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mdmost said:
Bought 4 tickets to M3GAN for Saturday. We all loved how schlocky the trailer seemed when we watched it on YouTube. It's PG13 so should be okay for our two kids (15 & 12). Sometimes it's fun to go to the cinema and watched a dumb movie about a creepy doll that kills people.
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There are two separate trailers to the movie, one where I the tone is dark and feels like a normal horror movie and a second trailer where they almost play it like a comedy. Almost like the producers don’t know what’s the best way to market it so they just did both.
 
The Denmarkian Wonder said:
After years of going back and forth, i have finally come to the conclusion that Attack Of The Clones is (slightly) better than The Phantom Menace, even with those cringy Anakin/Padme scenes (thank you, fast forward button).

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The dialogue is so bad though. "It is as if you are in my very soul, tormenting me". Lucas and James Cameron must've gone to the same romance writing class.

TenderLovingKiller® said:
There are two separate trailers to the movie, one where I the tone is dark and feels like a normal horror movie and a second trailer where they almost play it like a comedy. Almost like the producers don’t know what’s the best way to market it so they just did both.
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I think that it's PG13 means they aren't going the full horror route. I mean when she does the little dance in the hallway and gets down on all 4s to chase the bully, we were cracking up. I'm hoping it's going to be a movie that doesn't take itself too seriously. James Wan makes some decently fun horror flicks.
 
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The Denmarkian Wonder said:
After years of going back and forth, i have finally come to the conclusion that Attack Of The Clones is (slightly) better than The Phantom Menace, even with those cringy Anakin/Padme scenes (thank you, fast forward button).

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It’s not a good movie but it doesn’t suffer from the misfortune of being bad and having a character as insufferable as Jar-Jar in it as a lead character. I know they’re movies for kids but Jar Jar somehow made me pine for the Ewoks (who kind of suck)
 
The only film I've watched from 2022 that I would call a clear-cut masterpiece is Aftersun.

After I finished it last night, I sat there contemplating what had transpired for about 5 minutes. And then broke down sobbing (something a movie hasn't done to me in over a decade) because it triggered emotions related to my father's mortality that I've been repressing since his cancer diagnosis a year and a half ago.

An absolutely stunning directorial debut that isn't nearly as sad as the above paragraph makes it sound. It manages to be both warm and melancholy, not to mention visually dazzling in the ways it replicates the haziness of our memories. And the performances are top notch.



I historically gravitate towards indie flicks and character studies and obviously we are at an all-time weak point in regards to mid-budget films. So I'd definitely say TV had a stronger year. But I also have yet to watch Tar, Triangle of Sadness, a bunch of the big-name director stuff (ala Fablemans) and any # of festival films that barely eked by with distribution.

Tier 1: *****
1) Aftersun

Tier 2: ****1/2
2) Moonage Daydream
3) Banshees of Inisherin
4) Everything Everywhere All at Once
5) Nope

Tier 3: a strong ****
6) Bodies Bodies Bodies
7) Barbarian
8) The Northman

Tier 4: a solid ****
9) Decision to Leave
10) The Menu
11) The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
12) Apocolypse Time
13) Jackass Forever

Tier 5: a strong ***1/2
14) White Noise
15) She Said

She Said was well made and acted but also overly familiar in its mechanisms. I thought White Noise was audacious in its attempts to replicate the tone and themes of the book via the language of film and was never not entertaining. But the decision to omit a vital scene involving the youngest child was an extremely iffy decision as far as coalescing the themes. And it's gonna require a second viewing to fully process.
 
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David A. said:
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It’s not a good movie but it doesn’t suffer from the misfortune of being bad and having a character as insufferable as Jar-Jar in it as a lead character. I know they’re movies for kids but Jar Jar somehow made me pine for the Ewoks (who kind of suck)
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Only thing worse than Jar Jar is how some people have treated Ahmed Best just for playing the character.

And I will not tolerate Ewok slander!
 
The Denmarkian Wonder said:
Only thing worse than Jar Jar is how some people have treated Ahmed Best just for playing the character.

And I will not tolerate Ewok slander!
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It’s not his fault! He’s an actor cast in one of the biggest films ever. Of course he’s going to take that job.

Lucas needed a collaborator for the screenplays. Lucas as a story guy, and a Kasdan or Filloni to polish the dialogue and characterizations.
 
DownIsTheNewUp said:
The only film I've watched from 2022 that I would call a clear-cut masterpiece is Aftersun.

After I finished it last night, I sat there contemplating what had transpired for about 5 minutes. And then broke down sobbing (something a movie hasn't done to me in over a decade) because it triggered emotions related to my father's mortality that I've been repressing since his cancer diagnosis a year and a half ago.

An absolutely stunning directorial debut that isn't nearly as sad as the above paragraph makes it sound. It manages to be both warm and melancholy, not to mention visually dazzling in the ways it replicates the haziness of our memories. And the performances are top notch.



I historically gravitate towards indie flicks and character studies and obviously we are at an all-time weak point in regards to mid-budget films. So I'd definitely say TV had a stronger year. But I also have yet to watch Tar, Triangle of Sadness, a bunch of the big-name director stuff (ala Fablemans) and any # of festival films that barely eked by with distribution.

Tier 1: *****
1) Aftersun

Tier 2: ****1/2
2) Moonage Daydream
3) Banshees of Inisherin
4) Everything Everywhere All at Once
5) Nope

Tier 3: a strong ****
6) Bodies Bodies Bodies
7) The Northman
8) Decision to Leave

Tier 4: a solid ****
9) Barbarian
10) The Menu
11) The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
12) Apocolypse Time
13) Jackass Forever

Tier 5: a strong ***1/2
14) White Noise
15) She Said

She Said was well made and acted but also overly familiar in its mechanisms. I thought White Noise was audacious in its attempts to replicate the tone and themes of the book via the language of film and was never not entertaining. But the decision to omit a vital scene involving the youngest child was an extremely iffy decision as far as coalescing the themes. And it's gonna require a second viewing to fully process.
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This movie really is so insanely good, and I wish they would hurry the fuck up and make it more accessible. Want to watch again but feel like it'll probably hit even harder on secind viewing.
 
Bennnnn said:
I went and saw Babylon today, alone, and in a theater with only 3 other people in it. I know the movie has gotten wild reactions, with a ton of critics hating on it. But seeing it for myself, it only reaffirms the problem I have with critical consensus. This movie is definitely A LOT, by design. Whether or not you can hang with that, I guess, is up to you. Maybe you’d check out in the first half hour when things are just off the rails excessive, gross, and ugly. But I believe there is a greater purpose here.

This is not a love letter to cinema, or Hollywood. So much of it is a condemnation of the rot in the industry, and the depravity that exists surrounding it. But it also asks the question of is it worth it? There’s way more nuance to it than the way people have described it. By the end, I am left thinking a lot about things. I don’t think it’s super simple at all. I think there are a lot of layers here and some incredible, breathtaking filmmaking. It’s not perfect, sure. But it’s nowhere close to being a bad film. I enjoyed the hell of it personally. It left me with so much to chew on. But I was also fully engaged the entire 3 hr runtime.

Other movies this year have made smarter choices when choosing to make a movie about the industry’s awfulness (see: Nope), but Babylon definitely succeeds in what it’s set out to do.
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i watched it last night by myself, and I second everything you’ve mentioned. for a 3-hour long movie, i never felt like it dragged on for longer than it should have. in fact, i actually think it could have been an extra 20 mins longer and i wouldn’t have minded (maybe thats just me tho 😅). but yea, i also loved this movie. i can admit that its excessiveness and unforgiving presentation isn’t for the faint of heart, but i feel it needed to be as such in what it sought to illustrate. it’s like those slaughterhouse videos in peta ads or the such, you know you dont want to see that, but you’re being dishonest with yourself if you willfully look away and pretend it doesn’t exist.

my main complaints with this movie dont even have anything with the graphic imagery and length. like, for one, while i appreciate the soundtrack, i really wish it would have been more diverse, instead of hearing the same piano refrain throughout the entire movie lmao. and there was also the storyline with Nelly’s (Margot Robbie) parents. like nelly’s mom showed up only once and then never mentioned or shown again. i guess this part was just to show the reason how Nelly can easily cry on cue, but idk i think a bit more could have been done with this instead of just show and dip. and then nelly’s dad was her manager for the first half and then just sort of disappears? this movie really liked killing characters off screen, which i definitely didnt mind, but this was one “exit” that should have had a bit more of a direct resolution, but not that he actually mattered in the end, so oh well overall, i enjoyed this movie, the acting by the ensemble was very captivating even if it was a swearing contest at times, and it’s definitely a conversation-starter whether you liked it or hated it. can’t wait for the 4-hour director’s cut 😎
 
Santi Chacin said:
also, guys, looks like this is the year when i finally get into watching movies


(for the longest time ever, i was not a “movie guy”)
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This was me last year. I went from being the "haven't seen it" guy to the "sick of being out of the loop" guy, so I milked my working from home benefits and threw on everything and anything in the background. Now, I'm caught up on a lot of classic (largely horror) franchises. Yes, that does say I logged 1,068 watches. Note, this does include many short films, too. Ha!

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