Chorus.fm Members EOTY Entertainment Lists 2016

I mistakenly originally posted my personal lists in the thread for what was supposed to be the EOTY lists of various publications. Figured I'd start a thread here for movies, television, video games, books, comics, etc. similar to the EOTY thread over in the Music section.

Personally can't do films yet because so many aren't out or aren't out wide yet. Probably won't be able to get anything posted until mid-January on that front. TV and Video Games I can do, though.

Movies (TBD)

TV
1. Better Call Saul Season 2
2. Mr. Robot Season 2
3. Silicon Valley Season 3
4. Preacher Season 1
5. Atlanta Season 1
6. Stranger Things Season 1
7. Halt and Catch Fire Season 3
8. Veep Season 5
9. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season 2
10. Vice Principals Season 1

HM. Game of Thrones, Westworld, South Park,The Good Place, Broad City, Bob's Burgers, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Archer, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Ash vs. Evil Dead, The People v.s O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Marvel's Agents of SHIELD

Video Games*
1. Dark Souls III
2. Final Fantasy XV
3. Overwatch
4. Titanfall 2
5. Pokemon Sun/Moon
6. Dishonored 2
7. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
8. Destiny: Rise of Iron
9. Tom Clancy's The Division
10. Doom

*Didn't really get to play many indies this year, or really many games in general. Even of these top ten I have, I haven't finished all of them as of now. It's been tough but gaming has kind of been the thing I've started giving time up on more and more as school has ended and real life has begun for me.

 

According to Letterboxd, I've only seen 12 films that came out this year, 6 of them I enjoyed enough to start a list.
Favorites, kind've unranked:
Manchester by the Sea
Everybody Wants Some
Moonlight
Edge of Seventeen
Tickled
The Nice Guys

In terms of television:
I still haven't finished Horace and Pete but nothing else has been able to touch it for me.
Atlanta's first season was very impressive.
The Night Of was pretty good until the laughable plot points in the last few episodes.
I ran through all of You're the Worst and found, like most people, the second season to be the most impressive. S3 was very good, but lacked the coherence of 2.
Westword was fun until it wasn't.

 

Films that I viewed this year for the first time and enjoyed:
Blood Simple
Phantom of the Paradise
Blow Out
Midnight Run
Belly
The American Friend
Grizzly Man
Terrorvision
Down By Law
Street Trash
Summer School
The Decline of Western Civilization
The Last Picture Show
Apocalypse Now

I also managed to see Anomalisa early this year which technically was a 2015 release. That'd rank near the top of my list.

 

I still have to see Paterson, 20th Century Women, Fences, and Silence for 2016 releases that I'm really interested in. But for films, right now, I'd have a list of movies I really liked that looks something like:

1. Moonlight
2. Certain Women
3. Swiss Army Man
4. Manchester by the Sea
5. Everybody Wants Some!!
6. The Witch
7. A Bigger Splash
8. the Lobster
9. the Handmaiden
10. the Nice Guys
12. American Honey
13. La La Land
14. the Alchemist Cookbook
15. Sing Street
16. Hail, Caesar!
17. Green Room
18. Lemonade
19. Bad Moms
20. Nocturnal Animals
21. the Love Witch
22. the Invitation
23. Hello, My Name is Doris
24. the Edge of Seventeen
25. Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk


Best Lead Performances
Alex Hibbert/Ashton Anders/Trevante Rhodes, Moonlight
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea
Tilda Swinton, A Bigger Splash
Ralph Fiennes, A Bigger Splash
Ryan Gosling, the Nice Guys
Hailee Steinfeld, the Edge of Seventeen
Amy Adams, Nocturnal Animals
Samantha Robinson, the Love Witch
Sally Field, Hello, My Name is Doris
Tae-ri Kim, the Handmaiden
Sasha Lane, American Honey

Best Supporting Performances
Mahershala Ali, Moonlight
Naomie Harris, Moonlight
Jaden Piner/Jharrel Jerome/Andre Holland, Moonlight
Kristen Stewart, Certain Women
Michelle Williams, Certain Women/Manchester by the Sea
Kathryn Hahn, Bad Moms
Glen Powell, Everybody Wants Some!!
Daniel Radcliffe, Swiss Army Man
Michael Shannon, Nocturnal Animals/Loving

I didn't watch a lot of TV this year. My favorites were something like
1. Bojack Horseman
2. Horace and Pete
3. Silicon Valley
4. what I've seen of Atlanta
5. what I've seen of Lady Dynamite
6. Game of Thrones

 

Definitely can't do film until mid January and until I figure out whether I liked Neon Demon or hated it

 

@Nathan Mahershala Ali is almost certainly the best overall supporting performance I saw this year thus far. And I highly doubt anything yet to come out will touch it.

 

Anomalisa was fantastic. One of the most striking films of last year (even though I saw it early this year as well) and was one that stuck with me for a while after seeing it.

 

this is probably my favorite performance of the year

 

Holding my spot

 

Yes! It's one of the most underseen films of the year, too. David Ehrlich wrote a really great piece on Fiennes/his performance if you're interested

Ralph Fiennes’ Narcissistic Dance Moves Deserve An Oscar In ‘A Bigger Splash’ — Consider This

 

Rectify

Haven't seen that mentioned yet so yeah, watch Rectify.

 

favorite movie might be green room since i've somehow seen it 6 times?

The Witch was amazing
The Neon Demon was great
Swiss Army Man was wild, got to rewatch though
Arrival was great but the ending was a little too much i got the point before like 10 minutes before the end

feel like i'm forgetting a lot

 

Better Call Saul should win an award for that scene where Saul is in a kinkos because it's somehow more compelling than the entirety of Westworld

 

Not just the scene where he's in the Kinko's but also the scene at the end of the episode as he watches Chuck lose his mind over the fact that he can't get the Kinko's worker to admit that Jimmy was there doctoring the papers. It's just heartbreaking, tense, and horrible (on Jimmy's part) all at once.

That season 3 cliffhanger was so damn effective.

 

well yeah obviously that scene is amazing and it's full of equally amazing if not more amazing scenes I was just using that scene as an example of how something as mundane as editing documents in a kinkos can carry more weight than western sentient robots taking over the world when done right lol

 

Still so many films I need to see before I can make an accurate list. I really don't want to post anything until after I see a bunch more films (Elle, Silence, Lion, 20th Century Women, a bunch more I'm certainly forgetting right now).

 

I just edit my original list.

 

T'is an option. I'm just being lazy, really.

 

1. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
2. Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven)
3. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
4. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
5. Krisha (Trey Edward Shults)
6. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
7. Things To Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
8. The Club (Pablo Larraín)
9. Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
10. The Witch (Robert Eggers)
11. Louder Than Bombs (Joachim Trier)
12. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
13. Carnage Park (Mickey Keating)
14. Rams (Grímur Hákonarson)
15. Tickled (David Farrier, Dylan Reeve)
16. The Childhood of a Leader (Brady Corbet)
17. Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari)
18. Weiner (Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg)
19. American Honey (Andrea Arnold)
20. Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)
21. Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols)
22. Joshy (Jeff Baena)
23. Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie)
24. Hush (Mike Flanagan)
25. The Wailing (Na Hong-jin)
26. Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi)
27. Darling (Mickey Keating)
28. Everybody Wants Some (Richard Linklater)
29. Don't Breathe (Fede Alvarez)
30. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone)

Still have yet to see Paterson, Manchester By the Sea and Arrival. While a couple are "2015" films, there was no way of me seeing some of them in 2015 outside of getting someone to drive me two hours so I consider 'em fair game.

 

TV: Atlanta
Movie: Tickled
Podcast: Doughboys
Album: The 1975

 

I posted my favs in the other EOTY thread, but I'll double post here ha.

I watched 150 movies in 2016, 96 of which were released or made available this year. I ranked them on letterboxd. I love blockbusters, so they tend to rank high on my list. No apologies ha.
2016 Films Ranked

Excluding the big blockbusters, my top 10 would've looked like:
1. Arrival
2. 10 Cloverfield Lane
3. La La Land
4. The Witch
5. The Neon Demon
6. Everybody Wants Some!!
7. Swiss Army Man
8. Edge of Seventeen
9. Divines
10. Hunt for the Wilderpeople

I didn't get a chance to see Manchester by the Sea, Moana, Moonlight, Fences, Elle, Toni Erdmann, Right Now Wrong Then, Aquarius, or Jackie. I suspect a couple of them might have ended up high on my list, but alas.

Favorite TV shows:
1. Horace and Pete
2. Westworld S1 (HBO)
3. Game of Thrones S6 (HBO)
4. iZombie S2 (CW)
5. Stranger Things S1 (Netflix)
6. Better Call Saul S2 (AMC)
7. BoJack Horseman S3 (Netflix)
8. Atlanta S1 (FX)
9. The Americans S4 (FX)
10. Mr. Robot S2 (USA)
HM: Black Mirror S3 (Netflix)

Got deep back into video games this year after getting a PS4. Played through all these and thought they were varying degrees of fun to great:
Battlefront
South Park Stick of Truth
Uncharted 1, 2, 3, 4
Last of Us (Remastered)
Tomb Raider
Modern Warfare / Infinite Warfare
Oxenfree

 

Using 2016 premiere dates

Best

1. Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
2. Aquarius (Kleber Filho Mendoca)
3. Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
4. Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
5. Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
6. Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
7. The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)
8. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Love)
9. Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)
10. Allied (Robert Zemeckis)
11. The Ornithologist (Joao Pedro Roridgues)
12. Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
13. The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi)
14 The Neon Demon (Nicolas Winding Refn)
15. Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
16. Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson)
17. The Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec)
18. Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)
19. Werewolf (Ashley Mackenzie)
20. Operation Avalanche (Matt Johnson)

Still waiting to see Silence and 20th Century Women for big releases, Slack Bay, Staying Vertical, and a good dozen other films from festivals.

Worst

Sausage Party
Weiner-Dog
The Lure
Swiss Army Man
Southside With You
Joshy
Ma Rosa
Hell or High Water
La La Land
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

New Discoveries

1. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
2. Secrets and Lies (Mike Leigh, 1996)
3. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman, 1971)
4. My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
5. La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)
6. The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967)
7. Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho, 2003)
8. The Celebration (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998)
9. The Forest for the Trees (Maren Ade, 2003)
10. Body Double (Brian De Palma, 1984)

Revised 2015 list (bolded films weren't on the list last year)

1. Carol (Todd Haynes)
2. Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo)
3. Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick)
4. Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
5. No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
6. Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier)
7. Mistress America (Noah Baumbach)
8. Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
9. Taxi (Jafar Panahi)
10. Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes)

 

I've seen more movies since my list, notable exceptions being Toni Erdmann, Elle, Aquarius, Personal Shopper, Always Shine, Cameraperson, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, and the Fits. The order is approximate, not too carefully considered

1. Moonlight, Barry Jenkins
2. Certain Women, Kelly Reichardt
3. Swiss Army Man, Daniels
4. Manchester by the Sea, Kenneth Lonergan
5. Paterson, Jim Jarmusch
6. The Handmaiden, Chan-wook Park
7. Silence, Martin Scorsese
8. Everybody Wants Some!!, Richard Linklater
9. The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos
10. The Witch, Robert Eggers
11. A Bigger Splash, Luca Guadagnino
12. The Nice Guys, Shane Black
13. The Alchemist Cookbook, Joel Potrykus
14. Hail, Caesar!, the Coens
15. 20th Century Women, Mike Mills
16. Green Room, Jeremy Saulnier
17. The Edge of Seventeen, Kelly Fremon Craig
18. The Love Witch, Anna Biller
19. Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone
20. La La Land, Damien Chazelle
21. Sing Street, John Carney
22. American Honey, Andrea Arnold
23. Nocturnal Animals, Tom Ford
24. Shin Godzilla, Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi
25. The Invitation, Karyn Kusama

I think Paterson and Silence are the two films from the year I think about the most, though granted they're two of the most recent viewings. Certain Women is probably the one I've talked about most all year in an effort to get as many people to see it as possible.

 

A lot of the movies you listed are available. Are you trying to wait and see them on a big screen?

 

Partially, it's my preferred viewing experience when it's an option (Elle just started playing near me, not sure if any of the others will). But I've also been working and traveling.