Since the year is halfway over I figure I mine as well tally up the 5 best and worst movies of 2016 thus far. Since I haven't seen enough movies yet this year, this most likely will change:
Best:
1. Clown
2. The Shallows
3. The Conjuring 2
4. The Neon Demon
5. Green Room
Worst:
1. Cabin Fever
2. They Found Hell
3. The Girl in the Photographs
4. Home Invasion
5. The Darkness
---Sean O.
*This blog was originally published on 7/1/2016 in my other blog, I Like Moobies, before this blog was created and I couldn't transfer it over so I just copy and pasted into this blog*
Saturday, July 1, 2017
Best/Worst Films of 2017....thus far
Since the year is halfway over, I'll pick my favorite and least favorite films of the year so far. This list is highly expected to change...at least I hope so.
Best of 2017 (so far):
1) The
Belko Experiment
2) The
Devil’s Candy
3) 47
Meters Down
4) Raw
5) The
Void
Honorable mentions: Kong: Skull Island; Split; My Life as a Zucchini
Worst of 2017 (so far):
1) The
Crooked Man
2) Beaches
3) 100
Streets
4) Tall
Men
5) Ghost
of New Orleans
Dishonorable mentions: Easter Sunday; Eloise
---Sean O.
Saturday, February 4, 2017
Best/Worst of 2016
2016 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2016:
1. Clown
2. Kubo and the Two Strings
3. The Monster
4. The Conjuring 2
5. The Shallows
6. The Neon Demon
7. Green Room
8. Kicks
9. Holidays
10. Ouija: Origin of Evil
Honorable Mentions: Hardcore Henry; Siren; The Land; Take Me to
the River; Fender Bender; Southbound; Storks; Monsterland.
Worst of 2016:
1. High Rise
2. Independence Day: Resurgence
3. Cabin Fever
4. They Found Hell
5. Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice
6. The Mermaid
7. Broken Vows
8. Come and Find Me
9. The Disappointments Room
10. The Girl in the Photographs
Dishonorable Mentions: Andron; The
Darkness; Careful What You Wish For; Restoration; Home Invasion; The Bride;
Yoga Hosers; Midnight Special; The Offering.
Other Superlatives:
Coolest Title: The Devil’s Dolls
Good-but-not-as-much-as-the-hype: The Witch; Don’t Breathe
Not-as-bad-as-they-said (still
not necessarily good): Suicide
Squad; Shut In
Biggest Disappointment: Rob Zombie’s 31
Most Unnecessary Sequels: Independence Day: Resurgence; Kindergarten
Cop 2
Most Unnecessary Remakes: Cabin Fever; The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Most Overrated: Deadpool; Lights Out; The Girl on the Train
Best Comeback: Phantasm: Ravager
Needs a Comeback: Kevin Smith
Commentary: Like the year
itself, 2016 didn’t seem to be a very good year for movies. Come to think of it, the last couple years
weren’t. I’m thinking about just making
lists for movies I watched during
that year no matter how many times I’ve seen them or when they came out. Realistically, Clown wouldn’t be best picture of the year; I haven’t seen a really
good evil clown movie in a while, that’s why I gave it the honor. Kubo
and The Monster are probably tied for
second. Holidays actually was a worthy anthology film so I included it in
the top ten. Ouija: Origin of Evil making it on the list goes to show there
weren’t many movies to choose from; I thought it was much better than the first
so I snuck it on the end. Southbound and Monsterland were decent anthology films so I included them in the
honorable mentions. Storks was much better than I thought it would be so I gave it some
recognition. Cabin Fever was probably the worst remake I’ve seen in recent
memory and was the worst movie of the year for a while. However, at least I was able to follow it unlike
High Rise which wins for being worst
of the worst. I lost interest in Independence Day: Resurgence long before
it was over, that’s why Cabin Fever
shockingly wasn’t at the top. I’m
getting picky with modern movies. I need
a new hobby! Or should just stick to
movies I know are good beforehand. 2/5/2017
---Sean O.
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Best/Worst of 2015
2015 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2015:
1. Hellions
2. Jurassic World
3. It Follows
4. Inside Out
5. Krampus (minus the gingerbread men)
6. The Hateful Eight
7. The Green Inferno
8. The Visit
9. Sinister 2
10. Zombeavers
Honorable Mentions: Wild Tales; We Are Still Here; Tales of
Halloween; A Girl Like Her; Crimson Peak; Straight Outta Compton; WolfCop;
Digging Up the Marrow
Worst of 2015:
1. The Anomaly
2. Coven
3. The Perfect Guy
4. Devil May Call
5. The Redwood Massacre
6. Jurassic City
7. Air
8. Re-Kill
9. Krampus: The
Reckoning
10. Pan
Dishonorable Mentions: Mad Max: Fury Road (how the eff did this movie get so many Oscar nominations?);
Hot Tub Time Machine 2; Mutant World; The Intruders; Evangeline; Black Box; The
Blood Lands
---Sean O.
Best/Worst of 2014
2014 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2014:
1. Found
2. The Lego
Movie (really don’t know how this wasn’t included in the best animated feature category)
3. Almost Human
4. Honeymoon
5. Paranormal
Activity: The Marked Ones
6. Coherence
7. Beneath
8. Willow Creek
(one of the better recent found footage flicks)
9. Borgman
10. The Guest
Honorable Mentions:
Ping Pong Summer; Free Fall; Stranger by the Lake
(had to include two gay movies that were actually good); Under the Skin (better
upon each viewing); Wrinkles; The Purge: Anarchy; The Battery; Proxy
Worst of 2014:
1. Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles
2. The
Forbidden Girl
3. Sleeping
Beauty (some stupid live-action one)
4. Devil’s Due
5. Locke
6. A Field in England
7. Christmas
Bounty
8. Mas Negro
Que La Noche (Darker than Night)
9. The Hunted
10. No Good Deed
Other Suckers: Fields of the Dead; Vampire Academy; In Fear;
Ouija; Child of God; See No Evil 2; Parts Per Billion
---Sean O.
Best/Worst of 2013
2013 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2013:
1. V/H/S 2 (prob the best horror anthology
film I’ve seen in a long long time and every single short was good)
2. Prisoners (really more of a tie with
V/H/S 2, it really comes close and should’ve been nominated for lots of Oscars)
3. Blackfish
4. Stoker (I
didn’t even know Wentworth Miller wrote this until after the fact, the fact that I liked it so much
and that he wrote it is awsum)
5. The Way Way
Back
6. Stitches
(had to put an evil clown flick on here, just had to)
7. The Place
Beyond the Pines
8. Aftershock
9. The Kings of
Summer
10. Insidious: Chapter 2 (as far as sequels go, this nailed
it and yes I slightly enjoyed this
more than The Conjuring)
Honorable Mentions: Spring
Breakers (dared to be different and succeeded); Nothing Left to Fear; Curse of
Chucky; Dark Skies; This is the End; Resolution; Hello Herman; Monsters
University; The Conjuring.
Worst of 2013:
1. 30 Nights of Paranormal Activity With
the Devil Inside the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (parodies are dead)
2. Heebie Jeebies
3. Upstream Color
4. Antiviral
5. Scary Movie V (did I mention that
parodies are dead?)
6. Escapee
7. Berberian Sound Studio
8. Apartment 1303
9. Shiver
10. Daddy, I’m a Zombie
Dishonorable
Mentions: Mischief Night; A Haunting at Silver Falls
Project; The
Mooring; Love Me; Crush; The Wicked; Home Sweet Home; Unlucky
Charms; A Resurrection; Magic Magic.
Commentary: These bad movies really are forgettable. Most of the dishonorable mentions are drawing
a blank after just 3 years! I did like The Conjuring better after another
viewing. 1/30/2017
---Sean O.
Best/Worst of 2012
2012 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2012:
1. Killer Joe
2. Frankenweenie
3. The Dead
4. The Cabin in
the Woods
5. Turn Me On,
Dammit!
6. Excision
7. The Loved
Ones
8. Moonrise Kingdom
9. Compliance
10. The
Innkeepers
Honorable mentions: The
Day; The Woman in Black; Juan of the Dead; The Hole; Sound of My Voice; Bait;
Don’t Go In The Woods; Rabies; The Tall Man; Piranha DD; Vamps.
Worst of 2012:
1. 12/12/12
2. Stormhouse
3. Keyhole
4. Parasitic
5. Attenberg
6. Mutant Girls
Squad
7. Snowmageddon
8. Wanderlust
9. Beyond the
Black Rainbow
10. The Perfect
Student
Dishonorable Mentions:
John Carter; Prometheus; 7 Below; Apartment 143
Commentary: Paranorman
should absolutely, positively, without a doubt be on the top ten list. I didn’t see it until the end of the year nor
have enough time to love it upon successive viewings. I almost wanna
alter history to put it up there. Killer Joe wasn’t as good the second
time. Piranha DD was a runner-up?
LOL 1/30/2017
---Sean O.
Best/Worst of 2011
2011 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2011:
1. We Are What
We Are
2. Paranormal
Activity 3
3. Red, White
& Blue
4. Attack the
Block
5. Take Me Home
Tonight
6. Hesher
7. The Troll
Hunter
8. Insidious
9. Horrible
Bosses
10. Another Earth
Honorable mentions:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes; Hobo with a Shotgun; Stake Land; Rubber;
Wake Wood; Brotherhood.
Worst of 2011:
1. The Green
Lantern
2. Hyenas
3. Choose
4. Stag Night
5. The Roommate
6. Needle
7. Just Go With
It
8. Fall Down
Dead
9. Cars 2
10. The Resident
Dishonorable mentions:
Quarantine 2: Terminal; Revolucion;
Bread Crumbs; Siren; Scar; River
of Darkness
Commentary: Horrible
Bosses on the top ten? I’m
amazed. Stake Land should switch positions.
I hated The Green Lantern that
much? Again, some of those movies on the
worst lists don’t ring a bell. 1/30/2017
---Sean O.
Best/Worst of 2010
2010 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2010:
1. (tie) Black Swan
2. 1981
3. Grimm Love
4. Buried
5. Cropsey
6. Burning
Bright
7. Best Worst
Movie
8. Frozen
9. Toy Story 3
10. The Kids Are
All Right
Runners-up: Daybreakers;
Survival of the Dead; How to Train Your Dragon; Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!; The
Book of Eli; Kick-Ass; Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief; Entre Nos; Piranha 3D;
The Last Exorcism
Worst of 2010:
1. The Killer
Inside Me
2. Night of the
Living Dead: Reanimated
3. I Am Virgin
4. Paintball
5. Blood on the
Highway
6. The Girl Who
Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
7. The
41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall And Felt Superbad About It
8. Life Blood
9. Suicide
Girls Must Die
10. And Soon the
Darkness
Almost Made It:
Vampires Suck; The Square; Damned By Dawn; Knife Edge; Dinoshark; Tell
Tale; Cry of the Owl; Homecoming; Spring Break Massacre; Stolen; The Uninvited;
Don’t Look Up; Spike; Dorian Gray; Mandrake; Damage; The Stranger; 7 Days;
Assault Girls; Ninjas vs. Zombies; Mirrors 2; Valentine’s Day; Chain Letter
Commentary: Where to begin? First, Frozen
is NOT the Disney movie (that came out three years later). Burning
Bright would probably be #1. This
looks like the first time I ever had a tie on the top TEN list (I technically
cheated with 11). Both of those movies
were very good that year. As for the
worst list and it’s runner-ups: I
counted at least 13 of those titles I don’t even remember watching. Just 6 years makes me forget them that
quick? Hmm…1/30/2017
---Sean O.
Best/Worst of 2009
2009 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2009:
1. Inglourious
Basterds
2. Martyrs
3. Paranormal
Activity
4. Drag Me To
Hell
5. Trick ‘R
Treat
6. The Princess
and the Frog
7. The Children
8. Carriers
9. Grace
10. Surveillance
Runners-up: Knowing;
Sin Nombre; Adventureland; Monsters vs. Aliens; Coraline; Dead Snow; The
Haunting in Connecticut; Waltz with Bashir; Lake Tahoe
Worst of 2009:
1. Watchmen
2. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
3. Fast &
Furious
4. Sand
Serpents
5. Obsessed
6. Mega Shark
vs. Giant Octopus
7. Bruno
8. The
Promotion
9. The Taking
of Pelham 123
10. G.I.
Joe: Rise of the Cobra
Almost made it: The
Grudge 3
Commentary: Adventureland,
Coraline and The Haunting in Connecticut should be in the top ten instead of
runners-up. Definitely Coraline. Trick
‘R Treat should be up higher. Orphan would at least be on the runners-up
list; knowing the twist beforehand makes it a much darker movie. Watchmen
was the worst movie I’ve ever seen from what I remember; I fell asleep more
than once and grasped nothing when I actually was awake. Only one runner-up for worst? Must not have seen too many bad movies that
year. 1/29/2017
Best of the Decade (2000-2009):
Adventureland
Bubble
Cabin Fever
Calvaire
Clerks II
Coraline*
Dead Silence
The Devil’s Rejects
Donnie Darko
Drag Me to Hell
Duck Season
Final Destination
Finding Nemo
High Tension*
The Host
Identity
Inside
Jeepers Creepers
Let the Right One In*
May
The Mist*
Monster House
Mulholland Drive
Orphan
The Others
Pieces of April
Prey (2007)
Rogue
Sweeney Todd
Trick ‘r Treat*
Zombieland
*---standout titles
---Sean O.
Best/Worst of 2008
2008 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2008:
1. Inside (A
l’interieur)
2. The
Orphanage
3. Gran Torino
4. Let the
Right One In
5. Rogue
6. 4 Months, 3
Weeks and 2 Days
7. The Dark
Knight
8. The Life
Before Her Eyes
9. Persepolis
10. Little
Chenier: A Cajun Story
Runners-up:
Frontier(s); The Signal; Cloverfield; Snow Angels; Stuck.
Worst of 2008:
1. Postal
2. The Lost
Boys: The Tribe
3. Step
Brothers
4. The
X-Files: I Want to Believe
5. Brotherhood
of Blood
6. Superhero
Movie
7. April Fool’s
Day
8. Prom Night
9. 88 Minutes
10. Never Cry
Werewolf
Runners-up: Trackman;
Anaconda 3: Offspring; One Missed Call;
Boogeyman 2; 21.
Commentary: There must not have been too many movies to
choose from that year if I put Little
Chenier on my top ten. I’d probably
switch locations for Cloverfield and Little Chenier (if I’d even have that on
the best lists at all). Yes, I hated Step Brothers. 1/29/2017
---Sean O.
Best/Worst of 2007
2007 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2007:
1. The Mist
2. The Host
3. Behind the
Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
4. Death Proof
5. Bug
6. Ratatouille
7. 1408
8. Sweeney
Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
9. Murder Party
10. 28 Weeks
Later
Runners-up: Pan’s
Labyrinth; Joshua; Sicko; Hot Fuzz
Worst of 2007:
1. The
Messengers
2. Creepshow
III
3. The Last
Mimzy
4. Hannibal Rising
5. The
Invisible
6. Firehouse
Dog
7. Snoop Dogg’s
Hood of Horror
8. Normal
Adolescent Behavior: Havoc 2
9. Blades of
Glory
10. I Know Who
Killed Me
Runners-up: Balls of
Fury; The Condemned; Captivity
Commentary: Pretty relevant list. I still love The Mist and The Host. Sicko,
is that the Michael Moore movie?
Wow! Yes, at the time I actually
did like Death Proof better than Planet Terror (both part of Grindhouse). I like both now. I Know
Who Killed Me actually got (a little) better, it’s basically well-shot
trash. Creepshow III wasn’t as bad the second time, some parts suck while
others not as much; still doesn’t compare a smidgen to the first two (this one
didn’t have The Creeper in between stories, that’s probably why!). 1/29/2017
---Sean O.
Best/Worst of 2006
2006 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2006:
1. United 93
2. Cache
3. Hard Candy
4. Little Miss
Sunshine
5. La Moustache
6. The Queen
7. Duck Season
8. Bubble
9. The Descent
10. Monster House
Runners-up: Old Joy;
Lady Vengeance; The Night Listener; Running Scared; Twelve & Holding;
Cavite; The Matador; Slither; Hostel; X3: The Last Stand
Worst of 2006:
1. The Pink
Panther
2. House of the
Dead 2
3. The Quiet
4. Nacho Libre
5. I’ll Always
Know What You Did Last Summer
6. Larry the
Cable Guy: Health Inspector
7. Stay Alive
8. The Shaggy
Dog
9. Click
10. Take the Lead
Runners-up: Dirty;
L’enfant; Scary Movie 4; Underworld: Evolution; Find Me Guilty; Ultraviolet;
Down in the Valley; The Butterfly Effect 2; Heartstopper; Grim Reaper
---Sean O.
Best/Worst of 2005
2005 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2005:
1. Sin City
2. King Kong
3. Munich
4. The Devil’s
Rejects
5. Broken
Flowers
6. A History Of
Violence
7. Grizzly Man
8. Cinderella
Man
9. Crash
10. Kontroll
Runners-up: War of
the Worlds; Batman Begins; Land of the Dead; Off The Map; Red Eye; Charlie and
the Chocolate Factory; Walk on Water; Brothers; Saw II; Harry Potter and the
Goblet of Fire; 3-Iron; Dead & Breakfast; November; Wolf Creek;
Worst of 2005:
1. Son of the
Mask
2. Alone in the
Dark
3. The Pacifier
4. D.E.B.S.
5. Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo
6. Sahara
7. The
Honeymooners
8. The Cave
9. The
Chumbscrubber
10. Dark Water
Runners-up: Rebound;
Racing Stripes; Man-Thing; Cross Bones; Serenity; Return of the Living Dead 4:
Necropolis; Odd Girl Out; Boogeyman; XXX: State of the Union
Commentary: Doesn’t look like the greatest best-of
list. I’ll have to re-watch Sin City to see why I chose that as best
picture of 2005. A Harry Potter movie was actually a runner-up that year? These are interesting to look back on. High
Tension would definitely be on the best list; I was initially let down by
the twist. I actually like Return of the Living Dead 4 now. These lists appear to be phases
sometimes. 1/29/2017
Best/Worst of 2004
2004 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2004:
1. Saw
2. The Passion
of the Christ
3. Troy
4. Kill Bill,
Volume 2
5. The
Incredibles
6. Hellboy
7. Shaun of the
Dead
8. Open Water
9. The Village
10. The Butterfly
Effect
Close: The Polar
Express; Shrek 2; The Last Horror Movie; Club Dread
Worst of 2004:
1. The Whole
Ten Yards
2. My Baby’s
Daddy
3. Soul Plane
4. Sleepover
5. Surviving
Christmas
6. Thunderbirds
7. Connie and
Carla
8. Win a Date
with Tad Hamilton!
9. Envy
10. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie
Close: A Home at the
End of the World; Garden State; A Cinderella Story; Comic Book: The Movie; Vicious; Laws of Attraction; New
York Minute; The Chronicles of Riddick; Scooby Doo 2; Young Adam
Commentary: Looks like a decent tally. Shrek 2? Haha.
I don’t remember watching Vicious
so it must’ve been bad. I also don’t
remember watching The Last Horror Movie
so that must not have been too
good. No, I wasn’t crazy about Garden State at all even though I’m from
there. 1/29/2017
---Sean O.
Best/Worst of 2003
2003 YEAR IN REVIEW
Best of 2003:
1. Finding Nemo
2. The Lord of
the Rings: The Return of the King
3. Identity
4. House of
1000 Corpses
5. Final
Destination 2
6. The Eye
7. Big Fish
8. Northfork
9. Equilibrium
10. Basic
Close: Pirates of the
Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl;
Rollercoaster
Worst of 2003:
1. Gerry
2. Gigli
3. Daddy Day
Care
4. Dumb &
Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
5. National
Security
6. Love Liza
7. Due East
8. Scary Movie
3
9. Swimming
Pool
10. Sweet Sixteen
Close: Final Examination;
Dysfunktional Family
Commentary: Looks like I made some pretty good choices
back in 2003. Not sure if I would’ve put
Equilibrium and Basic on my top ten if I could go back in time. I’m not going to alter history as much as I
want to. Cabin Fever and May would
be on the top ten; Kill Bill, Volume 1
definitely would be but I didn’t see it before making this list. That’s another thing: some movies I don’t see before making these
lists. I usually make my list in
February to see some movies that come
out (to rent) in January. Gigli I actually didn’t hate as much the
second time but it still wasn’t particularly good; same with Swimming Pool (could be that I first saw
it with my Mom and I don’t think that semi-porn French film is something you
see with your parents). 1/29/2017
---Sean O.
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