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What Were Your Favorite 2015 Movies?

Linnea

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In my ongoing quest to get to know the people here a little better as a newb, thought I'd inquire what everyone's favorite movies from last year were? (I'm picking last year because it seems a little early yet to ask about this year...and also given that, let's face it, 2016 just isn't the best year for movies.)

Here are my top picks:

1) Mad Max: Fury Road
2) Carol
3) Inside Out
4) Chi-Raq
5) The Martian

(Please nobody say Jurassic World. Pretty please! :2razz:)
 
Linnea said:
In my ongoing quest to get to know the people here a little better as a newb, thought I'd inquire what everyone's favorite movies from last year were? (I'm picking last year because it seems a little early yet to ask about this year...and also given that, let's face it, 2016 just isn't the best year for movies.)

Here are my top picks:

1) Mad Max: Fury Road
2) Carol
3) Inside Out
4) Chi-Raq
5) The Martian

(Please nobody say Jurassic World. Pretty please! :2razz:)
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Mad Max
Star Wars
The Martian
Jurassic World was good in 3d even though not a good movie

2016 hasnt been that bad so far, better than 2015 IMO
 
The Martian
The Revenant
Avengers: Age of Ultron
The Hateful Eight
Spotlight

Mad Max was awesome but had no plot at all, just one long greatly-done action scene.
 
gdgyva said:
The Martian
The Intern
Star Wars
Selma
Sicario
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While Selma would be an excellent choice, I have to point out that it's actually a 2014 movie.

Apocalypse wrote:
Mad Max was awesome but had no plot at all, just one long greatly-done action scene.
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What made Mad Max: Fury Road particularly enjoyable for me were its themes of women's liberation and solidarity, which are extremely unusual for this genre (Westerns). It worked very, very well! Concerning the story in which these themes were centered, I think one can tell that the writing was of only limited quality, to which end keeping it minimal was probably the right choice, methinks.

Those of us who are feminists know good and well that the kind of cartoonish misogyny that Immortan Joe represents is not only a far more real a phenomenon than many would believe or think to acknowledge, but also very much on the rise both here and globally. Think: ISIS, Return of Kings, GamerGate, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, masculinist alt-right politics, etc., ...and this movie serves as a sometimes much-needed release for me in that connection, wherein such elements actually get what they deserve.

Conversely, what made Jurassic World particularly detestable to me was that, to a very large degree, it revolved around the exact opposite message: one of pretty extreme sexism. In Jurassic World, career women are monsters guilty of child neglect and becoming a wife and a mother is supposed to be a woman's only aspiration in life.
 
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Linnea said:
While Selma would be an excellent choice, I have to point out that it's actually a 2014 movie.



What made Mad Max: Fury Road particularly enjoyable for me were its themes of women's liberation and solidarity, which are extremely unusual for this genre (Westerns). It worked very, very well! Concerning the story in which these themes were centered, I think one can tell that the writing was of only limited quality, to which end keeping it minimal was probably the right choice, methinks.

Those of us who are feminists know good and well that the kind of cartoonish misogyny that Immortan Joe represents is not only a far more real a phenomenon than many would believe or think to acknowledge, but also very much on the rise both here and globally. Think: ISIS, Return of Kings, GamerGate, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, masculinist alt-right politics, etc., ...and this movie serves as a sometimes much-needed release for me in that connection, wherein such elements actually get what they deserve.

Conversely, what made Jurassic World particularly detestable to me was that, to a very large degree, it revolved around the exact opposite message: one of pretty extreme sexism. In Jurassic World, career women are monsters guilty of child neglect and becoming a wife and a mother is supposed to be a woman's only aspiration in life.
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rotten tomatoes has Selma as a Jan 2015 release

SELMA is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernays SELMA tells the real story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.(C) Paramount
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Rating:pG-13 (for disturbing thematic material including violence, a suggestive moment, and brief strong language)Genre: Drama Directed By:Ava DuVernay Written By:paul Webb In Theaters:Jan 9, 2015 wide On DVD:May 5, 2015 Runtime: 127 minutes Studio:paramount Pictures

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/selma/

so may have been completed in 2014, but i consider it a 2015 movie

is it on 2014 or 2015 list of top grossing movies?
 
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