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Well, it's coming to that time of year again. Have there been any films that you've not stopped watching/thinking about in 2014? Any films that have majorly disappointed and were there any pleasant surprises?

 

Currently compiling my list right now and although I have a very clear favourite, the top 10 is proving hard to order!

 

EDIT: I use this very USEFUL website whilst compiling my lists each year!

 

http://www.launchingfilms.com/release-schedule

I'm planning on doing a countdown. I'd guess I've seen about 50-60 films from 2014. Some amazing ones and some disasters this year

As with the last couple of years, I'll be compiling a list of all the the new films I've watched since 01 Jan (so released from the tail end of 2013 to the end of this year). 75 films so far, so down on last year!

Recap of my list last year:

 

001 | Wreck-It Ralph

002 | Frozen

003 | The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

004 | Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

005 | Oblivion

006 | About Time

007 | The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

008 | Insidious: Chapter 2

009 | Monsters University

010 | Les Miserables

 

011 | Gravity

012 | Oz: The Great And Powerful

013 | Kick-Ass 2

014 | Star Trek: Into Darkness

015 | Thor: The Dark World

016 | The Way, Way Back

017 | Captain Phillips

018 | Warm Bodies

019 | Flight

020 | Identity Thief

 

021 | Rush

022 | The Heat

023 | World War Z

024 | Olympus Has Fallen

025 | The Croods

026 | The Internship

027 | This Is 40

028 | The Call

029 | Man Of Steel

030 | Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

 

031 | The Great Gatsby

032 | Prisoners

033 | Despicable Me 2

034 | The Odd Life Of Timothy Green

035 | Django Unchained

036 | Saving Mr Banks

037 | The Impossible

038 | Planes

039 | RED 2

040 | The Wolverine

 

041 | The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

042 | After Earth

043 | Dead Man Down

044 | Turbo

045 | Jack The Giant Slayer

046 | Riddick

047 | Filth

048 | We're The Millers

049 | Girl Most Likely

050 | 21 & Over

 

051 | Elysium

052 | The Last Stand

053 | Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2

054 | The Lone Ranger

055 | The East

056 | Side Effects

057 | Trance

058 | Grown Ups 2

059 | A Haunted House

060 | Iron Man 3

 

061 | The World's End

062 | One Direction: This Is Us

063 | Free Birds

064 | The Hangover: Part III

065 | Runner Runner

066 | Cloud Atlas

067 | Pain & Gain

068 | Parker

069 | Now You See Me

070 | This Is The End

 

071 | The Guilt Trip

072 | 47 Ronin

073 | R.I.P.D.

074 | Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters

075 | How I Live Now

076 | Snitch

077 | Behind The Candelabra

078 | The Fifth Estate

079 | The Place Beyond The Pines

080 | The Counselor

 

081 | Ender's Game

082 | Carrie

083 | Scary MoVie

084 | Stolen

085 | The Family

086 | Bullet To The Head

087 | 2 Guns

088 | A Good Day To Die Hard

089 | Fast & Furious 6

090 | Machete Kills

 

091 | Evil Dead

092 | The Purge

093 | Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

094 | Diana

095 | Texas Chainsaw

01. 'Guardians of the Galaxy'

02. 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'

03. 'Gone Girl'

04. 'XMen: Days of Future Past'

05. 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'

06. '12 Years A Slave'

07. 'The Guest'

08. 'Fury'

09. 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

10. 'Boyhood'

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11. 'The Wolf Of Wall Street'

12. 'Dallas Buyers Club'

13. 'Her'

14. 'How To Train Your Dragon 2'

15. 'The Lego Movie'

16. '22 Jump Street'

17. 'Godzilla'

18. 'Interstellar'

19. 'Veronica Mars'

20. 'An American Hustle'

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21. 'The Maze Runner'

22. 'Bad Neighbours'

23. 'Horns'

24. 'Nightcrawler'

25. 'Cold In July'

26. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

27. 'Under The Skin'

28. 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'

29. 'Edge of Tomorrow'

30. 'The Babadook'

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31. 'What If'

32. 'Horrible Bosses 2'

33. 'The Equalizer'

34. 'If I Stay'

35. 'Frank'

36. 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'

37. 'Lucy'

38. 'Inbetweeners 2'

39. 'Need For Speed'

40. 'Amazing Spiderman 2'

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41. 'The Purge: Anarchy'

42. 'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones'

43. 'Say When'

44. 'Let's Be Cops'

45. 'That Awkward Moment'

46. 'Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For'

47. 'Delivery Man'

48. 'The House of Magic'

49. 'Transformers: Age Of Extinction'

50. 'Oculus'

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51. 'Transcendence'

52. 'A Million Ways To Die In The West'

 

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KEY:

Number 1: MIND-BLOWN

02-13: INCREDIBLE.

14-20: Great/Good.

21-26: Enjoyable Enough I Guess.

27-36: Ok/Meh.

37-42: Disappointingly MEH.

43-47: Don't Bother.

48-52: GOOD GOD. HELP.

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STILL NEED TO SEE:

- 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 1)'

- 'Imitation Game'

- 'Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies' >> Not Released Yet <<

- 'Locke'

- 'Jersey Boys'

- 'The Drop'

- 'Men, Women & Children'

 

A considerably less amount of films compared to last year. About 10 films less! It's been such a "meh" year, but the highs have been very high though!

I really enjoyed the house of magic so shame to see it low on your list :(

I really enjoyed the house of magic so shame to see it low on your list :(

My niece loved it, I just had to take her and I like taking her for treats and things occasionally :P. It was not good. :( (I'm quite a big kid when it comes to films too!)

Gone Girl and St Vincent are easily my movies of the year. So enjoyable and great acting, I think I prefer St Vincent just because it was so funny and emotional at the same time. Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy were amazing in it. Gone Girl had me on the edge of my seat throughout as well.

 

I also really enjoyed The Pyramid which was one of the best horrors in recent years, The Other Woman and The Purge: Anarchy. As for awful films, Annabelle was shockingly bad and I hate to say it but the new Hunger Games was all hype and no substance, boring as f***.

Of the films I've actually seen this year:

 

The Lego Movie - 10/10 (Awesome, in just about every way possible)

The Grand Budapest Hotel - 9/10 (Great, classic Wes Anderson through and through)

Frozen - 9/10 (Didn't manage to see this until this year, <3, fully worthy of the hype)

Her - 9/10 (I was always gonna love something like this, and I did)

12 Years a Slave - 9/10 (not normally the sort of film I enjoy, but this is undeniable. The performances if anything capitvated me far more than the actual film)

Godzilla - 8/10 (This could've gone either way, but this was really good, thankfully)

Muppets Most Wanted - 8/10 (Cute/enjoyable etc.)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 8/10 (Standard Marvel fare, not that that's a bad thing)

Divergent - 7/10 (I felt this got too much stick, very Hunger Games-lite for sure but has just about enough to stand on it's own)

The Wolf of Wall Street 7/10 (TOO LONG, but well made, good for what it is etc just not really my thing.)

Noah - 7/10 (Solid, if a bit disposable ultimately)

Under The Skin (I feel dirty for not really liking this as much as I should, it was brilliantly made and shot and Johannson was brilliant, but part of me was a bit annoyed how it cut the majority of the book out, and especially the change up with the ending grated on me a bit. I felt a lot of the books message and themes were lost in the translation.)

American Hustle - 5/10 (I think I would've enjoyed this if I wasn't confused as hell for half of it)

 

Hopefully The Hobbit/Hunger Games to follow before the year's out!

Gone Girl and St Vincent are easily my movies of the year. So enjoyable and great acting, I think I prefer St Vincent just because it was so funny and emotional at the same time. Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy were amazing in it. Gone Girl had me on the edge of my seat throughout as well.

 

I also really enjoyed The Pyramid which was one of the best horrors in recent years, The Other Woman and The Purge: Anarchy. As for awful films, Annabelle was shockingly bad and I hate to say it but the new Hunger Games was all hype and no substance, boring as f***.

Jack, did you ever see 'The Guest'? I actually recommend that! It's so good.

Hmm, have to try to remember what I actually saw this year.

 

Paddington - 9/10 - hugely surpassed my expectations

The Imitation Game - 8/10

Boyhood - 8/10

Mr Turner - 8/10

The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Disappeared - 9/10

Under the Skin - 2/10 - I don't care if Michel Faber liked it, I didn't. Just seemed to me that Jonathan Glazer wanted to make a different film and the media only picked up on it because Scarlett Johansson was driving around Glasgow.

Muppets Most Wanted - 6/10

The Inbetweeners Movie 2 - 3/10 - dire sequel to a passable film that followed an awful third series. Time to let this end.

The Grand Budapest Hotel - 7/10 - looks fantastic

We Are the Best - 8/10

The Wind Rises - 9/10

 

May have seen some others, that looks like a pretty small list of new releases!

01. 'Under The Skin'

02. 'Her'

03. 'Osage County'

04. 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'

05. 'The Lego Movie'

06. 'Starred Up'

07. 'The Double'

08. 'Interstellar'

09. 'Boyhood'

10. 'The Edge Of Tomorrow'

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11. 'Begin Again'

12. 'The Guest'

13. 'Obvious Child'

14. 'How To Train Your Dragon 2'

15. 'Maps To The Stars'

16. 'Calvary'

17. 'The Imitation Game'

18. 'The Riot Club'

19. 'Oculus'

20. 'What We Do In The Shadows'

 

- Hard to compile, as I've see 104 films in the cinema this year (so far!)

1. Boyhood

 

 

 

2. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

3. Under The Skin

3. Her

 

4. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 1)

5. A Most Wanted Man

 

 

6. Inside Llewyn Davis

 

And I still want to see 'Deux jours, une nuit', 'Interstellar' and the final Hobbit film too.

Every 2014 film I've liked. I've bolded my favourites.

 

Blowfly Park (Flugparken)

Boyhood

Dallas Buyers' Club

Dust on the Tongue (Tierra en la lengua)

Gone Girl

Her

Hide Your Smiling Faces

In Your Eyes

Lust for Love

Predestination

Short Term 12

Something Must Break (Nånting måste gå sönder)

The Fault in Our Stars

The Little Death

The Maze Runner

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Kaguya-hime no monogatari)

The Turning

Xenia

Words With Gods

Fave 3:

 

1. Nightcrawler

2. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes

3. The Imitation Game

52. 'A Million Ways To Die In The West'

 

How have I only just noticed this. I found this hilarious, perfect for my style of humour. :(

 

01 Gone Girl

02 Boyhood

03 Paddington

04 Begin Again

05 The Riot Club

06 What We Did On Our Holiday

07 Belle

08 The LEGO Movie

09 Non-Stop

10 Lucy

 

11 The Other Woman

12 A Million Ways To Die In The West

13 The Fault In Our Stars

14 Pride

15 Love, Rosie

16 Divergent

17 The Book Thief

18 Horns

19 Guardians of the Galaxy

20 St. Vincent

 

21 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

22 The Imitation Game

23 Unbroken

24 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

25 Penguins of Madagascar

26 Say When

27 Sex Tape

28 The Maze Runner

29 Fury

30 12 Years a Slave

 

31 Dallas Buyers Club

32 Noah

33 Labor Day

34 The Grand Budapest Hotel

35 Cuban Fury

36 How To Train Your Dragon 2

37 If I Stay

38 Magic In The Moonlight

39 Edge of Tomorrow

40 Nightcrawler

 

41 What If

42 The Railway Man

43 The Judge

44 American Hustle

45 August: Osage County

46 Tammy

47 Interstellar

48 A New York Winter's Tale

 

It hurts me to only just have Mockingjay: Part 1 in the top half when the first two movies were my favourites of 2012 and 2013 but I just wasn't feeling this one as much. :( The top 6 are very hard to separate, pretty certain on Gone Girl as my #1 but the five below could be in any order. What a year for Rosamund Pike :heart:

 

The top 38 or so were all pretty enjoyable, even something towards the bottom such as "The Railway Man" isn't bad, it just didn't have me gripped.

1 Wreck-It Ralph

2 Oblivion

3 Frozen

4 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

5 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

6 About Time

7 Gravity

8 Insidious: Chapter 2

9 Monsters University

10 The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

My top 10 films of last year were:

 

01. Gone Girl (10/10)

02. The Purge: Anarchy (9/10)

03. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (9/10)

04. Guardians of the Galaxy (9/10)

05. The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1 (8/10)

06. Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (8/10)

07. The Babadook (7.5/10)

08. The Pyramid (7/10)

09. Bad Neighbours (7/10)

10. Godzilla (7/10)

UPDATING THIS.

 

01. 'Guardians of the Galaxy'

02. 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'

03. 'Gone Girl'

04. 'XMen: Days of Future Past'

05. 'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes'

06. '12 Years A Slave'

07. 'The Guest'

08. 'Fury'

09. 'Inside Llewyn Davis'

10. 'Boyhood'

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11. 'The Wolf Of Wall Street'

12. 'Dallas Buyers Club'

13. 'Her'

14. 'Imitation Game'

15. 'How To Train Your Dragon 2'

16. 'The Lego Movie'

17. '22 Jump Street'

18. 'Godzilla'

19. 'Interstellar'

20. 'Veronica Mars'

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21. 'An American Hustle'

22. 'The Maze Runner'

23. 'Bad Neighbours'

24. 'Horns'

25. 'Nightcrawler'

26. 'Cold In July'

27. 'The Hobbit: The Battle Of the Five Armies'

28. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

29. 'Under The Skin'

30. 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'

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31. 'Edge of Tomorrow'

32. 'The Babadook'

33. 'What If'

34. 'Horrible Bosses 2'

35. 'The Equalizer'

36. 'If I Stay'

37. 'Frank'

38. 'The Grand Budapest Hotel'

39. 'Lucy'

40. 'Inbetweeners 2'

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41. 'Need For Speed'

42. 'Amazing Spiderman 2'

43. 'The Purge: Anarchy'

44. 'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones'

45. 'Say When'

46. 'Men, Women & Children'

47. 'The Drop'

48. 'Let's Be Cops'

49. 'That Awkward Moment'

50. 'Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For'

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51. 'Delivery Man'

52. 'The House of Magic'

53. 'Transformers: Age Of Extinction'

54. 'Oculus'

55. 'Transcendence'

56. 'A Million Ways To Die In The West'

 

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KEY:

Number 1: MIND-BLOWN

02-14: INCREDIBLE.

15-21: Great/Good.

22-27: Enjoyable Enough I Guess.

28-38: Ok/Meh.

39-47: Disappointingly MEH.

48-51: Don't Bother.

52-56: GOOD GOD. HELP.

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STILL NEED TO SEE:

- 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay (Part 1)'

- 'Locke'

- 'Jersey Boys'

 

A considerably less amount of films compared to last year. About 10 films less! It's been such a "meh" year, but the highs have been very high though!