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Will 2018 be the best year in movies this decade?

posted 7 years ago by Cinephile03 (22)
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So, in my opinion, 2017 has been one of the absolute worst years for film in general. sure some genres, like horror, have shined but it seems the big blockbusters mostly flopped and the comedy genre felt extinct. 2018 seems to be stacking up to be one of the best years in film in this decade. Just now I tried to make a list of the movies I’m personally most excited for and it seemed like I just kept finding more and more movies I’m personally excited for. I wanted to share the list of what I’m looking forward to and ask about what you guys are most looking forward to in 2018, if you think 2017 was a bad year in film, and if I missed any big movies coming out this year! If you haven’t heard of a film I mentioned below I suggest looking up a trailer for it as a lot of these I had never heard of before today!

1. Deadpool 2
2. Ocean’s 8
3. X-Men: Dark Phoenix
4. The Incredibles 2
5. Halloween
6. Annihilation (w/ Natalie Portman)
7. Avengers: Infinity War
8. Solo: A Star Wars Story
9. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
10. Super Troopers 2
11. The Purge: The Island
12. The New Mutants
13. Game Night (w/ Jason Bateman)
14. Tomb Raider
15. Love, Simon
16. Ready Player One
17. Night School (w/ Kevin Hart)
18. A Wrinkle in Time
19. Black Panther
20. Ant Man and the Wasp
21. Maze Runner: The Death Cure
22. Venom
23. Aqua Man
24. Truth or Dare
25. Peter Rabbit
26. Game Over, Man (w/ the old workaholics cast)
27. Wreck It Ralph 2
28. Insidious: The Last Key
29. Sherlock Gnomes (sequel to Gnomeo and Juliet)
30. Hotel Transylvania 3

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

There's one movie that you missed.It come out on march 16😉

[–] Cinephile03 (22) 7 years ago

Peter Rabbit or Tomb Raider?

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

Who's peter rabbit?

[–] Cinephile03 (22) 7 years ago

😂 it’s a movie also coming out on March 16th, I watched the trailers and updated my list to include both!

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

a whole bunch of comic book/superheros/sequels - depressing.

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

Agreed.

[–] Cinephile03 (22) 7 years ago

I think there’s a good portion of original stuff coming out this year too. They’ll probably mostly flop at the box office, but I think there’s potential in movies like Annihilation, Ocean’s 8(does that count as a sequel??), Game Night, A Wrinkle in Time

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 7 years ago

Depressing list, depressing decade.

[–] LetThemEatCake (2717) 7 years ago

All of them sound like absolute shit and the ones that have trailers out look like shit too. Film is dead, deal with it.

[–] Cinephile03 (22) 7 years ago

film is only dead when those who love it let it die - also film will never die, the majority might suck right now but eventually good movies get made.

[–] LetThemEatCake (2717) 7 years ago

they haven't been any in 20 years.

[–] Cinephile03 (22) 7 years ago

I was gonna go through and name outstanding movies from 1997 and on, but I wouldn’t even know where to start. Any reason in particular why you hate movies from this century?

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 7 years ago

Amen. Everything goes in cycles.

:-)

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 7 years ago

No it's not.

:-)

[–] Sentient Meat (1509) 7 years ago

Piracy really killed serious film as an art form... during the era of home video, directors and producers could take chances with films, knowing if they lost money in the theater that they'd make it back on VHS or DVD. Now, projects only get greenlit if it's by a major director with a impeccable track record, or part of a franchise where they know the audience is guaranteed in advance. I'm not saying there won't be an occasional brilliant film that makes its way from the festival circuit, but they are going to be labor of loves where someone financially is taking a bath or write off just to get it made. I thought maybe we'd get a lot of great homemade films shot on phones or digital cameras because the cost was so much lower than film, but so far that hasn't materialized. I'm sure there are many factors other than this... but I'm fairly certain this is the main one.

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

Oh come on,they gain to much money anyway.

[–] Sentient Meat (1509) 7 years ago

They make a lot of money, but with way fewer films, and less admissions and higher ticket prices. If you pay 20 for IMAX vs. 10 for old school admission... you are generating double the money with the same number of people. Also, it is a few films making a billion dollars instead of a hundred films making a few million.

Piracy doesn't hurt an Avengers or Star Wars film as much as it would a David Lynch or Wim Wenders type film. If all you like are blockbusters, then you probably won't notice any effect... but a lot of smaller directors with critical respect hardly work anymore.

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

That's because the studios are in charge now days.They decide what should be cut and what scenes should be on the movie.A strong example : sony pictures entertainment.They messed up a few promising franchises.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

This doesn't explain why TV programming has never been busier or better ???

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

I read that a new stargate tv show is in development.I saw the teaser and it looks bad.

[–] Sentient Meat (1509) 7 years ago

You haven't noticed the fractional Nielsen ratings that are less than 10% of what they were twenty years ago?

Right now, TV is being sustained by a ponzi/pyramid scheme type structure that Netflix has used to gain new subscribers. Agree with you that the quality is amazing, but it's not super profitable or sustainable long term if you look at the financials. They started out by getting a sweet deal from dumb movie studios who gave them content for nothing, then have been using a rotating bait and switch technique with their content so we are all paying the same money for a fraction of the movies they started with. That's why they stopped using a rating system and use that weird recommended algorithm, so you can't see how many shows have disappeared. They have been financing their content by expanding into more and more markets, but once they finish, it will be hard to continue. When all the boomers and gen x'ers who pay for cable and legal subscriptions die off... it will be tough to keep funding shows. This is why they want to weaken net neutrality because pirate streams will be so much slower than legal streams, especially when 4k becomes the standard.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

You make good points but the talent is moving to TV where you are seeing the better product on screen while the movie producers continue with the comic/superhero/sequels. Many people thought piracy would kill the music business but it didn't - it did change it however - people tend to buy singles now, no one seems to buy albums anymore.

[–] Sentient Meat (1509) 7 years ago

Both industries are a shadow of what they were in terms of artistry. If all you care about is money... yes they have found ways to monetize artists like Taylor Swift and Beyonce, or turn the Star Wars and Marvel films into billion dollar juggernauts... but what I'm specifically discussing is independent films, and alternative artists. The kind of show that people say to themselves... you know what? I don't need to see that in the theater... I'll just bootleg it or wait for Netflix. There used to be so many exciting independent films... I'd say we see ten percent of what was there before.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

plenty of good indies on Sundance Now if you are willing to pay. I think we are in the golden age of TV right now. Just too much to watch imo.

[–] Sentient Meat (1509) 7 years ago

Yeah because Lynch, Fincher, Kevin Smith et al... have been forced to make tv shows. Don't take my word on this... let's see what happens. I'm not saying there won't always be something to watch... but the film industry has less admissions than in the past.

Population has increased... but admissions are down or flat. The internet is the greatest advertising tool in human history and they've lost 20% of their audience. The box office has only sustained by doubling ticket prices.

https://www.the-numbers.com/market/

As you said, there is still too much to watch in a lifetime... but it is a proven fact that audiences are shrinking... and unless they figure out a way to stop it... content at some point will start to shrink as well.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Netflix vs HBO

https://www.wsj.com/articles/hbo-to-talent-you-wont-get-this-much-love-at-netflix-1516031557

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

Slower? Sorry to disagree.

[–] Sentient Meat (1509) 7 years ago

No, I specifically said if they destroy net neutrality... that's why half the internet is in an uproar, because if big companies can pay for faster streams... it will kill the pirate sites by making them slower. Look it up.

[–] croft_alice (12180) 7 years ago

They tried this before,but they failed.No matter what ideas will have to stop the internet piracy,they will fail.We are too many out there.

[–] Sentient Meat (1509) 7 years ago

This is the problem though... before... tech and telecom companies were letting people steal from traditional movie and record companies... they didn't mind this because it wasn't their property. However, as companies merge, the tech companies are starting to own the content themselves. When it is their property and not someone else's... you will see they magically now know how to solve it. Always look at people's self interest... and you find the answers for most things.

[–] godewey (16472) 7 years ago

Must be me.

There's not one movie on here that I want to see.
Maybe- Game Over, Man, since I did like workaholics.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 7 years ago

Probably not. Movies have breen going downhill for decades, fronted by comic book and whorey so-called movies. Films for teens, the only real audiences for movie theaters. Adults watch Home Theater, at home.

[–] MovieManCin2 (26342) 7 years ago

We won't know until the end of the year.

😎

[–] Renovatio (2990) 7 years ago

the only of those that I'm remotely looking forward to is Ready Player One as it's Speilberg and it'll be good to see some nice visuals on the big screen....

the others are not compelling... Sequels, serials, etc... I'm sure there will be superior movies that we aren't anticipating that are not on the list...

[–] Cinephile03 (22) 7 years ago

Oh definitely, most of the time my favorite movie of the year is one I hadn’t heard about before.

[–] Renovatio (2990) 7 years ago

Yeah... the best are usually like that...

but there could be surprises among sequels and adaptations... fun movies, or decent movies... i liked Prometheus, even though that is aparently a controversial opinion... Not my favourite from that year, but was fun

[–] Cinephile03 (22) 7 years ago

My sleeper movie this year was Better Watch Out. I had never heard about it until I watched it, and it’s in my top 5-10 this year.

[–] Stratego (30494) 7 years ago

It doesn't look all that great to me. The only one I'm somewhat interested in is Halloween.

[–] Cinephile03 (22) 7 years ago

I’m a huge fan of Halloween and can’t wait to see how much Jamie Lee Curtis is involved. Hopefully not like in Halloween: Ressurection where she’s on-screen for like 8 minutes.

[–] Kazak (2187) 7 years ago

Looking forward to:

Happy End
Phantom Thread
The House That Jack Built
Isle of Dogs
Untitled Jonathan Glazer project
The Favourite
Annihilation

[–] Cinephile03 (22) 7 years ago

I’ve only heard of Annihilation! I’ll have to look up the others!