It definitely deserves consideration for best picture. Not much competition this year:
https://ew.com/awards/tracking-top-2023-oscars-contenders/
The movie was good, but I wouldn't give it more that 7.5/10, maybe just 7/10. The story was quite simple, nothing unexpected, but nice action scenes, nicely made.
I find mission impossible movies more entertaining.
Yeah but was there a MI movie this year?
shareHmm ok you have a point.
From this year I liked The Batman, The Northman, Bullet Train (this one was really fun). But I'd probably give all the movies same rating...
I think the sheer feat of filmmaking gives TGM the edge
shareI guess. Now I recall The Gray Man, I might have liked that one a little bit more than TGM, but I think nothing stands out much to me this year.
shareThe weak field definitely works in TGM favor.
But TGM accomplished something many films don't.... they hit all 4 quadrants pretty strongly. I took my 70-something parents. They loved it. I took my preteens, boy and girl....They loved it. My wife isn't really into movies. She was impressed. The teens, the middle ages, the old crusties, the bros and the chicks... all have something for them in this.
Unpredictably doesn't always automatically equal better.
Yeah I know. It could be that TGM is good for everyone.
shareIron, I don't want to sound mean here but (for me) you just discredited yourself by praising the northman. Dude, really? That movie sucked on so many levels.
in any case, the best of year award was only comparing it to other releases this year.
Well it has 7.1/10. I liked it because it seems well done, authentic, interesting. But I'm not saying it was highly entertaining, the rating is probably spot on.
Well to each their own...
I for one don't go according to ratings, all I know is I paid $12 for a ticket and couldn't make it past 45 minutes so I walked out.
Yes I guess we all see things differently. I don't see what was entertaining about it. I kept waiting for the story to begin.
To be fair, going by ratings is a good gauge on where your opinion is in relation to the general audience.
For example TGM doesn't have 10/10 and is doesn't have 100 on RT. That means somebody thought TGM wasnt good or was trash. Are they wrong having an opinion? No. But doest their opinion represent the quality of this film? Fuck no.
It's good, but I don't think it is one of the best films of the year.
sharefascinating.
what would you say is a better one, from that year?
IMO it's undeniably the best one released.
I can name several better films:
(in alphabetical order)
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Batman
Blonde
Crimes of the Future
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
The Fabelmans
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Men
Nope
Pearl
Thor: Love and Thunder
Turning Red
The Woman King
X
eh, we have way different tastes lol
sharemaybe you should title it "favorite" instead of "best" then.
tastes implies one is being more subjective than objective.
i get it dude but honestly, isnt that being contrarian to a fault?
at the end of the day even life itself and oxygen and water are debatable. hence, some people drown themselves, or commit suicide some other way. NOTHING is absolute to someone who is BOUND to be contrarian. but hey there's also something known as splitting a hair. if you have a problem with the semantics of the article's headline, contact the publisher.
but then you also need to go around the world for the rest of your life mitigating every other GD word in the webster's dictionary (ketchup, sky, grass, apricot, horse, plastic, metal, alphabet, cell phone, cotton, football, paper, woman, man--- WAIT. MY BAD. THEY ARE ALREADY ARGUING OVER THESE LAST TWO, LMAO
in short, what's NOT subjective? so having said that, that we acknowledge that EVERY thing in the world is subjective and open to interpretation, then why mention that word to begin with?
i always go back to little marie in rocky who when he told her smoking will turn her teeth yellow, she retorted "I like yellow teeth!"
lmao
thanks
don't get me wrong, i loved Maverick. i served in Naval Aviation for 24 years. they filmed some scenes at my last duty station. somehow i am more excited for the next Mission Impossible movies.
what i have learned later in life is that sometimes there is a difference between favorite and best. when i was growing up Jim Carrey was my favorite actor. but i knew he wasn't the best actor. LotR is my favorite movie. but the best movie i've ever seen is Children of Men.
and if this the only 2022 movie you've seen, it's also your least favorite.
you are making a miscalculation here. i didn't say it's best of the year, I just posted the AP article.
but also, i don't think anyone really believes a 'best' label is actually meant to be taken as a measured quantity. it's just saying it was voted for by viewers.
24 years is a good stretch.
By far best film of 2022
shareto the naysayers, look bro i am probably older than all of you, and i have to say (sorry!) that maybe the issue is some of yall have a taste in movies that has been (unfortunately) skewed by your place on the timeline. ie, maybe some people don't realize what a good movie is?
personally i can't see why anyone wouldn't 'get it' about this film winning, but hey, to each his own.
there's a lot zoomers and millennials don't get. (no offense)
maybe some people don't realize what a good movie is?
WELL SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you
to everyone, I did not say this is the best of 2022. *AP* said it is the best of 2022.
I just posted the article.
cheers
I enjoyed this ONE HELL OF A LOT more than I ever thought I would, and I only watched it because I have Paramount+. To be clear, I have never liked Tom Cruise, per se, but I’ve enjoyed some—and not enjoyed others—of his movies. (“You had me at ‘Hello’” Really??) I’ve I’ve always pictured
Jerry Bruckheimer’s pic next to a steaming pile of dung in an encyclopedia; but—and maybe I am getting senile—this grabbed me and I am glad. It avoided the mawkish and the sentimental. It acknowledged Maverick’s age and errors. I think the singular development was that it FORCED Maverick to be a teacher, to be responsible for his students. I think he feared that responsibility heretofore. There are 2 wise sayings that come to mind: (1) When the student is ready, the teacher appears. (2) The highest honor a student can pay to the teacher is to surpass the teacher.
Tbh, this movie reminded more than a little bit of Stealth, the Frankenstein’s-monster-as-an-AI-fighter-jet movie. The whole point of Stealth was that the hardware can exceed limits that will kill a person. The protagonist says, “I’m the point of the sword, up there. I HAVE to be in the 99th percentile!” And then he exceeds them.
I like that this movie shows a cocky young hot shot who is scared to death of being imperfect and has a chip on his shoulder the size of Idaho. He is just like young Maverick was.
So this is a long-winded way of saying that I enjoyed this not because of the spectacular cinematography, nor the spot-on editing nor the cliche-free script and dialogue, nor the granite-solid casting (when you want a great senior, you call Ed fucking Harris). I liked it most of all because it showed that Maverick grew up, but he did not grow old.
“I have a home where dreams are born/and time is never planned/It’s not on any chart/You must find it with your heart/Never-Never Land . . . .”
One day my friend and I went to his house and decided to buy some snacks and watch a movie because it was raining outside. As soon as we entered https://ww2.soap2day.day/, we immediately saw that Top Gun Maverick was released. After viewing, we had a very cool impression! This movie is truly the best movie of the year!
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