2021 EOTY Entertainment Lists

Similar to the Music forum's EOTY lists, feel free to post your favorite tv/movies/games etc of 2021 here.

John Water's Best Films of 2021
Vanity Fair's 10 Best Movies of 2021

 

In alphabetical order

Superhero stuff:
Eternals
Loki
Shang Chi
The Suicide Squad
Wandavision

Horror stuff:
Last Night in Soho
Malignant
Midnight Mass
The Night House
Titane

Animation stuff:
Adventure Time: Together Again
Amphibia
Eva 3.0+1.0
The Owl House
Star Wars Visions

3D games played this year (for the first time):
Darksiders franchise (1-3)
Dishonored franchise + Prey (Arkane Studios)
Nier: Automata
The Outer Worlds
Resident Evil franchise (1-7)

2D games (re)played this year:
Child of Light (replay)
Hades
Hollow Knight
Ori 1+2 (replay)
Spiritfarer

 

It's way too early for anything other than video games right now.

1. Metroid Dread
2. NEO The World Ends With You
3. Psychonauts 2
4. Tales of Arise
5. Deathloop
6. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
7. Guardians of the Galaxy
8. Monster Hunter Rise
9. Outriders
10. NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...

 

Yeah so far I only posted the genres / categories i don't see changing

 

I wanna see Vortex.

 

Lots more movies to see, but yea I think some other categories for me are pretty locked in at this point:

Best Video Games of 2021:
1. Metroid Dread
2. Psychonauts 2
3. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
4. Deathloop
5. Back 4 Blood

Favorite Non-2021 games played for the first time this year:
1. Ghost of Tsushima
2. Final Fantasy VII Remake
3. God of War (2018)
4. Dragon Quest XI
5. Spider-Man: Miles Morales

TV Cartoons:
1. Invincible
2. Inside Job
3. Rick and Morty
4. The Owl House
5. Looney Tunes Cartoons
6. Adventure Time: Together Again
7. Close Enough
8. Animaniacs
9. South Park: Post-COVID
10. Jellystone!

Live Action Shows:
1. Succession
2. I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
3. Ted Lasso
4. Snowfall
5. What We Do in the Shadows
6. Squid Game
7. Mare of Easttown
8. Curb Your Enthusiasm
9. Hacks
10. Mythic Quest
(subject to change once I see more of How to with John Wilson)

Documentaries:
The Beatles: Get Back
Defunctland: Disney's Fastpass: A Complicated History
Tiger
Q: Into the Storm

Guilty (but not really) Pleasures:
Shark Tank
Jersey Shore Family Vacation
The Circle

The worst things I watched this year:
Space Jam: A New Legacy
Malcolm & Marie
The Simpsons in Plusaversary (or any of The Simpsons Disney+ shorts)
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Free Guy
Netflix's Cowboy Bebop
Sexy Beasts

 

There's so many terrible movies that were released this year that felt like they came in like 2015: Malcolm & Marie, Cherry, Music (the Sia disaster), Infinite (the Mark Wahlberg Paramount Plus movie). May they all go to the depths of streaming hell.

 

I've luckily avoided most of the very bad streaming movies. I have zero interest in putting myself though something like Red Notice just to log it on letterboxd

 

I took next week off of work to try and catch up on as much as possible. You can never get it all unless you live in New York or Los Angeles, though.

 

Video Games:

1. The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
2. Deltarune Chapter 2
3. Resident Evil Village
4. Shin Megami Tensei V
5. Returnal
6. Metroid Dread
7. Deathloop
8. Persona 5 Strikers
9. Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart
10. Eastward
11. Tales of Arise
12. Death's Door
13. Ys IX
14. Guilty Gear Strive
15. Scarlet Nexus
16. Nier Replicant 1.22...
17. Loop Hero
18. Neo The World Ends with You
19. Mario Golf
20. Voice of Cards

 

I haven't seen much

 

There is still a ton I want to see. I'm not sure I'll be able to make a list any time soon.

 

I could not imagine making a list before like mid January.

 

I always make mine January 1st. I miss the days when I could make a video games list lol. Don't think I've finished a single game this year.

 

Yeah I'm waiting til January for the movie list. Lots to see in the coming weeks

 

I like doing catch up between Christmas and New Years, making sure to finish my list before the new year officially begins.

To me, these things are fun snapshots of what I enjoyed in a calendar year, not some kinda binding, definitive commitment. So, if I miss anything I end up loving later (even if I get to it mere days later), or warm up to some stuff and cool down on others, that’s fine. If I see a 2021 release in 2022, it wasn’t part of my personal 2021, and that’s that.

I also count films that got an initial wide theatrical release in the current year if I didn’t have access (outside of festivals or leaks) its “official” release year, so Nomadland will be on my list this year.

 

I need to see Drive My Car - for some reason its going to Connecticut, but not Philly. Ugh. So, I can't make a list in good conscience without seeing that first.

 

The 50 Best Films of 2021

Slant's list

 

A lot on that list I've never even heard of, need to go through it and see what's available to watch now. Didn't even know Pedro Almodóvar had a new one out.

 

I have never heard of almost any of these. I have been so far out of the loop. Asako I & II was very good, so Drive My Car might be something to see.

 

I think Village is probably my GOTY, though I haven’t finished Dread or Arise yet.

 

Dread is definitely mine

 

It’s a great game. I think I’m close to the end, really enjoyed it and it was a big surprise since I’ve never played much of the series.

 

Welp just discovered that Arise has fishing so that’s gonna seal it haha.