Best Movies 2023?

[Husky_Khan]

Haven't done this since 2019... but 2023 has likely been a terrible year for films at least quality wise. But I really wasn't sure, so I decided to go back and see just how many new films I've seen in 2023 and rank em up if they are even worthy of being ranked.

Top Ten Movies Released in 2023 that I've seen in 2023 that I can remember ranked in order.:

1. Oppenheimer
2. Godzilla Minus One
3. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
Napoleon
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part I
Sound of Freedom
Killers of the Flower Moon
Rumble Through the Dark
Leave the World Behind
Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3
Golda
Shazam: Fury of the Gods
The Super Mario Bros Movie
The Equalizer 3
Extraction 2
The Flash
Indiana Jones And the Dial of Destiny
Cocaine Bear
The Shift
Resident Evil: Death Island
John Wick: Chapter Four
Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
The Mother
Meg 2: The Trench
Expend4bles

Yeah it was a pretty balls year for movies I guess. The only truly bad film I feel was Expend4bles but most of the rest of the films were mid or just decent at best. The top half dozen or so films are probably the only legitimately good films released this year.

 

[Husky_Khan]

LOL this post must be tripping the bots and search engines or something.

Please stay strangers! Let's talk about the movies we saw released in 2023!

 

[Skallagrim]

I think it's Google crawling your thread every time some rando types "best movies of 2023" into the search bar. Which, considering it's the end of the year, will be often.


Anyway, 2023 was shit for films, and I haven't seen much of anything. What I did see was pretty mediocre, or at least: didn't impress me that much. I do hear that new Godzilla film is good, so I might go see that one.

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

The only 2023 movies I saw were Suzume and the Dungeons & Dragons movie. Suzume is the only one I'd rewatch. The first 2/3rds of the movie are good. The last 1/3rd where the main male lead is absent wasn't as enjoyable as the first 2/3rds, also there was some conspicuous 3D CGI and the climax didn't have as high production values as I had hoped for, but still overall 7/10 good.

I've had the new Hayao Miyazaki Ghibli film on my radar and have considered going to see it, but from what I've heard it sounds forgettable.

 

[Husky_Khan]

The only 2023 movies I saw were Suzume and the Dungeons & Dragons movie. Suzume is the only one I'd rewatch. The first 2/3rds of the movie are good. The last 1/3rd where the main male lead is absent wasn't as enjoyable as the first 2/3rds, also there was some conspicuous 3D CGI and the climax didn't have as high production values as I had hoped for, but still overall 7/10 good.

I've had the new Hayao Miyazaki Ghibli film on my radar and have considered going to see it, but from what I've heard it sounds forgettable.

What's a Suzume and what's it about?

 

[Val the Moofia Boss]

What's a Suzume and what's it about?

New anime movie by Makoto Shinkai. In modern Japan, Suzume bumps into a guy on her way to highschool. He goes around closing doors to another world to prevent horrors from leaking out into our world. He gets cursed and turned into a chair, so she runs away from home to help him. The English dub was good.

 

[Argent]

Best top 5 movies I saw this year was

1. Oppenheimer

While not action pacted or funny it is a strong historical biopic. It manages to create tension even when we knew how it would end. Very simlar to how I feel about Dunkirk. A great movie but not one that you want to watch on a Saturday afternnon.

2. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

This is what fantasy movies need to be. Ever since Lord of the Rings has come out Hollywood only seems to want to make huge sprawling epic high fantasy. This movie was a perfect mix of fandom memes, action and humor rolled into 2 hours of fun.

3. Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3

This is a throw back the Phase 4. The movie is a fitting end to Skylord's saga. The background of Rocket and the end just make it better. This is what Marvel movies use to be and well worth watching.

4. Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

This is the Hunger Games Prequel and it delivers. A look at how this started and the expanded world are huge pluses. The look into Snow and his journey make for an interesting look into his character. This movie shows why Hungar Games spawned so many knockoffs that failed to reach its level.

5. Super Mario Brother's movie

Tbis was a fun movie that managed combine vidoe game elements into a coherent plotline. The voice acting and animation where great while inculding enough jokes to keep kids and adults entertained.

Other movies like John Wick just had major erros tbat ruined them for me. But this was kind of a dud year for movies but at least next year has Ghostbusters Frozen Empire and Dune Part 2 coming out.

 

[Husky_Khan]

With my Streaming Binge coming to an end soon, I updated my list. Unfortunately most of them were towards the bottom half of the list with the exception of Leave the World Behind which snuck into my "Top Ten" of sorts.

With that said Critical Drinker posted his retrospective of 2023 in Movies (and Television).



He said that while there were a lot of surprises, many of them were positive. He found Oppenheimer, One Piece, the third and final season of Star Trek Picard, the Gran Turismo film, The Sound of Freedom, the Dungeons & Dragons movie, Sisu (which was released in 2022 IIRC but later abroad) as highlights but that Godzilla Minus One was probably the most surprising of the bunch.

For the negatives he talked about the "Flopbuster" especially in regards to Superhero films where six out of eight Superhero films were complete flops. Other fails he brought up, especially regarding 'The Message' include the Queen Cleopatra documentary for Netflix, the Velma cartoon series etc.

He's positive about the future and also thinks that Video Game Adaptions (and to a lesser extent action movies like John Wick and Extraction) will likely replace Superhero films/shows as the next big franchise and source material studios will try to capitalize on.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

Imagine a movie today having the balls to do something like this movie in the 70's did!