Best movie you'll see in 2016
Amazing! Best movie I've seen this year !!!! Remarkable work!
shareTrue! It was beautifully made! It is a very emotional film, it's hard do hold the tears at times. Amazing performances. Go see it!
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You're totally right.
shareI agree! My favorite film, with Manchester by the Sea a close second.
shareHa! I saw it in 2017, so I got you there! Seriously though, this was great, and everyone should see it, if for no other reason than to raise the value of Kleenex stocks.
shareTrue, so true. Manchester by the Sea was my choice before I saw this film. And btw, both are better than La La Land, which is the odds on favorite to win. Sad.
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Haven't see Manchester yet but Lion is definitely better than La La Land. I just don't understand the hype behind that movie. The script is, for the most part, terrible.
shareI'm going to see Lion this week and looking forward to it. I recently saw La La Land and I wasn't that impressed by it.
shareI just saw Fences tonight, and it deserves Oscars for Best Picture, Actor and Actress imho. Lion and Manchester are tied for second place. It's a shame that they can't all win.
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.
... one of the best. The best parts of Lion are outstanding, but the film does have its hackneyed elements that create some flaws, although overall it is still "very good." See my comments here:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3741834/board/thread/264746042?p=2&d=265377546#265377546
Sully is the only "great" film that I have seen this year (and I have viewed it five times over a span of more than four months, my every single viewing holding up to that standard), which makes its almost complete shutout in Oscar nominations all the more ridiculous. I feel that it is easily the best film of the year. Hacksaw Ridge, Fences, Allied, and Snowden are all "very good" and arguably a little better than Lion. Fences is the most similar to Sully in terms of tonal consistency mixed with profundity and the maturity of the filmmaking, but with its theatrical background, it cannot quite compete with Sully in terms of spatial dynamics and verisimilitude. Those two films may be the most consistently riveting of the year, though. Manchester by the Sea is "good/very good" in my opinion, but it suffers from some tonal inconsistencies and overdoes its pairing of comedy and tragedy at times. At its best, the film is up there with any short of Sully. Free State of Jones, Loving, Hell or High Water, and The Edge of Seventeen are also all "good/very good" in my view, and The Jungle Book, while oriented towards kids, is "very good."
... those are my thoughts. Aside from Loving and Allied, I viewed all these films at least twice. (I will see Allied once more.) I have not seen Moonlight yet, but I certainly will do so.