Skip to main content

Best Movies I Saw in the Theater in 2017

 

This is a ranking of the best films I saw in the theaters in 2017. I didn’t see Get Out, The Disaster Artist, Blade Runner: 2049, Wonder Woman, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Lady Bird, or The Florida Project, as a result I can’t put these films in my rankings.
      4. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
      This sequel was even funnier and more visually extravagant than the original film. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 also improved on the original film by introducing more emotional depth to the characters. Director and screenwriter James Gunn works very hard to entertain the audience with this film.  In fact, he may be working a little too hard to entertain us. This movie is loaded with so many jokes and crazy visuals that it’s kind of hard to keep up.
      3. Logan
       If this is truly Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart’s last hurrah as Wolverine and Professor X  then they’ve chose the perfect way to go out. Logan doesn’t hesitate to show the influences of films like Unforgiven and Shane. Logan rescued the Wolverine trilogy from mediocrity by having a phenomenal story and gratuitous violence that a character like Wolverine revels in. Logan also shows where the superhero film must go if it is to survive long term. Logan is a deeply personal movie with a minimal amount of CGI. If Marvel Studios were smart this is what they would do when they start the next phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
       2. It
       It was one of the most terrifying films I’ve seen in a long time. This adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name captures everything that made the first half of the novel so fantastic. Twenty years from now, Bill Skarsgard’s performance as Pennywise the Dancing Clown will be regarded as one of the most terrifying performances in movie history. You can read my full review for It at this link.
1.     Dunkirk

        Dunkirk is the culmination of everything that director Christopher Nolan has done over the past several years.  I’ll go as far as to say that Dunkirk is one of the greatest war film of all time.  The fact this film got made at all is amazing. An American movie studio agreed to shell out $100 million for a war movie that doesn’t involve the United States military as the protagonists and is highly experimental in nature due to its editing. Dunkirk presents very accurately the horrors that an entire generation of young men had to face in World War II. Christopher Nolan shows that even though the Battle of Dunkirk was a major military loss for the Allies it was a moral victory because the soldiers at Dunkirk were heroically rescued by ordinary civilians. At its core that’s what Dunkirk is about. It’s about how ordinary people are capable great feat of heroism when they unite against evil.       
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Movie Review: Chappaquiddick

Chappaquiddick (2017) was released fifty years too late. That was my thought when I first sat down to watch this movie on Netflix and that was my thought when I finished it. I'm a millennial and I bet that the majority of Americans under the age of 40 (and maybe even under the age of fifty) have no idea what the Chappaquiddick Incident even was. If you were to ask someone what Chappaquiddick is they would probably reply with a shrug and say that it's some Native American term (it is, but that's besides the point). It's a shame that this incident isn't taught in history or political science classes. Chappaquiddick is one of the defining moments in American politics in the last fifty years. It laid bare the obvious fact that if one has the right amount of money, one has the right connections, and that one has the right last name  then you are essentially above the law. Chappaquiddick was directed by John Curan with a screenplay by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan...
Post a Comment
Read more

It's Time for the National League to Adopt the Designated Hitter Rule

     It is time for the National League to join the modern age and adopt the Designated Hitter (DH) rule. The National League has held onto the archaic tradition of pitchers hitting for far too long. The DH rule has been one of the best changes that has been made to the game of baseball. The game would be much healthier and more exciting to watch if the DH rule was universally adopted.      I understand that this is a divisive issue. Pro-DH rule people and anti-DH rule people are just as divided on this subject as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are when they argue about whether or not it is rabbit season or duck season. That last part may be an exaggeration, but the Designated Hitter rule debate goes like this every time it is brought up by Major League Baseball:      MLB: Maybe we should look into the National League trying out the DH rule.      American League: Good idea!      National League: Screw that! We ...
Post a Comment
Read more

Top 5 Thing I Want to See in a Spider-Man PS4 Sequel

      Spider-Man PS4  has been one of the most successful games of 2018 (at least until Red Dead Redemption 2 comes out).   Spider-Man PS4  sold over 3 million copies in its first 3 days and made $198 million during that time, which excelled Spider-Man: Homecoming's initial 3 day haul of $117 million. That kind of success all but guarantees that Spider-Man PS4 will receive a sequel. Insomniac Games, the developer of Spider-Man PS4 has laid an excellent foundation to expand on the gameplay and story elements that they've developed. Here are a few ideas that I think Insomniac Games should incorporate in the sequel. A Bigger Map      Spider-Man PS4 featured the most realistic depiction of New York City in the history of video games. Landmarks like the Empire State Building and Times Square were rendered in photo realistic detail. The Manhattan skyline provided the player the ability to truly take on the role of Spider-Man and web-swi...
Post a Comment
Read more