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2015/2016 Movie List

It’s movie time!  Once again, I’ve ranked every movie I watched this year, from worst to best.  This year marks the fewest movies I’ve watched in a year since I started doing this list.  Two years ago everything lined up (a month of paternity leave where I didn’t have to get up as early, lots of really good movies, plus the usual summer movie binge) and I was able to watch 95 movies.  This year there weren’t nearly as many good movies, and it turns out that 5 kids was the tipping point for me.  Now that we have a foster son living with us, plus the other four, it turns out I am exhausted every night, and don’t watch nearly as many movies.  Go figure.  Without further ado, the list: 38. Chappie  First Neill Blomkamp made District 9, which was a great sci-fi movie that had some interesting social commentary about life in South Africa.  Then he made Elysium, a decent sci-fi movie that had some mildly interesting social commentary.  And now he has made Chappie.  A bad sci-fi film that