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2023 was kind of a shit year for movies, huh (hexbear.net)

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I don't mean this in a "movies suck now" kind of way, I actually think 2022 was a pretty good year for movies and 2024 will probably be better

but yeesh, 2023 seemed like a particularly bleak year for film. of those I've seen on this list, the only ones I'd heartily recommend are Bottoms and Nimona. maybe Beau is Afraid and Infinity Pool, but those are definitely not for everyone. oh and the TMNT movie was a lot of fun

(I haven't seen Flower Moon yet so don't get mad at me, Scorsesebros)

but please feel free to CMV and recommend any good movies from this year, whether they're in this image or not!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They Cloned Tyrone is pretty good. I think everybody here would vibe with it. Also, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Venture Bros Movie, Sisu (purely for the Nazi killing, just gotta ignore the history before that), wandering Earth 2, and as far as Marvel slop goes Spider-verse is still the best of it.

Oh, and if you want slop of Nic Cage having fun being Nic Cage, Renfield and Sympathy for Devil.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

nerd actually How to Blow up a Pipeline and Sisu are from 2022

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

My reputation will never recover from this. powercry-2

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I feel like I appreciated what They Cloned Tyrone was trying to do more than I actually enjoyed watching it. also felt like it was trying to do what Jordan Peele and Boots Riley have already done better. But it wasn't bad at all, just fine. IDK maybe I'll give it another chance sometime.

John Boyega and Teyonah Parris are both really good. ofc Jamie Foxx too but I really didn't like how the abusive pimp was portrayed as a likeable character

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I get that, a lot of movies and shows bug me when they get like the most charismatic guy in hollywood to play the space nazi or asshole with superpowers or something but I felt like they did a pretty good job of demonstrating how the characters were victims of circumstances created by the system? Lol, I mean, I'd like to say I don't think anybody walked away from watching the movie thinking that it was endorsement of that kind of behavior, but we know how people are nowadays. So, yeah, I get ya.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I loved They Cloned Tyrone. It was a surprise hit for me.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But I thought Barbie was pure kino 10/10

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

Barbie started out fun but kinda lost me once they traveled to the real world. and it seemed like the movie really wanted to comment on patriarchy but didn't really have anything interesting to say about it. idk, just didn't vibe with me

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I can't believe what you have Dune 2 me, 2023 oooaaaaaaauhhh

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

2022 was an excellent year for movies but I think 2023 was pretty good too.

Movies I've liked so far:

The Killer

Oppenheimer

Barbie

Killers of the flower moon

Blackberry

Past Lives

John Wick 4

Dungeons and Dragons

Are you there god, it's me margaret

Films I'm looking forward to seeing (but haven't yet)

Anatomy of a fall

The boy and the heron

Monster

Blue jean

Viduthalai: Part I

The Stroll

Kokomo city

Pictures of Ghosts

Mami Wata

Sira

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only now realized that I've barely watched anything from this year. But I thinks that's because I've been busier than usual. Infinity Pool was very interesting but I don't know if I fully vibe with the Cronenberg (Jr) style.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I enjoyed it a lot more than his previous film, Possessor, though it seems not many people agree with me. I liked how it accurately portrayed wealthy western vacationers as unhinged psychopaths who face zero consequences for their actions, though there's been a lot of stuff like that lately (White Lotus, Triangle of Sadness, etc.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Saw X, Scream 6, and Across the Spiderverse were good. Haven’t seen most of these.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I really hated Saw X but I don't like any of the Saw movies so that was to be expected

was actually a bit cold on Scream 6 as well, even though I'm a fan of the series. I actually liked 5 more but it seems I'm in the minority there

I'm also in the minority of people who don't really like the Spider-Verse movies that much, I think it's too much sensory overload for me. also don't like the cop dad stuff, and there were twice as many cop dads in this one. still gonna watch part 3 though

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Saw movies are just torture porn. Gotta question the headspace of people who like them.

[+] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To be fair saw ten is pretty brutally racist if the analysis by the podcast Horror Vanguard is to be believed. I've not seen it yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Damn I’ll listen to their episode on it later. Just from watching the movie I have no idea what this is referring to.

Edit: Just listened and agreed on most stuff. I did notice the yellow filter use but I didn’t notice they took it off with the white lady.

Side tangent, they say it’s clear the films take the side of Jigsaw being a hero, but i disagree with that. I mean you’re clearly meant to sympathize with the first two people in Saw X, as well as root for Amanda while she tries to get Garbriela out (although the film is also sadistic). The only person who’s portrayed as pure evil and worthy of “punishment” is the blonde millionaire lady, and she survives, which is in line with Jigsaw’s philosophy, while Mateo is killed on a technicality.

But there are clearly characters who are portrayed as doing bad things with the aim of making the viewer root for their death, Saw 3D having tons of examples. At the same time, while in some cases Jigsaw’s methods are seen as rehabilitative, there are also cases where it’s criticized. For example there’s the lady who chopped off her arm (from I don’t remember which movie, but it’s after 3) who scoffs at Jigsaw (Hoffman’s version, which is also seen as a corrupted version of Kramer, but what he did in this case is no different from something Kramer would do) when asked if she learned to appreciate her life, talking abt how the only benefit she received was handicap parking. It’s very clearly meant to show that Jigsaw’s philosophy does not necessarily rehabilitate people.

There’s even a deleted scene in 3 where Kramer’s Jigsaw says he was wrong before he dies according to the DVD commentary.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Scream 5 has a better final sequence imo but I also think the side-characters in the movie were very forgettable, and 6 did a better job w that.

I agree with the cop dad stuff but we’ve always had that pig nonsense in Spider-Man w Captain Stacey.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Disney animated films were particularly meh this year. Elemental was too cliched, Wish looks godawful. Unironically, the Mario movie has a better shot at the best animated film Oscar than either of these (it’ll go to either Across the Spiderverse or The Boy and the Heron).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The best animated film of the year, Nimona, was supposed to be released by Disney but they canceled it. So glad they managed to get it made anyway without that awful company.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Nimona was really good, and yeah I’m sure Disney would’ve neutered it. Still don’t think it’ll win the Oscar though, especially with the Academy’s bias against streaming platforms.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I loved Beau is Afraid! I have no idea who I could recommend it to but I went with a friend and watched a 3 hour anxiety movie together.

I also really liked Barbie, skipped Openheimer though. It was some good dumb fun. I bought it, rewatched it a couple times too.

And that was pretty much it for me for theatres this year, oh well.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What type of anxiety movie is it? Like an uncut gems or a lost daughter?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

the movie perfectly captures what a nightmares are like when you have chronic anxiety. it's three straight hours of the worst possible thing happening at any given moment. the few moments of levity only serve as setup for an inevitable payoff of misery

it's so over-the-top awful to the point of becoming an absurdist comedy, so I'd say your enjoyment of the film will really depend on your sense of humor

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Uncut gems, it's also pretty out there and symbological rather than literally happening yo Beau (although, who's to say I guess - the stuff he's seeing and feeling is true to him and us as the audience)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

You missed out Oppenheimer was a masterpiece.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret and Past Lives were both excellent movies

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah I've seen that Past Lives has gotten a lot of acclaim. probably won't watch it though because I have a personal bias against romance films, unless it's about lesbians

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Past Lives isn't really a romance movie. It's about how people who immigrate as children can feel stuck between worlds, and the romance is sort of just an aspect of that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

literally the only movie I watched from that roster was John Wick and I enjoyed it immensely

man this sucks, I can never find the time and/or energy to watch films anymore

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

tetris is probably my least favorite out of all of these. i can't believe we got a poorly made anti-soviet propaganda film based on one of the best video games of all time. the scene where pajitnov is like "nobody smiles here in russia because there's nothing to smile about" was laughably stupid. the movie was straight ass all the way through with poor pacing and super boring characters (generic evil KGB man is definitely not an overused trope at this point...).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It's a movie about regional licensing laws, which could've had something funny about the interaction between the late Soviet system and the western systems, but they did the conservative thing of getting too mad before they could get the joke out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I liked killers of the flower moon, but I also get not wanting to watch a 3.5h movie.

I also have heard good things about Anatomy of a Fall, but haven't seen it yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah I'll probably watch KotFM when I can enjoy it in the comfort of my own home and take pee breaks without missing anything. I'm not a massive Scorsese fan but I've definitely enjoyed some of his films, and the subject matter is interesting so I'll check it out eventually

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

the subject matter is interesting

And also absolutely infuriating, but I guess all of us on here are used to that pain

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

oh I should also mention that I liked Talk To Me, which is technically from 2022 but that's BS because it didn't get a proper release outside of film festivals until this year, so it's a 2023 film in my opinion

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Plenty of watchable stuff in there. But yea maybe no real bangers. This is like that year the Fish Lover movie won best picture.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I liked Asteroid City and Priscilla.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't you dare diss Nimona, you monster rage-cry

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Take it off that meme basil-rage-cry

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Spider-verse and Guardians of the Galaxy were pretty good if you don't mind capeshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Brosocialists continue to slander Fast x for it's thoughtful examination of family and trauma smh