Your biggest disappointments of 2014...?

I disagree with you about Inherent Vice.

1. Godzilla
2. Interstellar
3. Nightcrawler

Inherent Vice
Godzilla
Interstellar (good, but disappointing)

Inherent Vice and The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies are definitely the biggest disappointments of 2014.

I'd agree with your overall summation (including huge praise for Nightcrawler, my second favorite film of the year, after Maps to the Stars).

Other films whose praise I deemed unworthy:

Selma, The Lego Movie, Into the Woods, Foxcatcher, Two Days One Night, Under the Skin, The Babadook, Snowpiercer.

All of those I'd put in the middling to above middling camp, some with fine performances that failed to lift otherwise uninteresting or unoriginal films. Oh, except Snowpiercer, which is horrible.

For most overrated (given its accolades compared to my impression), I'd say "Wild" is at the top, which is to say, bottom.

Other films deserving of the love: Birdman, Ida, Whiplash, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Mr. Turner.

And.... slightly overrated: Boyhood. Good but not great, nor a masterpiece.

Snowpiercer was a great Sci Fi action film

And Foxcatcher was mesmerizing although it does seem like it was cut to shreds and the end should've created more tension between du pont and the older brother.

I was is the group that actually enjoyed godzilla and thought the way it was filmed was refreshing and overall exciting. The story was ridiculous, but so is the source material so complaints on that just don't make sense to me.
Dissapointments:

Exodus was great in some parts, but overall somewhat underwhelming.

Nightcrawler was interesting, but by the end it was predictable and lacking.

For a film as a whole, Godzilla was my single biggest disappointment. What a dull movie. I've always enjoyed the 1998 version as I love disaster movies, be they goofy or serious, but this 2014 version was just so anemic. Lack of action AND characterization.

Frankly, I think it's s travesty that Steve Carell and Mark Ruffalo were nominated for Foxcatcher while Channing Tatum was shut out. I didn't particularly like Foxcatcher much, but Tatum really impressed me with his dramatic chops. And I've been a fan of his since the first G.I. Joe. Carell was nothing special, and Ruffalo was hardly worth mention til the last 45 minutes or so. Further proof that the Oscars mean precisely jack.

I also liked Birdman, but wasn't in love like everyone else is. Though it would be Edward Norton's year if J.K. Simmons didn't have supporting actor all locked up.

May 2014 (through Neighbors and A Million Ways to Die in the West) single-handedly destroyed any desire I have to see an R-rated comedy ever again. I will now avoid Ted 2 like the plague, even though I loved the first.

The film that hurt me the most though, was Muppets Most Wanted. As a 21 year old, I am a lifelong fan of the Muppets, and this was one of my most anticipated all of 2014. I chuckled a few times and that was it.

To get this back to A Most Violent Year, I thought it was a pretty good film, with Oscar Isaac definately snubbed for best actor (I would've swapped Cumberbatch for him, and Carell for Oyelowo in Selma). Though I'm glad Chastain was left out. Love her, but this was not an awards worthy performance outside of a few lines of dialogue.

I agree with Gone Girl. It's embarrassing that Rosamund Pike is nominated for an Oscar. It just goes to show the Academy Awards have turned into a popularity contest.

1.The Raid 2, 6/10
2.Inherent Vice 3/10
3.The Rover 6/10
4.John Wick 5/10
5.Transcendence 5/10
6.Godzilla 4/10
7.Maps to the Stars 5/10
8.Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 6/10
9.Citizenfour 6/10
10.Joe 6/10
11.The Double 5/10

But I actually quite liked A Most Violent Year 8/10 for me, even though I feel liked the screenplay was a little weak, and I think the movie could have been amazing if they would had expanded upon Jessica Chastain’s character, and Oscar Isaac realizing in the end, that he couldn’t stay clean in his work of business, and therefore going after his competitors Godfather style.