Movies Personal Top 10 Films of 2022 - It's List Time Ya'll

[SoberChef]

Shocked to see this hasn't already been made so why not now? I've been racking my head as to what to do about my personal top 10 so I pulled up a site that lists in order every film released this year & my list below is more of what made it as opposed to an official ranking as that is just asking far too much of someone who isn't an official critic.

 

Top 10 2022:
The Batman
Avatar: Way of Water
The Menu
X/Pearl (I consider them 2 parts a of a 3 act whole)
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Terrifier 2
Banshees of Inisherin
Bullet Train
Top Gun Maverick
Watcher

 

Notable Mentions:
The Northman
Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Nope
Prey

 

[johnny]

still some movies i need to see but some of my favorites rn that i’m not seeing on a lot of lists around the internet (for example, every list has EEAAO, deservedly so) are 

 

the fallout

cha cha real smooth 

ambulance (don’t hate on michael bay this shit is fun)

resurrection 

jackass forever and jackass 4.5 

 

 

what’s easier are the worst movies of the year which i can happily say are 

 

jurassic world dominion 

texas chainsaw massacre 

halloween ends 

we’re all going to the world’s fair 

 

[TheLeon]

I’ve been trying to make a top 10 for a while, and it’s tough. This was a really good year for movies. 
 

1. Top Gun Maverick

2. Everything Everywhere All at Once

3. 3000 Years of Longing

4. Banshees of Inisherin

5. Tár

6. The Fabelmans

7. Decision to Leave

8. Glass Onion

9. The Menu

10. Avatar: The Way of Water

 

And there’s a bunch of movies that on any given day could be 8-10: Ambulance, Barbarian, The Woman King, Speak No Evil, The Batman, Nope, Bones and All, Thirteen Lives.

[best3444]

I didn't watch one single movie this year. 

[Greatoneshere]

I still have a lot of 2022 movies to see, I imagine by mid-January I'll be able to post an actual list. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

For the relatively few films that I watched 2022:

 

1.The Banshees of Inisherin

2. Everything Everywhere All at Once

3. The Menu

4. The Batman

5. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

6. RRR

 

...Quite a bit of distance...

 

7. Nope

 

...Getting Kicked In The Teeth Repeatedly...

 

Dishonorable Mention: The Northman

[Bloodporne]

It's hard for me to even remember what I watched. The only one that really stuck with me as great would be Banshees of Inisherin. 

 

The Northman is absolutely #1 disappointment though, be it a new flick I saw or revisiting something old. 

 

Worst piece of shit of the year goes to that Netflix Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I actively hate this movie. 

[Keyser_Soze]

The only 2022 movie I've seen is Morbius and I liked it.

[silentbob]

I’m so far behind on my movie watching that I don’t even have a top 5. The one movie I can really comment on is Everything Everywhere All At Once. Which I have seen twice and is a great movie. Dragged a little in the middle but loved the story and Small Fry better win for supporting actor

[SoberChef]

Still need to watch The Whale & Glass Onion here so they may work their way into the list yet.

[Zeluge]

Decision to Leave

Ambulance

Retour à Séoul

Nope

Banshees of Inisherin

Crimes of the Future

Aftersun

RRR

Tàr

Confess, Fletch

 

Honorable Mentions: Pearl, Dual, Happening, Fabelmans, Till

 

Trash: Men, Everything Everywhere All at Once, She Said, Halloween Ends, Blonde, The Whale, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Scream

[69los]

I've compiled my list (12 films) and have made it my goal over the next week to watch at least 5 more movies.

[skillzdadirecta]

There were 10 good movies this year???

[skillzdadirecta]

On 12/22/2022 at 8:39 AM, Bloodporne said:

Netflix Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Was that this year???

 

Really surprised by how much you guys liked Nope and Ambulance 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

17 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Was that this year???

 

Really surprised by how much you guys liked Nope and Ambulance 

 

Nope is only on my list because it's one of the 5 or 6 movies that I watched this year

 

I've updated my list to add "RRR" which would have a higher position if it was 30 to 45 minutes shorter.

[skillzdadirecta]

Yeah I saw quite a few movies this year that ranged from really bad to "okay" to fun in a good way. No masterpieces or anything though. I still haven't seen Everything Everywhere all At Once though. There's a few movies I liked that I thought were really fun...

 

Bullet Train

The Batman

The Woman King

Prey

Barbarian

Wakanda Forever

Scream 5

Top Gun Maverick

 

I'm sure I saw more, but these are the ones off the top of my head I remember.

[SoberChef]

3 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Was that this year???

 

Really surprised by how much you guys liked Nope and Ambulance 

 

Yeah for some reason everyone has TCM released in 2022 but I am pretty sure it had released end of December last year on Netflix I thought!?

 

*EDIT* Just looked it up, nope it was in February of this year apparently. I personally didn't HATE it as we FINALLY had an actual chainsaw massacre in this franchise!!

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Updated my ranking for Glass Onion which I watched tonight.

Definitely not nearly as tight a film as the first, but extremely entertaining nonetheless!

[skillzdadirecta]

Add Fresh and Hellraiser to my list. Forgot those came out this year too.

[SoberChef]

I didn't hate the new Hellraiser actually, just didn't hit my list. Watched 'Glass Onion' over the holiday weekend & while genuinely quite good, not as good as the first & doesn't quite nudge its way into the top 10.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

I've updated my list after watching the absolutely masterful The Banshees of Inisherin last night.

[unogueen]

As my patience for the modern age declines I nominate Mad God. I'm so fucking sick of this penchant for calamity for fanbase sake, the insipidly drab 'extreme immersion' that ruins both picture AND sound. The way that these tentpole cape films are falling off a cliff quality wise with a whimper while idiots online do the 'culture war'. The visual sheen of a new future that's about as inspired as flat design. Scandinavian futurism you're welcome.

Mad God offers a movie that flows with flaws, but flaws made by error, not negligence. It's romanticism on a muppet level with a violence that is so discordant, it trips the uncanny valley. If the Avatar HFR was a trip, this movie uses it like it should, to attain tone, no idea what cameron's doing. And the whole reel from front to end suddenly passes as a process like digestion, despite the whole lot of you won't be talking about for a bit.

[GeneticBlueprint]

I've only seen four movies that came out in 2022, two of which were in the theater at the time.

 

4. The Contractor - I love Chris Pine but god damn he picks duds quite frequently. This is one of them.

3. Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - My oldest son wanted to see this and it's not as good as the first.

2. Lightyear - My middle child wanted to see this. It was fine. He fucking loved it.

1. The Batman - Fuckin' loved this shit.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

The 2022 Year-in-Review lists from the film critique/analysis YouTube channels that I subscribe to:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[IdeaOfEvil]

I didn't see a lot of "new movies" this year. But I did get to watch a lot of "new to me" movies. So, I think rather than doing a top ten, it'll just be easier for me to categorize the 'Good' to the ''Whatever' to the "Awful" :

Good:
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe 2022
Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2021
Top Gun: Maverick 2022
Less Than Zero 1987
Life of Pi 2012
The Northman 2022
Prey 2022
Scanners II: The New Order 1991
Werewolf by Night 2022

Whatever:
Hellraiser 2022
Shoot to Kill 1988
Smile 2022
Knowing 2009

Awful:

The Batman 2022
No Time to Die 2021
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 2022
By the Sword 1991
What Is a Woman? 2022
The Midnight Meat Train 2008
Speed Racer 2008
I, Frankenstein 2014
Undisputed 2002

[SoberChef]

I appreciate your list @IdeaOfEvilbut the one thing that sticks out is your take on Midnight Meat Train being awful (!!!???) ... I'd love to hear you talk more in depth about what you didn't appreciate about that film?

[Keyser_Soze]

23 minutes ago, SoberChef said:

I appreciate your list @IdeaOfEvilbut the one thing that sticks out is your take on Midnight Meat Train being awful (!!!???) ... I'd love to hear you talk more in depth about what you didn't appreciate about that film?

 

Going back to my own personal take on the movie. I thought the ending twist would have made a better movie and the CG gore made the movie more comical than horrifying.

[IdeaOfEvil]

2 hours ago, SoberChef said:

I appreciate your list @IdeaOfEvilbut the one thing that sticks out is your take on Midnight Meat Train being awful (!!!???) ... I'd love to hear you talk more in depth about what you didn't appreciate about that film?

 

To be fair, I'm generalizing my categories here. I only referred back to my Letterboxd ratings for this 2022 placement list, and this film just fell below my 2-star cut off that puts it in the 'awful category' and not in the 'whatever' category. But I honestly didn't enjoy this movie to the point that I can't really remember it these many months later. Thankfully, though, I always use Letterboxd to keep a record of my immediate thoughts on the films I watch at any given time, and this is what I wrote about it when I saw back it in April:

 

 

Quote

 

14 Apr 2022

 

Clive Barker is the only reason why I gave this a chance. And while he had an okay idea here, there just wasn't much plot to invest in. A guy takes a lot of photo's, he suspects someone of foul deeds, he follows said guy around, and then we get a ho-hum ending that falls flat. The actors all did their roles fine enough, I guess, and the main villain stood out just because he was an enjoyable "strong/silent type" of figure akin to any other grotesque bad guy that wears a clean business suit. But the movie overall looks cheap and awful, with the back-and-forth combination of using practical effects (blood, body parts, etc) and cg effects (blood, body parts, etc) doing the film no favors at all in the end. And while I can at least (maybe) give this movie a point for not using any cheap "jump scares" to make up for its lack of suspense or actual horror - which would have annoyed the living piss out of me all throughout it's run time if it did - it still gets docked a point for not providing anything else to evoke an emotional response outta me. Frankly, this movie was boring. There's blood. There's gore. But without any actual creative reason to have them on screen, who cares?

 

Overall, the story came off as a "what if?" scenario that focused on one premise on a train while the rest of the script did a lousy job of padding out a bunch of narrative gaps around it. Characters were there just to be there, and a variety of sets were used that had no real barring on the extremely vague lore being presented. Yet, mostly, nothing is explained in any kind of meaningful exposition, and (again) you end up not caring about anything or anyone in this film in the slightest. D grade.

 

 

[69los]

When I said I'd only watched 12 2022 movies, 11 and 12 were VHS 99 and that wretched Texas Chainsaw Massacre. My list was so embarrassing that 9 and 10 were Halloween Ends and Moonfall. Not acceptable. All the bolded ones were seen in the past 8 days.

 

1. Everything, Everywhere All At Once

2. All Quiet on the Western Front

3. Pearl

4. X

5. Scream 5

6. Glass Onion

7. Prey

8. Barbarian

9. Top Gun: Maverick

10. Smile

 

I may watch Bullet Train or Crimes of the Future later tonight to see if I can kick Smile off the list.

 

edit

 

I swore I edited this.

 

1. Everything, Everywhere All At Once

2. All Quiet on the Western Front

3. Pearl

4. X

5. Scream 5

6. Glass Onion

7. Prey

8. Barbarian

9. Crimes of the Future

10. Top Gun: Maverick

 

 

1/20 edit

 

1. Everything, Everywhere All At Once

2. All Quiet on the Western Front

3. Pearl

4. X

5. Scream 5

6. Glass Onion

7.  The Menu

8. Prey

9. Barbarian

10. Crimes of the Future

 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Updated my YT channel post with another video.

[TheLeon]

Do you love good montage as much as I do? These videos have become an annual highlight for me. 

 

 

 

[Chris-]

Jackass Forever.

[Bloodporne]

Why was I not informed of the fact that Short Round is in Everywhere Everything!? I absolutely loved him and had posters as a kid. I thought he had completely retired from acting. 

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

Part II of I/F/O's "The Best Films of 2022"

 

 

[TheLeon]

On 1/11/2023 at 1:22 PM, Bloodporne said:

Why was I not informed of the fact that Short Round is in Everywhere Everything!? I absolutely loved him and had posters as a kid. I thought he had completely retired from acting. 

He basically had. If you look at his IMDB, he only has like 4 credits in the last 30 years. He’s given interviews about how the roles just dried up once he hit his 20’s. It’s the kind of comeback story that’ll probably get him the Oscar (and it helps that he’s fantastic in the movie, of course). If the Golden Globes are good for anything, it’s for nice moments like this: