#i watched the 2017 jumanji movie and

[anthurak]

Rambling about Perma-Death in Videogame Stories

So is anyone else just completely and utterly done with the trope of ‘If you die in the game, you DIE FOR REAL!1!1’ that we see in untold numbers of stories about characters getting trapped in video games?

Like I was just watching some clips from the Jumanji reboot and now I just can’t stop thinking about the same thing I thought when I saw it back in 2017: WHY does perma-death HAVE to be a thing here?

If you haven’t seen it, the premise of the reboot is that the magic board game of doom from the original 1995 film realized that board games are getting less popular and thus upgraded itself into a videogame cartridge/console to be more appealing to would-be players. And has now sucked in four unsuspecting teens for an adventure now parodying videogame tropes instead of a board game.

Now the big ‘threat’ posed to our protagonists is that they each start with multiple ‘Lives’ which allow them to immediately respawn when they die. But they only have three lives each, which of course leads to the implicit idea that if they can’t lose ALL their lives or it’s GAME OVER, ie; they’re dead for good.

But the thing is, nothing in the movie actually DEMONSTRATES to our protagonists that this is actually the case. They just… assume that if they die three times they’re dead for really realsies.

And while watching/rewatching the movie, I just kept thinking WHY did the threat of perma-death have to be a thing? And also the fact that it didn’t even make SENSE in this context.

Like the Jumanji game is clearly sentient to a degree and seems driven first and foremost to get people to play it. So I have to ask; WHAT sense does it make for Jumanji to outright, permanently KILL its players? After all, if the players are permanently dead, they can’t exactly PLAY now can they?

Furthermore, just look at the old-style sidescroller games that Jumanji clearly based its new form on. What happens in those games when you lose all your lives? It doesn’t permanently lock you out and keep you from playing ever again. Instead you lose your progress and are sent back to the start of a level. Or in those particularly hard games, you are sent back to the very START of the game.

So don’t you think that makes WAY more sense for how Jumanji would work?

Imagine in the film when the heroes’ fifth party member Alex, the kid who got trapped in the game twenty years earlier, starts to lose his last life, the rest aren’t able to save him. He seemingly dies… and then there is this bright flash.

Then all five of the players are suddenly back in the jeep with Rhys Darby hamming out exposition at them, right back at the start of the game.

I don’t know if that would make for a better paced film, but I definitely think it would make for a more interesting story that could explore some of the real underlying aspects and nuances of how playing a videogame actually goes. Because now this is no longer a challenge of luck or split-second intuition, but of trial and error. You know, like most ACTUAL videogames!

Now that our heroes know there ISN’T actually a threat of permanent death (because this is, you know, a GAME!), they can engage in one of the most FUN parts of playing a big, open-world sandbox game: trying any number of crazy, nonsensical ideas to see if one of them actually sticks!

And I don’t know about you, but that sounds like a great way to ratchet up the dark-comedy as the characters start trying all kinds of crazy ideas that get them killed more often than not. And if you think that wouldn’t make for a very entertaining movie, let me point you to a little-known flick called Groundhog Day! Not to mention the fact that story would still have stakes. The characters still have the goal of completing the game and there’s always the threat of them losing their progress and having to start over. Plus it makes for a great method of character development and bonding as the five are forced to learn how to work together until they’re functioning as a seamless unit.

This is really my overall point about how the threat of perma-death in these kinds of stories feels like such a crutch to needlessly generate generic drama and stakes. Not to mention kind of going against the very thing that makes something a GAME in the first place.

It’s why my actual favorite ‘people getting sucked into a videogame’ story is actually the anime Log Horizon. Because in that series the respawn mechanic of the MMO the characters are sucked into still works, and the story instead revolves around its characters learning to adjust, adapt and live in this new reality. Not to mention it still finds an interesting way of maintaining stakes and consequences to characters dying even if they can respawn: Namely that because the game’s respawning mechanic involved taking away a certain among of Experience Points from a player as a ‘cost’ for reviving, this means that players now lose pieces of their memory every time they respawn.

All in all, while I understand its appeal to writers as an easy way to generating stakes and danger for characters, this whole trope of ‘die in the game you die for realsies’ feels SUPER old and super cheap at this point. And I have serious respect for any story that subverts or averts it.

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Regal Greece Ridge's Last Picture Show

The cinema scene in my home county has been remarkably stable for most of my moviegoing life. Five multiplexes with 10+ screens went up from 1996 to 2000 and a wave of smaller theater closings ended in 2002. Then, for 18 years, the status quo basically held—some temporary shutdowns for renovations or ownership changes, but that was it.

COVID-19, of course, changed all that. Regal Culver Ridge 16 closed with all the rest on March 15, 2020, but never reopened. The Cinema, last of the Rochester neighborhood theaters, went dark for over a year before reopening with new management and a new dine-in model. Pittsford Cinema 9 is following in their footsteps.

Now, with Regal's parent company facing bankruptcy, another one of their theaters is shuttering. Regal Greece Ridge (est. 1998) was, in my memory at least, the only local theater built into a shopping mall. Because it was on the other side of town, I never visited until 2014 (for viewing #5 of Godzilla with a friend who lived nearby). Then I moved nearby in 2017 and started going there semi-regularly... until AMC hired me at the end of 2018 and I got to watch most everything there for free. Since 2017 was the same year I started obsessively tracking my movie outings, I can list everything I saw at Greece Ridge: Dunkirk, Battle of the Sexes, Coco, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Every Day, Blockers, Rampage, A Quiet Place, Deadpool 2, Spider-Man: Far from Home, and M3GAN. Note the gap. I didn't have much reason to come back after I got jabbed and pledged allegiance to Cinemark, but I had to see it off.

It wasn't some hidden gem. Stadium seating, middling number of screens, no premium formats besides 3D, and not much to look at visually. But 25 years is time enough to make a lot of memories, and movie theaters are what's known as "anchor tenants"—they draw in a lot of people who can then be enticed to patronize nearby shops afterwards. So if no one swoops in to switch the projectors back on and keep the soda flowing, it'll damage every store in the mall. And it'll always be the place where I first saw the movie that broke the Internet (which I, for the record, still adore).

For posterity—it's not like newspapers print these things anymore—here are the showtimes for the theater's final day. No Scream VI, which feels a little defiant. Maybe the staff just wanted a quiet night. Hopefully they've all had time to line up better things.

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (PG-13): 11:55 AM | 1:40 PM | 3:05 PM | 4:50 PM | 5:45 PM | 6:15 PM | 8:00 PM

Avatar: The Way of Water (PG-13) [3D]: 1:30 PM | 6:30 PM

Cocaine Bear (R): 12:55 PM | 1:55 PM | 3:45 PM | 4:45 PM | 6:45 PM | 7:45 PM

Creed III (PG-13): 11:50 AM | 12:50 PM | 2:55 PM | 3:55 PM | 6:00 PM | 7:00 PM

80 for Brady (PG-13): 3:20 PM | 6:40 PM

Knock at the Cabin (R): 4:20 PM

The Land Before Time (G): 1:00 PM

Living (PG-13): 12:00 PM | 2:45 PM

Magic Mike's Last Dance (R): 1:15 PM | 7:30 PM

65 (PG-13): 7:10 PM

[swanimagines]

FANDOMS

I’m that weirdo who’s willing to write for fandoms no one else writes for so don’t judge me. :D I like to challenge myself, so if I like the movie/tv show/game, I'll often write for it! Even if it's a "weird" fandom. Please note: this does not mean I write for every fandom there is. If the fandom isn't listed here, it's unlikely I even know it or then I'm just not interested. You can ask if I know it/if I could write for it, but please do not send in requests assuming I write for a fandom even when it's not listed.

READ MY RULES BEFORE REQUESTING!

The list for my fave characters to write for is below the fandom list in case you're interested!

(My random and unpopular fandoms are below the main list to make this easier to read)

I WRITE FOR ALL CHARACTERS UNLESS I STATE OTHERWISE IN THIS LIST

FANDOMS I WILL WRITE FOR:

MOVIES

10 Things I Hate About You

(James Cameron's) Avatar franchise

Batman: The Dark Knight Trilogy

Disney & Pixar movies (animated + live action)

Full list here!

Edward Scissorhands

Enola Holmes

Hunger Games

Jumanji (1995, 2017 and 2019)

Little Women (2019)

Lord of the Rings + The Hobbit

Marvel

Spider-Men (Maguire, Garfield, Holland)

MCU (up to No Way Home)

Venom (1 and 2)

X-Men (2000-2006 + 2011-2019)

Deadpool 1 + 2

Fantastic Four (2005-2007)

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Pirates of the Caribbean (2003-2017)

Shazam!

Sky High

Star Wars

The Skywalker Saga

Rogue One

Solo

Star Wars: Jedi (video game series)

The Chronicles of Narnia

The Maze Runner

Titanic

TV SERIES

Bones

Chicago Med

DC Titans

Gotham

Free Rein

H2O: Just Add Water + Mako Mermaids

His Dark Materials

Julie and the Phantoms

Lucifer

Once Upon A Time

Peaky Blinders

Shadow and Bone/Grishaverse as a whole

Stranger Things

Teen Wolf

The 100

The Queen’s Gambit

The Sandman (Netflix)

The Umbrella Academy

The Witcher

Wednesday

Xena: Warrior Princess

VIDEO GAMES

Assassin’s Creed (up to Syndicate)

Baldur's Gate 3

Detroit: Become Human

Dragon Age games

Ghost of Tsushima

God of War & Ragnarok (2018 & 2022)

Horizon Zero Dawn + Forbidden West

Kingdom Hearts games

Marvel’s Spider-Man + Miles Morales

Red Dead Redemption 2

Sly Cooper

Star Wars: Jedi (video game series)

Tomb Raider (the new trilogy)

Uncharted up to Lost Legacy

Watch Dogs/Watch Dogs 2/Bloodline

RANDOM

Freddy Carter’s characters, at the moment these:

Kaz Brekker

Pin Hawthorne

Jason Ripper

Tom (15 Days)

I also write for Ellis through research (from 2018 horror movie The Convent)

Gideon Fletcher

David Friedkin

(Also likely Ray when Recursive Dreams comes out)

SUBLIST: NICHE MOVIE FANDOMS

(These are all very small and random fandoms so that's why I separated them from the main list)

AND CLARIFICATION, YOU CAN REQUEST SOMETHING FOR ANY OF THESE!!

MOVIES

Aquamarine

Catwoman

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

Ella Enchanted

Flicka

Garfield movies

Grinch Who Stole Christmas (2000)

Home Alone 1 & 2

Love and Monsters

Moulin Rouge

Notting Hill

Peter Pan (2003)

Red Eye

Rise of the Guardians

Stardust

The Dark is Rising

The Martian

Warm Bodies

—

This list is growing all the time!

Below I’ve listed some fandoms I’m not writing for because they get requested a lot. And because people constantly (want to) misunderstand: AGAIN, THIS LIST IS ABOUT FANDOMS I DO NOT WRITE FOR, IT ISN'T A "MAYBE" LIST, IT'S A NO GO LIST!!!

FANDOMS I WILL NOT WRITE FOR:

Harry Potter/Wizarding World in general (no longer writing for them because I was constantly forcibly pulled into fandom dramas, especially after JKR started clowning around)

Supernatural

IT

^ Or anything horror since my imagination is too sensitive.

^ Also Doctor Who for now (I know it isn’t horror but there are some really scary episodes I can’t watch, I might change my mind in the future though)

Game of Thrones

Vikings

^ Or anything where animals get sacrificed/killed slowly because that makes me super anxious for weeks.

The Untamed (not interested)

Twilight (didn’t like them, watched them only because my Twilight superfan friend forced me to watch them with her 😅)

Darkiplier/Antisepticeye (I know they’re fictional, but I’m not interested in watching them)

Studio Ghibli movies/anime (anime drawing style makes me feel physically ill, and no I don’t know why, it’s always been that way)

Youtubers, actors, singers, bands, influencers, I’m not writing for anyone who’s a celebrity/irl person, with an exception if the person’s life has been largely fictionalized in a game/movie/series + they’re a historical character. (Like AC characters)

[4lph4kidz]

In a jumanji (2017) au Jake would be the kid who gets trapped in the game for 20 years at the start methinks

Both to parallel his isolation on the island and the alpha kids void session

oh man i briefly forgot the newer jumanji movies existed and i don't remember anything about them even tho i watched and mostly liked them. but sure something like that

[reviewsclown]

Jumanji: Welcome to the jungle 2017

It's shit. The entire joke of the movie is that it's adult bodies doing teenager things, how totally awkward!! It's especially awful with Jack Black the entire joke the whole entire movie is that he's a grown middle-aged man but he's acting like a typical teen girl and if it wasn't Jack Black thinly veiling the joke the character would just be entirely extremely misogynistic. None of the other characters are good either.

They tried really hard to make 'female character has a penis now and reacts in shock and awe' a running joke and it's just not happening, the joke has never hit not even once.

They make a few references to the original movie and that's slightly cool, the outdoor house the aviator was living in was made by Alan Parrish, who was trapped in the jungle for 26 years and had to live there. The main villain is called Van Pelt but it supremely isn't the Van Pelt of the first movie? It's some ambiguously non white guy covered in grease and he's like a weird raider type guy? The movie evolved from tribal African racism to modern African racism.

Also the entire casting choice for the Jumanji player characters was 'people who are famous and relevant in 2017' and nothing else, I guess that's just kind of endemic of movies made entirely to be nostalgia bait and nothing else?

Final review: It's shit don't watch this movie. Not worth anything.

[rogerdeakinsdp]

hiii what are some of your comfort movies & some movies u wish u could watch for the first time again 🫶🏽

hi bru!! i don't really have that many comfort movies and i don't rewatch movies often, but i guess 'the other woman' and 'jumanji 2017'

and as for a movie i'd like to watch for the first time again - a lot of good murder mysteries and movies with a twist ending, like 'knives out' or 'the game'

[lonelynpc]

2. what's your feel-good movie?

i have a few, idk if this means movies intended to be feel-good or movies i watch for comfort but here's 20 movies i watch when i need a bit of comfort:

jumanji (1995)

hook (1991)

about time (2013)

legally blonde (2001)

the lord of the rings trilogy

paddington 2 (2017)

a silent voice (2016)

bo burnham: inside (2021)

monty python and the holy grail (1975)

philadelphia (1993)

the old barbie movies (esp rapunzel)

jurassic park (1993)

the phantom of the opera (2004)

handsome devil (2016)

chungking express (1994)

perfect blue (1997)

crouching tiger, hidden dragon (2000)

most batman films (animated and live-action)

my own private idaho (1991)

fallen angels (1995)

some are probably a bit weird to be considered "comfort movies" but i like to watch them when i'm sick or a bit sad so they're on here

[ashcadence]

I just watched the 2017 Jumanji movie. I'm not a big fan of Jack Black, but he was born to play an overly stereotypical teenage girl

I absolutely loved the movie! It is the kind of stupid fun I want in a movie

Also I now understand why my parents say I'm like Martha in that movie. Especially when I was a teenager

[o-the-mts]

50 Years, 50 Movies (2017): Okja

I will turn 50 in November of this year, so my project for 2023 will be to watch and review one movie from each year of my life.  The only qualification is that it has to be a movie I’ve not reviewed previously.   2017 Top Grossing Movies of 2017: Star Wars: The Last Jedi Beauty and the Beast The Fate of the Furious Despicable Me 3 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Best Picture Oscar Nominees and…

[bethannangel]

I have sat down to watch a movie 302 times in 2022.

Movies I saw more than once this year

Top Gun: Maverick - 14x

Everything Everywhere All At Once - 5x

Encanto - 4x

Spider-Man: No Way Home, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Devotion, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery - 3x

The Batman, The Lost City, Bullet Train, Nope, Elvis, Ticket to Paradise, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, The Menu, Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - 2x

Full list of 2022 below the cut

January - 23

Encanto (2021)

The Harder They Fall (2021)

The Lost Daughter (2021)

Count Me In (2021)

Betty White: First Lady of Television (2018)

Dolly Parton: Here I Am (2019)

This Changes Everything (2018)

Encounter (2021)

Speed Cubers (2020)

The Best of Enemies (2019)

Eternals (2021)

Encanto (2021)

The Comedian (2016)

The Guilty (2021)

Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)

The Vault (2021)

Spider-Man 3 (2007)

Scream (2022) (theater)

Worth (2020)

Sing 2 (2021) (theater)

Nightmare Alley (2021) (theater)

Home Team (2022)

Bastille Day/The Take (2016)

February - 27

Long Story Short (2021)

Beckett (2021)

Charlie’s Angels (2000)

Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003)

The 355 (2022) (theater)

Almighty Thor (2011)

Kimi (2022)

The King of Staten Island (2020)

The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

Can You Keep A Secret? (2019)

The Paper Tigers (2020)

Encanto (2021)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

King’s Man (2021)

Free Guy (2021)

The Tender Bar (2021)

Our Friend (2021)

Tyler Perry’s A Madea Homecoming (2022)

Heart Shot (2022) (short)

Stand by Me (1986)

Destination Wedding (2018)

Someone Great (2019)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Spencer (2021)

Rim of the World (2019)

Set It Up (2018)

March - 13

Uncharted (2022) (theater)

The Batman (2022) (theater)

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) (theater)

The Sandlot (1993)

The Adam Project (2022)

Deidra & Laney Rob a Train (2017)

Turning Red (2022)

Embracing the Panda: Making Turning Red (2022)

Let’s Be Tigers (2022) (short)

X (2022) (theater)

Drive My Car (2021) (theater)

The Lost City (2022) (theater)

Windfall (2022)

April - 28

tick, tick… Boom! (2021)

The Bubble (2022)

Morbius (2022) (theater)

Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019)

I Want You Back (2022)

The Contractor (2022) (theater)

Big Hero 6 (2014)

Dinner Is Served (2021) (short)

American Eid (2021) (short)

Loop (2019) (short)

Smash and Grab (2019) (short)

Selena (1997) (theater)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) (theater)

Motocrossed (2001)

Olivia Rodrigo: driving home 2 u (a SOUR film) (2022)

Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) (theater)

The Batman (2022)

Encanto (2021)

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

Killing Them Softly (2012)

12 Rounds (2009)

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) (theater)

The Bad Guys (2022) (theater)

Green Ghost and the Masters of the Stone (2021) (theater)

The Northman (2022) (theater)

Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much (2017)

May - 8

Doctor Strange (2016)

Avengers: Infinity War (2018)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) (theater)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) (theater)

Firestarter (2022) (theater)

Papi Chulo (2018)

Twenty One Pilots: Cinema Experience (2022) (theater)

Jackass 4.5 (2022)

June - 22

RRR (2022) (theater)

Old (2021)

Forever Purge (2021)

The Valet (2022)

Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)

Interceptor (2022)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) (theater)

Top Gun (1986)

Win It All (2017)

Jurassic World Dominion (2022) (theater)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

Behind the Try: A Try Guys Documentary (2020)

The Lego Batman Movie (2017) (theater)

Beyond Infinity: Buzz and the Journey to Lightyear (2022)

Like A Boss (2021)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) (theater)

Spiderhead (2022)

Mulan (1998)

Lightyear (2022) (theater)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) (theater)

The Man From Toronto (2022)

Escape from Pretoria (2020)

July - 28

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) (theater)

Thor: Love & Thunder (2022) (theater)

Badhaai Do (2022)

The Rental (2020)

The Princess (2022)

Antlers (2021)

The Lovebirds (2020)

Okja (2017)

Not Since You (2009)

The Blob (1958)

The Big Chill (1983)

The French Dispatch (2021)

Marry Me (2022)

Cleaner (2007)

Hustle (2022)

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022) (theater)

The Black Phone (2022) (theater)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)

Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022)

The Gray Man (2022)

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

Don’t Make Me Go (2022)

The Truman Show (1998)

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) (theater)

Candyman (2021)

Too Old for Fairy Tales (2022)

Regular Show: The Movie (2015)

August - 25

Not Okay (2022)

Bullet Train (2022) (theater)

Wedding Season (2022)

Vengeance (2022) (theater)

A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020)

Nope (2022) (theater)

The Pacifier (2005)

Just Go With It (2011)

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) (theater)

DC League of Super-Pets (2022) (theater)

Mack & Rita (2022) (theater)

The Mummy Returns (2001)

The Wedding Guest (2018)

Day Shift (2022)

Inside the Mind of a Cat (2022)

On the Count of Three (2022)

Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

Fall (2022) (theater)

Old School (2003)

Elvis (2022) (theater)

Easter Sunday (2022) (theater)

Me Time (2022)

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) (theater)

Nope (2022) (theater)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

September - 27

The Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (2022)

Spider-Man: No Way Home: More Fun Stuff (2022) (theater)

Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022)

The Lost City (2022)

Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) (theater)

Jaws (1975) (theater)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

Elvis (2022)

The Invitation (2022) (theater)

Deep Water (2022)

End of the Road (2022)

Wrath of Man (2021)

Samaritan (2022)

Breaking (2022) (theater)

Barbarian (2022) (theater)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

Fresh (2022)

Sex Ed (2014)

See How They Run (2022) (theater)

Pearl (2022) (theater)

Casper (1995) (theater)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) (theater)

Paw Patrol: The Movie (2021)

Moonage Daydream (2022) (theater)

Bros (2022) (theater)

Lou (2022)

October - 31

Rush Hour (1998)

Rush Hour 2 (2001)

Rush Hour 3 (2007)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

Entergalactic (2022)

Werewolf by Night (2022)

Amsterdam (2022) (theater)

Don’t Worry Darling (2022) (theater)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

The Redeem Team (2022)

Spirit Halloween: The Movie (2022) (theater)

Jeepers Creepers Reborn (2022) (theater)

Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022) (theater)

Smile (2022) (theater)

Bromates (2022) (theater)

Halloween (1978)

Nosferatu (1922)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

The Woman King (2022) (theater)

Halloween II (1981)

Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988)

Stars at Noon (2022) (theater)

Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall (2022)

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989)

Black Adam (2022) (theater)

Ticket to Paradise (2022) (theater)

Lumpia with a Vengeance (2020) (theater)

It (2017) (theater)

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

November - 31

Call Jane (2022) (theater)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) (theater)

Armageddon Time (2022) (theater)

Spirited (2022) (theater)

Wendell & Wild (2022)

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

Enola Holmes 2 (2022)

Black Panther (2018)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) (theater)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) (theater)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

Paddington (2014)

Rat Race (2001)

Paddington 2 (2017)

The Menu (2022) (theater)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks (2019)

Is That Black Enough for You?!? (2022)

The Good Nurse (2022)

The Last Duel (2021)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022)

She Said (2022) (theater)

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022) (theater)

Enchanted (2007)

Strange World (2022) (theater)

Devotion (2022) (theater)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) (theater)

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) (theater)

The Fabelmans (2022) (theater)

December - 39

Violent Night (2022) (theater)

The Menu (2022) (theater)

Bones and All (2022) (theater)

Elf (2003) (theater)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

Devotion (2022) (theater)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

Ticket to Paradise (2022)

Bullet Train (2022)

Christmas With You (2022)

Sniper: Rogue Mission (2022)

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)

Something from Tiffany’s (2022)

The Mean One (2022) (theater)

Spoiler Alert (2022) (theater)

Beauty and the Beast: A 30th celebration (2022)

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) (theater)

Arthur Christmas (2011)

Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery (2022)

A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)

Love Hard (2022)

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

Devotion (2022) (theater)

Avatar (2009)

Mercy Christmas (2017)

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

The Outfit (2022)

A Madea Christmas (2013)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) (theater)

Office Christmas Party (2016)

Bad Santa (2003)

Last Holiday (2006)

The Family Stone (2005)

Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical (2022)

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) (theater)

Babylon (2022) (theater)

[ellcrys]

I did this exercise last year of categorizing my 2021 movies into loved, really liked, liked, meh, and disliked, and enjoyed the process so much that I decided to do it again this year!

Some patterns observed:

I guess this was the year for satire bc my top two films of the year (Bodies Bodies Bodies and The Good Boss) are both satire lol

I disliked every marvel movie released this year lmao

Some other comments:

I liked EEAAO, I really did, but it just wasn’t my jam ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I recognize that it’s a groundbreaking film, and like I said, I enjoyed it, but it just wasn’t the film for me

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was... disappointing imo. I really didn’t like it all that much and I’m not going into why in this post lol. There were parts that I loved. But on the whole, it really didn’t leave a great taste in my mouth

I might have enjoyed The Tragedy of Macbeth had I an ounce of knowledge about the play before going to see the movie but as someone who went in blind: I had absolutely no idea what the fuck was going on. It’s a beautifully captured and edited film. But the barrier to entry is 100 miles high for anyone who hasn’t read the play

The surprise dark horse of the year for me was King Richard. I’m not usually a biopics gal. But this one is amazing.

Jurassic World is 10/10 peak entertainment and I will fight you on this

*: watched in theaters **: rewatch

Loved

Encanto (2021) | Jan 2

Jurassic World (2015)** | Jun 24

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)* | Aug 23

The Good Boss* (2021) | Sep 3

Really Liked

Tick, Tick… Boom! (2021) | Jan 17

King Richard (2021)* | Feb 19

The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) | Mar 18

The Batman (2022)* | Mar 29

Nope* (2022) | Jul 24

Liked

Love Hard (2021) | Jan 1

The Losers (2010) | Jan 8

Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) | Jan 22

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)** | Feb 5

Drive My Car (2021)* | Feb 12

Jumanji (1995)** | Feb 20

Luca (2021) | Feb 26

Shrek the Third (2007)** | Mar 5

The Power of the Dog (2021) | Mar 12

After Yang (2021)* | Mar 15

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)* | Apr 2

What We Do in the Shadows (2014) | May 14

Rush Hour (1998)** | May 15

Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)* | Jul 2

Fire Island (2022) | Jul 22

Straight Up (2019) | Jul 23

Ticket to Paradise* (2022) | Oct 27

Meh

The Fast and the Furious (2001) | Mar 11

Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) | Apr 8

Shazam (2019) | Apr 29

Rampage (2018) | Jul 15

Mary Poppins Returns (2018) | Jul 30

Don’t Worry Darling* (2022) | Sep 19

Disliked

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)* | Feb 21

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)* | Jun 7

Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)* | Aug 6

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever* (2022) | Dec 2

[stubborndodecahedron]

well, time for me to lie down on the floor

[hamelott]

“So, what, Jones, one minute we’re in detention, and the next we’re in your goddamn video game?”

“I, uh, yeah...I think so. A-And we’re the characters we picked! You’re Dr. Oliver Thompson, historian and archaeologist. Cassandra’s Professor Lucy Lyons, a scientist and mathematician with synesthesia. Eve is General Rockwell, military weapons expert. And I’m Mr. Zet, the land pirate.”

“O-Okay...so what do we do now? How do we get home? I have a science test tomorrow...”

“I guess we beat the game...save the world.”

(Librarians Jumanji AU)

[classic80sand90smovieloves2]

Movie Recommendations (April 2022)

(I’ll probably have a lot more recommendations in future lists but this one is just going to have to be a bit short: I watched a couple doozies and didn’t have a lot of time to watch in general. These are just movies that I thought were worthy of sharing: i.e. above a 6/10.)

Jumanji (1995)

Matilda (1996)

The Borrowers (1997)

Saved! (2004)

Boys Night Out (1962)

Dangerous Minds (1995)

Inception (2010)

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Once Bitten (1985)

Solarbabies (1986)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

Hairspray (2007)

Garden State (2004)

An American In Paris (1951)

Harry Potter(s) :)

Hope you enjoy!

[akajustmerry]

movies I unironically believe are beautiful wonderful absolutely smashing and will happily watch any day idc what ppl say

The Avengers 2012 - yeah it's corny but it's also sincere and every scene still gets me hyped idc

St Trinians 2007 - greatest Heist film ever made, had better lgbt representation than the majority of shit we see today idc

Alice In Wonderland 2010 - Tim Burton hasn't made anything even half as good as this since he made this cos he put his whole Tim Burtussy into it idc

Catwoman 2005 - it was simply ahead of its time. The world wasn't ready for miss halle as Catwoman dismantling the toxic beauty industry

Jumanji welcome to the jungle 2017 - if you skipped this because you thought it wouldn't be respectful of robin williams you were incorrect and missed one of the greatest comedies of all time.

A Wrinkle In Time 2018 - this was a stunning and meaningfully racebent adaptation and if you didn't see its value I kinda think you're heartless

Paul 2009 - this movie is fucking hilarious. Maybe you had to be there but idc it's fucking funny

The Mortal Instruments 2013 - literally was a better adaptation in every way than shadowhunters idgaf

Limitless 2011 - is this a Dad movie?? Well I guess I am a father. Love it. Last 20 minutes is HEARTSTOPPING

Jump In 2007 - cinema. CINEMA. this film coulda had a bring it on type franchise but didn't and We All Know Why

Surfs Up 2007 - this film is 80% of my personality. Animation mockumentary was a stroke of genius but it was ahead of its time

Bring It On all or Nothing 2006 - the superior bring it on movie. Ppl meme it for the crumpimg scene and they should but it's still a MASTERPIECE I wanna kiss solange knowles on the mouth and give her an Oscar

If you hate any of these films, keep that shit to yourself or we aren't gonna make it passed being acquaintances because it means to me that you don't like things with HEART

[wickedhawtwexler]

Movies I Watched in 2022: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)