The Film Lounge

[kongs_speech]

Yo, who the FUCK is ready to check some movies in 2023?!?!?!1!?

[beavis]

another January first:
I did my traditional recap of the year, I made my traditional plans for 2023
AND I watched my traditional Sirk as a first movie of the year!!

1/1/2013 - All That Heaven Allows (1955) - 8,5
1/1/2014 - A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) - 7,5
1/1/2015 - There's Always Tomorrow (1956) - 8,5
1/1/2016 - Imitation of Life (1959) - 8
1/1/2017 - Lured (1947) - 7
1/1/2018 - The Tarnished Angels (1958) - 7,5
1/1/2019 - Interlude (1957) - 7,5
1/1/2020 - Summer Storm - 7,5
1/1/2021 - Has Anybody Seen My Gal? - 8
1/1/2022 - Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (1935) - 6.5


1/1/2023 - Shockproof (1949) - 5.5

Not the best of choices, but the pickings are getting slim anyway. Plot and characters were pretty silly, the actors approached this with a very annoyingly emotive acting style... but that might just be classic Hollywood... I might come to regret my choice of focussing more on it for the coming year On the whole it makes for a breezy watch but I still wanted it to end sooner rather than later. The final scene took the cake on the sillyness-scale, so much that it made me burst out in a laugh... so, an entertaining movie afterall

[kongs_speech]

Which month are DTC nominations?

[Lakigigar]

My first movie i watched every year was:

2016 The Lion King (a rewatch)
2017 Home Alone
2018 The Great Gatsby
2019 Rescue Dawn
2020 Himizu
2021 Goodfellas (a rewatch)
2022 Come True (which was my favourite film i've watched the entire year)
2023 Solyaris

I don't have a traditional habit to watch a certain type of film early on in the year.

[Torgo]

Yo, who the FUCK is ready to check some movies in 2023?!?!?!1!?

I am! I already made it through 1 movie of 80 minutes length ... until migraine hit.
But on January 2nd, I will RETALIATE!

2023 is going to be my year of rewatches! More than from 2017 to 2022 combined. Stay tuned for more Torgo craziness.

[kongs_speech]

Yo, who the FUCK is ready to check some movies in 2023?!?!?!1!?

I am! I already made it through 1 movie of 80 minutes length ... until migraine hit.
But on January 2nd, I will RETALIATE!

2023 is going to be my year of rewatches! More than from 2017 to 2022 combined. Stay tuned for more Torgo craziness.

I'm about to start my fourth feature. So far, I've somehow had the great luck to give five stars to 2/3 of those viewings, which includes a Woody Allen flop for which I shall now post an impassioned defense in the Last Film Seen thread.

[gunnar]

First movie seen in a theater for the year (or at least the earliest that I still have the ticket stub for and could read it):

1986 - Platoon
1987 - Peggy Sue Got Married
1988 - Twins
1989 - Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
1990 - Born on the Fourth of July
1991 - Marked for Death
1992 - Freejack
1993 - Toys
1994 - The Air Up There
1995 - Disclosure
1996 - 12 Monkeys
1997 - One Fine Day
1998 - Lost in Space
1999 - Shakespeare in Love
2000 - Inspector Gadget
2001 - The 6th Day
2002 - Training Day
2003 - Die Another Day
2004 - Hidalgo
2005 - Napoleon Dynamite

First movie seen (theater or otherwise)

2006 - The Incredibles
2007 - The Prestige
2008 - Blades of Glory
2009 - Burn After Reading
2010 - Chicago
2011 - Winter’s Bone
2012 - John Carter
2013 - Les Miserables
2014 - The Lego Movie
2015 - A Better Life
2016 - The Miracle at Morgan’s Creek
2017 - Eddie the Eagle
2018 - A Midnight Clear
2019 - The Conversation
2020 - The Promise
2021 - Because You’re Mine
2022 - Palm Springs
2023 - Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

I didn't start consistently tracking all of my movie watches until later in 2005.

[kongs_speech]

First film seen:

2020 - Adam's Rib (1949, George Cukor)
2021 - Tenet (2020, Christopher Nolan)
2022 - The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
2023 - Three Colors: Red (1994, Krzysztof Kieslowski)

A great film to start each year of the decade so far.

[Kublai Khan]

I've never thought the first movie of the year was a thing to track.

2017 - An American Werewolf in Paris
2018 - Baraka
2019 - The Mummy Returns
2020 - Nights of Cabiria
2021 - The Uninvited Guest
2022 - Mitchell vs the Machines
2023 - Piranha 3D

Ooh, yeah. Obviously there's no careful consideration on my part and it's just whatever I had next in my queue. New Year's Day is just another day.

[mightysparks]

I've never thought about my first watches either:

2006 - American Beauty (1999)
2007 - Dorm Daze 2 (2006)
2008 - No Country for Old Men (2007)
2009 - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
2010 - 25th Hour (2002)
2011 - The Fighter (2010)
2012 - El espejo de la bruja (1962)
2013 - Indie Game: The Movie (2012)
2014 - 12 Years a Slave (2013)
2015 - Harry og kammertjeneren (1961)
2016 - Araya (1959)
2017 - Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
2018 - The Voices (2014)
2019 - Ray (2004)
2020 - Kimssi pyoryugi (2009)
2021 - #Saraitda (2020)
2022 - Fear Street: 1994 (2021)

But now that it's recorded on my Letterboxd stats I'm trying to pick something that looks kinda cool for my first of 2023

[Lakigigar]

First movie seen in a theater for the year (or at least the earliest that I still have the ticket stub for and could read it):

I didn't start consistently tracking all of my movie watches until later in 2005.

wow, and i wouldn't even be born for 10 years in 1986.

I only started watching films around 2014-2015. I didn't see many as a kid or teenager (less than 50, maybe slightly more due to animation but otherwise not).

[gunnar]

First movie seen in a theater for the year (or at least the earliest that I still have the ticket stub for and could read it):

I didn't start consistently tracking all of my movie watches until later in 2005.

wow, and i wouldn't even be born for 10 years in 1986.

I only started watching films around 2014-2015. I didn't see many as a kid or teenager (less than 50, maybe slightly more due to animation but otherwise not).

The first movie that I can remember watching was Star Wars when in 1977 when I was 7 years old. The movie had been out for over a month and I begged my dad to take me to see it. I have memories of going to see plenty of movies after that as well - Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Coal Miner's Daughter, E.T. (on a school field trip) and many more. I also remember the first movie that I ever watched on cable television in March 1981 - Raise the Titanic (we watched it as a family). Around a month or so later, my brother and I watched The Shining on cable.

I started keeping all of my ticket stubs from movies, sporting events, etc. in 1986. I'm not sure exactly why I started keeping them, but I put them in a drawer and they accumulated over the years. I took them with me when I bought my own home. A few months ago, I decided to go through the movie stubs and note down what I watched and when. I had that information for 2005-present and this added another 500 movies from 1986-2004. There were also another 50 or so stubs that didn't have the movie either printed on it or were too faded to read. There might also be a few stubs that accidentally got thrown away, but this should represent the bulk of my theater visits during that period. There are tons of other movies that I watched on cable, vhs, or dvd of course, but I don't have that information recorded.

[peeptoad]

I didn't keep track prior to 2012-

2012- Pick Up (1975)
2013- Branded to Kill (1967)
2014- The Comeback (1978)
2015- Ernest & Celestine (2012)
2016- Dark Was the Night (2014)
2017- Scooby-Doo! Frankencreepy (2014)
2018- Incubus (1982)
2019- Nightbreed (1990)
2020- Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
2021- Skif/The Last Warrior (2018)
2022- Tanin no kao/The Face of Another (1966)
2023- Le golem (1936)

[Arkantos]

I only started keeping a detailed and comprehensive chronological list of film viewings on 31/12/20

2021 - Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (2018, Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsay, and Rodney Rothman)
2022 - The Red Shoes (1948, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
2023 - Felicia's Journey (1999, Atom Egoyan)

[Pretentious Hipster]

Which month are DTC nominations?

Looks like it's around March.

[outdoorcats]

Random thought I had about Nope:

Spoiler

Is part of the reason Jupe tries to "tame a predator" again (by feeding JJ) because Gordy was about to fist bump him before he was shot? Like somewhere inside Jupe there's still a child who thinks "I'm special, that's why Gordy wasn't about to harm me. If they had just waited, I could have calmed him down..." And he still thinks he has the special power that makes him the ideal ambassador to a potentially dangerous alien species (and of course resurrect his career in the process).

I dunno, Jupe is still an exploitive, clout-chasing piece of shit, but the more I think about it, the more I think of him as a tragic piece of shit. Like one traumatic event from his childhood essentially altered his brain chemistry and sent him down the path of "sacrifices horses for clout."

[Good_Will_Harding]

Yeah, that's something I also felt about the film (and character) after seeing it. His wife even says this right before the midpoint abduction scene happens: "Bear with us - trained animals can be unpredictable!", which ties into the central themes as well. Anyhow, one of the best characters and performances of the year, for sure. I'm glad Steven Yeun got an Oscar nod for Minrai, but he also deserves one for Nope as well.

[outdoorcats]

Yeah, that's something I also felt about the film (and character) after seeing it. His wife even says this right before the midpoint abduction scene happens: "Bear with us - trained animals can be unpredictable!", which ties into the central themes as well. Anyhow, one of the best characters and performances of the year, for sure. I'm glad Steven Yeun got an Oscar nod for Minrai, but he also deserves one for Nope as well.

OJ says it a little more bluntly,

Spoiler

"Jupe got caught up trying to tame a predator. You don't tame it, you have to enter into a contract with it."

An interesting detail I read someone else comment is that Jupe likely survived the Gordy's Home incident because he was staring at the shoe and therefore not making eye contact (as well as being in a submissive position), which allowed Gordy to calm down. So the shoe isn't just a "bad miracle," for Jupe, it was actually kind of a miracle!

There's a whole other essay I could write about the motif of eye contact and how the film re-contextualizes the archetype of the Hollywood cowboy as someone on the autism spectrum, but I feel like better writers than I have already covered Nope pretty thoroughly.

[joachimt]

It's always fun to recognize places you've been in movies. Currently watching Passageraren (1966) and in the last minutes it's filmed in Gavernie (France). I recognize the mountains and waterfall on the background. Been there on vacation twice.

[Torgo]

[kongs_speech]

Seen and loved 5/6. I have yet to see The Happiness of the Katakuris.

[Torgo]

Not the universe we need, but the one we deserve?

[Onderhond]

That is very well made.

[hurluberlu]

More inspiration coming

[Good_Will_Harding]

I will probably see about half of those. but really only have expectations that **maybe** a quarter of the list will turn out better than just OK (Scream, Indy, MI7, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Dune).

[Torgo]

The MI series really only got ever better since the resurrection with Part 3 (RIP PSH), I could see Dead Reckoning become this year's Maverick (although I dislike the way a sequel is split up AGAIN)

I think half of those movies will blow and that I will still watch at least half of those yet

[hurluberlu]

The MI series really only got ever better since the resurrection with Part 3 (RIP PSH), I could see Dead Reckoning become this year's Maverick (although I dislike the way a sequel is split up AGAIN)

The teaser with Cruise showing how he is base jumping in Norway for the film is already quite something. But I hope there is a little more story meat than in MI6.

And since we’re at it:
MI4>MI1>MI5>MI3>MI6>MI2

[Torgo]

Henry Cavill's mustache > the complete franchise

Seriously though, it's something like 6 > 4 >= 5 > 3 > 1 >>> 2 for me, although I'm in dire need to rewatch the original classic

[kongs_speech]

More inspiration coming

In chronological order, rather than ranked ...

Top-tier Anticipation

The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Barbie
Oppenheimer
Dune Part Two

Excited

M3GAN
Cocaine Bear
Scream VI
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
The Marvels

I'll Watch It

Ant-Man 3
John Wick: Chapter 4
Evil Dead Rise
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Flash
Elemental
Indiana Jones
Mission: Impossible 80

Probably Not

Shazam! 2
Dungeons and Dragons
Fast X
The Little Mermaid
Transformers: Not Michael Bay Edition
Millionth Turtles reboot
Blue Beetle
Sequel to the Ghostbusters Requel

Zero Interest

Creed III
Kraven the Hunter
Wonka
Aquaman 2

[Torgo]

Thanks for identifying Blue Beetle for me. That's actually a pretty cool logo.

So, a [to me] new superhero in the DC universe of cinematic failures by a director I've never heard of featuring a cast in which I recognize one name?
... talk to me again after it makes the Box Office list

[Torgo]

More inspiration coming

Hey, I mean, Oppenheimer is not a franchise .. yet.

[hurluberlu]

More inspiration coming

Hey, I mean, Oppenheimer is not a franchise .. yet.

Yeah true, Cocaine Bear neither (whoever watch this please report !) or they confused it with Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey.

[OldAle1]

High anticipation from that list:

Barbie

Low anticipation:

everything else

[Torgo]

I've got a five-letter word to convince you else ..

[kongs_speech]

M3GAN is currently at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. Is it possible that we have not only a good January wide release, but one in the very first week of the year?

[Ebbywebby]

M3GAN is currently at 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Probably those same lunatics who thought "Barbarian" didn't suck balls.

[Torgo]

aka about just everyone

[Ebbywebby]

Right.

[Good_Will_Harding]

Barbarian was pretty cool. M3gan looks silly, but the word of mouth and reviews are encouraging. I was pretty on the fence, but might check it out anyway, since nothing new that looks interesting has been out for weeks.

[Lakigigar]

Top-tier Anticipation

Excited

Barbie

I'll Watch It

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Elemental
Cocaine Bear
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Oppenheimer

Probably Not soon

The Little Mermaid
Indiana Jones
Ant-Man 3
John Wick: Chapter 4
Scream VI
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3
The Marvels
M3GAN
Dune Part Two

Zero Interest

Mission: Impossible 80
Shazam! 2
Dungeons and Dragons
Fast X
Transformers: Not Michael Bay Edition
Millionth Turtles reboot
Blue Beetle
Sequel to the Ghostbusters Requel
Creed III
Kraven the Hunter
Wonka
Aquaman 2
The Flash
Evil Dead Rise