It is a great year for movies and awesomness. It is a fun filled year for sequels, spin-offs and original stories alike and the movie industry has never been so booming. From January up to July, I’ve watched and rated some of the best, so-so and bad movies, although technically I haven’t watched all of the films in the past six months (and still continues to watch).
By far, Captain America: The Winter Soldier is my top pic for this year because of the reason that it’s not just pure action, stunning visual effects and acting but also it comprises of an in-depth story that focuses on trust and betrayal in an entirely whole new level, although Marvel did a really, really great job on Guardians of the Galaxy but what lacked was the deep story that CapAm has.
Divergent was a great shocker for me, I never liked watching it on the big screen because as a dystopian themed novel turned movie: The Hunger Games is still my favorite and repetitive theme films don’t really entice me. But then again, I was amazed by the good story it has. The film tied up with X-Men:DoFP because it has the element of a good storytelling, except for a fact that Divergent was less in directing and acting, while DoFP was less in impact.
Snowpiercer starring Chris Evans was undeniably great. With its uniqueness that reinvented a whole new kind of storytelling and bizarre setting; it’s the one to beat when it comes to Best Original Screenplay.
Lucy on the other hand has no great story but was totally amusing and it’s one of the best there is in 2014, as well as 300: Rise of an Empire and the hilarious A Million Ways to Die in the West.
In the bad movies I’ve seen so far, there are two blockbuster hits that I kind of question why people will still be enticed to watch these kind of cinematic cliché? And I’m talking about the same-old-same-old story of Transformers: Age of Extinction which didn’t differ from all other Michael Bay films and in addition was a total mess, and it was very noisy! The Amazing Spiderman 2 was not of the exception as well. After Sony’s months and months of pushing the promotion to an epic level, the film was an epic fail. Story was so bad it’s so stupid and cliché, as well as the visual effects that looked like a computer game.
Below is the complete list of what I’ve watched so far with their one to five star rating, according to Best, So-So (in good sense), So-So (in bad sense) and Bad movies, together with some links of my full movie review.
BEST
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER – ★★★★★
DIVERGENT – ★★★★ 1/2
X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST -★★★★ 1/2
SNOWPIERCER – ★★★★
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY – ★★★★
LUCY - ★★★ ½
300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE – ★★★ 1/2
A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST – ★★★
SO-SO (in almost a good sense)
NON STOP – ★★★ 1/2
PURGE: ANARCHY – ★★★
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 – ★★★
LEGO MOVIE – ★★
NOAH – ★★
NEIGHBORS – ★★
TRANSCENDENCE – ★★
THE OTHER WOMAN – ★★
SO-SO (in almost a bad sense)
MALEFICENT - ★★ 1/2
13 SINS – ★ 1/2
UNDER THE SKIN – ★★
POMPEII – ★★
OCULUS – ★★
BLENDED -★★
ROBOCOP – ★
THE EXPENDABLES 3 – ★
BAD
A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 – ★ 1/2
TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION – ★ 1/2
THE HUNGOVER GAMES – NONE (it’s really, really bad)
What movies in the past six months you did like and didn’t like? What movies did I miss? :)
