Top Ten Best Films of 2015
*BONUS ROUND* - BIGGEST DISAPPOINTMENTS OF 2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Age of Ultron wasn't a bad movie by any means. It was just a messy one. But when you're the sequel to The Avengers and the follow-up to Guardians of the Galaxy, you simply can't be messy. Ultron was a villain prepped up to be an absolute badass, but instead came across as incompetent and frustratingly cliche, in that he was terrible at enacting his evil plans. The film prepared itself for what could've been an awesome story arc/character development in that Tony created Ultron, and we were even given a scene of Tony recognising that it was his fault and confessing that he screwed up. This is a pivotal moment for a character, as knowing their faults is how they can improve themselves. Although Tony fixed everything, he did so by.....redoing the experiment that created the entire problem in the first place? The film had many gaps in logic, but this did give us The Vision, an awesome new character that I'm excited to see more of going forward. A disappointment, yes, but a bad movie? Not at all.
Chappie
Oh, how so very excited I was for this film. The trailers looked great. The story looked great. It was the director of District 9. But then the movie had to go and get released. I'd have to say that that was the moment the movie went downhill. Chappie was enjoyable in the end, but the film itself was an absolute mess. It featured the type of soundtrack that makes you want to ram a blade into your ears, and the story was almost as predictable as it was foolish. Everything promised in the trailers turned out to be a shadow of the final product, as if they re-wrote and re-filmed it all after releasing the trailer. Probably the best thing that came out of this movie was that I had plenty to talk about with my date when it was over. After all, nothing brings people closer together than a shared anger or hatred of something.
Spectre
Part of me wants to curl up into a ball in the corner of the room and say "I don't wanna talk about it". I think the worst thing about Spectre, for me, is that it wasn't bad. It was a really good, fun movie. It just wasn't supposed to be a fun movie. I really wish this film had've been horrible so I could vent my anger without feeling like I'm sledging a good movie, but alas things have not worked out for me. Spectre was half the incredible Bond film it needed to be and half the camp, tongue-in-cheek Bond film of the Roger Moore era. This is all well and good, but when you've spent all of Craig's movies trying to redefine the character and usher him into a new era, away from all that, you're literally taking a couple of steps backwards. Mix that with Christoph Waltz's pointless, harmless villain and his worst-kept plot twist in film history, and you have a Bond film that really could've been one of the best ever, but instead will have to settle for being a middle-range one at best.