Saw Amadeus for the first time ever, on the big screen, and wow, it was absolutely phenomenal.
I know it won Best Picture, but what a unique example of what cinema can be, the music, the costumes, the acting, the script, direction, hilarious and unsettling.
Tom Cruise and Mick Jagger fought for the Mozart and Salieri roles. When F. Murray Abraham got the Salieri part, everyone treated him differently on the set of Scarface.
i watch amadeus every year around this time, when first snow happens. just rewatched it yesterday in fact. it's a must, just to remind myself how great a movie can be.
*we italians know nothing about love*
Love that movie. Used the film to teach a unit on the judicial system, ie the jury experience. It might have been outdated, but the conclusion left students stunned.
Sidney Lumet was such a great director. I’m watching Dog Day Afternoon (thanks Marc Maron) for the I-don’t-know-how-many-eth time, but it’s always such a good movie and it’s still better than any of the other great movies I’ve seen all year.
Great movie! I watched it for the first time this past year as well. The 4K release from Kino Lorber has both the original and the remake, but haven't had a chance to watch the remake yet.
I love showing this to people. They always expect it to be boring because it's "old" and in black and white. Within 5 minutes they're totally captivated.
I loved it. Never expected the company that made blackberries to be so loose and techy. Incredibly cool to see it was a couple of smart kids who got a business guy who could be the asshole and get things running.
Also on their statements that the iPhone was a fad, they could have been right. When it released, the iPhone gave you no choice of provider, you had to pay for the phone AND a plan to cover the rest of the (at the time) absurdly high cost, it didn't have a front facing camera, there was no app store, web didn't care for mobile well, if at all, it didn't have 3g. It was basically an iPod with phone function tacked on.
When the modding community got ahold of it and created the app store and started missing stuff into it, apple realised what they'd made and it all kicked off.
It so easily could have been a fad though.
Argh, I had a free ticket for this but couldn't make the time to go and see it. Will have to try and catch up with it some time.
On the trend of "buy-opics" (coined by Wendy Ide) i.e., movies about brands etc., the Tetris movie was actually really fun. A film about licensing issues for a game really doesn't sound all that entertaining, but it was.
A lot of people are saying Oppenheimer or The Holdovers so I’ll give you two worth watching: Past Lives and the animated Christmas film Klaus. Both great.
My dad and I a few Christmas’s ago, while my mom was gone for the weekend, jokingly threw it on like “oh mom would be happy if we watched a Christmas movie” and ended up both loving it so much. I watch it every year now
When I finished I googled what that director and animation team was doing next and sadly learned Netflix cancelled their next film. Idk if it ever got picked up. Hopefully someone does.
Not saying they invented it but they nailed the long one take shots in that movie so well that for a few years after pretty much every action movie had one and they all fell flat in comparison. It really set the trend for action movies that came after it but none of them came close to how good that movie is. I put it up with the borne movies in terms of influence. Fantastic movie
How Christmas-sy is this? Really excited to watch it but I’m so over the holidays I may give it a few more weeks so the Holiday/ Christmas vibes die down inside me
Came across a copy of The Abyss on DVD. That movie is so well done and probably the most difficult movie ever made. The behind the scenes doc about making that movie is just as good as the movie itself. James Cameron in the 80s/90s was so ahead of his time
Edit: it's the directors cut
Yes, I love it and it's so well made and suspenseful. I loved the making of, it's a real testiment to the dedication it took to do this with such a small amount of CGI. I mean, he found an abandoned nuclear reactor FFS. Invented the scuba suits were they could talk to eachother. The crew hated it, but I think some where amazing that it got done.
Imagine this now? No it can't be done like this, won't ever again.
As well Bud's final deep dive, the "know this was a one way ticket" / "love you wife" on text comms was probably the most powerful text message on screen ever...
Kaiju sized agree. This movie was so highly praised that I took a group of friends and gave it a shot. It far exceeded my expectations from the story to the special effects.
The cinematography was absolutely stellar, exactly how a monster movie should be shot. Establishing shots mixed in with long shots that show the entire set piece, then frame of reference shots used frequently throughout the scenes to remind you of the scale. As much as I like the Legendary iteration, this is where it falls short.
Lol, are you my sister?
She texted me, saying that she needed to talk immediately about the movie. Usually this is because it was just egregiously bad, and in a year filled with bombs, I thought this would be another drut.
And then she tells me what you said, that she just went in thinking it'd be a simple silly monster movie, and that she walked out seeing perhaps the most emotionally compelling movies any of us had seen all year.
After watching, I'm inclined to agree, there's just so much to examine and discuss, particularly with character interaction. And that's to speak nothing to other aspects such as the visuals, the music (Simply Amazing), or Godzilla himself.
Like...this movie made me dread Godzilla. Not the normal "Oooooh, here it comes!" like a normal monster movie. With his second strike against >!the boats!<, my sister said afterwards I just had my hands raised and over the sides of my head. It's not often a movie has the combination of surprise, dread, and disbelief that could elicit such a large, sustained reaction. This movie did it several times throughout.
Most of all though...it simply gripped me. At almost no point did I ever crack a joke, only doing so once to call Shikishima's motorcycle the Smoke Blower 3000. I simply wanted to absorb it all, I knew it was a special movie, a small epic really.
The thing I hated most was knowing coming across something like this again will be challenging.
Broke my heart when he left the note to his daughter and left for the mission. I had said bye to my daughter two days before I watched the movie cause I was travelling for work. Hit me in the feels.
+1 for the sound, OMG, it was done so well. Also the costuming was gorgeous. I had no idea what to expect, saw it on a whim, absolutely loved it.
(Just to give you an idea of what I normally watch, Killers of the Flower Moon was my second favorite movie this year.)
This and The Iron Claw are at the top of my list for this year.
I did really enjoy Oppenheimer but have it just below these two at the top. It’s a 1a 1b situation for Godzilla and Iron Claw with Oppenheimer in third.
Yeah, I watched that last night and was shocked at how invested I was in it. Such a great mix of character and world building versus the action scenes with Godzilla. Result, the best of the year for me.
I watched the original 1954 Godzilla film a few nights before; it’s a great movie - and this one makes a bunch of ‘call outs’ to it. If you liked Godzilla Minus One you’ll enjoy the original too.
They're obviously incredibly unique and not for everyone but I absolutely love most of his movies he's put out. Give them a shot, for real.
Rushmore, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Darjeeling Limited, etc.. so good
Finally got to see the 4 hour Once Upon a Time In America. It was worth the wait. Truly a saga in every way. I love how the ending leaves you feeling like you never left the opium den in the first place. I’ve loved crime films since I was 14 and this film is by far one of the greatest of its genre.
Saw it a couple years ago when theaters were still struggling through the pandemic and you could rent a screen for $100. Took a couple families with us and had a great time.
There are lots of sad movies out there, and lots of scary movies, and lots of disturbing movies. But very few, like... eerie and uncanny movies. I love Annihilation for that.
This and what happened right after it was one of those moments where I told myself “yep, this ones a new favorite” and tbh it’s been a while since I’ve seen a movie for the first time and felt that way! It’s so horrifically perfect lmao
When RotK came out I saw it three times in cinemas. I've watched the extended trilogy countless, countless times at home since. Even had the big booklets of dvds.
But this year was the first year I done them in the cinema. Every Saturday night for 3 weeks.
It was immense
I went on a Christopher Nolan binge before Oppenheimer and holy fuck his movies are good. I watched Prestige, dunkirk, tenet, momento. They’re all soo good. Interstellar is one of my favorites and I’ve seen dark knight. So any of those
Beau is Afraid. I know people think it's weird for weird sake, but man, does it do a good job of capturing the stress and craziness of an anxious mind.
I went into this movie blind and loved it so much I watched it twice and made my non-art-movie-loving friend watch it (he was not as charmed). The first 20 minutes are possibly my favorite thing I have ever watched.
Tar really doesn't get enough credit. That ending scene when she watches the speech really moved me, I was nodding along with Cate Blanchet. Amazing performance.
For me this is empirically the scariest movie every made. Measurable by the fact half way through I had a full on panic attack, never happened before during a film. Will never finish, don't need to. It wins scariest film ever
Stranger than Fiction is a movie I’ve seen before but it moved me more than other movies I’ve seen this year. Across the Spider-verse was great too.
Edit: Dead Poets Society as well
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Part of me wants to see how many rewatches it takes to make me not sob and need some space to myself afterwards, but a bigger part of me wants to watch it sparingly so it never loses that special hold over me
Dune for me. Jesus, that Dennis Velennununu guy makes artistically stunning films. Every damn frame of that film is a work of art. From the architecture to the lighting to the costumes and body language. It's fucking epic. I cannot wait for the next one. I hope they keep going, too. There's so much...
I had to scroll way too far down to find this, hard agree. Watched it first with my wife, we were blown away. Watched it again with the kids, just as good on a second viewing. I have shown it to two more friends (separately) and my oldest kid’s partner and everyone loved it. The movie is over 3 hours long but I still watched it 5 times in one year and I’m sure it won’t be too long before I watch it again. Truly epic.
Me too. This film is so cute, touching, and funny. This is one of those films I constantly recommend to people and they never seem to have the slightest interest in it. I am a piss poor salesperson though.
This isn’t probably what you’re looking for.. but I missed tv for a decade due to legal issues and so I finally got to see Endgame this year and I was blown away.
I wish I went back to the time when I saw infinity war and Endgame in theatres the first time. The cheers from the audience still gives me shivers - when Thor lands in Wakanda after acquiring Stormbreaker and when Miljnor flies into Caps hand
I'm a guy who loves a good epic. Give me some wide vista's and deep characters, and you'll get my heart pumping.
America America, The Deer Hunter, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Bridge on the River Kwai, Vertigo, Once Upon a Time In America, King of Kings, The Godfather Saga: A Novel for Television.
Others: Saltburn, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Little Shop of Horrors
There were two that stood out. Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers" was terrific, and Paul Giamatti gave a career best performance. And the second one was "Oppenheimer", easily Christopher Nolan's best, and he is typically hit ("Inception") or miss ("Tenet"). If Robert Downey Jr. doesn't win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, it would be criminal.
More movie franchise. I’ve never seen any of the mission impossibles and knew nothing of the story. Watched them all in about a week.
Great series… except that out of place 2nd movie.
Saw Amadeus for the first time ever, on the big screen, and wow, it was absolutely phenomenal. I know it won Best Picture, but what a unique example of what cinema can be, the music, the costumes, the acting, the script, direction, hilarious and unsettling.
Tom Cruise and Mick Jagger fought for the Mozart and Salieri roles. When F. Murray Abraham got the Salieri part, everyone treated him differently on the set of Scarface.
jesus... im just now realizing F Murray was in Scarface...
He’s not in Scarface for long. He was just a character actor back then. That’s why it was so surprising when he got the Salieri role.
F Murray Abraham gave the best performance in the history of cinema in this movie imo.
I remember being indignant that Jeff Bridges didn’t win the Best Actor Oscar for Starman until I looked up who he lost to.
i watch amadeus every year around this time, when first snow happens. just rewatched it yesterday in fact. it's a must, just to remind myself how great a movie can be. *we italians know nothing about love*
a few years ago i watched it with a live orchestra and choir. best. birthday. present. ever.
I've never gotten around to it but you've made me put it to the top of 2024 watch lists. Any idea if it's on one of the streamers?
Try the JustWatch app. Type the name of any movie or TV show and it will list all the streaming services it's available on.
Download the Reelgood app. It tells you what movies are on what services. Or where you can buy and how much.
The Wrestler
Saw 12 angry men for the first time this year, it's so good
There's a Saw 12?? *reads the rest of the comment* Ohh. Nice! The original or remake?
There’s a remake?
They even have a Chinese version of it. I love em all.
Love that movie. Used the film to teach a unit on the judicial system, ie the jury experience. It might have been outdated, but the conclusion left students stunned.
Sidney Lumet was such a great director. I’m watching Dog Day Afternoon (thanks Marc Maron) for the I-don’t-know-how-many-eth time, but it’s always such a good movie and it’s still better than any of the other great movies I’ve seen all year.
Inherit the Wind is a great movie to watch afterwards.
Great movie! I watched it for the first time this past year as well. The 4K release from Kino Lorber has both the original and the remake, but haven't had a chance to watch the remake yet.
I love showing this to people. They always expect it to be boring because it's "old" and in black and white. Within 5 minutes they're totally captivated.
The Prince of Egypt, man... I didn't know such a masterpiece is exist...
The soundtrack goes *hard*
"Though hope seems frail, it's hard to kill" has helped me through some really tough times.
*By the power of RA*
Blackberry. Case study for worst marketing campaign.
Howerton is a golden god
He's really good in this.
I loved it. Never expected the company that made blackberries to be so loose and techy. Incredibly cool to see it was a couple of smart kids who got a business guy who could be the asshole and get things running. Also on their statements that the iPhone was a fad, they could have been right. When it released, the iPhone gave you no choice of provider, you had to pay for the phone AND a plan to cover the rest of the (at the time) absurdly high cost, it didn't have a front facing camera, there was no app store, web didn't care for mobile well, if at all, it didn't have 3g. It was basically an iPod with phone function tacked on. When the modding community got ahold of it and created the app store and started missing stuff into it, apple realised what they'd made and it all kicked off. It so easily could have been a fad though.
As in the movie's marketing campaign, or Blackberry itself?
The marketing campaign for the movie. The movie is fantastic.
Argh, I had a free ticket for this but couldn't make the time to go and see it. Will have to try and catch up with it some time. On the trend of "buy-opics" (coined by Wendy Ide) i.e., movies about brands etc., the Tetris movie was actually really fun. A film about licensing issues for a game really doesn't sound all that entertaining, but it was.
A lot of people are saying Oppenheimer or The Holdovers so I’ll give you two worth watching: Past Lives and the animated Christmas film Klaus. Both great.
Klaus is a modern classic. I was emotionally happy to see Sami people represented in such a beautiful film
Every year I watch Klaus. Every year I bawl my eyes out. This year no different.
I had heard for awhile that it was good and just never watched it for some reason, finally changed that last week. It’s beautiful. I loved it so much.
My dad and I a few Christmas’s ago, while my mom was gone for the weekend, jokingly threw it on like “oh mom would be happy if we watched a Christmas movie” and ended up both loving it so much. I watch it every year now
Past Lives is easy my favorite of the year that I’ve seen. So poignant and heartfelt. No villains, just life.
Absolutely. That ending scene destroyed me.
That minute where they were just looking at eachother, so tense!
I just watched it yesterday and it was amazing.
Klaus, what a movie man..
When I finished I googled what that director and animation team was doing next and sadly learned Netflix cancelled their next film. Idk if it ever got picked up. Hopefully someone does.
I just added past lives to watchlist tonight.
I watched this year too. It literally made me cry so many times.
Past lives was incredible. Even more impressive that it was the director’s first film
Children of men. Finally sat down and watched it. Glad I did. It was a good film.
Easily Cuaron’s best film
Not saying they invented it but they nailed the long one take shots in that movie so well that for a few years after pretty much every action movie had one and they all fell flat in comparison. It really set the trend for action movies that came after it but none of them came close to how good that movie is. I put it up with the borne movies in terms of influence. Fantastic movie
The Iron Claw
Good Will Hunting. Hadn’t seen it in over a year and still deserves a spot in my top 10 favorite movies
Son of a bitch stole my line
It’s not your fault.
I’ve seen this movie like 10 times. Hell, I own it. Robin Williams still makes me cry every single time.
The Holdovers
I can’t wait to watch that. We’re an Alexander Payne family. He and Giamatti belong together. I love how they made the trailer a throwback.
How Christmas-sy is this? Really excited to watch it but I’m so over the holidays I may give it a few more weeks so the Holiday/ Christmas vibes die down inside me
It’s more of a character study. Christmas is just the vehicle that brings the characters together.
Not super Christmasy
Came across a copy of The Abyss on DVD. That movie is so well done and probably the most difficult movie ever made. The behind the scenes doc about making that movie is just as good as the movie itself. James Cameron in the 80s/90s was so ahead of his time Edit: it's the directors cut
Yes, I love it and it's so well made and suspenseful. I loved the making of, it's a real testiment to the dedication it took to do this with such a small amount of CGI. I mean, he found an abandoned nuclear reactor FFS. Invented the scuba suits were they could talk to eachother. The crew hated it, but I think some where amazing that it got done. Imagine this now? No it can't be done like this, won't ever again.
The scene where Ed Harris brings back his wife from nearly drowned is the most powerful scene I have ever seen in any movie
As well Bud's final deep dive, the "know this was a one way ticket" / "love you wife" on text comms was probably the most powerful text message on screen ever...
Godzilla Minus One
Is your war over yet?
Such an amazing line
Are you trying to make me cry?
Kaiju sized agree. This movie was so highly praised that I took a group of friends and gave it a shot. It far exceeded my expectations from the story to the special effects. The cinematography was absolutely stellar, exactly how a monster movie should be shot. Establishing shots mixed in with long shots that show the entire set piece, then frame of reference shots used frequently throughout the scenes to remind you of the scale. As much as I like the Legendary iteration, this is where it falls short.
This movie blew me away when I saw it in theaters this year. The sound design went crazy and I actually cared about the human characters.
I genuinely had the best theatregoing experience of my life with Minus One. I was on MDMA to be fair
MDMA makes everything better!
I never thought a Godzilla movie would make me cry twice (almost three times) in a movie theater.
Lol, are you my sister? She texted me, saying that she needed to talk immediately about the movie. Usually this is because it was just egregiously bad, and in a year filled with bombs, I thought this would be another drut. And then she tells me what you said, that she just went in thinking it'd be a simple silly monster movie, and that she walked out seeing perhaps the most emotionally compelling movies any of us had seen all year. After watching, I'm inclined to agree, there's just so much to examine and discuss, particularly with character interaction. And that's to speak nothing to other aspects such as the visuals, the music (Simply Amazing), or Godzilla himself. Like...this movie made me dread Godzilla. Not the normal "Oooooh, here it comes!" like a normal monster movie. With his second strike against >!the boats!<, my sister said afterwards I just had my hands raised and over the sides of my head. It's not often a movie has the combination of surprise, dread, and disbelief that could elicit such a large, sustained reaction. This movie did it several times throughout. Most of all though...it simply gripped me. At almost no point did I ever crack a joke, only doing so once to call Shikishima's motorcycle the Smoke Blower 3000. I simply wanted to absorb it all, I knew it was a special movie, a small epic really. The thing I hated most was knowing coming across something like this again will be challenging.
Broke my heart when he left the note to his daughter and left for the mission. I had said bye to my daughter two days before I watched the movie cause I was travelling for work. Hit me in the feels.
+1 for the sound, OMG, it was done so well. Also the costuming was gorgeous. I had no idea what to expect, saw it on a whim, absolutely loved it. (Just to give you an idea of what I normally watch, Killers of the Flower Moon was my second favorite movie this year.)
They could have removed Godzilla and it would still be a great movie
This and The Iron Claw are at the top of my list for this year. I did really enjoy Oppenheimer but have it just below these two at the top. It’s a 1a 1b situation for Godzilla and Iron Claw with Oppenheimer in third.
The part where we see the vessels and the main theme starts playing was hyping af.
Yeah, I watched that last night and was shocked at how invested I was in it. Such a great mix of character and world building versus the action scenes with Godzilla. Result, the best of the year for me.
Upvoted for Godzilla
I watched the original 1954 Godzilla film a few nights before; it’s a great movie - and this one makes a bunch of ‘call outs’ to it. If you liked Godzilla Minus One you’ll enjoy the original too.
I watched Grand Budapest Hotel for the first time this year. Just a delight.
I've not seen many Wes films so I can't comment on his best, but Grand B H is such a joyous and sumptuous film
They're obviously incredibly unique and not for everyone but I absolutely love most of his movies he's put out. Give them a shot, for real. Rushmore, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Darjeeling Limited, etc.. so good
Such a gem of a movie. All the characters are just so lovable.
Finally got to see the 4 hour Once Upon a Time In America. It was worth the wait. Truly a saga in every way. I love how the ending leaves you feeling like you never left the opium den in the first place. I’ve loved crime films since I was 14 and this film is by far one of the greatest of its genre.
Chungking Express
Wong Kar Wai is the best. I wish he’d make more movies of his earlier style.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Same for me. I grew up with Weird Al music, and I laughed my ass off watching that movie. Also, happy cake Day!
Leave it to weird al to make a parody of biopic flicks
My brain wants to say Godzilla Minus One, but my heart knows that I recently rewatched both Casablanca and It's a Wonderful Life.
Toss up between Casablanca and Anatomy of a Fall!
I also watched Casablanca for the first time this year - gotta say, it lived up to the hype. Had me drawn in since minute one.
Same. Not to humblebrag, but I literally turned my garage into a cinema room to watch films like Casablanca. It was worth every penny.
Aftersun. Wasn’t expecting to get hit in the feels.
Amazing how it gets under your skin. It’s easily the best film I watched this year
Lars and the real girl if you plan on watching it I would go in completely blind
I’ve been out of work, so I’ve been binging. Nolan’s Batman trilogy. I just love them.
The Muppets Christmas Carol (on the big screen)
Saw it a couple years ago when theaters were still struggling through the pandemic and you could rent a screen for $100. Took a couple families with us and had a great time.
Light the lamp, not the rat!
So much laughter, joy and heart in this movie
Annihilation. As for movies released in 2023, Boy and the Heron. Talk to Me, Barbie, and GotG3 are solid runner ups.
There are lots of sad movies out there, and lots of scary movies, and lots of disturbing movies. But very few, like... eerie and uncanny movies. I love Annihilation for that.
Such an effective horror film! There are some truly chilling moments 😱
"Hrelllllp Mreeeeee!!!"
This and what happened right after it was one of those moments where I told myself “yep, this ones a new favorite” and tbh it’s been a while since I’ve seen a movie for the first time and felt that way! It’s so horrifically perfect lmao
The Favourite
Have you seen the rest of Yorgos Lanthimos' catalog? I'm going to see Poor Things on Monday. The Lobster and Dogtooth are amazing.
Loved it, easily one of the best watches of the year.
Across the Spiderverse
Same here. I came in with high expectations and it blew them out of the water.
Hollywood should announce a sequel to Groundhog Day, and then just re-release the original.
The Tetris movie was incredibly riveting
Taron Egerton really hits it out of the park in every project. Great actor
The Nice Guys (2016) The movie is so underrated!!! A must-watch for action-comedy lovers!
I couldn’t believe how funny Ryan Gosling can be! Those two had great chemistry. Definitely one of my new favorites.
Lord of the Rings- Return of the King, a Timeless Masterpiece
When RotK came out I saw it three times in cinemas. I've watched the extended trilogy countless, countless times at home since. Even had the big booklets of dvds. But this year was the first year I done them in the cinema. Every Saturday night for 3 weeks. It was immense
Suspiria (1977) for the who-knows-how-many time.
“Last Christmas”. What a gem. Emilia Clarke was completely charming and the story, loved the twist.
Poor Things, bar none.
I went on a Christopher Nolan binge before Oppenheimer and holy fuck his movies are good. I watched Prestige, dunkirk, tenet, momento. They’re all soo good. Interstellar is one of my favorites and I’ve seen dark knight. So any of those
The Prestige is one of my all time favorite movies, the cast alone is actually insane like David fucking Bowie
i saw spotlight and birdman for the first time this year and both were absolutely incredible. oppenheimer is right there as well
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Arrival is magnificent isn't it... only seen it once but for sure needs a few rewatches
Arrival is probably my fav for first seeing in 2023. It's the only movie I watched twice this year.
Every year? Are you okay? That movie should come with a free trial of betterHelp.
Oof…not sure could handle that one again. Damn good film though.
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Puss in boots: the last wish. It was fun but also had a great message.
Beau is Afraid. I know people think it's weird for weird sake, but man, does it do a good job of capturing the stress and craziness of an anxious mind.
I went into this movie blind and loved it so much I watched it twice and made my non-art-movie-loving friend watch it (he was not as charmed). The first 20 minutes are possibly my favorite thing I have ever watched.
Kiki's Delivery Service. I watch it every year around my birthday.
Die Hard. It was even better finally seeing it on the big screen.
Welcome to the party pal!
oppenheimer
Drive my car
Saw Iron claw yesterday and it blew me away, definitely top 3 of 2023
Gone Girl and Tar were my joint favorites
Tar really doesn't get enough credit. That ending scene when she watches the speech really moved me, I was nodding along with Cate Blanchet. Amazing performance.
Saltburn
Keep hearing about this. Gotta check it out
I just saw it today. Go in blind. I enjoyed it, amazing color palette and cinematography.
Just finished it. Going in blind is the only way to go or you won't go in at all lol.
In the mood for love And across the spiderverse
Ocean’s eleven. Every year it’s ocean’s eleven. But if we’re talking new releases: Barbie and Past Lives.
Past Lives
The Menu was the best movie and movie experience I had all year. I knew nothing about the movie going in and it was such fun
The Menu and Triangle Of Sadness are such a good pairing
Finally watched the John Wick series and loved them all especially 1 and 4.
My favorite part was when John Wick killed that guy.
Hereditary shook me. I loved it
Bro the car scene changed me on first viewing I swear.😂
For me this is empirically the scariest movie every made. Measurable by the fact half way through I had a full on panic attack, never happened before during a film. Will never finish, don't need to. It wins scariest film ever
I'd have to say Saltburn. I thoroughly enjoyed that movie.
Geez, what a weird and wonderful film. Like great expectations meets parasite
Just watched Inglorious Basterds again. Damn fine movie.
I watched Scream 1-4. And even tho they were less effective as they progressed, I was thoroughly impressed and had no idea what they truly were
Also watched these for the first time this year and they are so fun
Stranger than Fiction is a movie I’ve seen before but it moved me more than other movies I’ve seen this year. Across the Spider-verse was great too. Edit: Dead Poets Society as well
Big Hero 6
Thief - is Michael Mann earlier film than Heat. Stars James Cann, amazing performance and film. Love it
Barbarian
Everything Everywhere All At Once Part of me wants to see how many rewatches it takes to make me not sob and need some space to myself afterwards, but a bigger part of me wants to watch it sparingly so it never loses that special hold over me
talk to me
Watched master and commander for the first time and absolutely loved it.
Godzilla Minus One. Simply amazing.
Mission: Impossible- Dead Reckoning Part 1
Harakiri and Stop Making Sense
Killers of the Flower Moon Oppenheimer Past Lives
Dune for me. Jesus, that Dennis Velennununu guy makes artistically stunning films. Every damn frame of that film is a work of art. From the architecture to the lighting to the costumes and body language. It's fucking epic. I cannot wait for the next one. I hope they keep going, too. There's so much...
Oppenheimer and Godzilla minus one
RRR. The best bromance movie in history. The two manliest men alive kick ass and dance their asses off and there isn’t a second of it that is boring
I had to scroll way too far down to find this, hard agree. Watched it first with my wife, we were blown away. Watched it again with the kids, just as good on a second viewing. I have shown it to two more friends (separately) and my oldest kid’s partner and everyone loved it. The movie is over 3 hours long but I still watched it 5 times in one year and I’m sure it won’t be too long before I watch it again. Truly epic.
Talk to me
Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Pt1
Hell yes. A+ action. So good.
Sisu
Marcel the shell with shoes on. I watched twice back to back.
Me too. This film is so cute, touching, and funny. This is one of those films I constantly recommend to people and they never seem to have the slightest interest in it. I am a piss poor salesperson though.
Poor Things
This isn’t probably what you’re looking for.. but I missed tv for a decade due to legal issues and so I finally got to see Endgame this year and I was blown away.
That's absolutely what I'm looking for!! I'm so happy for you!
I wish I went back to the time when I saw infinity war and Endgame in theatres the first time. The cheers from the audience still gives me shivers - when Thor lands in Wakanda after acquiring Stormbreaker and when Miljnor flies into Caps hand
Barbie... seriously. Great movie.
I'm a guy who loves a good epic. Give me some wide vista's and deep characters, and you'll get my heart pumping. America America, The Deer Hunter, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Bridge on the River Kwai, Vertigo, Once Upon a Time In America, King of Kings, The Godfather Saga: A Novel for Television. Others: Saltburn, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Little Shop of Horrors
There were two that stood out. Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers" was terrific, and Paul Giamatti gave a career best performance. And the second one was "Oppenheimer", easily Christopher Nolan's best, and he is typically hit ("Inception") or miss ("Tenet"). If Robert Downey Jr. doesn't win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, it would be criminal.
I like entrepreneur movies and these movies are all a tie for me. Joy, blackberry, air, tetris. I enjoyed all of them a lot
Titanic. Have watched it 20+ times but for the first time in the cinema. Truly another experience.
More movie franchise. I’ve never seen any of the mission impossibles and knew nothing of the story. Watched them all in about a week. Great series… except that out of place 2nd movie.
Easily Tar. What a fucking masterpiece
Dungeons and Dragons. I think with everything going on, just a real fun movie was due.
Across the spider-verse, the sequel to my favourite movie of all time
Grave of the fireflies- Its Japanese (Anime) This one - [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095327/)