I saw 59 movies in 2017, of which only about half a dozen were rewatches of movies I'd seen before.<\/p>\n
My favorites:<\/p>\n
1. Pride<\/cite>: Hilarious and thoroughly charming (and sad in places) movie-based-on-real-life about gay and lesbian folks supporting the mine workers in the 1984 strike in the UK. Laughed a lot, cried a lot. Thanks to Niall for recommending this (at least I think that was Niall), and I agree that it would probably make a great double feature with Made in Dagenham<\/cite>.<\/p>\n 2. Coco<\/cite>: Gorgeous art, some great characters, good music (original songs were written by the couple who wrote the songs for Frozen<\/cite>!), a compelling story. Maybe slightly predictable in plot, but nonetheless really well done.<\/p>\n 2. Hidden Figures<\/cite>: Really excellent in many ways. A little consolatory, and a little too much focus on Costner, and disappointing that it was written and directed by white people, and it takes some liberties with the facts; still, good stuff.<\/p>\n 3. Logan<\/cite>: Overall really well done. Too violent for me, and didn't go where I expected, and not thrilled with the race dynamics. But Dafne Keen as Laura was amazing<\/em>.<\/p>\n 3. The Shootist<\/cite>: Really well done, and having Wayne in the lead role added significant real-world resonance. (Had seen this one before, a long time ago.)<\/p>\n 4. Four-way tie: Central Intelligence<\/cite>, Predestination<\/cite> (based on Heinlein's “All You Zombies...”), Stage Door<\/cite>, Last Jedi<\/cite>. Am low on time to write up thoughts on these, so just listing them. But I liked them all quite a bit, with some reservations.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I saw 59 movies in 2017, of which only about half a dozen were rewatches of movies I’d seen before….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-reviews"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}