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Favorite and Worst Movies of 2020?

posted 3 years ago by billbrown7071 (3193)
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Very weird year due to the pandemic, not a lot of major movies came out, so this year I added a few series to my favorite list, I usually only count movies though

Mine-

1. The Haunting of Bly Manor-9/10(not a movie, but I binged it in 1 day so it felt like a movie, by far my favorite thing of 2020)

2. The Mandalorian Season 2-9/10(not a movie, but I binged it in 1 day so it felt like a movie)

3. Bad Boy For life-8.5/10

4. The Invisible Man-8.5/10( the surprise of 2020 for me)

5. Borat Subsequent Moviefilm-8/10( not as great as the all time classic original but still pretty good and Maria Bakalova stole the movie for me)

6. Sonic the Hedgehog-7.5/10(just Fun)

7. Bill & Ted Face the Music-7.5/10

8. Extraction-7/10( a few pretty great action sequences)

9. Hubie Halloween-6.5/10( by far Adam sandler's best movie in years but that's not saying much because this wasn't very good either, somewhat fun though)

10. The New Mutants-7/10( in my opinion not nearly as bad as its reception but a decent comic book movie)

IMO the worst movies of 2020-

1. Wonder Woman 1984-4/10( in my opinion the worst story and most nonsensical plot in comic book movie history, one of the worst endings in movie history, just a massive creative failure)

2. Jiu Jitsu-2/10( I don't expect much from B type action movies but this was absolutely awful, literally some of the worst directed action sequences I've ever seen)

3. Antebellum -6/10( this one is personal for me I don't feel that this is so much a horrible movie as I feel disappointed by the misleading trailers, a lot of trailers are edited to disguise plot points but here the trailer for this film is edited in a way to intentionally lie and trick you, scenes are edited together that aren't even in the movie)

[–] AndyKing1967 (34357) 3 years ago

Best - Tenet 8/10
Worst - New Mutants 3/10 (and I own the complete run of the comic books, so I desperately wanted to like this).

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

i read the first 20 or so issues of new mutants back in the 80s. still have them stashed away in my closet.

haven't seen the movie yet, but i'll get to it one of these days.

i just signed up for the 'marvel unlimited' app, & am currently going through the entire 'amazing spider-man' series, though i'm not sure if i'm gonna read past the 80s (i'm currently on issue 125).

i know i want to go through the avengers up to the 80s as well, walt simonson's thor run, frank miller's daredevil, and the early inhumans stories.

after that i'm not sure where i'll go. if you have any fun marvel titles that you recommend, drop them here. i'm itching to try different things.

[–] AndyKing1967 (34357) 3 years ago

Well, I’ve been collecting comics for over 40 years and I could talk about them all day long, but for me, early 80s John Byrne was amazing. Check out his run on Fantastic Four and also Uncanny X-Men (which featured both the Dark Phoenix saga and Days of Future Past); the guy was on fire!

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

good calls! fantastic four and x-men are both on my revisit list. i've read 'most' of byrne's run on both of those series, but not all.

i grew up in a small town, & we didn't always get perfect distribution, so i have some gaps. i've always wanted to go back and fill them, so now's the time!

[–] AndyKing1967 (34357) 3 years ago

Might prove expensive. Some of those titles are going for $200 a pop.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

i've signed up for the marvel unlimited app, which i believe has 'almost' every classic marvel title in full.

so i'm planning on going through them all digitally. not the same - i'll always prefer the feel of a book over reading something off of a phone - but getting all that access for $70/yr or whatever it was seems like a fair compromise.

& i'll give them full credit: they've done a very slick job of formatting the titles to work on a phone. the panels flow smoothly, sometimes fading into the next scene.

[–] AndyKing1967 (34357) 3 years ago

Sounds like a fair deal. I won’t get into how much I’ve spent over the years.

[–] Who (5146) 3 years ago

Favorite: Greenland - right movie, right time. Captured the zeitgeist of the covid year.
Least: Wonder Woman 1984 - agree, it was truly awful.

[–] KvlhokVjequs (286) 3 years ago

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[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

i wouldn't put gretel and hansel at the bottom of my own list, but i did think it was a real disappointment. love the director's previous film 'the blackcoat's daughter.' that's actually become one of my comfort films that i go back to over and over again.

[–] KvlhokVjequs (286) 3 years ago

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[–] AnubisRaydeen (7897) 3 years ago

Top for me:

1917: 9/10 Yeah, I know it is technically 2019 but wide release was 2020 so that's when I saw it
Midnight Sky: 7.5/10 flawed but good
Extraction: 6/10 Half cringe
The Gentleman: 6/10 Ritchie lite
Greyhound: 6/10 This, Extraction, and Gentleman actually belong in a "in between" category but 2020 had little to like

Worst:

Inheritance: 2/10
You Should Have Left: 3/10
Invisible Man: 4/10
WW2: 2/10
Mulan: 4/10

Some might have been worse (I didn't see Birds of Prey) and some might have been better (wanted to but didn't see Mank) but most looked bad and didn't lure me in at all. Several that were lame but not worst.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

muddled year, for sure.
i watch a lot of movies, and i'll generally see 150 or 200 releases from every year. i 'think' i've only seen 95 or so films from 2020, and a few of those are shorts.

but there were still lots of fun things.

1 the wolf house - most astonishing animation i've ever seen. on criterion and shudder. if there's one film from last year that i wish i could pin every person down and make them watch, it's this.
2 possessor
3 bacurau
4 she dies tomorrow
5 swallow
6 undine
7 dogs don't wear pants
8 saint maud (this may come out - recently re-watched it and liked it a bit less)
9 black bear
10 the deeper you dig

again, an unsettled year, in that, while i like all those films and think the top 5 are all great, the bottom 5 in a normal year might not be top 20 material.

the worst? eh..there was a short i watched on mubi called citadel that i though was really wankerish and up its own arse.

and there was a film called 'the wanting mare' that i only vaguely remember, but recall that it was so ugly and dreary and boring that it felt like watching a 0-0 soccer match in the driving rain.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

I watched 153 films from 2020.

Favourite:

1. Nomadland
2. Trial of the Chicago 7
3. I’m Thinking of Ending Things
4. The Way I See It
5. Disclosure
6. Soul
7. Never Rarely Sometimes Always
8. Cuties
9. Promising Young Woman
10. Hamilton

Worst:

Bobbleheads the Movie
The Devil All the Time
Monstrous
Intersect
The Rhythm Section
Love Wedding Repeat
Holidate
Dolittle
The Witches
Scare Me

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

i really want to catch up with 'never rarely...' it annoyingly has not popped up on any of the streaming sites i use yet.

i just watched 'it felt like love' by that director & liked it quite a bit.

& i'm a big fan of her film 'beach rats' as well.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Never Rarely Sometimes Always is available to stream on Crave. If you don't subscribe to Crave, you could always do a 7 day free trial. For me, it is her best film, a 9/10. I thought Beach Rats was good, but not great, a 7/10. It Felt Like Love was just alright for me, a 6/10.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

i might actually do the crave trial, as there are a few things on that service i'd like to check out. thanks.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Keep in mind I’m usually 6-12 months behind in terms of watching new releases, but of what I saw from ‘20:

Best

His House
The Dry
Disclosure

Worst

Capone
Prom
Wonder Woman 1984