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NeoGAF Movies of the Year 2014 Results
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Serpentine
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AgreedSwap Guardians of the Galaxy with The Raid 2 and it's a perfect top 10.
Thanks for making this thread and counting all the votes, CFK! As I've done the last two years, I wanted to take the opportunity to update my little measure of GAF's favorite directors (last year's results here), using the Top 10 results of the MOTY poll from each year since it began in 2007. A first place finish is worth 10 points, second place is worth 9, etc.
For the first time, all of the top 10 directors had over 10 points, meaning they've had at least two films finish in the top 10 of this poll.
And the top film of each year from the past seven years:
For the first time, all of the top 10 directors had over 10 points, meaning they've had at least two films finish in the top 10 of this poll.
- David Fincher 32 (Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl)
- Christopher Nolan 31 (The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar)
- Quentin Tarantino 20 (Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained)
- Wes Anderson 19 (Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel)
- Coen Brothers 19 (No Country For Old Men, True Grit, Inside Llewyn Davis)
- Edgar Wright 16 (Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim, The World's End)
- Darren Aronofsky 15 (The Wrestler, Black Swan)
- Paul Thomas Anderson 13 (There Will Be Blood, The Master)
- Martin Scorcese 13 (Hugo, The Wolf of Wall Street)
- Richard Linklater 12 (Before Midnight, Boyhood)
And the top film of each year from the past seven years:
Infernostew
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I'm down with that top 10.
TheExhaustedWalrus
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Not a bad top 10 at all. Happy with the results.
Incendiary
Banned
Great top 10. Still need to see Whiplash and Nightcrawler, really want to see both. Surprised Raid 2 wasn't higher, though.
SliceSabre
Banned
The Grand Budapest Hotel huh?
I can get behind that. Rented it on a whim and loved it. Turned out to be a lot funnier and better than I was expecting.
I can get behind that. Rented it on a whim and loved it. Turned out to be a lot funnier and better than I was expecting.
TJ Verboten
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I'm really shocked at the love Frank is getting, it's a slightly above average film festival movie.
I thought it was a good/very good movie about a quirky band........then those last 2 scenes hit and wow, the emotion + music is something else -
Fassbender at his parents home without his mask
the incredible I love you wall/alllllll
I loved the final 2 scenes so much that I went back and watched the movie a 2nd time a day later. Liked the movie even more.
Fassbender kills it imo.......it's an interesting examination of a quirky band and
mental illness
I also had the closing song on repeat for a week straight when I saw it.
Frank and the Guest have my two favorite endings of the year
Rug Monkey
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i'm a big enthusiast of concrete, always been fascinated by it.
They actually got the concrete wrong in the movie ...
1. They mention the "large" delivery of 355 metric tonnes of concrete with 218 trucks. Apart from the fact that wet concrete is usually referred to in volume, not weight, the calculation of trucks needed for this weight is wrong. The mixing trucks on average hold 18 tons of concrete each, meaning that they only need 20 trucks.
2. Locke talks about 350 metric tonnes of concrete as being the largest concrete pour in Europe ever (apart from nuclear and military facilities). Concrete is calculated by volume. 350 tonnes is about 160 cubic metres - basically about enough to fill a room that is 9 metres long x 9 metres wide x 2 metres deep. The price of this concrete would be somewhere in the region of £10,000 at 2014 prices. Many projects exist where over 3,000 cubic metres has been poured in a day (about 6,600 tonnes), so 350 tonnes isn't something a decent sized company would get too excited about, and you could probably complete it in 3-4 hours with just one concrete pump.
Discotheque
Banned
lol holy shit man you know your concrete. i was just joking with that response but with something so well thought out you deserve my real reason why i enjoyed the film. i found it akin to small scale stuff like 12 angry men and carnage. i just enjoyed how i got so much drama out of the film when all it gave me was some conversations, in this case on the phone nonetheless. it just managed to grab me immediately. i imagine if you didn't really buy into it or care much then the film would seem like a boring slog for sure.
I thought it was a good/very good movie about a quirky band........then those last 2 scenes hit and wow, the emotion + music is something else -
followed byFassbender at his parents home without his mask
the incredible I love you wall/alllllll
I loved the final 2 scenes so much that I went back and watched the movie a 2nd time a day later. Liked the movie even more.
Fassbender kills it imo.......it's an interesting examination of a quirky band andmental illness
I also had the closing song on repeat for a week straight when I saw it.
Frank and the Guest have my two favorite endings of the year
My biggest problem with the movie is that it tries to be grounded and real outside of the band members. Every member of the band could barely fuction in a mental hospital, let alone in band for more then 2-3 months. At first Jon seems to be a normal person before he joins the band but almost immediately after he joins starts losing his mind.
I have only seen the first Hunger Games and it were pretty fantastic if not simple. So it's all going downhill from there?
Guardians of the Galaxy were number 1 on mine. One of the most enjoyable movies since Quantum of Solace. Those two movies pops up instantly in my head.
I like Quantum of Solace too but it's not safe to talk like that - they'll hurt you.
Shows how memorable it is. #1 of the year in the US BO.
I suppose that could be said for Hunger Games (although I haven't seen the most recent one). It's still surprising, nonetheless.
But what about Spider-Man? People complain about that movie here on almost a daily basis. And if not that, it's constantly discussed when comparing it to the other Spider-Man films (which happens a lot). So with that said, I find it even MORE surprising that it didn't pick up a single vote.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
the rover (best movie of the year IMO) not even top 50
nebraska 8 points.. wut
Nebraska did well in last year's list. Her and 12 Years a Slave are also in the list and they were in last year's top 10.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Sorry to ask here of all places. But I have been looking in off topic and community and tried searching through Google on the phone. Where is the Oscars 2015 OT?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=997040
Permanently A
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What is the humor in Grand Budapest Hotel like?
For fun, here's a compiled list of 2014's top 50 movies according to the number of appearances on critics' top ten lists.
1. Boyhood
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Birdman
4. Whiplash
5. Under the Skin
6. Nightcrawler
7. Gone Girl
8. Guardians of the Galaxy
9. Ida
10. Selma
For fun, here's a compiled list of 2014's top 50 movies according to the number of appearances on critics' top ten lists.
no Lego Movie, list invalidated
What is the humor in Grand Budapest Hotel like?
absurdist, a bit artsy perhaps. Wes Anderson has a very distinctive style of film making
Dénouement
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Woooo didn't expect Gone Girl to be so high. And Grand Budapest was my next favourite movie so I'm happy it was #1 if it wasn't GG.
A Human Becoming
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Gone Girl and Nightcrawler were recognized more here than at the Oscars.
no Lego Movie, list invalidated
It's at #12 (the top 50 movies are there).
This isn't a list someone created subjectively based on their feelings about those films. It's the year's movies ranked by the number of appearances on end-of-year critics' lists. Closest thing to an overall picture of what movies critics liked most or thought to be best.
well, I did read your post before I commentedIt's at #12 (the top 50 movies are there).
This isn't a list someone created subjectively based on their feelings about those films. It's the year's movies ranked by the number of appearances on end-of-year critics' lists. Closest thing to an overall picture of what movies critics liked most or thought to be best.
I just thought it was interesting that The Lego Movie is missing from the top 10 of that list, I'm not actually taking it serious
btw GBH and Birdman were my #1 and #2 this year, so far once I actually sorta agree with the Academy
TJ Verboten
Member
My biggest problem with the movie is that it tries to be grounded and real outside of the band members. Every member of the band could barely fuction in a mental hospital, let alone in band for more then 2-3 months. At first Jon seems to be a normal person before he joins the band but almost immediately after he joins starts losing his mind.
I thought the band members were awkward, shy, obsessed with not being mainstream in anyway, and just outright weird.
But I don't think any of them needed a mental hospital except for Fassbender.
Scoot McNairy was depressed, he needed some help, but he wasn't crazy.
Jon gets ingratiated into the weirdness of the band itself.....I bought it.....he desperately wants to fit in + prove himself. No matter how silly things get, he's committed. Plus they skip ahead several months when they're recording the album, so his descent is credible.
Bobby Roberts
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Edge of Tomorrow made the top 10. Nice.
Babadook didn't even crack the top 20. Not so nice.
Babadook didn't even crack the top 20. Not so nice.
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