I have no doubt that someone has probably made a thread like this before here on this forum, but I'm still relatively new here and want to continue getting to know everyone, so I hope no one will mind my creating this one. What are your favorite movies from say the last couple of years?

Here are my picks:

2015:

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Carol
3. Inside Out
4. Chi-Raq
5. The Martian

2016:

1. Rogue One
2. Arrival
3. Moonlight
4. La La Land
5. The Lobster

When I was little, I remember my favorite movie being the original Escape to Witch Mountain (1975), which appealed to my sense of estrangement from the world while also being just plain fun. That changed though when Tank Girl (1995) came out when I was 13. It successfully captured the type of fun-loving angst that I'd really begun to feel toward life at the time and which I have never fully outgrown. It's still my overall favorite movie to this day, mostly for subjective, aesthetic reasons rather than objective ones. (It's not objectively among the better movies out there. :P ) I still find it fun today as a reflection both on my own youth and as a great concentration of the whole ethos of that era's highly entertaining, punkish third-wave feminism that I have a much better grasp of now than I did at the time.

the wailing
after the storm
right now wrong then
the handmaiden
train to busan
prevenge
toni erdmann
paterson
lo and behold reveries of the connected world
april and the extraordinary world

kimi no na wa aka your name, hacksaw ridge, elle, tickled, er ist wieder da.

i bet theres more but cant remember right now and I also liked the lobster and arrival.

I've been so busy with games that I've missed a lot of movies over the last few years :(

I did love Fury Road and La La Land though :)

Here's a top 50 list from four years ago to give you a sense of my top picks: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=5031789

Hope you're enjoying the community here!

was looking for that thread couldnt find it lol thanks :D

Took me a while too

The Last Samurai :)

Madoka Magica Rebellion

Kimi no na wa (your name)

Don't think about all time favorite much and I would probably have to separate by genre or what I'm looking for that day, but SICARIO should have won best picture in 2015 and it wasn't even nominated. And Benecio Del Toro DEFINITELY should have won best supporting and he wasn't even nominated.

Also La La Land only lost best picture because of the politics of #Oscarssowhite last year. The academy needed to get people off their ass so they overreacted and despite acknowledging that La La Land had the best camera work, direction, actressing, soundtrack, etc. gave it to the one that would stick it in Trump's face the most and get people to stop talking about how they don't cast black people enough (which this doesn't solve that problem anyway). It was such BS. It's not even in the upper echelon of what was nominated for best picture. Hidden Figures, Fences, and Hell or High Water were better by miles. Moonlight an interesting little indie.

Thanks! I am enjoying the community here. :)

Anyway, looking at your list, I haven't actually seen most of those movies before, I'm afraid. Truth be told, I'm not that much of a cinephile in general, to which end I'm mostly just familiar with films that have been released in the span of my own lifetime, and only with a significant number that have been released in the last several years. I would say that the popularity of the first two Hunger Games movies increased my interest in movies as a medium. I had expected The Hunger Games films to just be cult hits. The megahit status they unexpectedly earned convinced me that maybe it was time to give movies more of a chance; that maybe the times were changing for mainstream cinema in a good way now. I'm still not really a proper cinephile though, truth be told. I'm way more into games and some other hobbies. I do go to the theaters more often nowadays though. Some of my favorites are fairly mainstream, others not so much, so I guess when it comes to cinema appreciation, I'm pretty all over the map. :P

Recent movies? Not many and I think some modern animation movies are more entertaining than most modern live action movies. For instance I recently watched and liked Inside Out, Zootopia, Kubo and the Two Strings, When the Wind Rises and others.

My current passion though: Buying screwball comedies (either on DVD, BluRay or iTunes) I hadn't watched before.

Most recently watched:

- A Foreign Affair (with Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich and some guy nobody has ever heard of)
- It Happened One Night (Claudette Colbert, Clark Gable)
- The Awful Truth (Jean Arthur, Cary Grant)
- You Can’t Take It with You (Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore)
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Carole Lombard, Robert Montgomery)
- The Bride Came C.O.D. (Bette Davis, James Cagney => I never knew they had made a film together)

Liked them all. Those were the days when they wrote good screenplays for leading ladies.

Jean Arthur is my new darling.

A Foreign Affair was the most surprising discovery, great and bittersweet Billy Wilder comedy set in post-war Berlin, almost as good as One Two Three. Wilder and his companions really were outstanding screenplay writers.