2014 Movie Thread

[Lookwhoitis]

past year link
2013

2014 movies: Red = dvd or streaming, Blue = at the theater, * = rewatch

1. V/H/S 2 *
2. Lone Survivor
3. her
(Begin Sundance)
4. A Most Wanted Man
5. Camp X-ray
6. God's Pocket
7. Fishing without Nets
8. The Guest
9. The Skeleton Twins
10. Dear White People
11. Under the Electric Sky (EDC 2013)
12. Jamie Marks is Dead
13. Dead Snow 2: Red vs Dead
14. Song One
15. Imperial Dreams
16. The Signal
17. The Battered Bastards of Baseball
18. The Babadook
19. The Raid 2: Berandal
20. 20,000 Days on Earth
21. Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory
22. Life After Beth
23. The Lock Charmer (El Cerrajero)
24. Cold in July
25. The Sleepwalker
26. Cooties
27. Rich Hill
28. Young Ones
29. Whiplash
30. Whiplash *
(End Sundance)
31. The Wind Rises
32. Philomena
33. Blue Jasmine
34. Salinger
35. Sin Nombre
36. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan*
37. Hobo with a Shotgun*
38. Joint Security Area
39. Mongol
40. The Raid: Redemption
41. Under the Skin
42. Transcendence
43. Oculus
44. The Square
45. 20 feet from Stardom
46. The Act of Killing
47. The Devil Came on Horseback
48. Deliver Us from Evil
49. Event Horizon*
50. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
51. Guardians of the Galaxy 3D
52. Blue Ruin
53. Boyhood
54. Snowpiercer
55. Gone Girl
56. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Pt 1

Final for 2014:

57. Fargo*
58. Sling Blade*
59. Foxcatcher
60. Interstellar

[Still Servant]

2010 List
2011 List
2012 List
2013 List

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Lone Survivor
The Wolf of Wall Street
One False Move
Despicable Me 2
Broken City
We Are What We Are
Her
Promised Land
In a World...
Machete Kills
Jack Reacher
The East
Dallas Buyers Club
Kick-Ass 2
12 Years a Slave
Inside Llewyn Davis
Big Trouble in Little China
The Croods
I Heart Huckabees
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Epic
Nebraska
Berberian Sound Studio
Enough Said
Boiler Room
The Lego Movie
The Great Gatsby
Walking With Dinosaurs
Divergent
Sound of My Voice
Anchorman 2
Noah
Dom Hemingway
Parkland
City On Fire
Captain America: Winter Soldier
The Purge
Rio 2
The Neighbors
Godzilla
X-Men: Days of Future Past
Edge of Tomorrow
In Fear
Jersey Boys
Veronica Mars
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Snowpiercer
Devil's Knot
The Purge: Anarchy
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Sex Tape
Wish I Were Here
Big Bad Wolves
Lucy
22 Jump Street
Blue Ruin
Guardians of the Galaxy
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Bad Words
Let's Be Cops
Expendables 3
From Here to Eternity
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
The Monuments Men
The Raid 2
The Drop
The Maze Runner
A Walk Among the Tombstones
The Equalizer
The Fault in Our Stars
Gone Girl
Barking Dogs Never Bite
The Rover
2 Guns
Fury
The Giver
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
John Wick
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Locke
St. Vincent
Chef
Interstellar
Nightcrawler
The Secret
Dumb and Dumber To
Not Cool
Hollidaysburg
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
The Theory of Everything
Whiplash
The Guest
Birdman
Enemy
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
Into the Woods
McConkey
The Babadook
Owning Mahowny
Non-Stop
Boyhood
Under the Skin
Big Eyes

Wow, another movie watching year has just wrapped. I can't believe it. I watched 104 movies this year, down from 117 last year. There are a few reasons for this. One of the main reasons is that I probably wrote about movies more than any other year. I created my own website this year and even though it's just a little thing, I wanted it to look and feel as professional as possible. As you can imagine, that was quite time consuming and much of my free time was taken up with just tinkering with the layout and the formatting of the site.

Anyway, of the 104 films, I saw 47 of those in theaters. That's certainly a record for me. I thought it was a great year for film and the multitude of ways I watch movies continues to expand. Some of my favorite films of the year aren't even making their way to my local theaters, forcing me to be a little more creative.

I'm already eagerly anticipating 2015, but I still have quite a few 2014 films to watch before I yell "cut" on 2014. I look forward to discussing movies with all of you here as the year progresses.

For a more comprehensive look at my 2014 movie list visit: Letterboxd.com

[Mattrick]

American Hustle *****
The Naked Gun: Files From Police Squad (RW) ***
The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Final Insult (RW) ****
Gravity *****
Her (2) *****
Goodfellas (RW) ***
Prisoners ****
Before Sunrise *****
Blue Jasmine *****
Captain Phillips ****
Carrie (2013) ****
Dallas Buyers Club ****
12 Years A Slave ****
Before Sunset *****
Quiz Show *****
Matilda (RW) ****
Bad Grandpa ****
The Blair Witch Project (RW) ****
Inside Llewyn Davis ****
The Thing (2011) ***
I Heart Huckabees (RW) ****
Enough Said *****
Before Midnight *****
Springbreakers ***
It's A Disaster ****
Ruby Sparks ****
Philomena *****
Nebraska *****
Carnage ****
Tomboy ****
Celeste and Jesse Forever ****
Jeff, Who Lives at Home ****
Jack Goes Boating ***
Fruitvale Station ****
World War Z (RW) ****
Winter's Bone ****
Being Flynn ****
The Wolf of Wall Street *****
The Prestige ***
Jeff, Who Lives At Home (RW)
For Ellen *****
Insidious *** (RW)
Insidious Chapter Two **
The Sentinel ****
Cronos ***
This Is Forty ****
Night of The Living Dead (1968 ) ***
The Innocents ****
Mimic (RW) ****
The Wolverine ****
Fly Away Home ****
Room 237 ***
The World's End **
Boogie Nights *****
True Lies (RW) ****
Neighbours ***
In The Mouth of Madness (RW) ****
Godzilla (2014) **
I Love You, Man (RW) *****
Her (4) *****
Where The Wild Things Are ****
Philomena (2) *****
American Hustle (2) *****
X-Men: Days of Future Past ****
28 Weeks Later (RW) ****
The Grand Budapest Hotel *****
You Don't Mess With The Zohan (RW) ***
Gravity (2) *****
Dear Mr. Watterson ****
Funny People (RW) *****
Chronicle (RW) *****
The Descent 2 ***
Primer (RW) ****
Bull Durham (RW) ****
Kingpin (RW) ****
Bad Words ***
The Grand Budapest Hotel (RW) *****
Edge of Tomorrow ****
Bad Grandpa (RW) ***
The Fifth Element (RW) ****
Terminator 2 (RW) *****
Life of Pi (RW) *****
Minority Report (RW) *****
Attack The Block ****
Planet Terror (RW) ****
Stakeland ****
Guardians of the Galaxy *****
Captain America: The Winter Soldier ****
Machete (RW) ****
Philomena (3)
Pan's Labrynth ***
Boyhood *****
Alien3: Director's Cut (RW) *****
Alien (RW) *****
The Killing (RW) ****
Beneath (RW) *****
[Rec] (RW) ****
[Rec]2 (RW) *****
[Rec]3: Genesis (RW) *****
Citizen Kane *****
The Tenant *****
Young Adult (RW) *****
Her (5)
The Relic (RW) ****
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead (RW) *****
About A Boy (RW) *****
Another Year (RW) *****
Bug ****
As Good As It Gets (RW) *****
Zoolander (RW) ****
Big Fan ****
Withnail and I ****
Stoker ****
Snowpiercer *****
Interstellar ***
Silent Hill (RW) ****
Confessions of a Dangeround Mind (RW) ****
Whiplash *****
Childrenof Men (RW) *****
The Babadook *****
The American (RW) *****
Nightcrawler *****
Forgetting Sarah Marshall *****
All The Real Girls *****
The Descendants (RW) *****
Election (RW) ****
The Double *****
Upstream Color ****
Foxcatcher ***
Under The Skin **
Maps To The Stars ***
Only Lovers Left Alive ****
Lars And The Real Girl ****
22 Jump Street **
The Babadook (2)
Snowpiercer (2)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey **
The Double (2)

[Heather19]

2014 List

The Fitzgerald Family Christmas
Berberian Sound Studio
Lars and the Real Girl *
Cape Fear *
The Spiral Staircase
Warm Bodies
Sudden Fear
Bonnie & Clyde (2013)
Flowers in the Attic (2014)
Prisoners
Insidious 2
The Stranger *
American Hustle
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Her
Blue Jasmine
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
2014 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
Phenomena
Stories We Tell
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
The Mosquito Coast
Mildred Pierce
Mermaids *
Gravity
Rebecca *
You're Next
All Good Things
In a World...
The Wolf of Wall Street
Congo *
Escape From Tomorrow
Caddyshack
About Time
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Saving Mr. Banks
The Other
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
House
Labor Day
Ghostbusters
Puppet Master
Devil's Knot
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
Out of the Furnace
Rise of the Planet of the Apes *
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes (1968 )*
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Dom Hemingway
The Motel Life
Point Break
Houdini
Jackie Brown *
Transcendence
With Honors
Oculus
Let's Scare Jessica to Death
Annabelle
Straw Dogs
Hollywoodland *
Austenland
Rapa Nui
Beneath
Sometimes They Come Back *
The House on Haunted Hill
Black Sunday
Black Rock
Silver Bullet *
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Doom Generation
The Uninvited
Psycho *
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon *
Swamp Thing
The Shining *
The Quite Ones
Snowpiercer
Straw Dogs (2011)
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
From Dusk Till Dawn *
Full-Tilt Boogie
Big Driver
Frailty *
The Burbs *
Love Actually
Maleficent
The Wind Rises
A Christmas Story *
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation *
Arthur Christmas
March of the Wooden Soldiers *
Holiday Inn *
The Muppet Christmas Carol *
Everest
City of God *
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills *
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations *
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory *

* rewatch


Mike, how was Big Eyes? I've really been wanting to see it.

[Still Servant]

It was my Mom's birthday on Tuesday so me, my sister and my Dad took her to see Big Eyes. It was her choice and I'd be lying if I didn't say I was lobbying really hard to see Big Eyes. My Mom initially wanted to see Annie or Night at the Museum. Thankfully, I presented a good case and she picked Big Eyes.

We all really enjoyed it, even my Dad, whose taste usually only leans towards action. The film starts out a little slow, but gets really interesting once Waltz comes into the picture. Amy Adams is a delight as usual, but Waltz (as usual) steals the show. His performance towards the end borders on cartoonish, but it's also some of the funniest parts of the film. The film is also visually stunning to look at. The use of some colors like pinks and blues really jump off the screen. I must say it was a breath of fresh air to see Tim Burton direct a "normal" film.

Big Eyes is also a great portrayal of how women were treated in our country back then. The scary thing is that it's not that long ago. The good news is that Big Eyes turns into a film with a positive message for women. It's not going to win an Oscar, but I really enjoyed it.

[Lookwhoitis]

right on, looking forward to seeing Big Eyes

[Mattrick]

I hear the biggest problem with Christoph Waltz is what he had to work with, which is a shame, since he's so awesome.

[Still Servant]

There's enough for him to work with here. It's not what Tarantino gave him, but he makes it work. Like I said, he really shines towards the end of the film. Some people will hate it, but I thought it was great.