Oltmans Movie Lists

I've been doing these movie lists for more than a decade now, and my days of watching 80-90 movies in a year are over.  Getting older and a growing family took care of that.  Between the theaters and home I was still able to watch about 50 movies this year, which I suppose isn't too bad.  I watched more clunkers this year than usual, and there were quite a few movies that were just so-so, but my top 10 is filled with some really great films.  Enjoy the list, and let me know what movies you loved this year! 2016/2017 Movie List 44. Anomolisa With the movie at the bottom of the list each year, I always feel like I am partially at fault.  If it is so bad, why not just stop watching?  The thing is, the writer of this movie, Charlie Kaufman, used to be one of my favorites.  He wrote Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, all interesting, creative movies.  Maybe that’s why I didn’t give up when I realized th...

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...