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golli@lemm.ee 5 days agoI’d say it depends on how much new releases you’ve seen this year. But while I’d say having not seen a single one (assuming you’ve watched a decent number) is maybe a bit surprising, I can totally see reasons how someone could have ended up not seeing a single one of them.
Many are also still just in cinemas (like the brutality) or only available for digital rental, not streaming. With Wicked and Emilia Perez you have musicals that many (me included) don’t care for as much. You probably won’t go see a complete unknown or better man, if you aren’t a fan of the artist. And I could go on and list reasons for all other films.
But I’d be curious: of the ones you have seen this year which stood out to you or would you have liked to see nominated?
Personally from the nominated ones I’ve seen
In cinema: Dune part II, Alien Romulus, Nosferatu
At a festival: the substance, black box diaries
And otherwise I’ve seen Anora, Conclave, The wild robot
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
I skipped 2 on purpose. Dune: Part Two (not watching until I finish the books) and Wicked (too overhyped, if you need $150 millions to spend on marketing something, it’s not worth watching in my mind).
I heard of Nosferatu, Inside Out 2 and Gladiator II, but many of the other entries didn’t even catch my eye throughout the year.
Looking at my stats, It has been a light year on movies for me. Only 9 movies I saw were released in 2024.
My standout was Hounds of War (2024), not worth any nominations, but it really surprised me.
golli@lemm.ee 5 days ago
When you write books, plural, do you just want to read them all while not having them influence your own imagination? which i could totally understand. Because otherwise from a spoiler perspective the two movies just adapt the first novel.
I was under the impression that many large blockbuster productions nowadays have similar sized marketing budgets. Maybe $150m is a bit on the high side for Wicked, but from a quick search Dune Part II also seems like it had a roughly $100m one.
Tbh not suprising for some of the reasons mentioned above. And i think particular something like Anora gets a lot of buzz on the critic side, but hardly any mainstream attention. So you’d have to actively pay attention to that.
Tbh while i thought that there were some great movies, it probably was a light year for movies in general, at least for me. I’d say it was more dominated by the large flops we had: Joker 2, Megalopolis, Madame Web, The Crow, Borderlands and so on.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
I don’t particularly like adaptations in general since most of them are only made to cash in on the popular name. But when something not completely shit is made I like to go into it with having consumed original medium and then be able to compare and speculate the different reasons for the decisions made in the adaptation.
It used to be rare. But with Barbie’s gamble paying off, everyone thinks it’s the winning strategy now. I’m just proving them wrong. :)