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Post by Jeremy on Dec 24, 2018 16:14:48 GMT -8
I've posted my Top 10!Please feel free to yell at me for excluding (name of boring film) and (name of overrated film). Or just talk about your own favorite films of the year.
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Post by ThirdMan on Dec 24, 2018 17:34:17 GMT -8
That's a respectable list.
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 24, 2018 19:03:15 GMT -8
Thanks! I'd wager that there's more overlap in our favorites than in previous years.
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Post by Incandescence 112 on Dec 24, 2018 19:20:10 GMT -8
Hell yeah Into the Spider-Verse. Awesome superhero film. Best piece of Spider-Man media since Spectacular Spider-Man was cancelled (I'm still irritated by this).
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 24, 2018 20:39:34 GMT -8
Spectacular Spider-Man will likely forever be the best onscreen version of Spidey. But darned if Into the Spider-Verse doesn't come close.
(And yeah, even after nine years, that cancellation still burns.)
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 25, 2018 9:55:33 GMT -8
For contrast (and because the rest of the world is in such good cheer today), here are my Bottom 10 films of the year.
I tended to avoid most of the real stinkers released this year, so most of these (except my #1 pick) aren't flat-out awful. And I'm only including films I watched all the way through:
The 10 Worst Films of 2018
10. Tomb Raider - This is kind of an okay film, but I needed something for the tenth slot. Good cast, but generic and forgettable story.
9. The Spy Who Dumped Me - Kate McKinnon is hilarious as ever, but the light humor clashes uncomfortably with all the pointlessly graphic violence.
8. Breaking In - It's Die Hard with Gabrielle Union! Some good moments, but it's pretty disposable, and Christa Miller is thoroughly wasted.
7. Unfriended: Dark Web - The first Unfriended was fresh, scary, and suspenseful. The sequel is the opposite of all those things.
6. Maze Runner: The Death Cure - This movie goes on forever, and I'm still not entirely sure what it was about.
5. Venom - Entertaining only as a guilty fanboy pleasure. Still not sure how this got a PG-13, or $800 million for that matter.
4. Night School - Dumb comedy that goes in a dozen different directions, most of which aren't all that funny.
3. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - The least intelligent Jurassic film yet, which is saying something.
2. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Loud, boring, and interminable extension of the once-good Harry Potter franchise, which should be Avada Kedavra'd.
1. The Happytime Murders - One-joke setup and boring story that never does anything funny or creative, and only serves to sully the Henson name. Plain awful.
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Post by ThirdMan on Dec 25, 2018 15:05:09 GMT -8
Thanks! I'd wager that there's more overlap in our favorites than in previous years. Perhaps, if I still MADE a list. Regardless, I've still got a lot of movies to get caught up on. I watched Sorry To Bother You and Blindspotting earlier today, and should finally get around to Roma this week (I've been so tired and sleepy on my work days that I didn't even attempt watching these until now). I might check out The Favourite in the theatre tomorrow, if my Boxing Day shopping doesn't take too long. Leave No Trace slipped by me, but I've put a hold on it at my public library (will probably have to wait a month for it, though). Yeah, Spiderverse was very creative...big thumbs-up. The PS4 Spidey game is a ton of fun as well. Happy Holidays, folks.
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Post by Jeremy on Dec 25, 2018 15:56:41 GMT -8
I considered holding off on posting my list until I'd seen a few more films, but... at a certain point, I just felt I had to cut it short.
Still, I'll be catching up with more films over the next couple weeks - I actually have Blindspotting on loan from the library. I considered watching it last night, but for reasons as yet unknown, I chose instead to watch (sigh) the profane puppet movie.
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