Best movies of 2024 were

I didn't watch a single movie released in 2024.

decent list except that better man shit
i'd include a complete unknown because of its great direction

A Complete Unknown was generic as shit, what great direction? Todd Haynes made the perfect Dylan biopic with I'm Not There, Mangold's Wikipedia Recital was pointless.

Because you have dogshit like Megalopolis and Joker on there and not kinos like the brutalist or anora

what great direction?

youtu.be/BL78DZrsfKM?t=89

They're not dogshit, they're just challenging. I liked Anora and it would've been #6. Didn't see The Brutalist, but I'm interested.

midwit YouTube video essay

yike

cope

Not even top, just movies i kinda liked
Deadpool vs wolverine
I saw tv glow
Anora

Joker was genuinely just a failure, but Megalopolis is fever dream boomer kino.

Still can't cashiers didn't put it on the list

I'm not gonna watch it but I see Emilia Perez on the timestamp and if he is just shitting on that movie direction wise there he is confirmed midwit cause despite all the normalfaggot seethe Emilia Perez was in fact the best directed movie of all the nominated after Nickel Boys.

how was emilia perez well directed? be specific.

Megalopolis was too obvious of a "we're being special" pick cause even before the movie came out everyone was going "this is going to be shat upon on release but will earn a core audience that might turn it into a cult classic" this is why Armond White also did not make a positive review on it, liking Megalopolis is not actually contrarian enough. Instead Cahiers went with a mediocre Shyamalan flick. I wanted to enjoy Trap but the second half of the film is fucking lazy and boring. No outlandish shit, just dumb stuff that's not dumb enough to be entertaining.

It's extremely eclectic, Audiard puts to shame Buz Luhrmann's attempts at deliberate tonal clashes for the sake of transgression. It's almost Ken Russel tier in that regard. In terms of cinematography, general production choices, in-scene editing and sound design, general way the tone just shifts like crazy seamlessly, that all was great. But I don't think the movie is good because it has one fatal flaw, and that's the structure. I think it should have been longer because it feels more like a series of vignettes even thought the basic storyline lends itself more to some sort of epic-sprawling movie. It should have been at least two and a half hours. I assume the vignette thing might have been also on purpose cause his previous movie was also similar, but that film wasn't a genre and tone hopping extravaganza like Perez was, one poor choice ruined what otherwise was excellently done. Trannies and spics seething cause they somehow failed to comprehend that the stereotypes were part of the camp was really funny tho. I feel like if you showed zoomer queers Rocky Horror Picture Show they would also foam at the mouth about it being problematic even tho the previous homo and tranny generations fucking loved that flick.

SHITPOST STOP

i asked about how it is well directed and you gave a general overview of the movie. what about camera movement, shot composition and blocking?

Megalopolis was a 5/10
Furiosa was a 6/10

Didnt watch any of those. And honestly no idea what any of those are

Thanks for sharing, I didn't see many films that weren't shown in my local AMC so I missed some of these.

I'll give 5th place to the brutalist and an honorary mention to A Complete Unknown.
I like, for example, the widescreen photography that tells a lot of the story through the reactions of background characters — often not even named characters.

Move Better Man to 1 and you have a better list than most critics.

This is why I called out the midwittery. All of this shit is meaningless wank for nerds who treat cinema as math and not art. The shit like "the blocking in this specific shot signifies whatever bullshit" is not something the filmmaker or even the cinematographer thinks about when working. And even when they do that "meaning" of that specific scene is merely a wink at someone in the audience who might notice that, it's a detail, not the main course. Directing and cinematography is important in general, scenes are important in context of each other. Most of the time the blocking, composition, is decided on gut feeling of how the shots will visually bounce off each other when edited together afterwards.
Also, I don't have the whole timeline of the movie on hand with all the specific scenes converted to webms to go into specific edits or camera movements, even if I wanted to. But I can name some interesting choices, like the Busby Berkley inspired overhead shot during the PENIS TO VAGINA song, with some on-screen text (nod to Godard possibly), or music syncing up to weapons being reloaded at the cartel base scene.

wot if violently generic biopic but there's a CGI monkey, fookin wild innit, mum's gonna freak!

1. Megalopolis

dementia filmmaking

2. Hard Truths

idk

3. Better Man

just bee yourself movie. not worth watching

4. Furiosa

cgi slopfest with horribly casted main lead

"the blocking in this specific shot signifies whatever bullshit"

that's not what blocking does. i don't think you know what a director's job is kek.

only watched 27 movies released in 2024
my top rated are:
Des Teufels Bad - 7/10
Longlegs - 6/10
Conclave - 5/10
Sting - 5/10
Juror #2 - 5/10

pretty shit year, so far

Literally every fag YouTube essay is "waow, the use of space in this shot tells out a billion things about the relationship of these characters" and shit like that. Maybe that's different from your view, but you posted a link to some shitty essay like that, so I'm basing off the conversation off that.

nobody in that video is talking about symbolism, kek.

Idk I haven't seen it and I won't. I'm basing my opinion off stereotypes about this crap that I believe to be correct, and will continue doing so. Fuck YouTube shit.

i want to be angry

i'm not stopping you lmao

List has Better Man. It's a good list. Thanks, anon.