Favorite movies of 2017? — Page 2

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

I really didn't want to see it, but I went with a group of friends yesterday to see I, TONYA. Wow, what a fantastic movie! The cast was great across the board and I predict Allison Janney will land a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination...

I've seen a few more of the Oscar bait films, so I'm going to update my list:

Call Me By Your Name
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Coco
Baby Driver
Dunkirk
Get Out
The Last Jedi
Lady Bird
I, Tonya

I really liked the second half of Lady Bird, but the first half sort of dragged a bit for me. I think it's a good film, but I wouldn't put it in the top three for Best Picture. I, Tonya was fun and interesting. Sort of a hybrid of The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom and To Die For. I loved The Last Jedi and I think the obsessive fans are being a bit ridiculous in their disdain for it. The second half of the film was among the best in the franchise. I'm a bit biased for personal reasons, but Call Me By Your Name is far and away my favorite, though I know it probably doesn't have a chance in hell for Best picture. Having read the book, I think they did a really remarkable job finding a way to translate it for the screen (though there were a few things I wish they hadn't cut from the book, even if it made the film a little longer). I'd still love to see Hammer and Chalemet walk away with awards for it and I can see it winning for Adapted Screenplay. Both actors are equally deserving. As for Three Billboards, it's pretty much in its own league. The screenplay, direction and performances are all Oscar-worthy. McDomand is going to be hard to beat.

The Edge of Seventeen looks especially good to me now that I've seen Lady Bird, which I really disliked. (I recognize that's an unpopular opinion.)

I'm still waiting to see a 2017 release that approaches Get Out.

My top three would have to be

1. Call Me By Your Name

2. Lady Bird

3. mother!

I also very much enjoyed I, Tonya. I'm not understanding the love for The Shape of Water - do we really need a movie equating homosexuality and queerness with beastiality? And all the supporting characters are stereotypical to the point of offensive - someone give Octavia Spencer another film to carry! Sally Hawkins is brilliant and deserves all the praise she has received, and I enjoyed the use of "You'll Never Know" but ultimately was left with "why?".

Looking forward to seeing Three Billboards, The Post, and Hello Again in the New Year.

I will never understand the love for Get Out. Was fine, but I had tons of problems with the script and pacing. I would love for horror films to make it back into the good graces of the Oscars, but this is not the one I want to start.

Liza's Headband said: "Someone in a Tree2 said: "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, northe camera work, nor the shape of the story.It looked, sounded and felt like any by-the-numbers exposeeof bad things in government since time immemorial. After all the smart work in BRIDGE OF SPIES, I was expecting much more."





I think Oscar buzz is pretty automatic when talking Hanks OR Streep. But disappointing to hear, certainly. I'd



A rare occurrence: we are in complete agreement here."

I think Oscar buzz is pretty automatic when talking Hanks OR Streep. But disappointing to hear, certainly. I'd already decided that I could wait for this to watch at home, this just cements that.



Still need to catch 3 Billboards, Shape of Water and Call Me, and looking forward to them all.

Here's my favorites of what I've seen so far, in order:

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

LADY BIRD

COCO

I, TONYA

GET OUT

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

BroadwayNYC2 said: "I will never understand the love for Get Out. "

Most of the 'horror' of Get Out (for me) is how insidiously anti-racist Allison Williams' character appears to be.

This isn't a traditional horror film, with obvious jump scares, etc. Get Out is more about the social 'horrors' Black people have to endure on a daily basis, and exaggerates the situation to a more traditional horror genre level regarding the brain transfer element.

The fact that the movie isn't preachy about its subject matter, and instead comes off as humorous in many scenes is what's so insidiously horrifying. The elements and examples are plainly there - it's just so easy to choose NOT to see them.