The short list....which of these 2015 movies was your favorite?

I'm still gonna vote for Ex Machina, the only 1 I haven't seen is Star Wars.

Good movies all, but I wanted to see how they stacked up here.

Have not seen Mad Max yet. All the others are great with the exception of Jurassic World... I thought it was good but not on the same level as the others.

I haven't seen any of those movies....

Can't decide between Star Wars and Mad Max. I'll give it to Mad Max because of Tom Hardy. Kylo Ren was pretty cool too.

@SexyJazzCat:

Maybe I missed it but what did Tom Brady have to do with Mad Max?

Mad Max. Haven't seen SW but not a huge SW fan so I doubt seeing it would change my mind.

lol force of habit.

@AFBrat77: Hahahaha meant Hardy

Out of those choices? Star Wars.

Ex machina although I'm about to see star wars

Star Wars.

Mad Max was not as good as I hoped.

Out of those, Ex Machina.

Tough choices, if we are only including the ones listed.

Mad Max was just...awesome. So much fun, and excellent acting which was a nice surprise for such an action-heavy movie. I was warned by someone that "it is just a two-hour long car chase" and I was like "...and this is bad because?" lol.

The Martian did the book justice, and I loved the book. Overall though it was meh, not all that memorable. Not terrible, I highly recommend it to pretty much everyone.

Ex Machina was a nice surprise, I was not expecting to enjoy it so much. The ending was awesome!

Waiting til after Christmas to see Star Wars.

Jurassic World was OK, though admittedly I had very low expectations. I do love me some Chris Pratt, though, and he was perfect for that role.

Sooooooooooooo to answer the question, out of the movies listed, I will have to vote for Mad Max. The originals are some of my favorite action movies ever, and this most recent one was arguably the best of all of them. IMPERATOR!

Mission Impossible was a pleasant surprise. I thought the series had run its course, but this was the best installment since the first movie (which is the best, imo; it is the most spy-ish, all the others are too much action, especially the Wu directed one).

Creed...

But out of those choices Star wars I guess

I haven't seen any of those yet but it'll definitely be Star Wars: The Force Awakens when I go see it sometime within the next week. I have Jurassic World on blu-ray and look forward to watching that soon too. My current favourite movie so far this year though is The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

@magicalclick: They didn't make the cut....nor did Creed (which was also mentioned, good movie btw) in my last poll.

Besides I like the fact that these are all sci-fi / fantasy movies

From that list I guess Ex Machina, but where is Inside Out?

@Vaasman:

See my last comment on my last post....I liked Inside Out also, but not a good fit here.

I figured Inside Out was decidedly fantasy, but fair enough, it's a poll asking about the harder lined sci-fi / fantasy movies of this year.

In that case Ex Machina still wins to me, with Star Wars close behind. I honestly didn't like Mad Max all that much. I mean yea, I like it, it just wasn't the second coming word of mouth assured me it was.

Didn't watch The Martian, and Jurrasic World was just a decent popcorn flick, nothing more, nothing less.

@SexyJazzCat:

Ah Tom Hardy, haha, yes he was good...you must have had Tom Brady on the mind.

On another note The Martian is being shut out, just like it started in my last poll before a sterling comeback.

Ex Machina, watched it on acid

Tough to say but my favorites so far and from what I can remember:

The Force Awakens

Fury Road

Inside Out

Ex Machina

Bridge of Spies

Jurassic World

After having seen Star Wars... I had to decide between The Martian and Mad Max. I'm going with Mad Max, it totally blew me away and stuck to my mind for months.

my top 5 of 2015

1. Star Wars The Force Awakens

2. The Revenant

3. Mad Max Fury Road

4. Ex Machina

5. The Martian

I voted Star Wars... fresh on my mind. Though I probably felt more satisfaction and relief over Mad Max Fury Road turning out good, given I thought it could go either way. Frankly there was never any doubt for me that J.J. Abrams could have done wrong on this and though it wasn't perfect was still lots of fun and I look forward to the sequels.

I have not seen any of the movies.

Star Wars and Mad Max duking it out, The Martian still being shut out, maybe it's votes went over to the dark side, since I added Star Wars to this poll.

Only correct answer is The Danish Girl.

The who now? MAD MAAAAAAAX

Damn. Havent seen any of them.

Other than Jurassic World they're all great films. But Star Wars is the best.

@Allicrombie:

I heard good things about "The Danish Girl", but I wonder whether the subject matter would appeal to a straight guy like me. Perhaps the movie transcends that. In any event I wouldn't feel it was a good fit here.

@AFBrat77: and yet more evidence that OT is the pinnacle of diversity tolerance. You do know Star Wars has a black guy, right?

@Allicrombie:

Oh I do tolerate it....just not sure a movie about a transgender would be my kind of movie, but if it's good enough perhaps it would be fine. The hot girl from Ex Machina is in it as well which doesn't hurt.

As for a black person in SW, well, I'm currently watching The Wire which has a black to white ratio of at least 10:1 and has a good chance of topping Breaking Bad as my favorite TV show of all time. So I think I could tolerate a black dude in SW. Hell I did with Lando.

It was a solid year in movies. I'm really looking forward to The Revenant next month, comes out the day after my birthday. \m/

@Iszdope:

The Wire has captured me from the very first episode....I'm still only on Season 1 but it has been rock solid.

On another note, after 44 votes The Martian is being shut out, and 2 movies are duking it out for the title.