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For the academy awards, to its defense, it was competing against Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral, or the Madness of King George. I can b
by cm2187 8mo ago
For the academy awards, to its defense, it was competing against Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump, Four Weddings and a Funeral, or the Madness of King George. I can barely name one good movie a year these days, and certainly none that makes it to the oscars. The contrast with the 90s is brutal.
- ignoramous 8mo ago> can barely name one good movie a year these days Not really. Of the recent movies, Everything Everywhere All at Once is a storytelling masterpiece. Since you mentioned it, I personally rate it alongside Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
- jacquesm 8mo agoFunny, I thought it was absolutely terrible.
- SideburnsOfDoom 8mo agoYMMV. I found EEAAO to be engaging but shambolic. It was an experiment that kinda worked, kinda not. The chaos of it can't be cleaned up, it's intrinsic to the concept. It's not going to a template for lots of similar films. It's more of a one-off. But anyway, that was several years ago, it stretches the meaning of "recent".
- karmakurtisaani 8mo agoLast year's winner Anora was also excellent.
- SideburnsOfDoom 8mo agoYMMV. I found Anora quite tiresome - all of the people depicted were awful and stupid, and the point that it made was so basic that it could have been made in 10 minutes flat. I'd call it "preachy" but that's overselling it.
- karmakurtisaani 8mo agoFair enough, not everyone needs to like the same things. In fact, I had a rather negative view on Shawshank Redemption, but it's been too long since I saw it that I barely remember why.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 8mo agoThis was a good movie, but what was it up against. Were there 4 or 5 other movies of comparable goodness that any of could have won the oscar? So 'can barely name one good movie' is apt here. There are some, but way fewer and farther between.
- relaxing 8mo agoThat’s only one movie.
- delichon 8mo ago> Everything Everywhere All at Once is a storytelling masterpiece I thought it was so awful I gave up half way through. Maybe it gets better after that. But I agree on Pulp Fiction.
- ec109685 8mo agoMe too. And love pulp fiction. Just used Mr. Wolf to reference a situation at work.
- specialp 8mo agoThe "OK, let's not start sucking... yet " is the one that comes to mind during production fires but can't use that one at work unfortunately
- neversupervised 8mo agoAgreed. Not as good a film as it was advertised to be.
- testing22321 8mo agoMe too. Extremely loud, lots of flashing and fast cuts. I genuinely didn’t really think there was a story, just spectacle.
- pan69 8mo agoSame here. I got extremely annoyed with the constant ridiculous fight scenes. About halfway through I gave up.
- tptacek 8mo agoIt's Children of Men crossed with The Big Lebowski, with Pynchon instead of noir characters. When you get what it's trying to do, it gets better. I bounced off of it at first, but I bounced (hard) off of Lebowksi as well. I don't think it's PTA's best film (or that I will come around to that opinion eventually), but it's pretty good.
- ProllyInfamous 8mo agoEverything Everywhere... is a much better movie than the incredible Pulp Fiction. Some of the visual effects are actually psychedelic (I've "seent" them), and the storytelling is exceptional. The scene where the antagonist is walking down a hallway while the background keeps changing — is among the best fight scenes / visuals in any film, ever.
- tptacek 8mo agoI think you're going to see more and more people saying things like that as the audience gets younger and more people see the antecedents of Pulp Fiction before they see Pulp Fiction itself. There wouldn't be an EEAaO without Pulp Fiction. Even setting its influence aside, Pulp Fiction is the better movie.
- padjo 8mo agoI wouldn't even rate pulp fiction highly on Tarantino's filmography. I tried watching it recently and found it to be incredibly pretentious and overwritten.
- ProllyInfamous 8mo agoIt's quintessential-Tarantino, but I don't ever recommend it anymore (start with Django or Reservoir Dogs). Decades ago I shared this movie with college friends — mostly because we enjoyed decadence. If you've not seen Pulp Fiction by 2026 [0], how can I safely recommend you submit yourself to hours of semi-disconnected robberies, rapes, and deceit? It's a great movie, EEAaO is just better storytelling. [0] similarly, how does one recommend the acclaimed Deliverance without blushing?
- padjo 8mo agoFunnily enough I deeply dislike Django too and think Reservoir Dogs is good but extremely raw and unrefined. My favourites of his are probably Once upon a time, Jackie Brown and Deathproof, with an honourable mention for Basterds.
- wat10000 8mo agoEEAO was four years ago now.
- trainfromkansas 8mo agoEverything Everywhere All at Once was the last time I sat in a theater where, for the first half at least, I thought I was watching an instant classic. But that movie just dragged on, and now I look back and see it as a bungled opportunity. It could've been so much tighter in the edit. They could've cut a third of the movie and made the whole thing so much better.
- brandall10 8mo agoThis has generally been my experience with most highly acclaimed movies over the past 10 years. Most recently had this w/ Marty Supreme... last year had this w/ The Brutalist and The Substance. The first half has me thinking instant classic, my hope is sky high. But then toward the end I find myself looking at my watch and realize it's simply not going to the stick the landing. OTOH, many acclaimed streaming series have generally done this well. My take is that as long-form storytelling has evolved, movies have transitioned into this post-modernist phase as directors/writers don't feel they have the runway to tell something truly cohesive that doesn't end up being trite. It's much more about saying 'something' or imbuing a feeling than telling a fully fleshed 3 act story.
- jhbadger 8mo agoI did like how The Brutalist at least included an intermission the way long movies used to do.
- watwut 8mo ago> They could've cut a third of the movie and made the whole thing so much better. It would become just an action movie with crazy plot then.
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- dietr1ch 8mo ago> They could've cut a third of the movie and made the whole thing so much better. I feel that way with Inception. That out of nowhere 30-minute snow action part dragged on forever.
- realityloop 8mo agoHere are the only notables I can think of since Everything Everywhere Triangle of Sadness https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7322224 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7322224 Coming Home in the Dark https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6874762 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6874762
- tptacek 8mo agoYou can only think of 2 notable films since 2022? * American Fiction * The Holdovers * Oppenheimer * Perfect Days(!) * Nosferatu * Conclave * Challengers * The Mastermind I can rattle off more but those seem pretty hard to argue with. All of them are better than EEAAO.
- shiroiuma 8mo agoI just watched "Frankenstein" (by Guillermo del Toro) from last year, and thought it was pretty fantastic. "Flow" in 2024 was also fantastic.
- nunez 8mo agoI found Nosferatu to be a snooze fest (watched it in the theater by myself so I could take it all in) but maybe it needs a rewatch.
- tptacek 8mo ago
- stinkbeetle 8mo ago> > can barely name one good movie a year these days > Not really. Not really meaning you can't really name one good movie a year (i.e., agreeing with OP)? Because your example of a good recent movie was 4 years ago.
- crossroadsguy 8mo agoGoodness no. It was such a drag! That movie became famous from the hype. I couldn’t finish it. I am really wary of famous + acclaimed films now. These days this combo almost always disappoints. Like Nolan films. I know he has a massive “fan base” now and anything he churns out will become crazy famous and an instant classic. Anything!
- voisin 8mo agoTrain Dreams
- _dark_matter_ 8mo agoUnbelievable film. I am so appreciative this was made.