Movies Watched in 2024

Movies Watched in 2024

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I saw many, many great films last year, both features and some fun documentaries. Coming up with a list of Top favorites wasn't easy. but if I have to keep it to a handful...

I'd put my Favorite Movies as:

Conclave (2024)
Wicked (part 1) (2024)
Night of the Hunter (1955)
Joker Folie a deux (2024)
Deadpool x Wolverine (2024)
Barbie (2023)
Leave the World Behind (2023)
Gladiator II (2024)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Dune (Part 2) (2024)
American Fiction (2023)
 
   as well as for documentaries

Hans Zimmer Hollywood Rebel (2022)
Six by Sondheim (2013)
The Greatest Night of Pop (2024)
Don’t Look Back (1967)
 
But there were so many other Fantastic Films I watched in 2024 as well, including:
 
Ideocracy (2096)
Oddity (2024)
Goodfellas (1990)
Heretic! (2024)
Beau is Afraid (2023)
Sing Street (2016)
Twisters (2024)
The Boys in the Boat (2023)
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
The Zone of Interest (2023)
Basquiat (1996)
Requiem For a Dream (2000)
 
Now, with so many films and it seems way too much time on my hands (often I'd watch these in 15-minute bursts while eating or needing a brain break), I saw many more that I did enjoy a lot, and these would be considered Runners Up:
 
One Life (2023)
Biosphere (2022)
Am I Racist? (2024)
The Marvels (2023)
Fall (2022)
Reptile (2023)
Poor Things (2023)
Unsung Hero (2024)
Late Night with the Devil (2024)
Spaceman (2024)
Alien: Romulus (2024)
A Quiet Place Day One (2024)
Wicked Little Letters (2024)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Zardoz (1974) - and this for the sheer insanity and effects for the time it was made
 
Others I thought were Not Bad, Not the Best, But still Entertaining:
 
Major Payne (1995) - much funnier than I expected, almost made runner up
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
Past Lives (2023)
Dream Scenario (2023)
The Little Prince (1974)
Addicted (2023)
It Came From Outer Space (1953)
Mononoke The Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (2024)
The Miami Showband Massacre (2019)
Bad Moms
 
Meh
 
Trap (2024)
Rebel Moon Part 1 (2023)
The Shift (2023)
Shin Ultraman (2022)
Musica (2024) (was going extremely well then characters got too stupid)
Mute (2018)
 
Ugh
 
After Death (2023)
The Watchers (2024)
The Immaculate Room (2022)
Kinds of Kindness (2024)
Bad Moms Christmas (2024)
 

Having six kids, three of them 10 and under, I got to go see some Family Movies as well. Ranking them from best to worst:

Best
        Wild Robot (2024)
        Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021)
Very Good
        The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024)
            Wonka (2023)
            Despicable Me 4 (2024)
            Inside Out 2(2024)
        Moana 2 (2024)
Not Bad
            Sonic 3 (2024)
            IF (2024)
        We Have a Ghost (2022)
Terrible
           Garfield (2024)

As an aisde, I rewatched a number of movies, either because I love them and want to see them more than just once, or I was showing the kids for the first time: Man of Steel (2013), Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019); The Hunger Games (2012), Tick Tick Boom (2021) which I watched TWICE last year; Mockingjay Part 2, The Quiet Place, Planet of the Apes (1968), Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971), A Quiet Place 2; 1917; Sing, Don't Look Up; Vanilla Sky (2001), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Aliens (1986), Alien: Resurrection (1997), Rocky (1976), The Car (1977), The Sting, Rocky 4