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Guys, What would you consider your top 10 movies of this year?
I'm making a survey for my channel 🙏
I'll start
1. Oppenheimer
2. John Wick 4
3. Killers of the Flower Moon
4. Past Lives
5. Nefarious
6. Spiderman: across the Spider Verse
7. The Holdovers
8. Dream Scenario
9. Anatomy of a Fall
10. Bottoms

What's yours?

Dream Scenario 9/10

Nickshrapnel:
Cast and marketing perhaps

It's mainly the casts - Di Caprio, De Niro and also Scorcese had very high salaries - also the sets are really expensive - they had to build a whole village and even a train station.

Baddestguyp:
Quote from the article:

"What makes Eren's trajectory as a villain so effective is that, despite all that he's gone through in his life, he's ultimately the same person at his core. This is brilliantly underlined by how his vow to kill all Marleyans is worded in exactly the same way he vowed to kill all Titans, a referendum on how Eren is still a petty child primarily serving his egotistical sense of revenge. As anybody who's a fan of shows like Smallville or Supernatural knows, most stories of protagonists going "bad" involve some kind of external motivation pushing the hero, like mind control, possession, or continuous brainwashing from a third party. It's a cheat that ensures the audience doesn't have to fully grapple with the implications of the actions, because it's the "other" controlling them. Eren never has that excuse; he has always been defined by his need for violence and asserting his "freedom" over others, and he was proven to be impervious to all external manipulation to the very end. As a character in the show once said, "everyone had to be drunk on something to keep pushing on", and Eren was always drunk on freedom, and that drove his primal want for violence."



How does Collider understand the character of Eren more than the entire Titanfolk subreddit? 😳

Looks like i wont finish Attack on Titans after this useless massive spoiler. I seriously dont know why you would add this without a warning

oyaskii:
AFI's Top 10 films of 2023.

I did 7/10 on here... A healthy return i think. 💚⚡

8/10 😪

yeah I have

abduleez1:
You don watch am?

Yeah I have

oyaskii:
7.5 is a pretty high score for something you apparently didn't understand.

I don't think it's. Presumably, I couldn't really understand the tension at the end mostly because it wasn't an experience I could fully understand or an experience I've never understood but I knew it was telling a compelling story nonetheless. Also the camera movements and placements were sometimes so unusual but unique which gave it more points. You don't have to truly understand something to love something. That's why most people love Korean music even though they don understand the language

Killers of the flower moon - 8/10
This long ass movie was fun to watch from beginning to end, it'ld have been a 10 if I wasn't going in with a lot of hype😩. Comparing it to his other filmography, this movie isn't top 5 maybe 6. But I still had a lot of fun. It felt like the last scenes before the drama was just like Goodfellas😂 like he just decided to recreate it. It's still a masterpiece of story telling and this could be one of the hardest scripts to re-create


Aftersun - 7.5/10
I don't even know what to say about this movie. I couldn't get my eyes of this movie but I didn't even understand it. If anyone had watched it here tell me what you think of it abeg

abduleez1:
I think it was in September.
I been dey yab the movie some months back.

The movie was wack in my opinion

abduleez1:
E be like say Nigeria don cook oo...

If Mami Wata is recognised, that's a huge fvvking W to Nollywood. Then we'd have to examine the roots of the director. Nollywood bred or from the abroad trying to tell African stories to a broader audience.

They should just give it to Anatomy of a fall already

Kaycee7:
After so many years, it's finally here


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0?si=Cd0vrK_h-ZrhFco4

RIP to the fans who couldn't live to see this trailer

68 million views in 15 hours is crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBZY2fkU-0?si=HB8Iw3BbgbiZxMx8

Allthelight:
the boys is over hyped hollywood now makes stupid movies.

Or maybe you're just scared of blood and bits of flesh

abduleez1:
It just came out in theatres, so it's not expected to be out for downloads this soon. Japanese films sef no easy to see download early.

It's too popular not to find easily sha. Movie has made triple of its budget in the United States only

100naira:
Kong better lay the smack down on Godzilla in this one

How's that even possible

oyaskii:
Anatomie d'une chute aka Anatomy of a Fall (2023).

A delicately fabricated mystery thriller with a french flavour that would make John Grisham proud!


I have been looking out for this one since i saw the trailer sometime ago and it landed on my coffers on Friday and i had to devour almost immediately...

Starts off as a murder thriller with less intensity, but as it begins to peel away, it cascaded into a heated courtroom drama where under the uncanny scrutiny of the law and strangers, mistakes, secrets, and mental health issues is laid bare as our main act tries to defend herself in an apparent murder of her better half with her visually impaired son, seemingly the only witness.

Sandra Hùller delivers one of the finest acting i have seen in a female lead for a while, and she was basically the bane of the entire thing. Shame the Oscar big prize might ellude her because the movie seemed to be in an "Oscar limbo".

There's something about the french language that makes it so pleasing to hear, more so, it being spoken in a heated courtroom!. The dialogues were heavy with intent and so so good, totally reminded me of my one my fave movie "Marriage Story" (2019), that towed the same genre path.

Big shame, France decided not to submit it for best foreign language film at the Oscars next year due to the director's political squabble with the French President

But make no mistake, This was a special special film! 💐

8/10.

Where did you watch this?

cezarman:
I don't even understand too.

Mehn I don't think he has watched any of those movies he mentioned with the kind of comparison he made.

He's definitely comparing the leather jackets🤷🏿‍♂️ maybe

abduleez1:
Rightly said. It's not about quality but more about the costs.
Imagine hearing a show like Invincible costing about $10mn per episode. Won't you scoff at that especially when you compare the show to the greatest TV show ever — GOT, that had episodes for $10mn a pop, before increasing to $15mn an episode in the final season. You'd see a massive gulf in quality, both in visuals and otherwise.


Look at House of The Dragon that had 10 episodes with about $20mn per episode. Next season it's dropping to 8 episodes.

Truly, it's only network TV that you'd see in this present age having about 14 episodes and above. That's almost impossible in streaming these days and the standard is 8-10 episodes. Networks audience are so used to weekly release and are more patient, they also have season breaks asides being significantly cheaper to produce.
It's going to be compounded a bit with the recent strike deal between the actors and writers union of America for better pay. So, TV and movie production is about to get costlier. 😉 And surely, studios will find way more ingenious ways to cut costs. Also brace yourselves for more show cancellations. This time, there won't be much patience for underperforming shows, unless it's a key strategy for a studio.

You're 100% right. Not only is there no patience for underperforming shows, there's no patience for "likely to underperform" movies or shows.
A perfect example is Batgirl- a movie that has finished production, and even post production🤦🏿‍♂️. I can't begin to imagine what's actually going on in the minds of the people who has filmed, and worked their ass off in making the movie. Shows like The Federates that had finished production was quietly cancelled😪 even before premiering an episode.

Baddestguyp:
Because now there is less filler and less time-wasting and instead a focus on the point approach...

Before you would sometimes get 20 episodes where half of them are filler or episodic...

But with the attention span of the audience getting shorter, the shows are getting shorter and more straight to the point... DC

And also, people now prefer linear plot than the usual episodic ones we got back in the day

I don't think that's the issue sir. It's actually not about attention span and linear plots - the problem is streaming and money; a streaming company has to develop lots of shows to still be in business and the costs are so much nowadays that they have to find ways of cutting costs. An episode of a show could cost up to 10 million dollars that's actually the main reason. If you notice, some sitcoms and shows still have lots of episodes like BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA and Young Sheldon but are owned not by streaming companies but legacy media companies

WriterNig:
🎥 Freelance (2023) = 3/10 ❌


🚮 Trash. John Cena should just stick to wrestling, he's a terrible actor.

What??

oyaskii:
This might not be the proper thread, but i keep seeing y'all rate "Jawan" highly and i am struggling to know why. The story was absymal and in some part defied any sane logic. Plus the action was the same dramatic nonsensical Bollywood trope action style that has become so tiring.

An easy 4/10 at the very best.

I actually had the same idea you had once. I started watching mostly because of my brother like a 100gb worth of them. In the beginning watching movies like Dhoom, the three Khan's movies and so on, I seriously hated the over the top and insane logic of this kind of movies; most of the stories were so off and the only Bollywood movies I fancied were the ones that sealed with society and personal values without the action. Then I realised they actually did all this on purpose. It was actually their trademark, that was what actually made them different from Hollywood. So after that realisation, I began to find this "flaws" as art 😂 and when those moments come to screen I just found them funny😂

Movies I watched last week
Jawan - 8/10
Forgotten I really love Bollywood movies with their over the top action.

Zoolander - 9/10
Classic, and fun to watch. A perfect comedy

Alien 1986 - 10/10
Best movie of the month (excluding Oppenheimer)

The Marvels - 6/10
I had a free ticket so I watched this in theatres. It's not a bad movie but it's far from a good movie just shows the Marvel problem is still on. A total meh movie and a waste of time

I watched season 1 of Attack on Titans February 2022 and never watched it again - boring asf! The only reason I went back in June this year was hype😏 but it was really good sha but it's still overrated

PedoBear:
TF

She/He is trans

PedoBear:
I wanna impregnate her so badly

Him

abba190:
apart from telegram where else can i download it

I don't know maybe try n k I r I

maidaboi:
the lady that eliminated 3 players was heartless 😂😂😂

I don't know why People think that was a smart move😂
Just decided to remove the old man and Stephen😭 favorite contestants in the series

Wtf is watching squid game the challenge😂😂😂😂 that shit is so addictive, depressing and fun to watch at the same time. If you don't have mind don't watch it.
That Spencer guy is sooo stupid by the way

swagifted:
na your laptop speakers you use watch am?

No a headset

No Where - 7/10
This was a painful movie to watch😩. When the mother started eating her own placenta... Gahhhd!

abduleez1:
OPPENHEIMER.....9.9/10

A bit slow at first, then the story begins to pick up on the hour mark. At 1hr28mins into the film, the story fully escalates and it's a joyride henceforth. Everything about the movie was superb. There's not much I can say about the film that hasn't been said already.

But, it's a cinematic Masterpiece. Premium Cinematography. Superb acting performances from all the entire cast especially to the likes of Cillian Murphy, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Jason Clarke.
The standout performances for me in the movie were for both Robert Downey Jr. and Emily Blunt. It's an ensemble movie nicely done with virtually all the characters having a role to play in elevating the story.

The connection of the opening scene of the film in the explosion chain reaction with the text saying: "Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. For this, He was chained to a rock and punished for eternity", in relation to Albert Einstein's words to Oppenheimer, both scenes are creatively profound.
Einstein said Oppie was going to face the consequences of his achievement and was going to be punished for it by people, and when they've punished him enough they'd later give him an award, celebrating his life achievements but really it was to compensate him and to make themselves feel better.
What a way to start a movie and end it.
Christopher Nolan is a master storyteller.

I also loved the symbolism of Nolan using colour for past events and black and white for present happenings. A break from the norm. Also, the illustrations of Oppie's thoughts using the solar system, colors, sound and light to properly convey his emotions. It's just brilliant.

The minus 0.1 point deduction was for not revealing to me the sweet face of defeat of Lewis Strauss at the press release after being rejected by the Senate committee.

After seeing the film, now I understand the hype. This is the first clear Best Picture contender I've watched all year round. The award just seems destined for this film.

I've had lots of discussions about this movie. When I watched it in cinemas first of, I was just so overwhelmed that I couldn't even understand what was really going on. I was just soaking in the cinematic masterpiece that it was
So I recently watched it on my laptop in 4k. Just from the sound only at the beginning with the rain dropping sounds, I just replayed just that 1 minute before we could see Oppenheimer's face over and over and over again; the music blasting all through the movie just had its own story to tell that it didn't really feel like a movie to me anymore but a visual orchestra. When I heard that Can you feel the music I immediately went to Spotify to listen to it repeatedly. No doubt, this movie is one of my top 5 movies of all times.

Baddestguyp:
Not a bad idea.

At least she should be nàked right? 😏

Marvel pandering to women as usual- sure it'll be a black woman