# Best movie of the last 3 years? 2014-2016 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016 "2016-11-15T00:08:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/1 "2016-11-15T00:08:56Z")
I like to restrict time down like that and see what people will say? What is the best complete movie from the last 3 calendar years? Yes, you can name a few, but try to pick your top. I’d honestly say: **Mad Max Fury Road** - rewatched it again this weekend on Blu-ray. It’s the greatest action movie ever made and is also my favorite score from the past 3 years. It should have won the Oscar for Best Picture. Honorable Mentions: \*\* Queen of the Desert\*\* - Herzog’s overlooked masterpiece. Nicole Kidman should have won an Oscar, as should Herzog and his cinematographer. Loved it. Watched it twice in a week. **What We Do in the Shadows** - the best comedy of the last 3 years by a mile. I laugh just thinking about it. Honorable Honorable mention: Star Wars Episode VII - While not in the top group, this movie deserves even more credit than it was given at release. Making an Episode VII was so daunting, I can’t believe they even came close to matching the originals. So much riding on it, I know I’d crack under pressure. You guys? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/2 "2016-11-15T00:27:46Z")
**Mad Max: Fury Road** is by far the best movie I’ve seen in the past few years. It’s also the best action movie ever made, bar none; nothing else even comes close. I agree it should have won the Oscar for Best Picture last spring. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/3 "2016-11-15T01:02:23Z")
I’m on The Mad Max Fury Road train as well. I don’t know about Star Wars. I liked it enough to watch it enough times to realize I hate it, if that makes any sense. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/4 "2016-11-15T01:15:50Z")
Under The Skin, Anomalisa, Paddington, What We Do In The Shadows, The Martian, John Wick, Brooklyn, '71, The Big Short, Inside Out. I rate all of these very highly. Really didn’t care for Fury Road at all. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/5 "2016-11-15T01:27:58Z")
Boyhood. By a lot. Giving the Best Picture to Oscar to Birdman instead was a Grade-A travesty. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/6 "2016-11-15T01:36:08Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Boyhood. By a lot. Giving the Best Picture to Oscar to Birdman instead was a Grade-A travesty. I only found Boyhood to be OK. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/7 "2016-11-15T02:02:54Z")
Probably Captain America Winter Solider. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/8 "2016-11-15T02:37:10Z")
Mad Max was definitely the most fun I’ve had watching a movie that I can remember: I found myself laughing almost constantly at the zany bloody chutzpah of everyone involved. It was glorious. I don’t know if it’s the best, but it was goddamn glorious. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/9 "2016-11-15T02:47:42Z")
Mad Max Fury Road The Martian Deadpool Kubo and the Two Strings ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/10 "2016-11-15T03:30:31Z")
Count me in on the _Mad Max_ love. Another good action film is _Edge of Tomorrow_ (aka _Live, Die, Repeat_) I quite liked _Bridge of Spies_ and _Brooklyn_, too. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/11 "2016-11-15T03:44:28Z")
What? No “Guardians of the Galaxy”? "Grand Budapest Hotel "? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/12 "2016-11-15T04:00:30Z")
Off the top of my head **Mr. Holmes The Grand Budapest Hotel Inside Out The Book of Life** ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/13 "2016-11-15T04:05:46Z")
**Kingsman: The Secret Service** is probably the movie I enjoyed the most, dunno if it’s the best though. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/14 "2016-11-15T04:10:08Z")
> [@Isosleepy](#): > > What? No “Guardians of the Galaxy”? "Grand Budapest Hotel "? GotG was great fun, but lacked a certain _je ne said quoi_ that would have elevated it to the “amazing” category. TGBH lacked, um, nearly everything, IMO. I know I’m prolly in the minority, but Wes Anderson’s films appeal to me like Tim Burton’s films appeal to me: they have an interesting visual style, but that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/15 "2016-11-15T04:22:35Z")
2014: John Wick 2015: The Martian 2016: Deadpool Overall, Deadpool. I’ve not laughed that hard in a movie theater for a while. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/16 "2016-11-15T13:01:40Z")
Ex Machina My personal favorites are another matter. My top four from the past three years, in order: [Coherence](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2866360/?ref_=nv_sr_1) [Horns](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1528071/?ref_=nv_sr_1) [Spring](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3395184/?ref_=nv_sr_3) [These Final Hours](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2268458/?ref_=nv_sr_1) ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/17 "2016-11-15T13:40:48Z")
I liked _[Sicario](https://www.amazon.com/Sicario-Emily-Blunt/dp/B0162LLCA2)_ quite a lot, but I readily admit I haven’t seen most of the movies on everyone’s lists. Any love for _[Interstellar](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816692/)_? John Wick was an hour and a half modern dance routine with firearms. Beautiful fight choreography though, and I’ll probably make time to see the second one in theaters. And [Keanu Reeves in real life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpr8oqyjKIc) is about as good with a gun as he looks in that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Gavano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gavano](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gavano)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/18 "2016-11-15T13:45:31Z")
+1 for Mad Max! I also like Interstellar - great one! watched 5 times…always find something new for myself… ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/19 "2016-11-15T13:51:39Z")
It ain’t gonna win the popular vote, but my personal favorite film of the past three years _by a WIDE margin_ is [A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2326554/). The director is on track for becoming one of my favorite directors as well. The was her debut feature film but I just recently saw her second film [The Bad Batch](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4334266/) at a film festival and it was also quite excellent. It will be officially released sometime in 2017. I’ll be watching her career quite closely. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2016, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016/20 "2016-11-15T13:53:33Z")
I loved _The Martian_ and also really enjoyed: _Birdman_ _American Sniper_ but my favorite : _Whiplash_ Nothing else that I’ve seen even comes close. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-of-the-last-3-years-2014-2016/772016.md?page=2)