Red Mosquito

Jorge wrote:What are you gonna do when you're all caught up to present day?

If we are strictly counting tv/movie time: Have been neglecting tv series, so will catch up there. I also have about 800 movies from pre-2020s, that I have collected along the way, but haven’t seen yet. There are also plenty of other older movies that I haven’t seen, just not collected yet. I also love rewatching old and new favorites, have done 0 rewatches this past year. Then there’s news, sports, regular tv.

Besides tv/movies, I’m also getting a kid in August, and there’s work, friends/family, RM etc. Lots to do.

I've gathered up the top ten from 2024 lists from earlier in this thread:

Letterboxd top ten of 2024:

1. Dune: Part Two
2. I’m Still Here
3. How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies
4. Look Back
5. The Wild Robot
6. HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle
7. Rap World
8. The Brutalist
9. Memoir Of A Snail
10. The Count of Monte Cristo

RogerEbert.com top 10 of 2024:

1. The Brutalist
2. Nickel Boys
3. I Saw The TV Glow
4. No Other Land
5. Anora
6. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
7. Hard Truths
8. All We Imagine As Light
9. The Beast (2023 movie)
10. Green Border (2023 movie)

Rotten Tomatoes top ten of 2024:

1. All We Imagine As Light
2. Girls Will Be Girls
3. On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
4. Ghostlight
5. Thelma
6. Good One
7. Black Box Diaries
8. The Count Of Monte Cristo
9. The Wild Robot
10. Late Night With The Devil (2023 movie)

Indiewire top ten of 2024:

1. Anora
2. The Brutalist
3. Nickel Boys
4. All We Imagine as Light
5. Challengers
6. I Saw the TV Glow
7. The Substance
8. Dune: Part Two
9. Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023 movie)
10. Hard Truths

VinylGuy top ten of 2024:

1.Longlegs
2.Smile 2
3.The First Omen
4.Rebel Ridge
5.Anora
6.I Saw The Tv Glow
7.Love, Lies, Bleeding
8.Furiosa
9.Terrifier 3
10.The Order

Criticstop10.com top ten of 2024.

1. Anora
2. Challengers
3. The Brutalist
4. The Substance
5. I Saw The TV Glow
6. Nickel Boys
7. Dune: Part II
8. Conclave
9. All We Imagine As Light
10. A Real Pain

The Argonaut top ten of 2024 (I used some creative license, and removed the mentioned movies with a 2023 release date, and those not in the top ten, as he posted a top twenty):

1. Challengers
2. Civil War
3. Anora
4. Bird
5. Kneecap
6. Twisters
7. The Return
8. A Different Man
9. I Saw The TV Glow
10. A Complete Unknown

Spoiler: show

He then listed A Real Pain, Furiosa, Trap and Love Lies Bleeding in that order, and had six (excellent) movies from 2023 interspersed in the list. Of course I expect someone to argue against this, about when a movie was in the cinema in the US, and that's fine.

epilogue top ten from 2024:

Top 10 from 2024:

1. Wicked: Part One
2. The Fall Guy
3. Love Lies Bleeding
4. The Substance
5. Conclave
6. Civil War
7. Kneecap
8. Dune: Part Two
9. A Quiet Place: Day One
10. A Complete Unknown

1994

1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Forrest Gump
4. Dumb and Dumber
5. The Ref
6. Hoop Dreams
7. The Lion King
8. Clerks
9. PCU
10. Ace Ventura Pet Detective

Hollywood did everything they could to capitalize on Jim Carrey’s peak. Ace Ventura, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber were all released in 1994.

Yeah unfortunately

1993

1. The Fugitive
2. Schindler’s List
3. Dazed and Confused
4. Falling Down
5. Mrs. Doubtfire
6. Groundhog Day
7. The Sandlot
8. Menace II Society
9. Jurassic Park
10. A Bronx Tale

1992

1. Glengarry Glen Ross
2. Reservoir Dogs
3. Home Alone 2
4. Unforgiven
5. A League of Their Own
6. My Cousin Vinny
7. A Few Good Men
8. The Last of the Mohicans
9. Aladdin
10. Death Becomes Her

Love those years of my youth, some amazing movies. The Last of the Mohicans, Unforgiven, My Cousin Vinny, Menace II Society, A Bronx Tale, Groundhog Day, Dumb and Dumber, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, all among my favorites.

1994

1. Death and the Maiden
2. Dumb and Dumber
3. Dellamorte Dellamore
4. True Lies
5. Muriel's Wedding
6. Natural Born Killers
7. Pret-a-porter
8. On Deadly Ground
9. Leon: The Professional
10. Scanner Cop

Leon seems super low, bro. Also, Pulp Fiction rules extremely hard.

My feelings on PF have fluctuated over the years. I'm not a fan these days.

Absolute bellend.

what do you think of pret-a-porter

1995

1. Se7en
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Braveheart
4. The Basketball Diaries
5. Clueless
6. Kids
7. Dead Man Walking
8. Toy Story
9. Casino
10. Billy Madison

Adam Sandler made his career out of pretending to be retarded.

1991

1. Silence of the Lambs
2. Barton Fink
3. Boyz n the Hood
4. Thelma and Louise
5. The Doors
6. What About Bob?
7. My Girl
8. City Slickers
9. Terminator 2
10. JFK

The best I've watched from 2024 so far are the miniseries Say Nothing, Masters Of The Air, The Penguin and Shogun, as well as the Norwegian movie No. 24. Other movies worth mentioning are Nickel Boys, Rebel Ridge, The Order, Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver, and Out of My Mind.

Done with miniseries, but still got most big movies to go. About 1/3 done with the year.

140 movies left of 2024 now. Tried saving the best for last, and based on recent years (2022/23), I expect a substantial number of these to be quality movies.

Matters wrote:1991

1. Silence of the Lambs

Top ten Robert Redford movies:

1. The Sting
2. All the President's Men
3. Three Days of the Condor
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
5. Barefoot in the Park
6. The Natural
7. The Candidate
8. Out Of Africa
9. Sneakers
10. Spy Game

In 1977, Redford appeared in a segment of the war film A Bridge Too Far (1977). As a movie overall, I would rank it among the best he ever played in.

Top ten Diane Keaton movies:

1. Annie Hall
2. The Godfather
3. The Godfather part 2
4. Manhattan
5. Manhattan Murder Mystery
6. Love and Death
7. Play It Again, Sam
8. Reds
9. Something's Gotta Give
10. Looking for Mr. Goodbar

I'm now at exactly 100 movies left of 2024, so while it has been going a bit slow, we're now heading into the most exciting part of the process of watching movies from a single year, the top movies.