SLAM! Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 (edited) Welcome to my 2017 Hullabaloo Extravanga. In this thread, I will commemorate and award the best films of the exemplary year of 2017. I will reveal my ten favorite films of the year- I can't decide which one is my favorite- and I will give out some 'awards', as well. Some categories won't be posted right away because I have yet to see the necessary amount of films (five). Slambros' Ten Favorite Films of 2017 Spoiler Best Director Spoiler Best Ensemble Spoiler Best Actor Spoiler Best Actress Spoiler Best Supporting Actor Spoiler Best Supporting Actress Spoiler Best Original Screenplay Spoiler Best Adapted Screenplay Spoiler Best Cinematography Spoiler Best Film Editing Spoiler Best Visual Effects Spoiler Best Mise-en-scene (Costume, Production Design, Makeup & Hairstyling) Spoiler Best Score Spoiler Best Soundtrack Spoiler Baby Driver - Winner The Greatest Showman Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Lady Bird Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Sound Spoiler Baby Driver - Winner Blader Runner 2049 Dunkirk The Shape of Water Star Wars: The Last Jedi Best Animated Feature Spoiler Best Comedy Feature Spoiler The Big Sick Brigsby Bear The Disaster Artist - WINNER Logan Lucky Wilson Best Documentary Feature Spoiler Best Faith-Based Feature Spoiler Best Horror Feature Spoiler Best Scene Spoiler Best Distributor Spoiler The Cinemaritan Award for Most Meaningful Film Spoiler My 50 Most Anticipated Movies of 2018 Spoiler Paddington 2 (dir. Paul King) Maze Runner: The Death Cure (dir. Wes Ball) Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler) Early Man Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland) I Can Only Imagine Tomb Raider (dir. Roar Uthaug) Journey's End Paul, Apostle of Christ Isle of Dogs (dir. Wes Anderson) Ready Player One (dir. Steven Spielberg) Lean on Pete (dir. Andrew Haigh) A Quiet Place Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero Tully (dir. Jason Reitman) Avengers: Infinity War (dir. Joe & Anthony Russo) Solo: A Star Wars Story (dir. Ron Howard) Adrift Ocean's Eight The Incredibles 2 (dir. Brad Bird) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (dir. J.A. Bayona) Sicario 2: Soldado (dir. Stefano Sollima) Ant-Man and the Wasp Skyscraper Don't Worry, He Won't Go Far On Foot (dir. Gus Van Sant) The Meg Captive State (dir. Rupert Wyatt) The Happytime Murders The Little Stranger (dir. Lenny Abrahamson) Alpha The Predator (dir. Shane Black) Little Women Smallfoot Venom (dir. Ruben Fleischer) First Man (dir. Damien Chazelle) Mowgli (dir. Andy Serkis) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (dir. Marielle Heller) Mary, Queen of Scots Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald (dir. David Yates) Widows (dir. Steve Mcqueen) Creed 2 The Women of Marwen (dir. Robert Zemeckis) AD Astra (dir. James Gray) Mortal Engines Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (dir. Phil Lord & Chris Miller) Alita: Battle Angel (dir. Robert Rodriguez) Aquaman (dir. James Wan) Mary Poppins Returns (dir. Rob Marshall) The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (dir. Terry Gilliam) Mary Magdalene (dir. Garth Davis) It might take me a bit of a while to get through all of my categories, but I'll try to move through as diligently as I can. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy my Hullabaloo Extravanga and find my choices interesting. Edited March 12, 2018 by slambros 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAM! Posted February 21, 2018 Author Share Posted February 21, 2018 It'll be the only category I cover tonight, but I'm gonna reveal... Best Comedy Feature Nominee #1: Spoiler Nominee #2: Spoiler Nominee #3: Spoiler Nominee #4: Spoiler And my winner... Spoiler The Disaster Artist is a heartfelt film about friendship between two misfits in Hollywood, told with great writing and a moving sense of empathy. It delivers on its laughs big-time, which is why I've chosen it as my favorite comedy of the year. (Lady Bird would've won if I thought it was comedic; witty, yes, but to me, it didn't feel too funny.) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatree Posted February 21, 2018 Share Posted February 21, 2018 Logan Lucky is great fun. Really liked Disaster Artist, though I don't really think of it as a comedy per se. haven't seen the others 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAM! Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 And now, for... Best Sound Nominee #1: Spoiler Nominee #2: Spoiler Nominee #3: Spoiler Nominee #4: Spoiler And the winner is: Spoiler In the other film that I nominated here, Sound Effects were simply complementary, though they were undoubtedly great throughout their runtimes. But in Baby Driver, the sound is absolutely vital to the fresh, innovative experience of the film; it is expertly mixed and superbly edited, and it is definitely deserving of a win for this category. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasticBeasts Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 You forgot the titles in th Sound category. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAM! Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 1 hour ago, FantasticBeasts said: You forgot the titles in th Sound category. That was intentional; I wanted to choose pictures that would invoke the sounds from the films and I think the pictures themselves represent their corresponding films more than their titles do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FantasticBeasts Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 8 minutes ago, slambros said: That was intentional; I wanted to choose pictures that would invoke the sounds from the films and I think the pictures themselves represent their corresponding films more than their titles do. Wwell I didn't recodnizw some Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAM! Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 I'm going to see another film tonight, so in the likely case that it is my first 2018 film, I want to post my current Most Anticipated 50 Films of 2018 list. If many of the films on my list end up being mediocre, or if many films I didn't put on this list actually become anticipated later on, then it won't be the end of the world. Here it is: Spoiler Paddington 2 (dir. Paul King) Maze Runner: The Death Cure (dir. Wes Ball) Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler) Early Man Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland) I Can Only Imagine Tomb Raider (dir. Roar Uthaug) Journey's End Paul, Apostle of Christ Isle of Dogs (dir. Wes Anderson) Ready Player One (dir. Steven Spielberg) Lean on Pete (dir. Andrew Haigh) A Quiet Place Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero Tully (dir. Jason Reitman) Avengers: Infinity War (dir. Joe & Anthony Russo) Solo: A Star Wars Story (dir. Ron Howard) Adrift Ocean's Eight The Incredibles 2 (dir. Brad Bird) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (dir. J.A. Bayona) Sicario 2: Soldado (dir. Stefano Sollima) Ant-Man and the Wasp Skyscraper Don't Worry, He Won't Go Far On Foot (dir. Gus Van Sant) The Meg Captive State (dir. Rupert Wyatt) The Happytime Murders The Little Stranger (dir. Lenny Abrahamson) Alpha The Predator (dir. Shane Black) Little Women Smallfoot Venom (dir. Ruben Fleischer) First Man (dir. Damien Chazelle) Mowgli (dir. Andy Serkis) Can You Ever Forgive Me? (dir. Marielle Heller) Mary, Queen of Scots Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindlewald (dir. David Yates) Widows (dir. Steve Mcqueen) Creed 2 The Women of Marwen (dir. Robert Zemeckis) AD Astra (dir. James Gray) Mortal Engines Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (dir. Phil Lord & Chris Miller) Alita: Battle Angel (dir. Robert Rodriguez) Aquaman (dir. James Wan) Mary Poppins Returns (dir. Rob Marshall) The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (dir. Terry Gilliam) Mary Magdalene (dir. Garth Davis) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLAM! Posted February 26, 2018 Author Share Posted February 26, 2018 I'm gonna reveal a few more below the line categories! I'll start with... Best Soundtrack Nominee #1: Spoiler Nominee #2: Spoiler Nominee #3: Spoiler Nominee #4: Spoiler And the winner is... Spoiler For Baby Driver, Edgar Wright and his cohorts curated a masterful soundtrack that defines the film as a whole. For that reason, a for the reason that pretty much every single song is awesome, Baby Driver's soundtrack is my favorite of the year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
