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The Best

Get Out
Maudie
The Florida Project
Lady Bird
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Blade Runner 2049


Very Good

Their Finest
Battle of the Sexes
Wind River
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
I, Tonya
The Disaster Artist
The Big Sick
The Shape of Water
Home of the Brave
Dunkirk
Baby Driver


If one of your favorites is not listed, I may not have seen it.
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My additions...

Best
American Made

Better
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol2

Would take Dunkirk off this list. I like most Christopher Nolan and war films... some high points, but overall felt this was a snoozefest. Perhaps it's because I saw this on DVD on my laptop and didn't get the IMAX experience.
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Molly's Game
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John Wick 2
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StormShadow wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:23 pm My additions...

Best
American Made

Better
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol2

Would take Dunkirk off this list. I like most Christopher Nolan and war films... some high points, but overall felt this was a snoozefest. Perhaps it's because I saw this on DVD on my laptop and didn't get the IMAX experience.
Yes, American Made was very good. I forgot that one.
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Molly's game.
Wonder.

I liked Darkest hour for the acting and visual portrayal of Churchill.
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I enjoyed Victoria and Abdul as well.
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travellight wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:41 pm Molly's game.
Wonder.

If you liked Molly's Game, you'd probably get a big kick out of binge-watching Sorkin's stuff.

The West Wing (on Netflix)

The Newsroom (HBO)

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Logan Lucky
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flossy21 wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:58 pmLogan Lucky
Loved that one. There were 15-20 minutes towards the end where I think it lost a bit of momentum, but very, very well done
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It's animated so targeted to kids, but Coco is spectacular, even for adults.
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I thought Love Sick was a great movie. And the new Star Wars.
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Steelersfan wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 8:12 pm It's animated so targeted to kids, but Coco is spectacular, even for adults.
I truly enjoyed Coco more than any of the other very good movies i saw.
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Justice League
Logan (not the same as Logan Lucky)
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Wonder Woman
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We are so out of touch :( .

The only movie mentioned which we have seen is Dunkirk. I do think it is a good movie.
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htdrag11 wrote: Sat Jan 13, 2018 4:25 pm Justice League
Logan (not the same as Logan Lucky)
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Wonder Woman

I really loved Wonder Woman.
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Outstanding:.....highly recommended. :D

The Mountain Between US.

Stranded on a mountain after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must work together to endure the extreme elements of the remote, snow-covered terrain. Realizing that help is not on the way, they embark on a perilous journey across hundreds of miles of wilderness, pushing each other to survive and discovering their inner strength.

Not so outstanding:

All the Money in the World....unless you've got nothing to do.......not recommended.....unless you need to take a nap :|

ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son’s captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son’s life in the balance, Gail and Getty’s advisor (Mark Wahlberg) become unlikely allies in the race against time that ultimately reveals the true and lasting value of love over money.
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The Post was well done and we enjoyed it
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I know some did not like it but

The Last Jedi
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A few I enjoyed but not mentioned:

Thor: Ragnarock
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Aliens: Covenant
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For those of us who saw the original Blade Runner when it came out, this year's version was a disappointment. By the way, I was talking with a good friend who's an expat in China (born there, came to US for grad school then became an American citizen), back home to visit HQ. He was surprised that BR 2049 was shown in China because he saw it as depicting a society like what China has today rather than America today or in the future.
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My personal favorites, in roughly descending order:

Blade Runner 2049
Logan
John Wick: Chapter 2
Lady Bird
Phantom Thread
Spider-Man: Homecoming
The Lost City of Z
The Disaster Artist
Molly's Game
Baby Driver
It
Wonder Woman

I saw some that I would call "better", but not a "favorite", e.g. Get Out. I still have many 2017 movies on my list to watch.
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If you have not seen Logan (again, not the same as Logan Lucky, which is also good), do yourself a favor and check that out (some tolerance for violence needed). A lot of people think it was snubbed on Best Picture and two acting nominations. In addition to that, I'd agree with you on Florida Project, Shape of Water, Get Out, and Dunkirk. If you want a truly fun movie, Thor: Ragnarok was fantastic.
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jginseattle wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 6:38 pm The Best

Get Out
Maudie
The Florida Project
Lady Bird
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Blade Runner 2049


Very Good

Their Finest
Battle of the Sexes
Wind River
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
I, Tonya
The Disaster Artist
The Big Sick
The Shape of Water
Home of the Brave
Dunkirk
Baby Driver


If one of your favorites is not listed, I may not have seen it.
Haven't seen any of those.

My list of recommendations would include:

Beauty and the Beast
Despicable Me 3
Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Spider-Man: Homecoming
The Boss Baby
The Lego Batman Movie

Others I haven't seen yet, but would like to:

Cars 3
Logan
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
The Fate of the Furious
Thor: Ragnarok
Transformers: The Last Knight
Wonder Woman
xXx: Return of Xander Cage

Can anybody chime in on if those are as good as one would hope?
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My Top 10 for 2017:
1) Three Billboards
2) LadyBird
3) The Florida Project
4) Call Me By Your Name
5) Dunkirk
6) The Shape of Water
7) Get Out
8) The Post
9) The Big Sick
10) Darkest Hour

Also worth seeing:

Coco
Beauty and the Beast
Baby Driver
Detroit
Star Wars
Phantom Thread
120 Beats Per Minute
Molly's Game
Logan Lucky
The Meyerowitz Stories
Graduation
Stronger
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Phantom Thread is certainly one of the best movies of 2017. I saw it after I had compiled my list.
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Chicago60 wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 5:47 pm My Top 10 for 2017:
1) Three Billboards
2) LadyBird
3) The Florida Project
4) Call Me By Your Name
5) Dunkirk
6) The Shape of Water
7) Get Out
8) The Post
9) The Big Sick
10) Darkest Hour
That's a pretty solid list - I have only seen half of the above so far, but looking forward to seeing the other 5 that I haven't yet.
Of the 5 I have seen, I would have to say "Call me by your name" and "The big sick" were my favorite.

Edit:

"Three billboards" had some good acting, but I don't think it was such a great story.
I was disappointed with Dunkirk.
"Get out" was good .

I also want to see "120 beats per minute". I don't think it played at any local theater, and it seems not to be available on disc either. Amazon has it on streaming, but as a French HIV+ person, I want to own a copy of this movie, not stream it.

Looks like Amazon.fr has it, but no english subtitles for my husband. And at checkout, the exchange rate is 1 EUR = 1.294299114 USD which is a ripoff. That's 3.5% over the actual exchange rate, and no self-respecting bogleheads can do that. I generally buy movies on disc when they are the cost of 2 discount movie tickets (ie. about $18), but this is coming to $25 with shipping and currency exchange. Time for camelcamelcamel .
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Chicago60 wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 5:47 pm My Top 10 for 2017:
1) Three Billboards
2) LadyBird
3) The Florida Project
4) Call Me By Your Name
5) Dunkirk
6) The Shape of Water
7) Get Out
8) The Post
9) The Big Sick
10) Darkest Hour

Also worth seeing:

Coco
Beauty and the Beast
Baby Driver
Detroit
Star Wars
Phantom Thread
120 Beats Per Minute
Molly's Game
Logan Lucky
The Meyerowitz Stories
Graduation
Stronger
We saw Dunkirk, a very good movie, but that's it so far.
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None of the following movies would make my top ten but they were all worth seeing.

Marshall (perhaps this would make my top ten list.)
LBJ
Mark Felt (timely)
My Cousin Rachel
13 Minutes
Viceroy's House
A Quiet Passion

Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

The following movie made few top ten lists but would definitely make my top ten list at or near the top.
Detroit (very intense and it really happened)

I saw the following foreign movie at the Telluride film festival, while I don't believe it's been released in the US yet, it is definitely worth seeing.
Hostages
The movie describes real events that took place in 1983, when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite families, attempted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking an airliner to Turkey. At that time it was illegal for Georgians to leave the Soviet Union. It was planned to be a bloodless hijacking, it didn't turnout that way. In 1983 everyone in Georgia was in a sense a hostage, but in another sense so were all the people on the plane.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hostages_2017

Earlier on the day we saw "Hostages" a handsome young man was hustling people, including us, to see a particular movie I had never heard of. He spoke at the intro to "Hostages". He's a Georgian and was the star of the movie. He spoke nearly perfect English. You have to hustle to make it in movieland. 8-)

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bobcat2 wrote: Sat Feb 03, 2018 8:37 am None of the following movies would make my top ten but they were all worth seeing.

Marshall (perhaps this would make my top ten list.)

BobK
Thanks for the reminder about Marshall. We saw that one too and I liked it a lot, though still does not make my top 10.
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jginseattle wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:40 pm
StormShadow wrote: Fri Jan 12, 2018 7:23 pm My additions...

Best
American Made

Better
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol2

Would take Dunkirk off this list. I like most Christopher Nolan and war films... some high points, but overall felt this was a snoozefest. Perhaps it's because I saw this on DVD on my laptop and didn't get the IMAX experience.
Yes, American Made was very good. I forgot that one.
IMO, American Made was decently OK, but definitely disappointing. Fascinating story and Tom Cruise usually plays these type of roles really well, but my wife and I just didn't get it. The entire feeling of the movie was just "odd," for lack of a better term.
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TSR wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:15 pm If you have not seen Logan (again, not the same as Logan Lucky, which is also good), do yourself a favor and check that out (some tolerance for violence needed). A lot of people think it was snubbed on Best Picture and two acting nominations. In addition to that, I'd agree with you on Florida Project, Shape of Water, Get Out, and Dunkirk. If you want a truly fun movie, Thor: Ragnarok was fantastic.
Logan was without a doubt my personal favorite of the year, and I am generally not that into the comic book movies. Thor was entertaining, but I had a few friends tell me it was their favorite movie of the last few years so I was a bit underwhelmed.
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madbrain wrote: Sat Feb 03, 2018 5:42 am
I also want to see "120 beats per minute". I don't think it played at any local theater, and it seems not to be available on disc either. Amazon has it on streaming, but as a French HIV+ person, I want to own a copy of this movie, not stream it.

Looks like Amazon.fr has it, but no english subtitles for my husband. And at checkout, the exchange rate is 1 EUR = 1.294299114 USD which is a ripoff. That's 3.5% over the actual exchange rate, and no self-respecting bogleheads can do that.
As you, of course, know 120 BPM is a French movie that tells the story, almost in documentary form, about the beginnings of the Act Up movement in Paris. It is extraordinarily emotional and compelling. If you want to own a copy, and given your background, I would think it is completely Boglehead of you to go out and buy it, without regard to the cost. Not everything in life requires a Boglehead analysis. Please, go but it and watch it.
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I would not recommend Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. I liked the first one but the second would actually be on my worst of the year.
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I admit to only seeing a handful of movies last year, but Get Out was awesome. I had no expectations going in and I can't remember being that into a movie in a long time.
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Chicago60 wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 5:47 pm
10) Darkest Hour
A film that played fast and loose with history in quite a few ways. Once you realize that, it felt a bit manipulative:

- Churchill was not a great Parliamentary speaker, and his speech did not bring the House down
- Churchill did not walk up the District Line polling the views of the ordinary Tube passenger - I doubt Churchill had ever taken the Tube
- Chamberlain in particular, but also Halifax, were not devious plotters-- there was genuine disagreement as to the best course of action to take. I think the evidence is clear that Churchill was also genuinely interested in what an approach to the Germans via the Italians might produce
- the role of the Labour Party politicians, Atlee and Greenwood, the other 2 of the 5 members of the War Cabinet, is unjustly slighted. It was the Labour Party which was forsesquare against Appeasment, and the Tory Party (and its media allies) which flirted with it- Churchill stayed in power in large part because Atlee and Greenwood stood behind him

Churchill's overwhelming motivation was to preserve the Empire and the Royal Navy and Britain's command of the seas. That's what he fought to do. Hence his obsession with the "soft underbelly" of the Mediterranean (supply line to India and the oilfields of the Middle East via the Suez Canal).

(It probably is pretty accurate that Churchill's French was awful and the French thought Churchill "delusional" ;-)).

In light of the current political situation and Brexit, it was probably too sensitive for the filmmakers to mention in the film Churchill's abortive plan for a full political merger between France and Great Britain ;-).

The portrayal of Churchill's cantankerousness, and certainly his drinking and spending, was pretty accurate ;-).
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stoptothink wrote: Sat Feb 03, 2018 8:50 am
TSR wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 2:15 pm If you have not seen Logan (again, not the same as Logan Lucky, which is also good), do yourself a favor and check that out (some tolerance for violence needed). A lot of people think it was snubbed on Best Picture and two acting nominations. In addition to that, I'd agree with you on Florida Project, Shape of Water, Get Out, and Dunkirk. If you want a truly fun movie, Thor: Ragnarok was fantastic.
Logan was without a doubt my personal favorite of the year, and I am generally not that into the comic book movies. Thor was entertaining, but I had a few friends tell me it was their favorite movie of the last few years so I was a bit underwhelmed.
In the comics, characters like Hera and Ultron keep reappearing. They are so intrinsically interesting baddies that they are used again and again. Hera in particular felt underused - Cate Blanchett is a fantastic actress, and the revelation (to Thor and Loki) of a previously hidden history of Odin and Asgard felt very ... topical. Hera is both evil but also at times an ally-- and her critique (that we whitewash the evil we do in the cause of great things) feels very ... real life.

In the movies the baddies have to get bumped off - except in Infinity War so far.

Geoff Goldblum was his wonderful camp & creepy self (see Deep Cover with Laurence Fishburn and G. Goldblum).

Not sure whether Black Panther came out in 2017 or 2018, but it was a pretty amazing film.
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Valuethinker wrote: Fri Jul 20, 2018 7:54 am
Chicago60 wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 5:47 pm
10) Darkest Hour
A film that played fast and loose with history in quite a few ways. Once you realize that, it felt a bit manipulative:

- Churchill was not a great Parliamentary speaker, and his speech did not bring the House down
- Churchill did not walk up the District Line polling the views of the ordinary Tube passenger - I doubt Churchill had ever taken the Tube
- Chamberlain in particular, but also Halifax, were not devious plotters-- there was genuine disagreement as to the best course of action to take. I think the evidence is clear that Churchill was also genuinely interested in what an approach to the Germans via the Italians might produce
- the role of the Labour Party politicians, Atlee and Greenwood, the other 2 of the 5 members of the War Cabinet, is unjustly slighted. It was the Labour Party which was forsesquare against Appeasment, and the Tory Party (and its media allies) which flirted with it- Churchill stayed in power in large part because Atlee and Greenwood stood behind him

Churchill's overwhelming motivation was to preserve the Empire and the Royal Navy and Britain's command of the seas. That's what he fought to do. Hence his obsession with the "soft underbelly" of the Mediterranean (supply line to India and the oilfields of the Middle East via the Suez Canal).

(It probably is pretty accurate that Churchill's French was awful and the French thought Churchill "delusional" ;-)).

In light of the current political situation and Brexit, it was probably too sensitive for the filmmakers to mention in the film Churchill's abortive plan for a full political merger between France and Great Britain ;-).

The portrayal of Churchill's cantankerousness, and certainly his drinking and spending, was pretty accurate ;-).
Thank you for the well informed history lesson, but....what film isn't a "bit manipulative" and isn't presented in a way to meet the director's point of view for dramatic purposes? After all, it was not a documentary, and even documentaries are manipulative.
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Chicago60 wrote: Fri Feb 02, 2018 5:47 pm My Top 10 for 2017:
1) Three Billboards
2) LadyBird
3) The Florida Project
4) Call Me By Your Name
5) Dunkirk
6) The Shape of Water
7) Get Out
8) The Post
9) The Big Sick
10) Darkest Hour

Also worth seeing:

Coco
Beauty and the Beast
Baby Driver
Detroit
Star Wars
Phantom Thread
120 Beats Per Minute
Molly's Game
Logan Lucky
The Meyerowitz Stories
Graduation
Stronger
Lots i didn't see. I did like (no particular order):

Three Billboards
Ladybird
I Tonya
Dunkirk
The Post
Darkest Hour
The Big Sick

I'm pretty burnt out on the superhero movies, but liked Wonder Woman alot. I liked Thor:Ragnarok, mostly because of the humor, and I thought Thor and Loki especially were written like the original myths. Saw Logan on TV, and thought it was pretty good.

Didn't think much of the Star Wars movie. While I really liked the first Bladerunner movie, 2049 put me to sleep.
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I guess either I lack taste or have become a bit jaded.

Get Out - it was OK, but I'm not sure what the hype was about.
Dunkirk - visually very good and gave you a feel of the chaos of war, but ultimately as something that captured and held you it dragged.
Florida project - Sat through about an hour on Amazon and turned it off. It felt like an uninteresting documentary.
Blade Runner 2049 - I wish I saw this on big screen. It was visually stunning and definitely created a bleak and dark futuristic mood. But ultimately the plot was just OK and it dragged at times.
Three billboards - started strong but just became strange after about 45 minutes.
The last Jedi - not as awful as the force awakens
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