There are still a few movies to be released (https://www.movieinsider.com/movies/2024), but it’s still probably a good time to have a look at the best movies from 2024 and discuss them.
There will be similar threads on !showsandmovies@lemm.ee, and probably !animation@lemm.ee
Feel free to comment with the movies you liked the most, ideally one comment per movie so that other people can chime in and discuss.
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Deadpool & Wolverine - a blast from start to finish. Probably going to finish the year in my top.three, likely #1.
[1/2] Just scrolling through my “recently released” tab on Plex:
The Beekeeper:
Seriously, where did this movie come from?? Ridiculously fun and I usually hate action movies and Jason Statham. A tad long but the movie takes itself exactly as seriously as the audience does and it works so well.
Hundreds of Beavers:
Maybe my MOTY, I’ve just never seen anything like it in a full-length film. Super imaginative with a really cool Lumberpunk aesthetic to it.
Frogman:
Silly, stupid, and fun found footage about the fuckin’ Loveland Frogman. Good movie that doesn’t overstay it’s welcome and has a surprisingly decent payoff. Watch with a group.
Civil War:
This movie got enough praise when it came out, so all I’ll say is that I agree with it.
I Saw the TV Glow:
Watched this just the other day finally. Very dreamlike, very surreal, almost Lynchian in that it’s a not-horror movie being played off as one.
In a Violent Nature:
A satire of old '80s slashers. Lots of time spent watching the killer walk through the woods. Me and my friends jokingly call it “In Some Silent Nature,” but it gets my props just for taking such an left-field approach to the genre.
Dune: Part II
Part 2 was the pay-off for all the set-up in Part 1 and it was a thing of beauty (that B&W sequence really stayed with me). Not my favourite film of the year but a definite contender for top 10.
I still haven’t seen part 2 yet but I bought both in 4k from a black Friday sale. These comments are encouraging. ☺️
Yeah, if you liked Part 1 then Part 2 takes all the groundwork and builds on it.
Amazing cinematography. I wasn’t the most convinced by the pacing, but it was definitely worth to see it in IMAX
Agreed cinematography, set design and costumes were top notch, same as with part 1, but i agree with you that pacing was an issue. Imo the root cause was a change they made from the books
book/movie spoiler (not sure if the spoiler tag is necessary)
By deciding to keep Alia Atreides (Pauls sister) unborn it drastically shortened the time frame they spend with the Fremen, getting immersed in their culture and gaining their trust/support, from years to to months. That means everything feels rushed and they also e.g. cut the death of Paul and Chani’s first child. But then again this change was probably for practical reasons, because the movie was already long as is and it also avoided having to cast a child actor.
I had the same sentiment about the implications of
spoiler
Alia not being born
in the movie, but I also understand they were already running at almost 3 hours. Maybe an extra montage to show time passing by? Or maybe that’s too cliche. Either way, it’s still the best film of 2024 for me.
The Substance
I love a film that escalates and boy did this do that! A few times I thought that if they ended it here it’d be in my top ten and they kept cranking it up to 11.
Zone of Interest
The Substance
I didn’t exactly watch a ton of new movies this year but these two were both fantastic. I was thinking about Zone of Interest for weeks after. Still haven’t seen Anora.
Still need to watch Zone of Interest but agreed on the Substance. Great movie that stayed with me for a while afterwards.
Just having a look at websites tops (https://www.indiewire.com/gallery/best-movies-2024/, https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-lists/best-movies-2024-1235079024/), I realize how many movies I missed ha ha
https://www.businessinsider.com/best-and-worst-movies-this-year-critic-ranking-2024
Borderlands and Madame Web are definitely topinv my list of worst. I’ll give the nod to the latter as the firmer seems to have been almost deliberately sabotaged by the studio, while Madame Web was, apparently, exactly the film Sony wanted to release.
Yeah, i am kind of having a hard time with the choice because there are still so much gaps like Anora, the Burtalist or Nosferatu.
Another issue is how to decide which year some movies belong to. For example “Perfect Days” from the rolling stone list.
Perfect Days premiered on 23 May 2023 at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d’Or and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Best Actor Award for Kōji Yakusho. It was nominated for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards
Wikipedia. I assume it made the 24 list because the US release was in February this year, but it debuted last years in other markets and was even nominated for an Oscar.
Personally i find it easiest to just go with whatever year Letterboxd uses, which in this case is 2023. But if for this poll we decide it to be a 2024 movie, then it might get my vote over Dune II.
I just go by the date of first release on IMDb, which should be pretty much the same.as Letterboxd.
Less about movies I missed and more just ones I didn’t see because: a) I have more… “low brow” tastes than some critics and b) they got showings at film festivals but didn’t necessarily trickle down to movie theatres (and/or they are on streaming platforms).
I will likely get around to some of them, I was trying to catch Anora before it left my local multiplex but couldn’t.
[2/2]
Longlegs:
This movie seems like it got a lot of hate on release because of its marketing campaign. I knew nothing about it going in and loved it. Creepy imagery throughout that isn’t overpowering at the same time, either. Very effective horror flick.
The Substance:
Wow. Genre-bending “body” “horror” with two phenomenal leads and a message more relevant today than every. Come for the hype, stay for the third act.
V/H/S Beyond:
Pretty schlocky 6th entry in a middling horror anthology series, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see that it doesn’t end up on many other lists, but I loved it just like I have for every other movie in the series. The final section alone makes it worth the watch even for newcomers, IMO.
Terrifier 3:
You either love the Terrifier franchise or you just don’t love it yet. The success of the series is unbelievable to see but it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving one. Bonus points that Damien Leone knew that distribution for the movie would be fucked up like all the ones so he made it set during Christmas so the people who couldn’t watch it in October didn’t feel like they were missing out.
MadS:
What if 28 days later was a single-shot found footage movie set around some French ravers? Great, fun, and short(!) movie that I loved.
Longlegs and Civil War stuck with me for so long after watching them.
Agreed. Civil War for obvious reasons but I really liked Longlegs. Nick Cage did a really fun performance and like I said, the imagery is really creepy in a way that calls back to older horror movies. I check r/horror every now and again for recommendations and the amount of hate that movie gets on there is absurd
I never got the hate either. It’s creepy and uncomfortable on such a primal level. I’ve seen Cage in some weird roles, but he was so unnerving in this one.
I put it up there with the best horror of the last decade.
I Saw The Tv Glow is 10/10 imho
Gping by my Letterboxd reviews, Dune 2 or Conclave. I also liked The Apprentice quite well.
@darakan@lemm.ee FYI for !animation@lemm.ee
Sure, feel free to make one either you or @BoozeOrWater@lemm.ee and I’ll pin it. Otherwise I’ll probably do one in a few days.
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In - went in pretty blind and loved it, definite Kung-fu Hustle vibes. I’m finalising my top ten of the year but this will end up in the top 3.
