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Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Movies and TV Shows of 2018?
Several remarkable movies and shows hit the theaters and TV this year. We had "First Man", "Black Panther", new "Incredibles", "Avengers: Infinity War", more "Star Wars" and "Mission: Impossible" hit the cinemas. On TV, we saw the conclusion of "The Americans", continuation of "Westworld" on HBO, and "Homecoming" arrive on Amazon Prime Video. "Money Heist" on Netflix, "Barry" on HBO, and "Detectorists" on AcornTV garnered good reviews from critics, too. What did you like this year?
Also in this year-ender series: Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year?
Also in this year-ender series: Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Good Books You Read This Year?
TV series: Westworld Movie: Outlaw King
is Trump's new "you're fired" show. Not sure what it's called. The casting is pretty hilarious. Lots of dumbasses who can't find their ass with both hands and a flashlight, running things into the ground. All punctuated by a new "you're fired!" weekly. I can't wait to see who'll be next!
It's called Lazy journalism, no offense intended, but that's about the size of it. Other variations are "Year end highlights" "Ten most tragic whatever" and so on.
It's an annual event; wiser folks take that unplanned-but-scheduled trip to Alaska that was always pushed to the back burner. After they finally close their Facefook account.
Terrible year for films and television. All action and no dialogue films. A million cop and medical show derivatives. Reboots and remakes galore.
And a very weird film about RBG that manages to make the social justice crowd even more unappealing and sexless.
The "power is off" light was the most entertaining.
In terms of the "big movies", I only really liked First Man. Nice adaptation of the book. As for the other "Block Busters", I enjoyed Black Panther, Deadpool 2, Incredibles 2, The Mule. Ant Man and the Wasp. Solo & Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. There were quite a few I could have lived without ("Mission Impossible: Fallout", comes to the top of the list).
Where I was really impressed was with (streaming) shows including:
- Altered Carbon
- Westworld (Second Season)
- Preacher
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (this seems to be straddling the line between "Movie" and "Streaming")
- The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
- Maniac
- Better Call Saul
- The Good Place
- Glow
- Orange is the New Black
- The Orville (it's a lot better than I would have expected)
With a good big-screen setup at home, there's a lot more, better and cheaper entertainment out there than going to the movies.
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German: Babylon Berlin, Perfume, Tempel, Dogs of Berlin
Russian: (the) Method - may be the best I've ever seen
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For a TV shows I would say Young Sheldon & The Good Doctor are both worth watching. For a movie I am going to agree with Cartman and say Black Panther.
Atlanta and Sorry to Bother You have both been standouts and feature Lakeith Stanfield.
There were plenty more shows I liked but I started watching both of those with modest expectations that were easily surpassed.
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They made it as a serious movie, but see it as a spoof of Hollywood CGI madness, it transforms into a fantastic comedy movie.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Seconds for:
Maniac
Marvelous Ms. Maisel
The Good Place
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Addition:
The End of the F***ing World -- only ~8 episodes but awesome
Never knew what the show was.
Seasons 1 and 2 were enjoyable but way to focused on beiong softwcore porn. Season 3 cuts back on the softcore pron and it's amazing. I'm currently on season 4.
It's an interesting story arch. I'd say David Duchoveny kills the role but it's like saying how great of an actor Eminem was in 8 mile for playing himself. Mr Duchovny is a recovering sex addict in real life and he play the role of a sex addict in Californication.
Anyway, give it a whirl.
As most of the movies and plenty of tv shows where prequals, sequals or franchises, I have no idea what to pick this year.
So to make it chalanging, the things you liked should not be a prequal, sequal, remake or a part of an existing series of movies.
Suddenly ,makes it much more chalaging to make a top 10.
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2018 must've been the year of reruns and forcing people to pay for every single channel individually.
If you are looking for a good drama and thriller to watch. Consider this. Watched this over the weekend last week. Very intense and gratifying. First Man was a very important and decent movie. I am looking forward to watching the Vice movie. If you want to kill some time, Aquaman is good, too.
Rami Malek deserves an oscar.
Yea I would go ditto's on
Altered Carbon, Buster Scruggs, The Good Place, & Orville.
I would add...
Castlevania
7 Deadly Sins
F is for Family
No Movies of note, while I did enjoy watching many of the Marvel movies, hi-tech but still in your face hand to hand combat as they swat off weapons fire like they are nothing. It is just too immersion breaking for me I guess or I am just not able to suspend a high enough level of disbelief. And don't get me started on the trash that happened in Starwars... Hollywood rarely produces anything better than gutter trash anyways, being that Hollywood is mostly trash to start with.
Nuff said.
I love this show so much, and I'm happy Netflix picked it up. My only issue with streaming sites making episodic TV is that they release all the episodes at once, I binge them because I have no self control, and now I have to wait a year+ for more episodes!
The Expanse!
I didn't watch a lot of traditional TV series and movies. I watched the 2nd season of Westworld on Sky (Europe). It was not as good as the first season, resorting to cheaper plot twists and some forced mystery elements that already annoyed me in LOST. Yeah, JJ Abrams I'm talking about your subversion of reality ideals. Where you try to make the consumer think "oh, was this all a simulation or a dream of that one character?" In terms of story telling this is awful.
... what a train wreck. I can't complain about the special effects. But boy, Disney keeps hiring these hacks that produce Star Wars movies for them. And before some special needs person thinks I'm talking about all the SJW allegations, I'm not. I myself think that people who blame the issues of the movies on these things are morons incapable of expressing some more objective criticism.
I am not sure if I'm willing to pay for another season.
I also watched the reboot of Lost in Space on a shared Netflix account. It made me wish they'd stop with all these reboots of old but recognizable franchises. The 1st season of the reboot in itself wasn't great, but it was good enough to stand on its own legs.
The Last Jedi
Here's something that really bugged me - the scene where Admiral Holdo kamikazeed the enemy's fleet. The visual effects were great, no question. But what does such a thing imply for the Star Wars franchise?
If you can weaponize a hyperdrive like that even in a tiny ship, why has nobody had the idea to do this before? In the greatest Star Wars movie ever the showed that even a regular X-wing was capable of hyper drive. Why not create hyperdrive kill vehicles? Not without reason relativistic kill vehicles are somewhat of a trope in hard(er) science fictions. Or something like Ender's Game did with their formic light speed eggs things. The scientists and engineers who came up with the thing must have known this. And even if we assume that the knowledge is ancient and the details were lost, there must have been engineers that stumbled over these aspects now and then.
But let's assume everyone was a moron until Admiral Holdo discovered this ingenious alternative use of hyperdrives. What happens in the future? Will no one ever use it again for some reason? Will they develop some magical new technology that prevents this from happening, where we may get into a Star Trekesque rut? Science spell! Wait, science counter spell! Hah, science counter spell breaker spell!
Will they just silently sweep it under the rug in a Stargate fashion, like they did with the final fire mode of the Zat guns?
What is the deal with all the Superhero movies? It is like everyone regressed to being a 12 year old boy.
Not a surprise, I presume, but the 2018 seasons of Better Call Saul, and Game of Thrones were great.
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- Money Heist - Haus des Geldes - La casa de papel - Pine Gap - Nobel - Berlin Station
Glow really impressed me. Tons of heart and characters that are all different and have actual personality. They are flawed and the show takes the time to get into the "why." Gives what could be a paper-thin plot about the female wrestling scene a lot of depth. In particular I enjoyed the relationship between Welfare Queen and her son. ......I'm not crying, you're crying
Britannica's "Mad Scientist" commercial remains the single funniest moment I've seen in a while.
You lost me when you said you liked Solo. I'm a pretty big SW fan all the way back to the first one - didn't care for Ewoks, hated Jar Jar, never really understood why every hated Rebel One so much, but think the current trilogy is lacking mostly because of Adam Driver, but all of that is solid gold compared to the awfulness of Solo.
There were a couple surprises that I didn't expect much from but that turned out to be special.
Movies:
"The Shape of Water" - was something I had no expectations for and it surprised me with its beauty. The story is well done, the characters are relateable and very well played, and the sheer beauty of both visuals and audio is breathtaking.
"Dealt" - is a documentary, it's ok done, but if you don't know already about Richard Turner, watch this to get a glimpse into what the guy can do and that is just amazing.
"Johnny English Strikes Again" - didn't expect much as I find Mr. Bean sometimes funny but mostly... well... not a fan. But the movie actually had me laughing throughout. And since it never tries to be anything but a funny movie, that's a full 100% mission accomplished.
The MCU - I like the movies. They aren't groundbreaking and nobody will talk about them in 20 years, but they are solid popcorn cinema. If you just want to relax and enjoy some entertainment, they deliver. I usually pick them for evenings where I want to make sure I'm not disappointed by watching something that might turn out great, but may also be a waste of time. You know what you get with the Marvel movies.
Books:
"Three Body Problem" - all three books of the trilogie was just mindblowing. Absolutely astonishing SciFi. I'm reading it for the 2nd time now, and that's a huge compliment as I very rarely read books again. I've become disappointed with SciFi recently, especially due to what happened to SciFi in the movies, but this is visionary SciFi with the same level of not-being-afraid-of-big-events that Game of Thrones exhibits, and so many fantastically crafted twists that once you see them and recover from the surprise, everything clicks and you see how all the small hints you missed come together. Wonderful writing, and that's the translation. I can only imagine how much better the (chinese) original must be.
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I didn't see any movies or watch any TV in 2018
Was that 2018? That's when I discovered it. They have the spaciest space I've ever seen in a sci-fi show. You get a sense of the harshness of the environment and the difficulties living in it. Definitely worth checking out if you like good sci-fi.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
"First Man", "Black Panther", new "Incredibles", "Avengers: Infinity War", more "Star Wars" and "Mission: Impossible"? Seriously?
I don't get how people can watch the same movie over and over again. Watching Hollywood super productions is like looking at art made of lego bricks. Sure, sometimes it looks cool but it's just a simplistic way of telling stories, using the same, known tools and tricks. Nothing ever surprises you or makes you think. Just cheap scares, fake tears, cardboard characters and nice special effects. I try to avoid american movies now because 99% of the time it's just a big disappointment. Korean, Spanish, Iranian, Scandinavian movies (among others) are usually much much better. Even mediocre foreign movie is much better than any Hollywood blockbuster.
Infinity War stole the show in terms of blockbusters but there were plenty of other mainstream films worth watching.
A Star is Born was a top movie despite Eddie Vedder advising friend Bradley Coopper not to go ahead with this remake. Turns out Bradley looks like a taller and more intoxicated Eddie in some parts of the film. I'll get the original soundtrack one of these days. Lady Gaga was awesome, in the proper sense of awesome.
Still on this musical theme, Bohemian Rhapsody did what it had to do to make quite a few Queen fans happy, and while it was a 2017 release, I watched Coco in January 2018, so I'll say it's a *beautifully* made film. Pixar at their best. Sorry, but not too sorry for mentioning it in this 2018 thread. Yardie and its Jamaican sound systems made for a good debut for director Idris Elba.
Ready Player One was quite a spectacular thing, somewhat funny because of all the gaming references. Tomb Raider had Alicia Vikander enact many scenes from the recent game I played, it was interesting at that level. Widows had some seriously bad ass villains.
So many sequels... Deadpool is worth watching for a laugh with your mates, Solo: A SW Story and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom were enjoyable at the time but probably more memorable for the investors than for me. Ocean's 8 was good fun, especially the social engineering demo in the first few minutes. Ant Man and the Wasp was good enough to recover from the Infinity War hangover without feeling a Marvel overdose. Creed II had a part where I felt like the film was a pointless remake, but then they turned it around well.
BlackKKKlansman was funny and creepy, The First Purge was just creepy, The Meg was so bad and so cliche'd that it becomes good. There must be a movie-badness-continuum, but Mission Impossible: Fall out just could not get acros to the good side :)
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Been into this for a long while now(via piracy) but this year it finally made the jump to Hulu. Well worth checking out for the laughs
Stuff that I find on Amazon from the 30s and 40s. (Long before my time, for the smart alec whippersnappers out there)
Oh yeah, and some Sherlock Holmes movies in Russian from the 70s. Awesome stuff.
Oh, you meant movies made in 2018? Hmm ...
Definitely the one show that I discovered this past year that far exceeded all my expectations and then some. Season 3 was stellar! The best SciFi to come along in quite some time.
Netflix's Haunting of Hill House episodes 1-5 is my favorite horror of all time. The child actors are excellent. The characters are interesting and likable. The director trusts the actors to carry scenes that in other lesser shows and movies other directors focus on effects.
To me, the series feels over after episode 5. The rest of the series answers questions I didn't have and undoes some things I liked.
-Dave
Science Fiction: Altered Carbon (Netflix) / Annihilation (theatre) / The Expanse (this season was a bit uneven, but the end was awesome) / A Quiet Place
Fantasy: The Magicians (the way they twist tropes is awesome) / The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (nice BTVS clone ;-) / Lucifer (thank God for Netflix picking this up) / The Good Place (yeah, I count it as fantasy)
Mainstream: Killing Eve (ok, the last 15 min was weird - and not in a good way) / Sorry to Bother You
Blockbusters: Ready Player One / Infinity War / The Incredibles / Ant Man & the Wasp
Documentary: Wont you be my neighbour (I cried - and so did everyone else) / Active Measures
The Good Place. No TV show has amused me more.
Spiderverse was lots of fun.
Those are the only two that stuck out so much I've gone around recommending them to others.
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I really enjoyed the 3rd season of Mr. Robot. I know a lot of people gave up during the second season, but they really did up their game. And while Ready Player One was far different than the book, by itself it was pretty enjoyable. The final season of House of Cards was a huge letdown -- it very much felt rushed and that the script was just thrown together (it was).
Looking forward to the next seasons of Better Call Saul, The Orville, Mr. Robot this coming season.
Altered Carbon
Jack Ryan
Twelve Monkeys
Future Man
The Man in the High Castle on Amazon Prime is rarely mentioned but actually great. Just starting season 3. Season 1 is a little slow but 2 is excellent.
Daredevil season 3 was pretty good too, and Luke Cage season 2.
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I have a bit of a problem with Marvelous Ms. Maisel. There is this subtext that runs throughout, usually played for laughs, that career is more important than family and love. I don't know if it's just some kind of pro-capitalist agit-prop or just a perpetuation of the myth that all great people have to suffer and make the people around them miserable in order to succeed. I enjoy the show except for that.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Time Trap is probably my most favorite movie of 2018. I've never heard anyone else talk about it but it gets pretty good reviews on YouTube and Rotten Tomatoes where I found it. As a comparison, I've stopped watching all of the cookie cutter comic book movies so if you're looking for something different, this could be it for you. This one is an under-marketed Indy film. I really hope they make a sequel.
I really ended up liking Succession on HBO. Also, My Brilliant Friend.
Altered Carbon was good, and so was the Good Place. The third season of Patriot was also pretty terrific in it's own way, and featured my old Chicago friend, Tony Fitzpatrick in an interesting role.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Here are top 50 big movies of 1974 (according to IMDB):
- The Godfather: Part II
- Black Christmas
- Blazing Saddles
- Chinatown
- Airport 1975
- Death Wish
- Young Frankenstein
- The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The Conversation
- The Man with the Golden Gun
- Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
- The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
- Zardoz
- The Towering Inferno
- The Great Gatsby
- The Arena
- Foxy Brown
- Phantom of the Paradise
- Lenny
- The Longest Yard
- The Night Porter
- A Woman Under the Influence
- Flesh Gordon
- Emmanuelle
- The Sugarland Express
- The Odessa File
- Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile
- Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Dark Star
- Claudine
- We All Loved Each Other So Much
- The Tamarind Seed
- Swallows and Amazons
- The Lords of Flatbush
- Gone in 60 Seconds
- Female Trouble
- Arabian Nights
- The Land That Time Forgot
- Earthquake
- It's Alive
- Benji
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
- Vampyres
- Mame
- The Little Prince
- The Teacher
- Truck Turner
- Undercovers Hero
- Deep Throat Part II
There are great dramas, horror, comedies, chick flicks, kids movies, Thrillers/heist movies, James Bond/disaster movies (which were the bubble gum movies of the time - today it's superhero movies).
The only big difference that I see is that looking back, porn seems to have been more mainstream back then.
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I still buy movies I want on Blu Ray to watch at home, but otherwise haven't been to an actual movie theater in years and likely never will again.
I've got a pause button, a beer fridge, the ability to smoke weed if I want, don't have to pay stupid prices for concession stuff, and don't have to listen to people's children.
I'll enjoy watching from my leather recliner in my own home. and have for years.
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New myth busters
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
Can't wait for season 2
So sue me. I'm a romantic.
One show that I absolutely loved but hasn't gotten much recognition on these lists/polls is Cobra Kai. I hope they do more of these "non-reboots" where actors reprise their old roles (arguably, the new Halloween was this as well).
My state of mind this year was not in the Dark, foreboding mood. So my choices are lighter more escapism than hard drama.
For TV shows , the Orville.
This just hit all the right notes of Comedy, Drama, Action. Avis, we try harder. The new Star Trek is just to damn dramatic. Even ToS and NG had some comedy in it.
For film, Ant Man and the Wasp.
I thought the story flowed well and was a good sequel.
How about a film where the heroes aren't obligatorily played by black actors so that Hollywood can get its vertue signaling on.
The Orville
The Expanse
Star trek Discovery
Killjoys
I also really like Outlander (Just dont tell anyone, ok? thanks.)
Man 'sorry to bother you' was an amazing alternate reality that hit a bit too close to home if you have ever worked with a call centre.
Absolutely surreal and hilarious. The movie summed up many fears about the service based economy we are all one day expected to work in. Absurdist black scifi comedy, in both senses of the word "black". Get ready for a proper mind fucking! Just gets more surreal as the movie progresses to its logical conclusion. Reminds me of something like shaun of the dead, but more societal commentary and less violence.
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
1975
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Jaws
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Three Days of the Condor
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Dog Day Afternoon
The Eiger Sanction
The Man Who Would Be King
The Stepford Wives
Tommy
Death Race 2000
A Boy and His Dog
Rollerball
Altered Carbon - so good. Cinema experience in bingeable chunks!
Bad Samaritan
Ready Player One
Unsane
Annihilation
12 Strong
The list of 2018 trash would be a lot longer.
My favourite movie of the year was Infinity War. The effects, massive storyline, humour, action all hit the mark. I also really enjoyed Mission Impossible: Fallout and Bird Box (Sandra Bullock).
As far as comedies go, Life in Pieces is hilarious.
These are all on Netflix.
Due to today's CenturyLink outage, my VPN to home is down so I can't easily look at what I've been watching, leaving me to rely on [oh, the horror!] my memory. That's bad for movies, but for TV there were three great shows very easy to recall off the top of my head:
For movies, about all I remember is liking The Death of Stalin and Sorry to Bother You. Don't remember anything else.
For music I've mostly been exploring the 1970s for the last couple years, but I seem to remember the new Weedpecker album was pretty good. (Funny name, Weedpecker, but once you hear them you stop laughing.)
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Altered Carbon
Forever
Homecoming
Buster Scruggs
A Series of Unfortunate Events
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (this seems to be straddling the line between "Movie" and "Streaming")
Ignoramus here, can someone tell me the difference between 'movie' and 'streaming'?
I define "Streaming" as a story told over multiple installments (four or more) as opposed to a "movie" which is just a single installment.
Buster Scruggs has six installments which is why I labeled it the way I did.
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Do you still remember the French animation "Once upon a life" that describes how red and white cells do their work inside human body?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time..._Life
Well, this is a Japanese version of it, I fell in love with it during the first 3 minutes when white blood cell appeared and killed a germ:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37141/Hataraku_Saibou
The series itself doesn't have much of a story (germs attack and while blood cells defeat them), but the characters are nicely implemented.
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Another series that got my attention is a realistic fantasy story about adventurers killing monsters, there are some quite violent scenes (R17) so be careful:
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37349/Goblin_Slayer
This is not an original idea, except perhaps to those who are not familiar with anime, but it is very well implemented as main character invent novel ideas to kill Goblins.
Altered Carbon was incredible and completely unexpected.
Counterpart on Amazon Video was also great, and the second season just started.
Season 3 of The Man in the High Castle really kicks things up a notch too...
In terms of TV shows:
- Godless (Netflix, Jeff Daniels is great as the villain)
- Haunting of Hill House (Netflix)
- Altered Carbon (Netflix)
- Channel Zero: Dream Door (SyFy, Pretzel Jack is so creepy)
- The Expanse (SyFy)
- Counterpart (Starz, J.K. Simmons is great)
- Doctor Who (BBC)
- Killing Eve (BBC)
- Snowfall (FX)
- Cloak & Dagger (Freeform)
- Travelers (Netflix)
Movies:
- Black Panther
- Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse (Visually amazing, with a great story)
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Counterpart
Altered Carbon was an epic series and The Expanse filled a Firefly-shaped hole in the schedules. Better Call Saul continued to feature great acting and story telling, with some of the best cinematography outside of an actual cinema. The Man in the High Castle finished strongly. Killing Eve was great until the end of the last episode. Detectorists was a whimsical delight, quite unlike anything else on TV.
Did I stumble into a ladies-only site? Otherwise why has no one mentioned Forged in Fire?
Science Fair and Free Solo were both good documentaries. Science Fair highlights some of the issues with today's education and Free Solo is just an extraordinary bit of film coupled with an understanding of why some people who seem to be thrill seekers really aren't thrill seekers at all.
best movie I've seem this year: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7...
I was really impressed by 'Maniac' ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5... ) too... 'Homecoming' ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7... ) was very good also!
It ended earlier this year after four seasons and, in my opinion, was simply amazing. The story, the cast, the sets, the music. Anyone who loves sci-fi and has a bit of a sense of humor owes it to themselves to give this show a chance. (Watch the movie first though, it will give you much more appreciation for the series.)
As a conservative, I've quit consuming all movies and TV since 2016 since everything has to have a political, woke, or "Fuck Trump" angle to it.
Upside I've got a lot of reading done, am more clear headed, generally calmer, and have been enjoying my hobbies more.
bye Saga!
'Movie' is a content format (typically feature length) and 'streaming' is a method of distribution (typically via the internet). In car terms, it's like asking the difference between 'bus' and 'highway.'
Thanks, can't wait to binge it now.
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Doesn't seem to be a lot of anime fans on /. nowadays...
The best anime I've seen this year are:
- A place Further than the Universe (A fantastic coming-of-age story.)
- Laid Back Camp (Girls go camping, a show much better than a simple summary can express.)
- Hinamatsuri (Well done satire/dark comedy/social commentary.)
- IRODUKU : The World in Colors may make the list if it sticks it's landing tomorrow.
It has to be Ancient Aliens, science at itâ(TM)s best, period!
Best movies I've seen in 2018
Factual:
Free Solo
First Man
Somewhat factual:
BlacKkKlansman
Fiction:
The Hate U Give
Revenge
Cold War
And the worst of 2018:
Black Panther
Formulaic, poor CGI, supposedly concerns an independent black nation - but one that needs the CIA to ensure the correct warlord holds power -Uh, right.
Sorry to Bother You
A satirical comedy where the jokes aren't funny and the satire is blunt as a baseball bat. So bad I should have walked out. That's 111 minutes I will never get back.
Personally, I found Solo to be a good Star Wars movie, but a terrible origin story.
Donald Trump, on a crusade to make Nixon look respectable
I haven't had cable in years, and I barely find anything Hollywood puts out worth the effort of watching it. But I did go to one movie this year. Ready Player One was pretty good, yes the story was tinkered with, but it was like the "hundredth retelling" kind of differences, and basically it was fun. TV-wise, I haven't been keeping up my DVR stuff from the antenna the past few months. I've been two weeks behind on Jeopardy for a while, and three weeks now.
The Orville was maybe the best thing "this" year (actually it was the end of 2017, right?) and I'm looking forward to its return Sunday night. It turned out better than I expected from the original promos. I suspect they pitched the "Married with Crew" angle to sucker Fox into taking it, then quickly it turned into STTNG with snark turned up to 11. There was also a Fox show called "Ghosted" that I had fun watching, and I think there's still a few episodes I haven't watched yet. Star Trek Discovery (STD) can die in a fire. I watched the first "episode" that CBS grudgingly broadcast, and it was just plain bad.
Young Sheldon is good, and I got some '80s nostalgia from it. (It takes place in the late '80s, but it presumably takes culture a while to reach rural East Texas, so it feels more like the early '80s.) I grew up as a brainy kid in rural areas in the '70s, so I can relate. Oh yeah, and Brooklyn Nine Nine is back!
I haven't been watching anime for a few months, and I can only remember what I did watch this year because it's in a folder where I can sort by date. Isekai Izakaya, Pop Team Epic, and on the cute side, Hakumei to Mikochi, Card Captor Sakura Clear Card, and Mitsuboshi Colors.
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- Humans
- Better Call Saul
- South Park
- Fargo
Game of Thrones is great, but I don't think it was on in 2018.
Impulse on youtube was the best series I saw from 2018
I really liked the cbs show Star Trek discovery - it was a shameless rip off of sci-fi's Dark Matter but with higher production value and an improved 2.0 script.
Sean William Scott (Stiffler) has been really entertaining on Lethal Weapon as a replacement for the lead in season 3.
You can jump right into season 3 and don't need to watch the first two seasons. That dude is great, loved him in the film "before I go" too
Okay so movies.. I haven't seen any movies this year that are good enough to go down in history
I discovered The Expanse last year and really looked forward to Season 3. I was not disappointed. I've also read some of the books and they seem to have a *lot* of material to continue.
I also watched some "Parts Unknown" and have to give a nod to Anthony Bourdain - RIP. I can't say that this was one of the best shows on TV but it did touch me. I'm watching the end of the Seattle episode which gives me chills. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Season 2 of west world was terrible and Ant Man and the Wasp was worse. They should have just taken Ben Afleck's remaining two lines and had him stare patiently waiting for someone to tell him what to do.
Orville gets major credit for feeling more like Star Trek then the new series. Seriously, I thought, this is a pretty good budget next generation.
Episode 6 of Karmapirates' "Dynamo" came out.
Your face by Tsai Ming Liang is a very impressive movie. Very simple yet very effective. A bit inspired by the video portraits of Andy Warhol but still retaining some sort of narrative. It's a much needed experience in our overstimulated present. Highly recommended.
Sophia Antipolis from Virgil Very is a very good surprise from a director I didn't know about. It reminds me of Rohmer or Bresson with a fresh vaporwave approach. James Ferraro worked on the soundtrack.
TV wise, Better Call Saul was nice and exciting. I'm always a couple of years later with TV series. I like to binge watch and rest assured the show is quality from beginning to the end. Couldn't think of anything else for this year.
Only if you are a fan of telenovelas. Because honestly, this is how most of the third season feels like. Pure melodrama with a sprinkle of alternative history.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
I think this came out in July but I don't recall seeing it. But I caught it a few days ago and throughly enjoyed this quirky Western about two brothers who kill for a living and their last mission together hunting a Chemist who figured out how to find Gold. Very original and very thought provoking.
Have you fscked your local propeller head today?
Honestly, the 2nd season of 3-gatsu no Lion doesn't belong on any top list... It IS a top list, all by itself.
I didn't list it though as it's not really accessible if you haven't seen the 1st season.