What's everyone's favourite 2018 movie so far?
Favorite 2018 movie seen in theaters/released this year, or in general?
I think I've seen 59 (new) movies so far. If we're talking about 2018 films, I think
An Elephant Sitting Still stands out the most (so far). Spoke about it when I caught it at a festival back in May. It's 3h50 long but man I was glued from beginning to end... it's a really, really heavy drama of sorts. Here's a recent trailer for it:
I know a 4 hour long film is not for everyone, but yeah. A few days ago someone uploaded the full thing on youtube, but it had no subtitles, and it has since been taken down, but if anything it could mean that sooner or later it'll hit the web, which is something I wasn't expecting for this film.
As for other films that I've seen/hadn't seen before,
Hard To Be a God (which I've also talked about at length) is probably at the very top of my favorites of the year so far. Nearly 3 hours long as well (seeing a pattern here lul) it's simply mindblowing, there's absolutely nothing quite like it, but it's obviously one of those hate-it-or-love-it films. I personally loved it, and I'm still working my way through seeing a bunch of films in a similar vein.
If you want a unique experience, you should give it a shot. The level of immersion is out of this world, which is quite fitting given the story. There's a plot, but it's not the "main" thing throughout the whole movie, so it's no surprise that you have people claiming that they didn't get it/nothing happens/etc.
Thelma was also really, really good in almost every aspect. Saw it back in January and I know there was one or two things I could've done without, but it was nearly perfect for me, and the soundtrack really elevated the film into something else.
Charisma (best seen after watching Cure, by the same director),
Visitor of a Museum,
The Great Buddha+ and
The Return were also some of my favorites so far.
One on my watchlist is You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay's next film after We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011). From what I'm told this isn't a movie to take lightly so despite wanting to see it I won't exactly rush to do so. IIRC this movie was mentioned in the thread before.
Yeah, I saw it. If you can, I think you should see it in theaters. Unfortunately my experience was partially ruined by other patrons, but whatever.
It was good and enjoyable, with some very striking, memorable and hard to forget scenes, but I expected a little more from it.
One thing I find myself saying a lot lately is "
yeah, I liked it, but I wish I could've seen more of it/the characters", and I thought the same about You Were Never Really Here.
And like, that's not necessarily bad, but with 89mins running time I kinda wanted a bit more, like an extra 10-15mins.
I liked the film, it also had a pretty good OST, but I think We Need To Talk About Kevin is still the superior film when you take all things into account.
I watched a few horror movies too.
Hereditary - I don't like it as much as others, still a good horror movie. Collette will win stuff.
Raw - A coming of age story... with gore and cannibalism. This is worth seeing for sure, the cover might put you off.
Saw Hereditary with a friend. He didn't like it, but I did, which goes to show how it truly is a divisive film. I liked it a lot, but it didn't quite reach the hype-meter which had been set pretty damn high thanks to... well, everyone, really.
Saw Raw at a film festival last year. I liked it, but I thought the "twist"/ending reveal was a bit dumb and unnecessary, and kinda took away a lot of the serious tone set in the film beforehand. I mean, I get it, I understand why it's there and what it probably means, but it just didn't land for me. I liked everything else about the film - and still do - but that reveal was just ugh, why.
Looks good. Someone in the comments noted the difference in colour to the 1977 movie, which is true/obvious. I'm not exactly sure on terminology... the original was 'strong' with it's colours, while the remake uses a more 'dull' palette.
The original one - and most of Dario's films - fall in the genre that is "giallo". If you google giallo films/giallo horror you'll see that the cinematography is pretty similar, with lots of striking colors and whatnot.
The duo Bruno Forzani/Hélène Cattet have been making films in that style, the most recent one being
Let The Corpses Tan.
I mean, visually it looks very interesting, and totally looks like something out of the 70s/80s period, but that's the thing with their movies: you're either in it for the visuals, or you're gonna have a very bad time with the story/plot/continuity.
I haven't seen any of their stuff yet (could've seen that one^ at a festival but decided not to) but someday I might. Look at this teaser for example, back when it was first released I thought it was pretty cool/creepy/strange, but that's all their films in a nutshell anyway:
As for Suspiria, I haven't seen the trailer yet, and probably won't 'o'.
The film is gonna be 2h32 long (or something) and I really want to go in as blind as possible. Haven't even seen the original yet, but I'll watch it beforehand.
Another movie coming up that I really want to believe in with all my heart and soul is the the Shane Black Predator movie. I don't though. I really don't. The original Predator movie is one of my all time favorites. But the trailer..
For me I don't see how this new Predator is any different that Alien Vs. Predator 2. From the trailer, they look nearly identical, it's all the same thing.
At least the Adrien brody Predator from 2010 attempted something new and I think it was the most interesting thing done in the Alien/Predator movies since the originals.
Godzilla (2014) and what's the other one?
You don't mean the 1998 Godzilla right?!
Well there was Shin Godzilla in 2016, made by Hideaki Anno (Neon Genesis Evangelion)...
