Contenders for Blog's Top 10 best movie seen for 2015

Basing on popularity from IMDB 2015 movie database and only those we watched only.
List is completed thou it was only up to 1,000 movies. There are still more than 8,000 to go but I dont think have seen anything after 1,000. The last on this list is at 627 - Anyday. 
So the process of selecting my tp 10 seen movies released in 2015 begins !

1. Star Wars The Force Awakens
3. The Revenant
5. Sicario
6. Creed
7. The Big Short
9. In the Heart of the Sea
10. The Martian
16. Dilwale
17. Bridges of Spies
20. Concussion
22. Spotlight
23. Spectre
25. Ant-man
26. Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
28. The Intern
29. The Good Dinosaur
31. The Man from UNCLE
33. The HungerGames: Mockingjay Prt2
34. The Walk
35. Mad Max: Fury Road
36. Ex Machina
37. He never died
38. Maze Runner : The scorch trials
42. Jurassic World
43. Train Wreck
44. Everest
46. Perfect Day
48. Avengers: Age of Ultron
Pg 2
51. Cinderella
52. Steve Jobs
55. Ted 2
57. 50 shades of Gray
58. Sleeping with other people
60. SouthPaw
62. Goosebumps
63. Insurgent
65. Spy
67. Fantastic 4
69. Terminator Genisys
70. Minions
71. Extraction
72. Knock Knock
74. San Andreas
76. The Gift
77. No Escape
80. Straight out of compton
81. Tommorowland
83. Bone Tomahawk
84. Dragon Blade
85. Hitman Agent 47
86. Furios 7
87. Pixels
92. Aloha
93. Pitch Perfect 2
95. American Ultra
98. We are your friends
99. Chappie
Pg 3
101. Focus
102. Paper Towns
103. Age of Adaline
104. Jupiter Ascending
106. Magic Mike XXL
107. Get Hard
111. The Transporter Refueled
131. Mortdecai
140. Max
143. Run All night
149. Little Boy
Pg 4
156. Momentum
158. Man Up
163. Blackhat
164. Gunman
165. MI-5
168. The Wedding Ringer
169. Survivor
178. Woman in gold
181. The boy next door
182. The end of tour
183. McFarland USA
184. Lost in the sun
189. Poltergeist
193. Unfinished business
194. Hot Pursuit
197. Last knights
198. Pay the ghost
Pg5
211. Barely lethal
212. Wildcard
215. Danny Collins
216. The Lazarus effect
218. Hot tub time machine 2
224. Zipper
225. Vice
227. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2
236. Spongebob Movie: Sponge out of water
238. Accidental love
240. Tracers
Pg 6
257. Cop car
280. Baahubali: The beginning
293 The D Train
298. Kidnapping Mr Heineken
Pg 7
304. War pigs
309. Results
341. Bravetown
Pg 8
362. Spare parts
371. Wild horses
392. Chloe and Theo
Pg 9
405. The last rescue
432. Careful what you wish for
438. Pound of flesh
442. Dirty weekend

528. Tooken
534. Walter

580 Addicted to Fresno

627. Any day

Movies of 2015

Here is the list of movies in order of popularity from IMDB. Whats your favourite ?
We will be publishing ours list real soon basing on what seen only.

Goodbye 2015 Welcome 2016 !

THE REVENANT

REVIEWED

Watching this movie is an experience ! The movie was directed by the same man that brought Birdman. After watching this pretty long movie of 2 hour 36mins, you really felt that you were at some very cold snowy and icy place. Not only that, you felt that you know already how to survive in the most extreme condition ever. To name one - cut open a dead horse, throw away its inside, get yourself naked and sleep in the horse. This when you are facing a blizzard. How cool can that be !

To me the cinematography was a breakthrough. Most of the shots use a single camera. Moving but not shaky cam. Some of the angles and takes are so innovative and clever that you think this is like another modern day hitchcock when his techniques were talked about by directors after him. I wonder how it felt to see this on a large screen and 3D (if there is this version). Even you can hear the actors from your left or right side when they are speaking behind the camera. Simply brilliant !

The camera takes is like still photography from a photographer in moving forms like the one you see in the old war movie stuffs. And being maul by a bear ! You got to see this and you'll believe that the bear actually mauled the poor guy.

The main actors were Leonardo and Hardy. They have worked before in Inception.

Thumbs up for this ! 

HE NEVER DIED

REVIEWED
Dont judge a book by its cover. In this case the front pic of a man with wings and then the IMDB ratings of 7.6. And its been categorised as Comedy. It may be good.

First I know that this is a low budget movie and I didnt expect anything much either and hoping for some comedy as it is a comedy.

The main actor is actually familiar to me - Henry Rollins. He was hosting this TV show about 10 facts you dont know. He was also a rock performer with some bands in the 80's if I am not mistaken. And i also like the female co star checked it on imdb, virtually not well known thou she could get better jobs if marketed properly.

After watching the movie I wonder what is the objective the movie was trying to relate ? Not even comedy as the comedy was when you got surprise at the things that Jack (HR's character) did. Fighting is good but dont expect Jack to fly ! At the end of it which to be left hanging, I wondered WTF happened ?

The direction is not bad actually. The fighting scenes looks real and not some low budget flicks because it didnt rely on any special effects

See this if you dont have anything better to do.

A PERFECT DAY

What are they looking at ?

REVIEWED
Before watching this movie, I took my time reading the IMDB's reviews wanting to know what makes it ratings quite admirably. One review went on to say that it is a spanish production which Hollywood should treat as its own production and not a foreign film one. It went on to say that a foreign film that Hollywood treat as its own was "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" or something like that and won many oscars too. If it was a foreign film then the only oscar it could win was best foreign film. This its say has to be that way. Well with that I went to see it with hih expectation.

Well after painstakingly trying to complete the movie, I thought how naive can that expectation be.
1st the movie is in English with some Balkans speaking with translation. Both Benico and Olga spoke English as though they are from the US which were pretty convincing.

The problem with this film that it went on with full of build ups but there was no climax with a simple plot of looking for a piece of rope ! And it took them miles of travels, many people they ask until they found one that could do the job which i beg to defer.

Anyway, Benico is a good actor as I didnt see him as the same guy in Sicario. Olga was not bad at all when she is in acting and not action movies. Tim Robbins was his normal self.

It dont deserve the rating and good if you want to lull the time away in front of the tube. From this movie, I know that the roads in Balkans are quite challenging - over the hills and far far away. One slip and you are dead.

SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE

REVIEWED
This film is funny if you can stand the many offensive sex jokes contained in it. Like when Jason's character explained to Alison's character how to masturbate and reach orgasm with a cookie bottle with his fingers. Amigosh, not everybody knows that !

Of course scenes involving love making. Not totally exposed thou. Thing is like other directed movies which have these sort of scenes - why do the women have their bra on ? Not on wanting to see tits alone but basing on common sense and being natural. If it is real life i dont think the bra is on. But because the actress do not want to expose their breast or the movie cant have an X ratings, so they are in a bra ! But i think its still best to conceal them nicely or use better camera angles even though love making is the scene. I came across some movies which did this properly.

I cannot accept the whole concept of it - you can sleep with other people but not with the one closest to you because he or she is your best friend. Totally opposite with friends with benefit movie, dont you think ?

But this movie do have its moments like the punching scenes and sarcastic jokes thrown correctly.
Not that its a bad movie but the joke can be in a way if one is conscious about the real perspective of the real world.

THE GOOD DINOSAUR

PreREVIEW
One for the kids for the holidays a cartoon movie with 7.7 imdb ratings !
REVIEW
The main complaints I read about this movie is how cartoonic the characters are despite the splendid rea life background. And... I agree. Its not that they do not blend with poor textures etc, they did, but why drawn to that shape ? Perhaps to be more friendlier with the children audience ?

Unlike other cartoons i have seen, this one does not entertain me that much. Other cartoon movie (although they are cartoons !) have their touching moments but this one only 1 when the small boy (smud) depart with Arlo,. The rest did not hit it.

Is it necessary to tell that this happen because the doomsday meteor did not hit earth and so the dinosaurs lives ! Not only that, live to be intelligent creatures who can farm and store food ??

This movie is after all for kids. Maybe the whole plot is just to explain how the dinosaur encounter a small child ? And why did the T Rexes herding bissons ? Perhaps to rear them for food ? And so many of them (bisson). Well these are the things that spoil what is expected of a cartoon dinosaur movie like the others I have seen.

To me, not worth the imdb ratings. Shouldnt be made.

CONCUSSION

PreReview
Will Smith and Alec Baldwin is in this one and its about brain injury through sports.
REVIEWED
Got the chance to see this movie at home in the dark (is it worth the treatment) with some grubs.

Been sometime last saw Will Smith in a movie and in this one he do looks old or made up to be old as he is acting a real (still alive person); an expatriate Nigerian  pathologist living in US. The funny thing about US movie (my opinion only) is that when you have an alien (someone from out of US) an American actor would potray it. But film of iconic Americans, non american actor would do it. Well not that Will Smith cannot do this guy because he did well right to his ascent. The thing is other non american actors can play the role, even better ? Like I said, WS played the role well enough. In some scene you even got scared when is agitated with what I called the "oscar moments". Well thats just my opinion. Now back to the story.

The issue is really really big. But like what happened with another true story film issue ; Spotlight, its got forgotten easily and fast. Bennet (WS character) proved that concussions in football will cause brain damage in the long run. So thats explain the erratic behavior of some football players (American NFL). But most of them extreme behavior like killing themselves !

The one scene that make sense to a layman was when Bennet started his presentation on the subject to whom to be his co writer with this paper. How he explained about the speed flight bird zooming into water to catch fishes or even the woodpecker knocking its heads billions of times. The thing is, they are created to do such things but human are not. Our brain is actually suspended in fluid in our skull. Yes that analogy scares the shit out of me. So does other sports like boxing and others. Even IMDB verified that Muhamad Ali's does not suffer from Parkinson but actually a form of brain damage caused by concussions (CTE ?)

This movie has its best moment but I think its length of a bit over 2 hrs diluted the message. Bennet's personal life, to me, should not have been emphasized too much if the objective of the film is to nail the danger of the issue.

Anyway, this is produced by Scott Free Ridley Scott's film company and was supposed to be directed by him.

Watched

James Bond Spectre
- Media player DVDscr copy
SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE
- Seen to be reviewed

SPOTLIGHT

PreREVIEW
8.6 on IMDB one of my awaiting film before 2015 closes. Hulk, Birdman and SabreTooth all in here but in human form. Dont forget Rachael McAdams too. Will give a watch and give review fast as possible.

REVIEWED
Got to see this film which went on to the wee hours of the morning. It is only a bit more than 2 hours. Definitely the few breaks in between for food and toilets, extended the time spent.
Before watching this, other than the review, had watched Chris Stuckman's review of the film giving it an "A" which is as good as Star Wars TFA. Of course you cant compare them both as they are in different genre. This film has more stars than one could count. Billy Kudrup was there too so does that guy from CSI. So there is no complaining about the acting. Like movies basing on true stories they got to keep it to the facts which I think they did. Like CS said, they dont look like acting rather than being reporters. That I agree except for Mark Ruffalo who at time blowing his top. Not over acting but his character required that. He looked skinnier with an accent as he is Portugese.
Yes the film is great if you are in the genre of course. But here are two main points I am raising.

1. Reporters who did their jobs to the best they can
They dont care about money nor recognition but finding and telling the truth. Nor can they be bribed or intermediated or threatened. At that time (2001-2002) internet was just starting out so the print version of their papers was vital in passing of information. Hand phones were already around but smart phone which help the spreading of news still aint. These are people who carry the responsibility and integrity of reporters. If we have reporters like them, our country aint shitty like it is right now. Amin. In the movie even the lawyers  and police asked the reporters where were they (reporters) when it began (the scandal is nothing new)

2. Take a look at the church institution
It should take the public by storm that the people you seek for guidance and teachings particularly for your kids are actually the devil who tormenting them. Its not merely a Boston problem as it is a US problem it is the world's own problem. This film should open the eyes, if it dont than you are either blind or deaf.

Kudos is actually with the new editor (Liv) of the Boston Globe because he was the one who initiated the story and backed it all the way until it was published.