One of the year's top 10!

[Uncle Floyd]

I thought Anderson's peak was Tenanbaums, I wish I liked Darjeeling more - you could feel him trying to break out of his static approach but not quite making it, I gave up and suffered through Grand Budapest (boring as fucking shit). Life Aquatic should've been better too - Blanchet is a horrible over-performing stage actor with a rubber-face who ruins everything she's in (that I've seen).

Twister is loony fun, I love it and love it more and more as each year passes - Hollywood seems incapable of just making something that is OTT fun with OTT characters like that that don't have to be some sort of 'social statement' - Paxton is a true everyman, its astounding he rose to the level of a lead in a film. I'd happily watch any film on the 90s list, even Birdcage cause Lane is brilliantly OTT (that cast had Hackman, Weist, Lane, Flockhart, Baranski, Azaria and Williams - a pretty 'diverse' bunch, don't see that these days).

Haven't seen a single on the 23 list and don't know much about the majority - will probably see Killers one day (Wind River? Sounds like a very farty movie) and Barbie (I hear its worth it for the Ken bits and the chick is easy on the eyes).

WWAW typing OTT instead of typing out "over the top?"

The real story behind Killers is nuts. Not sure about the movie, but the book is worth reading. Wind River is PFG; Barbie didn't elicit even a chuckle.

 

[Danrangutan 🦧]

I’ve not watched a single one of the 2023 films. watched about 70% of 1996

 

[Dog Eater]

Watching a Sling Blade french-fried pertayters mmmhmmm clip over and over, and at the end is a shot of the movie poster with a caption of some critic proclaiming it as a top 10 movie of the year. That got me thinking about what was a popular and/or good movie in 1996 versus today.

1996:

2023:

Not good.

Read the plot. Seems like drivel.

 

[IanCurtis]

What didn't you like about Budapest? To me, that's easily his best one.

It was boring, I went to wikipedia to read the the synopsis and got through 2/3 skimmed the rest cause even it was boring. The characters are 2D, flat, uninteresting - there are some great character concepts but I felt they just went nowhere or I had zero engagement with them. His early films are set in the real world Rushmore (regular life, coming of age), Tenanbaum (NY, family), Darjeeling (India, brothers) and Aquatic (a bit different here - Jacque Costeau sailing ship and documentary filmmaking, fathers and sons - this was the film where I gave up on him, still elements of the older stuff but getting too bogged down in style). Those films I mentioned, I think, all have that theme of a character/s living in their own imagined world, who is a failure in reality and the film is about coming to terms with that etc - Budapest kind of does it too but it breaks too much with the reality grounding for me (I only watched it cause I kept hearing it was his best which I assumed meant a return to Tenanbaum glory) - the whole film is more about his style than it is about grounded themes and characters I can identify with (Tenanbaums are all aspects of personalities you can relate too, they're all morose, over-achievers past their prime who have to accept the reality of who they are - you go on the journey with them. I felt like Budapest is just watching style over substance and Anderson never gives me an in, or spends enough time for me to get to know the characters on a deeper level - its like watching a film that is a bunch of people playing charades instead of characters existing for real so I had zero invested in it. I was surprised its only 100 minutes - I thought it was minimum 2 hours and if you'd said 3 I wouldn't have been surprised - I found it that slow, boring and an absolute slog to get through, I kept assuming it would get better but it never did. Asteroid City looks 'typical' but I saw the trailer for French Dispatch and thought it looked really good, maybe a return to Tenanbaum-era but I've heard worrying things about it too - meandering unfocused story - so not sure about that one now either.

 

[TheGhostOfBernellTrammell]

I thought Anderson's peak was Tenanbaums, I wish I liked Darjeeling more - you could feel him trying to break out of his static approach but not quite making it, I gave up and suffered through Grand Budapest (boring as fucking shit). Life Aquatic should've been better too - Blanchet is a horrible over-performing stage actor with a rubber-face who ruins everything she's in (that I've seen).

Twister is loony fun, I love it and love it more and more as each year passes - Hollywood seems incapable of just making something that is OTT fun with OTT characters like that that don't have to be some sort of 'social statement' - Paxton is a true everyman, its astounding he rose to the level of a lead in a film. I'd happily watch any film on the 90s list, even Birdcage cause Lane is brilliantly OTT (that cast had Hackman, Weist, Lane, Flockhart, Baranski, Azaria and Williams - a pretty 'diverse' bunch, don't see that these days).

Haven't seen a single on the 23 list and don't know much about the majority - will probably see Killers one day (Wind River? Sounds like a very farty movie) and Barbie (I hear its worth it for the Ken bits and the chick is easy on the eyes).

Barbie is worth it for the Ken moments, one of the first things he does is run headlong into a plastic wave to show Barbie his surfing skills and he goes flying about 20 feet into the air. Was not expecting that at all, it tickled my ribs preddy good.

 

[Jen_Tomlinson]

Guardians 3
Oppenheimer
Anatomy
Killers
Asteroid City

the rest suck or i havent seen

I love media!!!!

 

[Queefer Sutherland]

 

[Easily_Remembered]

Watching a Sling Blade french-fried pertayters mmmhmmm clip over and over, and at the end is a shot of the movie poster with a caption of some critic proclaiming it as a top 10 movie of the year. That got me thinking about what was a popular and/or good movie in 1996 versus today.

1996:

2023:

Not good.

Of COURSE there's a movie in 2023 called "You Hurt My Feelings". That's peak 2023.

You guys ever seen Strange Days. Damn, that's a good movie.

Great movie filled with great performances and a great soundtrack.

 

[Patrick O'Neal]

What's the point, that most popular movies have always been crap?