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3vrwhat it says on the tin... i logged 49 things this year(mostly movies but some shows were logged at random) (i know i saw more but im sort of lazy with logging movies on letterboxd, especially if it's a rewatch). sort of a "media roundup" as some may say, sort of a review. Lots of spoilers in here, sorry.
January
1. Starting off strong with Annihilation, which I loved. I read the book afterwards which means I really liked it. I've always been a fan of sort of clinical sci-fi and this definitely fits the bill (to me). also really visually stunning!!! just a really thrilling watch. also oscar isaac is there.
2. The Descent is the scariest movie I have ever seen and I have stood by this for years. This occasion was an attempt to watch with a small group in which 1/2 of us had already seen the movie and 1/2 had not. We were way too high and got too scared and shut it off before the main plot even kicked in just because the caving itself was that scary. i think the fact that i'm completely fine on actual tours of caves but a movie depicting caves freaks me out is a testament to how good of a horror movie this is!
3. The Witch (The VVitch?) was really fun but I didn't understand what anyone was saying and family dramas where everything sucks and theyre just hungry and sad tend to stress me out. Those twins were sooo evil lol.
4. Ginger Snaps was cool. Weird girls being weird! More of this! I remember thinking the ending was dumb but I don't remember why. I trust my judgement on that, though.
5. Ex Machina is one of my dad's favorite movies. He pronounces it "Ex Ma-sheen-uh" and insists it's a different thing from "Deus Ex Machina", which he says correctly. Anyway. I enjoyed this! I was a little slow on the uptake on some plot points (when oscar isaac's character does a spontaneous synchronized dance with his assistant i still didnt realize she was a robot, i just thought "oh wow, when did they practice this?" and then later was like "ohhh") but greatly enjoyed the film regardless. i love watching women win!
6. Missing Link was, like, just okay. I expected more from laika so I felt kinda let down. like it was beautifully done and the craftsmanship and care was amazing but my god it was boring.
February
7. Chernobyl is the scariest technically-non-movie I have ever seen. Nuclear and radiation stuff freaks me out and watching this literally made me feel like I was melting. I had nightmares. it was that bad. amazingly done! my review on letterboxd states "i am never watching this ever again" and i stand by that because holy shit that made me feel like i was dying!
8. THE SOCIAL NETWORK!!!! a masterpiece. a work of art. endlessly in my thoughts. i dont even know what to say. sometimes i watch a movie and the pieces fit together so effortlessly i found myself thinking "wow this is just a really really good movie" midway through (which is rare for me because I tend to enjoy something regardless of if it's technically "good" or not). ive seen this movie maybe 10 times this year. ive made my entire family watch it with me. i am crazy
9. Chicago was a lot of fun! ive seen it before but like i love subjecting people to good musicals so i watched again it this year. i think chicago is a testament to the fact that adaptions of stage musicals CAN be good... but my god is it rare.
April
10. When it comes to movies that I know are bad that I like anyway I think As Above, So Below tops the list this year. This movie has everything... found footage, alchemy, early christian imagery, caves, french people... anyway its quite bad and the blatant in-film disrespect of cultural artifacts is so insane it's almost funny but i LOVE a good treasure hunt and this one is completely off the walls bonkers.
11. there's not much for me to say about The Truman Show that hasn't already been said but I liked it. I think it raised too many questions for me about the worldbuilding for me to be fully into it.
May
12. I, Tonya absolutely slayed... as a casual figure skating #fan i loved that aspect and also I thought the acting was soooo good and immersive... really fun to watch and another movie that made me think "oh, that was a good movie".
13. I rewatched Icarus while concussed so I don't remember that much of it but I still think it's sooo funny how it went from doping_myself_for_science to "hiding a russian olympics official in my house" LMFAO. highly recommend for the journey alone
14. I watched American Factory on the same day as Icarus so I was still quite concussed. I remember far less of this because I had not seen it before but I still found it interesting. I'm sure if I rewatched it while lucid I would have some great observations on propaganda and messages portrayed and labor (it was produced by a production company owned by Obama?!) but sadly I have not gotten around to it yet.
15. Arrival is one of my all-time favorites now. The kind of sci-fi I love, with weird time stuff and weird not-fully-accurate science stuff (and linguistics stuff). amy adams was great in this!!! i love her!!! this movie was visually INCREDIBLE and the soundtrack pushed it even further... i found myself holding my breath with anticipation at so many parts. one of the most thrilling films ive seen without being a downright horror movie. i love it so much.
June
16. I didn't log that much over the summer, not because I wasn't watching anything but more because I was busy and forgot to do it. I watched Crazy Rich Asians per my dad's request(?). I thought it was cute! But watching rich people be rich stresses me out. But it was cute!!!
17. The first movie and only movie I've watched in theaters since the rise of skywalker pre-pandemic was A Quiet Place 2 for father's day. Less incredibly stressful than the first film, which made me ugly cry in the downtown disney movie theater, but still stressful. the tradwife-isms started to get grating in this one. the opening was incredibly stressful and well done! the kids did a great job overall! but i'd say this isn't as good as the first.
July
18. Girl, Interrupted was kind of annoying. Like at first I was like ohh yasss crazy girls being crazy but then it got racist and i was like MANNNNNNN. kind of soured the whole thing. i dont remember much else so maybe it just wasn't that good overall?
19. Made You Look is a cool documentary I watched about art forgery - selling ~previously unknown~ paintings by famous artists (aka fakes) and almost getting away with it! theres drama! theres art critics freaking out! armie hammer's family is involved, somehow! what a ride!
September bc I didn't log anything in August
20. The Killing of a Sacred Deer was the most uncomfortable thing ive seen this year. maybe the most uncomfortable movie ive seen ever. absolutely insane. the longest slow zoom shots you could ever imagine. i felt like i was strapped to my seat with my eyes peeled open a la clockwork orange. i could not look away. it was like watching a car accident. every character was crazy besides the younger boy. i still cant tell if i would rec this or not and it's been months.
21. Trick 'r Treat is a cult classic that I had not seen yet and I ended up thinking it was really fun and not too scary OR ridiculous. darkly funny! simple! intertwining stories! halloween!
22., 23., 24. i watched all of the fear street trilogy, which was really fun and kind of campy. i kept forgetting it was a slasher until people started dying, which was really funny each time. the first one was really thrilling and it was definitely a fun spin on the slasher genre, the second one played it a bit more straight but gave more answers to the overarching plot (which i did not gaf about), and thus i enjoyed the 3rd film the least because it was tons of plot and pulling story threads together and also pilgrims with bad accents. i do love the gay girl rep in this and how it's sort of the opposite of bury your gays so that's nice. but overall i'd say these were just okay and get worse the farther back in time the plot goes.
october
25. Super Dark Times was superrrr cool atmospherically and also really fun to watch. a rare addition to the "uh oh we accidentally killed our friend" genre. the scene in question where the deed is done was VERY well performed and crazy to watch. i really liked this even tho i didnt really like the direction it ended up in.
26. 12 hour shift was a great low-budget thriller (slasher?) and really exciting to watch. there are so many turns in the plot that i did not expect LMFAO.
27. Uncut Gems was extremely stressful and not in the fun way. also the weeknd was in this for a brief moment? Anyway yeah this film made me feel like i was on the brink of an anxiety attack for the full runtime. gambling stresses me out. also the fact that it's like... a 2012 period piece was really weird to watch but not bad.
28. i watched battle royale for a tbz comeback watch party! it was really fun. anyway this movie was great and insane and made me laugh out loud at several parts. hated the teacher-student stuff more than anything and it really caught me off guard but the main plot was interesting and fun- i think im just a fan of the death game genre. loveddd the crazy girl rep and also the dude with the uzi was really funny to me.
29. i did my yearly rewatch of over the garden wall while crossfaded on halloween and it still holds up as usual. genuinely funny and cute and visually beautiful while also making me cry. i love how unreliable of a narrator Wirt is like he seriously has major problems. what a masterpiece. perfect autumn media.
i watched 16 movies in november.
30. coherence is my underrated fave of the year. super low-budget sci-fi, time stuff, white people that i couldnt tell apart, insane plot, this movie has everything. went in a really unexpected and cool direction that i did NOT expect at all. really interesting concept! small cast! high-concept! amazing!
31. eli was really funny because i called the twist early on as a joke and then it turned out to be legit which pissed me off because it wasnt good. the medical stuff freaked me the hell out. supernatural stuff doesnt scare me at all so it was mostly an entertaining watch. sadie sinks character was cool at first but due to the twist (and the incredibly cheesy ending) it was all kinda ruined for me lol
32. It Comes at Night was craaaazy... definitely crazy to watch during a pandemic. stressful as all hell. sad. terrifying. carries this feeling of guilt and paranoia throughout the entire thing which was crazy bc honestly i dont see those feelings portrayed that well in film that often. Super misleading title? But i really liked the ambiguity overall. Really good.
33. I rewatched Howl's Moving Castle and I don't think there's many new things to say about it... still sooo cute and romantic and perfect.
34. I watched The Conjuring for the first time which was really funny because, once again, paranormal stuff does not freak me out at all. As a result it was not scary at all but it was really fun and patrick wilson was fun because he showed up and i was like RAOUL FROM PHANTOM?!? anyway it was cool. possession is fun and silly.
35. The Mummy was really funny and stupid. The quick pacing was fun but I couldnt tell two of the main dudes apart until over halfway through which made some of the plot really confusing LOL...anyway this was campy and easy to consume if you put aside the racial stuff (difficult) so honestly if you didnt watch this as a kid i dont rec watching it now because i did that and it was just sort of iffy and dumb.
36. spent most of Pan's Labyrinth waiting for david bowie to show up because I didn't realize pan's labyrinth and labyrinth were two different things- one being a campy puppet nightmare with david bowie, and one being a depressing del toro film taking place in wwii spain in which nothing happy happens and there's a scary ass flesh beast. seriously this film was bleak. it was good but my god where were the puppets.
37. watched Labyrinth literally the next day. This one has david bowie and puppets! and the most annoying protagonist ever! i still have no idea what happened in this movie besides the girl getting her brother back. I have no idea how exactly she got from point A to point B. I remember the songs, david bowie being ominous as fuck, the fart swamp, all of it. but i don't remember what HAPPENED. overall a fun movie.
38. The Ritual was stressful as all hell. monster movies usually don't get to me but this was freaky! lads trip gone terribly wrong! kind of wish we never saw the monster but thats my opinion for most monster films. once the cult stuff became really prominent and descriptive i sort of stopped being scared lmfaooo it was much creepier when it was just freakouts in an empty cabin etc etc.
39. Goodnight Mommy made me sad because i like my mom but these kids were fucking crazy. really disturbing and i really didnt like seeing these boys just torture their mother for an extended period of time like it wasnt even entertaining. the ~twist~ was cool i guess, but i feel like it was just dragged out in the plot for the sake of the twist because logically there was no way it wouldn't be obvious... idk how to word it but basically the dialogue felt like it was intentionally hiding the twist in a way that wasn't natural at all.
40. Unfriended was not good, but it was fun to watch. these teens are fucking crazy!!! idk if the point was to make me feel bad for these horrible people but it didn't really happen. The format was really interesting, with the all-online aspect, but that's kind of all I can praise here bc the rest was soooo dumb. felt like i had to pause to read shit every 2 minutes because i'm nosy and half the movie is online webpages.
41. another patrick wilson appearance! In the Tall Grass is a cool premise but ultimately kind of dumb. could have been wayyyy cooler by working more with the (you guessed it) TIME STUFF, but it sort of completely lost me when they just like. found a bigass abandoned building in the tall grass. Why are they no longer in the tall grass? The Fuck?
42. We Need to Talk About Kevin was good, but Child Kevin was so comically evil and the dad was so comically stupid that it was hard for me to get immersed. I heard the book is more nuanced so maybe I'll look into it!
43. Await Further Instructions was the worst thing I saw this year. like it was just bad. most obvious and heavy-handed moral ever (media bad). basically no one wins and it plays out like a shitty black mirror episode. the practical effects were cool at least.
44. the edge of seventeen was just sort of boring to me. idk. everyone was just so obnoxious to me.
45. watched the half of it directly after edge of seventeen and thought it was marginally worse due to the gay hype with very little payoff. like i kept getting very afraid that i was being baited and then barely anything happened anyway. and also nothing happened at all plotwise whatsoever gay stuff aside.
December!
46. i watched gremlins on christmas in the hospital with my dad and it was genuinely so funny. so bad it's good. we were cracking the fuck up. the story about the dad dying because he tried to slide down the family chimney in a santa suit was bewildering and hilarious. the special effects were incredible and also hilarious. god what a good movie
47. rewatched charlie and the chocolate factory directly after... forgot how good the songs were. nothing else to report.
48. watched the goldfinch and as a big fan of the book i loved it because sometimes a movie doesnt have to be like. accessible to everybody regardless of whether they read the book or not. sometimes you need something thats barely comprehensible without book knowledge. and that's okay. young theo scenes were wayyy better than whatever the fuck ansel elgort was doing but that was kind of to be expected because ive never seen ansel elgort being more-than-soulless in a movie. i think the movie was visually fun, and they handled the young-and-old divide kind of well (i guess it would be a bit of a dated choice to have the first half be when theo is young and the second when he's older..?). sarah paulson playing xandra was so perfect and funny to me. finn wolfhard cannot do the russian accent for shit and i love it. honestly it felt much shorter than it actually is.
49. a lion in the house is easily the saddest and most bleak thing i've ever seen. a 2-part, 4-hour-total documentary following 5 childhood cancer patients in the mid 2000s. heartfelt, informative, and pulls absolutely zero punches. terribly sad.
Uhhh on that note that's what ive watched this year (not including tv shows)! i didn't set out to watch a certain amount, but i did watch more than i expected due to the joy of having a tv in my dorm in college. i'm always taking recommendations so feel free to send any my way and i'll get to them in 2022 :-)
January
1. Starting off strong with Annihilation, which I loved. I read the book afterwards which means I really liked it. I've always been a fan of sort of clinical sci-fi and this definitely fits the bill (to me). also really visually stunning!!! just a really thrilling watch. also oscar isaac is there.
2. The Descent is the scariest movie I have ever seen and I have stood by this for years. This occasion was an attempt to watch with a small group in which 1/2 of us had already seen the movie and 1/2 had not. We were way too high and got too scared and shut it off before the main plot even kicked in just because the caving itself was that scary. i think the fact that i'm completely fine on actual tours of caves but a movie depicting caves freaks me out is a testament to how good of a horror movie this is!
3. The Witch (The VVitch?) was really fun but I didn't understand what anyone was saying and family dramas where everything sucks and theyre just hungry and sad tend to stress me out. Those twins were sooo evil lol.
4. Ginger Snaps was cool. Weird girls being weird! More of this! I remember thinking the ending was dumb but I don't remember why. I trust my judgement on that, though.
5. Ex Machina is one of my dad's favorite movies. He pronounces it "Ex Ma-sheen-uh" and insists it's a different thing from "Deus Ex Machina", which he says correctly. Anyway. I enjoyed this! I was a little slow on the uptake on some plot points (when oscar isaac's character does a spontaneous synchronized dance with his assistant i still didnt realize she was a robot, i just thought "oh wow, when did they practice this?" and then later was like "ohhh") but greatly enjoyed the film regardless. i love watching women win!
6. Missing Link was, like, just okay. I expected more from laika so I felt kinda let down. like it was beautifully done and the craftsmanship and care was amazing but my god it was boring.
February
7. Chernobyl is the scariest technically-non-movie I have ever seen. Nuclear and radiation stuff freaks me out and watching this literally made me feel like I was melting. I had nightmares. it was that bad. amazingly done! my review on letterboxd states "i am never watching this ever again" and i stand by that because holy shit that made me feel like i was dying!
8. THE SOCIAL NETWORK!!!! a masterpiece. a work of art. endlessly in my thoughts. i dont even know what to say. sometimes i watch a movie and the pieces fit together so effortlessly i found myself thinking "wow this is just a really really good movie" midway through (which is rare for me because I tend to enjoy something regardless of if it's technically "good" or not). ive seen this movie maybe 10 times this year. ive made my entire family watch it with me. i am crazy
9. Chicago was a lot of fun! ive seen it before but like i love subjecting people to good musicals so i watched again it this year. i think chicago is a testament to the fact that adaptions of stage musicals CAN be good... but my god is it rare.
April
10. When it comes to movies that I know are bad that I like anyway I think As Above, So Below tops the list this year. This movie has everything... found footage, alchemy, early christian imagery, caves, french people... anyway its quite bad and the blatant in-film disrespect of cultural artifacts is so insane it's almost funny but i LOVE a good treasure hunt and this one is completely off the walls bonkers.
11. there's not much for me to say about The Truman Show that hasn't already been said but I liked it. I think it raised too many questions for me about the worldbuilding for me to be fully into it.
May
12. I, Tonya absolutely slayed... as a casual figure skating #fan i loved that aspect and also I thought the acting was soooo good and immersive... really fun to watch and another movie that made me think "oh, that was a good movie".
13. I rewatched Icarus while concussed so I don't remember that much of it but I still think it's sooo funny how it went from doping_myself_for_science to "hiding a russian olympics official in my house" LMFAO. highly recommend for the journey alone
14. I watched American Factory on the same day as Icarus so I was still quite concussed. I remember far less of this because I had not seen it before but I still found it interesting. I'm sure if I rewatched it while lucid I would have some great observations on propaganda and messages portrayed and labor (it was produced by a production company owned by Obama?!) but sadly I have not gotten around to it yet.
15. Arrival is one of my all-time favorites now. The kind of sci-fi I love, with weird time stuff and weird not-fully-accurate science stuff (and linguistics stuff). amy adams was great in this!!! i love her!!! this movie was visually INCREDIBLE and the soundtrack pushed it even further... i found myself holding my breath with anticipation at so many parts. one of the most thrilling films ive seen without being a downright horror movie. i love it so much.
June
16. I didn't log that much over the summer, not because I wasn't watching anything but more because I was busy and forgot to do it. I watched Crazy Rich Asians per my dad's request(?). I thought it was cute! But watching rich people be rich stresses me out. But it was cute!!!
17. The first movie and only movie I've watched in theaters since the rise of skywalker pre-pandemic was A Quiet Place 2 for father's day. Less incredibly stressful than the first film, which made me ugly cry in the downtown disney movie theater, but still stressful. the tradwife-isms started to get grating in this one. the opening was incredibly stressful and well done! the kids did a great job overall! but i'd say this isn't as good as the first.
July
18. Girl, Interrupted was kind of annoying. Like at first I was like ohh yasss crazy girls being crazy but then it got racist and i was like MANNNNNNN. kind of soured the whole thing. i dont remember much else so maybe it just wasn't that good overall?
19. Made You Look is a cool documentary I watched about art forgery - selling ~previously unknown~ paintings by famous artists (aka fakes) and almost getting away with it! theres drama! theres art critics freaking out! armie hammer's family is involved, somehow! what a ride!
September bc I didn't log anything in August
20. The Killing of a Sacred Deer was the most uncomfortable thing ive seen this year. maybe the most uncomfortable movie ive seen ever. absolutely insane. the longest slow zoom shots you could ever imagine. i felt like i was strapped to my seat with my eyes peeled open a la clockwork orange. i could not look away. it was like watching a car accident. every character was crazy besides the younger boy. i still cant tell if i would rec this or not and it's been months.
21. Trick 'r Treat is a cult classic that I had not seen yet and I ended up thinking it was really fun and not too scary OR ridiculous. darkly funny! simple! intertwining stories! halloween!
22., 23., 24. i watched all of the fear street trilogy, which was really fun and kind of campy. i kept forgetting it was a slasher until people started dying, which was really funny each time. the first one was really thrilling and it was definitely a fun spin on the slasher genre, the second one played it a bit more straight but gave more answers to the overarching plot (which i did not gaf about), and thus i enjoyed the 3rd film the least because it was tons of plot and pulling story threads together and also pilgrims with bad accents. i do love the gay girl rep in this and how it's sort of the opposite of bury your gays so that's nice. but overall i'd say these were just okay and get worse the farther back in time the plot goes.
october
25. Super Dark Times was superrrr cool atmospherically and also really fun to watch. a rare addition to the "uh oh we accidentally killed our friend" genre. the scene in question where the deed is done was VERY well performed and crazy to watch. i really liked this even tho i didnt really like the direction it ended up in.
26. 12 hour shift was a great low-budget thriller (slasher?) and really exciting to watch. there are so many turns in the plot that i did not expect LMFAO.
27. Uncut Gems was extremely stressful and not in the fun way. also the weeknd was in this for a brief moment? Anyway yeah this film made me feel like i was on the brink of an anxiety attack for the full runtime. gambling stresses me out. also the fact that it's like... a 2012 period piece was really weird to watch but not bad.
28. i watched battle royale for a tbz comeback watch party! it was really fun. anyway this movie was great and insane and made me laugh out loud at several parts. hated the teacher-student stuff more than anything and it really caught me off guard but the main plot was interesting and fun- i think im just a fan of the death game genre. loveddd the crazy girl rep and also the dude with the uzi was really funny to me.
29. i did my yearly rewatch of over the garden wall while crossfaded on halloween and it still holds up as usual. genuinely funny and cute and visually beautiful while also making me cry. i love how unreliable of a narrator Wirt is like he seriously has major problems. what a masterpiece. perfect autumn media.
i watched 16 movies in november.
30. coherence is my underrated fave of the year. super low-budget sci-fi, time stuff, white people that i couldnt tell apart, insane plot, this movie has everything. went in a really unexpected and cool direction that i did NOT expect at all. really interesting concept! small cast! high-concept! amazing!
31. eli was really funny because i called the twist early on as a joke and then it turned out to be legit which pissed me off because it wasnt good. the medical stuff freaked me the hell out. supernatural stuff doesnt scare me at all so it was mostly an entertaining watch. sadie sinks character was cool at first but due to the twist (and the incredibly cheesy ending) it was all kinda ruined for me lol
32. It Comes at Night was craaaazy... definitely crazy to watch during a pandemic. stressful as all hell. sad. terrifying. carries this feeling of guilt and paranoia throughout the entire thing which was crazy bc honestly i dont see those feelings portrayed that well in film that often. Super misleading title? But i really liked the ambiguity overall. Really good.
33. I rewatched Howl's Moving Castle and I don't think there's many new things to say about it... still sooo cute and romantic and perfect.
34. I watched The Conjuring for the first time which was really funny because, once again, paranormal stuff does not freak me out at all. As a result it was not scary at all but it was really fun and patrick wilson was fun because he showed up and i was like RAOUL FROM PHANTOM?!? anyway it was cool. possession is fun and silly.
35. The Mummy was really funny and stupid. The quick pacing was fun but I couldnt tell two of the main dudes apart until over halfway through which made some of the plot really confusing LOL...anyway this was campy and easy to consume if you put aside the racial stuff (difficult) so honestly if you didnt watch this as a kid i dont rec watching it now because i did that and it was just sort of iffy and dumb.
36. spent most of Pan's Labyrinth waiting for david bowie to show up because I didn't realize pan's labyrinth and labyrinth were two different things- one being a campy puppet nightmare with david bowie, and one being a depressing del toro film taking place in wwii spain in which nothing happy happens and there's a scary ass flesh beast. seriously this film was bleak. it was good but my god where were the puppets.
37. watched Labyrinth literally the next day. This one has david bowie and puppets! and the most annoying protagonist ever! i still have no idea what happened in this movie besides the girl getting her brother back. I have no idea how exactly she got from point A to point B. I remember the songs, david bowie being ominous as fuck, the fart swamp, all of it. but i don't remember what HAPPENED. overall a fun movie.
38. The Ritual was stressful as all hell. monster movies usually don't get to me but this was freaky! lads trip gone terribly wrong! kind of wish we never saw the monster but thats my opinion for most monster films. once the cult stuff became really prominent and descriptive i sort of stopped being scared lmfaooo it was much creepier when it was just freakouts in an empty cabin etc etc.
39. Goodnight Mommy made me sad because i like my mom but these kids were fucking crazy. really disturbing and i really didnt like seeing these boys just torture their mother for an extended period of time like it wasnt even entertaining. the ~twist~ was cool i guess, but i feel like it was just dragged out in the plot for the sake of the twist because logically there was no way it wouldn't be obvious... idk how to word it but basically the dialogue felt like it was intentionally hiding the twist in a way that wasn't natural at all.
40. Unfriended was not good, but it was fun to watch. these teens are fucking crazy!!! idk if the point was to make me feel bad for these horrible people but it didn't really happen. The format was really interesting, with the all-online aspect, but that's kind of all I can praise here bc the rest was soooo dumb. felt like i had to pause to read shit every 2 minutes because i'm nosy and half the movie is online webpages.
41. another patrick wilson appearance! In the Tall Grass is a cool premise but ultimately kind of dumb. could have been wayyyy cooler by working more with the (you guessed it) TIME STUFF, but it sort of completely lost me when they just like. found a bigass abandoned building in the tall grass. Why are they no longer in the tall grass? The Fuck?
42. We Need to Talk About Kevin was good, but Child Kevin was so comically evil and the dad was so comically stupid that it was hard for me to get immersed. I heard the book is more nuanced so maybe I'll look into it!
43. Await Further Instructions was the worst thing I saw this year. like it was just bad. most obvious and heavy-handed moral ever (media bad). basically no one wins and it plays out like a shitty black mirror episode. the practical effects were cool at least.
44. the edge of seventeen was just sort of boring to me. idk. everyone was just so obnoxious to me.
45. watched the half of it directly after edge of seventeen and thought it was marginally worse due to the gay hype with very little payoff. like i kept getting very afraid that i was being baited and then barely anything happened anyway. and also nothing happened at all plotwise whatsoever gay stuff aside.
December!
46. i watched gremlins on christmas in the hospital with my dad and it was genuinely so funny. so bad it's good. we were cracking the fuck up. the story about the dad dying because he tried to slide down the family chimney in a santa suit was bewildering and hilarious. the special effects were incredible and also hilarious. god what a good movie
47. rewatched charlie and the chocolate factory directly after... forgot how good the songs were. nothing else to report.
48. watched the goldfinch and as a big fan of the book i loved it because sometimes a movie doesnt have to be like. accessible to everybody regardless of whether they read the book or not. sometimes you need something thats barely comprehensible without book knowledge. and that's okay. young theo scenes were wayyy better than whatever the fuck ansel elgort was doing but that was kind of to be expected because ive never seen ansel elgort being more-than-soulless in a movie. i think the movie was visually fun, and they handled the young-and-old divide kind of well (i guess it would be a bit of a dated choice to have the first half be when theo is young and the second when he's older..?). sarah paulson playing xandra was so perfect and funny to me. finn wolfhard cannot do the russian accent for shit and i love it. honestly it felt much shorter than it actually is.
49. a lion in the house is easily the saddest and most bleak thing i've ever seen. a 2-part, 4-hour-total documentary following 5 childhood cancer patients in the mid 2000s. heartfelt, informative, and pulls absolutely zero punches. terribly sad.
Uhhh on that note that's what ive watched this year (not including tv shows)! i didn't set out to watch a certain amount, but i did watch more than i expected due to the joy of having a tv in my dorm in college. i'm always taking recommendations so feel free to send any my way and i'll get to them in 2022 :-)
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Date: 2021-12-31 05:57 am (UTC)> annihilation
dude i swear everyone i talked to DESPISED this movie and idk why!!! also as a lover of clinical scifi stuff, i thought it was so fun and interesting wtf
> the vvvvvvitch
honestly craziest movie i watched this yr lmfao was even more confused bc i was watching without subs. BIG mistake. Huge. me @ the end though: oh, good for her!
> arrival
amy adams slays soooooo hard for no reason in this movie. while the book and movie are two v diff experiences (imo) i would def recommend reading the novella it's based on (story of your life - ted chiang) if u haven't already! it's amazing and actually made me cry smh
> pan's labyrinth
"spent most of Pan's Labyrinth waiting for david bowie to show up because I didn't realize pan's labyrinth and labyrinth were two different things" just wanted to say this made me laugh irl.....no but fr this movie was so traumatising i watched it in cinema at 11yrs old and it changed the trajectory of my life forever. just thinking about the scene where vidal sews his mouth/cheek back together makes me nauseous
> the ritual
"lads trip gone terribly wrong! kind of wish we never saw the monster but thats my opinion for most monster films" EXACTLY!!!!! i went back through my prev posts to find what i wrote abt it and: "it was an immediate flop to me when they showed us the monsters face for the first time and it only went downhill from there."...........i was so pissed bc i really liked it before that point
before i shut up. ty for mentioning coherence! it mustve flown under the radar for me when it was released but i looked into it and it sounds right up my alley! i'm gonna force my family to watch it with me at some point this week