Benjamin Olson
Hero
I've got a movie pass last June so I've seen a lot of new releases since then. By contrast I was in rural Alaska until May and saw absolutely no new releases. So this last 6 months and a bit:
Best Movie: Hard to say. I saw both One Battle After Another and Bugonia and they're both masterfully put together Oscar bait type films that play into our particular historical moment, so I assume the awards shows will be all over them. Hamnet was also a gorgeous and wonderfully acted movie.
But screw all that highbrow crap. Good Fortune examined class struggle while also being consistently hilarious and never boring, Predator: Badlands managed to be an actual good genre franchise retread movie (a rare unicorn indeed) and the Spinal Tap sequel was a pretty good sequel to Spinal Tap, and no movie of this year I saw is as weighty a cultural event as Spinal Tap.
Superman was the only movie I bothered to see in the theater a second time, when once again for me doing so is free, though there are others I might have if they'd stuck around longer.
Honorable mention to Deathstalker for being a surprisingly good no budget sequel to a shlocky 80s fantasy movie (another one in the "rare unicorn indeed" class).
But it's really a pretty lame year for movies on the whole I've got to say, or at least has been since I returned from the Arctic.
Best Movie: Hard to say. I saw both One Battle After Another and Bugonia and they're both masterfully put together Oscar bait type films that play into our particular historical moment, so I assume the awards shows will be all over them. Hamnet was also a gorgeous and wonderfully acted movie.
But screw all that highbrow crap. Good Fortune examined class struggle while also being consistently hilarious and never boring, Predator: Badlands managed to be an actual good genre franchise retread movie (a rare unicorn indeed) and the Spinal Tap sequel was a pretty good sequel to Spinal Tap, and no movie of this year I saw is as weighty a cultural event as Spinal Tap.
Superman was the only movie I bothered to see in the theater a second time, when once again for me doing so is free, though there are others I might have if they'd stuck around longer.
Honorable mention to Deathstalker for being a surprisingly good no budget sequel to a shlocky 80s fantasy movie (another one in the "rare unicorn indeed" class).
But it's really a pretty lame year for movies on the whole I've got to say, or at least has been since I returned from the Arctic.
