What was your best picture last year?
Doesn’t need to be Oscar nominated (although mine was). Which movie did you like so much you’d see it multiple times?
FWIW, mine is Dune. I’ve seen it 3 times.
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+1 for Dune. I hope they release a longer cut one day.
Going with “The Eternals” on this one.
As for Dune, definitely near the top of my “worst of 2021” list.
CODA and Belfast were probably my two favorites. I also loved Parallel Mothers.
Two that barely got noticed by the Oscar mob:
“Zola” – grabbed me with great acting, a story taken from real life, and situations that touched on some of my own experiences.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=24KbaKlCDDI
“C’mon C’mon” – Totally original storyline just made me feel good, and appreciate Joaquin Phoenix in a whole new way. The fact they shot it in black & white just made it more cool.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mzushAOM88
Either The French Dispatch or Drive My Car. I also did like C’mon C’mon. I’m sure I will see The French Dispatch again soon, especially as a major Wes Anderson fan. I’ve seen most of his movies at least twice.
@JLoon I liked C’Mon, C’Mon quite a bit but found it a little slow in places. I was kind of surprised Woody Norman didn’t get a Best Supporting Actor nod.
I found Drive My Car interminable but I know many people really liked it.
Drive My Car and CODA were my favorites, if you don’t count the Snyder cut of Justice League.
@ragingloli Funny that you and I had completely opposite opinions. I couldn’t get through Eternals. I tried twice. But I imagine I’m older than you so I’m in the Dune science fiction generation. I’ve read the book three times.
@gorillapaws Denis has said that there will be no directors cut. He said the cut you see is the directors cut as he had complete control. You will see part 2 and possible Dune, Messiah in the future.
@Demosthenes I liked French Dispatch as well. I found it to be a bit too—for the lack of a better word—“artsy”. The director did stuff because he could.
@filmfann You can count the Snyder cut.
@Caravanfan I loved the style and “artsiness” of The French Dispatch; it was the stories that I found a bit silly. It was a great parody (or homage?) to the New Yorker. But I enjoyed the film very much; I think in general that Anderson is more style than substance.
@janbb You and I had exactly the same reaction. You can see one of my regular reviews on my Letterboxd account.
@Caravanfan The New Yorker’s Richard Brody described it as Anderson’s most “Andersonian” film. I’m inclined to agree. It’s a film for Wes Anderson and New Yorker fans. As both, it was pretty much made for me. :)
I had to look at the list of 2021 movies as a reminder to see which ones I actually saw.
Some on the list were probably up for Oscars a year ago because they debuted in 2020, but of the ones on the 2021 list, my favorite 4 were: Minari, Nomadland, The Power of the Dog and The Tender Bar. I know Minari and Nomadland were up for Oscars a year ago. Not sure about The Tender Bar. I realize that of the 4 that I liked the best, 3 of then were more touching (Minari, Tender Bar, Nomadland). All 4 of them had great cinemetography.
I also thought The Tender Bar was an excellent movie that did not get much recognition. I also really liked The Worst Person in the World.
No. Quite the opposite. They just don’t come across my radar.
Movies are not broadcast via Radar.
I don’t watch movies at movie houses, they’re too expensive and usually boring to me, but it would seem the best movie of the year should be considered the one that the most people saw. CODA looks like a really bad movie to me. If you liked it, great, but it’s a hard pass for me.
I have to admit I’m kind of spoiled now, watching movies at home in the comfort of my house. I know some people feel that movies are meant to be seen on the big screen, and I know it’s a nicer experience when they’re seen on the big screen, but there’s something to be said for watching it in my jammies and pausing it when I want to get up for some reason, and being comfortable under the blankets, as opposed to sitting in a theater and being cold or annoyed because someone else is looking at their phone or making noise with candy wrappers.
@jca2 I see plusses and minuses to both ways of watching.
The best movie I saw was Great Freedom. In post WWII Germany a gay man is repeatedly incarcerated due to homosexuality being a crime. A real triumph of the human spirit kind of a movie.
My favorite movie was probably Benedetta. A nun in a same-sex relationship who has religious visions. It’s a fun, sexy romp with a bit of religious heresy.
Honorable mention to The Velvet Underground. Great documentary about a great band.
@jca2 I“m with you. It has to be an amazing movie for me to want to go see it on a big screen.
@janbb: Yes, like most things, there are advantages and disadvantages to each way.
There are few things exciting me less than a belated top gun sequel starring Tom “compensating for his midlife crisis” Cruise.
The man has single handedly responsible for ruining the Mission Impossible franchise.
Turning it from a thrilling and cerebral TV special agent procedural into mindless action schlock.
He is a cinematic menace.
I don’t suppose Cruise and Kilmer are gonna do another sexy beach volleyball scene.
They should do a hardcore gay sex scene. Who do you want to be the bottom?
@Dutchess_III
“I don’t suppose Cruise and Kilmer are gonna do another sexy beach volleyball scene.”
How about THE ROCK!!! and Jason Mamoa? ;P
I didn’t see many of the 2021 movies. I did see CODA, and I thought it was great, and I’ve been telling my friends and family to check it out.
It touched on so many things that not only apply to hearing children of deaf parents, but any child who has to translate language for their parents, any child who has the opportunity to grow beyond what is available in their small towns, and any child who has very different talents than their immediate family. I could say more about it, but I don’t want to give away too much.
I definitely classify it as a great watch at home movie.
The problem with The Eternals is that they tried to cram 6 backstories plus the main story into 2 hours. That’s pretty thin. We’ve been watching Korean series on Netflix. Those have 16 hours of run time so have plenty of time to develop characters, backstories, and plot lines. The Eternals should have taken that approach. It was essentially how Avengers was presented.
Yes. But it was still better than fucking Dune.
Dune was more interested in overly long landscape shots, than flesh out any of their characters or their relationships.
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