X-Men Apocalypse
You know why I think highly of it. The themes of religion, Reaganism and media in a current world.
Also, dat Quicksilver scene.
Gods of Egypt.
It's not as dark as Alex Proyas the Crow or Dark City, but still has the thematics of his films. I, Robot concentrated on a world where technology goes crazy. Gods of Egypt is a film about the presence of Gods and religion.
I, Robot was too accessible, meant for kids and Gods of Egypt seemed to be for teenagers. I felt this film was weird too when they constantly made Gerard Butler penis jokes.
THIS IS PENIS!
The BFG
A great use of Lord of the Rings-ish technology and great FF9ing/Boukengering of Spielberg works that was hurt by poor marketing. Easy candidate for an Oscar Best Picture Award that gets flushed down the toilet.
Ghostbusters 2016
I'm not the biggest Ghostbusters fan, but really have gotten back into watching that first film over and over again. Re-watching it now, I notice the dark tone it had compared with the really great Real Ghostbusters cartoon, but equally as good. There's a lot of subtext in the original film, which I'll get back to sometime when I finish my video edit of the Ghostbusters analysis.
While the trailers, old school Ghostbuster fans and the Gamergate anti-feminist movement have hurt the film, I feel like it's reached hype. I really wasn't happy with the marketing campaign, then again that worked for the way worse unfunny Bridesmaids.
I feel like based on what Red Letter Media said, they should've liked Ghostbusters, based on their own words. Contemporary comedy mixed with sci fi stuff which wasn't really meant to be the premise of the film. Good timing. SNL/Second City actors. I didn't hear any fart jokes and felt that the humor fit at least the actors if not the characters of this film. It just wasn't over the top in the version/edit I saw of the film. The actors did a good job playing characters. There's a bit of complexity mixing the sci fi with the comedy.
I do feel like it was a good Ghostbusters team, and that if they bring them back, now they would have to do it with a crossover, since the film was hurt so much by bad wrestling fan-ish backlash.
