Yeah.

Yeah I saw it. :P

My Blues play tomorrow outside.

Best Movie - Deadpool

Runner Up for Best Movie - Captain America: Civil War

Don't Quite Understand All The Hype Movie - Zootopia

Worst Movie - Star Wars: Rogue One

Those are the four movies I saw this year.

I loved Deadpool too. It was the only one I saw this year that came out this year (and even then it was on HBO) so I can't compare it to anything. :P

I just love Deadpool for existing. If you haven't seen it already you might want to see Ryan Reynolds' interview at Google to see what he had to go through to get the thing made.

I want to have the crap beaten out of me by Gina Carano.

EDIT: Congrats on your move to Canada, things must be so different than Korea.

Given the fact that it was stuffed full of unnecessary Vader fan-service that should have gone more towards fleshing out the characters (and the movie itself was surrounded by an insane amount of marketing), yes, I'd say it was overly corporatized. But then again, this isn't new; you could argue it started all the way back with Return of the Jedi. With Disney moving towards a yearly release schedule for Star Wars, it's fairly apparent that they're going with the same general model EA's adopted with Battlefield, or Activision with Call of Duty.

And while I do commend the higher-ups at Disney for okaying the movie's ending, the problem is that the characters arguably aren't given the development they need for us to genuinely care about what ultimately happens to them, with the exception of K2SO and possibly also Baze Malbus/Chirrut Îmwe. Instead -- just like the elevator scene in Attack of the Clones -- we're told, not shown everything we need to know.

Do I hate Rogue One? No, I quite enjoyed it. I think CGI Tarkin was a fitting tribute to Peter Cushing's role in ANH, and Krennic was an interesting villain. But IMHO we've seen the Dirty Dozen formula done before, and done better before.

I have now seen Rogue One. While the movie was enjoyable, there were some issues with it. (In case it matters, I ended up seeing the 3D version, which is not what I would have preferred.)

* The previews before the movie (of which there were way too many) were obnoxious. The sound was loud and distorted to the point where it felt like an assault on my ears. The Transformers preview gave me a bit of motion sickness. I also saw some destruction of objects (like glass), which is something I do not enjoy. (I don't remember if there were shouting arguments, the other thing I don't want to see when I go to the movies/TV.) What is somebody who's sensitive to loud noise supposed to do if she wants to see a movie in the theater?
Getting to the actual movie:
* In some scenes, backgrounds (and sometimes even characters less important to the scene) were blurry. I would accept this in a low budget film, but I have a feeling that Rogue One was not low budget.
* The early and late parts of the film had plenty of action, but there was the whole middle portion of the film where there was basically no action at all. I can understand the need to maybe space out the action a bit to give the audience a rest (something the previews failed to do), but a somewhat more even distribution would have helped.
* When it comes to important characters that actually participate in the action, there's still a gender imbalance; even taking into account Jyn, the cast is still male-dominated. (It is at least better than the classic trilogy and the prequels in this respect.) (The movie does pass the Bechdel test thanks to certain scenes in the middle of the movie where Jyn interacts with other non-combatant members of the rebellion.)
* There is a lack of interesting villains. If you don't count Darth Vader (whose role in this film is minor, as it isn't really his story; that would be Episode 5), there are no villains who are important enough to be given names.
* Rogue One is lacking the procedural generation and turn-based combat found in other Rogue titles such as Rogue.

It may sound like I don't like the movie, but that is actually not the case. I enjoy it, but I think that both Episode 7 and the new Ghostbusters are better (but I can come up with flaws for these two movies as well.) (Also, in case you couldn't tell, the last bullet point is a joke, but the rest are serious.)

I don't feel like any one particularly stood out as the best in 2016, though there were many I liked.

I think The Revenant might win by default, of there nothing really being better.

Or maybe The Nice Guys.

Based on how many times I've rewatched it, Captain America: Civil War would be up there.

Just watched it yesterday and was about to post how shitty it was.

The dodgy accents and mumbling totally ruined it, how the hell are you supposed to understand anything?

I thought I was watching Walking with Neanderthals the way they were freaking mumbling.

And I have no idea why it was released in HDR.

Although that's not the movie's fault, some movie environments just aren't as suited for HDR as others are.

If anyone actually cares (Protip: Nobody does), here's my list of 2016's tops and bottoms.

I'll go ahead and add The Great Wall to the list of films I actually liked, despite going in expecting to absolutely hate it. It's getting torn to pieces by audience and critics, but there are a lot of things I genuinely liked:

- Willem Dafoe is in it
- Pedro Pascal pretty much plays the equivalent of Eli Wallach's character from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and he does a damn good job of it
- solid cinematography, doesn't do that shakycam thing during battle scenes
- the 3D was wonderfully non-intrusive, it was almost as good as watching a 2D movie
- unlike most blockbusters nowadays, this one doesn't WAAAAAY overstay its welcome, running at a brisk 104 minutes
- unlike most blockbusters nowadays, this one actually wraps up the proceedings nicely and the ending doesn't feel like a set-up for a sequel (or *gasp* a franchise)

Hey, I liked Batman V Superman! But at least we agree about Civil War being a piece of shit. Then again you seem to dislike superhero movies on principle :P

I really regret not seeing Hacksaw Ridge in the cinema. I'll definately see it once it's on DVD. Although it is likely I will hate it- a friend of mine really liked it, and we usually have the polar opposite opinions about pretty much all movies :D

Oh, and I liked Blood Father much more than I thought I would. It's not a great movie or anything, but for the kind of movie it's suppsoed to be it works really well, and it was just fun to see Gibson in something like this again and not something bordering on self-parody like Expendables.

Warcraft: The Beginning was a huge disappointment, at least for me.

"Like" would be a bit of a strong term, but I didn't really dislike it either. I thought it was interesting. Of all the superhero movies I saw this year - I'm sad to say I saw pretty much all the major ones: Deadpool, X-Men, Bats VS Supes, Civil War - this is the only one that I feel inclined to watch again at some point.

Kind of, but I guess it's a little more complicated than that. When I was a child, my favourite movie was the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve and I still love that one. One of my all-time favourites is RoboCop, which - while it's not based on a comic - definitely has that origin story comic book feel to it.

So I guess it's not the superhero stuff in and of itself that I mind, it's the oversaturation of superhero movies.

He pretty much explained that in the movie when he turned to the camera and pointed out there were only ever the same two X-Men at the mansion because of lack of funding for the movie. :P

I fell out of the my chair when that happened. XD