Movies from 2024 I've seen

December 31, 2024

In the past years I’ve been trying to spend less time watching movies. In 2021 I saw 187 movies, in 2022 I saw 143 movies, and last year in 2023 I saw 103 movies. This year in 2024, I saw less. At least I thought I did until I did the math. One Hundred and Four. 104! One more than the previous year?! In a year where there were more movies I wouldn’t mind seeing, but didn’t have the motivation or urge to actually drive out to see it, or to put aside some time to watch it on a streaming service, I still ended up (relatively) watching a lot of movies still.

Since I stopped writing movie reviews on this website, I’m once again just going to list them all here for you to see. Admittedly I don’t feel too comfortable on where several of these movies rank on the list, and I’m pretty sure you might have strong disagreements on where some of them are. Either way here’s the list of movies from 2024 I've seen.

The Substance
Challengers
Look Back
Twilight Of The Warriors: Walled In
Flow
The Wild Robot
The Fall Guy
Conclave
Heretic
Hit Man
Smile 2
Dune: Part Two
Abigail
Deadpool & Wolverine
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Wicked
Anora
Inside Out 2
Late Night With The Devil
The First Omen
Nosferatu (2024)
Twisters
Alien: Romulus
DiDi
Blink Twice
My Old Ass
The Idea Of You
Immaculate
Rebel Ridge
Transformers One
The Shadow Stays
We Live In Time
It's What's Inside
Love Lies Bleeding
Drive-Away Dolls
Cuckoo
The 4:30 Movie
Oddity
Lisa Frankenstein
The Beekeeper
The Greatest Hits
Boy Kills World
Juror #2
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Ghostbusters Frozen Empire
Monkey Man
The Book of Clarence
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Alienoid: Return to the Future
Trap
Speak No Evil (2024)
Don't Move
Terrifier 3
A Complete Unknown
The Killer's Game
Mufasa The Lion King
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
The Moon & Back
Moana 2
Road House
The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Here
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim
Damsel
Kinds of Kindness
Civil War
A Real Pain
Longlegs
Sasquatch Sunset
Argylle
Saturday Night
Piece By Piece
The Outrun
The Apprentice
Babygirl
Imaginary
The Watchers
Y2K
Werewolves
I Saw The TV Glow
Bad Boys Ride or Die
The Strangers Chapter 1
Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire
Kung Fu Panda 4
Mean Girls (2024)
Night Swim
Red One
Carry-On
The Crow (2024)
Madame Web
Atlas
A Quiet Place: Day One
IF
Miller's Girl
Venom : The Last Dance
Despicable Me 4
The Garfield Movie
Megalopolis
Joker: Folie À Deux
In A Violent Nature
Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver
Borderlands
Never Let Go
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I’m thinking in 2025 I’ll be finally use Letterboxd to track the films I saw. I’m also thinking that in the new year, I’m going to actually want to go back and watch more movies again on a regular basis.

As they say, in hard times people want to escape reality and embrace entertainment. Watching movies is a good distraction to have.

Movies from 2023 I've seen

December 31, 2023

2023 will be the year that I just gave up on watching and reviewing Movies. As of right now, there are no movie reviews on my #isawthatmovie blog for 2023. I decided that forcing myself to watch movies I had no enthusiasm to watch, or having that added pressure to come up with some documented impressions of my experience when I literally had nothing worthwhile to share, was just not what I wanted to spend time on anymore. This is especially when there really aren’t a lot of people looking at my reviews. 2023 is “the year I skipped,” but will 2024 continue that trend? Maybe.

I do want to go back to putting “some” content on that blog, even if it’s just a one sentence reaction to a movie I’ve seen. I do miss having a document of what I have seen throughout the year, which is something that is so very relevant right now as I type this up, as I try to continue my annual tradition of sharing a list of all the movies I’ve seen in the year. I’m literally having to go through my Google Calendar or my digital movie ticket stubs to remind me of what I’ve seen, let alone what I thought of them.

As I ruminate what I’m going to do for my movie going experience in 2024, here below is a list of what I have seen in 2023. At least I’m hoping it’s the complete list and I didn’t forget something I have seen. Going with my theme of 2023, there are a lot more movies that I have not watched yet, or did not want to watch, so there are “holes” in this list for sure.

Overall, 2023 was a mixed bag in terms of quality and releases for movies, due to some obvious factors like the Hollywood strikes, the purposely delayed films, and the method on how they were offered to audiences via movie theaters or streaming services. However, like any year, there are some absolute stand-outs, disappointments, and generally forgettable entrees.

Below is my list of the Movies from 2023 that I have seen. 103 movies at the time this post is published…

Past Lives
Anatomy of a Fall
Spider-Man Across the Spider-verse
Godzilla Minus One
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3
Poor Things
When Evil Lurks
Talk To Me
American Fiction
Saltburn
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Missing
Super Mario Bros: The Movie
John Wick: Chapter 4
No One Will Save You
Totally Killer
Wonka
Elemental
Scream VI
The Marvels
Polite Society
Barbie
TMNT: Mutant Mayhem
Renfield
Cocaine Bear
Evil Dead Rise
Sisu
The Blackening
Asteroid City
Oppenheimer
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning
Strays
Dream Scenario
The World Left Behind
Killers of the Flowers Moon
The Boy and The Heron
Bottoms
Joy Ride
The Machine
Blue Beetle
M3GAN
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
At Midnight
No Hard Feelings
Beau Is Afraid
Air
Sick
A Haunting In Venice
Tetris
Dumb Money
Transformers Rise of the Beasts
Quiz Lady
The Holdovers
Merry Little Batman
Landscape With Invisible Hand
Last Voyage of The Demeter
Shin Kamen Rider
May December
The Flash
Five Nights at Freddy’s
The Creator
Shazam! Fury of the Gods
Creed III
Boston Strangler
Shortcomings
The Boys In The Boat
Knights of the Zodiac
Freelance
Wish
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story
Chang Can Dunk
Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantumania
The Little Mermaid
Ferrari
Napoleon
The Royal Hotel
Eileen
Priscilla
Flora and Son
Opération Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Infinity Pool
The Boogeyman
Ghosted
The Nun 2
Plane
Jung_E
Knock at the Cabin
65
Fast X
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
The Exorcist Believer
Silent Night
Rebel Moon
The Expand4bles
The Retirement Plan
Retribution
The Equalizer 3
Meg 2: The Trench
Insidious - The Red Door
Lupin the 3rd vs Cat’s Eye
Murder Mystery 2
Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey

Movies from 2022 I've seen

December 31, 2022

By the end of 2021, I told myself that I was going to make a harder effort to watch less movies in 2022. I did promise that same strategy for 2021, and that didn’t happen as I saw 187 films anyway. You know what though? I pulled it off for 2022! I “only” saw 143 new movies this past year! That’s lower than the 175 I saw in 2020, and the 145 I saw in 2019… Congratulations to me? Let’s see if I can get a lower number in 2023.

As for the movies in 2022, I grew to greatly appreciate films with a lot of heart, empathy, cleverness, fun, and just those that embraced putting movie magic on screen, more so than I probably ever did before. There were still a lot of movies trying to be incredibly serious or grim dark, but it looks like I didn’t appreciate them as much, and it showed with where they landed on my list.

Another type of movie in 2022 that surprisingly didn’t land super high on my list are Superhero comic book movies! None of them made my top 20! It’s not that they were bad, but I guess I’ve gotten so used to what they have to offer that they don’t impress me as much anymore. Is it superhero movie fatigue? I don’t think so, as I still enjoy watching them quite a bit. They just need to do more to wow me now I suppose.

With the studios and movie theaters still scrambling on what to do with the industry, the amount of films being released has narrowed a bit. The streaming services are an available venue to release films now, but many are realizing that the bubble is about to pop and they can’t keep throwing money into them with wanton abandon. While in some cases like Netflix, seemed to have found a solid reason now as to why theaters need to partner with them more, as proven with the release of Glass Onion. We’ll see how this all plays out in 2023 and 2024, to see if they all can finally find a proper balance.

As for my list below, it is once again a Top 50 from the year. They all land in my “LOVED IT” and most of the “ENJOYED IT” grades. The numbering is a bit flexible as to where the films land, but this gets the general idea on how much more I liked a movie over another. It is of course an incomplete sampling of movies as I once again only focused on films that were easily accessible to me, as I prefer writing reviews for movies that my readers are actually able to check out for themselves. Some of them I just didn’t have time for.

For the other 93 movies that I saw in 2022, feel free to browse through the #isawthatmovie Archives…

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the 2022 released films that I might still check out in 2023 are…

Women Talking, All Quiet on the Western Front, Aftersun, Living, Bardo, Emergency, Empire of Light, Corsage, Causeway, Good Luck To You Leo Grande, Cha Cha Real Smooth, The Inspection, A Man Called Otto, Broker, Emancipation, and I'm sure there's more...

P.S. I’m changing things up once again with the #isawthatmovie blog for 2023. I want it to be even simpler for me to write up a movie review. You’ll see…

Movies from 2021 I've seen

December 31, 2021

How is it that during the Year I decided I was going to watch LESS movies was the year I’ve actually seen the most movies in one year? Out of all the movies that premiered in 2021, I was able to see 187 of them. Around 60 of them were at a movie theater while the rest were from the many streaming services I subscribe to.

First off, I want to give thanks to HBO Max / Warner Bros for providing the day and date releases of their movies. I know I took advantage of that convenience. Appreciate it.

Secondly, I don’t think I’ll ever see a movie theater screening sold out ever again. Spider-Man No Way Home made all the money in the world, and the opening night screening I went to wasn’t even sold out. Compare that to the MCU releases pre-pandemic and it’s got to make you wonder.

Thirdly, due to the delays and the pandemic, the variety of movies released in 2021 was a smorgasbord of a lot of non-blockbuster films. That meant that I ended up seeing more genres and stories that you don’t normally see in theaters. That’s not necessarily an automatic win.

Due to the smaller non-blockbuster budgets, there seemed to be a similar quality among those movies. I feel like I’ve seen the most “B” quality grade films in 2021 than in any other years. In my grading scale, that’s either an “ENJOYED IT” or a “LIKED IT.”

Studios are playing it safer, hence the similar grade in quality? Maybe. Either that, or I need to be more specific with my grades. I know this was the hardest list I’ve ever had to sort through, and I’m still not completely comfortable with where the movies are ordered on this list.

Speaking of which, here’s the list below that shows my top favorite 50 movies out of the 187 movies I’ve seen released in 2021. There are still a lot of films I haven’t seen yet, so this is an incomplete sampling.

CCSE

November 30, 2021

Without a huge presence by Movies/TV studios, the big Comic Book publishers, and a lot less outside interactive events, was Comic-Con Special Edition just not as good as it usually is? Yes.

Was Comic-Con Special Edition still a good geeky time in San Diego? Yes.

Do we want Comic-Con Special Edition instead of the regular version? No.

Can both versions of Comic-Con exist? Sure, but that depends on CCI.

The truth of the matter is that while Comic-Con Special Edition was a nice relaxing throwback to the simpler days of Comic-Con, and was still able to offer some familiar entertainment that would be found at the regular summer show, the truth of the matter is that this was just us accepting that CCSE had to be the way it is because we’re still in a pandemic.

For those who prefer the larger event, give them a break.
For those who prefer this smaller event, hope you enjoyed it, because that’s not going to be a normal thing outside of the pandemic. WonderCon also says hi.

Check out my instagram posts from the event linked below…

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CWyWMLyvMGw/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CWzuCP4r-tb/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CW0xXqRpRcH/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CW2TqUirBdx/

https://www.instagram.com/p/CW3vXh6PnYq/

Brazilian Food Ranking Challenge

October 31, 2021

It’s not often you’ll see me in a video, and it’s because I much prefer to be a behind the camera kind of guy. I’m not exactly photogenic enough for video, which is why I do an audio podcast! However, our friends from the Grand Geek Gathering invited me to participate in one of their “Most Exquisite Ranking Challenge” on Brazilian food, and I’m not one to turn down free food. So check it out y’all!