Batman v Superman
10. Deadpool
11. They Look Like People
12. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny
13. Pride + Prejudice + Zombies
14. The Boy
15. Baskin
16. Hardcore Henry
17. X-men: Apocalypse
18. Southbound

 

For TV the only things I've been watching are Casual, The Mindy Project, I finished 11.22.63, and I'm catching up on iZombie, Brooklyn 99, and Daredevil.

Bo Burnham is the only stand-up I've watched

 

TV:
1. Kiznaiver
2. Erased
3. Vikings
4. Game of Thrones
5. Broad City
6. My Hero Academia
7. Girls
8. Daredevil
9. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
10. Greys Anatomy

Film
1. Creed
2. Deadpool
3. Captain America: Civil War
4. Zootopia
5. Batman v Superman

I haven't seen many films this year, lol. I do love my first 4 though.

 

Was Creed not released in the UK until 2016?

 

Film (edited to remove Anomalisa, it was a top contender for #1 but came out in 2015):
1. Civil War
2. Deadpool
3. The Lobster

(still some moves I need to see that I expect to be in the tops)

TV:
1. Game of Thrones
2. Preacher
3. Daredevil

(i don't watch a lot of tv)

 

It was in January. The wait was painful.

 

I see

 

just realized the only movies I've seen this year are Deadpool, Batman v Superman, and Civil War. This needs to change immediately

 

maybe I'll watch Deadpool tonight.

The Pistol Shrimps documentary was great

 

I feel like I haven't seen enough movies yet this year for a proper ranking but I did like:

Midnight Special
Popstar
Civil War
Deadpool
Everybody Wants Some!!

TV:

The Americans is the best show on TV

Game of Thrones
Broad City
Veep
Silicon Valley
Love

were also great, as far as things whose seasons started this year (so none of the fall shows that continued into the Spring)

 

Mountains May Depart, Cemetery of Splendour, and Right Now, Wrong Then will probably remain very high in the top ten films of the year at the end of 2016. Asian cinema is at a creative high point right now.

 

Not kept up with film anywhere near recent years, but my top 10 are:

Right Now, Wrong Then
Knight of Cups
Mountains May Depart
Green Room
Everybody Wants Some!!
Sunset Song
Cemetery of Splendour
In the Shadow of Women
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
Dheepan

The Lobster was in there prior to making this list, but I have cooled on it significantly in the two months since my second viewing. Midnight Special, Love and Friendship, and High Rise are all good but also missing a certain something that usually elevates the works of those directors for me. Hail, Caesar! has been my big disappointment in terms of films I was highly anticipating, but I've decided my reaction was based more on external stress at the time than the film itself. Hardcore Henry is far and away the worst thing I've seen this year.

 

Green Room
Popstar
The Witch
Midnight Special
The Invitation
10 Cloverfield Lane

 

Haven't seen The Witch or Midnight Special yet:

10 Cloverfield Lane (Dan Trachtenberg)
A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater)
Eye in the Sky (Gavin Hood)
The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)
Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)
Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman)
Maggie's Plan (Rebecca Miller)
The Shallows (Jaume Collet-Serra)
The Wailing (Hong-Jin Na)

 

haven't even come close in seeing enough movies this year. a tonnnnnn i still need to see...thus far just a lot of horror movies for me.

1. Hateful Eight
2. Conjuring 2
3. The Witch
4. Independence Day 2.1
5. 10 Cloverfield Lane
6. Green Room
7. Everybody Wants Some
8. Zootopia
9. The Revenant
10. London Has Fallen
11. Approaching the Unknown