EWB's Favorite Movie of 2016: Voting Thread

[Your Mom]

54 minutes ago, GoGo Yubari said:

Probably another week or so of this, y'all! Watch movies! Make ballots! Don't go breakin' my heart!

Great! I saw Moonlight but I still want to make time to watch Jackie

[Damian WayLNKe]

Still got some more to watch, but these are all great.

1.The Nice Guys
2.Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
3.Captain America: Civil War
4.Doctor Strange
5.10 Cloverfield Lane
6.Arrival 
7.Nocturnal Animals
8.Jack Goes Home
9.I Am Not a Serial Killer
10.Elvis & Nixon

[Jimmy]

12 hours ago, New Year New Srar! said:

Great! I saw Moonlight but I still want to make time to watch Jackie

I felt like Jackie was on the cusp of being something so great - Portman is incredible, I've always been a fan of Pablo Lorrain's work and the score is overpowering in such a striking way. It's a film that could benefit from being chopped down a bit and tweaking some dialogue in scenes, but it's largely a traumatic and gripping watch, even if it's told unconventionally.

I can see how so many people have been put off though, especially audience's who expected something a little more conventional and straight-forward. I would've been into seeing that version to, but Jackie as it is is very much a character portrait. 

Edited March 8, 2017 by Jimmy

[DFF]

EDIT: Forgot La La Land!

1. Arrival
2. Kubo & The Two Strings
3. Train to Busan
4. La La Land
5. The Nice Guys
6. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
7. Hell or High Water
8. Everybody Wants Some!!
9. Hunt for Wildepeople
10. Green Room (whilst it's described as a '2015' film on it's Wiki page, it's American and it's American release was Spring 2016).

Honourable mention: Moonlight, Your Name, Eddie the Eagle

 

And @GoGo Yubari, if you want an example for the country of origin rule, The Revenant. Released on Christmas Day 2015 in the US, but pretty much everywhere else in the world in 2016.  

[Moses Julep]

1. Moonlight

2. Manchester By The Sea

3. Arrival

4. American Honey

5. Christine

6. La La Land

8. Silence

9. Nocturnal Animals

10. Paterson

 

[Monkey D. Lars]

When do I have to post my list?

[MalaCloudy Black]

On 3/7/2017 at 13:38, GoGo Yubari said:

Probably another week or so of this, y'all! Watch movies! Make ballots! Don't go breakin' my heart!

You've still got about a week.

[GhostMachine]

1. Deadpool 

2. Sing 

3. Captain America: Civil War

4. Zootopia

5. Suicide Squad

6. Free State of Jones

7. Hail, Caesar!

8. War Dogs

9. Jungle Book

10. Money Monster

I haven't seen Doctor Strange, Rogue One, Magnificent Seven, or Fantastic Beasts yet. Honorable mention to Deepwater Horizon (almost took the #10 spot), and I was disappointed with La La Land. (The song `City of Stars' was played a lot and sucked, and Ryan Gosling can't sing!)

Deadpool and Sing are the only two movies on my list that I saw in theaters (Sing in a second-run theater a few days ago), but that's not why they're ranked #1 and 2. 

 

[Your Mom]

1. Arrival
2. Hell of High Water
3. Moonlight
4. The Nice Guys
5. La La Land
6. Fences
7. Jackie
8. Kubo and the Two Strings
9. Moana
10. Civil War

Watched a couple more good movies last night. Hello Fences and Jackie. Goodbye Green Room and Zootopia

[Monkey D. Lars]

01. Manchester by the Sea
02. La La Land
03. The Handmaiden
04. Moonlight
05. Arrival
06. Hell or High Water
07. Captain America: Civil War
08. American Honey
09. Hunt for the Wilderpeople
10. Sing Street

[livid]

1. Arrival
2. Hell or High Water
3. Midnight Special
4. The Nice Guys
5. Green Room
6. Deadpool
7. Captain America: Civil War
8. Everybody Wants Some!!
9. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
10. Doctor Strange

We'll see if I can squeeze Moonlight and Manchester by the Sea in but I doubt it so here's what I have so far.

[Arjen Robben]

1. Moonlight
2. Manchester by the Sea
3. Arrival
4. La La Land
5. 20th Century Women
6. Green Room
7. Paterson
8. Nocturnal Animals
9. Toni Erdmann
10. The Witch

[Your Mom]

Watched Fences and Jackie. They were both good so I edited my list. Sorry Green Room and Zootopia. You were good movies but not quite top 10 good  

[ROC]

Going to do the "my god I really fell out of watching movies" honorary 2016 list:

1. Moonlight

2. The Nice Guys

3. The Shallows

[Sousa]

A'ight here we go, mostly kids movies probably because this is my life now.

1. Moana
2. Kubo and the Two Strings
3. Zootopia
4. Hail, Caesar!
5. Hidden Figures
6. Kung Fu Panda 3 (yes really I liked it a lot)
7. Ghostbusters
8. The Jungle Book

That's about all I've seen that I feel like voting for.

Edited March 23, 2017 by Sousa

[Benjamin]

30 minutes ago, Sousa said:

A'ight here we go, mostly kids movies probably because this is my life now.

1. Moana
2. Kubo and the Two Strings
3. Zootopia
4. Hail, Caesar!
5. Hidden Figures
6. Kung Fu Panda 3 (yes really I liked it a lot)
7. Ghostbusters
8. The Jungle Book

That's about all I've seen that I feel like voting for.

Kung Fu Panda 3 was a lot fun. All those movies are, except Ghostbusters because I haven't seen it yet.

[GoGo Yubari]

And we're closed. Tallying starts tomorrow.

[Arjen Robben]

The tension is palpable

[Your Mom]

@GoGo Yubari We still doing this dude?

[GoGo Yubari]

it's already been done, Srar. EWB's Favorite Movie was inside you all along.

(Yes, sorry, I'll finish counting today)