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Here's the complete list of movies I have seen this year (aside from films I worked on), ranked from favorite to least favorite:

1. The Menu
2. Beau Is Afraid (quit after an hour and a half)

 

I dont really go to the theater much these days so I'm usually pretty late to the party. Out of the 15 movies from 2023 I've seen:

1. GOTG3
2. Infinity Pool
3. Cocaine Bear

 

Fair. Just surprised to hear that from you.

 

I've seen 32 films in theaters this year, really excited for the fall slate but concerned about what we actually get now that my town is down to one theater.

I will drive 3 hours if I have to to see Killers of the Flower Moon.

 

So directly making the ending say, in that world, “God literally was saying that couple had to do what they did to avert armageddon” was a bit much for me. Really landed terribly, for complicated personal reasons, lol. I think simply massaging the ending where there’s more ambiguity, where it’s a little more up to interpretation how much was reading into coincidence, etc., would’ve made a big difference. I guess I could choose to interpret some of that as a subjective, unreliable perspective of the events instead of so literal, lol, but… idk. I just really wish the text handled that differently.

 

Layoffs starting today. 9% of the global workforce. It is kept super insulated and hush hush so I am only hearing rumors so far.

Keeping my company's board on TheLayoff.com open all day checking it.

 

This is where I land as well. I really liked it, but the ending left me feeling like the film itself couldn't figure out what it was trying to say.

 

My top choice of the year would have been Close, but that came out in 2022 apparently.

 

They employ around 15K people globally. This is roughly 1,300 people getting laid off.

 

My team lead just got laid off. Got confirmation of that.

 

Netscape is shutting down1?!?!?!?!

JK, and sorry, hope you get some severance at least? but not like the show, just like the real life one

 

I think I might be ok for now. So far it is just middle management positions that they feel like have redundancies.

 

Looking through people's lists reminds me of movies I need to see.

1. Across the Spider-Verse
2. Oppenheimer
3. GotG 3
4. M:I Dead Reckoning
5. Past Lives
6. Barbie
7. John Wick 4
8. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
9. They Cloned Tyrone
10. Talk To Me

 

They Cloned Tyrone, Talk To Me, and Bottoms are the ones I want to see soon. I don't really know what the fall slate looks like outside of Killers of the Flower Moon. I'm gonna have to do some research I guess.

 

They Cloned Tyrone is really good. Definitely recommend.

 

I thought only content creators got paid to positively review movies

 

This is a good segue to a follow up question for this thread I was planning to ask…

What’s everyone’s most anticipated for the rest of the year?

 

And now some of our main managers are getting the cut. On the TV Audience Measurement side of things (I am on the radio side ) I hear its a massacre.

 

My most anticipated for the rest of 2023, from what I can recall:

Poor Things
Killers of the Flower Moon
Rebel Moon
Priscilla
The Creator
May December
Ferrari
Zone of Interest
Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

 

killers of the flower moon for sure

 

Hopefully we're still getting Hades 2 and Silksong this year...

--wait, what thread is this

 

The toll so far in my department: three market managers and four team leads. No word on front line people getting the axe yet.

Really makes the idea of advancement here even when this promotion/hiring freeze ends seem futile. Why even try to grow when if you do you're putting a target on your back?

 

I’m very behind and my watchlist is massive, but here’s some stuff I loved, unranked.

Clock
Jagged Mind
Nimona
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Super Mario Bros
Miguel Wants To Fight

Red, White, and Royal Blue was fun, it’s really nice to be getting more queer romcoms that aren’t traumatizing. Gonna make a big effort to get caught up through the end of the year

 

My manager is bawling in our team meeting right now. This is forreal.