2022 EOTY Entertainment Lists • Page 2

I'm still watching whatever I can fit in before the end of the year. It's been a great year for film and tv though!

 

There's no right way to do something as trivial as "best of" list, but it's always funny to me when people say they won't have a year's list until quite a bit into the next year. For me, the point of those rankings is to reflect on what I enjoyed that year and get a snapshot of it, not to make any sort of objective, binding claims.

I'll try to catch up on some things at the end because that's as nice an incentive to see something I've been sleeping on as any. But, if I don't get around to a release until later (or my opinion evolves over time), that's a feature, not a flaw, imo.

 

I always do a list on January 1st, knowing it will change. My "official" list is usually finished in the summer when I have seen everything I needed to see.

 

1. The Bob's Burgers Movie

 

I see ranking lists as just a fun exercise more than anything official or binding. I guess I’d just rather go through the exercise once I know I’ve seen everything I wanted. Doing it by a certain date feels just as arbitrary as waiting to complete a watch list.

 

Lists are fun snapshots of the things you enjoyed in a given year. Your tastes will change over time and nothing is ever set in stone

 

I like the fresh recomendations, If i do a snapshot of my year, Drive My Car, and Memoria are by far my 2 favourites and it looks like last years lists.

Does anyone have a comedy list of the year? So far ive enjoyed Triangle of Sadness and EEAAO

 

I was just being sarcastic and then he dropped the list like and hour later lol

 

The only time he’s ever actually given the people what they wanted.

I didn’t even have to sign up to get it from some crummy website by a certain date (or get penalized on my taxes if I didn’t)!

 

There's still a few films I need to see before I finalize my list, but here's my top ten as of now

1. Top Gun: Maverick
2. The Batman
3. Everything Everywhere All At Once
4. TÁR
5. Marcel The Shell With Shoes On
6. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
7. Nope
8. The Menu
9. Avatar: The Way of Water
10. Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

 

Top 50 Films of 2022

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once
2. Pearl
3. Avatar: The Way of Water
4. Triangle of Sadness
5. The Northman
6. Mad God
7. Crimes of the Future
8. Terrifier 2
9. Decision to Leave
10. The Fabelmans
11. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
12. Bones and All
13. Jujutsu Kaisen 0
14. X
15. TÁR
16. RRR
17. White Noise
18. All Quiet on the Western Front
19. Turning Red
20. Blonde
21. After Yang
22. The Banshees of Inisherin
23. Cha Cha Real Smooth
24. Don't Worry Darling
25. Bullet Train
26. Licorice Pizza
27. Top Gun: Maverick
28. Aftersun
29. Bodies Bodies Bodies
30. Vortex
31. Three Thousand Years of Longing
32. Smile
33. Men
34. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
35. Fresh
36. Barbarian
37. Jackass Forever
38. The Woman King
39. The Batman
40. Nope
41. Glass Onion
42. Prey
43. The Fallout
44. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
45. Thor: Love and Thunder
46. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
47. Sissy
48. The Menu
49. Boiling Point
50. The Gray Man



Top 20 Tv Shows of 2022

1. Euphoria
2. Primal
3. House of the Dragon
4. The Boys
5. Barry
6. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
7. Demon Slayer
8. The Rehearsal
9. Atlanta
10. Peacemaker
11. The Last Kingdom
12. The White Lotus
13. Better Call Saul
14. A Friend of the Family
15. Severance
16. The Bear
17. Atlanta
18. Moon Knight
19. Stranger Things
20. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Lots of stuff I loved this year!

 

How on earth did I forget about The Rehearsal?

 

I did too because this year feels like at least 6 years haha

 

I haven’t watched this “yet” and don’t know if I’ll end up subjecting myself to it. But, I applaud your dedication to tastelessness.

Love that the film directly above it is Turning Red, lol.

 

2022 was the year you could really feel the coronavirus in cinema. While the pandemic was approaching two years old as the year began, the realities of the long process of getting a film made, along with the glacial pace of international distribution abroad, made it pretty easy to see a mask here or a social distance there or a creative compromise everywhere. Cinema has often thrived on restrictions, though, and while the entire decade has been in the shadows of the titans of 2019 film, there were some gems to find. While roughly half of the films this year were semi-autobiographical "love letters to cinema", we can still separate art from the pretenders.


However, before the top ten is revealed, a bottom ten is in order. One cannot appreciate the highs without suffering through the lows; one cannot eat in a fancy restaurant every night or win in every contest. This list is incomplete for multiple reasons; firstly, there was no need to sit through MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU or THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER because there are things that are best moved on from at a certain point. If the list came out in a month, more likely there would be other films to highlight. All these lists are incomplete by definition, so here are the ten most painful experiences.






5. JURASSIC WORLD 6
DIRECTED BY: COLIN TREVORROW

As we suffered through the last film, which attempted to outdo the dinosaurs-on-land approach of the second film, there was a glimmer of hope as the dinosaurs escaped the mansion and began to populate the Earth. Maybe now the franchise would have some life, and at the very least a campy b-movie. All of that is dispatched in a deleted scene so they can bring back a villain you don't remember, so much so that he was recast, and reuniting the iconic original cast with the bland performers they keep trotting out. At least everyone was paid.





4. TRIANGLE OF SADNESS
DIRECTED BY: RUBEN OSTLUND




Woody Harrelson was kind of nice to see, though.






3. ELVIS
DIRECTED BY: BAZ LUHRMANN


Criticizing a Luhrmann film at this point is almost lazy; the dizzying camera movement, the constant cutting, the general music video mentality. Instead, we need to find out why Tom Hanks is spending his career making so much filth. America's most iconic actor is embarrassing us.





2. BLONDE
DIRECTED BY: ANDREW DOMINIK


How does Andrew Dominik keep getting job offers? While THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD has its fans, it did the studio no favors, losing millions along its eighteen-hour runtime. KILLING THEM SOFTLY did even worse, and it seemed we were done with him. Enter Netflix, flush with angel investors and no real strategy to ever become sustainable, and what was supposed to be a prestige awards film became an ugly, hateful look at one of the most famous women in America's history. What were we to gain by having John F. Kennedy force himself into her mouth? Why did we need a shot from the point of view of inside of Monroe's vagina, which was just as tasteless in Gaspar Noe's 2013 film ENTER THE VOID? Biopics are famously just empty greatest hits versions of the person's career, but Dominik thinks he is saying something here. What is it other than a middle finger?






1. BABYLON
DIRECTED BY: DAMIAN CHAZELLE

Since your audience is going to be full of people old enough to remember SINGIN' IN THE RAIN, why mold sections of your film around it when you do not have anything new to say? Bouncing around with drugs-and-sex excess to another of 2022's reflections on the filmmaking process to a subplot about racism in Hollywood to an attempt at emotional depth, there is nothing here. When the elephant defecates on the man trying to save the truck from rolling dowhill, you are that man, the elephant is Chazelle, and the truck is the film industry giving big budgets to movies that don't have superheroes. A common refrain online is that, even if you don't like the film, it is good that something like it was made. On the contrary, the failure of this film will make it even harder for mid-budget films to get made at all.

 

My rankings of the films I’ve seen that released in 2022

 

Top ten films from 2022 and then my top ten films released before 2022 that I saw for the first time

 

I need to try and record my favourite first time watches next year.

 

Doing that and also logging everything you watch in a given year always makes for interesting reading when it comes to stats at the end of a year.

 

Finished with 115 movies watched in 2022. There were several I didn't get around to, including Memoria, Women Talking, Decision To Leave, EO, Lola, and some others I'm forgetting. Worst movie I saw was probably The Gray Man. I'm pretty forgiving, though. I don't think I outright hated any 2022 release I watched this year.

https://letterboxd.com/joedavid/list/2022-films-ranked/


edit: In text because the titles can be hard to read from the screenshot.

1. Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniel Scheinert, Daniel Kwan)
2. The Batman (Matt Reeves)
3. Top Gun: Maverick (Joseph Kosinski)
4. Athena (Romain Gavras)
5. Glass Onion (Rian Johnson)
6. Turning Red (Domee Shi)
7. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Sam Raimi)
8. The Northman (Robert Eggers)
9. Nope (Jordan Peele)
10. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (Dean Fleischer-Camp)

I think it was a good year for movies, but it was an even better year for TV imo.

1. Station Eleven
2. Better Call Saul [S6]
3. Andor [S1]
4. Undone [S2]
5. Severance [S1]
6. The Rings of Power [S1]
7. The Rehearsal [S1]
8. House of the Dragon [S1]
9. Atlanta [S3-S4]
10. For All Mankind [S3]
11. Westworld [S4]
12. We Own The City
13. 1899 [S1]
14. The Boys [S3]
15. Barry [S3]

 

Every year, there is a scramble to see everything before the end of the year. Unless you live in New York or Los Angeles, you simply are unable to see the independent and foreign films that are given limited releases. This year, EO, ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, ONE FINE MORNING, and IL BUCO highlight the biggest omissions. However, there is still plenty to celebrate this year.





10. NOPE
DIRECTED BY: JORDAN PEELE

Through three films, Peele has established himself as the master at blending mainstream, tentpole film projects with meaningful social commentary. The typical viewer can be fully immersed in an engaging, thrilling narrative about an unknown monster wreaking havoc, but beyond there is a lot to engage with in regards to the ways that people allow themselves to be consumed, both literally and figuratively, by the allure of fame.






9. GREAT FREEDOM
DIRECTED BY: SEBASTIAN MEISE


For the vast majority of Americans whose history education stopped in high school, if they were listening at all, the great evil of Nazism and its defeat was the world's movie climax. Because of the horrific acts of various regimes throughout history, it is both unimportant and borderline suspicious if you bring up something like Winston Churchill's starvation of Bengalis or Roosevelt's use of internment camps. The East-West Germany divide is supposed to divide among those same lines, but the reality is not as easy to cut into pieces.





8. BOTH SIDES OF THE BLADE
DIRECTED BY: CLAIRE DENIS

No matter how much we try, we will always have some feelings toward those people we were deeply intimate with. How could we not? We spend so much time hiding ourselves, through emotions and layers of clothing and time spent away, so that when we do allow ourselves to be seen that person will always have a part of you. It is this vulnerability that makes so many seemingly strong people and strong relationships fall into that temptation of old. Maybe we can do it right this time, or maybe one of us has sufficiently changed? We always sow the seeds of our own destruction.





7. BENEDICTION
DIRECTED BY: TERENCE DAVIES

The second of two films examining homosexuality in mid-century Europe, the difference here is to explore the attempts to preserve oneself despite the social pressures. You can hide yourself, your feelings, and your desires for a long time, but when your hair is gray and it hurts to get out of your chair, is it going to be worth it?






6. TAR
DIRECTED BY: TODD FIELD

After chasing out the weak with a very inside-baseball interview and then lecture session, Field explores the various methods that powerful people will use the guise of professionalism and suppressed emotions to dominate the people around them and take what they want without fear of what they destroy or who they hurt. In less capable hands, Lydia Tar would absorb many punishments for her sins, making us feel better about the world as true villains continue getting away with it. Instead, like Jordan Belfort in THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, she manages to reinvent herself in a less prestigious yet still lucrative endeavor.





5. IRMA VEP
DIRECTED BY: OLIVIER ASSAYAS

Perhaps predicting these types of conversations, our pompous director character directing the series-within-a-series argues that it is "really" a long movie divided into parts. Fighting the threat of superhero movies taking their budgets and their actors, Assayas is in many ways even more cynical about the film industry than he was when the original film came out over two decades ago. Maybe more of the great directors should take a chance at remaking one of their own classics to see what they would keep and what they would change. How would Scorsese's TAXI DRIVER deal with a post-Giuliani gentrified New York? Given Spielberg's recent comments on his regret about what JAWS did to the national perception of sharks, what would he change?






4. THE FABELMANS
DIRECTED BY: STEVEN SPIELBERG

We saw a lot of semi-autobiographical/"love letter to cinema" films this year, but most of them failed. ARMAGEDDON TIME jumped between two stories, leaving plot threads dangling to the point of almost forgetting them. BABYLON was an unmitigated disaster, while EMPIRE OF LIGHT and BARDO never had a chance with the directors behind the camera. It took the master to remind us why we watch movies. For most of the world, some of those first movies were probably Spielberg's own, and here he shares with his influences in such a touching and reverent way.





3. THE TSUGUA DIARIES
DIRECTED BY: MIGUEL GOMES

Pure cinema.




2. STARS AT NOON
DIRECTED BY: CLAIRE DENIS

Denis has been here before; a small group of people, always white, trying to navigate in a brown or black society in the midst of a breakdown of the social order where their status alternates between enormous privilege in being above it all while also dealing with the same loss of those privileges in the face of a new era. What is different here is the romance between our two leads, which starts as a business transaction but becomes more affectionate as the world around them becomes more hostile and foreign. It combines the danger of loving someone and the danger of being shot dead in the street, but heartbreak can feel like that sometimes anyway.





1. AFTERSUN
DIRECTED BY: CHARLOTTE WELLS

A boring and conventional pick, but its universal message is one that inevitably breaks through. We all went through a moment when we began to recognize our parents as mortal and fallible. It can feel like a betrayal akin to learning out there is no Santa Claus, and part of our teenage years is questioning while this regular person has authority over us. It is only when we reconcile our own faults and see ourselves in these people that the healthy adult relationship can form. Hopefully they are still available to us.

Next year we have many interesting films to look forward to, such as:
SCREAM 6
80 BRADY
ROCKY 9
ANOTHER ANT-MAN MOVIE
JOHN WICK 4
THE EXPENDABLES 2
SAW 10
GHOSTBUSTERS 5
PAW PATROL: THE MOVIE
ANOTHER EXORCIST MOVIE

It will be as fun as usual.

 

Legit looking forward to Scream 6 and John Wick 4 ha. I like all the movies in each of those franchises.

I forgot about the Irma Vep movie. Have never seen the original, so I meant to do a double feature of both.

 

Favorites I saw for the first time in 2022:

Dog Day Afternoon
Robocop
Halloween III
Raging Bull

 

Decided to go with a Top 13:

1. Belle (Mamoru Hosoda)
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once (Daniels)
3. The Northman (Robert Eggers)
4. Avatar: The Way of Water (James Cameron)
5. Emily the Criminal (John Patton Ford)
6. Nope (Jordan Peele)
7. The Menu (Mark Mylod)
8. Wendell & Wild (Henry Selick)
9. The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
10. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (Sam Raimi)
11. The Woman King (Gina Prince-Bythewood)
12. The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
13. The Batman (Matt Reeves)

Scrolling through 2022 releases, saw a lot that, had I seen them, almost certainly would've made the list. 'Twas a very fun and fulfilling year of ~*the movies!*~, but definitely wanna do a better job of catching things that catch my eye.

 

Doing a favorite horror and favorite non-horror list for films. Already made the horror list weeks ago and I don't feel like putting too much thought into combining them lol. Still have a lot of films I need to watch but this is what I got rn

Horror:
1. Barbarian
2. Watcher
3. Deadstream
4. X
5. Nope
6. Scream
7. Bodies Bodies Bodies
8. The Menu
9. Pearl
10. Sissy

Non:
1. The Fabelmans
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once
3. Turning Red
4. Glass Onion
5. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
6. The Banshees of Inisherin
7. The Batman
8. Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
9. Wendell & Wild
10. Avatar: The Way of Water

Television:
1. Atlanta
2. The Bear
3. Severance
4. Stranger Things
5. The Righteous Gemstones
6. The White Lotus
7. Abbott Elementary
8. Peacemaker
9. What We Do in the Shadows
10. Chucky