The Panda Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 Best Supporting Actress Honorable Mention #4 Dafne Keen, Logan Honorable Mention #3 Sophia Lillis, IT Honorable Mention #2 Octavia Spencer, The Shape of Water Honorable Mention #1 Holly Hunter, The Big Sick Co-Runner Up Mary J. Blige, Mudbound Runner Up Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird Winner Carrie Fisher, Star Wars: The Last Jedi 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WrathOfHan Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 I actually agree with your top two Supporting Actor picks right now 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That One Girl Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 I want a user opinion from me in here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aabattery Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 Just now, That One Guy said: I want a user opinion from me in here That would entail you actually having had a good opinion. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That One Girl Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 2 minutes ago, ReyReyBattery said: That would entail you actually having had a good opinion. if he puts Bright on here, he can use this quote 3 hours ago, That One Guy said: Can I give a lower grade than an F? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porthos Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) I'm going ahead and liking every damn award post in this thread, not because I agree (sometimes I vociferous disagree) but because I want to Support Our Local Sheriff support our local rankers. Edited December 30, 2017 by Porthos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 Last one for today, since I had an unplanned break and it's getting late, so I'll finish up the latter 40% tomorrow (and I'll start off with Best Screenplay tomorrow) Number 13 IT "They're gazebos! They're bullshit!" My Grade: A- Most Valuable Player: Stephen King for the Source Material Box Office: 327.5m Tomatometer: 85% Synopsis: "A group of bullied kids band together when a shapeshifting monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children." Critic Opinion: "There is an intangible quality that separates the truly great movies from the merely good ones. It can be deconstructed and quantified to a degree, but in the end there is a gravity that elevates the future classics above their counterparts. As I noticed in the reactions of the audience members around me, as well as from my own heart, "It" possesses that last quality in spades." - Matthew Rozsa, Salon User Opinion: "It's very good. Felt like a really good 'old school' Nightmare on Elm Street film." - @chasmmi Reasoning: IT was a movie that I was very much anticipating this year, as were many others obviously, and the anticipation paid off in spades. While it's not a perfect blockbuster, it was the one I probably had the most fun in when watching in theaters this year, and that's a big deal. But beyond just being a fun movie, it's one of those rare movies that should be targeted at a niche demographic that manages to be something of a cultural zeitgeist. The film plays out like a cinematic classic, all of the kids in the cast are phenomenal, and there's some really funny scares and lines throughout the movie. I don't know how well this will end up holding up when re-watching it by myself at home, but with a crowd the movie's a rave. Just a fantastic blockbuster. 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 20 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said: I actually agree with your top two Supporting Actor picks right now That means you don’t agree with “Blow that piece of junk... OUT OF THE SKY!” 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Hunt Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 It? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That One Girl Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 7 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said: It? Very good movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Hunt Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 16 minutes ago, That One Guy said: Very good movie It's fine. Mostly forgettable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That One Girl Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 9 minutes ago, Ethan Hunt said: It's fine. Mostly forgettable. you’re fine. Mostly forgettable. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brainbug Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 IT was one of the rare occasions where i felt like watching a future classic in the cinema. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 Best Screenplay Honorable Mention #4 Logan Spoiler INT. GUEST BEDROOM -- SAME Inside the guest room, Logan tucks Charles in. Charles looks out the window beside the bed. The moon over the silos. LOGAN There’s a TV in here. CHARLES (smiles gently) I’m fine. LOGAN Okay... Get some rest. As Logan turns away, Charles reaches for him. CHARLES You know, Logan. This is what life looks like. A house, people who love each other. A safe place. Take a moment and feel it. (beat) You still have time. Honorable Mention #3 Wind River Spoiler EXT. HANSON HOME -- WIND RIVER, WYOMING -- LATER. Cory and Martin sit on the porch, looking out over the snow- covered sagebrush. CORY I’d like to tell you it gets easier, but it doesn’t. If there’s a comfort -- you get used to the pain if you let yourself ... I went to a grief seminar in Casper. Don’t know why, just ... It hurt so much, I was searching for anything that could make it go away ... That’s what I wanted this seminar to do -- make it go away. The instructor come up to me after the seminar was over, sat beside me and said, “I got good news and bad news. Bad news is you’ll never be the same. You’ll never be whole. Ever. What was taken from you can’t be replaced. You’re daughter’s gone. ... Now the good news -- as soon as you accept that, as soon as you let yourself suffer, allow yourself to grieve ... You’ll be able to visit her in your mind, and remember all the joy she gave you. All the love she knew. Right now, you don’t even have that, do you?” Martin finds himself shaking his head ‘no’, even though the question wasn’t directed at him. CORY (CONT’D) He said, “that’s what not accepting this will rob from you”. Cory looks at Martin. CORY (CONT’D) If you shy from the pain of it, then you rob yourself of every memory of her, my friend. Every one. From her first step to her last smile. You’ll kill ‘em all. Cory puts his hand on Martin’s neck, guides his eyes up to him. Honorable Mention #2 Star Wars: The Last Jedi Spoiler KYLO REN Blow that piece of junk ... OUT OF THE SKY! (Sorry TLJ's screenplay isn't available online!) Honorable Mention #1 The Big Sick Spoiler INT. HOSPITAL CAFETERIA- LATER Kumail carries his tray, spots Terry and Beth together having a hushed conversation. He sits at a different table. Terry waves at him. Kumail heads over to them. TERRY No reason you should eat there by yourself. Right, hon? BETH (barely looks up) It’s a free country. Kumail nods. Sits down. They eat. It’s awkward. KUMAIL How’s your sandwich? BETH Best fuckin' sandwich I’ve ever had. TERRY Mine's good. Tuna's always a gamble. You know, we're not by the water. Well, we are by the water, but it's a lake. There's no tuna in the lake. Whatever. I threw the dice. I got the 7's, I guess. Whatever the good dice number is. More silence. TERRY (CONT’D) So, uh, 9/11? Blank looks from Kumail and Beth. TERRY (CONT'D) No, I mean, I've always wanted to have a conversation about it with...people. KUMAIL You've never talked to people about 9/11? TERRY No, uh, what's your stance? KUMAIL What's my stance on 9/11? Oh, ummmm... Anti. It was a tragedy. (a beat) I mean we lost 19 of our best guys. Co-Runner Up Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri Spoiler FATHER MONTGOMERY I know it’s been hard for you, Mildred, this past year. We all do. The whole town does. And whatever it is you need, we’ll be there for you. Always. But the town also knows what kind of a man William Willoughby is. And the town is dead set against these billboards of yours. MILDRED Took a poll, did ya, Father? FATHER MONTGOMERY If you hadn’t stopped coming to church, Mildred, you’d be aware of the depth of people’s feelings. I had a dozen people come up to me on Sunday. So, yes, I took a poll. Everybody is on your side about Angela. No-one’s on your side about this. MILDRED Y’know what I was thinking about, earlier today? I was thinking ‘bout those streetgangs they got in Los Angeles, the Crips and the Bloods? I was thinking about that buncha new laws they came up with, in the 80’s I think it was, to combat those street-gangs, those Crips and those Bloods. And, if I remember rightly, the gist of what those new laws said was, if you join one of these gangs, and you’re running with ‘em, and down the block from you one night, unbeknownst to you, your fellow Crips, or your fellow Bloods, shoot up a place, or stab a guy, well, even though you didn’t know nothing about it, even though you may’ve just been standing on a streetcorner minding your own business, those new laws said you are still culpable. You are still culpable, by the very act of joining those Crips, or those Bloods, in the first place. Which got me thinking, Father, that whole type of situation is kinda similar to you Church boys, ain’t it? You’ve got your colors, you’ve got your clubhouse, you’re, for want of a better word, a gang. And if you’re upstairs smoking a pipe and reading a bible while one of your fellow gang members is downstairs fucking an altar boy then, Father, just like the Crips, and just like the Bloods, you’re culpable. Cos you joined the gang, man. And I don’t care if you never did shit or never saw shit or never heard shit. You joined the gang. You’re culpable. And when a person is culpable to altar-boy-fucking, or anykinda-boy-fucking, I know you guys didn’t really narrow it down, then they kinda forfeit the right to come into my house and say a word about me, or my life, or my daughter, or my billboards. So, why don’t you just finish your tea there, Father, and get the fuck outta my kitchen. She goes off to another room. MONTGOMERY puts down his teacup. ROBBIE But thanks for coming up anyway, Father. Runner Up Lady Bird Spoiler INT. CHURCH. DAY. Snippets of a sermon, some donation baskets. The choir gets up to sing “Blessed Assurance.” Christine listens and then cries, hard, and then starts laughing and singing along. It turns out that her life is just beginning. She ducks into the entry-way of the church. Gets out her phone, calls her home phone. It rings and rings. She leaves a message: CHRISTINE Hi Mom and Dad, it’s me. Christine. It’s the name you gave me. It’s a good one. Dad, this is more for Mom - Hey Mom: did you feel emotional the first time that you drove in Sacramento? I did and I wanted to tell you, but we weren’t really talking when it happened. All those bends I’ve known my whole life, and stores, and the whole thing. But I wanted to tell you. I love you. Thank you, I’m... thank you. Hangs up and listens from the back of the church while the choir continues singing. Winner Get Out Spoiler EXT. GAZEBO. DAY. During Dean’s speech, Chris wanders away from the group. JIM Ignorant shit... Chris hadn’t seen Jim Hudson, the blind man, who sits in the gazebo with his seeing eye dog. He is close to Chris, but far enough away from the group that no one else hears them. CHRIS Who? JIM All of them. Ignorant assholes. They have no idea what real people go through. CHRIS I guess people only see what’s in front of them. Chris notices his faux pas. 53. I mean... JIM Heh. No, you’re right. And usually not even that much. That’s people. Jim holds a glass up. Chris fist bumps the glass. JIM (CONT) Jim Hudson. CHRIS Chris JIM I know who you are. I’m an admirer of your work; you have a great eye... CHRIS Wait. Jim Hudson... of Hudson Galleries? Jim smiles. JIM The irony of being a blind art dealer isn’t lost on me. CHRIS How do you do it? JIM I have an assistant describe work to me. You’ve got something... The images you capture... so brutally melancholic. Powerful stuff. CHRIS Thank you. Yeah, I just like finding the beauty in abandoned things. JIM I used to dabble myself. Wilderness mostly. I submitted to Nat Geo 14 times before realizing I didn’t have “the eye” for it; Began dealing. And then, of course, my vision went to shit. CHRIS Damn. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 Number 12 Coco "Remember me." My Grade: A- Most Valuable Player: Kristin Anderson-Lopez for the Music and Lyrics Box Office: 172.4m+ Tomatometer: 97% Synopsis: Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history. Critic Opinion: "Coco never shies away from tackling the topic of death head-on. At times it's treated lightly (the way in which De la Cruz died is played for laughs), other times the tone is serious and even dark, but the subject is always presented as a fact of life that even younger kids (including members of its audience) should be able to handle. Loved ones die -- some before they're old -- but they shouldn't be forgotten." - Britton Peele, Dallas Morning News User Opinion: "The pacing of the movie felt perfect to me, the run time spot on. It just felt like a perfect movie, one that definitely hits you with emotions and plenty of laughs. This is a movie for everyone, one of my favs of the year!" - @K1stpierre Reasoning: This is a rare movie where the dubbed version is actually the superior one, as in the Spanish version is a good bit better than the English one, especially concerning the soundtrack. Coco is a demonstration that Pixar still has their emotional touch and still have the capabilities to make Golden Age quality originals like they did 10 years ago. The animation is absolutely gorgeous, and I loved the fact that we finally got a mainstream movie about Hispanic culture (and told in a way where it's respectful and not satirical). The movie may play out beat by beat how you'd expect it too, but it still manages to make you feel the emotion that it sets out on attempting to make its audience feel, and so it makes the straightforward plot line easily forgivable. In a year of weak animation, it doesn't say much to say Coco is the best animation of the year, but I reckon it'd stay that way in even a competitive year. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAM! Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 11 hours ago, The Last Panda said: Honorable Mention #4 Gil Birmingham, Wind River This is a good choice for an honorable mention to me. Gil Birmingham really shone here. It's a shame he didn't have as much screen time as I thought he would. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 I keep flip-flopping numbers 10 and 11, as I want both of them in my top 10, but I can't be one of those guys who puts 11 movies in a top 10 list. So I'll just go with my initial ranking, prior to the retroactive thinking. Just know numbers 10 and 11 are probably my most interchangeable on the list. Number 11 A Ghost Story "A writer writes a novel, a songwriter writes a song, we do what we can to endure." My Grade: A- Most Valuable Player: David Lowrey for Editing, as well as Directing and Writing Box Office: 1.6m Tomatometer: 90% Synopsis: In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife. Critic Opinion: "I should mention that the film is virtually without plot, so it requires some patience. Major stars and that title notwithstanding, A Ghost Story is not a Saturday-night date movie. More a provocative art film in the European sense. Though barely 87 minutes, it unfolds in long, static shots, most of them without faces to hang onto. It's almost a film without genre, and by the end it's become a story untethered from time itself. Still, it manages to be achingly intimate, and somehow optimistic. A meditation on loss but also on legacy — on our enduring need to endure." User Opinion: "Definitely the most unique film I've seen so far this year, intimate yet epic, gorgeous visually, Ghostfleck is absolutely captivating... Such a simple and probably goofy on paper concept executed so brilliantly." - @antovolk Reasoning: Probably one of, if not the, most unique films that I have seen this year. The movie follows no rules of genre, and while it's constructed based off of a haunting story, it bends that narrative into a story focusing on the ghost observing the house he is trapped in. It ends up becoming a nice contemplation on legacy and what loss would be like to the person actually dying. The score is hauntingly beautiful, and David Lowrey's direction is compelling. The film is edited together brilliantly, and flows rather seemlessly. Now, for a movie that's only 87 minutes long, it does at times feel rather lengthy, mostly because of the long stretches of time the film spends on particular moments (such as a 9 minute pie eating scene). While all of this may seem as if it'd come off as pretentious, it ultimately feels rather authentic and sincere in its approach. It's a lovely movie, quirks and all. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertman2 Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 I'm shocked I got used for Thor tbh Also great list so far 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 Best Ensemble Honorable Mention #4 The Shape of Water Honorable Mention #3 Get Out Honorable Mention #2 Mudbound Honorable Mention #1 The Big Sick Co-Runner Up Lady Bird Runner Up Star Wars: The Last Jedi Winner Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Panda Posted December 30, 2017 Author Share Posted December 30, 2017 So before I get into the top 10 list portion (and Actor, Actress and Director), here are a few fun tidbits My 5 Least Favorite Movies of 2017 1. All Eyez on Me 2. The Emoji Movie 3. Transformers: The Last Knight 4. The Dark Tower 5. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword And My top 5 most anticipated movies of 2018 Alfonso Cuaron's Roma First Man Deadpool 2 Mary Poppins Returns Solo: A Star Wars Story 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...