Red Mosquito

Anders wrote: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.

Shogun has really lingered in my mind, even if the season trailed off at the end, and my favorite character died.

Now more than 2/3 done with 2024, and with just 100 movies left to see, here are my current top ten movies of the year:

1. I'm Still Here
2. Stormskerry Maja
3. Touch
4. Number 24
5. Ghostlight
6. The Life Of Chuck
7. Bring Them Down
8. Black Dog
9. The Summer Book
10. Nickel Boys

I also had an especially good time with Sound Of Summer, Midas Man and Back To Black. I just love a good music biopic (or sometimes even just a decent one).

Queen Of The Ring was fun. Got my wrestling itch scratched.

For best documentary, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story and The Last Journey are my top picks so far, and I've only got one documentary left.

Watched another 10 movies, and I'm now down to 90 left from 2024.

La Cocina was the best of the ten, with a sizzling start that had me hooked. I don't agree with all the choices the director made in the movie, and I was a bit disappointed with the ending. I think the movie had potential for so much more. It had a great setting, looked wonderful and autenthic, and had a talented cast without any big stars. It's been lingering in my mind for a few days, and I think I will end up upgrading its ranking. It doesn't happen often, but it's similar to I'm Still Here in that regard. Both had a fantastic start, and trailed off a little towards the end. Then both have stayed with me, and I now feel like they both deserve a higher rating than I gave initially.

Beating Hearts was another good one. A love story decades in the making, with some big scenes. Adèle Exarchopoulos is a top top talent in the world today.

Finally Potsy Ponciroli's Greedy People, in a Fargo style movie. Not as good as his directorial debut Old Henry, but a guaranteed good time.

Another ten movies watched, and I’m down to 80 left from 2024.

The Iranian movie My Favourite Cake, was the standout movie of the ten. Very brave of the filmmakers to make such a movie in Iran. Both the outer layer (growing old, reminiscing of the past, loneliness, older people dating, noisy neighbors, some direct criticism of the regime), but the inner layer, what is unspoken, what is truly meant, is at least as meaningful.

There were several other interesting movies in One Love, Parthenope, Penguin Lessons, I Saw The TV Glow, The Last Showgirl. But for the podium of these past ten movies, I choose Land Of Bad (old school action movie, with a fantastic Russell Crowe in a non action role), and the French movie The Marching Band, which I was a little skeptical of, but which won me over.

Another ten movies watched, and I’m down to 70 left from 2024.

My favorite from the past ten watched is Elskling (English title Loveable), the 2024 Norwegian movie of the year. A movie that felt very true to life, and was easy to relate to. The story didn’t always go the way I thought it would, which I appreciated.

The First Omen and Lisa Frankenstein round out the top three, as two very well made amd well acted, part horror movies, although neither were even a little bit scary.

Saw some mainstream fun yet flawed movies in Road House and The Beekeeper, but had a blast with both of them.

Another ten movies watched, and I’m down to 60 left from 2024.

No real candidate for a top placement in the year here, yet still a solid group of movies. My top two from these ten movies were The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim and A Quiet Place: Day One. Think they stood slightly above the rest. The former with its strong story and great animation, and the latter with an excellent production, and tense action.

Another ten movies watched, and I’m down to 50 left from 2024.

Thought that was a very solid set of movies. Can feel we’re getting closer to the final movies of the year now.

That said, my top two picks from these ten, might not be the most popular choices. But I enjoyed both fully. They are Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1 and Twisters.

Annoying that there is so much uncertainty for when or if, we will see more of Horizon. The first movie was beautiful, with a well performing cast.

There is within me an unstaked hunger for adventure movies like Twisters. There are many things I can critique it for, but I enjoyed every minute of it.

Honorable mention to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. It was a lot better than I thought it would be.

I loved Horizon too. A real bummer we still haven't seen the rest of them.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timlammers ... chapter-2/

Strange that they still haven't released part two, since it has been shown in two film festivals.

Down to 40 left from 2024. Highlights of the past ten watched were Wicked and Love Lies Bleeding. However, I was also thoroughly entertained by Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, while Paddington in Peru was a family highlight, with everyone laughing.

Just 30 movies left from 2024 now.

The top three movies from the past ten watched, are Saturday Night, Civil War and The Seeds Of The Sacred Fig.

I think I liked Saturday Night better than most, but I feel like they really captured something, and it was a fascinating watch.

Civil War will almost certainly make it into my top ten of the year. Started a little slow, but was a really well made and well told movie.

Watched The Seed Of The Sacred Fig today. Excellent about a family in Iran, living amid political unrest in Tehran.

Been a bit slow on the movie watching front these past days, but I should reach 20 movies left from 2024 in a day or two.

Down to 20 movies left from 2024 now. Quite excited about going into the Christmas and New Year season with a lot of good movies to watch.

Had fun with the movies I watched these past two weeks. Snack Shack, Didi, Better Man and Bob Trevino Likes It, were all big hits for me, with Snack Shack taking the top spot for this batch, Better Man in second place, and Didi in third.

Watched Kneecap yesterday. It was a good fun movie. The vibe was a bit like Trainspotting, yet distincly Irish. I think I probably would have liked it even more if it was the sixteen year old Anders watching it.

The movies I've got left from 2024 are:

Dune: Part Two, The Substance, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Nosferatu, Anora, Inside Out 2, Conclave, The Wild Robot, Challengers, A Real Pain, The Brutalist, Flow, A Complete Unknown, Monkey Man, We Live In Time, The Count of Monte-Cristo, A Different Man, Memoir of a Snail, How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies, The Girl With The Needle.

At only 12 left, and have some days off now, which will be good. There’s also Christmas parties, and probably a need to watch a couple of Christmas movies.

Rob Reiner top ten

1. The Princess Bride
2. Stand By Me
3. When Harry Met Sally
4. Flipped
5. Misery
6. A Few Good Men
7. This Is Spinal Tap
8. The Sure Thing
9. The Bucket List
10. The American President

Top ten Christmas movies (chronological):

It’s A Wonderful Life
Tři oříšky pro Popelku
The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix
Reisen Til Julestjernen
Die Hard
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
Elf
Klaus
The Holdovers

For some reason every list I see here (Norway, not RM), has got The Holiday and Love Actually in their top five or top ten Christmas movies.

Finally down to ten left from 2024.

Those are: Dune: Part Two, The Substance, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Anora, Inside Out 2, Conclave, The Wild Robot, The Brutalist, Flow, A Complete Unknown.

From the previous ten I loved Memoir of a Snail, Nosferatu, The Count of Monte Cristo and How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies.

What are your top 10 movies Warwick Davis is in?

1 Willow
2 Return of the Jedi
3 The Labyrinth
4 Leprechaun - any of them
5 Harry Potter - any of them
6 Gulliver’s Travels
7 Narnia - Prince Caspian
8 Jack the Giant Slayer
9 Caravan of Courage
10 Ray

I think’s he’s great in Willow, Life's Too Short, his episodes in An Idiot Abroad were the best of the series, and Leprechaun. Just a great guy, and a terrific actor.

If you only base it on the quality of the movie, and not the size of his role, then I think a top ten list of strictly movies, would include Willow amd nine movies from Harry Potter and Star Wars.

Anders wrote:Finally down to ten left from 2024.

Those are: Dune: Part Two, The Substance, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, Anora, Inside Out 2, Conclave, The Wild Robot, The Brutalist, Flow, A Complete Unknown.

From the previous ten I loved Memoir of a Snail, Nosferatu, The Count of Monte Cristo and How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies.

Four down, six to go.

First we watched The Brutalist. I felt like it aimed for the stars, for the best movies of yesteryear. The start of the movie was marvellous, with terrific acting. I think the main problem with the movie, is the excess ambition, as measured against the scattershot execution. The movie lingers about, and takes its time. It's still a good movie, just not the truly great one it could have been.

Next up was Inside Out 2. A sweet and fairly short movie we could watch with our five year old kid. And it struck me that it's almost the opposite of The Brutalist, in that it has little ambition to be something new and grand, and instead is a great copy of the first. If The Brutalist aimed to be a five star movie, and landed as a four star movie. Then Inside Out 2, sets out to be a three star movie, but somehow still succeeds in being a four star movie. Because it tells the story succinctly and to the point. It tells us something about ourselves, and about our kids. Had a really good time with this one.

We watched Flow yesterday. A computer animated movie about a cat in a flood. Very beautiful. Story is simple and fantastical, but well worth your time. Well deserved win for best animated movie at the academy awards.

Finally The Substance was a late night Sunday movie, after the kids were asleep. Just a terrific movie. Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley knocked it out of the park with this one, and the production was sublime as well.