The Blu-ray Community Top 25 Films of 2018 (Please Read 1st Post)

[Creed]

Well, yeah. mother! is so good.

[Quan2um]

1) Roma
2) Paddington 2
3) Leave No Trace
4) A Star Is Born
5) Museo
6) First Reformed
7) McQueen
8) Aquaman
9) A Quiet Place
10) First Man

11) The Escape
12) Tea with the Dames
13) Golden Exits
14) Mission: Impossible – Fallout
15) The Sisters Brothers
16) Boy Erased
17) If Beale Street Could Talk
18) Who We Are Now
19) Annihilation
20) Tully

21) All About Nina
22) On Body and Soul
23) Disobedience
24) Colette
25) Green Book

[lemonski]

Excellent:

1. At Eternity’s Gate
2. Paddington 2
3. The Commuter
4. First Man
5. 22 July

Not too bad:

6. The Old Man & The Gun
7. Johnny English Strikes Again
8. They Shall Not Grow Old
9. Christopher Robin

Fail:

10. Game Night
11. The Breaker Upperers
12. Operation Finale
13. Siberia

Scraping the bottom of the barrel - ugh:

14. Tully
15. Adrift
16. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
17. Vice
18. The Equalizer 2
19. Red Sparrow
20. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

[spawningblue]

1. Mission: Impossible - Fallout
2. Avengers: Infinity War
3. The Ritual
4. Hearts Beat Loud
5. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
6. Isle of Dogs
7. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
8. Black Panther
9. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
10. Apostle
11. The House that Jack Built
12. Ready Player One
13. Halloween
14. Mandy
15. A Quiet Place
16. Den of Thieves
17. Upgrade
18. Won't You Be My Neighbour?
19. Summer of 84
20. Game Night
21. Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
22. Bad Times at the El Royale
23. The Endless
24. Terrified
25. Hold the Dark

[Star Lord]

1. Avengers: Infinity War
2. Black Panther
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4. A Quiet Place
5. A Star is Born
6. BlacKkKlansman
7. Green Book
8. The Favourite
9. Ant-Man and the Wasp
10. Annihilation
11. Bumblebee
12. Revenge
13. Mission Impossible: Fallout
14. Solo: A Star Wars Story
15. Upgrade
16. Creed II
17. Christopher Robin
18. Isle of Dogs
19. Tully
20. Bad Times at the El Royale
21. The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
22. Deadpool 2
23. Venom

[OWENA]

1. Aquaman
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
3. Roma
4. Mission Impossible: Fallout
5. Annihilation
6. Upgrade
7. Bohemian Rhapsody
8. Deadpool 2
9. Ready Player One
10. Bumblebee
11. Teen Titans Go! to the Movies
12. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
13. The Death of Superman
15. Alpha
16. Hotel Artemis
17. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
18. Game Night
19. Tomb Raider
20. The Equalizer II

[prkchopexpress]

1-10 I would keep, in that order. 11-21 is basically stuff I liked but didn't make the top ten and could be shifted around a lot. 22-25 I might fill in. but I really can't even think of any other releases from the year that I really enjoyed,

1.) annihilation
2.) mandy
3.) upgrade
4.) the night comes for us
5.) mission impossible: fallout
6.) hold the dark
7.) madame hyde
8.) a bluebird in my heart
9.) let the corpses tan
10.) thoroughbreds

11.) souvenir
12.) strangers: prey at night
13.) summer of 84
14.) blackkklansman
15.) you were never really here
16.) revenge
17.) mom and dad
18.) cold hell
19.) let the sunshine in
20.) claire’s camera
21.) happy end


22.) all about nina
23.)
24.)
25.)

people who put infinity war as their top movie really don't anything about movies. sorry, not sorry.

[thedude23]

Final List:

1. Blackkklansman
2. Annihilation
3. The Favourite
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. Mission Impossible: Fallout
6. Creed II
7. Bad Times at the El Royale
8. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
9. Isle of Dogs
10. The Sisters Brothers
11. Hereditary
12. The Night Comes for Us
13. Ready Player One
14. Black Panther
15. Sorry to Bother You
16. Blindspotting
17. Deadpool 2
18. Solo: A Star Wars Story
19. Halloween
20. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
21. You Were Never Really Here
22. Roma
23. Mandy
24. American Animals
25. Tully

[The Debts]

The lack of The House That Jack Built on these lists upsets me dearly. Remedy this, Blu-Ray.com!

[the one who knocks]

1. Bad Times at the El Royale
2. A Quiet Place
3. BlacKkKlansman
4. Searching
5. Hereditary
6. Avengers: Infinity War
7. Isle of Dogs
8. Annihilation
9. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
10. Halloween
11. Three Identical Strangers
12. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
13. Boy Erased
14. Eighth Grade
15. First Reformed
16. You Were Never Really Here
17. Elvis Presley: The Searcher
18. Blockers
19. Game Night
20. Hearts Beat Loud
21. Mandy
22. Juliet, Naked
23. Leave No Trace
24. Blindspotting
25. Ready Player One

[Blu-Ray Classics]

01. Aquaman
02. Ready Player One
03. Mission Impossible: Fallout
04. A Quite Place
05. Bumblebee
06. Deadpool 2
07. Eight Grade
08. Paddington 2
09. Upgrade
10. Bohemian Rhapsody
11. A Star is Born
12. Creed 2
13. Tully
14. Mary Poppins Returns
15. Green Book
16. Suspiria
17. First Man
18. Overlord
19. Venom
20. The Grinch

[Skintastic]

1. Aquaman - 10/10
2. A Quite Place - 10/10
3. The Meg - 8/10
4. First Man - 8/10
5. Disobedience - 8/10
6. Tomb Raider - 8/10
7. Roma - 8/10
8. Isle of Dogs - 8/10
9. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - 8/10
10. Rampage - 7/10
11. Ralph Breaks the Internet - 7/10
12. Sicario: Day of the Soldado - 7/10
13. Equalizer 2 - 7/10
14. Alpha - 7/10
15. Hereditary - 7/10
16. Red Sparrow - 7/10
17. Fantastic Beast: The Crimes of Grindelwald - 7/10
18. Instant Family - 7/10
19. Mandy - 6/10
20. Mortal Engines - 6/10

[levcore]

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[THE WOLVERINE]

1. Mission Impossible: Fallout
2. Aquaman
3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
4. First Man
5. Paddington 2
6. The Favourite
7. Roma
8. Annihilation
9. Suspiria
10. Hereditary
11. Love, Simon
11. Vice
12. Isle of Dogs
13. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
14. Eight Grade
15. Boy Erased
16. Avengers: Infinity War
17. Ready Player One
18. Bumblebee
19. Green Book
20. A Star is Born
21. Game Night
22.the Sisters Brothers
Reserved

[BluCollector13]

1. Roma (dir. Alfonso Cuarón; Netflix)
2. BlacKkKlansman (dir. Spike Lee; Focus Features)
3. Suspiria (dir. Luca Guadagnino; Amazon Studios)
4. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (dir. Morgan Neville; Focus Features)
5. If Beale Street Could Talk (dir. Barry Jenkins; Annapurna Pictures)
6. Isle of Dogs (dir. Wes Anderson; Fox Searchlight Features)
7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (dirs. Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman; Columbia Pictures)
8. Love, Simon (dir. Greg Berlanti; 20th Century Fox)
9. Blindspotting (dir. Carlos López Estrada; Summit Entertainment)
10. The Favourite (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos; Fox Searchlight Features)
11. Vice (dir. Adam McKay; Annapurna Pictures)
12. Shoplifters (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda; Magnolia Pictures)
13. Vox Lux (dir. Brady Corbet; Neon)
14. Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland; Paramount Pictures)
15. Destroyer (dir. Karyn Kusama; Annapurna Pictures)
16. Avengers: Infinity War (dirs. Anthony & Joe Russo; Marvel Studios)
17. Cold War (dir. Paweł Pawlikowski; Amazon Studios)
18. First Reformed (dir. Paul Schrader; A24)
19. Hereditary (dir. Ari Aster; A24)
20. Paddington 2 (dir. Paul King; Warner Bros. Pictures)
21. Widows (dir. Steve McQueen; 20th Century Fox
22. First Man (dir. Damien Chazelle; Universal Pictures)
23. Black Panther (dir. Ryan Coogler; Marvel Studios)
24. 1985 (dir. Yen Tan; Wolfe Releasing)
25. American Animals (dir. Bart Layton; The Orchard / MoviePass Films)

[Foggy]

Finished of the layout of the list HERE for everyone to see, I’ll be adding mini-write ups over the month.

I’ve still got quite a bit to catch up with, so I figured I might as well add anything that slips out of the main list here so people still needing a few films to add have a few more recommendations to squeeze in before the deadline.

Searching

Directed by Aneesh Chaganty
Written by Aneesh Chaganty & Sev Ohanian
Starring John Cho, Debra Messing, Joseph Lee

Synopsis: After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her.



Verdict: A real surprising thriller that intelligently utilises it's gimmick to various subverting effects. Searching avoids the pit falls of simply pandering into tech-phobia and instead weaves a web familiar to the 21st Century that comments on a connected world we exist within now in regards to the facade behind our online personas. Perfectly crafted and refreshing.

American Animals

Directed by Bart Layton
Written by Bart Layton
Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner

Synopsis: Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history.



Verdict: A crafty true-crime caper that blends the very fabric of fact and fiction to create a film that not only comments on it’s own validity, but the heist genre at large. Thrillingly executes with Bart Layton’s relentless direction and sharp editing, American Animals makes for a complete unique viewing experience.

First Man

Directed by Damien Chazelle
Written by Josh Singer Based on the book by James R. Hansen
Starring Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Corey Stoll

Synopsis: A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.



Verdict: Damem Chazelle had the challenge of making the biggest landmark achievements of all time feel fresh and unknown. By making the film more about the one step for man, his retelling of the Apollo missions undertakes a deeply more personal and thrilling adventure that managed to remain nail biting outcome despite the inescapable foresight of it’s conclusion.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen
Written by Joel & Ethan Coen
Starring Tim Blake Nelson, Tom Waits, Zoe Kazan

Synopsis: Six tales about life on the American Frontier following: a wagon train, a bank robber, an elderly prospector, a perverse pair of bounty hunters, an ambitious impresario and a singing gunslinger named "Buster Scruggs".



Verdict: Whilst seeming to veer into the direction of a greatest hits territory with it’s variety of tones and styles, it speaks volumes to the versatility of the Coen Brothers long line of work that their series of Western parables are all distinctive to their body of work and often successful to a mixture of hysterical and devastating results.

Ghost Stories

Directed by Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman
Written by Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman
Starring Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther

Synopsis: Skeptical professor Phillip Goodman embarks on a trip to the terrifying after finding a file with details of three unexplained cases of apparitions.



Verdict: A uniquely British horror effort that manages to utilise the unassuming rural landscape to harbour dark secrets and true terrors that also manages to sink it’s teeth into a real crisis of masculinity. One of the true underrated gems of the year.

Isle of Dogs

Directed by Wes Anderson
Written by Wes Anderson
Starring Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton

Synopsis: Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog.



Verdict: Flawless animation perfectly realises Anderson unbounded imagination in this suitably quaint and deadpan effort. Drawing upon a rich culture of Japan and Japanese cinema, Isle of Dogs often looks epic in scope, yet charming to all audiences.

Bad Times at the El Royale

Directed by Drew Goddard
Written by Drew Goddard
Starring Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Jon Hamm

Synopsis: Circa 1969, several strangers, most with a secret to bury, meet by chance at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one night, everyone will show their true colors - before everything goes to hell.



Verdict: Drew Goddard’s pulpy yawn is undeniably an exercise in excess, a smorgasbord of 60’s American and various bleak shades of morality that highlights real craft and creativity, even when it threatens to come crumbling under it’s own weight.

Other Films You Might Have Missed

22 July | Apostle | Beast | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Cold War | Colette | Dark River | Disobedience | Double Lover | The Endless | A Fantastic Woman | Free Solo | The Hate U Give | Lean on Pete | Let The Corpses Tan | The Old Man and the Gun | Overlord | Paddington 2 | A Prayer Before Dawn | Revenge | Sweet Country | The Tale | The Third Murder | Upgrade

[UltraMario9]

1. The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
2. The Favourite
3. Annihilation
4. Suspiria
5. First Reformed
6. Roma
7. Bad Times at the El Royale
8. Eighth Grade
9. Mission Impossible: Fallout
10. Ghost Stories
11. You Were Never Really Here
12. Hereditary
13. Mandy
14. Incredibles 2
15. BlackKklansman
16. Paddington 2
17. Isle Of Dogs
18. Mid90s
19. Overlord
20. Avengers: Infinity War

[Hucksta G]

Originally Posted by The Debts

The lack of The House That Jack Built on these lists upsets me dearly. Remedy this, Blu-Ray.com!

Unfortunately I don’t think I’ll be able to see this until March

[dunnbluray]

Originally Posted by prkchopexpress

people who put infinity war as their top movie really don't anything about movies. sorry, not sorry.

My thoughts exactly on individuals who put Annihilation at the top. Avengers: Infinity War is a great movie and will most likely be #1 on the list. Get over it.

[levcore]

Waaa not everyone likes exactly the same things as me, waaaa