My 2015 - films/TV watched
In 2015, I decided to keep a record of what media I consumed, with a short record of my thoughts about each (one or two sentences only).
This is the list of all the films I watched, and also the very few TV shows I watched more than one episode of.
The complete 2015 review:
January
Unbroken
Well made but really dark.
Birdman
Cool cinematography.
Guardians of the Galaxy
Superheroes again. 7/10.
The Fault In Our Stars
Really great, recommended.
February
Boyhood
It was interesting seeing games being used as timestamps.
Nightcrawler
Wow, what an uncomfortable character.
Lucy
Oh no it uses the “we only use 10% of our brains” thing. Nonsense from start to finish.
March
Gameloading: Rise of the Indies
I am too close to this film to tell if it’s any good.
Noah
I’m not sure if it annoyed me more that you saw/heard no animals at all, or if they tried to pass it off with a single filler line.
It Follows
Really good monster concept, well executed.
Song of the Sea
Nice, friendly, Irish.
Automata
First half is great sci-fi and second half is okay.
April
Gone Girl
Good film, pretty dark. Seems like her story would have lots of holes but oh well.
Best in Show
Fun mockumentary.
Wild
Didn’t stick with me as much as I’d have expected.
American Sniper [at 8x speed]
I am glad this didn’t take more than 15 minutes of my life.
Ricky & Ricky Go Somewhere and Do Something
This also took about 15 minutes of my life.
May
Fast Five
This does exactly what it sets out to do.
Iron Man 3
I still like this film quite a lot.
[First three and last two episodes of] Daredevil (2014 TV series)
Was good but I don’t feel the need to go back and watch the bits I missed.
Mad Max: Fury Road
That was quite the ride.
[Second half of] Ghost in the Shell
Lots of exposition, would have liked to have seen the first half.
[Second half of] Dead man
Didn’t get much out of it.
[Second half of] Only Lovers Left Alive
Not sure if that was a bad environment to watch it on, or the perfect environment.
June
The Great Gatsby
Amazing cinematography. Hard to empathize with someone so controlling/entitled though.
Snowpiercer
I would not have expected me to enjoy that as much as I did.
July/August
Nothing!
September
Trance
I was hoping this would be a fun romp with an obvious twist, but unfortunately it wanted to have half a dozen twists instead.
The Darjeeling Limited
Maybe I don’t need to see any more Wes Anderson films.
The Imitation Game
Pretty good, but I did feel the historical inaccuracy of having Turing interact with the spy was unnecessary.
Terminator: Genesys
Almost every scene in this is gratuitous or doesn’t make sense if you think about it. The ending feels like bad fanfiction.
Too Late
Good, but I felt like I was missing some context needed to make it great. Not sure I got the point of all the anachronisms.
The Martian
Really enjoyed this, felt like good hard sci-fi. Main jarring thing is that it’s weird he has no way to contact the spaceship initially.
October
Bridge of spies
Pretty good. Didn’t walk out of the cinema with much to say about it though.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
Not much worth experiencing unless you really like convoluted fight scenes
(500) Days of Summer
I’d heard this was not as much of a romcom as you’d think. And that’s true, but it’s still fairly romcom-y.
The Beach
Didn’t feel like a particularly good adaptation of the book. Some weird changes/omissions.
November
[Second half of] The Internship
Pretty much exactly what I would have expected.
[First two episodes of] Spaced
Not what I was expecting: less geeky and a much weirder atmosphere.
[Occasional episodes of] Community
Entertaining.
Coherence
The characters all seem to take as granted some fairly dubious philosophical ideas about identity, but it was gripping nonetheless. I had no idea it was improvised with no script (spoilers)!
December
American Ultra
Mostly watched it because earlier in the day I’d coincidentally seen this interview which was probably more memorable than the film itself.
Self/Less
Pretty much exactly what you’d expect, but surprisingly well done.
The Wolf Of Wall Street
Tricky to remember the whole time that it’s based on a true story, because everyone seems so incredibly self-destructive.
Fast & Furious 6
Nothing as good as the final sequence in 5, and a bad case of villainous “you did exactly what I wanted you to do”.
Pi
Lots to be frustrated with, but it certainly did an excellent job creating an unsettling atmosphere.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Pretty Star-Wars-y! I wasn’t expecting to enjoy it much and was pleasantly surprised.
[First 45 minutes of] Godzilla (2014)
So far so monster-film.
Paddington
It’s a real shame that a whole bunch of people decided they wanted a scene in their movie about laughing at crossdressers.