This is a list I agree with many of the choices, so I'm posting it, please add any it missed:
Films of 2014 that didn't suck
by OftenAwesome · 5 hours ago
1) Birdman
A black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) - famous for portraying an iconic superhero - as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJfLoE6hanc
2) Wish I Was Here
Director Zach Braff's follow-up to his indie breakout hit "Garden State" tells the story of Aidan Bloom is a 35-year-old man who finds himself at major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his career, and his family.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCponfeWNOI
3) Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
This epic of action unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world. Major William Cage (Tom Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop-forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw61gCe2oqI
4) The Grand Budapest Hotel
The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fg5iWmQjwk
5) Interstellar
With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vxOhd4qlnA
6) Gone Girl
Directed by David Fincher and based upon the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn - unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGn-xKFZdU
7) Boyhood
Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0oX0xiwOv8
I Origins
Dr. Ian Gray (Michael Pitt), a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman (Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab partner Karen (Brit Marling), they make a stunning scientific discovery that has far reaching implications and complications.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk4briOLrTQ
9) Guardians of the Galaxy
From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team-the Guardians of the Galaxy. An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crIaEzXgqto
10) Captain America: Winter Soldier
The sequel to 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger. Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SlILk2WMTI
Films of 2014 that didn't suck
by OftenAwesome · 5 hours ago
1) Birdman
2) Wish I Was Here
3) Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow
4) The Grand Budapest Hotel
5) Interstellar
6) Gone Girl
7) Boyhood
I Origins
9) Guardians of the Galaxy
10) Captain America: Winter Soldier
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