Favourites of year 2G + page

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Tue Mar 12, 2019 1:59 pm

Are we allowed to talk about 2G14 yet?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Mar 12, 2019 2:14 pm

We are required to talk about 2G14 now!

My favourite films of the year are probably Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and The Lego Movie. Probably in that order.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:35 pm

If Captain America The Winter Soldier was 2G14, and I'll trust Damien that it was, that's definitely my pick for favorite movie of the year. That was one of the best Marvel movies easily.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Tue Mar 12, 2019 3:42 pm

Did a Google. 26 March 2014.
I love how the Captain America films are all so different. Different genres even.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:16 am

Why was it that good?
Sorry, I was living under a rock then and missed it.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:41 am

It just was. Can't explain. Just watch.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:48 am

Lazy!

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:02 am

I don't know what my favorite show of 2G14 is. The Flash? It's ok, but I wouldn't generally think of it as a favorite. Then there's Bojack Horseman. Highly acclaimed, but way too depressing for me to consider it a favorite.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:14 am

Which season of GoT aired in 2G14? Whichever it was probably counts as my favorite series released that year.

As for movies, Lego movie maybe? Certainly not the Hobbit anyway, I think I didn’t even bother watching that third one as the first and second ones were so bad.

Guardians of the galaxy was alright for a superhero movie but I’m not really a fan of that genre.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:22 am

I'm only doing shows that started in a year and sometimes shows that ended in a year. Too much to try to figure out which show running during a year was my fave. GoT was probably fourth season. Heck if I remember what happened that season.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 7:53 am

The Fargo TV series was my favourite new show of 2G14. Still haven't finished the second season or watched any of the 3rd yet though.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 12:15 pm

I have yet to watch the Fargo TV series, it’s on my todo list though.

Regarding GoT season 4, isn’t it the one in which one of our favorite characters dies?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 1:40 pm

I'm sure I have a definitive favourite album of 2G14, but I can't for the life of me remember it. Erasure's "Violet Flame" was good, but still not a scratch on their pre 2G10 stuff. My most listened to album was probably the London cast recording of the 2G14 Miss Saigon revival. That wouldn't count as an album really though. I might come back with a better one later

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 1:40 pm

Favorite character death of 2G14, not to be confused with death of favorite character.

We're coming to the end of the line, if we can keep getting through these pages. Only 4 more pages after this one and then we'll probably have to stop until the end of 2G19.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 1:42 pm

I’m starting with albums, but I’m not finding much for 2G14. Maybe something obvious will occur to me later. In the meantime, here are two 2G14 albums by artists I’ve more recently come to like.

- “Sunbathing Animal” by Parquet Courts

- “Burn Your Fire For No Witness” by Angel Olsen

I have listened to both of these albums and they’re very good, but in both cases I’ve listened to other albums by these artists a lot more than these particular ones. So this isn’t a huge stretch, but it is a stretch. Maybe if I listen to these ones more they’ll become my favourites.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 1:59 pm

I guess I'll see if i can dig any inspiration from the NTWIC2G14 track list.

Disc 1:
1. DJ Damien & DJ Wetherspoon feat. MC Barber - Looking For Willies
2. Alcazar - Blame It On The Disco
3. Ace Wilder - Do It (New Version)
4. Dave Audé - Aftermath (Here We Go) [feat. Andy Bell]
5. Manic Street Preachers - Walk Me To The Bridge
6. James Blunt - Bonfire Heart
7. The Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm
8. Lily Allen - Air Balloon
9. Basim - Cliché Love Song
10. Nicole Scherzinger - Boomerang (Cahill Remix)
11. Derek Mount And Riley Friesen - Really Happy Postman
12. New Found Glory - Selfless
13. YOHIO - To The End
14. Eva Noblezada & Alistair Brammer - Last Night Of The World

Disc 2:
1. Miss Saigon London 2014 Cast - Bui Doi
2. Cir.Cuz - Diva
3. Taylor Swift - Blank Space
4. WEAPON OF CHOICE - Mr. Goodbye
5. TEO - Cheesecake
6. Oscar Zia - Yes We Can
7. Suburban Legends - Kiss The Girl
8. Aarzemnieki - Cake to Bake
9. Erasure - Under The Wave
10. Tegan and Sara - Everything Is Awesome!!! (Feat. The Lonely Island)
11. McBusted - Gone
12. Zebrahead - Sex, Lies & Audiotape
13. P!nk - Just Give Me A Reason
14. Blue - Without You

From that, the McBusted and NFG albums were fun, but not worthy of album of the year. The Manic Street Preachers album ("Futurology") was probably the best of the bunch.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:07 pm

Apparently Gone Girl was also released in 2G14.
While not the best Fincher film ever, I actually enjoyed it more than the LEGO movie or Guardians of the Galaxy.

Also IMDB lists Interstellar among the best ranked films of 2014. I have yet to watch it though.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:19 pm

Interstellar was the overrated space film of the year.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:20 pm

You mean even more overrated than Guardians of the Galaxy?

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:24 pm

As in people that don't normally see films were going to see it because they'd been told it was jaw-droppingly amazing. Also see The Martian (2G15) and whatever the ones after that that I can't be arsed to recall are. They're all 3Gs at best.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 2:57 pm

I've never seen Interstellar, but I have to agree GotG is overrated. It's good, but even among Marvel movies, it's not top tier.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:01 pm

From what I heard about it, Gravity was the overrated space film of whatever year that was.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:05 pm

Livejournal tells me my favourite game of 2G14 was probably "South Park: The Stick of Truth". This reminds me that I really ought to get around to playing the sequel (which I've heard isn't as good)

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:43 pm

Looking for games, I can tell this is getting to the point where I’m barely playing any.

That said, my games of 2G14 are Mario Kart 8 and Shovel Knight, both of which are very good.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:49 pm

Mario Kart 8 improved with the DLC tracks, and then again with being portable on the Switch.
2G14 was the year of Sporting Real. Shaun joined us to commentate "Canadian Hour"

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 3:58 pm

I might have missed something but I didn't see too much of interest when looking through the games of 2G14. Maybe Yoshi's New Island is my favorite. Yeah, it's probably too easy and not as good as the original, but it's still good Yoshi's Island fun and I didn't see much else.

I just got Mario Kart 8 on the Mario day sale. Remains to be seen how much I will like it.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:22 pm

I preferred Woolly World to New Island.
Pokémon Omega Ruby was my second favourite game. Added quite a lot of new features and content for a remake.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 7:14 pm

Yes. Woolly World was better, but it was not released in 2G14.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 10:43 pm

Shovel Knight was pretty nice.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 11:28 pm

Oh. Yeah. I never got too far in it. Partly because there were things costing money that was way disproportionate to what I would get in a run through a level.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Wed Mar 13, 2019 11:48 pm

I haven’t looked that closely yet, but even a quick search has proven 2G14 to be a very good movie year for me. Grand Budapest Hotel is one of my favourite Wes Anderson movies, Inherent Vice is one of my favourite Paul Thomas Anderson movies (no relation), and Boyhood is one of my favourite Richard Linklater movies. And that is significant, because all of those people consistently make great movies.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:02 am

How did I not notice that? I could have to rethink Captain America. I mean Winter Soldier was top tier Marvel movie but Grand Budapest was also very good!

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 12:54 am

I haven’t seen Grand Budapest Hotel yet but I agree that Wes Anderson’s films are consistently good.

I really need to catch up on all the great films I’ve missed over the past few years.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:40 am

Grand Budapest Hotel is also an absolutely amazing Ralph Fiennes performance. That man plays one hell of a dandy.

EDIT:
2G14 also started some shows I really like.

- “Jane the Virgin”, which is criminally underappreciated. One of the most consistently good TV shows I’ve ever seen.

- “BoJack Horseman” which is the perfect mix of horrible emotional truth and cheap animal puns.

- “Lovesick” (or “Scrotal Recall” rofl) which tells an engaging story of a group of friends in a creatively nonlinear way.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:29 am

I still haven’t watched Scrotal Recall (even though it was named after a Tweet I made). Utopia was another good Channel 4 TV series from 2G14. I thought it went on for a couple too many episodes though.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:17 pm

Still highly recommend it.

A couple other notable mentions from 2G14 movies now that I’ve looked more closely.

- “Frank”, which features Michael Fassbender hidden beneath a papier maché head almost the entire time.

- “Paddington”, which I thought looked pretty awful (I generally can’t stand the CG-animals-in-live-action-films shit), but finally broke down and watched recently because it receives such universal praise. It was thoroughly enjoyable. The art direction also takes some cues from Wes Anderson to good effect.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:55 pm

Frank was really strange for lots of reasons. One of these reasons is that it tells an almost entirely fictitious story about Frank Sidebottom. I think there are two unrelated films that are more of an actual biography.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 4:10 pm

Yeah I don’t know a ton about Frank Sidebottom, but I agree it’s an odd pseudo-connection.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 4:12 pm

Didn't Paddington already come up in this thread?

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 4:34 pm

Paddington is a family movie masterpiece
It is wholesome AF

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 4:53 pm

Lord Golbez wrote:Didn't Paddington already come up in this thread?

It came up, but in another thread I believe. Probably LP2PW.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 6:06 pm

Maybe it was the sequel thread because Ibseem to remember Paddington 2 coming up also.

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 6:57 pm

Ah yes, you’re probably right.

Incredibly we are already on the final stretch of 2G14. Get your 2G14 faves down while you can!

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:34 pm

Hey, I’ve just realized Silicon Valley was released in 2014. Probably my favorite series of the year then.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:46 pm

2G14 is when:

run the jewels 2 came out. It’s a good hard hitting hip hop album. I still regret missing out on their show here.

King gizzard and the lizard wizards I’m in your mind fuzz came out. They’re a super eccentric modern psychedelic rock band and I like them. There’s a chtululu on the cover too.

It’s also the year Mario kart 8 came out. I felt it was a good Mario Kart game. O

Fei Ayanami · Post by **Fei Ayanami** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:51 pm

The main problem with Mario Kart 8 (the Wii U version) is its garbage excuse for a battle mode. I believe this was rectified in the Switch version.

WaWard · Post by **WaWard** » Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:52 pm

It was. I never played it.

Lord Golbez · Post by **Lord Golbez** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 1:54 am

I played the battle mode once (switch version obvs). It was awkward and I sucked at it.

Damien · Post by **Damien** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 7:20 am

I believe they improved the battle mode for the Switch version. Haven’t played it though. This mode was one people used to be super annoyed at when it sucked in past games (all the ones after 64), but these people (me included) have mostly given up caring about it.
The best new feature Mario Kart 8 brought to the table was non-Mario series characters and tracks. The next entry in the series should be all the more varied for it.

Calbrena · Post by **Calbrena** » Fri Mar 15, 2019 12:38 pm

It’s a shame, battle mode used to be fun in Super Mario Kart.