Guest Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 1 hour ago, Keyrock said: Since the year is almost over, what's everybody's favorite movie of 2021? Mine is Malignant. I wrote about it at length before, but this was one of my favorite horror comedies since Army of Darkness (though I'm still not sure if it was intentionally a horror comedy). There are 2 acts of mediocre and somewhat boring horror to get through before the movie goes off the rails in the best way possible in the glorious and absolutely bat**** insane 3rd act. I have tickets to see Macbeth and Licorice Pizza on Saturday, so I reserve the right to change my answer. As of right now, I think my favorite was The Green Knight
Chairchucker Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 (edited) I went and tried to find a list of 2021 movies that I watched in 2021, and I've put them in (approximate) rank order Spider-Man: No Way Home Promising Young Woman Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings The Map of Tiny Perfect Things Cruella Raya and the Last Dragon The Mitchells vs The Machines Jungle Cruise Luca Needle in a Timestack Free Guy Ron's Gone Wrong Space Sweepers Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas Black Widow The Tomorrow War Army of the Dead Muppets Haunted Mansion Vacation Friends Nobody Boss Level Christmas... Again? Thunder Force A couple things about this list: Spider-Man No Way Home and Promising Young Woman occupy, for me, a joint first place, where I kinda think PYW is the better movie, but I enjoyed SMNWH more and am way more likely to want to rewatch it. From there down to, ooooh let's say Mitchells vs the Machines, are extremely good movies imo. Jungle Cruise down to Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas, still really good and entertaining. Black Widow down to Christmas Again are reasonably entertaining but probs had some element I wasn't massively into or think could've been done better. Thunder Force was pretty bad. There's probs room for a bit of rearrangement in a lot of those sections, but the top two and the bottom one are definitely fixed in place. Also I'm definitely going to watch at least one more film this year, Encanto. These were mostly watched on streaming services BTW. EDIT: Forgot about Home Sweet Home Alone. Equalish last place, which makes for some pleasing symmetry. Edited December 23, 2021 by Chairchucker 1
Amentep Posted December 23, 2021 Author Posted December 23, 2021 3 hours ago, Keyrock said: Since the year is almost over, what's everybody's favorite movie of 2021? THE GREEN KNIGHT for me. Visually arresting and a solid adaption of the source material, imo. 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Gromnir Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 (edited) 6 hours ago, Achilles said: Did you see Stranger Than Fiction? It would be unfair to call it anything other than an odd movie, but it is a departure from his usual shtick Think Jim Carrey vs Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and you get the idea. if were punch drunk love adam sandler, we might give it a shot. HA! Good Fun! ps we checked and jon brion did not score stranger than fiction. thought perhaps there might be some curious rule that when big name comedians tried their hand at dramatic roles, brion were called in to do the music, but alas... Edited December 23, 2021 by Gromnir "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Gorth Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 I’m really trying… but I don’t remember watching a single movie released in 2021 edit: nor 2020 for that matter. Mostly stuff bought on dvd. Deadpool and Valerian being the last two I bought. A bit behind the times 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Gromnir Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 7 minutes ago, Gorth said: I’m really trying… but I don’t remember watching a single movie released in 2021 congrats to you for not having seen dune or shang-chi. is at least prima facia evidence you is not paying disney or hbo for the privilege o' having your wallet plundered monthly. should be applauded for such. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Gorth Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 16 minutes ago, Gromnir said: congrats to you for not having seen dune or shang-chi. is at least prima facia evidence you is not paying disney or hbo for the privilege o' having your wallet plundered monthly. should be applauded for such. HA! Good Fun! Plundering my wallet on a monthly basis is reserved for the local Red Cross (https://www.redcross.org.au/) and Foodbank QLD (https://www.foodbank.org.au/QLD/the-foodbank-queensland-team/?state=qld), both of which needs all the help they can get up to the Christmas Holidays 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
ShadySands Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 When they make a movie about my life I think I want to be played by Jonathan Majors. Free games updated 3/4/21
Gromnir Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 9 minutes ago, ShadySands said: When they make a movie about my life I think I want to be played by Jonathan Majors. esai morales is the obvious choice for Gromnir. we have a bit less grey hair, but otherwise is visually kinda close. *sigh* that said, am thinking patton oswalt is the more appropriate choice. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Chairchucker Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 I want Anna Kendrick to play me. She doesn't look remotely like me, not least because I'm a man, but I feel like she's got the range to pull it off. 1
ShadySands Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 (edited) Yeah, me and Jonathan Majors look nothing alike but I just watched The Harder They Fall and he killed it. It's my vote for best western of the year and just about as realistic as most westerns, not at all. Edited December 23, 2021 by ShadySands Free games updated 3/4/21
Hurlshort Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 Dolemite Is My Name is still the best film of 2021 and it came out in 2019. 1
LadyCrimson Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 ^ I guess I did see Army of the Dead, which had one of those barely-there theater releases just to say it did. I also saw Space Sweepers but I think that was only a streaming release (in the US and many other places I think) so I wasn't counting it. It's getting where you can't tell what's a "movie" in terms of year-end tallies anymore. I saw some terrible straight to Netflix Xmas/romance movie too, does that count? I just had a thought tho ... since I'm not seeing all these "big" movies anymore, in another 8-10 years I can start a "Grumpy Old Woman Who Hates Most Movies, Movie Reaction" YouTube channel and watch all these popular films that kids will ask me why I've never seen yet. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts
Chairchucker Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 2 hours ago, LadyCrimson said: ^ I guess I did see Army of the Dead, which had one of those barely-there theater releases just to say it did. I also saw Space Sweepers but I think that was only a streaming release (in the US and many other places I think) so I wasn't counting it. It's getting where you can't tell what's a "movie" in terms of year-end tallies anymore. I saw some terrible straight to Netflix Xmas/romance movie too, does that count? Yeah, I mostly saw mine on streaming services, and frankly at the moment that just seems like a sensible decision. You can count what you want imo, it's your list.
Sarex Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 The French Dispatch my movie of the year. Was thinking about this question since Keyrock posted it, then I finished watching the movie just moments ago. "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
Guest Posted December 23, 2021 Posted December 23, 2021 10 hours ago, Gromnir said: if were punch drunk love adam sandler, we might give it a shot. HA! Good Fun! ps we checked and jon brion did not score stranger than fiction. thought perhaps there might be some curious rule that when big name comedians tried their hand at dramatic roles, brion were called in to do the music, but alas... Thought about using Sandler/PDL as a reference, but it decided that it was more of a conventional film and didn't want to be accused of pulling a bait and switch if Stranger Than Fiction ended up being too weird for you. If PDL is more your speed, then the Will Ferrell movie you should try is Everything Must Go
ShadySands Posted December 25, 2021 Posted December 25, 2021 Watched The Night Before and Ernest Saves Christmas, two of my favorite Xmas movies. 1 Free games updated 3/4/21
Raithe Posted December 25, 2021 Posted December 25, 2021 (edited) Watched the new Matrix. Mildly entertaining, hugely meta. Is a sequel while snarking on sequels. Makes a few interesting points on 'what happens after the hero wins and goes off into the sunset'. Has a few poignant moments. No really clear standout action sequences. Most of them are messy hordes of people ones where the detail and focus gets lost. Somehow slides into that enjoyable but sort of forgettable popcorn variety of film, while still being sort of intelligent story. But, mostly well done for all that. Edited December 25, 2021 by Raithe 1 "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum."
Bartimaeus Posted December 25, 2021 Posted December 25, 2021 (edited) Time Bandits with my nieces. It was just an endless chorus of "WHAT IS HAPPENING"s approximately every thirty to sixty seconds...which to be fair, sometimes I didn't know either, so I can't exactly blame them. They said they liked it but it made no sense...which I can live with just fine. I also forgot about the part where the minotaur gets his head ripped off - they weren't too keen on that part, but I guess it was silly enough because they at least didn't get scared like they usually do for anything even slightly intense. I didn't remember that Ian Holme, Shelley Duvall, Sean Connery, and Jim Broadbent were all in this, so it was weird having them pop into the movie randomly - I started to question my sanity that all of them could somehow be in this movie and I had forgotten them all. Edited December 25, 2021 by Bartimaeus 1 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
Sarex Posted December 25, 2021 Posted December 25, 2021 Encanto, a nice Disney cartoon. Was a treat to watch. "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
Guest Posted December 25, 2021 Posted December 25, 2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth was well done but not amazing. Licorice Pizza was good, but a lot longer than it needed to be.
Gfted1 Posted December 26, 2021 Posted December 26, 2021 I started Matrix: Resurrection and meh-ed out after an hour or so. 1 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Guest Posted December 27, 2021 Posted December 27, 2021 If you liked The Big Short you might love Don't Look Up
BruceVC Posted December 27, 2021 Posted December 27, 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outsider_(2018_film) This is a MUST watch for those who enjoy movies about Japan and specifically the Yakuza Its set after WW2 and all about a ex US marine who becomes part of a Yakuza family, I have no idea why it received such bad reviews because its brilliant "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” John Milton "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.” - George Bernard Shaw "What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead" - Nelson Mandela
Gfted1 Posted December 27, 2021 Posted December 27, 2021 It took three sittings by we made it through Matrix 4. Overly long fight sequences and I dont have any idea what happened at the end. NPH is great as usual. 2 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
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