Thursday, July 22, 2021

Best/Worst Films of 2021...so far

Movies I liked in 2021 (so far):

Fear Street Part One:  1994
Jakob’s Wife
Luca*
Meander
Slaxx
The Stylist*

Movies I kind of liked in 2021 (so far):

The Night
Willy’s Wonderland

Movies I disliked in 2021 (so far):

The Banishing
The 8th Night*
Fried Barry*
Lucky
The Nest
Oxygen
The Penthouse
Voyagers
The Woman in the Window

Other Superlatives:
Good-but-not-as-much-as-the-hype:  Raya and the Last Dragon
Biggest Disappointment:  Fear Street Part Two:  1978
Most Unnecessary Remake:  Tom & Jerry
Actually Worthy Remake/Re-imagining:  Wrong Turn
Most Overrated:  The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Best TV Show(s):  Calls; Jurassic World:  Camp Cretaceous (Season Three)
Most Disappointing TV Show(s):  Creepshow (Season Two); Jurassic World:  Camp Cretaceous (Season Two); Servant (Season Two)

Commentary:  I know 2021 is a little more than halfway over, but whatever.  I’m not going to complain about the lack of good movies anymore, because it’s what I pretty much have come to expect from here on out.  I hate to sound like a close-minded codger, but they just don’t make movies like they used to anymore.  I still try to be open-minded though and watch new movies hoping some of them, if not most of them, will be worthy.  As I’ve done for at least the past two years, I don’t even list them in order from greatest to least greatest or worst to least worst anymore, I just list them alphabetically, and I don’t even try to limit it to just ten, if I even have that many titles to choose from.  The movies I picked for the best so far weren’t even that great, Luca and The Stylist probably being the best of the bunch, but I liked them enough to include them; yes, I did enjoy that movie about killer pants more than I thought I would.  The 8th Night and Fried Barry are probably the worst of the worst bunch.  I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Calls, it consisting solely of words displayed on the screen, enough to give it the best TV show honor, in addition to season three of Camp Cretaceous, which was a big improvement over season two (it seems like season two for at least three shows didn’t work out so far this year).  Well, there’s a little less than half the year left for good movies/shows to be released, but, like always, I’m not keeping my hopes up…I’ve been letdown too many times…7/21/2021