Top 12 Favorite Movie Scenes of 2017

Here are my top 12 Favorite Movie Scenes of 2017

12. Baby Driver-Opening Scene: The opening car chase of this movie was a perfect intro to Baby and perfectly set the tone for the rest of the movie in a heartpounding first five minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XMuUVw7TOM

11. Last Jedi-Opening Fight
This was my first time ever seeing a Star Wars movie on the big screen and I was immediately treated to a massive visual spectacle. The opening fight was an incredible visual display and started off the movie in amazing fashion.

10.  Spider-Man Homecoming: Washington Monument Scenee
Middle acts of movies can sometimes be a drag, but this sequence gave the middle portion of Spider-Man Homecoming an incredible sequence.

9. Kingsman-Lets Go Crazy Opening Sequence
The 3rd time already the opening scene of a movie makes this list. Once again this scene set up the movie perfectly, as I was instantly hooked and knew this movie would be a ton of fun.

8. Thor: Ragnarok-Gladiator Fight
It's always fun when we get to see two of the heroes go at it against each other, and Thor and Hulk being forced to fight in a Roman Coliseum style gladiator fight was a ton of fun.

7. Dunkirk-Trapped in the ship
No other scene maybe ever in a movie had me as tense and on the edge of my seat as this one. British soldiers are trapped in a ship on the beach as high tide rolls in. With holes in the ship water starts to pour in. The choices are stay hiding in the ship and drown to death, or leave the ship and risk being immediately shot down by german soldiers. Its as tense a scene as you could ever get.

6. Spider-Man Homecoming-Car Scene
Another very tense scene as Its so fun to see Michael Keaton slowly put the pieces together that hes looking at Spider-Man and seeing Peter squirm as he realizes the pieces are being put together and hes nothing he can do about it. It fully sets into gear the final act of the movie.

5. Kingsman-Saturday Nights Alright
The final battle scene is a ton of fun to watch, and with this Elton John song playing in the background it makes it even more amazingly fun.

4. Guardians of the Galaxy 2-Yondu's sacrifice/Funeral
Such a great finish to a great movie

3. IT-Bload Oath
Who would have thought a horror movie could produce such an emotionally poignant and powerful scene?  It's made even more powerful by those who are aware of the story and know that when they make the blood oath it is the last time all 7 members of the losers club are together as a group. It perfectly wraps up the first half of the story while also perfectly setting up the 2nd half.

2. Guardians of the Galaxy 2-Yondu slaughters the Ravagers
The beginning of Yondus redemption as he and Rocket break out of jail by slaughtering everyone on the ship. It is the definiton of badass and the song that accompanies the scene is perfect.

1. IT-Neibolt Street
 So much about this scene is perfect. Pennywise crawling out of the fridge as he slowly walks toward Eddie and taunts him, Richie in the room full of clowns, the "Very Scary, Scary, Not Scary at all" doors sequence, the moment where Pennywise s about to eat Eddie, then hears Richie and Bill open the door and he pauses, the moment where Bev impales Pennywise, and Eddies "Do not fucking touch me!" The best 5-10 minutes of cinema this year.

Ranking every movie I saw in Theaters in 2017

A new obsession and hobby began for me in 2017, going to the movie theater. Truthfully, over the past five years or so seeing movies in theaters was incredibly rare for me. In fact between October 2015 and June 2017 I did not see a single movie in theaters. Even before that I averaged maybe 2 or 3 a year since I got out of high school.

Honesty time: I struggle with anxiety. Sometimes I can keep it supressed, but its always a threat to surface, and sometimes it can be unbearable. It is this anxiety that kept me away from theaters for so long. The thought of "disconnecting" for 2+ hours from the outside world is something I could rarely bring myself to do. I dont have the attention span to just sit and stare at a movie for that long. I needed to be doing something while I'm watching a movie, so I preferred to watch at home. At home I can browse the web, write things down, get chores done while watching a movie. At the theatre, you sit and watch and thats it, something I had a hard time getting myself to do. So I avoided going to the movies unless there was one I REALLY wanted to see. But then with a full summer off and a few boring afternoons to kill I decided to try to start going to the movies again, and I realized something: seeing a movie in the movie theatre was the  ultimate relaxation for me. My brain is always moving at full speed and I can hardly ever truly relax, even when Im at home watching TV my brain is racing thinking about something. But at the movie theatre, that is one place where I truly feel relaxed and disconnected from the world. So I kept going back to more and more movies. Just sitting and getting lost in the movie and soaking it in, there was nothing more relaxing. All in all I ended up seeing 26 different movies in the theater this year, and will probably see much more than that in 2018 with a five month head start over 2017. Here is my attempt at ranking every movie I saw in the theater in 2017. When looking at this list, it was a great war for movies. I adore the top 12 movies on this list, and even 13-18 are movies I got a lot of enjoyment out of. Only 19-27 are movies I would rank a C or lower on an A-F scale and only 24-27 I would rank a D or lower.


27. Wish Upon
26. Flatliners
25. Daddy's Home 2
24. Jigsaw
23. 47 Meters Down
22. Girls Trip
21. Cars 3
20. The Mummy
19. Murder on the Orient Express
18 Pirates of the Caribbean 5
17. Despicable Me 3
16. Justice League
15. The Dark Tower
14 War for the Planet of the Apes
13. Wonder Woman
12. Baby Driver
11. Disaster Artist
10. Coco
9. Dunkirk
8.Star Wars: The Last Jedi
7. Thor: Ragnarok
6. Kong: Skull Island
5. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
4. Kingsman 2
3. Spiderman: Homecoming
2. Guardians of the Galaxy 2
1. IT