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Top kinos of 2022

What are your top kinos of 2022?

I may do an effortpost later with an actual review in support of each of my entries, but I'm waiting for a Jenkins pipeline and wanted to do this now

Movies:

  1. Everything Everywhere All At Once

  2. NOPE

  3. The Northman

  4. Crimes of the Future

  5. Top Gun Maverick

  6. Don't Worry Darling

  7. The Batman

TV

  1. (tie) Pachinko & Station Eleven

  2. The Rehearsal

  3. Severance

  4. Under the Banner of Heaven

  5. The Bear

  6. Better Call Saul

  7. Barry

  8. The Dropout

  9. Andor

  10. House of the Dragon

  11. We Own This City

  12. Atlanta

  13. Fleishman Is In Trouble

  14. Dexter: New Blood

  15. WeCrashed

  16. Pantheon

Honorable mentions:

  • Yellowjackets

  • Reacher

  • The Terminal List

  • American Gigolo

  • Outer Range

  • Slow Horses

  • The White Lotus

  • 1883

  • Winning Time: Rise of the LA Lakers

What were your favorite kinos of the year?

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Congrats, fellow sperg, you've finally joined us in the big leagues

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:#marseyawardretard:

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Here's mine

Movies:

  • Nothing, did not see a single good movie this year.

(I didn't see maverick though, hear it's ok)

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I actually really liked the everything movie, if you haven't seen it

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There’s no homoerotic volleyball scene they just play football in jeans and Tom Cruise keeps stealing jets

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SHE HULK

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Rings of Power as well!

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Oh lawd dem rangs!

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AHH LAWD DEMM RANGZ OF POWAHHHHH

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Thanks for the Pachinko rec, it's kino as frick omg

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Korean family drama across generations

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U have no taste

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Of course you watch kids

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I give them food and sunlight but they keep trying to escape :marseyill:

so ungrateful

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Pachinko is kino of the year. I will never stop shilling it. That show made me cry my fricking eyes out more than once.

It's criminally underrated. Even my aznbros haven't heard of it, but I'm still spreading the good word.

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I'm only 20 minutes in and it feels like there's an Ode to My Father vibe to it :marseytears:

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Pay attention to how every shot is framed. Almost everything is shot in a medium closeup. They shot the whole show in Canada on a fake set :marseyrake:

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Ooh I'll have to watch that. I have found a real strong fascination with kinos dealing with Japanese/Korean poverty. Maybe because most mainstream media from those countries kinda whitewashes that stuff away, but movies like Shoplifters and Nobody Knows have this particular vibe I'm very receptive to. So Pachinko was made for me, and it has the huge Apple budget behind it to fully flesh out the world, like no expense was spared.

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My top movies would be

  1. Thor: love and thunder

  2. Wakanda forever

  3. Morbius

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kinosseur

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Really liked 1883, and have enjoyed The Great. Outer Range was a fricking snoozefest though stopped after like ep 5. Otherwise just watching old shit over again that I may not remember or to show my gf.


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I've seen Twilight like 5 times this year. Twilight fricking rules guys.

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>Everything Everywhere All at Once.

It insists upon itself. Terrible. Did not care for it.

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It's not pretentious but it does drag the rock scene is fricking awful.

Either way I liked it. Occasionally it's nice to have a non children's movie that has actually has a feel good second and third act.

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It's not pretentious

It's pure reddit tier philosophy wrapped in a 140 minute film :marseysipping:

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How so?

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Top Kinos of 2022:

Top Movies (no particular order):

  1. Tar

  2. The Northman

  3. Decision to Leave

  4. Banshees of Insherin

  5. Triangle of Sadness

  6. Everything Everywhere All at Once

  7. NOPE

Most disappointing movie:

  • Crimes of the Future: The core themes are good, but man did the decision to skip an act 3 in favor of fleshing out random parts of the world not pay off. Left the theater feeling like an incomplete slog even if the ideas were good.

Worst movie (that I watched):

  • MEN: Don't get me started lmao. Feminist critiques are right on this one

Want to see:

  • The Whale: Sounds like it was pretty decent

Shows:

  • Under the Banner of Heaven: solid 7-7.5/10 true crime fiction story. Pretty good performance by Andrew The Amazing Spiderman 2 Garfield with a pretty good core story about the Mormon country. Got a tad heavy handed with the babby's first atheism, but definitely not unbearable.

Want to see:

  • Better Call Saul

  • Hellraiser

  • Severance

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For Banner of Heaven, the show expertly executed the balancing act of 3 different storylines, with 2 of them being parallels laden with religious themes. I think it was like ep 5 or something, but this one episode was so fricking well-written I re-watched it 3 more times to make sure I wasn't getting a false impression. Yeah the whole losing his religion and atheist tone at the end is heavy-handed, but I think it was necessary as the detective's entire world was built on that religion and it was now all crumbling down around him.

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>I think it was necessary as the detective's entire world was built on that religion and it was now all crumbling down around him

Yea I almost wrote that "it was necessary" verbatim, but then scratched that cause it raised questions that lead to spoilers. Yup, solid self-contained single season show.

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Triangle of Sadness was really good, just a bit too long. They could've cut like 10 minutes of people pooping and throwing up

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A few of these films were like that. It was most forgivable in The Northman because I knew Eggers was just history-nerding out and I was completely down for that.

I do think Tar is the best of these films and it's most likely you haven't seen Decision to Leave so I'd recommend that (very solid 8/10 and somehow probably his worst film cause the others are straight 9+/10)

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I have yet to see Tar, but it's coming on VOD on the 13th, so I'm downloading it as soon as it drops. The movie podcasts I listen to have it ranked as the favorite for Best Picture so I'm hype for it too.

I also have yet to see Banshees :(

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Top Gun: Maverick was great because it's lifefuel for those of us who are closeted sci-fi enthusiast manlets.

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A shame Tom Clancy didn't live to see this era :marseydepressed:

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He would've killed himself after seeing what Ubisoft did to Rainbow Six

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Can't Bruise the Cruise

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I don't think I saw anything that came out this year.

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Well now you have a shortlist of kinos!

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Severance and The Northman for me. Was a bit of a down year for media imo.

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This was easily the best year for TV, probably ever

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Sorry, but the wire season 1-4 was not present

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We Own This City is literally The Wire season 6

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frick now im gonna have to watch it just to be disappointed in your terrible comparative taste.

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Same showrunners, same city, and similar premise except this was based on real life events detailed in a the eponymous book. Be warned, it has a very, very different tone but still kino.

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I liked reacher. Not as good as the book but they never are. That was the only new thing I watched this year

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Reacher was a fun masculine testosterone-fueled semi-capeshit that managed to walk the fine line between inclusion/diversity and red state bait. The black lawyer/cop in that show is one of the best written black characters in recent tv, even in shows written by black people.

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>one of the best written black characters in recent TV.

That's because the Finlay character is exactly as written in the books. It's the difference between a well written black character, and one shoe horned into a story for diversity quotas

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Maverick flight scenes were sick in imax

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what's crimes of the future about?

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It is extremely good. Might be my top of 2022 just based on how well fleshed out the themes are.

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will watch

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>The Northman

Looked cool but was kinda sterile and pointless. Had 30 minutes left and :marseysleep:

>Nope

Started cool then got :marseystroke:. Get Out is his only fun film.

>Crimes of the Future

Legendary r-slur film, but it did have some kino scenes. :marseyitsover: for Daddy Cronenberg.

>The Batman

:marseyemojirofl:


Here's my kino list of what I saw during 2022:

  1. Color out of Space 2019

  2. Fried Barry 2020

  3. Mad God 2021

  4. Vivarium 2021

Bretty Gud list:

Riders of Justice 2020

Below Zero 2021

San repit (2022)

A Violent Man (2020) - mostly all right, but had some great scenes.

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was the new dexter actually good? i feel like it came out and nobody talked about it

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I was a massive fan of Dexter back in high school, so it may just be some nostalgia boosting its quality in my memory. But the production quality was 100x better than anything they ever did during the main series, both thanks to new technology but also some change in the production staff. Michael C Hall playing Dexter is just unreal. There's something in his eyes I can't quite articulate, but when you see him kill again for the first time, the sensation washes over him onto you. There's a particular scene in episode 8 that shows Dexter from an outsider's perspective and it actually made me pretty queasy and kinda scared(?), but that was Dexter's like 238th kill, and those prior 237 were just on-screen deaths and dismemberment, but that last one really stuck with me. Highly recommend.

The ending is pretty dumb tho lol, but I still loved the ride.

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I thought Nope was the worst Jordan Peele movie and pretty average. I also think White Lotus should be on the list and not a honorable mention

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I fricking loved Nope. It's an unofficial black Eva side story with the visual aesthetic delivered by Nolan's go-to guy.

The middle gets a bit ehhh, but the beginning and ending were masterful and truly unique. I didn't care at all for Get Out, but this one was a magnum opus imo.

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Nope was a turd. What about barbarian? I thought that was kino of the year.

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>shits on NOPE and praises Barbarian

Either bait or r-slurred

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Wow I didn’t realize dramatards had such shockingly bad taste in movies

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:brainletchest:

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No 1899

I do not support your Germanphobia.

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I never did get around to watching Dark, so didn't get into 1899. I have a bunch of time off over the next few weeks and I'm looking to get into it.

Is it as pozzed as everything else Netflix puts out?

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It's moreso than Dark, which is the best thing Netflix has ever put out IMO. But it's not insufferable about it because Germans don't care about IDpol as much.

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i watched no movies and will continue not to watch any

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I'm coming to /h/vidya soon with my top 10!

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Go for it buddy

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House of the Dragon and Andor over yellowjackets, terminal list and yellowstone?

interesting.

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Yellow stone is on what season five now?

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iono

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6 is airing now

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Yellowstone? Lmao get yo cowboy butt out to the ranch.

I couldn't get past season 1, and I heard the last season, 5, was the worst yet.

Yellowjackets spent way too much time with the ugly frumpy middle aged women shenanigans, and not enough time with my Until Dawn cannibal teens.

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yellowstone is kino af

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The first like 3/4ths of 1883 is pretty kino, then white woman nonsense kicks in.

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1883 was mediocre but kino. yellowstone is dope

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