Favorite movies of 2017?

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 12/7/17 at 9:46am

As the year comes to a close in the next few weeks, I'm interested to hear what the folks on these boards consider to be their favorites films released this year.

For me, Lady Bird, Get Out, and mother! take the cake.

Lady Bird was brilliantly executed in every aspect IMO, with especially phenomenal performances from Saoirse Ronan and Laurie Metcalf.

Get Out was a terrifyingly well-made social commentary which really stuck me deeply, it was constantly on my mind for days after seeing it.

mother! was perplexing, thought-provoking, and just downright weird, but I found a lot to like in it. Jennifer Lawrence never disappoints me (as an actress, that is).

 

 

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 12/7/17 at 10:46am

My top spot would go to The Shape of Water. Thought it was beautiful with great performances. Others in no particular order:

Get Out

Wonder Woman

The Florida Project

Girls Trip

Killing of a Sacred Deer

Honorable Mention: Mother

Still looking forward to: The Post, I,Tonya.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/7/17 at 11:27am

Haven't seen that many but:

The Big Sick
Wonder Woman

The filmmakers of both understood exactly the kind of movie they wanted to make and delivered it with great success, in both cases working in genres that rarely produce such satisfying movies.
 

[hork]

Posted: 12/7/17 at 1:28pm

This has been a terrible year for movies, but my favorite as of now is Personal Shopper. Not surprising, I guess, since Clouds of Sils Maria was my favorite movie of its year. Assayas is doing so many interesting things as a filmmaker, and Kristen Stewart has really surprised me with her acting prowess.

[Broadwaywest]

Posted: 12/7/17 at 1:34pm

Some of mine include:

The Florida Project ( my favorite film of the year so far )

Ingrid Goes West

Collasal

Good Time

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

Wonder Woman

GirlsTrip

Can't wait for I, Tonya, The Disaster Artist, Call Me By Your Name and so many more.

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 12/7/17 at 1:35pm

The Florida Project

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/7/17 at 2:33pm

I think my top five in no particular order would be; Lady Bird, Get Out, Shape of Water, The Big Sick, and Call Me By Your Name.

ive forgotten a few: Dunkirk, Wonder Woman, Blade Runner, It, Beauty and the Beast, Life, the Zookeepers Wife, Coco, Star Wars.

 

Updated On: 12/30/17 at 02:33 PM

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 12/7/17 at 2:58pm

I forgot to add Beats Per Minute which is probably tied as my fav movie of the year...so far.

[broadway86]

Posted: 12/7/17 at 3:37pm

The ones I would describe as top-notch, still have several more to see:

Blackcoat's Daughter, The

Blade Runner 2049

Coco

Dunkirk

Gerald’s Game

Get Out

Ghost Story, A

Lady Bird

mother!

Raising Bertie

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Wonderstruck

[javero]

Posted: 12/7/17 at 5:24pm

Walking Out

Wonder Woman

Alone in Berlin

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 12/9/17 at 10:47am

Adding Call ame By Your Name to my earlier list

[hork]

Posted: 12/9/17 at 12:06pm

It sure would be nice to be able to see Call Me by Your Name, but the Arclight and Landmark still have a monopoly on it in L.A., and neither of them take Movie Pass (and there's no way I'm paying Arclight prices). It's hell being a Movie Pass holder in December, when all of the interesting movies are unavailable to us.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 12/9/17 at 1:10pm

Hork, you should join Arclight (which is free) in order to get a dollar discount on each ticket. Yeah, the prices  are still $15 or $16 each but I'd happily pay that for a really good movie experience (which CALL ME BY YOUR NAME certainly is).

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 12/9/17 at 3:25pm

Lady Bird, Dunkirk, Get Out

[madbrian]

Posted: 12/9/17 at 5:17pm

3 Billboards
Get Out
Dunkirk
Lady Bird

[hork]

Posted: 12/9/17 at 10:41pm

Someone in a Tree2 said: "Hork, you should join Arclight (which is free) in order to get a dollar discount on each ticket. Yeah, the prices are still $15 or $16 each but I'd happily pay that for a really good movie experience (which CALL ME BY YOUR NAME certainly is)."

It’s not free anymore. It’s $15 a year, which isn’t worth it considering how seldom I go there. I’d rather just wait for Call Me by Your Name to spread to other theaters. 

[Ravenclaw]

Posted: 12/10/17 at 3:22am

My top 10 so far:

10. The Florida Project

9. The Big Sick

8. The Little Hours

7. Ingrid Goes West

6. Mudbound

5. The Beguiled

4. The Meyerowitz Stories

3. Wonderstruck

2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

1. Lady Bird

Still haven't seen BPM, Call Me By Your Name, Phantom Thread, The Post, Molly's Game, or I, Tonya. I found it was a really great year for films, once again. Also, while they didn't quite crack my top 10, I really appreciated the originality seen in mother!, A Ghost Story, and Colossal. Those three films each had some of their own problems, but I found it really exciting and refreshing to see filmmakers take such big risks which mostly paid off (in my opinion) and also to see big stars lending their talents to these small movies.

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Posted: 12/11/17 at 8:56am

After seeing Three Billboards last night, I would add it to my favorites.

[hairspraydude1962]

Posted: 12/11/17 at 10:31am

Baby Driver, Get Out, The Disaster Artist.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 12/11/17 at 4:07pm

THE SHAPE OF WATER lurches to the top of my list for 2017, having just caught it in LA on Saturday. Gorgeous, passionate, moving, great script, great cast, very much like a Broadway musical (or even opera). It deserves every award nomination it gets. THREE BILLBOARDS and CALL ME BY YOUR NAME round out my top 3.

[South Florida]

Posted: 12/11/17 at 9:38pm

Liked billboards, dint know where we were going and glad it landed where it did,

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/12/17 at 12:04pm

I haven't seen a lot, but so far:

Get Out
Baby Driver
Coco
Dunkirk

I'm a bit surprised Baby Driver has dropped off the radar.  I wonder if it's due to the Spacey factor.  It would be a shame if it wasn't recognized for Directing, Editing, Sound Mixing and Sound Editing.  I'd also be thrilled for a nomination for Ansel Elgort's performance.  Not surprised he snagged the lead in The Goldfinch as well, which has Oscar potential written all over it.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 12/15/17 at 8:42pm

Just caught a screening of THE POST last night in LA-- really flummoxed how this entirely old-school dry-as-toast predictable film is on everyone's Oscar list for likely Best Picture nods. I suppose you could make an argument for Meryl's constipated turn as Katherine Graham, but even Tom Hanks failed to spark much interest with us. And the film around them had not a speck of adventurous movie-making about it, not in the score, nor the camera work, nor the shape of the story. It looked, sounded and felt like any by-the-numbers exposee of bad things in government since time immemorial. After all the smart work in BRIDGE OF SPIES, I was expecting much more.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 12/15/17 at 8:50pm

^ how was Jessie Mueller?


I think I’ve gotta add the new Star Wars to my list.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 12/16/17 at 10:44am

^ Jessie Mueller was terrific-- got all the best lines in the office scenes as generally the only broad in the room.