Monday, July 4, 2016

2016: We're Halfway Through

We are halfway through 2016, and I have watched 45 film so far. My goal was 50, but there you go.

Here's how I'm feeling:

Hate It
Maybe boring, maybe poorly-made, but in any case, frustrated and angered me.

10 Cloverfield Lane (dir. Dan Trachtenberg)
Mother's Day (dir. Garry Marshall)
Mountains May Depart (dir. Jia Zhangke)
SORI: Voice from the Heart (dir. Lee Ho-Jae)


Not Very Good
Generally incompetent, yet does not inspire passion either way.

The Angry Birds Movie (dir. Clay Kaytis/Fergal Reilly)
Dirty Grandpa (dir. Dan Mazer)
Eddie the Eagle (dir. Dexter Fletcher)
Race (dir. Stephen Hopkins)


Guilty Pleasures 
I had a good time, but I don't know who else would (other than my roommate).

The Boy (dir. William Brent Bell)
London Has Fallen (dir. Babak Najafi)


Like It 
I enjoyed myself while watching, perhaps I'll watch again when it hits television.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (dir. Zack Snyder)
The Boss (dir. Ben Falcone)
Cemetery of Splendour (dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Deadpool (dir. Tim Miller)
The Infiltrator (dir. Brad Furman)
Kung Fu Panda 3 (dir. Alessandro Carloni/Jennifer Yuh)
Love & Friendship (dir. Whit Stillman)
Me Before You (dir. Thea Sharrock)
Money Monster (dir. Jodie Foster)
Spirits' Homecoming (dir. Cho Jung-Rae)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (dir. Glenn Ficarra/John Requa)
X-Men: Apocalypse (dir. Bryan Singer)


Love It 
The movies I would re-watch, maybe even buy, and which I return to in my thoughts more than once.

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (dir. Michael Bay)
Everybody Wants Some!! (dir. Richard Linklater)
Eye in the Sky (dir. Gavin Hood)
Finding Dory (dir. Andrew Stanton)
The Jungle Book (dir. Jon Favreau)
Like for Likes (dir. Park Hyun-Jin)
A Melody to Remember (dir. Lee Han)
The Mermaid (dir. Stephen Chow)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (dir. Kirk Jones)
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (dir. Nicholas Stoller)
The Nice Guys (dir. Shane Black)


Gotta Have It 
Drop what you're doing right now and watch this.

Dongju: Portrait of a Poet (dir. Lee Joon-Ik)
The Final Master (dir. Xu Haofeng)
Green Room (dir. Jeremy Saulnier)
Hail, Caesar! (dir. The Coen Brothers)
How To Be Single (dir. Christian Ditter)
The Lobster (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)
The Neon Demon (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn)
Seoul Searching (dir. Benson Lee)
The Wailing (dir. Na Hong-Jin)
The Witch (dir. Robert Eggers)
Zootopia (dir. Byron Howard/Rich Moore)


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