Top 10 films of 2014

[The Endless]

I only just saw The Grand Budapest Hotel yesterday. What a great film. Probably my favourite of the year.

1. Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Edge of Tomorrow
3. The Winter Soldier
4. The Lego Movie
5. Bad Neighbours
6. Days of Future Past

And why do people use .3 and .7 in their ratings? I don't get it.

 

[DA_Champion]

I only just saw The Grand Budapest Hotel yesterday. What a great film. Probably my favourite of the year.

1. Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Edge of Tomorrow
3. The Winter Soldier
4. The Lego Movie
5. Bad Neighbours
6. Days of Future Past

And why do people use .3 and .7 in their ratings? I don't get it.

Wow, a third person not overwhelmed by DoFP.

People use decimals because they think their opinions are really precise. Like this:

"I rate Grand Budapest Hotel a 9.5643778943765 / 10 ".

 

[The Endless]

And that is what baffles me. Just use a ****ing .5 lol.

I wouldn't say i was underwhelmed by DofP. I'd still give it a solid 8 out of 10. I just don't really care for the characters and i'm bored of the civil rights allegories. It's used as a crutch.

What happened to the X-Men being outcasts fighting to save and protect the people who hate them? The first X-Men and First Class showed a bit of that in their climaxes. All the others the X-Men are basically saving themselves. They are very selfish "superheroes" really.

 

[Superman_200]

Top 10 Most Anticipated Films:

1. Interstellar
2. Foxcatcher
3. The Theory of Everything
4. The Giver
5. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
6. Guardians of the Galaxy
7. Sin City
8. Gone Girl
9. Dumb and Dumber To
10. Exodus

If I were posting this at the beginning of the year Godzilla, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Edge of Tomorrow and Transcendence would have made the list.

Now that I have seen those, Transcendence was my biggest disappointment. It looked like it would be good, a movie with Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall which is one of my favorite actresses, and Morgan Freeman with Cillian urphy sounded so good on paper.

My favorite movies of 2014 so far are:

1. The Grand Budapest Hotel
2. Under the Skin
3. Locke
4. Nymphomaniac Part I and II
5. The Raid 2
6. Noah
7. Edge of Tomorrow
8. X-Men: Days of Future Past
9. The Lego Movie
10. Captain America: Winter Soldier

 

[Lord]

I'm glad you liked it. You know my reaaons for giving it a "B" grade -- Singer's shoddy work on recreating the 1970s, the script's misunderstanding of the period, the plot holes, the dumbfounding climax, and the fact the only two character arcs in the movie were clunky.

The action scenes and visuals were good though.

I hope that Apes can be a better movie.

But i still don't get it, First Class was also far from using the 60s all that well, their interpretation of the period felt very "plastic", and the plot with the threat of nuclear holocaust could have been used in the modern setting too, in fact, Shaw's plan felt even more clunky due to having to tie with the missile crisis of the time, as if a holocaust like that wouldn't cause mutant deaths too.

What matters the most in a movie isn't always complete realism, but the emotion behind the decisions and fulfilment for the action, RedLetterMedia's review gave a pretty interesting opinion on this subject. With Bryan Singer's X-Men, the themes of his movies always seem genuine and not fabricated, which is more than i can say to Zack Snyder's filmography.

With all the events they had to tie into, they did the best job i could imagine them doing, in any other hands this would either be divided into 2 parts or end up being a complete mess.

 

[Rowsdower!]

1. The Raid 2
2. CA: The Winter Soldier
3. Edge of Tomorrow
4. X-Men: DOFP
5. Amazing Spider-Man 2
6. Godzilla
7. A Million Ways to Die in the West
8. Neighbors
9. Robocop
10. Enemy


648. 300: Rise of an Empire

 

[Crosswind Ghost]

And why do people use .3 and .7 in their ratings? I don't get it.

Personal preference. Precise opinion, as stated above. I feel .5's are limited.

 

[DA_Champion]

Ongoing ranking of 2014 movies for me

Tier 1, A grade: Noah, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Lego Movie, Edge of Tomorrow, The Fault in our Stars
Tier 2, B grade: Robocop, Divergent, X-Men: Days of Future Past, 300: Rise of an Empire, Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Tier 3, C grade: Godzilla, Amazing Spider Man 2

 

[Wyrminarrd]

1: Winter Soldier
2: Days of Future Past
3: Edge of Tomorrow
4: Godzilla
5: Amazing Spider-man 2
6: Robocop

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. X-Men: Days of Future Past
3. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
4. The Lego Movie
5. Edge of Tomorrow
6. 300: Rise of an Empire

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Updated (New in Bold):

1. Edge of Tomorrow
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. X-Men Days of Future Past
4. A Million Ways to Die in the West
5. Frank
6. The Lego Movie
7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
8. Divergent
9. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
10. Locke

Spoiler

11. Nymphomaniac (Vol 1 & 2)
12. Under the Skin
13. Veronica Mars
14. Robocop
15. The Other Woman
16. 22 Jump Street
17. Godzilla
18. Pompeii
19. Non-Stop
20. The Monuments Men

21. The Railway Man
22. Plastic
23. Transcendence
24. That Awkward Moment
25. The Muppets: Most Wanted
26. I Frankenstein
27. Walk of Shame
28. The Legend of Hercules
29. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
30. 300: Rise of an Empire

31. Rio 2
32. Endless Love
33. Ride Along
34. Winter's Tale
35. Need for Speed
36. Maleficent
37. TS Spivet
38. In Secret
39. Noah

 

[DarkSovereignty]

1.The Wind Rises
2. Captain America: The Winter Solider
3. The Lego Movie/how to train your dragon 2
4. Chef
5. X-men: Days of Future Past
6. Godzilla
7. The Raid 2: Berendal
8. Grand Budapest Hotel
9. Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons
10. Bad words

 

[MrMaooz]

1. X-Men: Days of Future Past
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
3. Edge of Tomorrow
4. The Lego Movie
5. Non-Stop
6. Godzilla
7. RoboCop
8. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
9. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
10. 300: Rise of an Empire

 

[jaymes_e06]

I'm soooo surprised by your list MOose.

 

[Lunar_Wolf]

1. The Lego Movie
2. Captain America: The Winter Solider
3. Frank
4. X-Men: Days of Future Past
5. The Grand Budapest Hotel
6. 22 Jump Street
7. Edge of Tomorrow
8. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
9. Bad Neighbors
10. Robocop

 

[MrMaooz]

I'm soooo surprised by your list MOose.

How so?

 

[def28]

Top 5 so far in no order

Lego Movie
Winter Soldier
22 Jump Street
Grand Budapest Hotel
Edge Of Tomorrow

Don't know where I rank the others yet....

 

[jaymes_e06]

How so?

How much you underestimated DOFP but I should wait until you watch Transformers to see if you've really evolved.

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. X-Men: Days of Future Past
3. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
4. The Lego Movie
5. Maleficent
6. Edge of Tomorrow
7. 300: Rise of an Empire

 

[Crosswind Ghost]

1. X-Men: Days of Future Past 9.1/10
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel 8.3/10
3. Frank 8.2
4. Enemy 8.1/10
5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 8/10
6. Cold in July 7.8/10
7. The Double 7.8/10
8. Edge of Tomorrow 7.7
9. Only Lovers Left Alive 7.5/10
10. Noah 7.5/10

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Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 7.4
Locke 7.3/10
Bad Words 7/10
The Amazing Spiderman 2 6.8/10
Nymphomaniac Vol. 2 6.6/10
Godzilla 6/10

I love Michael Fassbender.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

1. X-Men: Days of Future Past 9.1/10
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel 8.3/10
3. Frank 8.2
4. Enemy 8.1/10
5. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 8/10
6. Cold in July 7.8/10
7. The Double 7.8/10
8. Edge of Tomorrow 7.7
9. Only Lovers Left Alive 7.5/10
10. Noah 7.5/10

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Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 7.4
Locke 7.3/10
Bad Words 7/10
The Amazing Spiderman 2 6.8/10
Nymphomaniac Vol. 2 6.6/10
Godzilla 6/10

I love Michael Fassbender.

So much

That last reunion scene made it for me though. He was just bloody brilliant

I like your list btw. Still got to see a lot of them, but there are plenty in there I am looking forward to!

 

[ThePowerCosmic]

1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
2. X-Men: Days of Future Past
3. The Amazing Spider-Man 2
4. The Lego Movie
5. A Million Ways to Die in the West
6. Maleficent
7. Edge of Tomorrow
8. 300: Rise of an Empire

 

[DarkSovereignty]

A million ways to die in the west being so close to the Lego movie makes me uncomfortable.

 

[MrMaooz]

Edge of Tomorrow being right next to that mediocre 300 film makes me feel queasy.

 

[Snow Queen]

1. X-Men: Days of Future Past - 9.7/10
2. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - 9.3/10
3. The Amazing Spider-man 2 - 9.2/10
4. The Lego Movie - 8/10
5. Veronica Mars - 8/10
6. Robocop - 6.7/10
7. Mr. Peabody & Sherman - 6.7/10
8. Vampire Academy - 4/10
9. I, Frankenstein - 2/10
10. Winter's Tale - 1/10