Favorite movies of 2024

[NormanFRockwell]

Hey guys,

 

While we wait (and wait, and wait) for Lasso, what's everyone been watching this year? What movies did you like, love, hate? I feel like it's been an amazing year for cinema, especially for horror.

 

Here are some top pics/recommendations I'd like to share with y'all.

 

Loved: 

 

Wicked - So, so good! If this wins BP, it will be a very worthy winner. Ariana Grande can act! 10/10

Anora - brilliant as expected with Sean Baker, an instant classic 10/10

Queer - just wow. 10/10

Blink Twice - brilliant debut for Kravitz. Food for thought, entertaining, and gripping af. 10/10

Inside Out 2 - an absolute blast at the cinema imo and better than the first 10/10

Babes - best comedy of the year imo. Absolutely fucking hilarious 9/10

The Apprentice: surprisingly good and watchable, Oscar nom worthy performance from Sebastian Stan 8.5/10

Juror no. 2 - one of the best of the year and deserves more love. Some iffy supporting performances drag it a bit down, but Nicholas Hoult and Toni Collete are pitch perfect 8.5/10

Oddity - so fucking good! Not a single cliche in it. One of the best horrors of the decade 8.5/10

The Substance - phenomenal, outrageous, stylish, few flaws but well worth the hype 8/10

Late Night with the Devil - very, very good, original, and creepy. 8/10

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: also an absolute blast at the cinema, and a fine return to form for Tim Burton. 8/10

Nosferatu - goth next level, Eggers's best film to date, and Skarsgard killed it. Deserves the Oscar for best cinematography. 8/10. 

 

Good:

 

Abigail: fun, bonkers,  hilarious, a great time at the cinema 8/10

Challengers: Okay, it's not quite as hot and sexy as I thought it was gonna be, but still good. great soundtrack 7.5/10

Speak No Evil: clever, twisty script, and performances 7.5/10

Immaculate: fun, scary, with a really good performance by S. Sweeney 7.5/10

Conclave: well-made, watchable, good acting, bit a little overrated. Expected more after all the hype. 7.5/10

Woman of the Hour: a fine debut from Anna Kendrick. Love Hollywood ladies venturing into directing 7/10

Civil War: Not Alex Garland's best but still good 7/10

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: Suuuper cute and easy to watch 7/10

A Different Man: Artsy and well-acted, but also kinda drags on 7/10

The Room Next Door: Huge fan of Almodovar, but this is not his best 7/10

 

Meh: 

 

Maria:  Solid work from Jolie, but the movie kind of becomes more and more boring  and less specific as it goes along, and eventually ends up being sappy as hell. 6.9/10

Thelma:  Cute movie, but not worthy of the praise it's getting? 6.9/10

Paddington in Peru: Massive disappointment after the first two. 6.3/10

Fly Me to the Moon: Look great, but too long and overstuffed 6.3/10

Nightbitch: undercooked af 6.3/10

Kinds of Kindness:  What a comedown after Poor Things. Guess they had fun making it 6/3 (and that's only for the style)

Rumours: It's creative all right, but also boring af and way too long 6/10

Alien: Romulus: MEH. 6/10

Heretic: Solidi Grant but just meh, didn't even finish it. 6/10

Hit Man: I like Powell, and it's a good concept, but kinda fell asleep 6/10

A Family Affair: harmless background movie while you do your laundry or dishes. The lead is annoying af tho 5/10

 

Loathed/Couldn't Finish:

 

Emilia Perez:  I love musicals, gangsta shit, Spanish, and I'm GAY... but this didn't grab me at all. 5/10

The Fall Guy: Very long nap vibes. If basic bitch were a movie 5/10

Twisters: same, one big cliche 5/10

Gladiator 2: That CGI lmao. The script, the lead... Cute boys tho 5/10

Love Lies Bleeding: Wtf. Starts good, but turns into hogwash. 4/10

A Quiet Place Day 1: Absolute rubbish compared to the first two films in the series. 4/10

Longless. A good Nicolas Cage, but the script is outright moronic. 4/10

I Saw the TV Glow: What the f even was that? 1/10

The new Lindsay Lohan Xmas movie. Netflix is churning out literal shit at this point. 1/10.

 

Can't wait to see: Babygirl, Blitz.. There's a lot going on this year. But what a year for cinema!

 

What say you?

[aquamarie]

loved drive away dolls but its kinda terrible. sat for the wild robot and gladiator tho

[DeadSeaOfMercury]

I’ve seen Deadpool & Wolverine 7 times,

Can’t wait for Substance,

Interested in SNL,

 

Hated Borderlands. That hurts to type.

 

[Embach]

haven't really watched that many movies this year but i still think that dune 2 is at least visually the best movie of 2024

 

i can't wait to see babygirl as well, i love nicole kidman, she's one of my favorite actresses. also, can't wait for blitz, i have always loved war movies for some reason.

[Super Movie]

Challengers and Lisa Frankenstein are by far my favorite movies released this year 

[mssainttropez]

I haven’t seen many new movies this year, I’ve only seen three so far. I really liked Longlegs, those who get it, get it. I also saw Deadpool & Wolverine. I’m not a huge Marvel fan but I still enjoyed it! This last Sunday I saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice which I LOVED. I’m a huge Tim Burton fan, and I have so much love for the cast as well. 
 

As for upcoming films, I definitely want to see Wicked. It makes my heart melt knowing that Ariana gets to live out her childhood dreams of playing Glinda. Cynthia is also so gorgeous, and I’m excited to see her on screen. And finally… Jeff, the loml, is in it too. 
 

I would like to see Inside Out 2, It Ends With Us (only for Blake and the soundtrack), Immaculate, MaXXXine (insane that I still haven’t seen it) and A Quiet Place Day 1. If I do get around to watching any of those I’ll be sure to update it here! 

[NormanFRockwell]

On 9/17/2024 at 3:23 AM, aquamarie said:

loved drive away dolls but its kinda terrible. sat for the wild robot and gladiator tho

 

Omg, never even heard of it. I'll see it for Margaret Qualley. Thanks.

 

Also, the new Gladiator is hunky af. Those legs... Daymn. Must watch lol

[NormanFRockwell]

13 hours ago, DeadSeaOfMercury said:

I’ve seen Deadpool & Wolverine 7 times,

Can’t wait for Substance,

Interested in SNL,

 

Hated Borderlands. That hurts to type.

 

 

Omg, Borderlands was like the biggest flop of the year.  SNL: yeah, can't wait. Jason Reitman in top form, apparently. Substance - bring it on already!

 

So, D&W was that good, huh? The trailers didn't do much for me, but maybe I'll give it a ago. Cheers

[Sunbather Moonchaser]

I don't wanna sound like one of those tiktok coquette teens but I think that MaXXXine is the best movie released this year

[Liz Daw]

On 9/16/2024 at 3:24 PM, barttttender said:

 

I Saw the TV Glow: What the fuck even was that? 1/10

 

well this is insane it was 10/10

[Make me your Dream Life]

I’ve really enjoyed Deadpool and Wolverine. Watched it like 5 times thank u discounted pricing. Haven’t gotten tired of it, it’s a diff kind of feel good movie imo. 
 

A Quiet Place Day One, it was short and didn’t really seem to go anywhere, bur I love the shots/ frames of the film, and I liked how endearing the dynamic was for the main characters. 
 

Challengers! The audience I was watching with got the jokes and made it a lot more of an enjoyable watching experience. 
 

Dune Part 2 of course. 

[shadesofblue]

i really don't watch movies which i want to change, but i did see inside out 2. it was actually really good for some reason i cried multiple times ?? i think disney/pixar did a great job again portraying emotions and how they change as you grow up. it's more of an older teen/adult movie though, i'm not sure if younger children would grasp some of those concepts, but it exceeded my expectations.

[NormanFRockwell]

9 minutes ago, shadesofblue said:

i really don't watch movies which i want to change, but i did see inside out 2. it was actually really good for some reason i cried multiple times ?? i think disney/pixar did a great job again portraying emotions and how they change as you grow up. it's more of an older teen/adult movie though, i'm not sure if younger children would grasp some of those concepts, but it exceeded my expectations.

 

 

Agreed. Inside Out 2 was a fine return to form for Pixar, and one of their best overall.

 

Some of their latest (Elemental, Lightyear, etc.) were abysmal. I hope they continue on this route, and Elio delivers.

[NormanFRockwell]

1 hour ago, Liz Daw said:

well this is insane it was 10/10

 

Omg, I was bored out of my mind. I cannot imagine watching anything more boring than that. And to what end? Some trans metaphor? Puh-lease.

Complete waste of time imo.

 

What exactly did you like about it? 

[NormanFRockwell]

33 minutes ago, Make me your Dream Life said:

I’ve really enjoyed Deadpool and Wolverine. Watched it like 5 times thank u discounted pricing. Haven’t gotten tired of it, it’s a diff kind of feel good movie imo. 
 

A Quiet Place Day One, it was short and didn’t really seem to go anywhere, bur I love the shots/ frames of the film, and I liked how endearing the dynamic was for the main characters. 
 

Challengers! The audience I was watching with got the jokes and made it a lot more of an enjoyable watching experience. 
 

Dune Part 2 of course. 

 

I still need to watch Dune 2. The first one didn't really grab me much, so I'm delaying this. 

 

But I love Chalamet, Zendaya, Bardem, and the director. So, I'll force myself to watch it lol

[Make me your Dream Life]

13 minutes ago, barttttender said:

 

I still need to watch Dune 2. The first one didn't really grab me much, so I'm delaying this. 

 

But I love Chalamet, Zendaya, Bardem, and the director. So, I'll force myself to watch it lol

I didn’t watch dune part 1 just bc i didnt think I’d be interested nor was I interested in watching such a dry looking film, the desert, but part 2 looked promising so I forced myself to watch the first one the night before. 
 

pleasantly surprised. And lol no yeah, I watched this one bc I had discounted tickets etc. and was so happy that I did with the audience that I watched it with. So happy when the audience seems invested in the film to really react and it was the best thing

[NormanFRockwell]

1 hour ago, Make me your Dream Life said:

I didn’t watch dune part 1 just bc i didnt think I’d be interested nor was I interested in watching such a dry looking film, the desert, but part 2 looked promising so I forced myself to watch the first one the night before. 
 

pleasantly surprised. And lol no yeah, I watched this one bc I had discounted tickets etc. and was so happy that I did with the audience that I watched it with. So happy when the audience seems invested in the film to really react and it was the best thing

 

I'm happy for the director, he's so talented. Okay, maybe I'll watch this tonight. Thanks

[Lindsay Lohan]

Ill just put every 2024 (and late 2023) movies I watched here with a rating cause why not

 

Late Night With the Devil (10/10)

Challengers (10/10)

Argylle (9/10)

Anyone But You (8/10)

Immaculate (8/10)

Lisa Frankenstein (8/10)

Leave The World Behind (8/10)

Nowhere (8/10)

In A Violent Nature (7/10)

Abigail (7/10)

Society of the Snow (7/10)

Maxxxine (7/10)

The Strangers: Chapter 1 (7/10)

Totally Killer (7/10)

Saw X (7/10)

 

NYAD (6/10)

Damsel (6/10)

Longlegs (6/10)

Dumb Money (6/10)

Irish Wish (5/10)

Twisters (5/10)

Jackpot! (5/10)

No One Will Save You (5/10)

 

Inside Out 2 (4/10)

Madame Web (4/10)

Saltburn (4/10)

Five Nights At Freddy's (3/10)

Mean Girls (3/10)

Priscilla (3/10)

Night Swim (2/10)

You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah (1/10)

[NormanFRockwell]

17 minutes ago, Lindsay Lohan said:

Ill just put every 2024 (and late 2023) movies I watched here with a rating cause why not

 

Late Night With the Devil (10/10)

Challengers (10/10)

Argylle (9/10)

Anyone But You (8/10)

Immaculate (8/10)

Lisa Frankenstein (8/10)

Leave The World Behind (8/10)

Nowhere (8/10)

In A Violent Nature (7/10)

Abigail (7/10)

Society of the Snow (7/10)

Maxxxine (7/10)

The Strangers: Chapter 1 (7/10)

Totally Killer (7/10)

Saw X (7/10)

 

NYAD (6/10)

Damsel (6/10)

Longlegs (6/10)

Dumb Money (6/10)

Irish Wish (5/10)

Twisters (5/10)

Jackpot! (5/10)

No One Will Save You (5/10)

 

Inside Out 2 (4/10)

Madame Web (4/10)

Saltburn (4/10)

Five Nights At Freddy's (3/10)

Mean Girls (3/10)

Priscilla (3/10)

Night Swim (2/10)

You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah (1/10)

 

 

Dude, love your love for challengers, abigail, let night with the devil, etc. 

 

But your Saltburn and Inside Out 2 ratings are criminal. :///

[mssainttropez]

9 hours ago, Sunbather Moonchaser said:

I don't wanna sound like one of those tiktok coquette teens but I think that MaXXXine is the best movie released this year

I KNEW I WAS FORGETTING A MOVIE!!! I still need to see this