It’s been a good year for fans of science fiction on the
large and small screens, aside from the death of Leonard Nimoy, of course. It was a good year for movies in particular from the return of beloved franchises like Star Wars and Mad Max to new hits like The Martian and Ex Machina.
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Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road |
I've made lists of my favorites, my least favorites, and my "okays" in movies released in 2015. They're in three separate lists: best good movies, worst bad movies, and most mediocre mediocre movies -- all in my opinion, of course!
I spent a lot of time at the movies this year, but I didn't see everything, so please feel free to give your recommendations in the comments for anything I missed (or to offer your rebuttal to my rankings). I've limited myself to movies that I reviewed on the blog, so while Kung Fury was an insanely hilarious homage to the 1980's, Jurassic World was a lot of fun, Pixels was one of the worst movies ever made, I'm not including them. I'm not discussing Avengers: Age of Ultron (which was fun) or other comic book movies (seriously, Ant Man? Another Fantastic Four?). I don't really like superheroes, and even if I did, the whole comic book movie genre has been completely over-saturated in recent years and is well covered elsewhere by almost every other nerd on the internet.
And now to the movies!