BOT Top 25 movies of 2022 | The forum hits the Danger Zone

[kayumanggi]

9 hours ago, grim22 said:

121	All My Friends Hate Me
122	Athena
123	The Adam Project
124	The Bob's Burgers Movie
125	White Noise
126	Whitney Houston_ I Wanna Dance with Somebody
127	The Night of the 12th
128	Morbius
129	The guilty
130	Paris Memories
131	Redeeming Love
132	Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
133	A Wounded Fawn
134	Do Revenge
135	Dog
136	Dont Worry Darling
137	Fall
138	Fresh
139	The Fallout
140	All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

 

[kayumanggi]

9 hours ago, grim22 said:

#17

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 ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

War is hell, World War 1 even more so. All Quiet silently built up steam all through awards season in 2022 and became a big player by the end – Netflix definitely didn’t see that happening. A good war movie and a really good technical achievement. Sits well with the other war movie epics we have got in the past 5 years.

 

User reviews:

Watched All Quiet on the Western Front. Thought it was great.  @EarlyDeadlinePredictions

 

Should be higher.

[dxmatrixdt]

i worry that if The Fabelmans is not ranked high enough on this list that Mr. Spielberg will be driving in donuts outside of BOT HQ.  

[grim22]

#15

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NOPE

 

 

 

Jordan Peele’s follow-up to Get Out and Us was not as well received as his initial 2 outings but still had a lot of smart ideas within it, even though they weren’t realized well enough. Anchored by 3 great performances at its center (4 counting a monkey), Nope was a different style of alien encounter movie with the idea of Hollywood and the movies always looming over it.

 

User reviews:

Nope is the best film that Jordan Peele has made. The film plot about society's desensitization to "spectacle" really spoke to me. Everyone is great in this and the cinematography blew my mind

 

A+

@Reddroast is Altaire

 

The last act of this went so fucking hard. Movie of the summer confirmed.

@lorddemaxus

 

Loved this, and it’s absolutely worth paying the extra for IMAX, it looks and especially sounds incredible.

@SnokesLegs

 

[grim22]

#14

Spoiler

THE NORTHMAN

 

 

Haven’t seen, but the poster gave me Tarzan mixed with Vikings vibes

 

User reviews:

The Northman goes all in on its setting and comes out with a film that stands apart from other films of the current film climate as a auteur-driven historical epic. The film has great performances from all actors, unforgettable set-pieces, and a thrilling climax. I gave it a B, but for me it's on the fence between A and B.

@Hogar SLAM!

 

The film really showed how brutal anicent times could be really unlike anything i seen.

@Torontofan

 

[TMP]

On 3/28/2023 at 3:17 PM, grim22 said:

#16

 

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DECISION TO LEAVE

 

 

 

 

Haven’t seen it

 

User reviews;

The best directing I've seen in anything this year is easily Decision To Leave... Story could've been a bit more that was far and away the most fun I'd had just watching and editing and directing in a movie this year @JohnnyGossamer

 

Should be higher

[grim22]

#13

Spoiler

AFTERSUN

 

 

A great movie I will only ever watch once. As the dad of 2 daughters, this movie left me hugging my kids a bit harder. At its surface, it’s a dad-daughter bonding movie but just off screen there’s tragedy hiding in plain sight. A great great performance by Paul Mescal and his natural chemistry with Frankie Corio really brings the dad-daughter relationship to life.

 

User reviews:

 

This movie is a gem. It floored me but I loved it so, so, so much. Terrific performances, and a dark subtext. Deserves all the love and awards it's getting. 

@Ed Raven

 

[grim22]

#12

 

Spoiler

GLASS ONION

 

 

A worthy sequel to BOT’s favorite movie of 2019. Glass Onion was more slick compared to Knives Out and had bigger names from the first but felt lesser than the first one while still not being bad in itself. A fun way to spend 2 hours, Rian Johnson brings his “Howdunit” storytelling to this after the first Knives Out and Poker Face. And it did give us this spectacular moment of Hugh Grant deciding he had enough with red carpet questions at the Oscars

User reviews:
It was a fun ride, though the other Disrupters didn't seem broken up enough to learn Cole murdered Andi. I don't know if I believed them as a friend group (maybe if they'd known each other from college?) or if I liked the extended flashback. What a random Frank TJ Mackey shoutout.

 

Setting the story during a specific point in the pandemic was a good way to incorporate Covid without trying to be The Seminal Coronavirus Movie. There was a great bit of character development in the different ways everyone approached masking.

 

What timing for the ultimate villain to be a billionaire tech guru who's actually not all that smart. I enjoyed the celebrity archtypes being skewered and wonder which types of rich a-holes Knives Out 3 will inevitably tackle.

@BoxOfficeFangrl

 

Will go against the current and say I preferred it to the first one; while the culprit is pretty obvious once the actual plot is underway, it does a better job at avoiding predictability in some of its subplots, and I had more fun with the cast this time around. The antics can drag a bit during the first act, but I had a lot of fun.

 

8/10

@JustLurking

 

This movie is pretty good, and seeing how angry it’s making people like Ben Shapiro and The Critical Drinker is a nice cherry on top. I’m looking forward to the next one. I wish these movies didn’t get sold to Netflix. 

@WittyUsername

 

[grim22]

#11

 

Spoiler

GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO

 

 

Haven’t seen, but Pinocchio dealing with fascism seems logical for 2022 for sure

 

User reviews:

Yeah, this is pretty excellent

@YM! is St Peter

 

Saw this the other day. Gorgeous animation, really beautiful and moving film overall. Stop motion is such a no brainer for Del Toro's sensibilities.

@TheDude391

 

Oh yeah this was great. Enhances the original story's complex ideas by committing to the darker ones.

@Lucas

 

[grim22]

101	Hocus Pocus 2
102	Pacifiction
103	Pinocchio
104	The Innocents
105	Ticket to paradise
106	Mrs Harris goes to paris
107	Kimi
108	The Roundup
109	Till
110	Matchmaking
111	The School of Good and Evil
112	Clerks 3
113	Return to Seoul
114	You Won't Be Alone
115	Bobs Burgers
116	See how they run
117	Uncharted
118	Inu-Oh
119	Brahmastra
120	This Place Rules

[cannastop]

55 minutes ago, grim22 said:

#15

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NOPE

 

 

 

Jordan Peele’s follow-up to Get Out and Us was not as well received as his initial 2 outings but still had a lot of smart ideas within it, even though they weren’t realized well enough. Anchored by 3 great performances at its center (4 counting a monkey), Nope was a different style of alien encounter movie with the idea of Hollywood and the movies always looming over it.

 

User reviews:

Nope is the best film that Jordan Peele has made. The film plot about society's desensitization to "spectacle" really spoke to me. Everyone is great in this and the cinematography blew my mind

 

A+

@Reddroast is Altaire

 

The last act of this went so fucking hard. Movie of the summer confirmed.

@lorddemaxus

 

Loved this, and it’s absolutely worth paying the extra for IMAX, it looks and especially sounds incredible.

@SnokesLegs

 

Genuinely surprised it's this low on the list.

[WorkingonaName]

Morbius is better then glass onion tbh. 

[interiorgatordecorator]

3 hours ago, grim22 said:

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AFTERSUN

 

 

A great movie I will only ever watch once. As the dad of 2 daughters, this movie left me hugging my kids a but harder. At its surface, it’s a dad-daughter bonding movie but just off screen there’s tragedy hiding in plain sight. A great great performance by Paul Mescal and his natural chemistry with Frankie Corio really brings the dad-daughter relationship to life.

 

User reviews:

 

This movie is a gem. It floored me but I loved it so, so, so much. Terrific performances, and a dark subtext. Deserves all the love and awards it's getting. 

@Ed Raven

 

 

hadn't seen it when I turned in my list; would have made my top 5 

[SchumacherFTW]

Surprised to see Nope fail to make the top 10, thought it still had a big fanbase. 

[Tower]

I just checked the list I sent and apparently I just wrote Pinocchio, without specifying further, when I meant the GDT version. I hope this didn't hurt its ranking. 

 

10 hours ago, grim22 said:

101	Hocus Pocus 2
102	Pacifiction
103	Pinocchio
104	The Innocents
105	Ticket to paradise
106	Mrs Harris goes to paris
107	Kimi
108	The Roundup
109	Till
110	Matchmaking
111	The School of Good and Evil
112	Clerks 3
113	Return to Seoul
114	You Won't Be Alone
115	Bobs Burgers
116	See how they run
117	Uncharted
118	Inu-Oh
119	Brahmastra
120	This Place Rules

While I'm sure it won't make it very high anyway, this is the second time Bob's burgers shows up in the lower ranks.

[Starrow5722]

Hey Guys, so this isn't related to this thread or anything, but I was wondering how do you ignore a thread(or can you for that matter)?

[Ethan Hunt]

I figured Nope would be top 5 tbh

[ZeeSoh]

On 3/28/2023 at 3:54 AM, grim22 said:

One other small fact - this year also sees a major first, something that has not happened since I started doing these lists. Not even in the Year-End 2020 list. I will reveal what exactly that is once #1 is revealed but it will be obvious prior to then.

First time no SH movie in the top 25? 

[Ethan Hunt]

53 minutes ago, ZeeSoh said:

First time no SH movie in the top 25? 

I expect Batman will show up stil

[grim22]

#10

Spoiler

TURNING RED

 

 

 

A movie which, as the meme goes, did not deal with 9/11. Pixar returned in 2023 with a theatrical movie about a man behind a toy but not the toy (or some such nonsense) and one streaming direct with Turning Red. One of many movies about generational trauma between Asian moms and daughters, this was by far the best Pixar movie of 2023. With a great voice cast and some good songs by BTS stand-ins, this was a genuinely good movie to watch.

 

User reviews:

New favorite Pixar movie, certainly up there with The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Inside Out, etc.

 

I like how frank this movie can be, like when Mei's mother accuses Devon (dairy clerk) of using drugs.

 

The climax was kind of a surprise for me.

@cannastop

 

Start was a bit jarring and the lead came of annoying but once the "turn" happens she is pretty good and emotional state is conveyed pretty well and love this movie was kind of fun and mildly edgy in a fun way that blends will with the theme of the movie. 

Some bits of the third act didn't come well together but overall I enjoyed the film.

 

Is it Pixar at its best . Not quite but still another solid Pixar outing.

 

A- 

@Liiviig 1998

 

An absolute delight. The script has a depth to it that we don't often find in kids fare, the message is presented well without any preachiness, the Toronto 2002 setting is used well, the jokes land, the soundtrack is great (I'm gonna be listening to those 4*TOWN songs for a while), the animation is beautiful (and would've been great to see on a big screen), and the voice performances (from newcomer Rosalie Chiang and the always wonderful Sandra Oh) are excellent. I'm not quite sure I would name it among Pixar's very best, but it's another winner that serves as a reminder of why they along with Disney remain the unopposed Kings of Animation. A-

@filmlover