What I'm Doing Now i always look out for your twitter opinions haha, and i also found that through roma. ive actually not seen the other two movies you mentioned, will have to get around to it !
The way that Sammy talks about film is so refreshing. He’s clearly passionate about these films and the clarity in the way he describes his experiences of them is not something I have come across much. He should have a film column in a newspaper for sure. Great video and I will be looking up some of these films to watch myself!
YES!!! I've been waiting for this vid since January 1st, ha. Hearing Sammy talk about films never fails to make my days better. Thanks for this video, Sam!
Please don't stop doing these, I genuinely enjoy hearing you talk about films so much! Still so grateful you reminded me to watch Nocturnal Animals the other year X
You have a genuine talent in communicating what you love about films you've watched. I would love a regular video, say monthly or quarterly. I love movies but my life is busy and I am not in the biz, so hearing about films from someone I trust would be fantastic!!
Genuinely feel so validated that you said this year felt a little lower, because I've been feeling it and not felt the hype of many others, and wondering if it was just me. But this is a really cool list - most of which I hadn't really heard of (probably because I'm lazy and just tend to watch the Oscars Best Film noms), but I look forward to checking them out! VICE is up there for me, and from the Oscars list it's what I want to win, but I think my personal favourite of the year might be First Man; not his best work, but Chazelle just knows how to pull on all my strings, and it made me feel so much, and I loved it.
With a lot of video essays that are all about how and why a movies is well made, I find it really refreshing to hear you talk about films being good, not only because they are brilliantly made, but especially because of the reactions, emotions and thoughts they provoke. A good film makes me feel and think, and of course, the better a team works on a film, the bigger and more significant will my reaction be. But first and foremost I look at my reaction and not at the behind the scenes, and I feel like a lot of the time this gets lost in film reviews. So thanks Sammy! I personally liked a lot of German productions this year. Balloon by Michael Herbig and Wackersdorf by Oliver Haffner both hit close to home for me, so they would be in my top 10 for sure.
Will definitely be seeking out the films I haven't seen on your list - but especially Sorry To Bother You. Always find it so interesting when an idea precedes whatever medium it ends up being expressed through.
I remember getting hyped after seeing the trailer for 'sorry to bother you', but it never screened anywhere near me, so glad you've reminded me that I was passionate about it - gonna be sure I see it now!
I look forward to this video every year! I would agree about the slightly lower quality this year. But I will say that Lanthimos is not usually my taste, yet I loved the Favourite. Interesting list overall. I need to check out mid90s and You Were Never Really Here, both movies that I planned to see but just never got around to. Regarding your list, I did not get the appeal of Three Identical Strangers! I was already familiar with much of the story before the documentary, and maybe that's why, but I just felt like the sinister questions they posed early on were much more interesting than anything they uncovered throughout this documentary, which I suppose is the inherent difficulty of making an investigative film. And it's been a while since I saw First Reformed, but I think it was my favorite screenplay of the year, so incredibly inventive and insightful. Except the galaxy scene. I could not get on board with that. My top 10: 1. Shoplifters 2. American Animals 3. Blackkklansmen 4. The Favourite 5. Blindspotting 6. Shirkers 7. Can You Ever Forgive Me? 8. Love, Simon (Not the kind of movie I would usually include on a list like this, but as a collective-theater-audience experience, it is unlike anything else I've seen.) 9. Into the Spiderverse 10. First Reformed
In alphabetical order 1. Anna and the Apocalypse 2. Bad Times at the El Royale 3. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 4. Isle of Dogs 5. Mandy - My #1 favourite 6. Summer of 84 7. Suspiria 8. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 9. Thoroughbreds 10. Umbilical World
ive not seen most of these films but you were never really here was also my favorite! such an incredible film. i’ll be seeking first reformed and three identical strangers today, thank you! i actually found myself pretty disappointed with all the big releases of this year (didn’t enjoy the favorite despite loving yorgos’ previous work, i found blackkklansman a bit lacking, mandy was just too slow-paced for me) but some of my favorites included suspiria, dumplin (what a gem!!!!) shoplifters and strangely enough unfriended: dark web.
YES! THANK YOU SAMMY! Sorry To Bother You was my #1 of 2018 and it seems like everyone is missing it on their top tens or didn't see it and are now dead to me.
yeees love that you mentioned American Animals!!! I loved the genre crossover, it felt like this whole blurring of lines and different memories eventually cumulated in the boys dressing up and pretending to be the old men. i also really, really loved how the movie showed how *hard* it is to commit acts of violence against other humans. like, they didn't murder anyone, they were less violent than any regular American cop is on a day to day basis and yet you could see how hard it was for them to overcome their scruples. and showing that is imo so, so important considering that in so many films it's just normal that people, especially young men, resort to violence, beat somebody unconscious or fire a gun. also totally with you on You Were Never Really Here, actually i'm bummed out that it didn't get a best picture nom. If Beale Street Could Talk was one of my personal faves, i love how barry Jenkins adapted the book, and made everything feel so palpable but i love his work in general so i might be biased there lol
Hi Sammy! I was wondering what you thought about the movie Eighth Grade/if you saw it because I didn’t see it on your short list, but I feel like it captured teenage awkwardness in a similar way that Mid 90s did and that you would really enjoy it!!
So many I haven't seen, gotta get on that. you were never really here was fucking incredible and I'm sad it didn't get some more recognition, wouldn't have known a about it if it wasn't for jack talking about it.
I haven't seen many films on this list (but I am definitely going to watch all of them now). Three Identical Strangers was probably the best film I've seen this year, maybe ever. It was so fascinating and heartbreaking all at the same time.
Your list is basically my current to watch list! I loved what you said about The Favourite, while I seek out LGBT+ stories, I'm glad this wasn't advestised as that, I know a lot of people who sadly wouldn't have gone to see it if it had been but have said they really enjoyed it. We're definitely making progress, just slowly. I'd say stand outs for me this year were Tully, Isle of Dogs, A Simple Favour, The Favourite, Blackkklansmen, Beast.
beautiful boy was my number one. not necessarily my favourite film or even the best one, but it had the most intense impact on me and made me feel the most. it was a story that stayed with me and i think that is a hard thing to achieve with a film and they did it bang on.
1. Widows 2. A Quiet Place 3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 4. Roma 5. You Were Never Really Here 6. Annihilation 7. A Star Is Born 8. The Old Man & the Gun 9. Mission: Impossible - Fallout 10. Bad Times at the El Royale
I almost stood up and screamed when you revealed you #1 pick, which is mine and Jack Howard's as well. Lynne Ramsay is amazing and so is Joaquin Phoenix, can't wait to see him as the Joker! :D My Top 10: (I have not seen Ballad of Buster Scruggs or First Reformed yet) 1. You Were Never Really Here 2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 3. Blindspotting 4. Shoplifters 5. Mandy 6. Hereditary 7. Avengers: Infinity War 8. Green Book 9. Eighth Grade 10. Isle of Dogs HM: The Favourite, Annihilation, MI: Fallout, Searching, The Night Is Short Walk on Girl, Deadpool 2
My favourite film of 2018 was Burning. If you haven't seen it yet, you gotta check it out. I think it's probably something up your alley. Other films I loved: Roma, The Favourite, If Beale Street Could Talk, First Reformed, First Man, The Sisters Brothers, Hereditary, The Old Man & The Gun, Shoplifters and Widows.
Glad to see more people using an original release system for their top 10. Mine is very different though there is one film on both our lists (2 counting your honourable mentions) 10. A Star Is Born 9. Liz and the Blue Bird 8. My Hero Academia: Two Heroes 7. Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms 6. Sorry to Bother You 5. Avengers: Infinity War 4. Black Panther 3. Ralph Breaks the Internet 2. Dragon Ball Super: Broly 1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
I'm not going to do a Top Ten, but here's a few films I really enjoyed this year - Thelma: a Norwegian Fantasy/Horror/Coming of Age/Romance film. Visually interesting, fascinating plot and really dark - Blackkklansman - #FemalePleasure: a Swiss German documentary about several remarkable women around the globe, fighting for justice - Ladybird (living in Germany, I could watch it in april at the earliest, so I'm counting it) - Bodied: a film about battle rap (which I know nothing about) produced by Eminem. It's ironic, and layered, and extremely self-aware - Love, Simon - The Favourite
Oh just thought I'd say for anyone wanting to see American Animals, it's only £1.99 to rent on Amazon prime right now. Watched it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it!
I know this was a very polarising film and a lot of people thought it was overrated. But I was absolutely blown away by Hereditary! I thought everything from the acting to the cinematography was incredible and I really thought it broke new ground in the horror genre. Every scene and every line was so carefully constructed and the metaphor for inherited mental illness was heartbreaking. The disturbing concept sat with me for days and I really feel it has set the bar for horror from now on.
I haven't seen enough to say which one was my favourite since films take so long to get here but so far I definitely have to say Roma, even though a lot of Mexicans found it boring and slow I absolutely adored it because it made me feel incredibly nostalgic, even if I wasn't alive in the 70's a lot of the situations that it shows are still lived here and don't get the attention they need. I went to elementary school in the zone it was filmed and I remember having a bunch of wealthy classmates whose situation wasn't too different to the family's in Roma and it hit home. That plus the fact that it reminded me to the Golden age of Mexican Cinema but better produced and less overacted
These films all sound incredible... yet not at all my sort of thing. So weird, but I know these are incredible, but I tend to avoid the weird when it comes to film. I might have to watch them, but they aren’t the films I’d watch normally.
Great list, Sammy. I'm at odds with most people I know but I disliked 'The Favourite' greatly. I'm no fan of the director. Loved the acting but not the rest of it. Thanks for a few good film ideas to catch up on. I'd love it if you did film reviews.
god this was hard but heres my top ten i think 1. a quiet place 2. oceans 8 3. love, simon 4. crazy rich asians 5. isle of dogs 6. green book 7. into the spider-verse 8. the breaker upperers 9. the spy who dumped me 10. the favourite with honourable mentions to: - mary poppins returns - infinity war - bohemian rhapsody - a simple favour - incredibles 2 - antman & the wasp - tag
My 2018 top are: Blackkkamsman A Quiet Place Roma Bad Times At the El Rouale The Outlaw King Love Simon A Star is Born Black Panther Crazy Rich Asians I don't normally see a lot of movies the year they come out, as I would count arrival and the red shoes too.
Still ending on the mac error sound all these years later, am impressed! Think we used it on your first vlog on this channel. Takes me back to this video (KickTheICOEPR) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-twjhSLZ6EQ8.html haha
i literally just watched The Favourite today!! i loved it a lot, me and the guy i was on a date with spent the whole movie going 'what the fuck?', but in such a good way😂
That's a really great list (even if I disagree about vice)! My top 10 in the order I saw them were: Ladybird You were never really here Thoroughbreds Tully The rider BlacKkKlansman Columbus Shoplifters Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse Sorry to bother you
10: Mademoiselle de Joncquière (it wasn't an incredibly amazing film but the directing is so particuliar and just that, while I was watching it, I though "THAT'S a film that makes me want to be a director!") 9: First Man 8: Love Simon 7: Bohemian Rhapsody (yes everyone hated it, Idc 😂) 6: Isle of Dogs 5: Mary Poppins Returns (objectivity on this one : -50% 😂😂😂) 4: Fantastic Beasts (objectivity on the one : -50% again) 3: Spiderman Into the Spider Verse 2: A Star Is Born Honorable mentions: Le Grand bain, The Incredibles 2, Green Book, Première Année, Au Poste, Guy (I think I was too young to understand a film about how an old man coming back on what he's achieved in his life but it's still a wonderful film) and Alad'2 (LOOOOOOL I'm obviously kidding on this one.) 1: BlacKkKlansman (Sorry.) And I didn't put Call Me By Your Name because you english speakers saw it in 2017 but for us french it was out in 2018, so technically it's my first but... yeah. 😂
I just didn't like You Were Never Really Here... I can't put my finger on why, I just didn't enjoy watching it. I know 'enjoy' probably isn't what you're meant to get out of that particular film, but I just didn't get it as a whole.
I cannot put into words how much I hate The Favourite. And the hype around it makes me hate it even more because I dON'T UNDERSTAND. Glad to see Sorry To Bother You, American Animals, Three Identical Strangers and Vice in your list though.
