Since I think I won't be seeing any more new movies in the last few days of this year, let's sum up, shall we?

Best movie: Blade Runner 2049
A near-masterpiece and an impossible sequel – a worthy follow up to the best sci-fi movie ever made. Superb visuals, mood, acting and direction, and a soundtrack that may not quite live up to the original by Vangelis, but is still the best I’ve heard in a long time. No compromises were made to make this into a crowd pleaser, and the price of it was a box office flop, but that can’t possibly overshadow the fact it’s one of the best movies of the 21st century so far.
Runner up: Logan (until BR2049 I was sure nothing would beat it)

Best surprise: King Arthur Legend of the Sword
Honestly I could put Blade Runner here too, but that would be boring. And this was a huge surprise too. Guy Ritchie making a King Arthur movie? That sounded insane, and sure enough it’s not a classic version of the myth like Excalibur, nor some boring attempt at grounding it in reality like the Clive Owen movie. What it is, is just a superbly fun fantasy action adventure. It has a great cast, very good music and is just a blast to watch. It’s not great cinema, it’s certainly not good in terms of getting the Arthurian myths “right”, but if you can forget about that and just enjoy the fantasy adventure the likes of with we rarely get on the big screen, it’s great.
Runner up: Great Wall (terrible movie, but very fun), Kong Skull Island (even better than I expected)

Biggest disappointment: Dunkirk
Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a bad movie by any stretch. In technical terms it’s in fact very impressive. But I was expecting much, much more from Nolan. The movie may be stunning to look at, but it’s also rather boring and unengaging. The characters are forgettable blank slates and it’s pretty much impossible to care about them. I’m not sure I’d even notice if some of them died and get replaced halfway through. For me, because of that the movie failed to build the kind of tention it was going for, and ended up being rather tedious.
Runner Up: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (a good movie, great visuals, but I was hoping for something really mind blowing and not just “ok”)

Worst movie: Ghost in the Shell
Not just of this year, but one of the worst I’ve seen in general. It’s downright amazing how badly written this movie is. Some of the worst, most unnatural, repetitive dialogue force feeding the audience what passes for the movie’s “themes”. Other than that we have bland action scenes, bland performances, forgettable music and an even more forgettable excuse for a plot and a complete no-arc for the main character.
I can have fun with bad movies, but Ghost in the Shell was one of the most painfully joyless xinema experiences of my life.
Runner up: Dark Tower (it sucks, but it’s short and can provide some small measure of entertainment).

Overall, it was an interesting year. Things like Logan and Kong proved superhero and giant monster genres don’t have to be bland crowd pleasers like the Marvel films and Jurassic World. The insane success of It proved a box office hit can be something no one expects. The Mummy made it painfully obvious making everything into a Marvel-like universe is not a sure recipe for success, and finally the huge financial success of Murder on the Orient Express proved old-school, adult oriented (but not vulgar or gory) films with a cast of stars can still be relevant in this age of tentpole franchises.

I'm ashamed to say that despite my best intentions, I've not yet seen this one.Going to rectify that right away and place an order for it on Amazon. Another one I missed - but that was me assuming it would be terrible. I'll have to check this one out down the road. I actually quite liked this one, but that has a lot to do with the fact that my youngest daughter really wanted to see it (which surprised me) and she really liked it. I really liked the way the story was told though, with the three separate threads running in three different time frames. Got this one for Christmas and have yet to watch it. Will be in the right frame of mind when I finally decide to fire it up.

I streamed Logan on a whim and was pleasantly surprised at how good I thought it was, especially given that I don't particularly like any of the other Wolverine movies. Kong:Skull Island I bought for yucks and grins and thought it was a blast. Really quite a fine movie and hits the mark for what it wanted to bring to the table, IMO.

Honestly I think my biggest disappointment would have to be the latest Star Wars movie. That was woeful.

Like I said, it's by no means bad. It's just that my expectations for Nolan are super high. I consider pretty much all of his movie before this to be great, some quite phenomenal, so this being just "good" is a let down. I'm still glad I saw it, I liked some of the ideas (like the fact we never see the enemy), but it just wasn't engaging for me. Yeah, the other two did not make for a high set bar. Still, Logan is legitimately great, not just in comparison to those two. And Patrick Stewart was fantastic in it. In a fair world he would be a frontrunner for a supporting Oscar for this one. It never had a chance for me in that category, since I expected it be bad, probably much worse than it turned out. I'm not sure if Star Wars can "disappoint me" at all anymore :P I'm pretty sure that boat has sailed with the prequels.

Best movie: Wolf Warrior 2
The yellow saivour blasts his way through crowds of bloodthirsty white mercenaries in some war-torn African shithole. This is Rambo for the 21st century. Most westerners are bound to be utterly repulsed by the blatant pro-Chinese propaganda, which makes it even better. Great fun!

Runner up: Get Out
Wonderfully conveys a Polanski-esque sense of paranoia that too few horror movies put to use these days. That scene with Georgina - if you've seen the movie you'll know the one - is hands down my favourite moment in cinema this year.

Meh: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
It was sort of ok. The biggest problem were the two main characters. Cara Delevigne sucks as an actress and the dude is a joke who I wouldn't buy as the womanizing hero in a million years. Not only do they have zero chemistry together, together they form some sort of black hole of chemistry. If there was a Razzie-version of the MTV movie awards, they'd be serious contenders for "worst on-screen couple in recent memory". Clive Owen starts to look like James Woods in his old age and Rihanna, of all people, delivered hands-down the best performance.

Meh, I said!: Baby Driver
The Nickelodeon version of Drive. Has a few tricks up its sleeve, most of them fail to impress. Similar to Valerian, the protagonist is an infufferable bore. Bizarrely enough, the romantic subplot is about the only thing that actually works in this movie. The scene in the diner (with Jamie Foxx about to go apeshit on Cinderella) was really good.

Seriously meh: Ghost in the Shell
It wasn't *that* bad. It was about as good as you can expect a bunch of Hollywood corporate suits to adapt the Anime/Manga source. Which is still pretty bad, but at the very least they seemed to take the story seriosly (even though they turned it into a retelling of RoboCop) instead of going with the usual wink-at-the-camera shit. The location got turned from what looked like a somewhat more run down version of contemporary Hong Kong in the anime into what looks like baby's first cyberpunk setting.

Biggest disappointment: Dunkirk
I agree that this is the biggest disappointment, I disagree that this isn't a bad movie. Because it is. Impossible to care about anyone. The closest to a relatable character this film has to offer is Oscar-winner Mark Rylance (who in my petty mind will forever be that guy who got his dick sucked on screen by Kerry Fox while her boyfriend wrote a cucked "it-made-our-relationship-stronger" article about it in the Guardian) and his crew. The kid who dies in a freak accident: You kinda care about him. The soldiers? Not so much. It utterly fails as a war movie, due to its portrayal of war as a PG-13-rated, sanitised, bloodless affair. Quite the contrast to last year's Hacksaw Ridge, at least images of soldiers getting ripped to pieces by machine gun fire gave you something of a feeling of loss, a feeling for the sacrifices made, which Dunkirk completely lacks. Another thing I noted was how Hacksaw Ridge portrayed the Japanese as bloodthirsty monsters, which is oddly still more humanising than how Dunkirk shows the Germans. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Dunkirk about hundreds of thousands of soldiers being evacuated by a whole fleet of ships? Because in the movie it looked like about 100 guys being saved by a dozen boats with Tom Hardy and one or two other guys lending air support. Also, my choice for worst soundtrack. Not all soundtracks have to be elaborate, pathos-dripping symphonies, but this was just rubbish. A barrage of *BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM* for two hours.

Most unneccessary sequel:
T2 - Trainspotting
I salute their balls for stealing Terminator 2's title. That alone does give this film SOME justification for existing. But the rest... ugh. Ok, there was one other thing I liked: The idea of a film about a bunch of former heroin junkies whose lives have somehow turned even shittier, despite them being (mostly) clean now. The film is two hours long, significantly longer than the original, while having nowhere near as many memorable scenes (if any at all). Begbie and Renton were childhood friends? I always assumed Begbie to be at least a decade older than the rest of the bunch. The finale they stole from the original Blade Runner was nonsensical and boring. Did we really need this? Does it bring anything significantly new to the table? The answer is, sadly, no. It puts the Sick Boy theory into practice: It's not bad, but it's not great either. And in your heart you kind of know that although it looks all right, it's actually just shite.

Worst ending:
Passengers
This would have been my favourite movie this year. A genuinely interesting premise, doesn't shy away from portraying the darker sides in relationships. Hell, even the performances ain't bad. Then the fucking ending comes along and destroys EVERYTHING this film carefully set up during the first two hours. I literally never left a cinema in such a foul mood. I felt like breaking the next guy's face for how awful that ending was and I can already feel the anger building in me again as I'm typing this, so let's quickly move on to something more uplifting...

Worst movie:
How about a triple-feature? Kong, Alien Covenant and Shin Godzilla

Kong: Whatever
The usual retarded popcorn fodder garbage. It even manages to get a forgettable performance out of John Goodman, something which I didn't think was even possible.

Alien Covenant
Saw this on an Emirates flight - because no way would I pay money to see this shit - back to back with Prometheus (both of which I hadn't seen before). Holy shit, what an abortion. I'm not that much of an Alien fan to begin with, but good lord would I feel violated if the backstory to one of my favourite movies would be besmirched with this sort of awful garbage. Starts with Blade Runner's close up of an eye. I guess this sort of self-reference is what counts as smart in Ridley Scott's eyes these days. And it goes downhill from there.

Shin Godzilla
Had moderately high expectations, was utterly let down. I don't ask much of a Godzilla movie - just have Godzilla stomp on cities as hapless Japanese bureaucrats watch on cluelessly. Unfortunately, the (admittedly well-done) city-stomping part makes up 5 minutes of a two hour film while the rest is entirely made up of bureaucrats watching and shouting orders. I get that they were trying to comment on the Japanese government's ineptness during Fukushima. But you get the idea after 10 minutes and after that they just keep repeating the exact same joke for two hours. It's boring and excruciating to sit through and while it's possibly not THE worst film (I'm sure there are other, more worthy contenders out there), the sheer dullness of it makes this my personal pick for worst movie of the year.

Best documentary: OJ - Made in America
The juice is loose! He's out, bitches! After watching this fine expose on the life and times of Mr Simpson, you can just picture him racing out of that jail, as the guards cheer him on: Go, OJ, go! Anyone else excited for the prospect of him returning for the inevitable Naked Gun reboot?
The documentary wasn't bad either. Dude may have beheaded his wife, but he's one charming mofo, so you'll be glued to the screen as you watch his life's story unfold for 7+ hours. Contains graphic crime scene footage, something I personally could've done without and I'm glad the imdb warned me about before watching this.

Shit I missed despite wanting to see it:

Blade Runner 2 - The Sequel
I consider the first one one of my favourite movies and a masterpiece... a masterpiece of production design, that is. It manages to create an amazing futuristic world, but little else. In terms of storytelling and characters, I honestly consider even the Westwood video game to be vastly superior to the film. The trailers did little to excite me, but one of my friends, whose opinion is usually reliable, said it might be his favourite film of the decade, so I'm mildly intrigued.

Manhunt
Oh, how I wish John Woo would make another film worthy of his glory period between 1986 and 1992. He said this one - a remake of a 1970s Japanese thriller starring Ken Takakura that's hugely popular in Mainland China, due to it being the first foreign film released there after the cultural revolution - would harken back to his earlier works like The Killer. Naturally, it tanked at the Chinese box office and the Mainland distributor hated Woo's version so much that they assembled their own cut. Chances are this will suck, but this is Woo, he directed four of my all-time favourite films and I'm willing to give the guy a chance despite him having churned out subpar work for two decades now. At least he hasn't fallen as far as Ridley Scott or Dario Argento... yet.

I think the only movie I saw this year that came out this year was Star Wars. :P

Not sure if I'd say it's as good as Alien Convenant, to be honest. It's really a hot mess. And I'm a fan of both franchises and quite forgiving with their movies. But this latest Star Wars - it's almost as bad as the prequels. I quite liked Force Awakens (despite its faults) and after Rogue One I was thinking "Okay, these guys are going to go in a great direction with the franchise - both with the mainline movies and the spin-offs" Boy, was I wrong.

When I went to see it everyone in the theater applauded.

BUT I really don't feel like getting into this again, so lets drop it.

That's one more than me, as I don't go to cinemas much at all nowadays, and I guess I haven't flown enough in 2017 to see new movies either. EDIT: I will soon see Episode 7 though, as they will show it on the TV here somewhere in January or February (along with all the earlier SW movies); so I am slowly catching up with these newer SW movies. :)

The newest movies I've seen:

Mad Max The Fury Road (2015): It was an ok action flick, but still somewhat meh. I guess my expectations were a bit too high due to all the praise.

The Red Pill (2016): A documentary movie about an (ex-)feminist who interviews some Men Rights Activists and learns during the film making that they are people too and decides to leave feminism.

The premise interested me a lot and some good points were being made in the movie, but in the end, as a documentary, it wasn't that good after all IMHO, and some of the feminist critique towards it was even warranted (like that it isn't much of a documentary if you are merely interviewing people, and not doing much of any other work to find out the "truth"). I don't think I even watched it all the way through, as it seemed to be just an interview after an interview.

Even if I partly side with some MRA activists and shun away from feminism generally (e.g. I couldn't see myself dating or marrying some woman (a feminist activist) who'd go on and on about the evils of patriarchy), to me this movie didn't just deliver that much.

Was that before or after the movie? ;P

I loved it and I hated LOTR and I hated System Sock and I loved Terminator Salvation and I'm all fucked up and a troll and The Apocalypse is upon us and yadda yadda yadda and LET'S DANCE!

After the mess that was Prometheus and the really boring looking trailers I just refused to waste my time and money on Covenant. Star Wars is a franchise I feel like I will keep watching regardless of how bad it already was/is and how bad it may get. But I feel like I'm pretty much done with Alien. I just can't find it within me to give a single fuck anymore.

There were actually quite a few movies this year I skipped intentionally. I refuse to ever again pay money for another Transformers movie, I could not possibly give a shit about Spider-man Homecoming (I hated the new Spider-Man enough in Civil War) I there is no force in the universe that could make me watch the live action version of the Disney's painfuly boring Beauty and the Beast.

The only 2017 films I've seen are Blade Runner and Alien: Covenant. I missed several that I wanted to see : Kong, It, Thor: Ragnarok, Logan, Guardians of the Galaxy, Justice League.
Might work in The Last Jedi some time, but after epVII I'm not really in the mood :P

I thought Blade Runner was excellent as well, and only paled in comparison to the original when it came to the music. Not that the music is bad by any means, it's just not in the same league. Oh yes, and the film was too dark. Often I had difficulty making out what was going on. Though perhaps it was our projector.

Alien Covenant had some good parts, but overall it was a massive disappointment. The main character started to annoy within the span of 10 minutes :P

lmao there was no good movies in 2017

I haven't watched a single 2017 movie and in fact, i haven't watched more than 10 movies this year in general because i was busy watching 2 series (Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones) and a 10-part miniseries for the 3rd time (Band of Brothers), which is weird for me because i don't usually sit down and watch whole series from start to finish. Glad to hear that Blade Runner proved to be a good movie; will watch soon.