#Best blu ray movies 2016 movie#
Part of it is definitely the unlikelihood of it all: this movie absolutely should not exist. It is impossible for me to overstate how much I love it.Īfter three viewings, I'm not even sure I can explain why I love it so much. Swiss Army Man is a miraculous lightning bolt of a movie, the kind of thing I imagine we'll eventually credit for giving birth to an entire generation of filmmakers. I was not prepared to be so profoundly moved by it, or to be put in a position where I instantly had to restructure my list of the greatest movies of the decade. I wasn't prepared for the masterful performances, which debatably rank as career high points for its two stars, Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe. I wasn't prepared for how beautiful the film turned out to be. I wasn't ready for the parade of universal truths (some painful, some hopeful) that it dumped in my lap. The logline alone was insane enough to guarantee my patronage, and as soon as Swiss Army Man hit Austin my ticket was purchased.Īs it turns out, I was woefully unprepared for Swiss Army Man. It's about a suicidal guy befriending a farting corpse? Really? And Daniel Radcliffe plays the corpse? The buzz that met the film's Sundance debut was not entirely positive - a good portion of the discussion was devoted to the number of walkouts the film received during its first screening - but for me, that was irrelevant. Like everyone else, I was intrigued and amused when I first heard about Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's (known collectively as "Daniels") film. If the only two movies released in 2016 were Batman V Superman and Swiss Army Man, it still wouldn't be a terrible year for movies. How anyone could say this within the same year in which we've been given Green Room, Hell Or High Water, High-Rise, Hunt For The Wilderpeople, Arrival, The Nice Guys, The Witch, The Invitation, Hail, Caesar! and The Jungle Book (just to name a few) is beyond me, but the sentiment's particularly off-base in a year that gave us Swiss Army Man. The Great Myth of 2016 is that it's been a terrible year for movies.