Now, for the moment you’ve all been waiting for… ***drumroll please!*** GHG’s Top Movies of the Year.
While we included “Geek” in the title, GodHatesGeeks didn’t limit our writers to just nerd flicks; we just wanted to make sure this didn’t wind up a Tribeca “who’s who”. Indies, rom-coms, biopics, police dramas, and what-have-you are cool, and we included those so long as our list (for the most part) stayed true to the game.
Who had the best superhero film? Sci-Fi? Horror? Fantasy? Who faired better: Rey or Furiosa? Best animated? Find out below, and feel free to click on the respectibe bible scores to read our full reviews.
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – “On par with the best [Star Wars] film in the last six, and, after more viewings, may even surpass it.” – 4.75/5
2. Ant-Man – 4.75/5
3. Mad Max: Fury Road – 4.5/5
4. The Martian – 4.25/5
5. Creed – 4.25/5
Honorable mention: Buried Cain, Jurassic World, The Man from U.N.C.L.E..
@onemyke
1. Mad Max: Fury Road – 4.75/5
2. Inside Out – “IO takes beautifully developed characters through an honest, thought-out narrative with all the gorgeous visual cohesion that is to be expected.” – 4.75/5
3. Creed – 4.5/5
4. Sicario – “The vibrancy of Roger Deakins’ shots perfectly complemented the harsh and unrelenting narrative, without resorting to over-stylized filters.” – 4.5/5
5. Ex Machina – “Ex Machina‘s cohesive tone is helped by a steady, methodical pacing that gives equal weight to the plot developments as it does to the philosophical inquiries.” – 4.25/5
Honorable mention: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Dope, Straight Outta Compton.
@Steph_Panisello
1. The Revenant – “The marriage between the cinematography and the fighting is beautifully done; almost so perfect, that you wonder how close and personal the camera really is when blood splatters the lens.” – 5/5
2. Mad Max: Fury Road – 5/5
3. The Martian – 4.5/5
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 4/5
5. Inside Out – 4/5
Honorable mention: Minions.
1. Mad Max: Fury Road – 5/5
2. The Avengers: Age of Ultron – 4.5/5
3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 4.5/5
4. Straight Outta Compton – 4.5/5
5. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation – 4.25/5
Honorable mention: Furious 7, Creed, Sicario.
@eskobts
1. Straight Outta Compton – “The persona of each character is so unique and true to life, that I have a freshly renewed fear of Suge Knight and a new respect for Ice Cube.” – 5/5
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 5/5
3. Avengers: Age Of Ultron – 4.25/5
4. Mad Max: Fury Road – 4/5
5. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation – 3.75/5
@whateverjoe
1. Mad Max: Fury Road – 5/5
2. Creed – 4.5/5
3. Straight Outta Compton – 4.5/5
4. Ex Machina – 4.5/5
5. Inside Out – 4/5
Honorable mention: Dope, Spotlight, The Revenant, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The Hateful Eight.
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 5/5
2. The Hateful Eight – 4.75/5
3. Ex Machina – 4.75/5
4. The Martian – “After a few laughs, great tragedies, lots of tears, and awesome astrophysical endeavors, The Martian is a movie that will definitely hold on its own in 2015.” – 4.5/5
5. Crimson Peak – 4.5/5
Honorable mention: Creed, Jurassic World, Sisters, Trainwreck.
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 5/5
2. Ant-Man – 4.75/5
3. Mad Max: Fury Road – 4.5/5
4. Avengers: Age of Ultron – 4.25/5
5. Furious 7 – 4.25/5
@HueySkyywalker
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 5/5
2. Straight Outta Compton – 4.5/5
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron – 4/5
4. Ant-Man – 4/5
5. Sicario – 3.5/5
1. Mad Max: Fury Road – 4.75/5
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 4.75/5
3. Ant-Man – 4.5/5
4. Inside Out – 4.5/5
5. Avengers: Age of Ultron – 4/5
Honorable mention: Jurassic World.
@TheTaffetaDarling
1. Bone Tomahawk – 5/5
2. Ant-Man – 4.75/5
3. Mad Max: Fury Road – 4.75/5
4. Jurassic World – 4.5/5
5. The Hateful Eight – 4.5/5
Honorable mention: Creed, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Ex Machina.
1. Mad Max: Fury Road – 5/5
2. Creed – 5/5
3. What We Do In The Shadows – “This film is brilliantly staged, and each character is given enough backstory to make them fascinating and hilarious at the same time — all which gives it a great emotional core.” – 4.5/5
4. The Martian – 4.25/5
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 4/5
Honorable mention: White God, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, It Follows, Ant-Man, Dangerous Men (5/7 Bibles).
1. Mad Max: Fury Road – 5/5
2. The Hateful Eight – 4.5/5
3. The Revenant – 4/5
4. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 3.75/5
5. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter – 3.5/5
@the_goddamn_wu
1. Jurassic World – 4.5/5
2. The Martian – 4.25/5
3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 4/5
4. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 – 4/5
5. Mortdecai – 4/5
Honorable mention: Mad Max: Fury Road.
@gradet
1. Mad Max: Fury Road – 5/5
2. Ex Machina – 5/5
3. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 4.75/5
4. Creed – 4.5/5
5. Sicario – 4/5
Honorable mentions: Mistress America, Spotlight, Inside Out, Shaun the Sheep: The Movie, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, Trainwreck, Spy, Straight Outta Compton, What Happened Miss Simone?, Magic Mike XXL, The head-explodey scene in Kingsman: Secret Service.
1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 5/5
2. Inside Out – 5/5
3. Avengers: Age of Ultron – 4.75/5
4. Mad Max: Fury Road – 4.75/5
5. Black Mass – 4.5/5
Honorable mention: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, Cinderella, Pan, Terminator: Genisys, Entourage, Straight Outta Compton, The Kingsman: Secret Service, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, The Good Dinosaur.
@radio_adventure
1. Jurassic World – 4.75/5
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 4.75/5
3. Spectre: 007 – 4.5/5
4. Mad Max: Fury Road – 4/5
5. It Follows – 4/5
Honorable mention: Spy, Avengers: Age of Ultron, San Andreas.
@AdamMondschein
1. Mad Max: Fury Road – “MMFR‘s rampaging chase, stunt work and CG blends into a seamless torrent of beautifully-choreographed violence.” – 10/5
2. Creed – 4.5/5
3. Straight Outta Compton – 4.5/5
4. The Hateful Eight – 4.5/5
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 4.5/5
Honorable mention: Ex Machina, Inside Out, Dope, Spotlight, The Revenant.
@TheBelser
1. Straight Outta Compton – 5/5
2. Dope – 4.5/5
3. Ant-Man – 4/5
4. Creed – “Creed is a true Rocky spin-off, not a Rocky rip-off; and yet while it pays homage to the original flicks, it’s very much its own movie — and a damn good one at that.” – 4/5
5. Avengers Age of Ultron – 3.5/5
Honorable mention: The Kingsman: Secret Service.
1. Mad Max: Fury Road – 5/5
2. The Revenant – 5/5
3. Sicario – 4.75/5
4. The Hateful Eight – 4.5/5
5. Beasts of No Nation – 4.25/5
Honorable mention: Ex Machina, Spectre: 007.
@RobotCookie
1. Ex Machina – 5/5
2. The Revenant – 5/5
3. Mad Max: Fury Road – 5/5
4. The Hateful Eight – 4/5
5. Crimson Peak – 3/5
Honorable mention: Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
@TravMoody
1. Mad Max: Fury Road – 5/5
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – “I can’t remember the last movie that kept this geek journalist so glued to his seat, hands clenched together throughout every second of every minute of every scene without a flinch.” – 4.75/5
3. Straight Outta Compton – 4.5/5
4. Inside Out – 4.5/5
5. Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation – “Rogue Nation — arguably the franchise’s funniest film — offers an array of death-defying thrills that should get the heart beating faster than any other previous installment.” – 4.25/5
Honorable mention: The Hateful Eight, Ant-Man, The Revenant, Sicario, Terminator: Genisys, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Creed, Black Mass, The Martian.
@GodHatesGeeks
***GHG’s Best ‘Geek’ Films of the Year***
1. Mad Max: Fury Road (TEN 1st place votes; ONE 2nd place votes; SIX 3-5’s).
2. Star Wars: The Force Awakens (FIVE 1st place votes; FOUR 2nd place votes; EIGHT 3-5’s).
3. Straight Outta Compton (TWO 1st place votes; FIRST 2nd place votes; FOUR 3-5’s).
4. The Revenant (ONE 1st place votes; TWO 2nd place votes; ONE 3-5’s).
5. Ex Machina (ONE 1st place votes; ONE 2nd place votes; THREE 3-5’s).
***GHG’s Superhero Film of the Year***
–Ant-Man
***GHG’s Animated Movie of the Year***
–Inside Out
***GHG’s Honorable mention***
–Creed, Ant-Man, The Hateful Eight, Inside Out, Jurassic World, Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Martian, Sicario, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.
Stay tuned for our Best Movies of 2015 Podcast, for a more in-depth listen on our Top 5’s, as well as Worst and Most Disappointing Movies of the Year, in addition to our forecast for 2016!!!