MY FAVORITE FILMS OF 2014

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K HjLL

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2014 Films & TV inspiration

TOP FILMS

I’ve watched a ton of films this year from all different decades for the first time. These are my top films and TV shows of 2014 they may not be the best made depending on how you want to critic them but I got lost in them all- enjoyed them more than others… If you want a number in front in my ranking I guess you could start 1st to last in that order up until the 15-20 film on list was hard to rank the films I’ve seen this year…So with further or do…

GUARDIAN OF THE GALAXY – A time machine of my youth felt like seeing RETURN OF THE JEDI for the first time… AMAZING

INTERSTELLAR – Magnificent… Loved every part of the film wish I could watch it again without having seen it. I can’t believe any film critic would write a review and then compare how NOLAN made the film and even bring up other directors such as SPIELBERG or KUBRICK stating that NOLAN was trying to pull off their styles and didn’t achieve it. What I saw in INTERSTELLAR was a NOLAN film from beginning to end one of my favorite films of the decade. I wished it wouldn’t have ended. I hope there’s an extended release. So powerful and moving I can’t what for the next film chapter in NOLAN’s filmography INTERSTELLAR is his best yet.

FURY – Loved FURY… from interviews and conversations with my relatives (which have been in all the wars since WW1) FURY is one of the truest war films about soldiers bond in times of chaos and true to the chaos around them.

GONE GIRL – Didn't know what to think then the 1st journal entry fell on my birthday and I was hooked… And even more at the WTF middle… So happy I didn't read the book my wife tried to get me to read, she read it on the beaches of Punta Cana… It should be the first thing shown at any marriage counsel meeting...

BLUE RUIN – One of the best films of the year top five… Finally an American Korean noir thriller… I really hope this spawns a sub-genre like HOSTEL did in the 90’s that’s been dormant since the 70’s… Not sure that made sense I guess the 70’s thrillers brought on the last 3 decades of Korean thrillers and the U.S. should have been looking in the retro mirror all along… Does that make sense? MACON BLAIR should have been nominated for an Oscar.

THE GUEST – Just… AWESOME with a killer score… With one of the best twist of the year…Feels like the 70’s and early 80’s are back in storytelling… My birthday film double feature of the year along with –

INHERENT VICE- Awesome Noir with a cocktail mixed with THE LONG GOODBYE with an easy trip into THE BIG LEBOWSKI…

RAID 2 – I know but I got to write it THE GODFATHER II of action.

DELIVER US FROM EVIL – A perfect slow burn film… That had me at sox in the Bronx… I really identified by this film because I always thought and friends have told me I have the same type of radar, cliff, blain, suicide, crushed by a conveyor, Jack, shootings that happened in Grand Forks and I asked what about the one in Fargo, friend getting stabbed,

THE YELLOW SEA – Thee best film I saw this year surprised America hasn’t bought the rights… You could use the reservations or ghetto as the back drop of the slums…



LOCKE – Had me at the construction site, I pour concrete… A good time taking the ride such a great one act play… One of my favorite performances of the year

THE MAN FROM NOWHERE – River of tears at the end…Thou it came out in 2010 I saw it for the first time this year…

BREATHLESS- The final will leave you breath less with heart loss…

THE ROVER - Wish it didn’t end, cool world they built plus the story behind the post-apocalypse.

JOHN WICK – Coolest atmosphere film of the year… The bad guys and underworld was almost better than the story which made the film that much cooler…

THE DROP – Loved the acting with a slow burning set up to the final…

OUTRAGE BEYOND -One of the best gangster films in years and a sequel to boot.

THE KILLING (1956) – I don’t think me writing anything would do this fill justice… Top 5 favorite heist films of all time off the top of my head maybe I could be wrong…

RESERVOIR DOGS - THE KILLING – THE STING – HEAT - RIFIFI

EDGE OF TOMORROW – Edge of my seat more like it.

THE STING – Cool like Butch & Sundance…

THE DALLAS BUYERS CLUB – I’m surprised the film wasn’t marketed differently. I had the complete wrong idea about the film. & I’d consider myself a film guru. Dallas buyers club comes buy every five or so year with tour de force with dynamic performance, a film that inspires the heart along with a movement. A blessing is when hard work meets opportunity, because we are all living lives worth fighting for.~K-HjLL

12 YEARS A SLAVE – I wept a river of tears ;.(…

300: Rise Of An Empire – The ending brought me to tears for whatever reason…

SNOWPIERCER – Felt like my brain splashed on to the screen…

TUSK – DEPP should get an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor for Guy Lapointe

THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR: Hosted by Robert Rodriguez isThe best hour on cable… I anticipate it like a 8 year old with only 4 stations on the tv if I’m lucky waiting for Sunday or Saturday’s SISKEL & EBERT to have a chance to see what new movies are coming out… As long as it wasn’t block or another show aired which happened every other week…

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Winter Solider – A hardass comic movie…

TMNT – I loved TMNT don’t understand the hate the script was created with Eastman. It was funny the turtles had cool personalities and look. Some of the most fun I had all year. I felt like a little kid and the film looked as I wanted it as a kid. Can’t wait till the sequel. I was just looking through my old comics and fold an old story I wrote as a kid 6th grade. It be a perfect 3rd film that would be epic and fits perfectly with this first film.

HOUSEBOUND – Felt like watching THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS as a kid again only I’m old and it was a joy to watch. ****ing hilarious.

AT THE DEVIL’S DOOR – A Creepy slow burn into the psyche…

PEAKY BLINDERS – Gangs of 1919 in England melting pot of WWI vets need I say more… Best Miniseries/show on cable… TRUE DETECTIVES made my last years list…
 
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MARCO POLO – Like the best Slurpee you can suck the whole thing down and still want more.

RIGOR MORTIS – One of the most original horror films I’ve seen in a while… So go vampires, ghost, in a haunted apartment what else can you ask for in you horror… JUNO MAK seems like a perfect director for a Hollywood Horror Franchise. Like say A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET even another FRIDAY THE 13th or HELLRAISER or be really cool if they remade NIGHT BREED…

BERLIN FILES

WOLF CREEK 2 – I live a block away from WOLF CREEK APARTMENTS. It felt like or paid homages to TEXAS CHAINSAW 3 & 4, DUEL, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3 & 4 which for me made it all the better.

THE PURGE 2 – Love the JUDGEMENT NIGHT & ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK homages love the vicious realism of humanity…

PURGE – Saw it nice to have a new take on a home invasion

Dead Snow 2 – Zombie Comedy and a Part 2 in there what more can a guy ask for….Oh yeah a zombie barfing in a car and hungry for barf…

Child Of God – Crazy people in a crazy world…

3 DAYS TO KILL – I liked its wit… A modern western never gets old for me…

JOURNEY TO THE WEST – So much fun loved the mythology and the characters would make a kool serious film like the Tiger style fighter…

TRANSFORMORS AGE OF EXTINTION - My childhood imagination in overdrive #$%# YES..

ROBOCOP – Thee best remake this year… I really hope they make a sequel… It was everything I wanted in a sequel seeing the original films as a child… I loved this film and I don’t think critics were fair to it. So much explained and the roller coaster of emotion from the human element of robots killing humans and where the country has gone since the 90’s… I think ROBOCOP is one of the most underrated films of 2014.

COLD MOUNTAIN – Always thought I’ve seen the film but realized only bits and pieces. AWESOME such a great take on the ODYSSEY if you will. Love the long walk home – beautiful and colorful characters.

THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY – The truth that history repeats itself every country to a revolution war ends with a civil war

THE TAKING OF DEBORAH LOGAN – One of the best horror films to get under your skin creepy.

RAZE – Sabrina vs. EVERYBODY…

NOAH – So sool to see the GENEVA STORY of NOAH on the big screen…

ART OF THE STEAL – Kurt Russell Is all the tile needed.

Cold In July

GRUDGE MATCH – Favorite comedy of the year… I can’t believe this wasn’t a bigger hit…. A feel good comedy

THE GRANDMASTER

CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER – Always wondered when they were going to make a film about the actual WINTER SOLDIER’S trial…

LUCY

CONFESSIONS OF MURDER – Korean Film look up

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 – So good…

ONG BAK 2 & 3 loved The Crow and the Mythology that 2 brings forth to the table only caught these two this year…

EXPENDABLES 3 – Too much over the top fun, hope the franchise never stops. Mel Gibson another great villain in the year. So much fun feeling the 80’s action child in me.Donnie yen, Tony jaa and takashi Kantino. & bring back PATRICK HUGHES, THOMAS JANE,

AMERICAN MUSCLE – A perfect 70’s Grindhouse revenge flick set in the DECADE OF THE DIME$ (10’)

BLOOD TIES – One of the better one brothers a cop the other a thug films…

RAZE – An asskicking good time…

GODZILLA – So good whens the next….

From Dusk To Dawn – Huge, huge, Original fanatic use to watch the original film everyday along with DAZED AN CONFUSED… I love how they’re expanding on the original and dive into what made Richie Geckos character krazy… hope the series follows Seth in the aftermath of the original film and into EL REY… Would BE KOOL…

HEMLOCK GROVE – I LOVED the BRUISER masks

PENNY DREADFUL – Cool mix of classic monster with a turn of the century goth…

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK

WALKING DEAD – Got back on track in January.

HELL ON WHEELS – Can’t wait to see the Mormon Fort and the preacher come full circle…

FOO FIGHTERS: SONIC HIGHWAY – One of the best music documentaries of all time… An a stupid thing but a thing they end in a studio in New York the SOHO in the Go we have a bar called the HODO best polar Bears in the world… Every show’s picture and clip from one to the next feels like a film on music history painted by van gogh…

FAVORITE MUSIC VIDEO

3LAU’s with Everth Rojas “We Came To Bang” feat. Luciana First rule of mascot fight club is you don’t talk about mascot fight club.
 

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Damn, I havent seen any of these movies.

Watching a lot of El Ray. They show WAY too much Kung Fu, but they're startin to show some spaghetti westerns and Italian slasher flicks. Uncut after nine pm, wink wink. Ugh, what else? Sanford and Son, watch a lot of that. Turner Classics allatime. That's about it.
 

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Damn, I havent seen any of these movies.

Watching a lot of El Ray. They show WAY too much Kung Fu, but they're startin to show some spaghetti westerns and Italian slasher flicks. Uncut after nine pm, wink wink. Ugh, what else? Sanford and Son, watch a lot of that. Turner Classics allatime. That's about it.

I love the EL REY network can't wait to see what RODRIGUEZ does with season 2 I hope we get to see all the outlaws and gangers in El Rey like THE GETAWAY or where everyones going.... ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHANGHAI is another goodie... It is a Martial arts film thought it was awesome...
 
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Guardians of the Galaxy was my favorite film in 2014.... Penny Dreadful was my favorite new show~
BLACK SAILS is really taking off in season 2... I'm hoping Season 2 brings some of the questions full circle... Wonder if they introduce some new characters from past monsters... Also thought it was a kool choice for HARNETT to comeback with... I heard a lot of stories of him in his hometown and Sean Scott Williams both are really kool and down to earth cats... They are just normal when you're around them always kool about everything... A kool to be type of person...
 
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I love the EL REY network can't wait to see what RODRIGUEZ does with season 2 I hope we get to see all the outlaws and gangers in El Rey like THE GETAWAY or where everyones going.... ONCE UPON A TIME IN SHANGHAI is another goodie... It is a Martial arts film thought it was awesome...

I dig some of the Kung Fu stuff, all that crazy Shaw Brothers stuff--usually just tune in for the last half hour of any given Kung fu classic; that's when all the s--t goes down, the big, epic, blood-spraying battles.

Love Rodriguez's The Director's Chair. He just did a good one with Francis Ford Coppolla. The two parter he did with Tarantino was great.
 
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