Best Film &/or TV of 2022

[Louis Cypher]

Your best film &/or TV of 2022

Film: Bad Guys, the animated one. So good. The Batman is a very close 2nd

TV: Rise of the Nazis - The Downfall. S3 of the BBC documentary

 

[Lorcan Ward]

Film - The Banshees of Inisherin

TV - His Dark Materials S3 or Man vs Bee

This was an awful year for TV and film. I don’t have high standards at all but I only went to the cinema three times this year. I’d usually got 2-3 times a month

 

[nightflameauto]

TV would probably have to be something that caught my by surprise, like the Gilded Age. That's some quality acting, great script writing, and a perfect balance of drama and humor. I was not, at all, expecting the humor. Always entertaining.

Or maybe Irma Vep, but that comes with the caveat that we had just watched the film a few weeks before the show started, so it was like nostalgia on top of nostalgia with just the right dash of weird.

Movie? Shit. Were there good movies? So many trite recuts of old ideas. I'm trying to remember the last movie that impressed me. Bullet Train maybe? But it's not like you can say that's quality cinema, it was just a great "turn everything to eleven" satire on the whole "everything gotta be bigger, better, badder." That scene where the dipshit is hanging onto the train (while it's going 200mph or whatever) had me rolling it was so stupid.

 

[Demiurge]

Can't say I saw any movies in '22 that really blew me away.

For TV, I loved Severance.

 

[Bloody_Inferno]

I disagree with the whole 2022 wasn't a great year in movies, in fact I genuinely thought it's been one of the best years since 2019.

Everything Everywhere All At Once still remains my favorite 2022 movie, but all the other strong contenders: RRR, The Northman, X (and its prequel Pearl), Prey, Bones and All, The Fablemans, Babylon, The Banshees Of Inisherin, Barbarian, NOPE, Glass Onion... even the ones I thought weren't as strong like Decision To Leave, The Menu and Three Thousand Years Of Longing are still solid movies.

And oh, look, none of the usual superhero suspects on that list either.

 

[Drew]

Never saw Bad Guys, but that did look fun. And we're a couple episodes into the Dark Materials season, excited to see where that goes.

Another vote for Everything Everywhere All At Once - what a great movie. Crazy multiverse premise, but was a remarkably small, intimate, human movie, at the end of the day.

 

[profwoot]

The last time I had a "favorite movie of all time", In Bruges was it, so it's no surprise that I loved Banshees of Inisherin. Can also vouch for Everything Everywhere, and I really dug Nope too.

I'd have to do some research to list shows, but Severance is great. Season 1 of The White Lotus is really great. Haven't got through Season 2.

 

[Drew]

Season 1 of The White Lotus is really great. Haven't got through Season 2.

I hated Season 1. Great characters, very engaging... but no one grew no one developed, no one changed, everyone continued to be assholes and by and large got away with it (minus a corpse or two), and the only person who really seemed to go on any kind of journey and grew over the course of the show was that kid, but let's be honest - skipping out on his flight home and instead of going back to college, going out rowing and training with that group of locals isn't a story that's going to have a happy ending for him, that last scene was just a moment of happiness before things went to shit again.

And, yeah, I get that the point of the show was if you're wealthy enough you can get away with murder and not HAVE to grow when you face adversity, but that makes it deeply unsatisfying to watch.

 

[nightflameauto]

Season 2 of White Lotus is pretty off the chain by the end. Even had the after the show stuff with the main creator saying a big character "dies in a really derpy way" which they did.

On further review, there were several movies I really loved last year, but the problem is none of them stuck with me. I still need to see Everything Everywhere, and the Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which are both possible contenders based on previews.