Films 2024

[Dubrow555]

Good to see this new forum up and running. Thought I'd kick off the end of the year with some obligatory predictions for the top 20 list:

The Locks: Dune 2, Anora, The Brutalist, Wicked, Emilia Pérez, The Wild Robot, Conclave

The Maybes: The Substance, Challengers, Furiosa, Inside Out 2, Deadpool + Wolverine, Flow, Nosferatu, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine As Light, Gladiator II, A Real Pain,

The Longshots: Memoir of a Snail, Look Back, The Room Next Door, I'm Still Here, Civil War, Kinds of Kindness, Didi, I Saw the TV Glow, Love Lies Bleeding, Babygirl, Longlegs, Queer, The Apprentice, Heretic, The Girl with the Needle, Maria, Moana 2, No Other Land, A Different Man, Hard Truths


Hope everyone is doing well.

[Fido]

From what I've seen people talk about I'd say The Substance, Challengers, Furiosa and Inside Out 2 are also locks, unless they flopped absurdly or were panned and I'm not aware.

[Tim]

Inside Out 2 surpassed The Lion King to become the highest-grossing animated film of all time and is currently the 8th highest grossing film of all time.

[Dubrow555]

From what I've seen people talk about I'd say The Substance, Challengers, Furiosa and Inside Out 2 are also locks, unless they flopped absurdly or were panned and I'm not aware.

I'd agree with all of that. Furiosa was a box office disappointment but it's very well liked. IO2 doesn't have great acclaim.....but with popularity like that it's hard to deny a spot somewhere in the back half of the Top 20. I'm considering up to 5-6 animated movies for my list personally.

[Dubrow555]

Hope you don't mind an early first draft before the new year (obviously a lot can change):

1. Dune: Part Two
2. Anora
3. The Brutalist
4. Wicked
5. Challengers
6. The Substance
7. Conclave
8. Emilia Pérez
9. The Wild Robot
10. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

[ManPerson]

Inside Out Part 2 should be a lock for the top 10, tbh. Easily the most popular film of the year with really good reviews as well.

[Tim]

Yeah thinking Dubrow's list is pretty strongly slanted toward the acclaim part of equation.

[Dubrow555]

IDK...just seems like another Pixar movie to me. The reviews are good, but not that good - The Wild Robot in particular is much more critically acclaimed and has higher audience scores. IS2 certainly is a lock though, I think I have it around slot #13 right now.

[Dubrow555]

Yeah thinking Dubrow's list is pretty strongly slanted toward the acclaim part of equation.

You thinking Deadpool 3 belongs in the top ten maybe?

[Sherick]

Thing is, other than Dune and maybe Wicked I guess, all the big moneymakers sucked

[Dubrow555]

I was gonna say...do you guys foresee Despicable Me 4, Moana 2, Gozilla x Kong, Kung Fu Panda 4, or Venom 3 as top 20 worthy??

[Tim]

Judging by the past years, I don't think so. I just don't see Inside Out 2 as low as you got it unless we heavily favor acclaim over popularity. Deadpool & Wolverine being in the top 10 isn't out of the question to me, given that the first Deadpool made it to the top 10 of 2016.

[ManPerson]

I was gonna say...do you guys foresee Despicable Me 4, Moana 2, Gozilla x Kong, Kung Fu Panda 4, or Venom 3 as top 20 worthy??

Arguing for moving up one of the highest grossing movies of all time with solid reviews =/= arguing that every shitty blockbuster is top 20 worthy.

[Tim]

My rough 2024 draft:

Dune: Part Two
Wicked
Anora
Inside Out 2
The Brutalist
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Challengers
The Substance
Conclave
The Wild Robot

Nosferatu
All We Imagine as Light
Deadpool + Wolverine
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Emilia Pérez
I'm Still Here
Flow
Gladiator II
Nickel Boys
Civil War

[Zach]

I saw The Substance a couple nights ago. Holy shit, what a crazy flick. Loved it. Definitely echoes of Kubrick, Lynch, and Cronenberg.

[Dubrow555]

I saw The Substance a couple nights ago. Holy shit, what a crazy flick. Loved it. Definitely echoes of Kubrick, Lynch, and Cronenberg.

It's a top ten of the year-worthy achievement for sure.