Movies The year is almost over... what's the best movie of 2024?

Easily the worst year for movies in my lifetime. I saw this thread and was looking bad and it's hard to even put together a top 5-10 list of actual GOOD movies that will stand the test of time.

Best movie: Juror #2
most fun movie: Deadpool/Wolverine

other actual GOOD movies:
Knox Goes Away
LaRoy TX
Furiosa
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Alien: Romulus (second best movie of the year)
Greedy People
Gladiator 2
Here

If you grew up in the 90s you'll love the movie Snack Shack


Avoid these movies at all costs

The Substance
I saw my TV glow
The Watchers
Cuckoo
Salems Lot
 
IDGETKTFO said:
That was the worst deadpool to date. I was so glad i waited to stream it. Most of the movie was Deadpool and Wolverine fighting each other, it sucked.
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Yeah I just watched it because of this thread and I was greatly disappointed.

First off, the dialogue was terrible. Deadpool's lines weren't nearly as funny as the first 2 movies. And they inserted "fuck" into damn near every sentence for no reason. I'm not
sensitive to foul language at all but the overuse of that word made it feel like the script was written by a 12-year-old boy.

And
I love that they brought back some old characters but holy hell did they ever screw up blade's intro.

The proper way to bring back blade is to have Deadpool in trouble, in desperate need of help, and suddenly a metal weapon flies across the screen killing the bad guys, and as it boomerangs back to the mysterious person who threw it, time slows down, and blade's song from the intro of his movie starts playing, and the camera follows the weapon in the air until a hand catches it, and it's revealed that Wesley snipes is the one who threw it.

Instead they just have him walk into the room and say hi. Fucking morons.
 
I Am Legion said:
Great year for Horror--Oddity, Late Night With The Devil, Abigail, Long Legs, Smile 2, Quiet Place Day One, Heretic, Salems Lot.......Bad year for everything else.

I will go with Dune 2, Smile 2, and Alien Romulus.

Top:
Alien Romulus.
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I also enjoyed Romulus
 
I only saw 2 in theatres. Moana 2 and Unstoppable. Neither was very good.
 
ColemanwastheGOAT said:
@HenryFlower, what was your best of the year?
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The Substance, ez

still a lot that i need to watch though. used the last of my remaining PTO for the year to take the rest of the month off & plan on being a lazy sack of shit catching up on what i’ve missed so far. gonna be tough to topple The Substance, but i have really high expectations for Anora, Nosferatu, & Sing Sing
 
eddymotto said:
Best Film:

Dune 2. Epic film making at its best. The sort of film I look forward to watching again and again for decades.

Best of the Rest:

Anora
Perfect Days
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Furiosa

What the fuck... I am not even sure I liked this film but I could not look away:

The Substance
Kinds of Kindness
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Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World fucks bigly (Radu Jude has quietly become one of my favorite filmmakers since Aferim! in 2015). i saw it in January, so i slapped it into the top of my 2023 bests. i never know what to do w/ these goddamn movies that premiere & screen at festivals all year but don’t get officially released to the world until the following year. La Bête, Red Rooms, & Hundreds of Beavers are the other big ones that could/should be included in the discussion for bests of this year, but i just bow down to w/e year imdb & letterboxd tells me
 
Natural Order said:
Worst year in cinema history?

Look at it! Lol
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Likely.

I watched Starship Troopers last night and it was a flop when it came out. It would be undeniably the best film of 2024 if it came out this year. The effort and craft that went into it just blows modern movies away.
 
Rizzo said:
Easily the worst year for movies in my lifetime. I saw this thread and was looking bad and it's hard to even put together a top 5-10 list of actual GOOD movies that will stand the test of time.

Best movie: Juror #2
most fun movie: Deadpool/Wolverine

other actual GOOD movies:
Knox Goes Away
LaRoy TX
Furiosa
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Alien: Romulus (second best movie of the year)
Greedy People
Gladiator 2
Here

If you grew up in the 90s you'll love the movie Snack Shack


Avoid these movies at all costs

The Substance
I saw my TV glow
The Watchers
Cuckoo
Salems Lot
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Snack Shack looked like something i would enjoy but I only got a few minutes in and turned it off, wasnt funny, just extra dumb, maybe it got better though
 
Haven't seen Gladiator 2 yet but I'll go ahead and vote for it too since it focuses on Rome. Caracalla was basically an evil villain all on his own with a treacherous story without making the film fictional but whatever.
 
Pliny Pete said:
Snack Shack looked like something i would enjoy but I only got a few minutes in and turned it off, wasnt funny, just extra dumb, maybe it got better though
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i didn’t vibe w/ it much at all either tbh. hasn’t been a common occurrence or anything, but everyone i’ve spoken to who has seen it has been super high on it. besides Gabriel LaBelle being undeniably charismatic, & Mika Abdalla being undeniably smokin’, the movie was definition of unremarkable.
 
HenryFlower said:
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World fucks bigly (Radu Jude has quietly become one of my favorite filmmakers since Aferim! in 2015). i saw it in January, so i slapped it into the top of my 2023 bests. i never know what to do w/ these goddamn movies that premiere & screen at festivals all year but don’t get officially released to the world until the following year. La Bête, Red Rooms, & Hundreds of Beavers are the other big ones that could/should be included in the discussion for bests of this year, but i just bow down to w/e year imdb & letterboxd tells me
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I don't even try to keep track. If it feels like a new movie in a given year, it should count in that year

I thought about putting Junk Head in Best of 2024 because how was I even supposed to know it existed?

La Bete is almost at the front of my queue. May watch it as soon as this weekend.

Red Rooms is high on my list too.

Nosferatu and The Brutalist could easily be top 2024 films but I may not get to them until 2025. Can't wait to see both of them.
 
Pliny Pete said:
Snack Shack looked like something i would enjoy but I only got a few minutes in and turned it off, wasnt funny, just extra dumb, maybe it got better though
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I almost turned it off after like 10-15 minutes but let it keep going and it got a lot better for me anyways. The movie related to me a lot though so I could just be a minority.
 
eddymotto said:
I don't even try to keep track. If it feels like a new movie in a given year, it should count in that year

I thought about putting Junk Head in Best of 2024 because how was I even supposed to know it existed?
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i def get ocd about it, which is prob why the nebulous nature of some release dates, & how they are applied to end-of-the-year lists, fucks me up lol
eddymotto said:
La Bete is almost at the front of my queue. May watch it as soon as this weekend.

Red Rooms is high on my list too.
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Bertrand Bonello is very much a director where you either vibe w/ what he’s doing or you don’t vibe w/ it at all, w/ very little in-between. La Bête is kinda the perfect gauge to determine whether you should watch more or just move on. that said, it’d be my #1 so far this year if i wanted to count it for my 2024 bests list (it was my #2 for 2023).

Red Rooms easily the biggest sleeper hit of the past few years for me. i wish it was given more attention outside of Canada, but at least it had a smart burst of word-of-mouth energy in some online circles. lord knows i did as much as i could to convince random internet strangers to check it out
eddymotto said:
Nosferatu and The Brutalist could easily be top 2024 films but I may not get to them until 2025. Can't wait to see both of them.
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oh yes, forgot about The Brutalist. really looking forward to that one too. love me some Adrien Brody when he’s at his best & he is def due for a comeback.
 
best movies Ive seen so far this year:

deadpool and wolverine
terrifier 3
late night with the devil
heretic
alien romulus
inside out 2
the substance
 
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