Which Movie(s) First?

MadDog76

So I have quite a few movies to catch up on but I don't know where to start ........ here's a list of a few I have to hand and intend to watch them all eventually but which ones would you recommend I start with or suggest not to bother with at all?? Thanks

Dead Man Down
Riddick
LoveLace
OldBoy
The November Man
Red State
Don Jon
Hercules
The Maze Runner
Divergent
Pawn
Side Effects
House Of Bodies
A Walk Among The TombStones
The Two Faces Of January
Bad Country
Noah
The Bag Man
Pompeii
Dying Of The Light
Poltergeist
Maggie
The GunMan
Survivor
Pacific Rim
The Prince
Iron Man 3
Edge Of Tomorrow
Fury
The Purge: Anarchy
300: Rise Of An Empire
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
The Monuments Men
The Equalizer
Calvary
Blue Jasmin
Gravity
Mandela: Long Walk Home
Her
American Hustle
Saving Mr Banks
Last Knights
Wild Card
BlackHat
Only God Forgives
The Look Of Love
The Trials Of Cate McCall
Run All Night
Welcome To The Punch
Closed Circuit
Chappie
Project Almanac
Focus
KingsMan: The Secret Service
The Loft
Ex-Machina
Unbroken
The Imitation Game
The Forger
Good Kill
A Most Violent Year
The Water Diviner
Byzantium
American Heist
Night Crawler
Taken 3
Interstellar
The Gambler
FoxCatcher
Kill The Messenger
Everly
The Judge
Deliver Us From Evil
The Drop
3 Days To Kill
47 Ronin
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
The Counselor
Gone Girl
A Most Wanted Man
Rush
The Captive
Ender’s Game
Draft Day
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Frozen Ground
Elysium
Now You See Me

rockatansky

Chappie (if you liked District 9) , Ex-Machina, Elysium.

Interstellar will be chosen my most probably. For me it started off promising, got very good half way through, and then just hit straight into a brick wall.

brevity

MadDog76 wrote: »

So I have quite a few movies to catch up on but I don't know where to start ........ here's a list of a few I have to hand and intend to watch them all eventually but which ones would you recommend I start with or suggest not to bother with at all?? Thanks


OldBoy - Only if its the original.
Side Effects
Pacific Rim
Edge Of Tomorrow
Calvary
Gravity
Her
Focus
KingsMan: The Secret Service
Ex-Machina
Night Crawler
Interstellar
FoxCatcher
The Drop
Gone Girl
Rush
The Grand Budapest Hotel

There you go..removed the meh...watch Gone Girl first.

AMKC

Don,t bother with Hercules its rubbish. Pompeii is nit very good either. After thats its really about what you want to watch. You have a lot of films there so just pick one and start watching hopefully enjoy watching it too. I think IA would start with Rush its a very good film them watch Intersteller it will have you thinking for ages after it. After that just pick and watch and enjoy.

e_e

Just a quick glance at the list and the one that jumps out at me is Nightcrawler. Will go down as a modern classic imo, seriously great film.

TerrorFirmer

AMKC wrote: »

Don,t bother with Hercules its rubbish. Pompeii is nit very good either. After thats its really about what you want to watch. You have a lot of films there so just pick one and start watching hopefully enjoy watching it too. I think IA would start with Rush its a very good film them watch Intersteller it will have you thinking for ages after it. After that just pick and watch and enjoy.

Pompeii was pretty enjoyable popcorn fare if that's what you're after, but if you're coming at it more from a historical interest, it's not great at all.

Hercules with Kellan Lutz is absolutely atrocious, easily the worst high profile movie I have seen in years. If it's The Rock version though, that is genuinely a ten-fold improvement and very watchable.

Quite a lot of those movies are on my list as well actually, these are ones I have seen though.

Dead Man Down - watchable
Riddick - quite good
OldBoy - original is fantastic, remake is watchable
Hercules - Kellan Lutz version is abysmal. Rock version is watchable.
The Maze Runner - surprisingly good
Divergent - really poor
A Walk Among The TombStones - watchable
Noah - disappointing but watchable
Pompeii - watchable fluff
Maggie - quite good
Pacific Rim - excellent fun
The Prince - poor
Iron Man 3 - very good
Edge Of Tomorrow - excellent
Fury - very watchable but disappointing
The Purge: Anarchy - good, big improvement on the first
300: Rise Of An Empire - very entertaining
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For - good, felt this was undeservedly under-rated
The Monuments Men - extremely disappointing
The Equalizer - watchable, utterly ludicrous film though
Calvary - good performances but stupid film, I found
Gravity - visually astounding, well worth watching
American Hustle - excellent, mainly due to the cast
Wild Card - very good, Statham back on form
Chappie - very under-rated, totally solid viewing
Project Almanac - sick of found footage films but this one was decent
KingsMan: The Secret Service - very good comic-style adventure
Ex-Machina - very good
Unbroken - very good
The Water Diviner - totally disappointing, but watchable
Taken 3 - does what it says on the tin, really
Interstellar - excellent, a must see
3 Days To Kill - mediocre
Ender’s Game - good film, part of a planned trilogy that never happened though
Elysium - slightly underwhelming but well worth watching

Based on your list -

Ex-Machina
Night Crawler
Edge Of Tomorrow
KingsMan: The Secret Service
Don Jon
Her
Side Effects
Fury
Maggie
Project Almanac
Hercules (Only if the Dwyane Johnson version)
Pacific Rim (would be further up if it were seen in the cinema)
Interstellar
Red State
Riddick
The Purge: Anarchy
Gravity
Welcome To The Punch
Chappie
Ender’s Game
Elysium
Now You See Me

Honourable mentions, for being better than I had thought they'd be, goes to -

Don Jon
Edge of Tomorrow
Maggie
Project Almanac
Night Crawler.

Agent Coulson

e_e wrote: »

Just a quick glance at the list and the one that jumps out at me is Nightcrawler. Will go down as a modern classic imo, seriously great film.

A great film.

It's disgrace Jake Gyllenhaal didn't even get an oscar nomination for Nightcrawler.

xalot

Of what I've seen, here would be my order of preference.

Night Crawler
A Most Violent Year
Interstellar
the Grand Budapest Hotel
Gone Girl
Ex-Machina
Gravity
American Hustle
Imitation Game
Blue Jasmin
Side Effects
Foxcatcher
Her
Lovelace
Saving Mr Banks
Frozen Ground
Iron Man 3
Only God Forgives

cloud493

Wow, thats one long list. Start with.... Gosh I don't know, the grand budapest maybe? It's one damn good film. Along with nightcrawler, and her.

MadDog76

cloud493 wrote: »

Wow, thats one long list. Start with.... Gosh I don't know, the grand budapest maybe? It's one damn good film. Along with nightcrawler, and her.

Yeah I know!!!

Been downloading the odd movie I liked the look of for the past few weeks but never got a chance to watch any of them (3 kids = Disney Channel) so it was only when I checked what I'd downloaded I realised how many I've to get through ........ just didn't know where to start!!!

Brian?

Oldboy, not the Hollywood one though the Korean original. One of the best films I've ever seen.

The Grand Budapest Hotel. Wonderful film, full of wit and great performances all around.

I'd struggle to reccommend anything else there, most are terrible. Calvary is alright I suppose.

Edit: the Imitation Game is very good

MattB11

Movies I'd recommend from that list would be Nightcrawler, Foxcatcher, The Purge Anarchy, Divergent.

These movies I thought were disappointing although just my opinion I know some got great reviews.... Gone Girl, Fury, Mazerunner, A Most Violent Year and Unbroken.

Have not seen the rest bar one and it's the only one I'd say isn't even worth a watch and that's The Loft.