SoberChef Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 Shocked to see this hasn't already been made so why not now? I've been racking my head as to what to do about my personal top 10 so I pulled up a site that lists in order every film released this year & my list below is more of what made it as opposed to an official ranking as that is just asking far too much of someone who isn't an official critic. Top 10 2022: The Batman Avatar: Way of Water The Menu X/Pearl (I consider them 2 parts a of a 3 act whole) Everything Everywhere All at Once Terrifier 2 Banshees of Inisherin Bullet Train Top Gun Maverick Watcher Notable Mentions: The Northman Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Nope Prey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 still some movies i need to see but some of my favorites rn that i’m not seeing on a lot of lists around the internet (for example, every list has EEAAO, deservedly so) are the fallout cha cha real smooth ambulance (don’t hate on michael bay this shit is fun) resurrection jackass forever and jackass 4.5 what’s easier are the worst movies of the year which i can happily say are jurassic world dominion texas chainsaw massacre halloween ends we’re all going to the world’s fair 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 I’ve been trying to make a top 10 for a while, and it’s tough. This was a really good year for movies. 1. Top Gun Maverick 2. Everything Everywhere All at Once 3. 3000 Years of Longing 4. Banshees of Inisherin 5. Tár 6. The Fabelmans 7. Decision to Leave 8. Glass Onion 9. The Menu 10. Avatar: The Way of Water And there’s a bunch of movies that on any given day could be 8-10: Ambulance, Barbarian, The Woman King, Speak No Evil, The Batman, Nope, Bones and All, Thirteen Lives. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Best Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 I didn't watch one single movie this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 I still have a lot of 2022 movies to see, I imagine by mid-January I'll be able to post an actual list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 For the relatively few films that I watched 2022: 1.The Banshees of Inisherin 2. Everything Everywhere All at Once 3. The Menu 4. The Batman 5. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 6. RRR ...Quite a bit of distance... 7. Nope ...Getting Kicked In The Teeth Repeatedly... Dishonorable Mention: The Northman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 It's hard for me to even remember what I watched. The only one that really stuck with me as great would be Banshees of Inisherin. The Northman is absolutely #1 disappointment though, be it a new flick I saw or revisiting something old. Worst piece of shit of the year goes to that Netflix Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I actively hate this movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 The only 2022 movie I've seen is Morbius and I liked it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted December 22, 2022 Share Posted December 22, 2022 I’m so far behind on my movie watching that I don’t even have a top 5. The one movie I can really comment on is Everything Everywhere All At Once. Which I have seen twice and is a great movie. Dragged a little in the middle but loved the story and Small Fry better win for supporting actor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted December 23, 2022 Author Share Posted December 23, 2022 Still need to watch The Whale & Glass Onion here so they may work their way into the list yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeluge Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Decision to Leave Ambulance Retour à Séoul Nope Banshees of Inisherin Crimes of the Future Aftersun RRR Tàr Confess, Fletch Honorable Mentions: Pearl, Dual, Happening, Fabelmans, Till Trash: Men, Everything Everywhere All at Once, She Said, Halloween Ends, Blonde, The Whale, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Scream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69los Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 I've compiled my list (12 films) and have made it my goal over the next week to watch at least 5 more movies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 There were 10 good movies this year??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 On 12/22/2022 at 8:39 AM, Bloodporne said: Netflix Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Was that this year??? Really surprised by how much you guys liked Nope and Ambulance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 17 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: Was that this year??? Really surprised by how much you guys liked Nope and Ambulance Nope is only on my list because it's one of the 5 or 6 movies that I watched this year I've updated my list to add "RRR" which would have a higher position if it was 30 to 45 minutes shorter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted December 23, 2022 Share Posted December 23, 2022 Yeah I saw quite a few movies this year that ranged from really bad to "okay" to fun in a good way. No masterpieces or anything though. I still haven't seen Everything Everywhere all At Once though. There's a few movies I liked that I thought were really fun... Bullet Train The Batman The Woman King Prey Barbarian Wakanda Forever Scream 5 Top Gun Maverick I'm sure I saw more, but these are the ones off the top of my head I remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted December 24, 2022 Author Share Posted December 24, 2022 3 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said: Was that this year??? Really surprised by how much you guys liked Nope and Ambulance Yeah for some reason everyone has TCM released in 2022 but I am pretty sure it had released end of December last year on Netflix I thought!? *EDIT* Just looked it up, nope it was in February of this year apparently. I personally didn't HATE it as we FINALLY had an actual chainsaw massacre in this franchise!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 24, 2022 Share Posted December 24, 2022 Updated my ranking for Glass Onion which I watched tonight. Definitely not nearly as tight a film as the first, but extremely entertaining nonetheless! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted December 25, 2022 Share Posted December 25, 2022 Add Fresh and Hellraiser to my list. Forgot those came out this year too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted December 28, 2022 Author Share Posted December 28, 2022 I didn't hate the new Hellraiser actually, just didn't hit my list. Watched 'Glass Onion' over the holiday weekend & while genuinely quite good, not as good as the first & doesn't quite nudge its way into the top 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 I've updated my list after watching the absolutely masterful The Banshees of Inisherin last night. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unogueen Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 As my patience for the modern age declines I nominate Mad God. I'm so fucking sick of this penchant for calamity for fanbase sake, the insipidly drab 'extreme immersion' that ruins both picture AND sound. The way that these tentpole cape films are falling off a cliff quality wise with a whimper while idiots online do the 'culture war'. The visual sheen of a new future that's about as inspired as flat design. Scandinavian futurism you're welcome. Mad God offers a movie that flows with flaws, but flaws made by error, not negligence. It's romanticism on a muppet level with a violence that is so discordant, it trips the uncanny valley. If the Avatar HFR was a trip, this movie uses it like it should, to attain tone, no idea what cameron's doing. And the whole reel from front to end suddenly passes as a process like digestion, despite the whole lot of you won't be talking about for a bit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneticBlueprint Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 I've only seen four movies that came out in 2022, two of which were in the theater at the time. 4. The Contractor - I love Chris Pine but god damn he picks duds quite frequently. This is one of them. 3. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - My oldest son wanted to see this and it's not as good as the first. 2. Lightyear - My middle child wanted to see this. It was fine. He fucking loved it. 1. The Batman - Fuckin' loved this shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 The 2022 Year-in-Review lists from the film critique/analysis YouTube channels that I subscribe to: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdeaOfEvil Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 I didn't see a lot of "new movies" this year. But I did get to watch a lot of "new to me" movies. So, I think rather than doing a top ten, it'll just be easier for me to categorize the 'Good' to the ''Whatever' to the "Awful" :Good: Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe 2022 Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2021 Top Gun: Maverick 2022 Less Than Zero 1987 Life of Pi 2012 The Northman 2022 Prey 2022 Scanners II: The New Order 1991 Werewolf by Night 2022Whatever: Hellraiser 2022 Shoot to Kill 1988 Smile 2022 Knowing 2009Awful: The Batman 2022 No Time to Die 2021 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 2022 By the Sword 1991 What Is a Woman? 2022 The Midnight Meat Train 2008 Speed Racer 2008 I, Frankenstein 2014 Undisputed 2002 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted December 31, 2022 Author Share Posted December 31, 2022 I appreciate your list @IdeaOfEvilbut the one thing that sticks out is your take on Midnight Meat Train being awful (!!!???) ... I'd love to hear you talk more in depth about what you didn't appreciate about that film? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 23 minutes ago, SoberChef said: I appreciate your list @IdeaOfEvilbut the one thing that sticks out is your take on Midnight Meat Train being awful (!!!???) ... I'd love to hear you talk more in depth about what you didn't appreciate about that film? Going back to my own personal take on the movie. I thought the ending twist would have made a better movie and the CG gore made the movie more comical than horrifying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IdeaOfEvil Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 2 hours ago, SoberChef said: I appreciate your list @IdeaOfEvilbut the one thing that sticks out is your take on Midnight Meat Train being awful (!!!???) ... I'd love to hear you talk more in depth about what you didn't appreciate about that film? To be fair, I'm generalizing my categories here. I only referred back to my Letterboxd ratings for this 2022 placement list, and this film just fell below my 2-star cut off that puts it in the 'awful category' and not in the 'whatever' category. But I honestly didn't enjoy this movie to the point that I can't really remember it these many months later. Thankfully, though, I always use Letterboxd to keep a record of my immediate thoughts on the films I watch at any given time, and this is what I wrote about it when I saw back it in April: Quote 14 Apr 2022 Clive Barker is the only reason why I gave this a chance. And while he had an okay idea here, there just wasn't much plot to invest in. A guy takes a lot of photo's, he suspects someone of foul deeds, he follows said guy around, and then we get a ho-hum ending that falls flat. The actors all did their roles fine enough, I guess, and the main villain stood out just because he was an enjoyable "strong/silent type" of figure akin to any other grotesque bad guy that wears a clean business suit. But the movie overall looks cheap and awful, with the back-and-forth combination of using practical effects (blood, body parts, etc) and cg effects (blood, body parts, etc) doing the film no favors at all in the end. And while I can at least (maybe) give this movie a point for not using any cheap "jump scares" to make up for its lack of suspense or actual horror - which would have annoyed the living piss out of me all throughout it's run time if it did - it still gets docked a point for not providing anything else to evoke an emotional response outta me. Frankly, this movie was boring. There's blood. There's gore. But without any actual creative reason to have them on screen, who cares? Overall, the story came off as a "what if?" scenario that focused on one premise on a train while the rest of the script did a lousy job of padding out a bunch of narrative gaps around it. Characters were there just to be there, and a variety of sets were used that had no real barring on the extremely vague lore being presented. Yet, mostly, nothing is explained in any kind of meaningful exposition, and (again) you end up not caring about anything or anyone in this film in the slightest. D grade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
69los Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 When I said I'd only watched 12 2022 movies, 11 and 12 were VHS 99 and that wretched Texas Chainsaw Massacre. My list was so embarrassing that 9 and 10 were Halloween Ends and Moonfall. Not acceptable. All the bolded ones were seen in the past 8 days. 1. Everything, Everywhere All At Once 2. All Quiet on the Western Front 3. Pearl 4. X 5. Scream 5 6. Glass Onion 7. Prey 8. Barbarian 9. Top Gun: Maverick 10. Smile I may watch Bullet Train or Crimes of the Future later tonight to see if I can kick Smile off the list. edit I swore I edited this. 1. Everything, Everywhere All At Once 2. All Quiet on the Western Front 3. Pearl 4. X 5. Scream 5 6. Glass Onion 7. Prey 8. Barbarian 9. Crimes of the Future 10. Top Gun: Maverick 1/20 edit 1. Everything, Everywhere All At Once 2. All Quiet on the Western Front 3. Pearl 4. X 5. Scream 5 6. Glass Onion 7. The Menu 8. Prey 9. Barbarian 10. Crimes of the Future Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 Updated my YT channel post with another video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 Do you love good montage as much as I do? These videos have become an annual highlight for me. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris- Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 Jackass Forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodporne Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 Why was I not informed of the fact that Short Round is in Everywhere Everything!? I absolutely loved him and had posters as a kid. I thought he had completely retired from acting. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 Part II of I/F/O's "The Best Films of 2022" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted January 13, 2023 Share Posted January 13, 2023 On 1/11/2023 at 1:22 PM, Bloodporne said: Why was I not informed of the fact that Short Round is in Everywhere Everything!? I absolutely loved him and had posters as a kid. I thought he had completely retired from acting. He basically had. If you look at his IMDB, he only has like 4 credits in the last 30 years. He’s given interviews about how the roles just dried up once he hit his 20’s. It’s the kind of comeback story that’ll probably get him the Oscar (and it helps that he’s fantastic in the movie, of course). If the Golden Globes are good for anything, it’s for nice moments like this: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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