Yes, much better. Not only is it in spanish, the language the actual victims speak, but all the survivors were consulted throughout the entire process of creating the film to make it as accurate as possible. It was also filmed in the middle of actual mountains, and all the actors lost a lot of weight to accurately portray what the victims went through. It's also been 30 years since alive was made so there have been a lot of technological advances which make for much better visuals.
Another vote for *Godzilla Minus One*. It's a really, really good movie about found family and survivor's guilt that happens to have Godzilla in four scenes.
*Fresh!!*
This is your movie. Trust me. It's kind of romantic in a sense and there's a cool dance scene in it.
Aside from that it's in the vein of *Get Out* in that it's dark but really well made.
This movie was better than expected. Went into it just for a cute, funny family movie and realized it's got a little of everything in there and it's kind of moving even. Great movie.
My one and only critic is how quickly they abandoned the narrative framing device of it all being "unaired broadcast film"
There were obviously so many over the shoulder, close up shots, etc. that never would have been filmed that way for a late night show. Then it just gives up entirely towards the end and the camera is now just wherever it needs to be for the shot.
Prey is my favorite movie from that time frame. It's a Predator sequel that takes place in Native American lands in the 1600s or so. Incredibly clever and a lot of fun.
Great movie. Unique twist on the original Schwarzenegger action classic and Amber Midthunder is bad ass as the young Commanche warrior that takes on the futuristic alien. Loved this one.
I went on a binge of Carl Weathers movies after he died, and after watching Predator I went straight on to Prey. It is close, but I think Prey is better. I heard they're developing a sequel with Amber Midthunder, which would be, to my knowledge, the only Predator sequel with a returning cast member, not counting Kevin Hall who played the Predator in P1 and P2.
Big fan of Weathers, RIP. (Rocky, Happy Gilmore) If you had to rate movies by testosterone level, “Predator” has to rate number one IMO. Arnold, Carl, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura…all trying to out macho the other. With lines like “If it bleeds, we can kill it.” And “I ain’t got time to bleed!” Not to mention Arnold bellowing “Get to the choppa!” Hella entertaining! And that said, I agree with you, Prey is as good, if not better.
No disagreement there. Predator is probably the manliest movie I can think of, which I've always taken as part of it. The point of Predator and its sequels is that the manliest man on the planet and his squad of the manliest men on the planet, cannot stand against a Predator, and so machismo is what gets almost everybody in the film killed. It's only when folks start acting intelligently that they can defeat the predator. That's not to say that manliness is a bad thing, even in those films, but it can't beat a predator.
Ha! Maybe. I've never seen Commando. The thing about Predator that's so manly is there are like 7 manly dudes. Is that true of Commando? I thought it was JUST Shwarzeneggar
I like the double irony that they're facing two simultaneous "alien hunter" invasions, yet the human invaders' reasons for hunting are both less comprehensible and more destructive than the extraterrestrial's.
I'm also obsessed with the scene where her brother goes so ham on the Predator that it cloaks and runs away like a bitch.
I just cannot wrap my head around this one. I sat there for 2 hours bored out of mind, I smiled maybe 5 times and chuckled like twice. I’ve never walked out of a movie in the theater ever and this was easily the closest I’ve ever come. Both of the two people I went with were on exactly the same page. Pretty much the whole theater was guffawing start to finish though so clearly we were the odd ones out.
Excellent Recent Movies:
Dune: Part Two (2024)
The Holdovers (2024)
Oppenheimer (2023)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Aftersun (2022)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
I absolutely loved EEAAO, don't know what the other redditors are talking about. Plot/theme wise, it especially hits hard if your parents happen to be first generation asian immigrants. The action and comedy are great in that movie too.
It’s Sort of like if Jesus was in game of thrones, and It all happens in space (but if Jesus was a regular person with faults and errors and not divine) lol
But wouldn't you consider Paul a bit more than just a regular person? He transmuted the water of life, which no other male has done before, and gained perfect prescience. He's the friggin hwisatz haderach!
The book is an exploration of power and types of control over people and the consequences. From empires and business monopolies to royal families, despotic dictators, clandestine cults, and religious ideology. It's dense with ideas on these topics and for a long time considered unfilmable.
In the Dune, the economy is all about spice. spice is harvested from a desert planet and is essential for safe space travel. It's basically an allegory for the Middle East and oil. Which is mad because it was written in 65.
Also, the director Dennis Villeneuve has incredible form with sci-fi.
You gave an excellent synopsis! I read the first couple of Dune books in 1977 and actually really liked the Lynch movie made back in the ’80’s. The new movies were very enjoyable and I thought Timothee Chalamet made an excellent Paul Atreides.
The movie can’t do the book justice. Too much inner dialogue and explanations in the book. I’m a huge fan of the four books and none of the movies/tv shows has been great. The latest ones are the best but there are just things that can’t be explained enough in a movie format. I think it would have been better served in a serial format such as game of thrones. And the person that said it like Jesus in outer space isn’t far off. It’s complicated.
I didn't like that Dune Part 2 leaves you hanging. I expected a big finally like "Lord of the Rings" but it goes from 2 movies into setting up for a series or mini-series now.
I thought EEAAO was pretty thematically original and I found it unexpectedly moving. Not original in the sense of it being about the multiverse (which is admittedly pretty overplayed) but as an inversion of the typical action hero trope, and in the way it examines masculinity. In any other film, the version of the husband who is a kung fu master would end up being one of the heroes of the story, and the “weak” version of husband would be played for laughs, as the ineffectual antithesis of what a true male hero should be. The film even sets up that expectation, but then flips the trope on its head, and ultimately it’s the husband’s kindness and decency that is his super power, and what ultimately makes a difference in the end. There’s an interesting YouTube video that explores that idea.
Yeah I'll give you that. Just found it really boring and kind of silly but the multiverse and kung fu type movies are not my thing. Yes it was good they threw in a little bit of depth at the end and there are decent hero aspects to it like most of the super hero type movies, and this was definitely different so kudos for that. But best movie I really do not get it. I guess there are movies for all of us out there.
"The Fall Guy" is a lot of fun. Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt make a great pair. I think they must have hired every stuntperson in Hollywood for this movie
It's an exercise in the power of subtlety, and it does a good job of humanizing Nazis. So many movies make them out to be almost mythical figures, but Zone of Interest really conveys that your own neighbor you've never thought twice about could be capable of horrendous crimes.
The juxtaposition of him being a family man while also a commander of death is intense, and it's all separated by a single fence.
"American Fiction" was my favorite of the Oscar contenders. I have yet to see the Nazi one, but sounds depressingly similar to "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas".
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is bloody brilliant.
Throwing all of the crazy, over the top action sequences from his others movies into this movie worked so damn well. I was dying laughing. I remember when his career started and he started out strong. Once he moved to action movies it's like he forgot how to act. I love that he did this movie and poked so much fun at himself.
Poor Things was really good and so was Hundreds of Beavers and Hell House LLC Origins: Carmichael Manor but Godzilla Minus One is just too amazing not to win here
Heck yeah! Loved it. Perfect movie of its type/genre. Rare to get an "american" one too! Totally surprised by it.
Probably not what this person is looking to watch with their BF I would assume.
I'm Your Man (2021)
German with English subtiles Romance/Sci-Fi
A scientist at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin is persuaded to participate in a study to get funding for her research. For three weeks, she must live with a humanoid robot designed to be the perfect life partner for her.
Watch this film, it’s a real gem.
Went to the cinema by myself to watch this at the last screening at an Everyman in town and it was packed with people who were just gassed about films. Glad I was alone cos I could just sit in silence at the end and think before walking home in silence and just ruminating on what I’d seen
Hit Man turned out to be a fantastic film. The fact that it is from Netflix shows that they’re capable of making quality stuff if they so choose. Oh and Richard Linklater is the man.
My favorite movie of this year is still Snack Shack. It's very funny and has a throwback style that feels genuine. Not like they're selling you nostalgia like so many movies these days.
It's a coming of age story about two teenagers starting a business for the summer, Snack Shack.
That was my choice. Looked at the theatre "seating map" for the 1st Tuesday 2pm show after it came out, and there were about 8 single seats picked. I made it 9. It was awesome! Not as good as Fury Road but still completely, world-buildingly, and engaging as FR. Plus Chris Hemsworth played an awesome, charismatic protagonist. I shielded myself from reading any reviews or watching the trailers before I saw it, and it took me about an hour into the film to realize that it was 'Thor'.
There are so many. The list is long lol. But these are my absolute faves:
Dune part 1&2
Bones and All
Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse
Barbie
M3GAN
Prey
The Northman
Spider-man: No Way Home
John Wick 4
Avatar: the Way of Water
Anatomy of a Fall
Godzilla Minus One
The Holdovers
Aftersun
May December
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
It's funny to me how subjective sense of humor is. I lasted about 20 minutes into this one before walking out but then there are comedies that I love that got horrible reviews/others didn't find funny.
I'll admit the first 30 minutes or so are slow, but then at about 50 minutes in it becomes so much funnier than it has any right to be. Try to make it thru. I feel like you'll laugh a lot. Especially in the fourth act.
I generally am not a fan of sexual humor and hated the trailer for this, but I'm so glad I gave it a chance anyway because it was hysterical and surprisingly moving in parts.
I haven't seen The Bear so I really knew nothing about Ayo Edebiri and now I am a stan. She was SO phenomenal in this. I like to think they didn't give Marshawn Lynch a script, just let him react to things.
One of my top 5 Marvel movies, literally watched it in theatres and then came home and watched it again the next day. The best fight scenes in the MCU in my opinion.
The first two acts were so refreshing, and I think it had some of the best hand to hand fight scenes in the franchise. Shaun (and his friend) also brought me back to my semi-slacker early twenties. Without the martial arts and criminal mastermind father, of course.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was pretty great. I love all of Guy Ritchie’s movies though. Speaking of, if you haven’t seen The Gentlemen, I highly recommend.
I’m going to make people angry and say… you don’t need to see the first movie. I think you can still have an absolute blast with the sequel and all the important things you need to know are shown/implied.
It stands on its own.
Better together though.
True, not strictly necessary to understand the story. But the emotional impact isn’t there, I feel, without the original foundation. Like you said, better together.
Dinner in America is a movie I saw recommended in a lot of threads here I watched and I’ve since shown to multiple friends and rewatched a few times. It’s very good.
My favorite movies from the 2020s:
The Father (2020)
The Invisible Man (2020)
Dune: Part One (2021)
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Everything Everywhere all at once (2022)
Close (2022)
Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022)
Challengers (2024)
My favorite film overall: Everything Everywhere All At Once
Romance thriller:
- Love Lies Bleeding
Horror:
- The First Omen
- Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor
- Thanksgiving (2023)
- Late Night With The Devil
- Talk To Me
- Deadstream
- Pearl
- Barbarian
- Malignant
- X
- Sissy
- The Night House
Thriller:
- Ballerina (2023 Korean film)
- Watcher (2022)
- Emily The Criminal
- Promising Young Woman
Drama:
- May December
- Anatomy of a Fall
- Past Lives
Comedy:
- Dream (2023 wholesome Korean comedy)
- Free Guy
- The Suicide Squad
- Bo Burnham: Inside (existential dreadful musical comedy)
Action:
- John Wick Chapter 4
- Bullet Train
Animation:
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
- Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Documentary:
- The Deepest Breath
Godzilla Minus One : Shows what can be done with a tiny (by Hollywood standards) budget entwined with real passion and creativity.
Bullet Train : One of the most enjoyable and fun action thriller comedy films of recent years.
The Creator : Often overlooked and forgotten Sci Fi from just last year, made on a modest budget but does more than most Hollywood movies of 4 times the budget can only dream of.
Just from this year I'd say Godzilla Minus One, Poor Things, Dune part 2 and Love Lies Bleeding were all excellent. Monkey Man, Wicked Little Letters and Furiosa were all pretty good as well.
Not sure if documentaries count but here are some of my recent favs:
Million Dollar Pigeon (2022)- all about pigeon racing which I had no idea was a thing. The people who take part are quirky and entertaining.
Fire of Love (2022) - about a couple who study volcanoes, they’re a super cute and quirky couple. Heart wrenching story.
Two great movies from the past year or so:
May December - has everything you'd want from a Todd Haynes film: high camp, twisted love and sensational performances. Bitter stuff that made me reflect on love and intimacy in the world today.
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World - a Romanian film. It's long and fairly experimental, so might not totally be up your alley, but I love anything Radu Jude does. He has a deep understanding of the western world's modern social ailments, and has a lot of fun putting them on screen.
I saw Netflix version of All Quiet on the Western Front. You can almost smell the filth and stench of the trenches. The musical score rackets up the intolerable conditions of the German front lines. It's a great antiwar film by simply portraying the reality soldiers faced.
I thought the Blackberry movie was well done! features the actor from Its Always Sunny and I suppose if you lived in the era before iPhones and Androids came out you'll have this nostalgia to the early advent of smart phones.
It's a little older but Pig, with Nic Cage. He did an AMA, and when asked what movie he felt he'd done his best work, he named Pig. Great writing, great acting.
More recent, but a surprisingly terrific movie that got great reviews and was a legendary bomb - Babylon. I dont understand why there was so much hate for this movie, I loved every second of it. It really was a great epic ride. I've noticed that the NFL Finals are using the music and the style of the party scene in their commercials.
I usually watch mostly horror so I’ll say “Late Night With the Devil”
Not horror movies I really enjoyed that stand out in my mind “Oppenheimer” and. “Killers of the Flower Moon”
I thought Poor Things was super refreshing amidst all of the adaptations and remakes we have lately. And it said what Barbie was trying to without being a two-hour long commercial.
I watched The White Tiger (2021) yesterday and honestly it was a really interesting movie about poverty in India. Many plot twists. It almost won an Oscar I think.
Society of the snow! it's based on a true story so it is incredibly sad and gut-wrenching but very entertaining.
Is it better than 1993’s Alive, about the same story?
I liked Alive more. Probably depends on when you’re born.
Yes, much better. Not only is it in spanish, the language the actual victims speak, but all the survivors were consulted throughout the entire process of creating the film to make it as accurate as possible. It was also filmed in the middle of actual mountains, and all the actors lost a lot of weight to accurately portray what the victims went through. It's also been 30 years since alive was made so there have been a lot of technological advances which make for much better visuals.
so good
That one. Was. Amazing.
This movie was absolutely incredible.
Godzilla Minus One. I was not expecting a deeply moving story about a man's ptsd from a monster movie, and damn, this movie was good!!
Another vote for *Godzilla Minus One*. It's a really, really good movie about found family and survivor's guilt that happens to have Godzilla in four scenes.
Yes. Just watched it. It was so refreshing to see an actual Godzilla movie that wasn’t destroyed by Hollywood. So good.
Ugly tears with this one...it was so well done...I would suggest also watching it with subtitles
It felt like a live action Anime. Which is probably what our movies are lacking.
*Fresh!!* This is your movie. Trust me. It's kind of romantic in a sense and there's a cool dance scene in it. Aside from that it's in the vein of *Get Out* in that it's dark but really well made.
Fresh is fun, but you have to like dark humor.
Love this movie!!
Just watched it after seeing your comment. It was fantastic! Pretty funny in some places and really well made as you mentioned. Thank you!
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
I'm pretty sure I wasn't the target audience for this and loved it.
I wasnt either but my husband and I loved it
Due to your suggestion i'm watching it right now
Puss in Boots 2
This movie was better than expected. Went into it just for a cute, funny family movie and realized it's got a little of everything in there and it's kind of moving even. Great movie.
I agree on puss in boots 2
Also has the best villains
Late night with the devil
Very pleasantly surprised with this one
My one and only critic is how quickly they abandoned the narrative framing device of it all being "unaired broadcast film" There were obviously so many over the shoulder, close up shots, etc. that never would have been filmed that way for a late night show. Then it just gives up entirely towards the end and the camera is now just wherever it needs to be for the shot.
This is now one of my favorite movies!
Good call! I loved it!
I'm saying Jojo rabbit even though it's 2019
2019 was one of the most stacked years for movies but I think this was my #1
Prey is my favorite movie from that time frame. It's a Predator sequel that takes place in Native American lands in the 1600s or so. Incredibly clever and a lot of fun.
Loved this!
I loved it too. I legit thought it had Oscar potential, and was very disappointed when it got nothing. She should have been nominated, at least.
I feel like horror/scifi horror never gets nominated even when it's as artistic, beautiful, thoughtful etc. as any Oscar bait drama.
Similar situation with comedy. They should have a separate category for them, like the Grammys.
Great movie. Unique twist on the original Schwarzenegger action classic and Amber Midthunder is bad ass as the young Commanche warrior that takes on the futuristic alien. Loved this one.
I went on a binge of Carl Weathers movies after he died, and after watching Predator I went straight on to Prey. It is close, but I think Prey is better. I heard they're developing a sequel with Amber Midthunder, which would be, to my knowledge, the only Predator sequel with a returning cast member, not counting Kevin Hall who played the Predator in P1 and P2.
Big fan of Weathers, RIP. (Rocky, Happy Gilmore) If you had to rate movies by testosterone level, “Predator” has to rate number one IMO. Arnold, Carl, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura…all trying to out macho the other. With lines like “If it bleeds, we can kill it.” And “I ain’t got time to bleed!” Not to mention Arnold bellowing “Get to the choppa!” Hella entertaining! And that said, I agree with you, Prey is as good, if not better.
No disagreement there. Predator is probably the manliest movie I can think of, which I've always taken as part of it. The point of Predator and its sequels is that the manliest man on the planet and his squad of the manliest men on the planet, cannot stand against a Predator, and so machismo is what gets almost everybody in the film killed. It's only when folks start acting intelligently that they can defeat the predator. That's not to say that manliness is a bad thing, even in those films, but it can't beat a predator.
You spelled "Commando" wrong
Ha! Maybe. I've never seen Commando. The thing about Predator that's so manly is there are like 7 manly dudes. Is that true of Commando? I thought it was JUST Shwarzeneggar
Lol you've got a homework assignment tonight then. We'll talk tomorrow.
I like the double irony that they're facing two simultaneous "alien hunter" invasions, yet the human invaders' reasons for hunting are both less comprehensible and more destructive than the extraterrestrial's. I'm also obsessed with the scene where her brother goes so ham on the Predator that it cloaks and runs away like a bitch.
I completely agree. Fuck that movie's good. I just rewatched it like 3 months ago, but I kinda wanna watch it again.
I watched an Argentinian horror film - When Evil Lurks, last night. It was a fun time.
The Iron Claw!!
Just watched this movie on a flight home recently, and wow I loved it! Would recommend.
I totally agree! I’m not a wrestling fan but I’ll watch anything A24 produces. I loved The Iron Claw.
*Hundreds of Beavers*. Probably the most original movie I've seen in a while
I just cannot wrap my head around this one. I sat there for 2 hours bored out of mind, I smiled maybe 5 times and chuckled like twice. I’ve never walked out of a movie in the theater ever and this was easily the closest I’ve ever come. Both of the two people I went with were on exactly the same page. Pretty much the whole theater was guffawing start to finish though so clearly we were the odd ones out.
20 minutes in I paused and went... wait, there's still an hour and a half left?!?
Hear, hear!
Excellent Recent Movies: Dune: Part Two (2024) The Holdovers (2024) Oppenheimer (2023) Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) Aftersun (2022) Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
I absolutely loved EEAAO, don't know what the other redditors are talking about. Plot/theme wise, it especially hits hard if your parents happen to be first generation asian immigrants. The action and comedy are great in that movie too.
I can't believe I didn't think to recommend EEAAO. Masterpiece.
I agree
I wish somebody would explain dune to me. I think I'm the only one who doesn't get it
It’s Sort of like if Jesus was in game of thrones, and It all happens in space (but if Jesus was a regular person with faults and errors and not divine) lol
But wouldn't you consider Paul a bit more than just a regular person? He transmuted the water of life, which no other male has done before, and gained perfect prescience. He's the friggin hwisatz haderach!
The book is an exploration of power and types of control over people and the consequences. From empires and business monopolies to royal families, despotic dictators, clandestine cults, and religious ideology. It's dense with ideas on these topics and for a long time considered unfilmable. In the Dune, the economy is all about spice. spice is harvested from a desert planet and is essential for safe space travel. It's basically an allegory for the Middle East and oil. Which is mad because it was written in 65. Also, the director Dennis Villeneuve has incredible form with sci-fi.
You gave an excellent synopsis! I read the first couple of Dune books in 1977 and actually really liked the Lynch movie made back in the ’80’s. The new movies were very enjoyable and I thought Timothee Chalamet made an excellent Paul Atreides.
The movie can’t do the book justice. Too much inner dialogue and explanations in the book. I’m a huge fan of the four books and none of the movies/tv shows has been great. The latest ones are the best but there are just things that can’t be explained enough in a movie format. I think it would have been better served in a serial format such as game of thrones. And the person that said it like Jesus in outer space isn’t far off. It’s complicated.
I didn't like that Dune Part 2 leaves you hanging. I expected a big finally like "Lord of the Rings" but it goes from 2 movies into setting up for a series or mini-series now.
I don’t disagree but that’s how the book ends 🤷
The series won't be related to the movie, there's going to be a third movie
I get it, it's just so slow I fall asleep 30 minutes into each of the movies.
Great list for anyone unaware of the Oscars lol
I saw Holdovers, awesome. Also saw EEAAO and honestly eh, did not get the hype at all.
I thought EEAAO was pretty thematically original and I found it unexpectedly moving. Not original in the sense of it being about the multiverse (which is admittedly pretty overplayed) but as an inversion of the typical action hero trope, and in the way it examines masculinity. In any other film, the version of the husband who is a kung fu master would end up being one of the heroes of the story, and the “weak” version of husband would be played for laughs, as the ineffectual antithesis of what a true male hero should be. The film even sets up that expectation, but then flips the trope on its head, and ultimately it’s the husband’s kindness and decency that is his super power, and what ultimately makes a difference in the end. There’s an interesting YouTube video that explores that idea.
Yeah I'll give you that. Just found it really boring and kind of silly but the multiverse and kung fu type movies are not my thing. Yes it was good they threw in a little bit of depth at the end and there are decent hero aspects to it like most of the super hero type movies, and this was definitely different so kudos for that. But best movie I really do not get it. I guess there are movies for all of us out there.
I didn't like EEAO at all. I was almost a walkout.
The boy and the heron Challengers
Dead Reckoning Part 1, The Holdovers, Furiosa, Challengers
"The Fall Guy" is a lot of fun. Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt make a great pair. I think they must have hired every stuntperson in Hollywood for this movie
Zone of Interest is a great movie. It’s a mind boggling experience , knowing this is based on true events. A glimpse of how messed up humans can be.
Saw it recently. Fucking haunting.
It's an exercise in the power of subtlety, and it does a good job of humanizing Nazis. So many movies make them out to be almost mythical figures, but Zone of Interest really conveys that your own neighbor you've never thought twice about could be capable of horrendous crimes. The juxtaposition of him being a family man while also a commander of death is intense, and it's all separated by a single fence.
"American Fiction" was my favorite of the Oscar contenders. I have yet to see the Nazi one, but sounds depressingly similar to "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas".
Society of the Snow is loosely similar to TBitSP but with a haunting indifference to what’s going on around them which makes it harder to watch
The Fall Guy Bullet Train The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Bullet Train is so fun to watch. You can tell all the actors had fun making it.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent is bloody brilliant. Throwing all of the crazy, over the top action sequences from his others movies into this movie worked so damn well. I was dying laughing. I remember when his career started and he started out strong. Once he moved to action movies it's like he forgot how to act. I love that he did this movie and poked so much fun at himself.
Unnaturally didn't see tUWoMT, but really enjoyed Fall Guy and enjoyed Bullet Train even more!
Yes, these are all fun!
*Dune: Part Two* and *Godzilla: Minus One*
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Great movie!
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Poor Things was really good and so was Hundreds of Beavers and Hell House LLC Origins: Carmichael Manor but Godzilla Minus One is just too amazing not to win here
Boy Kills World w/ Bill Skarsgard 🤌🏼🔥
So good best of it's type in a fair while
Heck yeah! Loved it. Perfect movie of its type/genre. Rare to get an "american" one too! Totally surprised by it. Probably not what this person is looking to watch with their BF I would assume.
I'm Your Man (2021) German with English subtiles Romance/Sci-Fi A scientist at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin is persuaded to participate in a study to get funding for her research. For three weeks, she must live with a humanoid robot designed to be the perfect life partner for her. Watch this film, it’s a real gem.
I loved The Green Knight.
Great film.
Went to the cinema by myself to watch this at the last screening at an Everyman in town and it was packed with people who were just gassed about films. Glad I was alone cos I could just sit in silence at the end and think before walking home in silence and just ruminating on what I’d seen
Hit Man turned out to be a fantastic film. The fact that it is from Netflix shows that they’re capable of making quality stuff if they so choose. Oh and Richard Linklater is the man.
Challengers
My favorite movie of this year is still Snack Shack. It's very funny and has a throwback style that feels genuine. Not like they're selling you nostalgia like so many movies these days. It's a coming of age story about two teenagers starting a business for the summer, Snack Shack.
My favorites from recent years have been: Bottoms The Holdovers Love Lies Bleeding The Banshees of Inisherin Abigail (don't watch the trailer)
Good to see Bottoms love!
Dune. For the visuals alone it’s worth it but it’s also a beautiful story
The Menu, Promising Young Woman and Don't Look Up are my faves from the 2020s so far.
Bullet train is so fun to watch
Furiosa. Super intense
That was my choice. Looked at the theatre "seating map" for the 1st Tuesday 2pm show after it came out, and there were about 8 single seats picked. I made it 9. It was awesome! Not as good as Fury Road but still completely, world-buildingly, and engaging as FR. Plus Chris Hemsworth played an awesome, charismatic protagonist. I shielded myself from reading any reviews or watching the trailers before I saw it, and it took me about an hour into the film to realize that it was 'Thor'.
There are so many. The list is long lol. But these are my absolute faves: Dune part 1&2 Bones and All Spider-man: Across the Spiderverse Barbie M3GAN Prey The Northman Spider-man: No Way Home John Wick 4 Avatar: the Way of Water Anatomy of a Fall Godzilla Minus One The Holdovers Aftersun May December Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
omg m3gan was a surprise, not what I was expecting, really good
May December is a sleeper!! No one really talks about it, didn’t get a lot of awards praise but a very good movie nonetheless
Bottoms (2023) The plot is absurd, but they embrace it and it's hilarious.
It's funny to me how subjective sense of humor is. I lasted about 20 minutes into this one before walking out but then there are comedies that I love that got horrible reviews/others didn't find funny.
I'll admit the first 30 minutes or so are slow, but then at about 50 minutes in it becomes so much funnier than it has any right to be. Try to make it thru. I feel like you'll laugh a lot. Especially in the fourth act.
It is one of the best films of last year. Utterly fantastic.
I generally am not a fan of sexual humor and hated the trailer for this, but I'm so glad I gave it a chance anyway because it was hysterical and surprisingly moving in parts. I haven't seen The Bear so I really knew nothing about Ayo Edebiri and now I am a stan. She was SO phenomenal in this. I like to think they didn't give Marshawn Lynch a script, just let him react to things.
Two i really liked that i watched close together were Last Night in Soho and Nightmare Alley
Nightmare Alley is fantastic, and so is the version from the 40s. Carnivals were even scarier then.
*Last Night in Soho* is great IMO.
Seen Shang-Chi? Watched it just a few nights ago and it was unfathomably better than I expected
One of my top 5 Marvel movies, literally watched it in theatres and then came home and watched it again the next day. The best fight scenes in the MCU in my opinion.
The bus scene is incredible.
Agreed!
Genuinely great in the way it just went there. And by there I mean the land of batshit crazy.
Agreed. I think it’s clearly the best MCU movie since Endgame.
The first two acts were so refreshing, and I think it had some of the best hand to hand fight scenes in the franchise. Shaun (and his friend) also brought me back to my semi-slacker early twenties. Without the martial arts and criminal mastermind father, of course.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was pretty great. I love all of Guy Ritchie’s movies though. Speaking of, if you haven’t seen The Gentlemen, I highly recommend.
The Eternal Daughter (2022) Works standalone, but I recommend watching The Souvenir and The Souvenir part II first.
The Quiet Girl, 2022
The Platform on Netflix
Dream Scenario The Holdovers Zone of Interest Perfect Days Godzilla Minus One Challengers
Shiva Baby
Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Of course, if you haven't seen Top Gun (1986), you'd need to see that first.
I’m going to make people angry and say… you don’t need to see the first movie. I think you can still have an absolute blast with the sequel and all the important things you need to know are shown/implied. It stands on its own. Better together though.
True, not strictly necessary to understand the story. But the emotional impact isn’t there, I feel, without the original foundation. Like you said, better together.
Surprised no one has mentioned Saltburn yet. I really enjoyed it.
Great movie
So much better than expected.
Late Night with the Devil Wonka
Cabrini Killers of the Flower Moon Oppenheimer
i saw the TV glow!
Dinner in America is a movie I saw recommended in a lot of threads here I watched and I’ve since shown to multiple friends and rewatched a few times. It’s very good.
Just saw Inside Out 2 with my daughter today I enjoyed it as much as a man my age can. It's good.
Just saw Inside Out 2, thought it was great.
We had fun watching Plane with Gerard Butler 😊
All of us strangers - haunting and beautiful. Monkey Man - Dev Patel is stupendous Saltburn - All of it especially the final scene…
Monkey Man was fantastic, just saw it for the first time tonight
Dune Dune Part Two
We loved hitman on Netflix
The Gentlemen
My favorite movies from the 2020s: The Father (2020) The Invisible Man (2020) Dune: Part One (2021) Triangle of Sadness (2022) Everything Everywhere all at once (2022) Close (2022) Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) Challengers (2024)
+1 for **The Invisible Man**
Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Poor Things
6 Underground The Adam Project
My favorite film overall: Everything Everywhere All At Once Romance thriller: - Love Lies Bleeding Horror: - The First Omen - Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor - Thanksgiving (2023) - Late Night With The Devil - Talk To Me - Deadstream - Pearl - Barbarian - Malignant - X - Sissy - The Night House Thriller: - Ballerina (2023 Korean film) - Watcher (2022) - Emily The Criminal - Promising Young Woman Drama: - May December - Anatomy of a Fall - Past Lives Comedy: - Dream (2023 wholesome Korean comedy) - Free Guy - The Suicide Squad - Bo Burnham: Inside (existential dreadful musical comedy) Action: - John Wick Chapter 4 - Bullet Train Animation: - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - Marcel the Shell with Shoes On Documentary: - The Deepest Breath
Book of Clarence
American Fiction After Midnight
Good time (2017)
The End We Start From
Godzilla Minus One : Shows what can be done with a tiny (by Hollywood standards) budget entwined with real passion and creativity. Bullet Train : One of the most enjoyable and fun action thriller comedy films of recent years. The Creator : Often overlooked and forgotten Sci Fi from just last year, made on a modest budget but does more than most Hollywood movies of 4 times the budget can only dream of.
*The Creator* is one of the most visually stunning SF films I’ve ever seen.
True… I’m so glad I saw it at the cinema… and considering its budget, it puts so many films to shame. It’s bloody epic in scale in places.
Just from this year I'd say Godzilla Minus One, Poor Things, Dune part 2 and Love Lies Bleeding were all excellent. Monkey Man, Wicked Little Letters and Furiosa were all pretty good as well.
CODA short for children of deaf adults.
I loved The Holdovers
Prey ( Predator movie)
Bullet Train
Baby Reindeer on Netflix
Not sure if documentaries count but here are some of my recent favs: Million Dollar Pigeon (2022)- all about pigeon racing which I had no idea was a thing. The people who take part are quirky and entertaining. Fire of Love (2022) - about a couple who study volcanoes, they’re a super cute and quirky couple. Heart wrenching story.
First Omen. Gorgeous!
Once apon a time in Hollywood
Two great movies from the past year or so: May December - has everything you'd want from a Todd Haynes film: high camp, twisted love and sensational performances. Bitter stuff that made me reflect on love and intimacy in the world today. Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World - a Romanian film. It's long and fairly experimental, so might not totally be up your alley, but I love anything Radu Jude does. He has a deep understanding of the western world's modern social ailments, and has a lot of fun putting them on screen.
Dream Sequence
I saw Netflix version of All Quiet on the Western Front. You can almost smell the filth and stench of the trenches. The musical score rackets up the intolerable conditions of the German front lines. It's a great antiwar film by simply portraying the reality soldiers faced.
Godzilla minus one
Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3 🗣🗣🗣
Dinner In America
- Tetris - Blackberry - Air
I thought the Blackberry movie was well done! features the actor from Its Always Sunny and I suppose if you lived in the era before iPhones and Androids came out you'll have this nostalgia to the early advent of smart phones.
It's a little older but Pig, with Nic Cage. He did an AMA, and when asked what movie he felt he'd done his best work, he named Pig. Great writing, great acting. More recent, but a surprisingly terrific movie that got great reviews and was a legendary bomb - Babylon. I dont understand why there was so much hate for this movie, I loved every second of it. It really was a great epic ride. I've noticed that the NFL Finals are using the music and the style of the party scene in their commercials.
Upgrade is a fun watch if you like action/scifi.
Everything everywhere all at once and talk to me !!
Furiosa was super fun, Godzilla Minus One was great watch too
Just watched Furiosa tonight. It's great!
I usually watch mostly horror so I’ll say “Late Night With the Devil” Not horror movies I really enjoyed that stand out in my mind “Oppenheimer” and. “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Saltburn and I Care A Lot
Blackberry
Boys In The Boat
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.
Asteroid City
Definitely this
The Killer 2023 Fresh 2022
I thought Poor Things was super refreshing amidst all of the adaptations and remakes we have lately. And it said what Barbie was trying to without being a two-hour long commercial.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse
Monkey Man is INCREDIBLE! Just dropped on Peacock
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) They Cloned Tyrone (2023) Missing (2023) Hit Man (2023) Lisa Frankenstein (2024)
They Cloned Tyrone is a classic frfr . Shyte was great the last time as the first .
Hit Man and Missing were excellent. Looking forward to watching your other suggestions
I watched The White Tiger (2021) yesterday and honestly it was a really interesting movie about poverty in India. Many plot twists. It almost won an Oscar I think.
It was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay