Just as I predicted - Hollywood saved it's best for last. It always does. The final 2 months of the year produced three of my favorites - "American Sniper", "The Theory of Everything" and "The Imitation Game". I loved each one of these movies! Unfortunately the local theatre showed "Birdman" only for two weeks and I missed out on that one, but from the trailers it looked appealing. So did "Grand Budapest Hotel"... hey, I'm a Wes Anderson fan! Add to that, "Heaven is for Real" and "Guardians of the Galaxy" and that's my best list.
Another movie I wanted to see but didn't was "A Walk Among the Tombstones". Liam Neeson movies are a coin flip - some good, some bad. But from trailers this looked like positive.
I did see part of "Boyhood" and I'm thinking it got raves for it's very different approach. But it put me to sleep. Another movie I saw - "God is Not Dead" - was filmed in Louisiana. Like the vast majority of movies made in part with our tax dollars, it was not good. At least it didn't suck like "Benjamin Button", "Dukes of Hazzard" or "Shark Night 3D". The state legislature needs to make changes to the film credit program. Have the script reviewed by a panel before any scenes are shot. If I was on such panel, there might've been three movies EVER made with the tax credits.
But I digress... the end of the year restored my faith in Hollywood. What little there is!
