Topic: 2018 in review
Another year done. We did it! So, here's a thread to talk about the year in movies, or our years in general. Whatever, go nuts!
Movies
2017 was maybe the best year for film this decade. 2018 was . . . weirdly anticlimactic, but there was still some fantastic stuff. MVP for me is obviously Phantom Thread, which I went on about at length in the "Last movie you watched" thread the other day. Most of my other favorites were also indie flicks, but we also got Mission Impossible: Fallout, one of the greatest action movies of this century, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which is easily my favorite superhero movie ever and one that I desperately hope will be a bigger influence on the otherwise stale genre. Netflix also managed to do some great stuff despite itself, including releasing Orson goddamn Welles' final film forty years after photography wrapped.
I did some capsule reviews of my favorite movies, books, TV, music, and video games first encountered this year in a blog post here (also visible to family and such, so it's under my old name), but for this thread I'll just post a ranked list of the 2018-released movies I watched this year. I've listed the streaming platforms where each is available for free where possible.
1. Phantom Thread [HBO]
2. The Favourite
3. The Other Side of the Wind [Netflix]
4. Shoplifters
5. Mission: Impossible - Fallout
6. Blindspotting
7. The Death of Stalin
8. The Miseducation of Cameron Post
9. First Reformed [Amazon Prime]
10. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
11. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [Netflix]
THE VERY GOOD
12. Hereditary [Amazon Prime]
13. If Beale Street Could Talk
14. Lean on Pete [Amazon Prime]
15. Blackkklansman
16. Widows
17. Unsane [Amazon Prime]
18. Madeline's Madeline [Amazon Prime]
19. Mandy [Shudder]
20. The Commuter
21. Leave No Trace
THE GOOD
22. Roma [Netflix]
23. You Were Never Really Here [Amazon Prime]
24. Disobedience [Amazon Prime]
25. Thoroughbreds
26. The Tale [HBO]
27. They'll Love Me When I'm Dead [Netflix]
28. Won't You Be My Neighbor?
29. Eighth Grade [Amazon Prime]
30. Sorry to Bother You
31. Paddington 2 [HBO]
32. Annihilation
33. Searching
34. Bad Times at the El Royale
35. Overlord
36. A Star Is Born
THE MIXED
37. Vox Lux
38. The Post
39. Mom and Dad [Hulu]
40. Black Panther
41. Dirty Computer [YouTube]
42. The First Purge
43. Halloween
44. Game Night
45. First Man
46. Support the Girls
47. Wildlife
48. Mid90s
49. A Quiet Place
50. At Eternity's Gate
51. Operation Finale
52. The Sisters Brothers
THE POOR
53. Ocean's 8
54. A Wrinkle in Time
55. Tully
56. Isle of Dogs
THE TERRIBLE
57. Pacific Rim: Uprising
58. Solo: A Star Wars Story
59. On Chesil Beach
60. Suspiria
61. The Cloverfield Paradox
62. Bohemian Rhapsody
63. The Seagull
64. Proud Mary
65. Gotti
Life
Of all the years I've lived through, 2018 has certainly been the most recent.
Work has been a consistent nightmare for the last several months—the publisher I work for is in an awkward phase where business is getting better and better but there are only two of us for the entire production team, so I've had to pull stuff like proofreading 160,000 words within 48 hours and figuring out how to get books printed and shipped within four business days. It's basically been a year of trying to keep my head above water. The continued political armageddon that is American politics hasn't exactly helped the feeling.
That said, good things have happened too! There's been art I've loved, and experiences worth remembering. I'm coming to terms with gender identity stuff that's been brewing for a longass time. I got to record a podcast with Teague motherfucking Chrystie. And as always, the awesome people around here have been a pleasure to hang with, whether that means arguing about Christmas music for two hours straight or ranting about movies or listening to The Hyacinth Disaster again.
Here's to a 2019 full of friends in our heads!
Last edited by Abbie (2019-01-01 22:02:39)