Movies: Best Film of the Year: 2017

[Howard Beale]

The 2016 poll is led by:
1. Arrival
T2. Manchester by the Sea
T2. Hell or High Water
T2. Deadpool

The 2015 poll was won by:
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Sicario
3. The Big Short

The 2014 poll was won by:
1. Interstellar
2. The Grand Budapest Hotel
3. Guardians of the Galaxy

The 2013 poll was won by:
1. The Wolf of Wall Street
2. Her
3. Gravity

The 2012 poll was won by:
1. Django Unchained
T2. Life of Pi
T2. Silver Linings Playbook
T2. Zero Dark Thirty
T2. The Avengers

The 2011 poll was won by:
T1. Drive
T1. Moneyball
3. Midnight in Paris

The 2010 poll was won by:
1. Inception
2. The Social Network
3. Black Swan

For 2017, I've included the 9 Oscar nominees for Best Picture:

• The Shape of Water
• Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
• Lady Bird
• Get Out
• Dunkirk
• Call Me by Your Name
• Phantom Thread
• The Post
• Darkest Hour

And 14 others:

• Blade Runner 2049
• Baby Driver
• The Big Sick
• Coco
• The Disaster Artist
• Star Wars: The Last Jedi
• War for the Planet of the Apes
• Logan
• It
• The Killing of the Sacred Deer
• The Death of Stalin
• The Square
• Loveless
• The Florida Project

You can cast 3 votes, and feel free to suggest movies that I should include in the 2018 poll!

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[Howard Beale]

From the ones I've seen, I thought this was a very good year. My picks:

1. Lady Bird
2. The Square
3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

HMs: The Shape of Water, Get Out, Blade Runner 2049,

 

[Trap Jesus]

The Killing of a Sacred Deer is top 2 or 3 of the decade for me. I have Phantom Thread and Blade Runner 2049 right up there as well, 2017 was such a great year IMO. Good Time isn't listed here but it's up there for me as well.

Non Oscar recommendations for 2018:

Burning, Annihilation, Hereditary, Shoplifters

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

I'd go:
1) A Ghost Story
2) The Killing of a Sacred Deer
3) Blade Runner 2049
4) Mother!
5) Let the Corpses Tan
6) You Were Never Really Here

 

[nameless1]

I picked Loveless, Lady Bird and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, but the choices available are really thin. Other than Loveless, I am not sure I want to put the latter two that high. I actually do not like that many films from this year.

I have to check back on what I watched, and I actually liked The Florida Project and A Fantastic Woman a lot more. Thus, my three choices would actually be Loveless, The Florida Project and A Fantastic Woman. At the End of the Tunnel and Directions are also up there for me.

 

[discostu]

Get Out for me. Probably my favourite of the decade. I seem to love everything about the film. It's the balance of being a great popcorn film, while having such a smart script backed by great performances.

 

[NyQuil]

Blade Runner 2049.

 

[kihei]

Voted: Loveless
HM: The Death of Louis XIV; Blade Runner 2049; The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Suggested for 2018: Roma
Worth consideration: The Image Book; Ash Is the Purest White; Shoplifters

 

[MakeTheGoalsLarger]

What a bad year. I just watched a trailer for Ladybird and thought it could be a decent movie, so Ladybird gets my vote by default. lol

 

[Trap Jesus]

I'd go:
1) A Ghost Story

Forgot about this. Not my favorite of the year but up there. I really think 2017 was the best year for movies this decade.

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

Pretty good year.

1. Blade Runner 2049 (9/10)
2. The Death of Stalin (9/10)
3. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (8/10)

 

[nameless1]

Forgot about this. Not my favorite of the year but up there. I really think 2017 was the best year for movies this decade.

I feel it is rather thin myself. There are not too many that I liked.

 

[Howard Beale]

I picked Loveless, Lady Bird and The Killing of a Sacred Deer, but the choices available are really thin. Other than Loveless, I am not sure I want to put the latter two that high. I actually do not like that many films from this year.

I have to check back on what I watched, and I actually liked The Florida Project and A Fantastic Woman a lot more. Thus, my three choices would actually be Loveless, The Florida Project and A Fantastic Woman. At the End of the Tunnel and Directions are also up there for me.

Hmm I should have had The Florida Project in there, that's an oversight on my part, so I've added it now.

 

[Savi]

I thought 2017 was rather good, I can easily name 10 movies I loved very much, even though Blade Runner 2049 was far and away my favourite of the year. Lots of really good foreign films as well.

1. Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, US)
2. Thelma (Trier, Norway)
3. Princesita (Rivas, Chile)
4. Mektoub, My Love (Part I) (Kechiche, France)
5. Wind River (Sheridan, US)
6. Sicilian Ghost Story (Grassadonia & Piazza, Italy)
7. Loveless (Zvyagintsev, Russia)
8. The Killing of Sacred Deer (Lanthimos, UK)
9. Columbus (Kogonada, US)
10. On Body and Soul (Enyedi, Hungary)

HM: T2 Trainspotting (Boyle, UK); Two Irenes (Meira, Brazil); Angels Wear White (Qu, China); Tigers Are Not Afraid (Lopez, Mexico)

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Loveless.

 

[nameless1]

I thought 2017 was rather good, I can easily name 10 movies I loved very much, even though Blade Runner 2049 was far and away my favourite of the year. Lots of really good foreign films as well.

1. Blade Runner 2049 (Villeneuve, US)
2. Thelma (Trier, Norway)
3. Princesita (Rivas, Chile)
4. Mektoub, My Love (Part I) (Kechiche, France)
5. Wind River (Sheridan, US)
6. Sicilian Ghost Story (Grassadonia & Piazza, Italy)
7. Loveless (Zvyagintsev, Russia)
8. The Killing of Sacred Deer (Lanthimos, UK)
9. Columbus (Kogonada, US)
10. On Body and Soul (Enyedi, Hungary)

HM: T2 Trainspotting (Boyle, UK); Two Irenes (Meira, Brazil); Angels Wear White (Qu, China); Tigers Are Not Afraid (Lopez, Mexico)

The cinematography is Columbus is damn beautiful. Every shot is a postcard. I do not have it that high due to the rather abrupt ending, but it is one of the most memorable films I have seen in the last couple of years.

 

[GhostfaceWu]

What a bad year. I just watched a trailer for Ladybird and thought it could be a decent movie, so Ladybird gets my vote by default. lol

What a terrible opinion.

 

[Mario Lemieux fan 66]

1. Coco
2. the greatest showman
3. Monsieur & Madame Adelman
4. Get out
5. Thelma
6. On body and soul
7. Logan
8. The Shape of Water
9. Dunkirk
10. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
11. The Big Sick
12. Thor Ragnarök
13. Blade Runner 2049
14. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
15. It
16. Wind River
17. I Tonya
18. Colossal
19. Ravenous ( Les affamés)

I added Your name to my 2016 best movies list.

 

[nameless1]

I cannot overlook the pedophilic nature of Call Me By Your Name. I am uncomfortable with the high praises for it, to be honest.

 

[Savi]

I cannot overlook the pedophilic nature of Call Me By Your Name. I am uncomfortable with the high praises for it, to be honest.

Really? I mean, Oliver was in his early twenties, and the Chalamet-character was like what, 17? It doesn't even come close to Lolita for example.
Also I feel like 'pedophile/pedophilic' tends to get overused for these 'situations'. It refers to (little) kids, not to young people on the verge of adulthood.

 

[kingsholygrail]

The Death of Stalin was the funniest movie I had seen in some time. I knew nothing about it and just gave it a watch a while back.

 

[KingBran]

What a horrible year for movies.

 

[nameless1]

Really? I mean, Oliver was in his early twenties, and the Chalamet-character was like what, 17? It doesn't even come close to Lolita for example.
Also I feel like 'pedophile/pedophilic' tends to get overused for these 'situations'. It refers to (little) kids, not to young people on the verge of adulthood.

Oliver is 24, and Elio is 17. That does not change the fact that Elio is still underage though, and there continues to be a difference in the power dynamics. In real life, people do get arrested for these type of relationships.

I will end my argument here though. If we continue, I feel like one of us will get into trouble.

 

[Savi]

In real life, people do get arrested for these type of relationships.

Not over here though where age of consent is 16, as it is in a lot of places in Europe I believe. I remember a couple of years ago a famous Belgian sports star had a relationship with a 16 year old girl, I think he 26 or 27 at the time. And most people were OK with it. I'm kinda used to it as well, thats why I wondered if that really were your thoughts on this movie. When you say power dynamics I think of teacher/student, boss/employee etc. Not 16/17 year olds who date people a couple of years older.

 

[nameless1]

Not over here though where age of consent is 16, as it is in a lot of places in Europe I believe. I remember a couple of years ago a famous Belgian sports star had a relationship with a 16 year old girl, I think he 26 or 27 at the time. And most people were OK with it. I'm kinda used to it as well, thats why I wondered if that really were your thoughts on this movie. When you say power dynamics I think of teacher/student, boss/employee etc. Not 16/17 year olds who date people a couple of years older.

Oliver is a graduate about to embark on an academic career. He is pretty much a teacher, so there is definitely a difference in power dynamics.

In Canada, the age of consent is also 16, while in the States it is anywhere between 16 to 18, which depends on the State. No matter how you look at it, the situation is so borderline, that I am deeply uncomfortable with the whole movie.