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OK, so it's time for my Best and Worst Movie lists of the particularly wacky, cinema experience-killing year of 2020. While it's impossible to see everything I'd want to in a given year, what made this one particularly awful for more than frequent "single" moviegoers like myself was new release films becoming utterly unaffordable on VOD. Meaning that as much as I'd want to see Let Him Go, there is no way I'm going to drop $20 for the privilege, which seems to be the given price point - leaving me to wait months to see some great films once they had a price drop. And given that the affordable tickets led to the physically safe, but visually and audio-appalling experience of drive-ins, whose hip factor utterly eludes me, there went a whole other bunch of movies. Yet while my way over a 100 views of any other normal year were curtailed, I still saw more than enough to arrive at this list that might inspire or cause consternation. So without further ado, here we go in alphabetic order...
THE MOVIES OF 2020
THE BEST
Freaky
The Ghost of Peter Sellers
Greyhound
His House
Love and Monsters
Mulan
News of the World
The Outpost
The Prom
The Trial of the Chicago 7
THE RUNNERS UP
Amulet
Archive
Arkansas
Bad Education
Call of the Wild
The Invisible Man
The King of Staten Island
Soul
The True History of the Kelly Gang
Words on Bathroom Walls
THE MOST ENTERTAINING
An American Pickle
Becky
Come To Daddy
Extra-Ordinary
Fatman
The Gentlemen
The Hunt
Palm Springs
Underwater
The Wretched
THE MOST DISAPPOINTING
Artemis Fowl
The Christmas Chronicles Part Two
Da 5 Bloods
The Glorias
Hillbilly Elegy
Midnight Sky
Rise of the Synths
Resistance
The Witches
The Wolf of Snow Hollow
THE WORST
Capone
Dolittle
Force of Nature
Gretel and Hansel
Promising Young Woman
Relic
Shirley
Tenet
The Turning
You Should Have Left
You can check out my Best of Scores at:
https://filmmusicinstitute.com/the-best-scores-of-2020/
Here's hoping we can all return to theaters to the end of 2021!
Daniel Schweiger
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Thanks to a combination of theater closures and my own indifference to this movie year (which I was feeling early on well before the cinema shutterings), I'm really out of the loop re 2020.
I did however see Mank, but don't see it on any of the lists here. I would place it in the Disappointing column: Intriguing subject matter, beautifully film by David Fincher and his team, but falls victim to too many predictable biopic tropes.
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Thanks to a combination of theater closures and my own indifference to this movie year (which I was feeling early on well before the cinema shutterings), I'm really out of the loop re 2020.
I did however see Mank, but don't see it on any of the lists here. I would place it in the Disappointing column: Intriguing subject matter, beautifully film by David Fincher and his team, but falls victim to too many predictable biopic tropes.
I started out meh for quite a while on Mank, but by halfway through it really won me over, so I quite liked it at the end. So it fulfilled its promise, just took a long while to do it which is why it avoided the "disappointments" column. Same deal with WW84
As for Mulan, I thought it was absolutely terrific. Was very lucky to see it on the big screen before the shuttering, which certainly helped its impact. As much as I love the animated film, I thought this live action was better, not to mention the best of the Disney live action films at that
As always, what goes on my list is entirely subjective, which is what all film appreciation, and detraction should be about. I could care less about what the vox populi think, but on the other hand am continually amazing at pretentious film snob critics and cineaste FB poseurs throw on their best list to purposefully show they disdain the films that the "regular people" actually enjoy
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Reluctantly have to agree with Tenet being on the worst film list. Pre-ordered it on 4K and settled down to watch it with mounting excitement, only for it to dissipate within minutes and never return for the entirety of the film. It was as if entertainment had been sacrificed for concept. Sorry, Mr Nolan, but it’s a “no” from me. We enjoyed the music, oddly enough.
I don't get Nolan. I just don't, and never have. Emperor's new cloths of utter pretentious, though he's certainly inspired cool music - though not in the case of the repetitive Tenet, which makes zero sense. For a director who's Mr. Smart, it says something that the villain is defeated at the end by suntan lotion. Unendurable
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