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  1. Final ballot/FYC. Might edit before the deadline if I manage to squeeze in some more watches. I mostly stanning for Nope so that's my big push. Don't be sleeping on it, especially the enveloping sound design plus Michael Abels incredible score which is steeped in horror, western and adventure influences. BEST PICTURE Nope Top Gun: Maverick Guillmero Del Toro’s Pinocchio TAR The Northman Everything Everywhere All at Once Barbarian RRR Aftersun Decision to Leave BEST DIRECTOR Jordan Peele, Nope Park Chan-Wook, Decision to Leave Robert Eggers, The Northman Charlotte Wells, Aftersun Todd Field, TAR James Cameron, Avatar: the Way of Water BEST ENSEMBLE Everything Everywhere All at Once Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Babylon Jackass Forever The Woman King The Batman BEST ACTOR Paul Mescal, Aftersun Austin Butler, Elvis Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin Daniel Kaluuya, Nope Park Hae-il, Decision to Leave Alexander Skarsgard, The Northman BEST ACTRESS Cate Blanchett, TAR Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once Rebecca Hall, Resurrection Tang Wei, Decision to Leave Anamaria Vartolomei, Happening Keke Palmer, Nope BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once Pedro Pascal, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Claes Bang, The Northman Mark Rylance, Bones and All Jake Gyllenhaal, Ambulance Edward Norton, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once Hong Chau, The Menu Lashana Lynch, The Woman King Nicole Kidman, The Northman Chloe East, The Fabelmans Zoe Kravitz, The Batman BEST VOICE PERFORMANCE David Bradley, Guillmero Del Toro’s Pinocchio Antonio Banderas, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Tilda Swinton, Guillmero Del Toro’s Pinocchio Rosalie Chiang, Turning Red Wagner Moura, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Andy Samberg, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Nope Aftersun Everything Everywhere All at Once TAR Decision To Leave The Banshees of Inisherin BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Guillmero Del Toro’s Pinocchio Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Top Gun: Maverick Happening Bones and All She Said BEST ANIMATED FEATURE Guillmero Del Toro’s Pinocchio Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Turning Red Mad God Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers Apollo 10 1/2 BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY Nope The Northman TAR The Batman Babylon Top Gun: Maverick BEST EDITING TAR Top Gun: Maverick Nope Aftersun Decision to Leave Everything Everywhere All at Once BEST VISUAL EFFECTS Avatar: The Way of Water Top Gun: Maverick Nope The Batman Everything Everywhere All at Once The Northman BEST COSTUME DESIGN Elvis Decision to Leave Babylon The Woman King Everything Everywhere All at Once The Banshees of Inisherin BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN Babylon Avatar: The Way of Water The Fabelmans The Batman Elvis The Northman BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP DESIGN Babylon The Batman Everything, Everywhere All at Once Elvis The Northman The Fabelmans BEST SOUND DESIGN Nope The Batman TAR Top Gun: Maverick Avatar: The Way of Water Thirteen Lives BEST ORIGINAL SCORE Nope The Batman Babylon Bones and All Pinocchio Don’t Worry Darling BEST SOUNDTRACK Top Gun: Maverick Elvis RRR Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Pinocchio Bullet Train BEST ORIGINAL SONG "Naatu Naatu", RRR "(You Make Me Feel Like) Home”, Bones and All "Hold my Hand", Top Gun: Maverick “Ciao Papa”, Guillmero Del Toro’s Pinocchio "Nobody Like U", Turning Red “This is a Life”, Everything Everywhere All at Once "I Ain't Worried", Top Gun: Maverick BEST STUNT ENSEMBLE RRR The Northman Prey Everything Everywhere All at Once The Woman King The Batman MOST EPIC BOX OFFICE RUN Top Gun: Maverick Everything Everywhere All at Once Avatar: The Way of Water Elvis Smile Puss in Boots: The Last Wish MOST SOUL CRUSHING BOX OFFICE RUN The Northman Babylon The Fabelmans She Said The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Ambulance BEST COMEDY FEATURE Jackass Forever Weird: The Al Yankovic Story The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers Dog BEST MUSICAL FEATURE Pinocchio Elvis Weird: The Al Yankovic Story BEST HORROR FEATURE Nope Barbarian Bones and All X The Black Phone Smile BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE RRR Decision to Leave Happening All Quiet on the Western Front BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Fire of Love BEST TV SHOW/MINISERIES – COMEDY Barry Peacemaker What We Do in the Shadows Harley Quinn BEST TV SHOW/MINISERIES - DRAMA Andor We Own This City Stranger Things Euphoria House of the Dragon WORST FEATURE Fistful of Vengeance Deep Water Grimcutty Interceptor Halloween Ends The 355 The Gray Man Pinocchio Samaritan Morbius BEST BREAKTHROUGH (filmmaker, actor, writer, etc.) Jenny Ortega, Scream, Wednesday Austin Butler, Elvis Amber Midthunder, Prey Zach Cregger, Barbarian Stephanie Hsu, Everything Everywhere All at Once Charlotte Wells, Aftersun Joseph Quinn, Stranger Things Hong Chau, The Menu, The Whale Mia Goth, X, Pearl Parker Finn, Smile BEST YOUTH PERFORMANCE (any actor under 20 y/o when film was shot) Frankie Corio, Aftersun Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans Britain Dalton, Avatar: The Way of Water Madeline McGraw, The Black Phone Milo Coy, Apollo 10 1/2 Mason Thames, The Black Phone Gregory Mann, Pinocchio Walker Scobell, The Adam Project BEST OVERLOOKED FEATURE (Film without “serious” awards consideration and made under 25m at the Box Office DOM) Resurrection Kimi Fresh See How They Run BEST HERO Tom Cruise, Cinema Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, Top Gun: Maverick Waymond Wang, Everything Everywhere All at Once Naru, Prey Bheem, RRR Raju, RRR Payakan the whale, Avatar The Way of Water Bruce Wayne/The Batman, The Batman Helen Brand, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Santa Claus, Violent Night BEST VILLAIN Jean Jacket, Nope The Wolf/Death, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Fjolner, The Northman Pearl, X Sully, Bones and All David, Resurrection Miles Bron, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery The British Empire, RRR French Abortion Law, Happening Men, Men BEST SCENE Blood Rain, Nope Maverick Flies the Course, Top Gun: Maverick "Hello College", Babylon Opening “Fear” Monologue, The Batman The Final Fight, The Northman The Tape Measurer, Barbarian Naatu, Naatu, RRR Silence of the Lambs, Jackass Forever Jesus Make Out Session, The Fabelmans Neytiri’s Rampage, Avatar: The Way of Water
  2. I'm not too sure if there's particular sites but I'm a big fan of the original format and how it was used. So buckle in for a lengthy breakdown. There's very few 'true' IMAX films that actually release on an IMAX screen due to IMAX's diluting of the brand to sell you on watching more films in their theatre. It's quite difficult to shoot a feature film entirely on real 65/70MM IMAX. Hasn't been done yet, it took IMAX slapping an IMAX sticker on the digital Arri Alexa 65 (still a great digital camera) to claim a film was shot entirely on IMAX. A lot of the theatres they've built are also only capable of expanding to the 1:90:1 ratio rather than the taller 1:43:1, again because of the dilution of the brand. Aspect Ratio Guide https://i.redd.it/mhmkq9vvker71.jpg There's even the careful wording of 'IMAX certified' or 'IMAX quality' cameras now to sell you on more films that fall outside of the Arri IMAX. Then you have formatted for IMAX which just means they uncrop/unmatte the picture no matter what you shot on. Both of these are usually only for the digital IMAX ratio (1:90:1). It's very rare to get a digitally shot film with scenes intended for the full 1:43:1 aspect ratio. Dune is recent example where the idea of the increased height isn't a complete afterthought and hold the same genuine artistic integrity of shooting on real 65/70mm IMAX. The 65/70mm IMAX cameras are still incredibly loud/cumbersome and basically the same ones from 2008. It makes dialogue difficult to shoot.IMAX are currently working with a bunch of filmmakers to develop a new 65/70MM IMAX camera that they're hoping will be quieter. This is a pretty good list here of films shot on real 65/70MM IMAX (and also the digital IMAX-certified line) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IMAX_films The list below has every film released in IMAX, obviously a majority don't have special formatting for the screen and just release in their standard aspect ratio. But you can find the formatted for IMAX films here. In the notes it will highlight if it was shot on something IMAX related and if/how much of the film is in one of the IMAX ratios. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_released_in_IMAX Really your choice comes down to is the film worth the audio and visual experience for what you're cashing out. So your selection whittles down to the filmmakers and creators who are trying to create a genuine theatrical experience, and for some that will define the choice as to whether to even make a trip to the cinema let alone IMAX. Because all the rattling on about dilution of the brand is not even important in the end. IMAX is bigger screen and bigger sound and if you're watching a film that delivers both visually and auditorily it will feel worth it, no matter what it's shot on, or whether it has expanding ratio or not. Films like The Batman (despite not even having an expanded ratio), Top Gun: Maverick, Nope (Shot on real 65/70MM and expands to full 1:43:1), Avatar the Way of Water were defining IMAX experiences for me last year and delivered on the experience. Whereas I also went to see Doctor Strange on IMAX because it was directed by my boi Sam Raimi and even though it was visually more competent than you average Marvel film, I didn't find it to be demanding of the IMAX experience. The Marvel sound mix and visual style seems increasingly more for TV than the theatres for me and the increased ratio is such an afterthought I find it hurts the cinematic nature of the film more than enhance it. This is where dilution of the brand comes back into play a little bit because IMAX will tell you that both Ant Man and the Wasp: Qauntamania and Interstellar are both shot on IMAX. But you put the two side by side and the visual difference is astounding. This year I imagine that Mission Impossible, Oppenheimer and Dune will the most demanding of a big screen experience.
  3. Incredible, love everything Mazin and co have added (especially in the opening). The layers of complexity within the characters continue to be the strength of The Last of Us. I was at arms length a little bit with emotional investment, couldn't quite get the game of my head but it's slowly shaking off. It's unbelievably faithful while also being expansive.
  4. Love it! Looks like so much fun! Stopped the trailer early, don't want to see anymore. The digital lighting style is whatever but outside of that they're definitely going for some Raimi-esque shots. It's crazy that something like Evil Dead has spawned so much content, and even better is that they haven't missed the mark.
  5. Was not expecting these reactions. Loved Malignant, hoping for more of those ridiculous vibes.
  6. DECEMBER Movies Current Releases Guilmero Del Toro’s Pinnochio - 10/10 - The level of artistry, soul and depth is so palpable that you can't help but be moved. Decision to Leave - 9/10 Glass Onion - 9/10 Aftersun - 8/10 Fire of Love - 8/10 She Said - 8/10 Pearl - 8/10 Violent Night - 8/10 Avatar: The Way of Water - 7/10 - I have some issues by Cameron's ability to create an undeniable theatrical experience is the reason I'll probably have made 3+ trips to the cinema when all is said and done. Mad God - 7/10 Where the Crawdads Sing - 6/10 The Greatest Beer Run Ever - 5/10 Troll - 3/10 Older releases Red Rocket - 9/10 Dodgeball - 8/10 The Punisher (2004) - 7/10 Welcome to the Jungle/The Rundown - 5/10 TV Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery - 8/10 1899 - 7/10 The Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special - 7/10 Wednesday - 6/10
  7. The Empire Strikes Back The Last Jedi The Force Awakens Andor A New Hope Return Of The Jedi Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga Clone Wars (2003-2005) The Mandalorian Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008-2020) Star Wars: Rebels Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise Of Skywalker Lego Holiday Special Star Wars: The Bad Batch Star Wars: Visions Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge Of The Sith Solo: A Star Wars Story Obi-Wan Kenobi The Book Of Boba Fett Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones The Star Wars Holiday Special
  8. I will say I also enjoy True Lies but there's a whole middle chunk of the movie that (as much as I love Bill Paxton) goes on way too long and fails to make use of the Schwarzenegger/Curtis dynamic. Once they get back on track the movie absolutely rips.
  9. My Cameron ranking post Way of Water. Aliens Titanic T2 The Terminator Avatar The Abyss Avatar: The Way of Water True Lies
  10. I liked Avatar: The Way of Water but I did it find it to be a step down from the first one. It’s definitely in the bottom half of Cameron’s filmography. The film doesn’t ease you in, it hits the ground running and awkwardly finagles it’s way to the story it wants to tell. Once the film settles down with the water people I was totally locked in and I was once again spellbound by the magic of Pandora. It goes without saying it’s visually mind-blowing, just incredible. Cameron is in another zone, especially the action direction in the last act which absolutely rips. It delivers on spectacle in a way that other blockbusters only dream of doing. 3-D was top notch, specifically the underwater stuff. The HFR was a little distracting and unnatural in moments but for the most part I was indifferent to it which I suppose is an improvement. The score is lacklustre, lazily reusing Horner’s music and nothing new to offer. Surprisingly I liked all the kids which I thought was going to be the most annoying part. They’re all written like 90’s Cameron kids and I found that endearing. Jake and Neytiri really take a hit in this one, they really are secondary to the children who get the spotlight. Jake gets side-saddled with a one-note stern dad thing and Neytiri is completely underused despite being the best thing about ‘Avatar’. Despite some problems I had a lot of fun and above all else I had a genuine cinematic experience. I’m so happy that between this and Maverick this year we’ve had two completely un-cynical, sincere, blockbusters that were chock full of wide-eyed wonder.
  11. I can't quite remember, did you BFI it? I'm going tomorrow evening and was hoping to get a pretty good 3D experience out of it, it'll be the first time back after the renovation. Also did you get any of the Oppenheimer/Mission/Barbie previews?
  12. Make sure you all catch Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio if you haven't. It's spellbinding, heartfelt, weird and dark. One of the best of the year. I cried 3 times.
  13. I think the reason for the disparity in what people are saying ("Liked it better than the first") and the score is probably because people's thoughts on the first Avatar have gone down in estimation since 2009. It's been endlessly criticised for certain elements since then and there's probably a whole bundle of new critics who weren't about in 2009. I mean that first wave of reactions went out of their way to highlight and address how this movie has/hasn't improved on the criticism's of the first.
  14. $173,144,585 I know there's been a bit of plateau in pre-sales but this is about where I was before
  15. I'm hearing not until spring with a physical release first before streaming.
  16. A while ago Cameron said "Basically, if you loved the first movie, you're gonna love these movies, and if you hated it, you're probably gonna hate these. If you loved it at the time, and you said later you hated it, you're probably gonna love these." I think he was pretty on the money
  17. Glad to hear all the final act praise. The final act of the first Avatar rules and continues to put most CG based action sequences to shame. Very few blockbusters have the discipline in action directing that they really should and I'm ready for Cameron to take us all to school again.
  18. NOVEMBER Movies Current Releases Barbarian - 9/10 - Ridiculously and infectiously fun, a proper horror rollercoaster. Bones and All - 9/10 Weird: The Al Yankovich Story - 8/10 Resurrection - 8/10 - Rebecca Hall knocks it out of the park again, Tim Roth is creepy as hell. The Menu - 8/10 Hellraiser - 7/10 - Very slickly directed but needed more bite and depravity for a Hellraiser film. All Quiet on the Western Front - 7/10 The Sea Beast - 7/10 Don’t Worry Darling - 5/10 Older Releases Escape From Alcatraz - 9/10 Mindhorn - 8/10 Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) - 6/10 47 Ronin - 2/10 TV Andor - 10/10 - Show of the year? Cabinet of Curiosities - 6/10 - Started off so promising and had a run of just middling episodes.
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