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Divius · Jan 1, 2017

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Divius · Jan 1, 2017

Watched 33 movies in December

TOP 5 NEW VIEWINGS OF DECEMBER
5. My Cousin Vinny
4. American Honey
3. La tortue rouge AKA The Red Turtle
2. When We Were Kings
1. La La Land

MOST VALUABLE REWATCHES
Taxi Driver
The Nice Guys
The Emperor's New Groove

WORST NEW VIEWINGS OF DECEMBER
The Magnificent Seven
Blair Witch
The Girl on the Train
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

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I have PMed Kazaam asking if he is willing to do the GAF MOTY thing again. (unless CFK is out there, lurking, and wants to do it)

roosters93 · Jan 1, 2017

Gonna go see Rogue One later tonight... will probably put an end to this run heh

Blues1990 · Jan 1, 2017

I just finished watching 'In Bruges' (2008), which was recommended to me by a friend. I like that the movie shifts effortlessly between being a silly dark comedy to a somber crime thriller, all in the backdrop of a small medieval town during the Christmas season.

It's worth checking out.

Cripplegate · Jan 1, 2017

I barely watched anything in December, way too busy of a month. Heading home this week to visit the folks, though, so I'll probably be drowning in movies (they have a huge physical collection, plus regular theatre prices are like half what I pay in Toronto, so I always use the opportunity to catch up on those "kinda sorta I guess" theatrical releases, like Passengers).

TheOnlyOneHeEverFeared · Jan 1, 2017

Oh look a gorgeous looking, emotionally touching, well told story by Raymond Briggs. What a shocker.

Seriously though, Ethel & Ernest is pretty fantastic. It's not showy, flashy, or even telling an eventful story. As it tells us itself at the beginning, its not exciting, its just the story of two people, and that is just fine.

Ethel & Ernest meet in London in 1928, marry, buy a house, live in house till they died in the early 1970's, have a son, don't go abroad, only leave London once.

That's it. Really. The key of course, is how its told. It's absolutely beautiful, for one, the animation is outstanding. The voice acting is bang on. For an uneventful life, its pretty damn engaging and eventful. In paticular, the turmoil our little family goes through in the second world war, centred around a small London suburb, is told incredibly well and really is gripping. It's also not as not a fantasty perfect marriage, and neither character is forced into stereotypical roles, which gives them depth without overwrought exposition. Fantastic.

What else do you need? Well told, beautiful story, with fantastic voice acting and animation. Fabulous from start to finish.

BluenoseGames · Jan 1, 2017

1. What's your favorite Movie?
Armageddon
2. Who's your favorite director?
Denis Villeneuve
3. Who are your favorite actors/actresses?
Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Tom Hanks & Harrison Ford
4. Favorite Genre(s)?
Action,Adventure,Thriller
5. What's your favorite performance in film?
Alicia Vikander as Ava in Ex_Machina

In January, I plan on watching Assassin's Creed, La La Land, Hacksaw Ridge and Live By Night

ViewtifulJC · Jan 1, 2017

When Harry Met Sally - Annual New Year's Watch. Its just...perfect in every way. When the aliens showed up in Arrival, Amy Adams could have just showed them this movie and peace would be achieved on planet Earth.

TheFlow · Jan 1, 2017

My letterboxd-http://letterboxd.com/Carlislegendary/

Cronos 1993 ★★★

Interesting take on the origin of a vampire

The Devils Backbone 2001
★★★★
Del Toro has a gift for using children and the supernatural to reveal the sins of the world.

Top 5 watches

Akira
Summer Wars
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Moana
the devils backbone

Freewheelin' · Jan 1, 2017

Anomalisa

Beautiful animation and dialogue, it's just a shame they decided to stretch it out to a 90 min feature when they could have easily chopped off 30 mins or so. Still, Kaufman continues to dazzle us with his wonderfully weird and surreal screenplays and I'm glad that someone like him still has a voice in this ever-growing business.

3/5

Messofanego · Jan 1, 2017

ViewtifulJC said:
When Harry Met Sally - Annual New Year's Watch. Its just...perfect in every way. When the aliens showed up in Arrival, Amy Adams could have just showed them this movie and peace would be achieved on planet Earth.

A girl asked me what are my favourite "chick flicks" (sexist term!) and I listed When Harry Met Sally along with a couple of Woody Allen ones and 500 Days. She said "Meh, satisfactory at best" then goes on to list The Notebook, The Holiday, Bridget Jones' Diary, and Time Traveler's Wife. I've objectively got better taste! Shit, I gotta watch some Wong Kar Wai.

Ridley327 · Jan 1, 2017

Top new watches for December (no particular order):
Manchester by the Sea
13th
Kubo and the Two Strings
La La Land
Under the Shadow

Most valuable rewatch: Spirited Away

Biggest surprise: tie, The Good Neighbor and Star Trek Beyond

Film most likely to be used as a torture method by Cenobites: tie, 31 and Contract to Kill

But seriously, this is terrible, too: Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth

While it's not actually complete (adding short films not on Letterboxd is kind of a pain in the ass), here are what my end of year stats look like:

423 Diary entries
403 Reviews
2 Lists
217 Likes
7 Comments
635.3 Hours

Here's to another great year of film, whether it's finally getting the chance to see some stone-cold classics in a way they were meant to be seen, or looking forward to brand new feature films.

T Dollarz · Jan 1, 2017

Cheers to the New Year, Film GAF! We made it!

December was a dense month for me, as I made my way through Jarmusch's filmography, rewatched the OG Star Wars trilogy after the terrible news of Carrie Fischer's passing, with some new releases sprinkled in as well as others. Probably my strongest month of the year.

Top New Watches of December:
1. La La Land (Chazelle, 2016)
2. Manchester by the Sea (Lonergan, 2016)
3. Mystery Train (Jarmusch, 1989)
4. Night on Earth (Jarmusch, 1991)
5. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Timm & Radomski, 1993)
6. Down by Law (Jarmusch, 1986)
7. Stranger Than Paradise (Jarmusch, 1984)
8. Nocturnal Animals (Ford, 2016)
9. A Single Man (Ford, 2009)
10. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Edwards, 2016)
11. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Jarmusch, 1999)
12. Dead Man (Jarmusch, 1995)

Top Rewatches of December:
1. The Empire Strikes Back (Kershner, 1980)
2. Star Wars (Lucas, 1977)
3. Whiplash (Chazelle, 2014)
4. Creed (Coogler, 2015)
5. Return of the Jedi (Marquand, 1983)

Watched 110 films in 2016, that includes rewatches! However, about half of them were new 2016 releases, so I did a real good job of keeping up. Here's to a better 2017!

daydream · Jan 1, 2017

top watches of december:

1. import/export
2. la chambre bleue
3. the thing
4. entr'acte
5. guilty of romance

Cripplegate · Jan 1, 2017

Since I have nothing to offer for December, how about for 2016 overall? I've been part of a small movie forum nestled cozy in a forgotten corner of the internet for many years now, and we like to track our 10 favorite films of the year, as well as our 10 favorite first time viewings... so I do have that handy for posting.

The 10 best movies I watched in 2016 (new viewings):
1. Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991)
2. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
3. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016)
4. Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven, 2015)
5. Tampopo (Jûzô Itami, 1985)
6. Greetings (Brian De Palma, 1968)
7. Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960)
8. The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)
9. Mermaid (Stephen Chow, 2016)
10. Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu, 1949)

I didn't watch a lot of older movies last year, alas, so my list is nearly half new releases (technically exactly half if we count the Only Yesterday release). And the rest are all retrospective or restoration screenings. That makes all 10 of these theatrical viewings. I guess I know what I'm doing in 2017: Watching more older films, and spending more time going through my collection (I basically didn't watch anything in 2016 if I wasn't going out to the movies).

phoenixyz · Jan 1, 2017

My Top 5 of December:

1. Don't Think Twice
2. Snowden
3. The Magnificent Seven
4. Rogue One
5. The Handmaiden

Baroquemantic · Jan 1, 2017

Top New in December:

1. Sausage Party
1. The Jungle Book
3. Batman v. Superman (Extended)
4. Blackhat
5. Hitman: Agent 47
6. Morgan

Worst New in December:

1. The Forest

Rewatch

Interstellar

TheFlow · Jan 1, 2017

Baroquemantic said:
Top New in December:

1. Sausage Party
1. Jungle Book
3. Batman v. Superman
4. Blackhat
5. Hitman: Agent 47
6. Morgan

Worst New in December:

1. The Forest

Rewatch

Interstellar

I have no comments

Baroquemantic · Jan 1, 2017

TheFlow said:
I have no comments

BvS?

I just really, really liked it.

Sean C · Jan 1, 2017

30 films for December, but only three trips to the theatre (the Christmastime offerings at the theatres where I lived were not all that appealing).

Top 5 new watches of December:

1. The People v. O.J. Simpson (Ezra Edelman, 2016)
2. Meet John Doe (Frank Capra, 1941)
3. Cape Fear (J. Lee Thompson, 1962)
4. After the Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1936)
5. Sing Street (John Carney, 2016)

Top 5 rewatches of December:

1. It's A Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946)
2. Boyhood (Richard Linklater, 2014)
3. King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack,1933)
4. Old Yeller (Robert Stevenson, 1957)
5. The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse, 2016)

Those were, in fact, my only five rewatches of the month, though the first three are all five-star films.

lordxar · Jan 1, 2017

To wrap up 2016 I watched Airport '79: the Concorde which was quite honestly a very b movie despite the others. Its like they stopped caring and just threw whatever shit they could in. You've got jet fighters, pilots in a Mach 2 plane shooting flares out the window ffs, and all sorts of other daytime soap opera nonsense. It was entertaining but way too long. Like they make this flight, go through some shit and land only to spend another 45 minutes or whatever on another flight with a whole new set of perils. It was interesting but not that good.

Followed that up with Escape From the Bronx which is a really trashy Italian movie that I originally thought was a Troma film based on the outrageous cover. Turns out this is part two with 1990: the Bronx Warriors being part one which I need to visit. Now why Shudder has either of these is beyond me but it looked really bad and I was in the mood for trash. Surprisingly this is actually pretty entertaining in a so bad its good way.

With that I logged 21 entries in December and I think that was a very strong month for me.

Top five new watches:
Train to Busan
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Airport '77
A Man Called Blade

Honorable mentions to:
Man Bites Dog for being one of the darkest films I think I've ever watched and Waxwork because it was a lot of unexpected fun that I thought would be nothing but cheesy 80's garbage

So in the end I logged 432 films in 2016 including a lot of short films which amounted to 642.5 hours according to Letterboxd. Last year was a very strong year that I doubt I will even try to compete with this year in terms of amount watched but you never know. And...

Now for 2017. I watched the Towering Inferno for the first time since I was a kid. We used to watch these every year in school before holidays and looking back I find it ironic that we'd watch this or the Poseidon Adventure right before kids went off to spend time in a tall hotel or on a boat... Anyway this movie is incredible in terms of scale. From the amount of cast, the number of high caliber stars, the sets the runtime. This is just enormous and probably will never be rivalled. Titanic might be more expensive or whatever but this one really has that holy shit this is grand feel like no other. The movie just flows by though. It's long but doesn't feel overly long which I'm sure you can trim a bunch out yet doing that seems like it would make this less grand somehow. It's big and it needs to be. So for me a very good way to start this year out. Poseidon Adventure gets here in a couple days and I'm really looking forward to seeing that again because I feel these two are the number one and two of disaster flicks.

TheFlow · Jan 1, 2017

Baroquemantic said:
BvS?

I just really, really liked it.

Sausage party is the bigger problem. Had to stop the movie half way.

Infernostew · Jan 1, 2017

Top 5 Decmeber watches:

1. Manchester By The Sea
2. Night And Fog
3. La La Land
4. The Wailing
5. A Serious Man

thenexus6 · Jan 1, 2017

My December

Princess Diaries 2
Charlie Brown Christmas
Sully
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Batman v Superman Extended Cut
Rogue One
Live Die Repeat
The Terminal
Kids Return
Fine, Totally Fine
Alien

Bold are first time watches.

First of 2017 - Mouse Hunt

Wanted to start the year with something fun!

Baroquemantic · Jan 1, 2017

TheFlow said:
Sausage party is the bigger problem. Had to stop the movie half way.

Oh, I see. Well, to each his own. I thought Sausage Party was great.

TheFlow · Jan 1, 2017

Baroquemantic said:
Oh, I see. Well, to each his own. I thought Sausage Party was great.

I will drink to that. To each his own

UrbanRats · Jan 1, 2017

So when's the top ten movies of the year voting gonna be up? Or did i miss it?

ViewtifulJC · Jan 1, 2017

UrbanRats said:
So when's the top ten movies of the year voting gonna be up? Or did i miss it?

whenever CFK comes back in March

UrbanRats · Jan 1, 2017

ViewtifulJC said:
whenever CFK comes back in March

Might actually give me a chance to watch Moonlight before voting, not bad.

Divius · Jan 1, 2017

UrbanRats said:
So when's the top ten movies of the year voting gonna be up? Or did i miss it?

I PMed Kazaam, who took over from CFK last year to check is he wanted to do it again. CFK appears to be MIA.

Fancy Clown · Jan 1, 2017

Happy new year ladies and gents. May we all waste away our dwindling years on this planet watching more quality films.

Only saw 13 in December.
Top 5:
1. Manchester by the Sea
2. Casablanca
3. La La Land
4. The Lobster
5. Zatoichi and the Doomed Man

Best rewatch:
The Fellowship of the Ring

Ridley327 · Jan 1, 2017

The voting thread usually goes up right around the day of the Oscar nominations, so it's not late at the very least.

Fancy Clown · Jan 1, 2017

Hopefully I'll be able to watch Silence, Paterson, Elle, Embrace of the Serpent, and Under the Shadow before voting goes down.

TheFlow · Jan 1, 2017

Voting shouldn't even be done till Feb tbh.

Ridley327 · Jan 1, 2017

Fancy Clown said:
Hopefully I'll be able to watch Silence, Paterson, Elle, Embrace of the Serpent, and Under the Shadow before voting goes down.

Embrace of the Serpent is on Amazon Prime, while Under the Shadow drops on Netflix on Jan 7.

Timeaisis · Jan 1, 2017

December Top 5 New Viewings

1. The Invitation
2. La La Land
3. Rogue One
4. Moana
5. The Guest

Need to get around to Manchester at some point.

hiredhand · Jan 1, 2017

1. What's your favorite Movie?
2001: A Space Odyssey or Mulholland Drive or Drifting Clouds or The Long Goodbye or Werckmeister Harmonies or...
2. Who's your favorite director?
Robert Altman
3. Who are your favorite actors/actresses?
60's/70's Michael Caine
4. Favorite Genre(s)?
Hard scifi
5. What's your favorite performance in film?
Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye

Top 5 of December:
1. Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, 1962)
2. Wake in Fright (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
3. Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984)
4. Hacksaw Ridge (Mel Gibson, 2016)
5. The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu (Matti Kassila, 1962)

Bottom 5 of December:
1. The Creeping Terror (Vic Savage, 1964)
2. Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso, 1990)
3. Exorcist II: The Heretic (John Boorman, 1977)
4. Knucklebonehead (Oskari Pastila, 2013)
5. We Bought a Zoo (Cameron Crowe, 2011)

Special mentions to Rob Zombie's 31 and Brian De Palma's Passion for being much better than their IMDb score would indicate.

Lafiel · Jan 1, 2017

Top 5 of December?

#1 - Enter the Void (Gasper Noe)
#2 - I Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
#3 - The Past (Asghar Farhadi)
#4 - Carol (Todd Haynes)
#5 - Love (Gasper Noe)

First film I saw in 2017

Diary of a Teenage Girl - Enjoyed this, it's a solid exploration of teenage sexuality that never feels exploitative and I appreciate that it's directed and written by a actual woman! probably the best film I've seen of this ilk since A Real Young Girl

Androidsleeps · Jan 1, 2017

Watched a lot of great movies in December, not sure how to squeeze them into top 5 but here goes:

1. A short film about killing
2. Z
3. A short film about love
4. Le Samourai
5. Amarocrd

Honorable mentions:
The Piano Teacher
Le Ceremonie

Rewatch:
A Serious Man

Worst:
Voyage (2013)
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Creepy (2016)

Fancy Clown · Jan 1, 2017

Ridley327 said:
Embrace of the Serpent is on Amazon Prime, while Under the Shadow drops on Netflix on Jan 7.

Nice, I know what I'm doing this afternoon

big ander · Jan 1, 2017

Top of December

1) Manchester by the Sea
2) Atonement
3) Safe
4) I Am Love
5) In a Valley of Violence

HMs: Alicia Vikander in The Man from UNCLE, the Ride 'Em on Down video, rewatching The Boondock Saints with a group of people who somehow didn't see it at 15 like you're supposed to and discovering that while it's absolutely not a good movie its thorough idiocy makes it far more memorable camp than it has any right being, showing that same group John Carpenter's The Thing and listening to them break their terrified silence to argue about who was what at the end

Fried Food · Jan 1, 2017

Just saw Fences. Very good. Audience sucked, couple talking and I guess I'm the only one it bothered.

Man that horror movie by peele looks really good, 'Get Out' I think it's called.

pauljeremiah · Jan 1, 2017

Watched Silence today, really liked it. Still trying to fully digest my thoughts about it.

TheFlow · Jan 1, 2017

I might actually see Manchester tonight. It took a lot of convincing because I wanted to see rogue one XD

jett · Jan 1, 2017

The Accountant (2015)

Batffleck plays an autistic, psychopathic brand of Jason Bourne that makes a living out of cooking books for organized crime. This movie is actually more ridiculous than what I just typed. As an action thriller it was entertaining enough, but its twists and backstory are at odds with the entirely serious and matter-of-fact tone it presents. It goes really out there. The moments of Ben Affleck kicking ass are pretty good and the sound design is top notch. It was aight, I had my fun.

AngmarsKing701 · Jan 1, 2017

Top 5 new watches in December:
1. Moana
2. Arrival
3. Rogue One
4. Kubo and the Two Strings
5. Passengers

Rhomega Beta · Jan 1, 2017

Top 5 of December

1. Song of the Sea
2. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
3. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
4. The Secret Life of Pets
5. The Lobster

Top 5 new watches of 2016:

1. The Shawshank Redemption
2. Moana
3. Zootopia
4. The Haunting
5. The Secret of Kells

Full list of first watches in 2016

Messofanego · Jan 1, 2017

TheFlow said:
I might actually see Manchester tonight. It took a lot of convincing because I wanted to see rogue one XD

It took convincing to see a movie with Casey Affleck being sad and the realities of dealing with grief in small towns versus some uninteresting characters in uninteresting scenarios trying to find some superpower plan while they start getting picked off but nobody cares?

Ridley327 said:
Embrace of the Serpent is on Amazon Prime, while Under the Shadow drops on Netflix on Jan 7.

Please, more people should watch Under The Shadow.

TheFlow · Jan 1, 2017

Messofanego said:
It took convincing to see a movie with Casey Affleck being sad and the realities of dealing with grief in small towns versus some uninteresting characters in uninteresting scenarios trying to find some superpower plan while they start getting picked off but nobody cares?

Please, more people should watch Under The Shadow.

lol you made Manchester sound more boring than it looked. Might dip into la la land

Fancy Clown · Jan 1, 2017

La La Land is good too...but fucking hell, just go see Manchester dude.

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