Top Movies of 2016 (for me)
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thewayneArrival
Central Intelligence
Florence Foster Jenkins
Hail, Caesar!
Moana
Race
Snowden
The Accountant
The Danish Girl
Where To Invade Next
Zootopia
In alphabetical order, not by preference.
Arrival was nice thinkie sci fi. We don’t have much thinkie in SF these days.
Central Intelligence was a nice fun romp, but also had some good character growth and ‘reflection on how far we’ve come’.
Florence Foster Jenkins: amazing cast, touching story about a woman driven by her desire to sing, but who absolutely cannot.
Hail, Caesar! I love me some Coen Brothers, and it’s great seeing George Clooney playing a bit of an idiot.
Moana. A bit of a departure for Disney, amazing songs and music. Nice not seeing ‘man saves the day’ and especially not seeing ‘white man saves the day’. And an Asian-Pacific cast!
Race. Jesse Owens was a pretty amazing person, and to do what he did in Nazi Berlin at the Olympics was amazing. I also love seeing, in film, places that I have been to and photographed.
Snowden. What a story. How many people have the guts to give up their life to expose something they see as wrong.
The Accountant. Heck of an action movie with an interesting story, compared to far too many action movies that you really have to stretch to find a story at all.
The Danish Girl. Amazing, beatiful, and sad film.
Where To Invade Next. Again, a thinkie movie. If other countries can do amazing things, and frequently for less money, then why can’t it be done in the USA?
Zootopia. While some of the plot elements were straight ‘rookie cop proving himself’, the specifics and the settings were so amazing that I can’t ding them for trope re-use.
Central Intelligence
Florence Foster Jenkins
Hail, Caesar!
Moana
Race
Snowden
The Accountant
The Danish Girl
Where To Invade Next
Zootopia
In alphabetical order, not by preference.
Arrival was nice thinkie sci fi. We don’t have much thinkie in SF these days.
Central Intelligence was a nice fun romp, but also had some good character growth and ‘reflection on how far we’ve come’.
Florence Foster Jenkins: amazing cast, touching story about a woman driven by her desire to sing, but who absolutely cannot.
Hail, Caesar! I love me some Coen Brothers, and it’s great seeing George Clooney playing a bit of an idiot.
Moana. A bit of a departure for Disney, amazing songs and music. Nice not seeing ‘man saves the day’ and especially not seeing ‘white man saves the day’. And an Asian-Pacific cast!
Race. Jesse Owens was a pretty amazing person, and to do what he did in Nazi Berlin at the Olympics was amazing. I also love seeing, in film, places that I have been to and photographed.
Snowden. What a story. How many people have the guts to give up their life to expose something they see as wrong.
The Accountant. Heck of an action movie with an interesting story, compared to far too many action movies that you really have to stretch to find a story at all.
The Danish Girl. Amazing, beatiful, and sad film.
Where To Invade Next. Again, a thinkie movie. If other countries can do amazing things, and frequently for less money, then why can’t it be done in the USA?
Zootopia. While some of the plot elements were straight ‘rookie cop proving himself’, the specifics and the settings were so amazing that I can’t ding them for trope re-use.
