Movies: 2015
Dec. 29th, 2015 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dewlineWhile sitting at the dinner table with the rest of the local extended family - as in "from Ottawa-Gatineau to Prescott-Russell" - what movies each of us had seen this past year came up as a topic. So, as you would in such a conversation, I tried to remember each film I'd watched in actual cinema houses.
I do believe that's in actual order of viewing. But please don't hold me to it. I'm pleased that I actually managed to get two viewings of Hyena Road before the theatre chains pulled it for Excessive Canadian Content. It's not an easy movie to watch, given the backdrop of Canadian participation in the wars of Afghanistan. But, again...it shouldn't be easy to watch. If anything, I'm disturbed by my equanimity looking back.
With the exception of that and Spotlight, most of the movies I watched at the theatres were more escapist fare. If there's one more I'd like to fit in within the next week or two, it'll probably be Concussion. Anyone who gives two hoots in Hell about professional sports in North America - or possibly anywhere on the planet - and whether or not they have much of a future really ought to get a look at that particular docudrama.
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
- Ant-Man
- Hyena Road
- The Martian
- Spotlight
- Spectre
- Star Wars: the Force Awakens
I do believe that's in actual order of viewing. But please don't hold me to it. I'm pleased that I actually managed to get two viewings of Hyena Road before the theatre chains pulled it for Excessive Canadian Content. It's not an easy movie to watch, given the backdrop of Canadian participation in the wars of Afghanistan. But, again...it shouldn't be easy to watch. If anything, I'm disturbed by my equanimity looking back.
With the exception of that and Spotlight, most of the movies I watched at the theatres were more escapist fare. If there's one more I'd like to fit in within the next week or two, it'll probably be Concussion. Anyone who gives two hoots in Hell about professional sports in North America - or possibly anywhere on the planet - and whether or not they have much of a future really ought to get a look at that particular docudrama.