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Post-trip report: Two weeks in Italy (Venice, Bologna, Florence, Rome)

2024.04.29 20:03 _PM_ME_YOUR_SSN_ Post-trip report: Two weeks in Italy (Venice, Bologna, Florence, Rome)

VENICE
Day 1: We arrived in Venice in the evening after a long flight... Took the boat taxi into Venice (took a while because the Orange line comes every 45 minutes). Checked into our hotel and explored the islands a bit -- managed to go to Vino Vero for cicchetti and wine until we decided it was time to hit the hay.
Day 2: Woke up early to go out for a walk around Venice (the fog made everything look so...ethereal) and to avoid the day-trippers. Started off at the Rialto, then visited the Mocenigo Palace Museum. We originally thought we had too long of a list on our 'first real day' in the city, but managed to get through everything before 1PM since most of them were checking out the facades of old churches and visiting bridges (like Ponte delle Tette). We found L' Bacaro de' Bischeri to have incredibly delicious sandwiches! Had a few drinks at Hotel Danielli, then we headed back to the hotel to rest. We were originally going to get dinner at Antico Dolo, but went to Dal Moro's instead (not bad)!
Day 3: We visited St. Mark's Square early in the morning and took photos of the empty square (except it was full of construction barriers!). We also visited Cafe Florian to take some photos of the interior and also for the...expensive espressos. We tried to get into the garden, but it was closed! So we instead did some shopping until our timed entry at Ca'Rezzonico. We got some gelato at Grom and headed back to our hotel for a quick rest and to drop off our bags until our next timed entry, which was at Peggy Guggenheim. From there, we visited Palazzo Grassi (it was a spur of the moment decision)! We had dinner at Trattoria Anzolo Raffaele. Absolutely wonderful dining experience.
Day 4: We took a morning tour of Doge's Palace and St. Mark's Basilica, which ate up a good portion of our time (it was a great tour!) and for lunch, we went to L' Bacaro de' Bischeri again. We also decided to get an aperol spritz at Trattoria San Polo in Campo San Polo. We visited Carlo Goldini's House and Gallerie dell'Accademia, which housed some fantastic paintings. Finally, for our last day in Venice, we went up to the rooftop of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi for a phenomenal view of the city and its canals. Dinner was at L'Anice Stellato.
BOLOGNA
Day 5: We arrived a little past noon in this beautifully red city. Literally the first thing we did after getting the keys to our AirBnb was walk right over to Mo Mortadella lab... This is where I discovered (re-discovered?) my love for cured meats. From there, we walked to the university, and doubled back for a disappointing gelato that I don't remember the name of. We went to Mercato delle Erbe to pick up cheese, a stick of salami, tomatoes, artichoke, and basil.
Day 6: We didn't structure Bologna as strictly as we did for Venice (no timed entry tickets were purchased), so we had the leisure of doing whatever we wanted on the itinerary we built. We first checked out the Tourist Office where we purchased tickets to climb the clocktower at Palazzo d'Accursio (this was really cool) and we got a very beautiful view of Piazza Maggiore, San Petronio, and the land surrounding the city. You also got a view of the 666 porticos leading up to Santuario Madonna di San Luca (which we eventually walked up the next day). We filled our time with museums (Archaeological Museum of Bologna and Teatro Anatomico), ate at Tigellino, grabbed a gelato at Cremeria Cavour, and sat at a bar in front of a piazza and sipped on aperol spritzes until it was time for dinner at Trattoria da me. (I especially enjoyed the crescentine plate. I could've had just that for my entree.)
Day 7: Again, we didn't have anything planned, so we took this day in stride, visiting vintage shops, grabbing fresh pasta at Le Sfogline, making sure to hit up Pasta Fresca Naldi (we were number two in line) for lasagna, tortellini, etc. Then to burn off our lunch, we hit the road to walk up to San Luca, but not before stopping at the storied Stadio Renato Dall'Ara to pay tribute to Bologna FC! (It was on the way, so we figured why not!). The walk up the hill to San Luca took longer than expected. It's straight up a hill and my god, what a workout for your glutes. I would not recommend walking up when it hits 80F+ -- we were sweating even at 70F and we consider ourselves relatively fit! The views are worth it though, and you can go up to the top of the basilica (if you pay, of course). We finished the day off with cooking our pastas and enjoying the veggies we had bought earlier, and walked to the most delicious gelato of the trip at Cremeria Santo Stefano.
FLORENCE
Day 8: Okay, so I have a confession to make. Florence was an after-thought in this itinerary. We were originally going to make Florence a day trip from Bologna, but changed to a single night in this wonderfully beautiful city, which ended up being a mistake, because after having spent one night there, I wanted to stay even longer. We stayed not too far from the train station (this is how we got around from city to city) -- and our lunch was at I Re d'Egitto -- a small kebab shop that was pretty dang good. We hit up all of the necessary spots like the Duomo, the Basilica Santa Maria Novella, and Ponte Vecchio. I did manage to get tickets to get to Boboli Gardens, so we spent a fair amount of time exploring it! Pitti Palace looked amazing -- it was a bummer not to have gone in. Our dinner was at Acqua Al 2 -- interestingly enough, all of the patrons spoke American English. No Italian was heard. We had the steak (balsamic vinegar sauce and the blackberry sauce) and I was honestly super surprised -- they were delicious!
ROME
Day 9: We had a few hours to kill until we departed for Rome, so we managed to get tickets to Torre di Arnolfo the night before and climbed it for a breathtaking view of the city. Man, Florence is just beautiful. We left Florence and ended up in Rome a few hours later. Our Airbnb was in Monti and the neighborhood reminded me a lot of Paris mixed with Mexico City and a little bit of New York thrown in for good measure. The first thing we did in Rome was go to the closest supermarket to buy wine and snacks. Then we did a bit of exploring the neighborhood to get our bearings. For lunch, we found a sandwich shop called Fuorinorma and got the porchetta sandwich that I gave 5 stars. Walked to the Roman Forum, where all I did was say "Holy shit, holy shit" and the like because honestly, I could not imagine the grandeur of Roman buildings until I saw it in person. Dinner was a sandwich from All'antico Vinaio which turned out to be an incredible letdown due to the bread being hard and having to substitute pancetta for proscuitto that had some hard bits in it! We ate the sandwiches in front of the Pantheon, which made for an incredible view.
Day 10: We had a walking tour (same company that operated the tour in Venice) of the Roman Forum and the Colosseum. I really suggest taking a tour of the forum because: 1. the tour guides explain the importance of the temples and buildings that once stood; 2. they take you through in a chronological manner; 3. the tours are structured in a way that lets you absorb the information without getting too down-in-the-details (unless you start asking super specific questions). The colosseum, as you could imagine was shoulder-to-shoulder crowded, but thanks to the tour, we skipped all that, and entered rather quickly. (They did have to check passports/ID upon entry to both the Forum and colosseum, just FYI!) After the tour, we walked over to the Circus Maximus, walked along the length of it, headed into the city center, where we quickly learned that moving around Trevi Fountain will add 10+ minutes to your walk. We visited Piazza Navona, then walked back down to the Vittorio Emanuele Monument. For dinner, we ended up at Piatto Romano. The greens were delicious and so was the pasta. I got the spaghettoni amatriciana. Fantastic.
Day 11: The only pressing thing we had to do this day was a timed entry to the Pantheon. We just did some sightseeing -- Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore, walking up the Spanish Steps, heading to Piazza del Popolo, getting lunch at some mediocre restaurant only because we didn't have coins for the bathroom...! Anyway, I think we logged about 14 miles this day walking from one end of the city to the other. The Pantheon was really cool -- insane how they constructed this giant dome (they apparently had filled it with sand before putting concrete over it). For dinner, we managed to get into Trattoria da Mario. The camerierie was super attentive and cordial -- I think he appreciated that we tried to order and ask questions in Italian.
Day 12: This was our museum day -- we hit up the Museum and Crypt of the Capuchin Friars, Villa Medici, and Galleria Borghese in a span of six hours. We did it! And survived. I think relaxing in the park and going out on a rowboat also helped us relax (although I did the rowing). We went back to Fuorinorma for a cold cut platter and another round of porchetta sandwiches.
Day 13: We went to Hadrian's Villa via metro. We got lost (took Metro B towards Jonio, when we needed to take the B line to Rebibbia). We got off at one of the stops and walked towards the Bologna metro stop (took about an hour!) because the train did not come (we had been waiting for 30 min...) and fortunately for us, the Rebibbia train came within moments of us entering the Bologna station. Anyway, Hadrian's Villa is...how can I put this into words? Fricking HUGE. It will...leave you speechless. I was walking around open mouthed. The size of the compounds is...well, huge. When we got back into the city, we took a cab to Trastevere to get to Janiculum Hill, and got some suppli from Suppli and some pizza. The suppli was delicious. We also got some gelato and a cannoli from Fior di Luna and that was spectacular. But in retrospect, I'm glad we didn't spend too much time in Trastevere -- we didn't care for the youthful vibe. (Our friends from Rome also said the food quality there is not too good and mostly for tourists, but that's just an opinion from them!)
Day 14: We visited Palazzo Colonna and my goodness it was an absolutely beautiful palazzo (still owned by the same family) and we were greeted by the Count himself! Very, very cool. Then we made our way to the Baths of Caracalla -- for some weird reason, I enjoyed this more than I expected. We originally planned to check out Appian Way, but by this time, we were exhausted and I think we made the right decision. We had dinner in Pigneto at an osteria, but not before we filled our stomach with cold cuts and aperol spritzes around the same location!
Day 15: Flew out of FCO!
Things I learned:

Rest time is crucial to enjoy yourself. You're walking 10+ miles a day (which includes shuffling around museums) and you will get tired. (This will also save you from complaining and annoying your travel partner(s)!)
Gelato is a MUST during hot days. And the sugar will give you a little pick-me-up.
Cafe espresso will also help with pick-me-ups.
Have one euro coins for public bathrooms! You will need it to use them.
Book your museum tickets in advance!
For larger and popular neighborhoods / cities, absolutely book a reservation for dinner.
Have a rough idea of what and where you'd like to go. And try to view attractions within the vicinity! (This applies to any trip you take.)
Wear comfortable shoes -- I brought hiking boots that look like sneakers and they were extremely helpful with ankle support and comfort for all of our long walking days.
Bring sunscreen!
Brush up on some Italian phrases :)
Enjoy your limited time!

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2024.04.18 17:12 sabletoothtiger_ Celebrities and BlackBerry. Add me on BBM!

Kim Kardashian. She reportedly bought a stash a 2009-2010 BlackBerry Bolds that lasted her until 2016.
Katy Perry. Of course she had a fruit patterned case.
Justin Bieber flashing the keyboard to the fans.
Rihanna keeps the qwerty to herself.
Beyoncé. Keeping her precious goods close - baby Blue Ivy and her BlackBerry.
Miley turns her frown and her keyboard upside down.
Jay-Z matches his crisp white tee to his BlackBerry.
Lauren Conrad. Snapping pics of the runway or talking smack on BBM? We’ll never know.
Christina Aguilera with a loose grip on a purse and tight clutch on her BlackBerry.
Lindsay Lohan uses her BlackBerry to reflect sun in the paps eyes.
Paris Hilton. Leaving you on read in BBM.
Pharrell had his BlackBerry dipped into in gold.
Seth Meyers having a laugh at his latest BBM.
Eva Longoria locating her BBM pin.
Alessandra Ambrosio typing away with both hands on that keyboard.
Mario Lopez flaunts his initials on his custom BlackBerry.
Khloe Kardashian keeping up with family’s preferred phone brand.
Leonardo DiCaprio using a BlackBerry 2014. The brand will be turning 25 this year, so Leo will never be spotted using one ever again.

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2024.04.15 23:00 reddfives I know these are getting annoying but put me in a generation

My first memories are around 2003/2004
My favourite shows as a younger kid were PB&J, Out of the Box, The Wiggles, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Roly Poly Ollie.
My favourite shows growing up included Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Recess, Lizzie McGuire, That's So Raven, Phineas & Ferb, Hannah Montanna, Phil of the Future, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Good Luck Charlie. I also watched the amanda show but only as repeats. I also watched Drake & Josh.
I was Pokémon crazy (and still am)
I went to a HSM 2 watch party when I was a kid
My first video game was Pokémon Emerald and my first console was a Gameboy Advance SP and later an Xbox 360, but I played my brother's PS1/PS2/Original Xbox tons,
Having a Club Penguin membership was a huge thing for me
I mainly stayed in touch with my friends through MSN and then later on Facebook got instant messaging and we would all use that
Super Mario Kart WIIIIII (literally the wii was the THING TO HAVE)
Me and my friend would race back home to watch Horrible Histories and then play Super Smash Bros Brawl until late
I wasn't allowed to take my tamogotchi to school when I was a young child (but other people would sneak them in) so my dad would take it to work and feed it for me
Had a bunch of random proto-smartphones when everyone around me was getting a blackberry. First iPhone was the 4S.
Tumblr and Twitter and general fandom internet were a huge part of my teen years, and honestly, is still part of my life lol

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2024.04.05 13:00 Curry-guy My Blackberry Curve 9300 in white colour

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2024.04.01 19:39 justaperson6669 So as it turns out, no one knows what caveman party's or the moonthicorn or darkthicorn is.

The original caveman party wasn't something I discovered, but when I combined them with Mario party 2 it gave me caveman party 2. I would suggest to everyone to try to combine things with the Mario partys to give them numbers, but maybe that was only for this. Thoughts on the caveman party?

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2024.03.27 23:43 Lonkoe Themes for BlackBerry Curve 9300

hello im trying to find some themes for my 9300, but i cant find any, all sites are down, does anyone have an archive of these?

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2024.03.09 21:27 WiiPlayer8 Can I replace broken BlackBerry 9300 trackpad with 9320 trackpad?

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2024.03.04 04:44 Sad_Special_576 Hola necesito ayuda para encontrar un juego

Recuerdo un juego que jugué cuando era niño y no se porque lo sentí como algo muy creepy a pesar de que era de terror la portada del juego si no mal recuerdo no tenía nada que ver con algo de terror hasta que lo jugabas.. estaba disponible en la plataforma java ya que en ese entonces estaban los celulares Blackberry y Nokia y pues necesito ayuda para encontrar ese juego se trataba de un mario super creepy que te perseguía por un laberinto (si mi memoria no falla eran como paredes azules y luces blancas y al principio todo parecia normal hasta que luego de explorar el lugar aparecia el mario muy creepy )y tenias que matarlo con una pistola.. el juego era tipo 3D, aún existen juegos parecidos a ese pero no de mario si no otros como Resident evil 4 o dead space (esos si los pude encontrar) pero dicho juego solo quedo en mi memoria con ganas de volver a jugarlo, he buscado por las páginas de juegos java de ese entonces y no he dado con el juego y la verdad es que si no puede que este escondido puede que ya lo eliminaron y pueda ser lost media.. era muy parecido a la imagen del principio solo que ese es en tercera persona y el que jugué era en primera persona

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2024.02.24 11:07 brandon_nel2307 BlackBerry Curve 9300 - buttons breaking off

Hi everyone. Have a weird issue with my BB 9300, ever since last year the media buttons and recently the volume buttons have been slowly breaking off from the frame of the phone.
Is this a common issue? I always push these very gently. After a while the plastic just loosens and eventually breaks off. I assume it's due to the age of the phone or something, not sure. Do I need to replace the entire frame/chassis or is there a way I could just replace the buttons? Thx in advance
https://i.imgur.com/JuOKMIX.jpeg
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2024.02.22 21:06 FuraFaolox What are some funny/weird names you've seen in-game?

I've been writing a list for fun consisting of weird and funny names I've seen players have. This is what I have so far: - Tomcockle Weathercock - Flaccid Noodle - Bootleg Edgelord - Mario Party - Lominsa Limsa - Based God - Icarly Dotcom - What Queue - Data Lost - Guilt Culture - Raccoon Dude - Ding Thedong - Dead Lalafell (Was, in fact, dead) - Living Lalafell (Was, in fact, alive) - Itsleviosa Notleviosa - Kiwi Hi-Chew - Ligmathot Burstsimp
Edit: So many more names have been added to my list, thanks to a bunch of comments and seeing some out in the wild myself.

John Finalfantasy
Baked Lasagna
Beef Dumpling
Salt Flavorpacket
Fried Eggz
Pancakes Waffles
Purple Pudding
Matcha Greentea
Crunchy Gyoza
Embercrisp Bacon
Matcha Pudding
Curry Rice
Chocolate Milkshake
Ranch Dip
Popcorn Chicken
Pepperoni Rigatoni
Pancakes Omelette
Sweltering Bushmeat
Spice Meatball
Ham Sandwich
Hot Noodles
Blackberry Cheesecake
Almond Milk
Mr Boba
Mrs Boba
Dominus Pizza
Girth Wagon
Kanye Quest
Raycon Earbuds
Emergency Food
Idiot Baby
Knife Rat
Bearing Mcbearbearson
Certifiedfork Lift
Constipated Waifu
Dingle M'dong
Yeet-ith Delete-ith
Pharts'alotte Castle
Home Depot
Jay-z's Lips
Roe-nly Fans
Limsa Lomansa
Limsa Womensa
Ben To'box
Nippless Cage
Pedro Pspspscal
Graha Blast
V'henn Diagramme
Mtn Duwu
Kermit Selch
Mommy Milkerz
Keep Calm
Wideload Manwrangler
The'man The'myth (with title: The Legend)
Captain Flantasy
Handy Johnson
Mad Soggy
Lana Del'raiton
Ur Husband
Waifu Materia
Husband Materia
Girth Certificate
Tactical Buttcheeks
Rollyn Dirty
Pussie Galore
Dixie Normus
Dijon Ketchup
American Healthcare
Student Loans
Eviction Notice
Every'day Im'sufferin
Todd Howard (who traded people "Faded Copy of Oblivion")
Dragon Ma'Balls
Viewing Catscene
Cooler Minfilia (who had sunglasses)
Viewing Cutscene
Tank Sinatra
Door Wedge (who sits in doorframes)
Taxboy Catfraud
Humongous Buttocks
So'anyway Im'himbo
Lost Child
Escaped Giraffe
D'sani Water
Fore Skin (with title: The Unsevered)
Door Stopper (who kept Quicksand door open)
Playstation Portable
Tortilla Jackson
Safety Thirst
Rose Toy
Denji Chainsawman
A'kat Astrophe
The Loogie
Coach Beer
Dead Inside
Dom Vibes
Wikipedia Dotcom
Biscuit Demon
Lego Brick
Milk Enthusiast
Karen From-finance
A'ssen Joyer
Flat Etheirys
G'raha Tea
Healz Badman
Cat-in- Heat
Turk Turkleton
Squeaky Pokesalot
Onii Sama
Butts Mckraken
But Stuff
Mentally Challenged
Taylor Swiftcast
Cat Damon
Chicken Parm
Your Thighness
Ea Nasir (who trades people copper ingots)
Horsefant Neighstone
Submissive Breedable
Goth Mommy
Emet Sulks
M'ynt Mo'jito
Zenos Enjoyer
Paint Sniffer
Bluberry Scone
Gee Wiz
Hellion Bastardchild
Potato Chippies
Falalafell Lalafell
Potatotto Falafell
Real Chicken
Reggie Damoogle
Vej Tuhbull
Queen Frogge
Tam Foolery
Veggie Doggie
Steam'bun Shyun
Fire Hydrant
Ketchup Bottle
Canada Eh
Beef Wellington
Face Book
Rice Grain
Plague Rat
Beyotch Puddin
Baked Weeb
Deep Depression
Kermit Th'frog
Broc Li
Watch-me-die Any-time
Ravh Eoli
Short Stackz
Fussy Potato
Cat Loaf
Dumpster Fyre
Mr Dumbass
Dank Squid
Aloe Vera
Avocatdo Yu
Hey Hoe
Wet Corn
William Shake-a-spear
Wai Foo
Jumbo Slice
Pacific Ocean
Chinese Name
Deepfried Falafel
Toe Toe
Wonderbread Sama
Duracell Battery
Coco Banana
Dearly Departed
Gorilla Glue
Bowdown Washington
Bard Bardington
Mango Juulpods
Hugh Jackedman
Myrrh Der
Eve Antoise (on the Adamantoise server)
Bangbros Runescape
Unsupervised Child
Ankle Biter
Obiwan Shinobi
Crayon Consumer
Hot Pope
Idiot Sandwich
Toe Sniffer
Catboy Slim
Skill Issue
Winrar License
Medicare For'all
Door Biggs
Door Jessie
Table Cloth
Genghis Dong
Omega Cucklord
Xbox Gamepass
Stolen Child
Vibe Rater
Sonic Hedgehog
Deviled Egg
Scrambled Egg
Naise Coch
Toilet Licker
Louisoix Vuitton
Viewscene Cuting
Only Frans (who was a viera)
Intestinal Happiness

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2024.02.12 07:00 Background_Spirit699 What was the preloaded song on the 9300

What was the song that came preloaded on the blackberry curve 9300? It has a siren sound then a voice says “sorry”. I don’t remember any more. Thanks

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2024.02.10 12:54 Awkward_Patience_649 More future workers

So first we have myself. As you can tell my irl name is dyllon. This avatar is mostly based on a younger version of me. I took a bunch of elements from old Facebook photos and combined them. But the pants i still wear to this day. I will be the driver at the pancakeria working with prudence. Call me a simp but she's amazing. I will install pancakeria and paleteria together once the latter comes out. I made my grandma and uncle for bakeria. Their names are tish and butch. My grandma used to make blackberry cobbler when me and my brothers were very young. She had a huge blackberry bush in her back yard and we would bring them back to the house and either eat them or make blackberry cobbler. My uncle has been getting really good at baking in the past 5 years or so. He always makes some fancy shit for thanksgiving and christmas every year. Unfortunately i never get the chance to try it. My grandmother will be the chef and my uncle will be the driver. And running the pastaria we have mario and luigi. If you seen the old mario cartoons you will know it is incredibly obvious they love pasta.

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2024.02.08 09:53 imgrungegoth26 [TOMT](music) [2013-2014] song that came loaded on the BlackBerry phone [Rock / Pop-Punk)?]

Hello, For years I have been looking for a song that came by default on BlackBerry cell phones (those with a touch button in the middle and keys), I'm not talking about "harmony to my heartbeat." (Great song btw)
Maybe was a Bold Touch / Curve 9300 / Bold 9700 / BlackBerry Classic (all I remember is that it was black) I'm not sure if it was mine or my father's but it had a texture on the back. (my dad's had Harmony to my heartbeat uploaded)
The song was Rock or Pop-punk, I’m talking about a band between 2010 - 2014 (that alternative style of that time, It was a band, the vocalist was a man, not that old).
The fact that I was 11/12 years old at that time, the melody of the song is not in my memory, I remember the video of the song in fractions and it is somewhat distorted.
The only thing I remember is that at the end of the song there was a buzzing sound and most of the scenes in the video were in a patio and in a house (a garage also comes to mind) - Whether it was the name of the band or the song, they had signs Like this: (@$&!) I remember because it was difficult for me to write the song on YouTube in my laptop.
I'm from Latin America, it seems to me that the songs loaded in the gallery/playlist depend on the location where you purchased the cell phone. (I’m not sure about it and my dad may have acquired it outside my country)
Thank you very much in advance for those who help me, I have really been looking for it for many years. 💞

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2024.02.03 03:12 merciful_kitty Empty skincare and makeup it’s time to say goodbye to!

COSRX Acne Pimple Master Patch
Peach Slices Acne Spot Dots
Alba Botanical Acne Dote Pimple Patches (long time favorite, already repurchased)
Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser (repurchased)
Mario Badescu Cleansing Oil (used to be great, panned x2 in the past, now gets an off smell, not repurchased)
Pacifica Vegan Collagen Body Milk Spray
Skinfood Egg White Perfect Pore Cleansing Foam
Skinfood Egg White Pore Mask (ancient pan, I’ve had this since about…2018?)
COSRX Advanced Snail Mucin Gel Cleanser
Mary & May Idebenone Blackberry Intense Cream (delightful, repurchased)
Perricone MD No Concealer Concealer (oxidizes badly, decided it’s time to go once it started smelling like crayons)
Glossier Boy Brow in Taupe (trying to find a cheaper replacement, but it’s so good)
CoverGirl Lash Blast Fusion Water Resistant Mascara in Very Black (holy grail, will repurchase forever and ever)

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2024.01.28 07:11 whattheactualfuck343 Playing with lip color lately 💋

I’ve been trying to experiment with more colorful or bold lip looks this year to get out of my nudes comfort zone. Loved this one today!
lips: Makeup forever pencil (blackberry) with lawless lipstick in wedding day.
base: makeup by mario contour stick, nars liquid blush (dolce vita), makeup by mario concealer, huda beauty powder (cherry blossom), hourglass blush in euphoric vision
eyes: benefit fan fest mascara, pretty grunge palette by huda beauty and colorpop cloud 9 palette. One size liquid eyeliner

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2024.01.22 03:44 LiteraryBoner 2023 films ranked according to the /r/movies official discussion polls.

Every week we post official discussions for widely released movies and attach a poll to each asking users to both rank the movies from 1-10 and whether or not they'd recommend them. Those polls get compiled into the yearly list and the all time list every so often. I find this to be a great way to rank films for the sub because these rankings were voted on mostly by people who had seen the film (hopefully) and without the context of ranking them competitively, which can cause spite downvoting.
2023 was a fascinating year in film. A lot of great movies, a lot of wildly effective social media pushes, and a lot of auteurs back in the saddle. While 2024 is looking like it might be affected by the strikes, 2023 was the first year theaters truly felt like they were "back" since COVID. It was also the year that big studios lost a lot of big money on overly inflated budgets. Things that would have been tentpoles in previous years like The Flash, Indiana Jones, or whatever Marvel is putting out, came and went with disappointing numbers this year while more original movies like Barbie and Oppenheimer ruled the box office. While Barbie and Super Mario are sure to spawn sequels at some point (we will see if WB has the balls to make another Barbie without Gerwig), for now this is the first time in 20+ years that none of the three top box office performers were sequels. And I think that's kinda cool.
Anyways, here are some results and stats from the 2023 /movies Official Discussions Ranking Polls! These scores are determined by the average 1-10 ranking of the votes. The list can be found here.

Rank	Film Title	Mean Score	Number of Votes
1	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse	9.18	11,681
2	Society of the Snow	9.08	904
3	Godzilla Minus One	9.04	3,148
4	Renaissance: A Film by Beyonce	8.73	146
5	The Holdovers	8.65	1,093
6	Nimona	8.59	1,036
7	All of Us Strangers	8.53	123
8	The Zone of Interest	8.53	70
9	Past Lives	8.5	2,105
10	The Iron Claw	8.47	1,149
11	Linoleum	8.45	84
12	Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour	8.37	303
13	Oppenheimer	8.36	18,442
14	Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.	8.33	265
15	They Cloned Tyrone	8.32	1,430
16	Blackberry	8.31	521
17	Anatomy of a Fall	8.24	1,013
18	Broker	8.23	84
19	American Fiction	8.22	275
20	Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3	8.22	7,766

Much like rotten tomatoes, the less seen but high quality movies or movies with highly niche audiences tend to do well with this system because most likely only people who want to see them are voting on them.
If we set parameters, such as at least 500 votes to be included, the top 10 would be:

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Society of the Snow
Godzilla Minus One
The Holdovers
Nimona
Past Lives
The Iron Claw
Oppenheimer
They Cloned Tyrone
Blackberry

Here's some more stats from the rankings:

We made discussions for 183 movies last year. Wildly close to 2022's number, which was 181.
Three movies from last year made it on to the Top 20 Films of All Time (going back to 2017 when we started this process) list. Those movies, in order, are Spider-Man Across the Spider-verse (which is, funny enough, right next to Into the Spider-verse), Society of the Snow, and Godzilla Minus One.
The movies that got the most votes were, unsurprisingly, Oppenheimer (18k), Barbie (15k) and Spider-verse (11k). Netflix continues to have insane reach with Leave the World Behind ranking #6 on the most voted on films, and Amazon having some surprising reach with Saltburn which was #4.
The bottom 10 are as follows:

Spy Kids: Armageddon (2.79)
Peter Pan & Wendy (3.54)
What Happens Later (3.59)
Expend4bles (4.01)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (4.2)
Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire (4.27)
Magic Mike's Last Dance (4.34)
About My Father (4.45)
You People (4.49)
Knights of the Zodiac (4.52)

The Bottom 10 is usually comprised of movies that weren't widely seen, probably because they're bad. The outliers this time being Rebel Moon (1,200 votes) and You People (1,100 votes) which goes to show that even in Netflix is making bad movies, people are still watching them.
Netflix managed three movies in the top 20 this year (Society of the Snow, Nimona, and They Cloned Tyrone) but it seems we are back to theater releases getting the most praise and being the most watched. Of the top 20, 14 were widely released theatrical runs.
The most controversial films, as judged by the high standard deviation, are as follows:

Skinamarink (3.12 SD)
The Little Mermaid (2023) (3.01 SD)
Good Burger 2 (2.95 SD)
Dicks: The Musical (2.89 SD)
Candy Cane Lane (2.87 SD)

Don't believe me?
Link to the results
And here are the ranked results of every poll we've ever done, dating back to 2017

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2024.01.08 23:57 zohaibshikrani Oscars: 265 Feature Films in Contention for This Year’s Best Picture Award

In total, 321 films are eligible for the 96th Academy Awards.
321 films are in contention for this year’s Academy Awards, while 265 features are eligible in the best picture category, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced on Monday as it released its annual “reminder list” for members.
To be eligible in the general categories, films (meaning a runtime of more than 40 minutes) must open in a commercial theater in at least one of the following areas: Los Angeles County; the city of New York; the Bay Area; Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; and Atlanta, Georgia, between Jan. 1, 2023 and Dec. 31, 2023. Additionally, it must complete a minimum qualifying run of seven consecutive days in the same venue.
To be eligible for the best picture category specifically, the movies must be eligible for the general entry and have “submitted a confidential Academy Representation and Inclusion Standards entry form.” Additionally, the film must meet two of the four standards required, in addition to the theatrical component.
Nomination voting starts on Jan. 11 and ends on Jan. 16. The nominations will be announced on Jan. 23. The 96th Oscars will be held on March 10 at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC.
Below is a list of films eligible in the best picture category, from which Academy members will choose five to 10 best picture nominees. You can see the full list of all eligible films here.
About Dry Grasses
Afire
Air
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
All of Us Strangers
Altered Perceptions
The Amazing Maurice
America, We Salute the Military
American Fiction
American Symphony
America’s Family
Anatomy of a Fall
Anselm
Anyone but You
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Asteroid City
At the Gates
Baby Ruby
Bad Press
Barbie
The Beanie Bubble
Beau Is Afraid
Before the Sunset
Bella!
Beyond Utopia
Big George Foreman
Biosphere
BlackBerry
The Blackening
Blue Beetle
Blue Jean
Bobi Wine: The People’s President
Book Club: The Next Chapter
Bottoms
The Boy and the Heron
The Boys in the Boat
Brother
The Burial
Candy Cane Lane
Carlos
Carmen
Cassandro
Champions
Chevalier
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Cocaine Bear
The Color Purple
A Compassionate Spy
Corner Office
Country of Blind
Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
Creed III
Dalíland
Deep Sea
The Deepest Breath
Dicks: The Musical
The Disappearance of Shere Hite
Dream Scenario
Dreamin’ Wild
Drift
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor among Thieves
Earth Mama
The Eight Mountains
80 for Brady
Eileen
El Conde
Elemental
The End We Start From
Enys Men
The Equalizer 3
The Eternal Memory
Every Body
Evil Dead Rise
The Exorcist: Believer
Fair Play
Fallen Leaves
Fast X
Ferrari
Fingernails
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Flamin’ Hot
The Flash
Flora and Son
Foe
For the Animals
Fremont
Freud’s Last Session
Godzilla Minus One
Golda
Golden Vanity
Good Grief
A Good Person
Gran Turismo
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant
A Haunting in Venice
Heart of Stone
The Holdovers
House Party
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Immediate Family
In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Infinity Pool
Inside
The Inventor
Invisible Beauty
The Iron Claw
It Ain’t Over
It Lives Inside
Jacob the Baker
Joan Baez I Am a Noise
John Wick: Chapter 4
Journey to Bethlehem
Joy Ride
Jules
The Killer
Killers of the Flower Moon
King Coal
The Kitchen
Knock at the Cabin
Kokomo City
La Chimera
La Syndicaliste
Lakota Nation vs. United States
Landscape with Invisible Hand
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
The League
Leave the World Behind
Leo
The Lesson
Let Us Make Eve
The Little Mermaid
Little Richard: I Am Everything
Lonesome Soldier
Lost Cos
Love Again
Maestro
Mafia Mamma
Magic Mike’s Last Dance
The Magician’s Elephant
Master Gardener
May December
Meg 2: The Trench
M3gan
Memory
Migration
A Million Miles Away
The Miracle Club
Miranda’s Victim
The Mission
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
Mr. Jimmy
Monica
Monster
Moving On
Mutt
My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3
My Love Affair with Marriage
Napoleon
The Next Big Hit
Next Goal Wins
Nimona
No Hard Feelings
The Nun II
Nyad
Occupied City
Of an Age
Once within a Time
Online Blues
Oppenheimer
Origin
Orlando, My Political Biography
Our Father, the Devil
Our Son
Pain Hustlers
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Passages
Past Lives
Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie
The Peasants
Perfect Days
The Persian Version
The Pigeon Tunnel
The Pod Generation
Polite Society
Poor Things
Priscilla
The Promised Land
R.M.N.
Radical
Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Renfield
Reptile
The Road Dog
Robot Dreams
Rose
The Royal Hotel
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Rustin
Saltburn
Sanctuary
Saving Ana
Scrapper
Scream VI
Sharper
Shayda
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
She Came to Me
Shelter in Solitude
Shortcomings
Showing Up
Silver Dollar Road
Simón
Sitting in Bars with Cake
65
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Smoking Causes Coughing
Society of the Snow
Somewhere in Queens
Sound of Freedom
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Spinning Gold
Stamped from the Beginning
The Starling Girl
Statica
Stephen Curry: Underrated
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Story Ave
Strays
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Suzume
Sweetwater
Talk to Me
The Taste of Things
The Teachers’ Lounge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Tetris
Theater Camp
They Cloned Tyrone
32 Sounds
A Thousand and One
Tori and Lokita
Tótem
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Trolls Band Together
12th Fail
2018 Everyone Is a Hero
Uncharitable
The Unknown Country
Walid
War Pony
We Might as Well Be Dead
What Happens Later
When You Finish Saving the World
Wildflower
The Wind & the Reckoning
Wish
Wonka
Yoshiki Under the Sky
You Hurt My Feelings
The Zone of Interest

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2024.01.07 20:24 DoYouLikeHueyLewi5 I made a pledge to watch 100 movies I hadn’t seen before in 2023, I finished at 10:30pm December 31st

I ranked each one using 4 scores: popcorn appeal (a mixture of general audience appeal and entertainment factor), critical appeal (a mixture of technical aspects, editing, acting, writing) rewatch ability, and my own personal score. I did it because even though I’m a giant movie fan, I felt like it wasn’t watching enough stuff I hadn’t seen before. I had a blast doing it and I’ve committed to watching at least 25 more every year as my baseline. I hope this list is enjoyable for you all to pour over or pick apart lol.

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2024.01.04 20:46 LeastCap January (Week 1) Predictions

I know I'm a few days late but I wanted to get my predictions in since we're only weeks away now

BEST PICTURE
In likelihood to be nominated:

Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Barbie
The Holdovers
Poor Things
Past Lives
American Fiction
Anatomy of a Fall
Maestro
The Zone of Interest

I feel pretty confident my top 9 are getting nominated. Last month I had May December, The Color Purple and Across the SpiderVerse in my 10 but I have dropped them and added Past Lives, American Fiction, and The Zone of Interest. I had been going out on a limb that Past Lives would only get a screenplay nomination, but it has become undeniable at this point and I have added it back to BP. I took American Fiction out of my predictions last month because I didn't like it, and that was a stupid decision and I should know better than to take my own biases into account. So it is back in! My new number 10 is The Zone of Interest but I don’t feel very confident about it. I dont think SpiderMan is dead, and if it gets PGA I can see it getting a late push

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Color Purple
May December
Saltburn
The Boy and the Heron
Society of the Snow
Air
The Iron Claw

I don’t think anything else is in consideration after these.
In terms of winning Best Picture on Oscar night:

Barbie
Oppenheimer
The Holdovers
Past Lives
Poor Things
Killers of the Flower Moon
Anatomy of a Fall
American Fiction
The Zone of Interest
Maestro

I am in agreement with everyone that the award is definitely Oppenheimer’s to lose, but I think Barbie will win in the end. I think the frontrunner curse wil catch up with Oppy eventually and Barbie will be perfectly positioned to surpass it.
Major precursor wins
GG Drama- Oppenheimer
GG Comedy- Poor Things
GG BO Achievement- Barbie
Critics Choice- Oppenheimer
DGA-Oppenheimer
BAFTA- Poor Things
SAG Ensemble- Barbie
PGA- Barbie
Oscar- Barbie
Director

Christopher Nolan - Oppenheimer
Martin Scorsese - Killers of the Flower Moon
Justine Triet - Anatomy of a Fall
Jonathan Glazer - The Zone of Interest
Greta Gerwig - Barbie

I’ve decided to drop Lanthimos and add in Glazer. I know I should pick only one of Triet or Glazer but I feel kinda okay going with both. I am really split on Gerwig getting a nomination. I think shes locked for DGA and BAFTA noms but I think she could still miss the Oscar. Nolan will sweep, if he loses anywhere itll be at Globes to Scorsese.
Next in line

Yorgos Lanthimos - Poor Things
Bradley Cooper - Maestro
Celine Song - Past Lives
Hayao Miyazaki - The Boy and The Heron
Alexander Payne - The Holdovers

Actress

Lily Gladstone - Killers of the Flower Moon
Emma Stone - Poor Things
Margot Robbie - Barbie
Sandra Huller - Anatomy of a Fall
Carey Mulligan - Maestro

I think Gladstone is going to win this. I see so much support rallied around her that I dont see being the type of thing that loses momentum. I’m predicting HulleStone split Globes, Gladstone wins CCA and SAG, and Huller wins BAFTA. My three major snubs are Greta Lee, Natalie Portman, and Fantasia Barrino. I think Lee will hit every precursor and be snubbed. SAG is the only precursor with 5 slots, and one of those 5 has to miss the Oscar lineup so Huller can get in, and I think she’s just the weakest.

Greta Lee - Past Lives
Natalie Portman - May December
Fantasia Barrino - The Color Purple
Alma Poysti - Fallen Leaves
Cailee Spaeny - Priscilla
Annette Benning - Nyad
Trace Lysette - Monica

Actor

Bradley Cooper - Maestro
Cillian Murphy - Oppenheimer
Paul Giamatti - The Holdovers
Jeffrey Wright - American Fiction
Zac Efron - The Iron Claw

Im predicting Zac Efron to be our Andrea Riseborough this year. I think he will get the SAG nom and there’s so much good will for him, and he’s worked with so many people for decades. I’m hopedicting a little
I dropped Scott after watching AouS. He’s excellent but I don’t know if I see it happening anymore. I would love for it to happen, but everyone else seems stronger. I’m still going with DiCaprio getting snubbed. And I don’t think Domingo was ever apart of the race to begin with tbh
I want to predict Murphy but I think he’s this years Collin Farrell. Critics are loving him but he’s just not what the Oscar’s go for. Cooper (no matter your opinion) is obviously doing as much as any actor could do and I think he’s just going to win it in the end. I believe Cooper will sweep

Andrew Scott - All of Us Strangers
Leonardo DiCaprio - Killers of the Flower Moon
Colman Domingo - Rustin
Teo Yoo - Past Lives
Koji Yakusho - Perfect Days
Matt Damon - Air

Supporting Actress

Rachel McAdams - Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret
Da’Vine Joy Randolph - The Holdovers
Emily Blunt - Oppenheimer
Danielle Brooks - The Color Purple
America Ferrera - Barbie

Ignore the order on this one, I have no idea what it is. I dropped Henson and Moore and I added Ferrera and McAdams. Ferrera is everywhere and I think she will come along with Barbie’s over performance. I’m going with a McAdams win because I think this is the perfect category for a late narrative to break in. Randolph has never really felt like she will go all the way, and Brooks gets weaker by the day, and if McAdams can secure SAG then I think she could take a win there all the way to an Oscar nom. Definitely a riskier prediction, but I see the path for her. I also think Rosamund Pike is stronger than we think. She’s been campaigning a lot and somehow people enjoy Saltburn so I don’t know if I can write it off completely. If it were to get nominated anywhere it would be here or cinematography.

Julianne Moore - May December
Rosamund Pike -Saltburn
Jodie Foster - Nyad
Taraji P. Henson - The Color Purple
Claire Foy - All of Us Strangers
Penelope Cruz - Ferrari

Supporting Actor

Robert Downey, Jr - Oppenheimer
Ryan Gosling - Barbie
Charles Melton - May December
Willem Dafoe - Poor Things
Mark Ruffalo- Poor Things

I go back and forth on this constantly, and I know if I’m predicting Barbie to win BP i should predict Gosling, but I don’t see how Downey loses this.
Next in Line:

Robert DeNiro - Killers of the Flower Moon
Sterling K Brown - American Fiction
Dominic Sessa - The Holdovers
Colman Domingo - The Color Purple
Glenn Howerton - BlackBerry
John Magaro - Past Lives

Adapted Screenplay

Barbie*
Poor Things
Oppenheimer
American Fiction
Killers of the Flower Moon

Easy top 5

All of Us Strangers
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Priscilla

Original Screenplay

Anatomy of a Fall
Past Lives
The Holdovers
May December
Air

The 5th nominee is going to be weird here. They should go with The Boy and the Heron but they won’t. I think Anatomy will win this after it wins at BAFTA

Dream Scenario
Saltburn
The Iron Claw
The Boy and The Heron
Maestro

Animated Feature

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
The Boy and The Heron
Elemental
Super Mario Bros. Movie
Nimona
Wish
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Film Editing

Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
Barbie
Anatomy of a Fall
The Holdovers
The Killer
Maestro
Poor Things
Past Lives
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Sound

Oppenheimer
Maestro
The Zone of Interest
The Killer
Barbie
Killers of the Flower Moon
Napoleon

Original Score

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Oppenheimer
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Boy and the Heron
Barbie
Poor Things
Elemental
Indiana Jones
The Zone of Interest

Original Song

“I’m Just Ken” - Barbie
“What Was I Made For?” - Barbie
“Am I Dreaming?” - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
"Wahzhazhe (A Song For My People)" from Killers of the Flower Moon
“The Fire Inside” - Flamin Hot
"Dance The Night" from Barbie
"It Never Went Away" from American Symphony
"Keep It Movin" from The Color Purple
"Can't Catch Me Now" from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Cinematography

Poor Things
Oppenheimer
Maestro
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Zone of Interest
Barbie
Saltburn
Killers of the Flower Moon
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Production Design

Barbie
Poor Things
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Napoleon
Maestro
Asteroid City.

Makeup and Hairstyling

Maestro
Poor Things
Oppenheimer
Society of the Snow
Beau is Afraid
Golda
Killers of the Flower Moon

Costume Design

Barbie
Poor Things
Killers of the Flower Moon
Oppenheimer
Wonka
Napoleon
The Color Purple
Priscilla
Maestro
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret

VFX

The Creator
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Poor Things
Society of the Snow

International

Zone of Interest
The Taste of Things
Totem
Society of the Snow
Fallen Leaves
The Monk and the Gun
The Promised Land
The Teachers’ Lounge
Perfect Days
Four Daughters
20 Days in Mariupol

Documentary

Four Daughters
Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project
20 Days in Mariupol
Beyond Utopia
The Eternal Memory
American Symphony
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
32 Sounds
20 Days in Mariupol

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2024.01.01 00:44 StarLotus7 The vibes I get when thinking about the 2000s

Disclaimer: This post was written through the perspective of an 18 year old from Brazil, so not everything that is going to be said is 100% correct, I'm not the best person talk about the 2000s in the most accurate way ever, and I might make some few mistakes here and there, although I still tried my absolute best to get most of the important information right.
So... Let's get started!

Monologue

Even though I obviously grew up more during the 2010s, my earliest memories came from 2008-2010. I used to live on a different apartment from the one I live since Late 2010 and I remember how different was the technology that my parents and relatives used. Feature phones, digital cameras, portable DVD players, CRTs, those old Plasma TVs, the PS2, and my parents still even used old VHS tapes before we started to keep them on the cabinets (even though, I already perceived them as being old and never saw my parents buying or renting them). Wherever place in Brazil I went back then, there was a unique vibe I felt that, for the longest time, I couldn't put my finger on. The media (movies, TV, and music) that I consumed also felt different as well, most of them being leftovers that came out during the 2000s. I remember when I used to be really into Ben 10 and wanted anything related to that show, it was a fun time...
When I moved to a new home in Late 2010, this was when the vibe started to wear down on me. It didn't came to a complete halt yet, I remember in 2010 when I used the internet for the first time and still had that Late 2000s "Old Web" aesthetic, we still used to rent DVDs, and we still had a CRT up until 2011 (when I accidentally broke it and was almost crushed by it, lol). But by 2011, HDTVs were slowly but surely becoming more common in the places I went, got the first Blu-Ray player, my parents finally got their first smartphones and I was exposed to them for the first time, listened to American Early 2010s pop songs for the first time, and I also realized that the media was slowly shifting towards a different direction. 2012 felt like the barrier between the 2000s and 2010s, with some old trends still seen as relevant, like Emos for exemple, and overall being the perfect balance between those two zeitgeists. Even though my parents and others (mostly) finished transitioning in tech, I saw a lot of other people at the time who were still behind on that front. I was exposed to Windows 7 (I only knew XP and Vista before that) for the first time and iPads at school, but the latter isn't that important, because most people in Brazil didn't and still don't have enough money to buy them, and neither us. By 2013, that 2000s vibe was pretty much gone and only relegated to a few residual leftovers where I live, like the Wii for exemple. So in conclusion, it felt like I got to see the last glimpses of the 2000s before moving towards the 2010s culture.

But after these events, throughout the Mid 2010s onwards, I stumbled upon videos on YouTube that caused that same feeling I had in the Late 2000s and Early 2010s, specially old VOCALOID and Touhou music/clips. And now with the resurgence of 2000s nostalgia, that made me question: "Why these seemingly random YT videos are reminding me so much of the 2000s?" So I finally settled down, researched a bit, came with a somewhat comprehensible explanation to these personal feelings, and a playlist of videos and songs that that brought those memories.

Playlist

Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEF7RmsJIwX8YCFZQ_QJuu4EwU2KTXmKf
Part 1: Nightcore Club - Old Nightcore remixes often speed up and raise the pitch of Late 1990s to Early 2010s Electronic music with vocals. It has that feeling of a show/rave in the open, that's happening from far way but close enough to hear it muffled. Speeding up and raising the pitch of a song creates a distorted effect that reminds me of 2000s Old Web/Webcore aesthetics (and also Alvin and the Chipmunks, lol). It invoke feelings of cuteness, excitement, but also small tinge of uncanniness, due to the unnatural high pitch.
Part 2: Internet Virals - These are classic internet videos and "memes" that were popular during the 2000s. They seem strange at first, but they carry a simple yet charming feeling, evocative of the times where people were just sharing funny videos to their friends and family members through MSN or AOL. And the videos that got viral were the most unexpected ones as you could imagine.

Part 2.3: Old VOCALOID stuff - It invoke similar feelings from the 1st part, but without the show analogy. The old EDM sounds and motifs, alongside the robotic-sounding VOCALOIDs of the time, give a feelings of technological advancement or just silliness for the most part.
Part 2.7: Something is not right... - Strange YT videos that will transition us to the next part.

Part 3: Liminality - Something I realized on the past few years was the rise of internet aesthetics like Liminal Spaces and Weirdcore. When I learned about them for the first time, it reminded me of my early memories from the 2000s, due to the low quality of the images, that seem to been taken with cheap digital cameras. On a tangent note, the architecture seen in most images of these aesthetics reminds me a lot of the one from the Pixar movie "Monsters, Inc.", probably because of the artificial look that it had. So back to what I was talking about, Liminal Spaces and Weirdcore achieves to create a sense of familiarity, disorientation, transition, nostalgia, uneasiness, and living in a Altered Reality, most of them being things I feel when recalling those old memories. And it doesn't help that these aesthetics are explicitly inspired by media that was shared on the web during the 2000s, specially with those amateur image edits seen on places like Blingee, Myspace, Orkut, and personal websites. For me, the low-resolution 2000s images and these aesthetics represent an old childhood memory, that is visible and mostly understandable, but still blurry enough to cover some details. As for the decade's zeitgeist, it could represent the transition from the 1990s to the 2010s in terms of the technology and culture, not as retro as the 90s, but also not as modern as the 10s. Also, there is also a recent music artist called Yabujin, which has an audiovisual identity that seems very reminiscent of 2000s web aesthetics too.
Part 4: 2000s Snippets - Raw video recordings uploaded to YouTube. They represent a simple and casual feeling of the 2000s lifestyle, where you didn't need to be an active uploader in the site to stay relevant, but instead post whatever you felt like it for fun, therefore having more time to enjoy life.

Part 4.5: Ringtone Time! - Ringtones were a stable of the 2000s, back when calling a specific number and paying for them was thing. "Funny" (or annoying depending on your perspective) 3D animals/characters like Crazy Frog, Gummy Bear, and Schnuffel were seen in TV commercials alongside some goofy or musical ringtone you could download in your phone, specially on the Jamster ones, although other types of ringtones were also popular at the time.

Part 5: Meanwhile in Brazil... - It's the Brazilian take on the 2000s decade! The only thing I need to add here is that prank calls were popular during that time too. Don't ask me why, I also don't know...
Part 6: Let's pick a DVD and watch a movie together! - Basically intros, bumpers, and anti-piracy PSAs that you see on DVDs before start watching a movie. They are pretty loud and "in your face", but that's the reason why I love them, not gonna lie. Something I realized about movies from the time is the action and camera shots. It was pretty over-the-top, with so many of those "wooosh" and other loud sound effects to demonstrante a sense of movement in a very impactful way. As for the CGI, it looked a lot better than the 90s but not quite as good as it became in the 2010s onwards, specially because the movement still felt a bit stiff and, depending on the studio and/or project, the visuals could look uncanny at times. Also, for some reason, there was this trend in animated movies (most notably in 2000s Dreamworks movies) were characters throw some party and start dancing to a pop song in the end. I would say that movies like The Matrix and Shrek had a huge influence over the cinematography of other 2000s movies that would come out afterwards. Also, Spoofs and Comedy Movies were also pretty big the 2000s (almost forgot to tell that).
Part 7: Personal Interpretation - This is the part where I discuss my personal views on the 2000s, which I don't think everyone is going to agree with. There was something relaxing and free feeling about the decade's vibe, almost on a laid-back way. Maybe because it was a time were the internet was present in life, but not as omnipresent or time consuming as it became in the 2010s and 2020s. So this section, which is mostly composed of 2000s Mario and Touhou music, was meant to represent that vibe. There's also a few videos I put there to go along with this music, so why not.
Part 8: In a Trance state - From the Electronic music genres that were popular at the time, the one that best represented the 2000s for me would be Trance, which technically was already popular by the 1990s. But their sounds specifically, I was able to hear them in some 2000s media, and that's why I got into that genre. There's is a small collection of tracks I put in the playlist that exhale "2000s energy" to me. It makes me think of the technological advancements that were happening during the decade and how people perceived as being futuristic and cool, but looking back, it definitely didn't aged as well as they wish it did.
Part 9: 2000s Pop Music - I tried to avoid adding pop music to the playlist, but after thinking a bit more, I realized that it was necessary to make this package feel complete. Y'all already know the drill by this point, we had music genres like Nu-Metal, Emo Rock, Hip-Hop, Ringtone Rap, Crunk, and Pop Rock. That last one also being the first mainstream genre that comes to my mind when thinking about the 2000s, specially with female singers. These music genres, alongside music clips, were very flashy and over-the-top, they were either "OMG, look at these fancy cars and gorgeous women‼", "Edgelord wannabe", "Teenagers having fun", or just downright absurd. Not every music clip followed that pattern, but most of the mainstream stuff was like that anyway. Oh, and I also put some few Brazilian 2000s hits to shake things up.
Part 10: *turns on the TV\* - These are just some TV show OPs, idents, and bumpers. Some are nostalgic to me, some are definetly not. There's isn't much I can add that I didn't said before. I feel like I need to expand this section...
Part 11: Gaming and Commercials - 2000s gaming content and commercials. Something really cool that I learned an year ago is that the Xbox 360 was announced on MTV on the day I was born, so I was curious to see "what was happening" during that day through a YT video. It felt like I was cracking up a time capsule for the first time, it's shocking to see how much things have changed since then. Also, yeah, I need to expand that section too...
Part 12: The End! - A few random videos to finally finish this playlist! Windows XP, DVD Player Screensaver and a Vídeo Brinquedo trailer (yes, I actually grew up with this crap xD) that was available on their DVDs. In the very end on this playlist, I also put Xploshi's "RAFFLESIA OLINE" album, which in my opinion, really captures the blissful and techy vibe of the 2000s, very reminiscent of the Frutiger Aero and Y2K aesthetics.
Miscellaneous
Gaming - The 6th and 7th Generations are definitely the go-to 2000s consoles and they represent a rather interesting era of Video Game history. Again, it also represented a period of transition from 1990s to 2010s when it comes to the way we approach games as a whole. Not much in terms of graphics, since it already did that with the transition from 2D to 3D in the 90s, even though the leaps from one gen to another were still noticeable. The 2000s brought a lot of things that would become stables of the 2010s like online play, wireless multiplayer, digital media, updates, multimedia menus, touchscreens, and motion controls. These innovations, alongside things that already existed in the 90s, created a sense of convenience, simplicity, and freedom when buying and approaching games whatever the way you wanted. You could play a game alone, with your friends, or strangers online. You could try unusual controller schemes for more natural or immersive experiences. It was up to you! Although all this stuff was brought and even amplified in the subsequent years, it felt like these kinds of feelings were lacking in the 2010s/2020s with the rise of DLCs, season passes, Day 1 updates, microtransactions, and loot boxes, which removed the simplicity of just buying a finished game, with no need to pay more for extra content. At least that's what gaming feels like to me nowadays.
Design - This decade brought a very unique take on design. Most of its trends were very maximalist, with a lot of details, visual effects, colors, and gradients. Vectorbloom, Chromecore, Metalheart, Hipness Purgatory, McBling, UrBling, Frutiger Metro, they were all prominent throughout the decade. [You can learn more about them in the Aesthetics Wiki] The use of 3D was also pretty prevalent during the 2000s, specially on logos, which bring us the two most influential Design Aesthetics: Y2K and Frutiger Aero. Y2K had visuals that were blob-like, shiny, liquid or metal, and represented a possible distant future, that was anticipated by the new millennium (hence why the name). While Frutiger Aero is more glossy, focused on nature/humanistic imagery, and represented a near possible future, that unfortunately never became real. Together, they gave the 2000s decade a vibrant and somewhat optimistic feel to it, which the only other decades that were able to get close to this kind of vibe were the 80s and 90s. And these design trends are a stark contrast to the Minimalism and Flat Design aesthetics that would become popular in the next decade.

Conclusion
Something I realized during this analysis is a sense of duality that was present in the 2000s atmosphere. Pop culture was either about femininity, cuteness, and sexuality, or masculinity, "edginess", and darkness, all in a very trashy yet charming way. Most of the media was very flashy, shiny, and over-the-top, but almost in a natural and casual way(?) for the time, but ended up aging poorly nowadays. Maybe I'm talking shit, but that's how I viewed these things. The 2000s was also a decade defined by major technological advancements. It was involving fast before our very eyes, in a pacing which was unheard of in past decades. We went from Dial-up Internet, CRTs, Nokia bricks, and VHS in the Late 90s/Early 00s to Broadband Internet, Wi-Fi, HDTVs, Blackberries, Smartphones, and Blu-rays in the Late 00s/Early 10s. So that puts this decade in a rather strange place when it comes to technology, where it was starting to get pretty advanced but it wasn't quite there. The image and video quality is very unique compared to other decades and the tech design looked way more futuristic than it actually was.
So in conclusion, I think the 2000s was like "the middle cousin" of recent decades, that tried to look cool and futuristic by mixing opposite ideas and concepts, and ended up creating a zeitgeist that was definitely a product of its time.

What I personally think the "2000s vibe/atmosphere" is (Summary)
Something I wrote in the playlist's descriptions sums my thoughts pretty well:

The decade of Flip Phones, DVDs, Digital Cameras, iPods/MP3 Players, Emos, and Low-rise Jeans. It was a time where the internet was a new and exciting thing, with websites like Myspace, Orkut, YouTube, and Blingee becoming very popular.It was futuristic, technologically advanced yet dated, loud and quiet, colorful and muted, modern yet nostalgic, uplifting and melancholic, comforting and uneasy, cute and edgy, high and low quality sound, HD and SD, fast and slow internet speeds, and cheesy but still charming media. In my point of view, the 2000s was a decade of opposites sensations clashing together to create a zeitgeist that still manages to be cohesive. It was an in-between "liminal" decade, that would transition us from the 1990s to the 2010s.

Final Thoughts

As you may realize by that point, despite the playlist itself being already huge with morre than 400 videos in it, it's expected to be expended even more in the future, so I might announce this playlist again in the future. Although there's a lot of stuff that is nostalgic to me, there's also stuff that either just have the vibe, stuff I only knew about it years later, or even Anemoia in a few cases.
Another thing that some people realized is that I didn't mentioned 9/11 or the "War on Terror". Although these events were definitely influential for the 2000s and set down at slightly more bleak image to the decade, I feel like these events had a stronger influence on politics than pop culture.
Also, no fashion, because I personally don't care about it. But if you want my honest opinion on it, here it is: I think it looks either too casual in comparison to other decades or just straight up ugly.
I also really want to make a post/playlist about the 2010s vibe, but I feel like I need to wait a few years for their influences to fully dissipate, so I can make it a lot more accurate and without my Early 2010s biases. And because the 2010s as a whole is just too recent to be considered nostalgic, so there's that, lol. I could also make ones about other decades like the 90s, 80s, 70s, and so on, but that would be a lot more difficult for me to do.

So, this is my perspective on the "2000s zeitgeist"! What do you think about it? I hope you liked reading through this post and checked my playlist, which took a lot of time to make.
Anyway, I wish you all a Happy New Year's Eve 2024! :D

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2023.12.31 23:41 StarLotus7 The vibes I get when thinking about the 2000s

Disclaimer: This post was written through the perspective of an Early 2010s Kid from Brazil, so not everything that is going to be said is 100% correct, I'm not the best person talk about the 2000s in the most accurate way ever, and I might make some few mistakes here and there, although I still tried my absolute best to get most of the important information right. Also, the objective of this post is to share my personal experiences and opinions about the 2000s zeitgeist, not to start discussions about "who is X or Y decade kid" or "if year Z had Y decade influences or not", these are definitely not welcome here.
So... Let's get started!

Monologue

Even though I'm obviously more of a 2010s kid, my earliest memories came from 2008-2010. I used to live on a different apartment from the one I live since Late 2010 and I remember how different was the technology that my parents and relatives used. Feature phones, digital cameras, portable DVD players, CRTs, those old Plasma TVs, the PS2, and my parents still even used old VHS tapes before we started to keep them on the cabinets (even though, I already perceived them as being old and never saw my parents buying or renting them). Wherever place in Brazil I went back then, there was a unique vibe I felt that, for the longest time, I couldn't put my finger on. The media (movies, TV, and music) that I consumed also felt different as well, most of them being leftovers that came out during the 2000s. I remember when I used to be really into Ben 10 and wanted anything related to that show, it was a fun time...
When I moved to a new home in Late 2010, this was when the vibe started to wear down on me. It didn't came to a complete halt yet, I remember in 2010 when I used the internet for the first time and still had that Late 2000s "Old Web" aesthetic, we still used to rent DVDs, and we still had a CRT up until 2011 (when I accidentally broke it and was almost crushed by it, lol). But by 2011, HDTVs were slowly but surely becoming more common in the places I went, got the first Blu-Ray player, my parents finally got their first smartphones and I was exposed to them for the first time, listened to American Early 2010s pop songs for the first time, and I also realized that the media was slowly shifting towards a different direction. 2012 felt like the barrier between the 2000s and 2010s, with some old trends still seen as relevant, like Emos for exemple, and overall being the perfect balance between those two zeitgeists. Even though my parents and others (mostly) finished transitioning in tech, I saw a lot of other people at the time who were still behind on that front. I was exposed to Windows 7 (I only knew XP and Vista before that) for the first time and iPads at school, but the latter isn't that important, because most people in Brazil didn't and still don't have enough money to buy them, and neither us. By 2013, that 2000s vibe was pretty much gone and only relegated to a few residual leftovers where I live, like the Wii for exemple. So in conclusion, it felt like I got to see the last glimpses of the 2000s before moving towards the 2010s culture.

But after these events, throughout the Mid 2010s onwards, I stumbled upon videos on YouTube that caused that same feeling I had in the Late 2000s and Early 2010s, specially old VOCALOID and Touhou music/clips. And now with the resurgence of 2000s nostalgia, that made me question: "Why these seemingly random YT videos are reminding me so much of the 2000s?" So I finally settled down, researched a bit, came with a somewhat comprehensible explanation to these personal feelings, and a playlist of videos and songs that that brought those memories.

Playlist

Part 2.3: Old VOCALOID stuff - It invoke similar feelings from the 1st part, but without the show analogy. The old EDM sounds and motifs, alongside the robotic-sounding VOCALOIDs of the time, give a feelings of technological advancement or just silliness for the most part.
Part 2.7: Something is not right... - Strange YT videos that will transition us to the next part.

Part 4.5: Ringtone Time! - Ringtones were a stable of the 2000s, back when calling a specific number and paying for them was thing. "Funny" (or annoying depending on your perspective) 3D animals/characters like Crazy Frog, Gummy Bear, and Schnuffel were seen in TV commercials alongside some goofy or musical ringtone you could download in your phone, specially on the Jamster ones, although other types of ringtones were also popular at the time.

The decade of Flip Phones, DVDs, Digital Cameras, iPods/MP3 Players, Emos, and Low-rise Jeans. It was a time where the internet was a new and exciting thing, with websites like Myspace, Orkut, YouTube, and Blingee becoming very popular.
It was futuristic, technologically advanced yet dated, loud and quiet, colorful and muted, modern yet nostalgic, uplifting and melancholic, comforting and uneasy, cute and edgy, high and low quality sound, HD and SD, fast and slow internet speeds, and cheesy but still charming media. In my point of view, the 2000s was a decade of opposites sensations clashing together to create a zeitgeist that still manages to be cohesive. It was an in-between "liminal" decade, that would transition us from the 1990s to the 2010s.

Final Thoughts

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2023.12.31 14:16 BunyipPouch I saw 325 movies in theaters in 2023. Here is my full ranking.

I like going to the movies as much as possible. For the past 8 years, I've been keeping track of every movie I've seen in a theater (along with dates/scores/ticket stubs/theaters/etc). In theaters, I saw: 5 movies in 2015, 9 movies in 2016, 146 movies in 2017, 162 movies in 2018, 192 movies in 2019, 44 movies in 2020, 86 movies in 2021, and 270 movies in 2022. This is my 6th year doing this ranking on /movies.
This year, I was able to break my personal record and see 325 different movies in theaters. I went to 7 film festivals and saw movies in 39 different theaters. 67 screenings had cast and/or filmmakers/crew present for Q&As, and there were a few dozen North American & World Premieres. I went to re-watch 6 movies and there are a handful of special re-releases included.
My rankings/reviews aren't meant to be taken super seriously, it's just something I like to do for fun. I don't keep a checklist or requirement for any ranking, it's mostly just an enjoyment scale. Basically: 7-10 is a 'good to amazing' , 5-6 is 'I had issues with and would probably never watch again', and 4 or less were just different levels of bad/terrible. I am not a professional movie reviewer in any way, I just like watching movies.
The genres I usually stay away from are horror, documentary, surrealism/fantasy, and animation, but I make exceptions often. That being said, here's my ranking of every movie I saw in theaters in 2023:
Tori and Lokita - 10/10 - The kind of movie that makes your blood boil, with a final 10 minutes that will stick in your head for a while. Two unknown actors in their first movie ever manage to build one of the most beautiful/heartwrenching/believable relationships I've ever seen on the big screen. It's short, but extremely potent. I don't think I've ever been as emotionally-invested in a main character's struggles as I was for this movie. The Dardenne Brothers have a really unique way of connecting you to a story.
Falcon Lake - 10/10 - Maybe the best Canadian debut film...ever? Amazingly-acted, beautifully-shot, painfully-relatable, and smothered in a very eerie & haunting atmosphere. It's part ghost story, and part coming-of-age. Loved the existential dread, the dance scene, and the score especially. The director, Charlotte Le Bon, is my 'best breakout' pick of the year.
Oppenheimer - 9/10
I Like Movies - 9/10 - Non-stop laughs with lots of heart thrown in. A nostalgic crowd-pleaser. Romina D'Ugo's monologue scene halfway through was one of the most well-acted moments of the year. Kind of an ode to movie nerds everywhere.
Barbie - 9/10
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 - 9/10 The Top Gun Maverick of 2023. A near-perfect summer action blockbuster that's just a thrill ride from start to finish. Need one of these once in a while.
Anatomy of a Fall - 9/10 Perfectly-crafted courtroom thriller. A lot funnier than I expected too, especially the back-and-forth between the lawyers. Sandra Hueller was Oscar-worthy, Snoop is a lock for Doggo of the Year award, and 50 Cent's P.I.M.P has never been better.
Stop Making Sense (Re-Release) - 9/10 - I hadn't seen this before, but an IMAX re-release seemed like the perfect moment. No regrets, instantly my favorite concert film of all time. The energy and joy was contagious, and the set-changes/graphics were mesmerizing.
Killers of the Flower Moon - 9/10
Blackberry - 9/10 - A smart & funny white collar crime biopic. 120 minutes flew by, learned a lot of things I didn't know about Blackberry. Jay Baruchel & Glenn Howerton were a perfect duo for this. I love The Big Short and this reminded of that in a lot ways.
The Zone of Interest - 9/10
War Pony - 9/10 - It's mind-blowing that this was made by first-time directors, writers, actors. A slow-simmering drama set on a Native American reservation. It just felt so honest. Love movies that have 2 completely different storylines that slowly & realistically merge as the movie goes along.
His Three Daughters - 9/10 - My biggest surprise at TIFF. It wasn’t really on my radar but Elizabeth Olsen’s performance blew me away, definitely a career-best for her. Cried a few times throughout, capped off with really beautiful ending sequence. It's really about accepting death and the unbreakable bonds of family, all within the confines of a small urban apartment. I feel like this'll be one of Netflix's big Oscar plays for 2024. Olsen and Carie Coon especially deserver a lot of praise. One of the best family-dramas in a while.
The Holdovers - 8/10 - Got to love a perfectly-written, smart, heartwarming, Christmas-time story of 3 lonely people that learn to open up to each other. Huge bounceback from Downsizing for Alexander Payne. This'll go on the annual holiday rotation for sure.
Flora and Son - 8/10 - I love John Carney's movies. They are always sweet, heartwarming, funny, and filled with legitimately catchy and great songs (Once is a favorite of mine, and Begin Again is also amazing). This was no exception. Carney was there in person for this one and at the end played the big song of the movie on guitar and had the whole audience sing along (1500+ people). Very cool moment and a cute song. Eva Hewson was infectiously-sweet and kinf of a revelation. If I had a nickel for every Apple+ movie that used Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now for their emotional climax, I'd have two nickels, which isn't many but it's weird that it happened twice.
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person - 8/10 - It doesn’t revolutionize anything but I really enjoyed this funny, lowkey, vampire coming of age movie. Best way to describe it would be: A great blend of Raw, Before Sunrise, Let The Right One In, and What We Do In the Shadows, and Warm Bodies. French-Canadian cinema is on the rise and I'm fully on-board. * *Hit Man** - 8/10 - Richard Linklater in top form. A sharp, sexy, fun crime-comedy. Glen Powell and Adria Arjona play perfectly off of each other. Was really impressive by Powell's acting chops in this. Especially during the montage of him with his different personalities. I could've wathced 90 minutes of that. Shame this was picked up by Netflix and won't get a proper theatrical release in 2024. It could've been a real crowd-pleaser with a big audience.
The Promised Land - 8/10
The Eight Mountains - 8/10 - Very moving/emotional story. It finds a delicate balance between deep existential dread and quite hopefulness for the future. I love a movie that makes you feel nostalgic for something you didn't experience yourself. This movie did that, non-stop, for 140 minutes. A very moving fatheson relationship too. The soundtrack from Daniel Norgren was perfect (I've had it on my playlist ever since), it felt like the movie couldn't exist without the album (and vice-versa). The constant time jumps can get a bit confusing but the narration helps smoothen that out. Jawdropping backgrounds of the Italian Alps, I couldnt wrap my head around how they were able to get some of the shots they got. Looked better than a $100M+ budget movie at times.
The Bikeriders - 8/10
They Cloned Tyrone - 8/10 - Jamie Foxx with the most underrated performance of the year.
The Iron Claw - 8/10 - A movie that keeps kicking you while you're down, holy shit. Go in prepared for an emotional rollercoaster.
Bottoms - 8/10 - Probably the most quotable movie of the year. I could see this becoming a cult classic down the road. Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri are a perfect comedic pairing. It's absurd in all of the right ways. Side note: more movies should play the blooper reels during the credits.
Priscilla - 8/10 - The only movie I went to see 3 times in theaters this year, once with Cailee Spaeny in attendance. The fact that this was left off of the Best Makeup & Hairstyle Oscar shortlist is a crime against humanity and someone should be jailed.
Saltburn - 8/10
Riceboy Sleeps - 8/10
Living - 8/10
All of Us Strangers - 8/10 - The last 30 minutes of this movie caused an orchestra of cry-sniffles in the audience like I've never heard before.
Leave the World Behind - 8/10
Dumb Money - 8/10
Air - 8/10
20 Days In Mariupol - 8/10 - Incredibly brave filmmaking. Maybe the first time I had to physically look away from the screen during a movie. Really tough watch, but important. Best documentary of the year.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - 8/10 - My #1 animated movie of the year. Loved the animation style, humor, and soundtrack.
The Beasts - 8/10
Talk to Me - 8/10 - Questionable police work aside, this was my favorite horror movie of the year (Disclaimer: I usually skip most horror movies).
The Royal Hotel - 8/10 - A very tight, tense, claustrophobic thriller set in the Australian outback. It really plays against expectations and doesn't follow the road you'd expect. Kitty Green is a very promising filmmaker, I also really liked The Assistant a few years ago.
American Fiction - 8/10
Poor Things - 8/10
Past Lives - 8/10
The Teacher's Lounge - 8/10
Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 - 8/10 - A nice sendoff to one of the better superhero trilogies. Lots of laughs, great songs, emotional moments. In a year full of comic book flops, this was one of the few bright spots.
The Creator - 8/10
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - 8/10
Dicks: The Musical - 8/10
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves - 8/10 - Sequel please.
I Used To Be Funny - 8/10 - A really solid drama that gives Rachel Sennott all the room in the world to shine. Her background as a comedian really made her stand-up scenes very convincing and realistic. The flashback scenes take a bit of getting used to in the beginning but once they click, they really work. Bonus points for some Phoebe Bridgers bangers on the soundtrack.
Creed III - 8/10
Maestro - 8/10 - Masterfully-crafted with 2 towering lead performances. "There's a saying that goes 'never stand under a bird that's full of shit', and I've been standing under one for much too long" is one of my favorite lines of the year. Gorgeous cinematography, including one of the best individual shots of the year (Carey Mulligan standing in Lenny's shadow).
How to Have Sex - 8/10 - An impressive debut film. In my head canon, this is in the same universe as Aftersun, it had a very familiar feel. A care-free summer in a Mediterranean coast setting takes a darker turn. If you loved Aftersun (like me), you'll love this.
Klondike - 8/10
John Wick: Chapter 4 - 8/10 - Quick shoutout to the overhead fire-shotgun scene, that shit was badass. The John Wick series is like a shot of movie adrenaline. My major complaint was that it gets a bit exhausting/repetitive in the final third, the movie feels too long.
The Covenant - 8/10
Beyond Utopia - 8/10 - It’s 2 stories of attempted defection from North Korea, with 2 completely different results. It’s really half documentary and half real-life thriller (with the stakes being literal death).
Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour - 8/10 - Top notch visuals, production, sound, dance sequences, etc. Overall a really good concert movie with amazing energy. 1989 and Red especially were non-stop great songs. Loved the slow-dancing part near the beginning. 'Betty', 'All Too Well', and 'the 1' were instantly added to my playlist after the movie. There are a lot of 'how in the world did they get this shot during a live concert' moments.
Cairo Conspiracy - 8/10
Ferrari - 8/10
Concrete Utopia - 8/10 - If you can get past the weird tonal shift (it starts off like a really funny satire and slowly becomes a more-serious apocalyptic drama) and clunky religious allegorical ending, this was a really good one. It was a lot more graphic than expected which I liked.
Theater Camp - 8/10
Titanic (Re-Release) - 8/10
The Duel - 8/10 - Pretty crazy that this movie hasn't found a distributor. It's a really solid indie movie about 2 ex-best-friends that decide to settle their relationship dispute with a good ole' fashioned pistol duel down in Mexico. It takes really wild and surreal turns.
Somewhere In Queens - 8/10
You Hurt My Feelings - 8/10
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie - 8/10 - Maybe the most well-edited documentary since Apollo 11. Loved the way the movie/TV scenes were intertwined in such a unique way with the documentary.
La Chimera - 8/10 - Loved the beautiful blend of the mystical and the whimsical. Really great ending. It’s a movie that’s really hard to describe. Part heist-caper, part existential love story, part absurdist comedy-mystery. It doesn’t belong in any one box. Carol Duarte was mesmerizing as Italia.
The Origin of Evil - 8/10
Paris Memories - 8/10
The Man in the Basement - 8/10
Les Indesirables - 8/10 - It doesn't quite reach the emotional heights as his previous movie (Les Miserables), but Ladj Ly still builds a strong and engaging political/social drama. Anta Diaw was the real standout, she was amazing.
Ru - 8/10
Emily - 8/10
Monster - 8/10
Showing Up - 8/10
Memory - 8/10 - The scene where the 2 daughters confront their mom about their father’s actions was one of the most heartwrenching scenes of the year. Incredibly well written and acted movie.
The Worst Ones - 8/10
Napoleon - 8/10
Only In Theaters - 8/10
RRR - 8/10 - Fun choreography (for both songs and fights), and over-the-top ridiculous action scenes. The 3-hour+ runtime flew by. I don't think my eardrums will ever recover from the abuse they took during this screening though. It was almost worth permanent hearing damage, almost.
The Last Rider - 8/10
Women Talking - 8/10
Evil Does Not Exist - 8/10
Perfect Days - 8/10 - It's about enjoying the little things in life, and staying positive, and I loved it for that. Therapy in movie form.
The Abyss (Re-Release) - 8/10
How To Blow Up A Pipeline - 8/10
The Persian Version - 8/10 - A sweet, colorful, music-filled, funny, and heartwarming immigrant story that clearly comes from a very personal place. I liked the stylistic choices made (freeze frames, animated parts, and breaking the 4th wall), I just wish they would have been more consistent. The freeze frames and animated portions were only in the first act, then completely disappear for the rest of the movie.
A Good Person - 8/10 - Amazing performance from Florence Pugh, especially during the AA meeting monologue. Morgan Freeman seemed like he cared for the first time in two decades. If it wasn't for a ridiculous third-act scene, this could've been higher. It surprisingly manages to land the ending.
American Symphony - 8/10
Sidney - 8/10
Yelling Fire In An Empty Theater - 8/10 - I had very low expectations going in, not something I'd ever thought I'd like, but it really grew on me and I found it very charming and witty. It's basically a student film made by a bunch of friends in a random apartment for less than $3,000, shot on a VHS-quality mini-dv camera about a pretty generic story (a naive girl goes to the big city). Really adorable performance by Isadora Leiva. Nowhere near as technically impressive or well-made as 99% of movies on this list, but it was a nice little mumblecore-tribute gem that's hard to describe.
The Good Half - 8/10
Day of the Fight - 8/10
The Settlers - 8/10 - Dark, violent, anti-colonialist, and unflinchingly-bloody Western set in South America. If you liked Hostiles, you'll like this. It also deals with the political aftermath of the atrocities committed on the lawless lands, which I thought was an interesting.
Passages - 8/10
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. - 8/10 - Rachel McAdams deserves more recognition for what she did in the movie. Sweet little 1970s coming-of-age movie. Also, I love how Ben Safdie just shows up in stuff and kills it.
Between Two Worlds - 7/10
Dream Scenario - 7/10 - It actually didn’t get as wild as I’d hoped it would. Above average as far as recent Cage projects go.
The Burial - 7/10 - A well-made, feel-good, David v Goliath courtroom drama that gets a bit too preachy near the end, but a really fun & hammy show-offy performance from Jamie Foxx balanced by a good and grounded Tommy Lee Jones one keep this nice and balanced. Gives very early-2000s vibes but it works.
May December - 7/10 - Killer score, setting, and a top-tier performance from Natalie Portman kept this interesting, but I just found it too melodramatic and dry to be great. I was lucky enough to see this at the Savannah SCAD Film Festival, where it was filmed, and seeing local landmarks throughout the movie along with crowd reactions as they came up was fun. Todd Haynes, the director, did an intro at the beginning and asked everyone in the audience that worked on the movie to stand up for an ovation, and at least 100 cast & crewmembers were present. Really cool moment, love stuff like that.
Sanctuary - 7/10
Eileen - 7/10
Polite Society - 7/10 - Shades of Scott Pilgrim vs the World.
Woman of the Hour - 7/10 - Really confident true-crime thriller from Anna Kendrick. Daniel Zovatto was super menacing and believable as real-life serial killer Rodney Alcada. He was born to play a role like that, perfect fit. It gets slowed down by a lot of the genre cliches but still solid for a directorial debut. The kill scenes are particularly brutal, like Holy Spider last year.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes - 7/10 - Maybe a bit heavy on the singing (especially the scene where the gets picked for the games, very awkward) and fan service, but totally understandable. If you want to revive a dormant mega-franchise, you're gonna have to crack a few nostalgia eggs and give your lead something unique to do. Rachel Zegler and Jason Schwartzman and Peter Dinklage were great, Viola Davis was a bit much. I like a good non-superhero villain origin story once in a while (The Childhood of a Leader, We Need to Talk About Kevin, etc).
It Ain't Over - 7/10
Blue Jean - 7/10
A Little Prayer - 7/10
Godzilla Minus One - 7/10
The Super Mario Bros. Movie - 7/10
Expats - 7/10 - I could watch the cover of Katy Perry's 'Roar' by the maids' choir at the beginning on an infinite loop.
Inside - 7/10
Asteroid City - 7/10 - Like The French Dispatch before it, I wanted to love this, but couldn't get there. It's got an amazing cast, sets, and lines, but Wes Anderson is getting to be a more 'style over substance' for me recently. Like Alex Garland.
Infinity Pool - 7/10
Broker - 7/10
Full Time - 7/10
Waitress: The Musical - 7/10 - Very charming musical that's just a bit too long. Sara Bareilles is a treasure and "She Used To Be Mine" is one my favorite musical songs ever. That song alone was worth the price of admission. Also all of those delicious looking pies. Hmmmmmmm, pies.
A Haunting In Venice - 7/10 - Not as good as the first movie, but better than the second. I could watch Kenneth Branagh hamming it up as Poirot for as long as he wants to keep making them.
No Hard Feelings - 7/10
Strays - 7/10 - Yes, it's dumb and outdated. Yes, I still had fun and laughed a bunch. No, I am not ashamed. (ok maybe I am a little ashamed)
The Blackening - 7/10
The Good Mother - 7/10
Rustin - 7/10
Carmen - 7/10 - Great dance sequences and music. Nice chemistry between the two leads (Paul Mescal and Melissa Barrero). I just wish they leaned more into the Bonnie & Clyde/lovers-on-the-run aspect and less into the fantasy/surrealism.
Sisu - 7/10
Scream VI - 7/10
Hell of a Summer - 7/10 - For a non-horror fan, this was a nice throwback campground slasher. It plays it pretty safe but everyone is clearly having a lot fun.
Landmark with Invisible Hand - 7/10
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre - 7/10
To Catch A Killer - 7/10 - A really harrowing mass-murder beginning sets the tone for a solid seedy crime-procedural. Shailene Woodley & Ben Mendelsohn were a good pairing. It reminded me a bit of True Detective
Persian Lessons - 7/10
I Wanna Dance With Somebody - 7/10
The Starling Girl - 7/10
Return to Seoul - 7/10
Lee - 7/10
God Is A Bullet - 7/10 - Some parts were outrageously-violent/gory and that kept me interested, but it was to long and should have ended 8 times at least. I'd love to know how a movie like this gets funded, but I'm not complaining.
Wicked Little Letters - 7/10
Drift - 7/10
The Other Laurens - 7/10
Wonka - 7/10
Manodrome - 7/10
Nyad - 7/10 - Other than the perfectly-intertwined documentary footage woven into the movie (which I loved), it's a pretty safe and cliche sports biopic. An excuse for Annette Benning to make faces. It was okay.
The Flash - 7/10
The Animal Kingdom - 7/10
Flamin' Hot - 7/10 - You could tell it took a lot of liberties but it's such an uplifting and fun story that it can be overlooked.
Joy Ride - 7/10
Strange Way of Life - 7/10 - I enjoyed the hopeful ending and the two lead performances, but did not like the bad dialogue (explaining exposition). This is a short but I watched it as a double-feature with another Almodovar short, The Human Voice (see: much lower down this list)
Blue Beetle - 7/10
Knock at the Cabin - 7/10
Robot Dreams - 7/10
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - 7/10 - Good music, not so good camerawork. I want to see the show, not audience-face-closeups.
The Punishment - 7/10 -
Bunker - 7/10 -
When You Finish Saving the World - 7/10
Fool's Paradise - 7/10 - A warmly endearing performance from Charlie Day mixed with an amazing score from Jon Brion and a few hilarious cameo roles (Glenn Howerton, Jason Bateman), brought down a bit by a lot of wacky plot turns, awful pacing, and some terrible cameos (Common, John Malkovich). Overall, I liked it.
A Thousand and One - 7/10
Paint - 7/10
What's Love Got To Do With It? - 7/10 - I love Lily James. Sue me.
Simon - 7/10
Hard Miles - 7/10
Along Came Love - 7/10
Smoking Tigers - 7/10
Juniper - 7/10
No Bears - 7/10 - Bittersweet movie for me because it was the last movie I watched at one of my favorite independent theaters before they shut down permanently.
Missing - 7/10
Two Tickets to Greece - 7/10 - The ultimate Wine Mom Movie.
Path of the Panther - 7/10
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed - 7/10 - There's 2 stories here, and they're both interesting and worth telling, but I can't help to feel as if they would've been more effective as 2 different documentaries.
Turn Every Page - 7/10
Earth Mama - 7/10
Anyone But You - 6/10 - Powell and Sweeney had great chemistry. There's some clunky dialogue and awkward pauses, but overall it was a fine rom-com. I went in expecting Hot Rich People Go On Vacation: The Movie, and that's exactly what I got. Also, if going forward every movie could end with a full-cast kareoke montage of Natasha Beddingfield's Unwritten, that'd be awesome thanks.
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - 6/10 - I saw this at a Regal 4DX. It was 2 hours of the seat shaking violently, water being sprayed in my face, blinding flashing lights in the corner of my eyes, and my feet being whipped by some broom-like contraption. 2/10 would not recommend. The movie itself was okay. Not as good as Bumblebee, not as bad as Michael Bayformers.
Next Goal Wins - 6/10
The New Boy - 6/10
Indiana Jones: The Dial of Destiny - 6/10
Gran Turismo - 6/10 - It's filled to the brim with product placement, has a really cheesy first 30 minutes, Orlando Bloom is hilariously bad, and it's got every gameracing movie cliche, but all that being said it was better than I expected. Bit of a surprising, kinda seat-clenching scene at the halfway point and a thrilling last 20 minutes keep it afloat.
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose - 6/10
Plane - 6/10
The Little Mermaid - 6/10
Chevalier - 6/10
Dreamin' Wild - 6/10 - It was actually a pretty solid family/music drama with great performances and good songs until the very last scene. It takes a wild swing there and just completely misses.
Susie Searches - 6/10
Fallen Leaves - 6/10
Elemental - 6/10
65 - 6/10
Finestkind - 6/10
Chile '76 - 6/10
Cocaine Bear - 6/10 - It was very clunky and not as funny as it should have been. Some very dry/awkward editing made it feel very disjointed. Okay score for the brutal death scenes and a few funny moments.
M3GAN - 6/10
Daddio - 6/10
Gonzo Girl - 6/10 - Solid first half, and Willem Dafoe/Camilla Morrone are great throughout, but the second half is too repetitive. We get it, Hunter S Thompson did a lot of drugs. I’m not a fan of Ray Nicholson in general, but I thought he was distractingly-bad in this. Willem Dafoe surprised the audience and showed up for this so that was really cool.
Thanksgiving - 6/10
Mob Land - 6/10
Drugstore June - 6/10
American Graffiti (Re-Release) - 6/10 - I saw this for the first time because it had a 50th anniversary re-release and I can't help but to think it has aged really badly. There's a few good scenes, but I can't really understand how this is widely considered a 70s classic.
The Wrath of Becky - 6/10
The Lesson - 6/10
The Marsh King's Daughter - 6/10 - You ever watch a movie and think 'this was definitely a book before'? This was that movie. Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendehlson made it kinda-watchable.
The Critic - 6/10
Kandahar - 6/10 - It's a Gerard Butler action pic. You know what you're gonna get. Surprisingly good special effects in this one, a few chuckles, 20 minutes too long, confusing plot.
Boy Kills World - 6/10
No More Bets - 6/10
Haute Couture - 6/10
Valeria Is Getting Married - 6/10
Jules - 6/10
Silent Night - 6/10 - It had a few solid actions scenes (like the hand-to-hand combat sequence with the Mob Accountant Guy), but it was a very poorly balanced movie. I can't tell if it was purposefully or accidentally funny at times. We did get the world's first-ever drive-by knifing though, props to that.
Jawan - 6/10
Golda - 6/10
The Boy and the Heron - 6/10 - Gorgeous visuals and an amazing score brought down by a confusing, boring, and grating story. At the 2/3 point, I just wanted it to end. Nonsense whimsical shit just kept happening for the sake of having nonsense whimsical shit going on.
Biosphere - 6/10
Renfield - 6/10
L'Immensita - 6/10 -
The Boys in the Boat - 6/10 - It's fine if you're in the mood for a safe, predictable, slightly-uplifting sports biopic with an underdog story. There's like 438 minutes of rowing montage though, could've done with a bit less of that.
My Happy Ending - 6/10
They Called Him Mostly Harmless - 6/10
NAGA - 6/10
Shortcomings - 6/10 - Incredibly unlikeable main character with no arch made it hard to connect to this movie.
Our Son - 6/10
Relax, I'm From The Future - 6/10
Panda - 6/10 - This is one of 3 short films on the list. Since I saw it in a theater, with an audience, at a festival, with directoactress Q&A, I am including it, but it was only 12 minutes.
Story Ave - 6/10
The Baker - 6/10
Spinning Gold - 6/10
Monica - 6/10
Stay Awake - 6/10
Everybody Wants To Be Loved - 6/10
Tove - 6/10
Migration - 6/10 -
Miranda's Victim - 6/10
Of An Age - 6/10
Charcoal - 6/10
Egghead and Twinkie - 6/10 - A cute little coming-of-age, road-trip, coming-out movie. The acting was pretty rough (it was mostly new actors from a local university I think) and the dialogue had some bad patches, but the fun animated moments made up for most that. Crazy what they were able to do with a $80,000 budget.
Radical - 6/10
Beau Is Afraid - 5/10 - First hour: Really digged it. Next 8 hours: ???????what the fuck????????
Master Gardener - 5/10 - A whole lot of buildup for almost no payoff. Feels like Paul Schrader remade his own First Reformed but worse in evert way.
Magic Mike's Last Dance - 5/10 - A series of diminishing returns. End it please.
The Machine - 5/10
Haunted Mansion - 5/10 - The only actual laugh was the Owen Wilson “this exorcism is going above your heads” bit to the ghosts. Otherwise, totally forgettable and useless remake.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter - 5/10
The Equalizer 3 - 5/10 - [see Magic Mike review]
Sympathy for the Devil - 5/10
The Marvels - 5/10
Pathaan - 5/10
Sound of Freedom - 5/10
Wildcat - 5/10 - Maya Hawke really commits to the role but Ethan Hawke's direction is very sloppy and all over the place in this one. The whole cast and Ethan Hawke were there for Q&A though, so that made it a fun experience anyway.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom - 5/10
Trolls Band Together - 5/10
Marlowe - 5/10
At the Gates - 5/10 - The premise itself was really hard to buy and that made the rest of the movie really hard to commit to.
About My Father - 5/10
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken - 5/10
Wish - 5/10 - It was just so bland.
Fitting In - 5/10 - I’m getting a bit bored with the “this person has a rare disease and things suck” genre.
Ant-Man 3: Quantumania - 5/10 - CGI vomit with no heart. The whole franchise needs a hard re-evaluation and re-set.
Last Summer - 5/10 - Catherine Breillat is known for being extremely provocative with her movies, but this ended up being pretty tame by her standards. Had higher hopes going in. If you’re into French talky-sex-dramas with an almost-incest twist, I guess this is for you.
Games People Play - 5/10
Plan 75 - 5/10 - Slow, confusing, slightly irritating. Looked great though, and I appreciated the story idea. Like a Japanese Greek Weird Wave movie.
Shttl - 5/10 - I felt like an outsider watching this movie. I didn't understand 95% of what the characters were talking about, but the one-shot "gimmick" kept me involved.
KILL - 5/10 - Some good/brutal/bloody kill scenes, but overall an extremely repetitive, overlong, and derivative movie. It’s already been made 20 other times, usually in better ways. Watch Snowpiercer or Bullet Train instead.
Thank You For Coming - 5/10
A Perfect Day for Caribou - 5/10
Big George Foreman - 5/10
Rimini - 5/10
The Mission - 5/10 - A boring documentary about a religious fanatic doing something wildly stupid.
Gringa - 5/10
Space Oddity - 5/10
House Party - 5/10 - I appreciate how this just randomly turned into Eyes Wide Shut two-thirds of the way through.
Love Again - 5/10 - This got savaged by critics but I found it so bat-shit insane/convoluted that it almost became a bit endearing, kind of like that crazy ass rom-com a couple years ago starring Emilia Clarke (Last Christmas).
Sunnyland - 5/10
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - 5/10
Where Life Begins - 5/10
Jesus Revolution - 5/10
Artist Unknown - 5/10
Divinity - 4/10 - I am confusion.
A Man Called Otto - 4/10 - Sure, it gets a few tears at the end, but it feels very emotionally-manipulative. A really sweet & funny turn from Mariana Treviño though, she alone keeps this somewhat watchable. I'd recommend sticking with the original.
Champions - 4/10
North Star - 4/10 - Like a modern day Downton Abbey (but with less warmth and charm). Carried by decent performances all around (Scarlett doing a British accent was…interesting) but the melodrama got too intense. The problems/drama are an contrived and overblown.
Fast X - 4/10
Meg 2: The Trench - 4/10
Five Nights at Freddy's - 4/10
Origin - 4/10 - A sloppy/bloated/tearjerky documentary masquerading as a narrative feature
The Retirement Plan - 4/10
She Came from the Woods - 4/10
Farewell, Mr. Haffman - 4/10
Cherry - 4/10 - Annoyingly-written main character that you just can't help but cheer against.
The Kill Room - 4/10 - Dollar store version of Velvet Buzzsaw. Maya Hawke and Samuel L. Jackson keep this semi-interesting but aren't in it enough. I was dozing off by the end.
Mafia Mamma - 4/10
Freedom's Path - 4/10
She Came To Me - 4/10 - Too many storylines, too many coincidences.
80 for Brady - 4/10 - Sally Field is a goddamn national treasure. A glorified, product-placement-filled, NFL ad that was slightly better than I expected it would be (still not good. I repeat: still bad)
Hypnotic - 4/10
Freelance - 4/10 - This is a niche reference but this felt like an Andy Sidaris film from the 1990s except it just took out the gratuitous nudity.
The Senior - 4/10
Moving On - 4/10
Mending the Line - 4/10 - Total borefest. I don't remember a movie ever using musical cues as a crutch as much as this one. It got really obnoxious. Every 4 minutes, a sappy, overly-emotional Lifetime-like song. I guess you need that when the script and acting are so dry.
The Amazing Maurice - 4/10
Hilma - 4/10
The Magic Hours - 4/10
Slava Ukraini - 4/10 - I really didn't like how the director tried inserting himself into everything. It was very self-aggrandizing and took away from the stories that were important.
Black Ice - 4/10
Hidden Blade - 4/10 - I was completely confused from start to finish. Too many flashback and fast forwards. It was hard to keep track of what side everyone was on, and what their motivivations were.
Maybe I Do - 4/10
Alice, Darling - 4/10
Roise & Frank - 4/10
Book Club: The Next Chapter - 4/10
The End of Sex - 4/10
Candy Cane Lane - 3/10
Alta California - 3/10
Retribution - 3/10 - As an action movie, it's total garbage. As an unintentionally-funny movie, it's got a few hilarious moments.
You People - 3/10 - Totally mean-spirited and unfunny. Transitions that felt straight out of a mid-2000s Degrassi episode. A waste of Eddy Murphy and Jonah Hill. Nobody had any chemistry and all of the jokes felt forced.
Expand4bles - 3/10
The Human Voice - 3/10 - Torture in short film form. I know this is blasphemy, but I'm not high on Tilda Swinton in general. This did not help.
Shelter in Solitude - 3/10
The Miracle Club - 3/10
The Old Way - 3/10
Rally Road Racers - 3/10 - I really have to stop going to see generic animated movies. I immediately forgot about this movie before leaving the parking lot.
Sweetwater - 3/10 - Just another uninspired/bland sports-biopic. The whole thing also felt a bit...off. Weird religious/propaganda-like undertones. I don't know, gave me the creeps a little.
The Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 - 3/10 -
The People's Joker - 3/10 - Basically an overlong, edgy Youtube sketch from 2012
Wonderwell - 3/10
Shazam 2 - 3/10
The Son - 3/10 - I don't know what was worse, the writing or Zen McGrath's performance as the titular "Son". Either way, it was hard to watch. Overacted, showboaty garbage. Only thing keeping it from rock bottom is Hugh Jackman doing his best to balance it out. A huge drop-off from The Father.
Will-o'-the-Wisp - 3/10
Padre Pio - 3/10 - Two completely different movies confusingly combined into one unintelligible one. Abel Ferrara and Shia LaBeouf sounds like a really interesting pairing on paper, but I have no idea what either of them were trying to do here.
iMordecai - 3/10
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt - 2/10 - Excruciatingly boring. I've had naps more interesting. The neon-green exit sign to the right of the screen might've been more captivating. Absolutely nothing happens for ~85 minutes of the 97-minute runtime. A good portion of the audience walked out before it was at the halfway point, most of the year by far. If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if Terrence Malick made a boring experimental coming of age story set in the deep south and forgot dialogue existed, I’ve got great news for you. Getting this score because at least it looked pretty good, if only we didn’t spend half the time zoomed into hands. Big W for the hand fetish community.
In Fidelity - 1/10 - Chris Parnell honestly contending for an all-time worst performance in this. Unfunny and awkward all-around. Every character is extremely annoying. Poorly written dialogue. I'll give it a pass for the glaring sound issues (worst sound mixing ever, but apparently that wasn't finished yet), but the rest I can't look over. Maybe the worst rom-com I've ever seen.
Aggro Dr1ft - 1/10 - A full-on assault to my eyeballs and ears and brain. A disgusting and repulsive blend of AI imagery, infrared cinematography, and repetitive dialogue. Even a midnight screening experience with a rowdy crowd and Harmony Korine himself in attendance couldn’t save this disaster. People will try to convince you this is a future cult classic masterpiece or something. Do not listen. It's Neal Breen by the way of Gaspar Noe by the way of pain & suffering. Watch at your own risk. Only reason it’s not a 0 is because of a few unintentional laughs. Probably more effective if you're under the influence of drugs, or possessed by the devil.
Stats:
Multiple Viewings:

Priscilla x3
Barbie x2
Flora and Son x2
Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 x2
Past Lives x2
Maestro x2

Theater Distribution:

AMC - 114
Regal - 44
Silverspot - 27
Cinemark - 12
IPic - 2
Other - 126 (Includes: Scotiabank Toronto, TIFF Lightbox, Royal Alexandra, Roy Thomson Hall, Trustees Theater, Lucas Theater, SCAD Museum, Savor Cinema, Classic Gateway, VIP DB, Living Room Theater, O'Cinema South Beach, Cinema Paradiso, Miami Theater Center, Princess of Wales, Enzian Theater, and others)

Film Festivals Attended:

Toronto International Film Festival - 35 Movies in 8 Days
Savannah SCAD Film Festival - 28 Movies in 8 Days
Miami Film Festival - 20 Movies in 8 Days
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival - 14 Movies in 9 Days
Florida Film Festival - 7 Movies in 2 Days
GEMS Miami Film Festival - 6 Movies in 2 Days
Miami Jewish Film Festival - 4 Movies in 2 Days

Theater Visits by Month:
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Theater Visits by Day of the Week:
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Favorite Performances:
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