^^ Like the thread title suggests, what's your favourite and least favourite movies of 2019?

Going into this year, my most anticipated movie was Avengers: Endgame, which delivered in a big way and unsurprisingly is my favourite film of the year. Outside of that, the rest of my top five list consists of Spider-Man: Far From Home, Alita: Battle Angel, Detective Pikachu, and Lion King (I'll let you decide what that says about my tastes).

My least favourite movies this year are Triple Frontier (good cast but man was it boring), The Intruder, and Godzilla: King of Monsters

Also I guess as a bonus question, are there any movies that came out this year, that you still need to see? For me, the only one that comes to mind, is Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

My Full 2019 Movie Rankings

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20. Triple Frontier
19. The Intruder
18. Godzilla: King of Monsters
17. Long Shot
16. Hellboy
15. Shaft
14. Men in Black: International
13. Terminator: Dark Fate
12. Aladdin
11. Stuber
10. John Wick 3
9. Captain Marvel
8. X-Men: Dark Phoenix
7. Shazam!
6. Hobbs & Shaw
5. The Lion King
4. Detective Pikachu
3. Alita: Battle Angel
2. Spider-Man: Far From Home
1. Avengers: Endgame

I'm sure Lionheart, will love where Dark Phoenix ranked on my overall list.

I’ve seen at least 50+ films this year so I’ll post my full list later

I still need to see Knives Out and a lot of late 2019 films don’t open until next year in Australia, 1917 for example.

my top 10

1. Joker
2. Hotel Mumbai
3. The Irishman
4. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
5. Us
6. The Beach Bum
7. Good Boys
8. Ready or Not
9. Weathering With You
10. The VelociPastor

I’ll shill my YT Channel below:



Worst:

1. Black Christmas
2. Hellboy
3. Charlie’s Angels
4. Gemini Man
5. Mary, Queen of Scots
6. MIB International
7. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
8. 47 Metres Down: Uncaged
9. Godzilla: King of Monsters
10. It: Chapter Two

I mean, it's not too big of a deal since I doubt there were too many good movies this year. Of course, I also haven't been able to go to the theater the past six months since my son was born.

HOWEVER, the fact that Dark Phoenix is placed above Stuber alone is an unforgivable crime and I now hate you.

I've seen exactly 10 movies released this year. Easy enough to rank.

1. Fighting With My Family
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. Captain Marvel
4. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
5. Glass
6. Stuber
7. Aladdin
8. Pet Sematary
9. Spider-Man: Far From Home
10. Shazam!

Dec 28, 2019 18:55:21 GMT Emperor said:

I've seen exactly 10 movies released this year. Easy enough to rank.

1. Fighting With My Family
2. Avengers: Endgame
3. Captain Marvel
4. Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
5. Glass
6. Stuber
7. Aladdin
8. Pet Sematary
9. Spider-Man: Far From Home
10. Shazam!

I thought you ranked them like in the OP, from worst to best, and was about to seriously flip the fuck out at how bloody ridiculous your rankings were.

It's pretty close to how I would rank the ones I've seen though. You have now motivated me to do this too. I have seen 14 films this year. Here goes. I also put what ranking list I threw each film on. I rank movies in five tiers, with tier 1 being phenomenal and tier 5 being terrible. I only rank movies I enjoyed though, so even the tier 5 films I enjoyed but acknowledge were pretty bad. If I did not enjoy a film, it will have no ranking.

14. Brightburn (No Ranking)

13. Dark Phoenix (No Ranking)

12. Escape Room (No Ranking)

11. Escape Plan: The Extractors (Tier V - Terrible)

10. Hellboy (Tier V - Terrible)

9. Aladdin (Tier IV - Good)

8. Captain Marvel (Tier IV - Good)

7. Spider-Man: Far from Home (Tier IV - Good)

6. Shazam! (Tier III - Great)

5. Avengers: Endgame (Tier III - Great)

4. Stuber (Tier III - Great)

3. Greyhound (Tier III - Great)

2. The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (Tier III - Great)

1. Fighting with My Family (Tier III - Great)

So, nothing cracked my top two tiers for this entire year which is not great but I am fairly selective with what makes those so it's not the biggest deal. I still loved the top six movies a pretty good amount. What is more shocking, is the huge portion of no rankings at 3 out of 14, a whopping 21.4% of the movies I've seen this year that I did not really enjoy. That is larger than usual. Probably just bad luck.

There's probably some movies that would rank in the first two tiers this year, but nothing I have seen yet.

Special Mention: Spider-Man: Far from Home

Spider-Man: Far From Home may only be in Tier IV, just good, but it deserves a special award for having the most badass shot of the year. The shot where he avoided all the drones in that corridor while racing towards...the drone guy (already forgot his name) towards the end of the movie. It looked so damn cool and I marked out hard. If the movie consisted of that scene alone, it would have reached Tier III.

I'm shocked Dark Phoenix isn't your worst movie of the year. You should probably review it one more time just to be on the safe side.

Dec 28, 2019 19:19:29 GMT Lony said:

I'm shocked Dark Phoenix isn't your worst movie of the year. You should probably review it one more time just to be on the safe side.

Oh no, it is the worst movie of the year. I ranked based on enjoyment, not quality.

I was annoyed for the entirety of Brightburn because I really didn't like it, but it had some high quality shots and techniques in it. But for Dark Phoenix, I was at least in a good mood for solid segments of it because I was laughing at how bad it was. Plus it had some actors I really like in it, so it wasn't all a drag. But it was technically the worse film by far.

How on earth is Shazam! in the same tier as Fighting With My Family? You have a tier between Great and Phenomenal?!

Dec 28, 2019 20:22:14 GMT Emperor said:

You have a tier between Great and Phenomenal?!

Tier II is "Fantastic". Really, really good movies that are just shy of being an absolute masterpiece. The distinction is very fine, but a good metaphor is that Phenomenal means the movie is a true phenom like The Undertaker in his prime or a "best in the world" Bryan Danielson whereas a Tier II movie is like a Jon Moxley, awesome and badass but not entirely the full package. Tier 3 is a hardworker like John Cena lacking a lot of oomph but very solid. Tier IV is like Wade Barret, basic but good. Tier V is some idiot like Bad Luck Fale that is enjoyable just because he is so bad that it's funny, or is otherwise "epic" in some other way.

Parasite was my film of the year. Shocked no one else is talking about it. Bong Joon Ho is becoming one of my favorite directors.  While not a 2019 release, Tigers are not Afraid was released in the US with english subtitles this year, and definately is a movie worth talking about.  Best Del Toro film not made by him.

Edit:  Oh fuck me, forgot The Lighthouse.  What a great film.  DeFoe still amazing and twilight boy put in one hell of a performance.  

DeFoe still amazing and twilight boy put in one hell of a performance.

Pattinson and that shouldn't come as a shock after Good Time.

The Lighthouse

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

Joker

Alita Battle Angel

Knives Out

Uncut Gems

John Wick 3: Parrabellum

Toy Story 4

El Camino

I remember at the start of the year and listing all the upcoming movies that interested me on imbd...and I watched hardly any of them. Alita was by far the most surprising movie I saw all year. I caught it streaming one night and found myself getting into it despite myself.

I didn't hate El Camino or Toy Story 4 either. I enjoyed both, I just didn't get dragged along to any movies I wouldn't enjoy.

Wanted to join in on the fun, but I have seen 115 movies this year (currently watching 116 so it’s not included on this list) but god this took way too long.

EDIT: I forgot about Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker AND I just finished Knives Out so I can include it now. So total I’ve seen 117 movies. They can both be put in between Uncut Gems and Yesterday.

There was a handful of fantastic movies, a lot of average, and a whole lot of garbage which I brought onto myself with Netflix. So enjoy!!

1. John Wick Parabellum
2. Danger Close The Battle of Long Tan
3. Once Upon a time in Hollywood
4. Joker
5. Ready or Not
6. Shazam
7. Hotel Mumbai
8. Good Boys
9. Green Book
10. Avengers: Endgame

11. Fighting with my Family
12. Brightburn
13. 21 Bridges
14. Weathering With You
15. Ad Astra
16. Rocketman
17. Crawl
18. Stuber
19. Polar (Netflix)
20. Always Be My Maybe (Netflix)

21. Ford VS Ferrai
22. Cold Pursuit
23. Aladdin
24. Happy Death Day 2U
25. Glass
26. The Mule
27. Countdown
28. The Banana Splits Movie
29. What Men Want
30. Angel Has Fallen

31. Hustlers
32. Gemini Man
33. Jumanji: The Next Level
34. The Velocipastor
35. Annabelle Comes Home
36. Zombieland Double Tap
37. The Art of Racing in the Rain
38. A Dog’s Journey
39. A Dog’s Way Home
40. Spider-Man Far From Home

41. Last Christmas
42. The Knight Before Christmas
43. Ben Is Back
44. On the Basis of Sex
45. Escape Room
46. Toy Story 4
47. Storm Boy
48. Maleficent 2
49. Booksmart
50. Stan & Ollie

51. The Beach Bum
52. Mary Poppins Returns
53. Instant Family
54. IT Chapter Two
55. Child’s Play
56. Men in Black International
57. Hobbs & Shaw
58. Otherhood (Netflix)
59. Alita: Battle Angel
60. Noelle

61. Dumbo
62. Pet Sematary
63. The Lion King
64. The Red Sea Diving Resort (Netflix)
65. The Kitchen
66. Terminator Dark Fate
67. A.M.I (Netflix)
68. A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby
69. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile (Netflix)
70. Detective Pikachu

71. Captain Marvel
72. The Curse of La Llorona
73. Velvet Buzzsaw (Netflix)
74. Rim of the World (Netflix)
75. Murder Mystery (Netflix)
76. 47 Metres Down Uncaged
77. Walk. Ride. Rodeo (Netflix)
78. 6 Underground
79. The Perfection (Netflix)
80. El Camino (Netflix)

81. The Silence (Netflix)
82. Secret Obsession (Netflix)
83. Close (Netflix)
84. Scary Stories to tell in the Dark
85. I Am Mother (Netflix)
86. The Lego Movie 2
87. The Perfect Date (Netflix)
88. Uncut Gems
89. Yesterday
90. Unplanned

91. The Tomorrow Man
92. Hidden In Plain Sight (Netflix)
93. After
94. The Irishman (Netflix)
95. Critters Attack!
96. The Highwaymen (Netflix)
97. Under the Silver Lake
98. Lucky Day
99. Eli (Netflix)
100. In The Tall Grass (Netflix)

101. Rattlesnake (Netflix)
102. Wounds (Netflix)
103. Kidnapping Stella (Netflix)
104. If Beale Street Could Talk
105. Charlie’s Angels
106. Doctor Sleep
107. Queen Mary of Scots
108. US
109. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
110. Dark Phoenix

111. Hellboy
112. Midsommar
113. Parasite
114. Sextuplets
115. Black Christmas

My list is basically stuff we watched in the cinema minus all the bullshit sandylea watches on Netflix 😂

Edited because I forget a few


1. Joker
2. Hotel Mumbai
3. The Irishman
4. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
5. Us
6. The Beach Bum
7. Good Boys
8. Ready or Not
9. Weathering With You
10. The VelociPastor
11. Green Book
12. Fighting with My Family
13. Brightburn
14. Hustlers
15. Ad Astra
16. Glass
17. Uncut Gems
18. The Kitchen
19. Shazam!
20. Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
21. Rocketman
22. Avengers: Endgame
23. Last Christmas
24. 21 Bridges
25. Child’s Play
26. Stuber
27. Crawl
28. Ford VS Ferrari
29. Aladdin
30. Extremely wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
31. Zombieland: Double Tap
32. Ben is Back
33. Yesterday
34. Spider-Man: Far From Home
35. What Men Want
36. Alita Battle Angel
37. On the Basis of Sex
38. Happy Death Day 2U
39. Hobbs & Shaw
40. Countdown
41. John Wick 3
42. Detective Pikachu
43. Jumanji the next level
44. Stan & Ollie
45. Captain Marvel
46. The Curse of La Llorona
47. Angel has Fallen
48. A Dog’s Journey
49. The Lion King
50. Marry Poppins Returns

Disliked:

51. Instant Family
52. Parasite
53. Unplanned
54. Toy Story 4
55. Midsommar
56. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
57. Pet Semetary
58. Dumbo
59. It Chapter Two
60. Doctor Sleep
61. X-Men: Dark Phoenix
62. Terminator Dark Fate
63. Godzilla: King of Monsters
64. 47 Metres Down Uncaged
65. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
66. MIB International
67. Mary, Queen of Scots
68. Gemini Man
69. Charlie’s Angels
70. Hell Boy
71. Black Christmas

Holy fuck you guys watch a lotta movies. How?!

Dec 29, 2019 15:35:43 GMT Emperor said:

Holy fuck you guys watch a lotta movies. How?!

I get Wed/Thu off work, Movies open on Thursday in Australia so we just go to as many screenings as possible depending on whether Sandra is working/which shift.

From first to worst -

Parasite
Midsommar
Knives Out
Book smart
Zombieland 2
Marriage Story
Crawl
Joker
The Report
The Irishman
Toy Story 4
Ready or Not
Fighting With My Family
LEGO Movie 2
Hustlers
El Camino
Us
Child’s Play
Good Boys
Angry Birds 2
It Chapter 2
Frozen 2
Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Secret Life of Pets 2
The Lion King
Happy death day 2 U
Pet Semetary
Captain Marvel

117 movies is like one movie every three days or so. Not too difficult. System fared pretty damn well with only 20 disliked too (nice shout out to Dark Phoenix btw). I wish I had that kind of time.

That is difficult. And that's only films released in 2019. I could feasibly do that, but then watch no films from the past.

Seriously, System consumes movies like it's his job or something. That's impressive as fuck.

Dec 29, 2019 15:35:43 GMT Emperor said:

Holy fuck you guys watch a lotta movies. How?!

As System said we usually get to go to the cinema Thursday (when we get new releases) if we both have the day off. I get a lot of short shifts so generally I do have a lot of free time outside of busy retail hours. Usually I’m either playing video games or watching movies. Also helps I have the worst sleeping pattern, so usually I’m up way too late watching something when I should’ve went to bed. It’s pretty easy to get through a lot of Netflix movies when multitasking, and they have short durations as well.

Dec 29, 2019 19:56:48 GMT Emperor said:

That is difficult. And that's only films released in 2019. I could feasibly do that, but then watch no films from the past.

That is what the majority of all people do.

I think it's gambling with the devil and guaranteeing a lot of wasted time, but considering System liked the vast majority of them (and indeed they look pretty enjoyable overall) then perhaps it's not so bad after all.

But never seeing an older film would be a grievous sin nevertheless.

I watch older movies..mostly foreign horror or requests for my YouTube Channel (Which unsurprisingly is movie reviews) but if it came out 2012 onwards odds are I already saw it upon its cinematic release.

Dec 30, 2019 3:10:11 GMT System said:

I watch older movies..mostly foreign horror or requests for my YouTube Channel (Which unsurprisingly is movie reviews) but if it came out 2012 onwards odds are I already saw it upon its cinematic release.

You are very confident in your theater prowess.

I am going to search a random 2013 movie and see what comes up. Have you seen...

ALL IS LOST!?

Dec 30, 2019 16:47:20 GMT Lionheart said:

Dec 30, 2019 3:10:11 GMT System said:

I watch older movies..mostly foreign horror or requests for my YouTube Channel (Which unsurprisingly is movie reviews) but if it came out 2012 onwards odds are I already saw it upon its cinematic release.

You are very confident in your theater prowess.

I am going to search a random 2013 movie and see what comes up. Have you seen...

ALL IS LOST!?

Yes, absolutely amazing film. Robert Redford is fantastic and I love survival films/films set in one setting.

Dec 30, 2019 17:02:22 GMT System said:

Dec 30, 2019 16:47:20 GMT Lionheart said:

You are very confident in your theater prowess.

I am going to search a random 2013 movie and see what comes up. Have you seen...

ALL IS LOST!?

Yes, absolutely amazing film. Robert Redford is fantastic and I love survival films/films set in one setting.

That proves it then. You have seen them all. You are a badass.

Also, that movie does look pretty good.

All is Lost is fantastic - especially in the theatre.

I’ve watched two more 2019 films since my last post. This ordinarily wouldn’t be notable enough for another post, but one of them placed at THE TOP OF MY LIST.

The King has defeated Fighting With my Family to place at the top as well as cracked my Tier II (Amazing).

I highly recommend it if you like drama films and medieval themes. It was a nice fix to satiate my GoT withdrawals.

I also watched Luce, which placed in Tier III. Despite Tim Roth and the main actor being phenomenal, it wasn’t quite my cup of tea. Still enjoyable though.

16. Brightburn (No Ranking)
15. Dark Phoenix (No Ranking)
14. Escape Room (No Ranking)
13. Escape Plan: The Extractors (Tier V - Terrible)
12. Hellboy (Tier V - Terrible)

11. Luce (Tier III - Great)

10. Aladdin (Tier IV - Good)
9. Captain Marvel (Tier IV - Good)
8. Spider-Man: Far from Home (Tier IV - Good)
7. Shazam! (Tier III - Great)
6. Avengers: Endgame (Tier III - Great)
5. Stuber (Tier III - Great)
4. Greyhound (Tier III - Great)
3. The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (Tier III - Great)
2. Fighting with My Family (Tier III - Great)

1. The King (Tier II - Amazing)

Dec 28, 2019 20:22:14 GMT Emperor said:

How on earth is Shazam! in the same tier as Fighting With My Family?

I don't think this is actually as disagreeable as you are imagining it to be if you think about it a bit.

Both films are clearly superior to Far From Home, which is in Tier IV. That is the best spot for Far From Home as it clearly wasn't terrible and warranting a placement on Tier V. Shazam! had a lot more thought, meaningful plot, and well-formed pace than Far From Home. You might disagree with that a bit, but I'm sure you can at least understand someone thinking that. So it deserves to be at least one group higher.

On the other hand, while I did love Fighting With my Family, do I really think it is nearing the highest bar of excellence of Tier I? Hardly. Tier II is for movies that are almost on the absolute best level but just miss the mark and don't quite fit on that same level. Fighting with my Family is a great family movie and now the 2nd best film of the year for me, but it is nowhere near Tier II placers like Big Lebowski and Oldboy.

So where do these movies go? Tier III is the only spot for them. However, I do think Fighting with my Family is of a bit higher quality. These tiers are perhaps a bit more wide than you are thinking. Not all films on the same tier are of the exact same quality in my mind, just the same vague quality field.

Shazam is garbage and if I had to choose, I'd rather watch Far From Home again. I actually watched Spider-man the whole way through, something I didn't manage with Shazam.

Fighting With My Family is far better than either of them. If I had a tier system, firstly it wouldn't allow films with huge gaps in quality to be in the same tier and secondly, FWMF would be at least two tiers above both Spider-Man and Shazam.

Jan 1, 2020 15:19:09 GMT Emperor said:

Shazam is garbage and if I had to choose, I'd rather watch Far From Home again. I actually watched Spider-man the whole way through, something I didn't manage with Shazam.

Fighting With My Family is far better than either of them. If I had a tier system, firstly it wouldn't allow films with huge gaps in quality to be in the same tier and secondly, FWMF would be at least two tiers above both Spider-Man and Shazam.

Well excuse me, princess. This ain't no huge gap in quality. I said I find them to be within the same field. Your foolish mind cannot comprehend that two tiers is the difference between absolute shit and GREATNESS. If you think more than five tiers are warranted just to separate Fighting with my Family and Shazam!, you can SUCK ITTTTTTTTTT as that is a small minded complaint when the difference between the two is insignificant to a master of cinema such as myself.

You just didn't like Shazam! because you are picky. And this is precisely why movies I did not enjoy do not get ranked at all on my tiers. Even I would not be able to easily maintain any sort of impartiality. Your thoughts on its placement are thus equally questionable.

If you think Fighting with my Family deserves to be in the same tier as a Kurosawa movie, you can go to the wank zone with your whole family and film a new film called Wanking With Your Family because you are an insane wankerer.