My 2014 Wrap Up

Hey Guys! It's that time of year again. I've seen 165 new releases this year... effectively blowing out my record from 2013. And I came to notice that my Movies Loved list once again was much bigger than my Movies Hated. Perhaps it is just that I am a cinephile and am not willing to drop films down to that category unless they legitimately gained my ire. A few flicks that I wanted in the Bottom 10 didn't make it as with the Top 10... this year in film was just so loaded with ups and downs. So without much ado, here's my Best and Worst of 2014:

(Keep in mind, I intend to update this as the final films become available... but I tend to doubt much will change)

My Bottom 10 of 2014:
The Amazing Spider-Man 2
Calvary
Draft Day
Dumb and Dumber To
Jersey Boys
Pompeii
Robocop
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Transcendence
Transformers: Age of Extinction


Movies I Hated:
300: Rise of an Empire
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn
Annabelle
The Double
Dracula Untold
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Kill the Messenger
Maleficent
The Monuments Men
Mr. Peabody and Sherman
The One I Love
Only Lovers Left Alive
Penguins of Madagascar
The Purge: Anarchy
The Rover
The Two Faces of January
Tusk
When the Garden was Eden
Whitey: The United States vs. James J. Bulger
Wish I Was Here


Movies I Thought Could Have Been Better:
Annie
Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity
Cuban Fury
The Drop
Earth to Echo
The Fault in Our Stars
The Gambler
The Giver
Hercules
Horrible Bosses 2
In Your Eyes
Interstellar
The Interview
Into the Woods
The Judge
Land Ho
A Letter to Momo
Leviathan
Life After Beth
Life Inside Out
Mr. Turner
Neighbors
The Nut Job
Obvious Child
Particle Fever
Playing for the Mob
Planes: Fire and Rescue
Pride
The Signal
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
St. Vincent
Son of Batman
Third Person
Unbroken
Video Games: The Movie
Wetlands


Movies I Liked:
Altman
Art and Craft
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Bears
Begin Again
Blue Ruin
The Book of Life
Brian and the Boz
Chef
Citizen Koch
DamNation
Dom Hemingway
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
Fading Gigolo
Finding Vivian Maier
Foxcatcher
Fury
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
The Green Prince
Hector and the Search for Happiness
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
The Hundred-Foot Journey
The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 1
The Imitation Game
The Internet's Own Boy
Keep On Keepin' On
Lucy
Million Dollar Arm
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Muppets Most Wanted
Noah
Non-Stop
The November Man
Print the Legend
Rio 2
Selma
Space Station 76
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
The Theory of Everything
This Is Where I Leave You
The U Part 2
X-Men: Days of Future Past


Movies I Loved:
22 Jump Street
A Most Violent Year
American Sniper
Bad Boys
Bad Words
Belle
Big Eyes
Big Hero 6
The Boxtrolls
Boyhood
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Citizenfour
Dear White People
Edge of Tomorrow
Force Majeure
Frank
Get On Up
Godzilla
Gone Girl
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Grand Piano
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Homesman
How to Train Your Dragon 2
Ida
Jodorowsky's Dune
Life Itself
Locke
The Lunchbox
Magic in the Moonlight
A Most Wanted Man
The Normal Heart
Paddington
The Railway Man
Red Army
Requiem for the Big East
Rosewater
The Skeleton Twins
Slaying the Badger
Snowpiercer
Still Alice
Top Five
Two Days, One Night
Under The Skin
Virunga
We Are The Best
Wild


My Top 10 of 2014:
Birdman
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Inherent Vice
The Lego Movie
Love Is Strange
Nightcrawler
Palo Alto
The Raid 2
The Trip to Italy
Whiplash

If I could fit more I would've added these films to the top 10 list: Belle, Guardians of the Galaxy, Force Majeure, The Homesman, Under The Skin, and Virunga... unfortunately the others just barely knocked these flicks out of contention... but they've still made appearances in my Loved List. If you had to ask what my overall favorite film of the year was... I'd honestly be very hard pressed to answer that question. So let's leave it to 2015 and see if I can't figure it out.

Happy New Year everyone! Have a damn good responsible time! And see you next year!