Ali Gator Posted December 24, 2023 Share Posted December 24, 2023 According to the Hollywood Reporter, these are the 10 BEST movies for 2023 : 10- Passages 9- Perfect Days 8- Anatomy of a Fall 7- Showing Up 6- The Zone of Interest 5- Fallen Leaves 4- Killers of the Flower Moon 3- All of us Strangers 2- Poor Things 1- Past Lives Rod Hagen, + azdr0710, thomas and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Hagen Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 Two gay movies! I thought Passages was ok and All of us Strangers was excellent/moving. thomas, Becket and + WilliamM 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Cash4Trash Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 Seeing The Zone of Interest and All Of Us Strangers this week. That makes me 9 out of 10 with Perfect Days still to go. Rod Hagen 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becket Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 I really liked Saltburn. So many twists and turns. And Jacob Elordi is gorgeous. pubic_assistance and MikeBiDude 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pubic_assistance Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 On 1/2/2024 at 8:32 AM, Becket said: I really liked Saltburn. So many twists and turns. Brideshead Revisited meets Running with Scissors. thomas, Rod Hagen, + Pensant and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyDown Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 The gossip rags claim Timothee Chalamet was considered for the lead in Saltburn. If so, I believe he dodged a bullet. I thought it was awful. Side note: there would not have been any peen if T.C. had been cast. marylander1940, Becket and pubic_assistance 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becket Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 Many say Saltburn reminds them of The Talented Mr. Ripley. I loved them both. + Pensant and MikeBiDude 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Suraci Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 12 minutes ago, Becket said: Many say Saltburn reminds them of The Talented Mr. Ripley. I loved them both. I like The Talented Mr Ripley, both the book series and film. Gotta check out Saltburn, then. MikeBiDude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ nycman Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 I loved parts of Saltburn. Overall it’s a bit strained and a "B+" in my book, but parts of it are spectacular. + Pensant, Rod Hagen, pubic_assistance and 1 other 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BenjaminNicholas Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 6 minutes ago, nycman said: I loved parts of Saltburn. Overall it’s a bit strained and a "B+" in my book, but parts of it are spectacular. Agree. Parts were inspired. Very few parts, but they're there. The movie pandered and that became annoying as it went on. I wanted to see more of the writing given to Rosamund Pike, who delivered it like a fucking pro. She knew the assignment. Becket and marylander1940 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pubic_assistance Posted January 9 Share Posted January 9 18 hours ago, TonyDown said: The gossip rags claim Timothee Chalamet was considered for the lead in Saltburn. If so, I believe he dodged a bullet. I thought it was awful. I thought the casting was great, as well as the film overall. I agree with @nycman B+ I don't see Chalamet convincing me that he's a young aristocrat. To me the film was Brideshead Revisited meets Running with Scissors Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Becket Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 29 minutes ago, Simon Suraci said: I like The Talented Mr Ripley, both the book series and film. Gotta check out Saltburn, then. Off topic I know. But I remember having a probably unhealthy obsession of my own in college with the blond stud muffin guy in my frat. Nothing to the level of these two movies, but I would take any opportunity to be around the guy. We became friendly, if not friends. Once, to my great surprise, we ended up walking together alone through a wooded area of my college town. He jumped up an embankment, then became a little worried about how he was gonna get down. I looked up at those dreamy blue eyes and replied, "Don't worry, I'll catch you." He then jumped down and, for a brief moment, was in my arms. My left hand had caught him at his navel, and I remember lingering there as long as I dared on that glorious treasure trail. The moment was over and that was that. But the memory of that brief touch stayed with me for years. + azdr0710, + Pensant, thomas and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Pensant Posted January 22 Share Posted January 22 I saw The Zone of Interest yesterday. I enjoyed it, if one can enjoy a movie about a genocidal SS commandant who lives a rather conventional life otherwise. It recalls Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil”. Polish production scripted in German with English subtitles. Becket and thomas 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyDown Posted May 19 Share Posted May 19 Finally saw Past Lives. Well done! A very specific topic that a lot of us probably ponder or daydream about, from a Korean Buddhism philosophical kind of insight. A quiet, poignant and moving film. Rod Hagen, MscleLovr and thomas 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago (edited) came across this thread and #s 1 and 2 are not available on my standard Netflix and Hulu subscriptions, so #3 it was, "All Of Us Strangers", on this quiet Tuesday evening...... just finished and, wow, I did get a little misty!......when a movie is well-made, well-photographed, well-acted, well-directed, well-scored, the whole bit, that can happen when it's supposed to!......(there are other movies where that was also supposed to happen, but I somehow didn't care in the least)...... gotta admit I stopped halfway thru and went and read the wiki article on the movie and read the entire plot to the end!......just to make sure I was up on all that was happening, you know.....it helped and I enjoyed the rest of the movie in a more-informed way....... it's very much a fantasy, the viewer eventually realizes, but not in a silly/sci-fi/hocus-pocus/rainbows-and-unicorns way.......just a dreamy, moody reconciliation of a guy's life.......some other viewers may also need to consult the plot at the wiki article!....... a couple very mild, non-gratuitous gay love scenes (just doesn't seem right calling them sex scenes!) should be acceptable to all but the least enlightened audience.......(for those still wondering, I think there was one sideways shot of a butt, some upper torso shots, and the suggestion of oral sex occurring, but no full nudity or anything close) admittedly, it's incredibly sad right to the end, so be in the mood.......so many recent gay-oriented movies of the last several years have been full of melodramatic angst and silly attempts at profound thought.....none of that here.......just a clean, quiet, well-crafted flick....... Edited 4 hours ago by azdr0710 MscleLovr 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago here is the Hollywood Reporter article cited in the OP......with well-written comments for each movie.....scroll down a bit...... Hollywood Reporter Critics Pick the Best Films of 2023 WWW.HOLLYWOODREPORTER.COM A romantic collision of past and present, a subversive feminist fairy tale, a metaphysical ghost story, an epic retelling of a horrific footnote in American history and... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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