Alex24th December 2014

The year in film

We’ve seen an enormous number of films this year, including (the links are my reviews):

Paddington;
The Boxtrolls;
Planes 2;
The Desolation of Smaug;
How to Train your Dragon 2;
The Grand Bucharest Hotel;
American Hustle;
Lucy;
Guardians of the Galaxy;
Captain America the Winter Soldier;
X-Men Days of Future Past;
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Frank;
Mr Turner
The Edge of Tomorrow;
The Wolf of Wall Street;
The LEGO Movie

As well as loads of stuff on Blu Ray and Netflix of course and some classics I’ve been interested in watching.

The best film we saw this year was without a shadow of a doubt LEGO Movie. It works brilliantly as a kids film but rather well as a film for grown ups too. I liked Paddington as well but grown up film wise, it was probably either The Grand Burcharest Hotel of The Edge of Tomorrow. If Edge of Tomorrow had been a straight sci fi film rather than a sci fi film with a twist, that would have won out. It comes to something when straight sci fi is in a significant minority compared to high concept stuff.

There were plenty of super hero movies this year; two Marvel Studios films and another two with Marvel characters that were made by Sony. The best was probably Captain America 2, the worst The Amazing Spider-Man 2. That it wasn’t the worst Spider-Man film is a testament to just how bad Toby Maguire’s third outing in spandex actually was.

Oh well.

At least the Oscars chucked up a surprisingly large number of eminently watchable films; I found it hard to pick between the Wolf of Wall St and American Hustle as my favourite but what’s for sure, retro is very cool!

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