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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Jan 30, 2023 7:37:01 GMT
I don't know how controversial it is, but 2022 might be the worst year for movies that I can remember, and that includes 2020 when the world slipped into a deadly pandemic and nobody was releasing movies. I don't think it's possible for a year to be worse than 2020, as even the good stuff was only good by the standards of scarcity.
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Post by speeders on Jan 30, 2023 8:44:54 GMT
I don't know how controversial it is, but 2022 might be the worst year for movies that I can remember, and that includes 2020 when the world slipped into a deadly pandemic and nobody was releasing movies. 2020 was definitely better.
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Post by wilcinema on Jan 30, 2023 8:54:01 GMT
Tom Hanks is better than Austin Butler in Elvis.
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Post by speeders on Jan 30, 2023 11:00:49 GMT
The Whale is fantastic and would’ve been a worthy BP nominee.
The Northman was absolutely robbed in all the tech categories. Would've been a deserving BP and adapted screenplay nominee too.
Stephanie Hsu is awful in Everything Everywhere All At Once and one of the least deserving nominees in a long while. I don’t nominate the rest of the cast but I have no issue with their nominations.
The Batman is the best score of the year. The Batman also would’ve been deserving of a BP nomination, certainly over Black Panther and Joker in 2018 and 2019 respectively.
Jessica Chastain in The Good Nurse is one of the best female performances of the year and should’ve been nominated this year rather than for Tammy Faye last year.
Ana de Armas deserved her Oscar nom and is the only one of the nominees I’d personally nominate (though she’s currently #6 in my line-ups)
The first hour of Blonde is a masterpiece and quite possibly the best hour of film in 2022, however the last hour esp. is awful and really damages the film and in the end it’s just “average”. However nowhere near the all around dumpster fire everyone is making it out to be.
Redmayne, who I normally detest as an actor, was very good in The Good Nurse and would’ve been worthy of a nomination but I’m delighted Brian Tyree Henry got in instead.
Jordan Peele keeps getting better as a visual director and worse as a screenwriter to the detriment of his films. Nope is easily his worst yet.
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Post by JangoB on Jan 30, 2023 11:24:58 GMT
Best adapted screenplay of the year is actually Avatar: The Way of Water
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Feb 1, 2023 1:28:40 GMT
- Sundown is one of the great films of the year and Tim Roth deserved an Oscar nomination
- Nope is Peele's second straight swing and miss. Dull, plodding, frequently up its own ass, and populated by horrifically annoying characters. People actually thought Keke Palmer deserved a fucking nom for this? LOL
- Jamie Lee Curtis is fine in EEAAO but her best stab at physical comedy was in Freaky Friday twenty years ago—that was also a more award-worthy performance
- See How They Run is abysmal, a worse on-the-nose and painfully self-referential whodunit than Glass Onion somehow
- Bardo might be a masterpiece and I think it'll be re-evaluated heavily down the line, probably after AGI dies or something
- Blonde on the other hand might not be re-evaluated, but it's a bold artistic endeavor and an effectively scathing critique of Hollywood, the best #MeToo movie that'll ever be made, and most of the people who shit on it missed the point entirely
- Gabrielle LaBelle is MVP of The Fabelmans. Michelle Williams gives a very all-over-the-place performance, and I'm not sure Spielberg knew how to portray his mother to the audience properly—something about the artist being too close to his work
- Hong Chau leaves absolutely no impact with her inexplicably Oscar-nominated performance. That she got in over Dolly De Leon is a travesty
- Very overrated year for horror outside of Pearl and Barbarian
- Lee Pace gave the best performance in Bodes Bodies Bodies
- Cate Blanchett is obviously phenomenal in TAR but I somehow think Tilda Swinton would've fit the role better, and I haven't stopped picturing her in it since I saw it
- Violent Night was the worst time I had in a theater all year by a long shot. AI-generated ass script
- The Menu has very little to offer outside of Fiennes and Hoult. A formless, uncinematic, and clumsy commentary on class divison
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Post by finniussnrub on Feb 1, 2023 2:29:16 GMT
Tom Hanks is better than Austin Butler in Elvis. Yeah Butler trying to actually sound, act or behave like the actual person he was playing. What was he thinking?
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Post by stephen on Feb 1, 2023 2:39:21 GMT
Tom Hanks is better than Austin Butler in Elvis. Yeah Butler trying to actually sound, act or behave like the actual person he was playing. What was he thinking? Colonel Parker deserves to be remembered as the goblin Hanks portrayed him as, though.
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Post by wilcinema on Feb 1, 2023 8:59:09 GMT
Tom Hanks is better than Austin Butler in Elvis. Yeah Butler trying to actually sound, act or behave like the actual person he was playing. What was he thinking? I agree, Butler was a good impersonator.
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 1, 2023 9:13:16 GMT
Tom Hanks is better than Austin Butler in Elvis. They both suck major ass.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Feb 1, 2023 9:18:20 GMT
Oh honeys, are all these two hour plus movies a good idea?
Getting around to watching Babylon and the thought of it already makes me feeling exhausted.
Is it just me who likes lean, well edited and succinct movies trimmed of fat and coming in around 90 mins?
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 1, 2023 21:37:20 GMT
16 years later, still waiting for GDT to make another great film.
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Post by countjohn on Feb 2, 2023 22:06:25 GMT
16 years later, still waiting for GDT to make another great film. I don't think he's ever made one, but Nightmare Alley was pretty close.
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Post by Brother Fease on Feb 4, 2023 16:26:36 GMT
I’m tired of these annoying faux radical “eat the rich” movies like Glass Onion and The Menu. It’s shallow populist pandering. All these movies wanna be like Parasite so bad. What makes Parasite good is the class commentary is thoughtful, it’s not mindless “boo fuck the rich” shit. The movies post-Parasite are examples of anti-capitalist sentiment being commodified and being consumed as Doing Something particularly by liberals I haven't seen The Menu, but your characterization of Glass Onion is 100% incorrect. It's not "anti-capitalist". This is like saying anti-trust laws are anti-capitalist. It about the powerful manipulating the system and people who choose to enable them. This is an objective fact of our world. Regardless of where people stand on the issues, everybody understands corporate power over our culture and politics.
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Post by Barbie on Feb 4, 2023 19:12:01 GMT
- Danielle Deadwyler isn't good in Till and her "big" scenes are especially bad and obvious in their award-baitiness (especially the eye-twitch) Haven't watched Till yet but I saw a clip of her courtroom scene go viral on Twitter and I was not impressed. The eye twitch thing was cringe and amateur.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Feb 5, 2023 2:36:25 GMT
I don't know how controversial it is, but 2022 might be the worst year for movies that I can remember, and that includes 2020 when the world slipped into a deadly pandemic and nobody was releasing movies. I’m noticing a trend since 2017. All the even number years aren't very good, but the odd years are great.
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Post by Ryan_MYeah on Feb 5, 2023 2:43:05 GMT
Not so much concerned with a movie as it is with a person. Kimi is really good, but I still think Soderbergh’s new movies get a pass because people were just happy he didn’t retire.
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Post by Brother Fease on Feb 6, 2023 3:06:28 GMT
Elvis > Everything Everywhere All At Once. X was really fun.
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 6, 2023 4:34:56 GMT
Elvis > Everything Everywhere All At Once. X was really fun. That's not remotely controversial.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 11, 2023 13:59:30 GMT
* Maika Monroe and Aubrey Plaza are both better in Watcher and Emily The Criminal than Viola Davis and Danielle Deadwyler in Woman King and Till....
* Watcher is a better movie than Emily The Criminal - or at least a more complex narrative / directorial vision imo and while that may not be controversial I think it's a minority opinion on those 2 film debuts anyway.....
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Post by sirchuck23 on Feb 11, 2023 22:36:49 GMT
The Banshees of Inesherin is overrated and don’t really understand the hoopla over it.
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Post by stephen on Feb 11, 2023 23:16:46 GMT
The Banshees of Inesherin is overrated and don’t really understand the hoopla over it. Me right now:
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Post by sirchuck23 on Feb 12, 2023 1:12:47 GMT
The Banshees of Inesherin is overrated and don’t really understand the hoopla over it. Me right now: I’m sorry Stephen. If you don’t want to talk to me anymore after this, I understand. Don’t have to worry about cutting off your fingers to make a point.
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Post by FallenWarrior on Feb 12, 2023 12:19:31 GMT
Barry Keoghan's accent in Banshees sounds similar to someone from Dublin mocking a culchie.
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Post by lee on Feb 14, 2023 21:09:52 GMT
Blonde is the best film of the year.
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