The price of movies is too damn high to go out and watch them. My system at home is far more comfortable and costs barely anything.
Hundreds of Beavers.
And I watched it by just sort of holding my eyes open while the video file played on my computer screen.
The Wild Robot in theaters. Not a sequel or a remake. It is based off of a novel though.
2024 was apparently the first year where all the top-10 highest grossing movies were sequels. List doesn’t include Moana 2 and Gladiator 2 which are expected to make a lot of money as well.
Wild Robot really surprised me… Score was fantastic and some scenes had me bawling
We took our toddler to see it and both my partner and I had multiple episodes of weeping. Lovely film.
Also, for those interested in more mature movies: Juror #2. I had good expectations and was not disappointed. At least, not by the movie. There were only a handful of people in an already small cinema room, only a week after release. Meanwhile, Gladiator II is drawing a lot of public.
While I love shitting on CEOs and business people as much as the next left-oriented person, this trend in the movie industry is very much, at least partially, at fault due to many of the consumers.
Juror #2
Thought provoking in that everyone who wants to convict is “because he’s a piece of shit, whether or not it is unlikely he did it”. How do you tell people they are pieces of shit themselves, without them reactively thinking you are? Is the big thought experiment this film provokes.
Went to see Flow in the theater this last weekend. It was really good.
That said I don’t really go to the theater much; the last one I saw before that was The Northman two years ago.
Memoir of a Snail at a theater a few weeks ago. It was a good movie and my partner and I enjoy going to the theater, I regret nothing.
Dune if adaptions allowed. The Creator if completly new. In cinema of course.
One new IP coming right up!
Here you go… Rebel Moon
Enjoy(jkjk I love new IP but not all of them are bangers)
Y2K. It was better than I expected!
Also, I remember walking out of Everything Everywhere All At Once and being angry because it probably wouldn’t do well in theaters or win any awards, despite being one of the best original movies I had ever seen.
I was happy to be wrong on that one.
Another also, I absolute hate that the video game industry is jumping on this trend. Sometimes it’s nice to play games I missed out on as a kid but it’s getting so bad now, they remaster games from a couple years ago. Enough is enough.
Last solid remaster is probably Age of Mythologies Retold.
Most remasters by now are just junkware though.
There was a theory somewhere that this is about power play. If you produce Spiderman 245, power shifts away from the director and towards the production company. Less artistic freedom, more money management. If you let the director create their own movie, they are mostly in charge of how things go, movies become more artistic and less focused on money (alone).
I have nothing to confirm this and don’t remember the source I have that from except “the internet”
Your comment is compatible with my ideology. It is therefore true.
Movies and shows that I have watched this year in no particular order and not all released this year:
The Beekeeper
Iron Claw
Say Nothing
Altered States
The Substance
Oppenheimer
Peaky Blinders (rewatch)
Kneecap
In The Name of the Father
The Batman
Lord of the Rings (rewatch)
The Departed (rewatch)
Deep Space Nine (haven’t finished)
The Devil’s Own
Sicario
Additionally, my wife has recently started watching Gossip Girl but I only catch glimpses of that show. Did anybody actually like that show when it came out?
Additionally, my wife has recently started watching Gossip Girl but I only catch glimpses of that show. Did anybody actually like that show when it came out?
If you think of teenage girls as people, tons of people liked it when it came out. They also liked the books.
You should check “The Penguin”. Somehow better than The Batman.
This year I would’ve loved to see A Real Pain but it was only showing at one theater near me and only for one showing that I couldn’t make. For original movies I actually had access to in theaters, last year I saw Dream Scenario, American Fiction, Polite Society, Theater Camp, Zone of Interest, Problemista and Poor Things. All great. I also watched Rotting in the Sun on Mubi’s app and it was just okay.
I’m not against sequels/prequels, just need some more than “it’s the sequel to that one you liked”.
OK, but why does it need a sequel? Can you make me interested in it aside from the fact it’s a sequel? Is it any good…?
Not a movie or fully original, but I watched Arcane and I loved it. It was good without knowing about the game, and those who know the game say it’s better if you do. That’s what a sequel/remake/adaptation should strive for.
wtf have they done to the book
a Serbian film.
Red One. It was shit. Don’t recommend.
Bummer. I wanted to see that
