That's interesting Faldor, I couldn't make it through half the movie myself. I found no stakes, no tension at all, nothing to keep me interested, no arc or sense of direction to the story. Plus the only laughs I got were from Chris Hemsworth, because he looked like he wasn't trying soooooo hard to be funny at every moment, like the rest of the cast (Kate Mckinnon especially).

I found no redeeming qualities at all from the first hour I watched. The editing in particular was almost comically inept. Some scenes were ended so abruptly I started laughing to myself.

Every scare was undercut with jokes, nothing was scary. They have a scene where a ghost shows up in a subway tunnel. Constricted, cramped dark space with a ghost, potential to be pretty scary right?

Nope.

1. They walk literally about 30 feet into the tunnel, and you can still see the lit, populated platform behind them. No sense of claustrophobia or isolation.
2. The tunnel is lit to hell and back, giving no sense of atmosphere or darkness.
3. Ghost looks like a guy in a suit color-corrected blue. Not scary.

The person who encountered the ghost gets scared and runs away from the camera, and I was expecting them to be chased, because that would imply the ghost atleast being a threat of some sort. Nope, the scene just ends with the person running from a stationary camera.

The whole movie is lit like a fucking sitcom. It looks like a childrens show, color everywhere, warm and bright.

I've enjoyed Paul Feig before, I really liked "Spy" and was laughing like hell throughout that one. Why he even bothered with this one I'll never know.

I have similar feelings on ID:R.

All the Alien tech and stuff they gave the humans just deflated the tension for me. I'm not really interested in seeing a future earth battle aliens. I want to see current earth with the limitations we have fight aliens.
Plus I don't buy the fact that, supposedly, humanity, in just 20 years, were able to allocate huge R&D resources, break down and reverse engineer the alien technology, and manufacture working helicopters, space ships etc.

All this while most major cities in the world were blown to pieces, probably crippling manufacturing and infrastructure.

I thought about what I would like to see, before even seeing the film, and where I would take the 2nd installment if I had to brainstorm a bit.
What I came up with was probably too close to "District 9" or "Battle Los Angeles" to be worth doing, but I think the best way to make a 2nd ID film would be to set it as us fighting the aliens that would presumably be left alive on earth. This aspect I was surprised was actually dealt with in the movie, but those aliens were either just rounded up easily and held in a prison of sorts, or we saw skulls from ones previously exterminated, and it didn't really make any difference to the plot.

I would have wanted a still crippled earth, as we still would be exploring and finding out more about the aliens, to find there is still a threat from aliens left on earth. You could still have a queen alien, if you wanted that, emerge from a bigger ship that landed in a distant area on earth that we didn't hear about in the first movie, and revelations could be made about plans the aliens have to finish the job, or do something else. I think that basic framework is much more interesting and the earth being still very crippled would be interesting to see.

The Spidey FIYH you guys recorded are hugely entertaining Teague.

Of the 26 2015 films I've seen, Fury Road leads followed by Sicario. I really hope Deakins gets a cinematography win, Sicario is so downplayed in a way, but he does so much with so little. The shot of the soldiers at sunset descending below the horizon as the camera lands perfectly on the cloud formation in the distance... Beauty. I've yet to see The Revenant however.

Worst big film goes to Genisys, followed closely by the Poltergeist remake.