Best and Worst Movies of 2015

[areaseven]

As 2015 is coming to an end, let's look back at all the movies we watched this year. What are your picks for the best and worst of 2015?

Best Action Movie:

Worst Action Movie:

Best Comedy Movie:

Worst Comedy Movie:

Best Drama Movie:

Worst Drama Movie:

Best Horror/Suspense Movie:
Worst Horror/Suspense Movie:

Best Sci-Fi Movie:
Worst Sci-Fi Movie:

Best Animated Movie:

Worst Animated Movie:

Best Comic Book Movie:
Worst Comic Book Movie:

Best Spy Movie:
Worst Spy Movie:

Best Actor:

Worst Actor:

Best Actress:

Worst Actress:

Best Supporting Actor:

Worst Supporting Actor:

Best Director:

Worst Director:

[areaseven]

I might as well get the ball rolling. I'd put Kung Fury on this list, but it doesn't count, as it's an online movie.

Best Action Movie:
Mad Max: Fury Road
Honorable Mentions: Kingsman: The Secret Service and Furious 7

Worst Action Movie:
The Transporter Refueled
Dishonorable Mention: Hitman: Agent 47

Best Comedy Movie:
Ted 2 (barely)

Worst Comedy Movie:
Hot Pursuit
Dishonorable Mention: Unfinished Business

Best Drama Movie:
Creed

Worst Drama Movie:
N/A (not wasting time or money on Fifty Shades of Grey)

Best Horror/Suspense Movie:
N/A (not into horror flicks)

Worst Horror/Suspense Movie:
N/A

Best Sci-Fi Movie:
The Martian
Honorable Mentions: Ex Machina and Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Worst Sci-Fi Movie:
Jupiter Ascending

Best Animated Movie:
Inside Out

Worst Animated Movie:
Minions

Best Comic Book Movie:
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Honorable Mention: Ant-Man

Worst Comic Book Movie:
Fant4stic
Dishonorable Mention: Attack on Titan

Best Spy Movie:
Kingsman: The Secret Service

Worst Spy Movie:
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Dishonorable Mention: Spy

Best Actor:
Michael B. Jordan (Creed)
Honorable Mentions: Matt Damon (The Martian), Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service), and John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Worst Actor:
Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys)
Dishonorable Mentions: Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and Channing Tatum (Jupiter Ascending)

Best Actress:
Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Honorable Mentions: Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) and Charlize Theron (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Worst Actress:
Melissa McCarthy (Spy)
Dishonorable Mentions: Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara (Hot Pursuit) and Mila Kunis (Jupiter Ascending)

Best Supporting Actor:
Sylvester Stallone (Creed)
Honorable Mentions: Harrison Ford (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), Michael Peña (Ant-Man), and Colin Firth (Kingsman: The Secret Service)

Worst Supporting Actor:

Ninja (Chappie)

Dishonorable Mention: Jason Clarke (Terminator Genisys)

Best Supporting Actress:

Tessa Thompson (Creed)

Worst Supporting Actress:

Yolandi Visser (Chappie)

Best Director:
Ryan Coogler (Creed)
Honorable Mentions: Alex Garland (Ex Machina), Ridley Scott (The Martian), J. J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), and Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman: The Secret Service)

Worst Director:
Anne Fletcher (Hot Pursuit)
Dishonorable Mentions: Josh Trank (Fant4stic) and The Wachowskis (Jupiter Ascending)

Best Soundtrack:
John Williams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens)
Honorable Mentions: Ludwig Göransson (Creed) and Junkie XL (Mad Max: Fury Road)

Worst Soundtrack:
N/A

[Duke Togo]

John Williams for best soundtrack? Really? I found it to be underwhelming and unequal to his past work.

[areaseven]

Edited December 31, 2015 by areaseven

[Negotiator]

didn't watch enough movies to fill this out

[Dynaman]

didn't watch enough movies to fill this out

Me neither but since I just saw Pan and the latest Mad Max movie I will gladly nominate them for worst movies in whatever categories they can be slotted into.

Best Action Movie is Star Wars, even with my reservations about the bad guys being a bit too cookie cutter it ended up being what a Star Wars movie should be.

Best Movie of the year - In the Heart of the Sea (Like I said I have not seen many but it is refreshing to have a story that does not involve super heroes beating each other up for two hours)

[Duke Togo]

Totally doing my own format here, because that's how I roll.

Favorite film of 2015: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

- I love this film and this franchise too much to be able to objectively rank it among the best of 2015, so it gets its own category.

Top 5 Films of 2015*:

1. Mad Max: Fury Road

2. The Martian

3. Ex Machina

4. Sicario

5. Spotlight

*The Revenant and Carol are in limited release and nowhere near me right now, so this list may change once I see them both.

Most Surprising Film of 2015: Creed

- I really, really wanted this film in my top 5. Like The Force Awakens, it's not perfect, but it's so wonderful and expertly directed.

Most Disappointing Film of 2015: The Hateful Eight

- It's gorgeously shot, but that's about all it has going for it. It has serious narrative problems that lead to some very poor directorial decisions.

Worst Film of 2015: American Ultra

- Saving the worst for last. I bailed on this film barely a half hour into it. I'm sure there were worse movies out there, but this was as low as I could stomach seeing.

Edited December 27, 2015 by Duke Togo

[myk]

Me neither but since I just saw Pan and the latest Mad Max movie I will gladly nominate them for worst movies in whatever categories they can be slotted into.

Best Action Movie is Star Wars, even with my reservations about the bad guys being a bit too cookie cutter it ended up being what a Star Wars movie should be.

Best Movie of the year - In the Heart of the Sea (Like I said I have not seen many but it is refreshing to have a story that does not involve super heroes beating each other up for two hours)

I'm either getting too old to remember what I saw this year, or it was just a mediocre year for movies, relative to me. In any case, I agree with you on Mad Max; I just couldn't get behind it...

[Frogze]

I'm either getting too old to remember what I saw this year, or it was just a mediocre year for movies, relative to me. In any case, I agree with you on Mad Max; I just couldn't get behind it...

I agree with you guys, maybe we're all getting old here because to me 2015 was such a poor year movie-wise, although I haven't seen SW or the hateful 8 yet I doubt it will change my mind that this year's been full of soulless commercial flickers. The Martian and Ex Machina were both ridiculously overblown while Kingman and Mad Max were enjoyable but ultimately very forgettable. I really can't think of a single great movie from this year which is kind of sad

[Duke Togo]

I agree with you guys, maybe we're all getting old here because to me 2015 was such a poor year movie-wise, although I haven't seen SW or the hateful 8 yet I doubt it will change my mind that this year's been full of soulless commercial flickers. The Martian and Ex Machina were both ridiculously overblown while Kingman and Mad Max were enjoyable but ultimately very forgettable. I really can't think of a single great movie from this year which is kind of sad

What do you consider to be a great movie?

[Chewie]

What do you consider to be a great movie?

Right? Damn.

[myk]

Double Impact...

[Dynaman]

What do you consider to be a great movie?

I'll answer for me with a list from years past.

Star Wars and Empire Strikes back.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Saving Private Ryan.

Gone With the Wind (even though it is before my time I can easily see why it is one of the greats, it transcends the time it was made)

Aliens

Superman (the original only)

Star Trek II

Letters from Iwo Jima.

The Green Mile.

To get things back on track "Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol" is my vote for best spy movie. But I've not seen Spectre yet. The advertisement for "Spy" is my vote for worst...

Edited December 29, 2015 by Dynaman

[TangledThorns]

John Williams for best soundtrack? Really? I found it to be underwhelming and unequal to his past work.

I'm just here to agree with you. Williams phoned this one in.

[Graham]

I only go to the cinema to watch movies that I know I'm going to enjoy. I don't have enough time, money or desire to go watch crap at the cinema.

The top movies I enjoyed this year, in order are:

1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Seeing it for a 3rd time tonight).

2) Mad Max: Fury Road.

3) Sicario.

4) The Martian.

5) Ant Man.

6) Kingsmen: The Secret Service.

Graham

[myk]

There were MAYBE three movies that at the very least didn't annoy me completely, and at best I found memorable and worthy of mention: Creed, MI5, and Ex Machina. I resent the idea that if I don't nut all over myself for movies like Episode 7, Mad Max and Spectre that I'm somehow a damaged adult, incapable of making sound decisions; most of the stuff I was exposed to or heard about this year evoked nothing from me. This isn't to say that I think my opinions or anyone else's should be taken as gospel; it's just an opinion...

[Duke Togo]

I only go to the cinema to watch movies that I know I'm going to enjoy. I don't have enough time, money or desire to go watch crap at the cinema.

The top movies I enjoyed this year, in order are:

1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Seeing it for a 3rd time tonight).

2) Mad Max: Fury Road.

3) Sicario.

4) The Martian.

5) Ant Man.

6) Kingsmen: The Secret Service.

Graham

Very happy to see another Sicario mention

[Major Focker]

happened to watch Sicario last week. powerful stuff.

then i watched Blackhat

then Kimiko

[505thAirborne]

Very happy to see another Sicario mention

Sicario was outstanding!!

[Frogze]

What do you consider to be a great movie?

It's very subjective obviously and does change from one person to another. To me a great movie would be an experience that stays in the back of my mind long after I left the theatre. I keep thinking of a great movie because it's filled with great shots that actually have a meaning, that are moving, thrilling, disturbing, etc.

I didn't get any of that this year. But all's not lost yet I guess, I'll give Sicario a shot.