What are some of the best movies of the past five years?
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I liked the dune movies a lot
All the Deadpool movies
Top Gun Maverick
Mission Impossible
Tenet
Ron's Gone Wrong
Dune
Hustle
Knives Out
1917
Dungeon's and Dragons honor...
Sonic the hedgehog
Air
Spiderman no way home
Forgot ... The unbearable weight of massive talent
I enjoyed 1917. Visuals, Audio are outstanding.
I went back to see Oppenheimer twice in theaters so maybe I enjoyed that one the most…
I think you would really enjoy The Platform (2019). Action packed and thought provoking. 
Just watched this. Very solid.
Dolemite Is My Name
Talk to Me
Oddity
Longlegs
Parasite
The Empty Man
RRR
Late Night With The Devil
The Vast of Night
Dream Scenario
Barbarian
Top Gun: Maverick (guilty pleasure?)
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Midnight Mass (mini series)
Uncut Gems
The Invisible Man
The Lighthouse
Villains
Midsommar
The floodgates are out Lyn, I’m a big movie buff! Let me know if you need any other recommendations
Oh ya lighthouse is good too
As a movie buff - do you think my impression that modern movies are kinda lame is fair, or am I just distracted with bringing up kids and not paying proper attention?
No, you are not just distracted by raising kids. Modern movies have been co-opted by politics and narcissistic nihilism and high levels of this toxic, cynical, postmodern “cleverness”. Disney/Marvel movies are the biggest most obvious perpetrator of this. Their movies are so afraid of expressing any genuinely challenging emotion. The only emotions allowed are surface level, “self-aware” “”jokes””, “sadness” and “anger”. It’s pathetic how little nuance there is. It’s like every time a slightly uncomfortable feeling comes up the writers are like, “Oh, God! Feelings are so gay, throw in a joke, quick!”
Movies are very condescending to the audience and do not trust them to understand basic plot, story, characterization, etc. and decides instead to spoonfeed details and while they’re at it, throw in some Hollywood politics for good measure (nowadays typically “woke” nonsense but not always. Hollywood was very racist for a long time).
Of course this is the fiat system at work. Artist don’t have the time to stop and make something that’s actually worth viewing because they are under pressure to return profits rather than making something memorable or even remotely challenging to audiences. They gotta place safe bets. Plus there are so many free forms of media and entertainment. TikTok, YouTube, social media? Forget it, those are free and in our fucking pockets why would we drive to a dirty theater with obnoxious people on their phones the whole time and waste our money?
All that being said, I do enjoy horror movies from the last ten years or so. They’re clever and creative and require a bit more trust from the audience. Also, television is incredible now in terms of production values. Shows from the 80s, 90s and 00s look like shit unless they were made for HBO and even then those don’t have the production values of today.
I could go on but I think the TLDR is no, you’re not out of touch, movies generally kinda suck.
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Surgery is the new sex. The depreciation of the natural.
"Crimes of the Future"
Can I add one from the last 15 years that still fucks with my head?
Incendies 2010
Avengers: Infinity Wars and End Game
As someone who worked on Love and Monsters, I’d like to throw our movie in this bucket! 😆
All quiet on the western front
All Quiet on the Western Front
The Zone of Interest
Some great recommendations. Here's mine
10/10
Dune
RRR
All the light we cannot see
Oppenheimer
....
This week, if you ask my wife and daughter: they would both say Twisters. I suspect it may have MUCH more to do with Glen Powell than the movie itself.
Across the Spiderverse
Dark Waters
Ford vs Ferrari
Top Gun Maverick
The Iron Claw
Oppenheimer
John Wick Chapter 4
These past 5 years been rough but let me give it to you straight off the top of my head. Hopefully the years line uo.
X (horror movie)
RRR (INDIAN MOVIE)
Parasite (Korean movie)
Sound of freedom
And gotta shout out all the talent on YouTube making crazy sh!t way better then Hollywood but I'll just group it all together into Kane pixels "The Backrooms"
poor things
once upon a time in hollywood
gisaengchung
everything everywhere all at once
babylon
the menu
ready or not
the whale
palm springs
the banshees of inisherin
after yang
This is a toughie
The Father (2020)
I don't think I've seen any good movies come out in the last 5 years.
You need to watch more movies then
I watch a ton of movies. I can tell you a lot of good ones I've seen recently but they weren't made in the last 5 years. The best movies of the last 5 years are mediocre at best.
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CODA
tough question.
for tv you gotta put ‘severance’ in there
Severance was great! If we're adding TV recommendations my favorite recent show has to be Foundation. Such an epic sci-fi, better than Dune IMO.
Lyn, if you haven't seen it yet, I highly recommend the small indie film production by Larkin Rose. 'The Jones Plantation '
Here is the IMDB link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26964727/?ref_=ext_shr
Further info here:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26964727/?ref_=ext_shr
Well produced on a very low budget and is the perfect analogy for how the 'sytem' really works
The Creator
Watched this movie while high, thought it was incredible. Yes it has some inconsistencies, but overall a great sci-fi.
Everything Everywhere All at Once 
Came to say this. Might just be a perfect movie.
I've watched it 4 times. I agree, it's goddamn near perfect.
Godzilla Minus One
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
Dune: Part Two 😆
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Perfect days
Furiosa was good, if you liked the Mad Max movies.
Top gun maverick
Ford v Ferrari
Spider-man: across the spider verse (a sequel)
Oppenheimer
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Maybe a little saccharine but CODA was highly enjoyable
As a child of a CODA, it was a beautiful story with highly relatable subject matter for those who were CODA.
Promising Young Woman
1917
Downtown Abbey 1&2
Last Night in Soho
Little Women
Zombieland: Double Tap
You're probably not into kids movies but every Trolls movie has been excellent. The latest one just hit netflix. It's really funny.
Especially if you like ₿oy ₿ands
Anything that isn't comic book based and mainstream garbage
The triangle of sadness
The menu
The voyeurs
Poor things
Malignant
Hitman
- Rebel https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11946138/?ref_=rt_t_20
- All Quiet on the Western Front https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1016150/?ref_=rt_t_25
- Tetris https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12758060/?ref_=rt_t_13
- The Whale https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13833688/?ref_=rt_t_19
I feel like the Mario movie last year was underrated, and more woke than Barbie
Top Gun was pretty decent prop
Dungeons and Dragons - Honor Among Thieves - while deviating some from the ruleset was very playful
Cruella was super good, great story.
Parasite was a good thinker
As a rule of thumb, practically ANY Korean crime drama will be incredible. They do American crim cinema better than us Americans.
Memoirs of a Murderer, Memories of Murder, I Saw the Devil, The Gangster, the Cop, and the Devil, etc.
Fuck it, ANY KOREAN MOVIE!!! Train to Busan? So good.
The last 5 has been thin. Maybe Oppenheimer and Joker.
Couldn't disagree more, so many incredible movies in the last 5 years. See my other reply for quite a few great recommendations!
I forgot to mention The Menu
Dune films were fantastic
100%. I bought the 4K Blu-rays and watched them both back to back with some friends and family for an epic 6 hour marathon. Incredible experience.
I watch a lot of movies, and 9 months ago I started collecting physical copies to free myself from being a perpetual renter through streaming services. So if I do say so myself, I'm the perfect person to answer this!
I would say the 2 most impactful movies that I've seen, that I cried during (I'm a 30+ year old man), and have watched at least half a dozen times each are:
1: Puss in boots: The Last Wish.
I went to the theater to watch this on a whim thinking I like Shrek movies well enough, and I was stunned the entire time. The animations are stunningly gorgeous, the story is fun and heartfelt, the characters can be hilarious, the villain is incredible. All around, one of my favorite movies of all time. I cannot recommend it enough! Peak DreamWorks.
2: Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio.
I saw it on Netflix when it was recommended and I was crying throughout the entire movie. I have watched it so many times because I showed it to so many people. This is the best Pinocchio adaptation ever made. Incredibly well done story, absolutely gorgeous stop motion animation, and it really puts in perspective the gift that is the time we have to spend with those we love.
Other movies I would also recommend highly as really well done:
3: Dungeons and dragons: Honor among thieves.
This is just a really well made, really fun movie. I've seen it several times and really enjoyed watching it each time. Great characters, really funny interactions, and decent plot.
4: All Quiet on the Western front.
This isn't a fun movie, it's very depressing honestly. Very well done portrayal of life as a young German youth at the start of The Great War, how they were lead to believe war was glorious, and they ended up as shells of their former self through the experience of it.
(The FIAT system has enabled these horrible wars, that alone is enough to make me support Bitcoin with a strong moral conviction, it's just the right thing to do to starve the FIAT system and make these wars less likely to occur, and end them quicker if they do. Loved your book BTW, and love the YouTube video version even more thanks to how it allows me to show the heart of the book to my friends and family in an easily digestible way.)
5: The last duel.
This movie was very different from your typical film. It's an adaptation of a historically based book telling the story of the last duel in medieval France. The duel took place due to a historical rape, and the movie tells the story in 3 chapters which each retell the same story from the different perspectives of each of the main characters. Very well done. Incredible acting by the cast. Incredible set design and costumes. Peak Cinema.
Honorable mentions:
6: Spider-Man across the spiderverse.
Absolutely incredible viewing experience. Incredible animations, great story and audio.
7: Last night in Soho.
Great and unique ghost story style of movie.
8: Everything everywhere all at once.
Hilarious the first time I watched it, but for some reason it's just okay on subsequent watches.
9: Knives out.
Great "Who dunnit?" detective movie.
10: Dora and the lost city of Gold.
Much more enjoyable than I expected, fun movie.
11: Jojo rabbit.
Hard to explain, but it's a great movie.
12: Barbie.
13: Oppenheimer.
14: Dune (Both parts)
Those are my personal recommendations. Maybe someday we can share a cup of coffee and have a chat over some of them, or about macro economics and Bitcoin. I enjoy listening to your interviews on podcasts and especially loved your recent interview on Macroscopic.
I'm actually writing my own book on Bitcoin. Who knows how long until I'll be published, but the best things are worth the wait. Having a low time preference is a much better way of life than most people live, and since I've really embraced that my life has become much more relaxed and enjoyable.
Have a great rest of your week.
D&D really surprised me. Knew nothing about it, had no expectations, and left the theater loving it.
I love the part where the knight guy walks in an especially straight line when leaving the group, "oh wait there's a rock in his way is he gonna go around or... nope straight over the rock fancy that" LMAO.
Great tips, thanks a lot!
Dune, Oppenheimer
1. CODA (2021). Favorite feel-good film of recent memory.
2. The Innocents (2021). Nordic children with powers.
3. Oddity (2024). Economical storytelling with excellent jump scares.
4. The Spine of Night (2021). An adult animated (rotoscoped) dark fantasy horror film.
Paterson (Jim Jarmush, 2016)
Any Batman.
Except that crappy Batman vs Superman.
Regular or adult?
The Promised Land (AKA Bastarden). 2023
Lyn, can you continue with these questions? The replies are a great resource. Next do books on (insert topic) 🤩
Well nobody mentioned The Man who knew Infinity. A story about a genius mathematician from India
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Twisters was a great sequel.
Parasite, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, Oppenheimer. Actually, if you look at the period from 2019 to 2024, you'll notice that there are fewer and fewer truly great movies, but more and more outstanding TV series.
there’s so many old films to watch, so it is fine.
Don't look up
Blackberry
Dumb Money
Russian Doll, Poker Face, Parasite, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Uncut gems, Knives out, Glass onion, 3 body problem, Severance, some are series but are worth it
Joker
(society’s failure to help the mentally ill, creating a psychopathic killer)
Tenet – Nolan somehow manages to oneup himself with constantly more mindbending movies after another. Interstellar is a nothing burger in its complexity compared to this. May be too complex for some audience, but I think you as an analytical person will enjoy it.
And the soundtrack is phenomal, has a cyberpunk (if that is a genre) vibe with synths going on.
A Hidden Life
Fallout the beat series I have seen since GOT
Swiss army man
“Nomadland” (2020)
Sound of Silence
Ford v Ferrari
A fun one is Babylon
Once upon a time in Hollywood
Card Counter
Zack Synders’s Justice League
John Wick 3
Richard Jewell
Free Guy
Belfast
No Time To Die
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt5834426/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
Moonfall... masterpiece.
I am mother
Sisu - The ending will either make you scream with laughter, or curl up in a ball crying. There is no in between.
Die hard
Joker 🃏
Parasite 🦠
The Irish Man ☘️
Nomadland
Nobody
I cannot believe no one mentioned ”the boy and the heron”. Miyazaki surpasses himself. It is rare that a movie does not try to be clever but every frame is made with absolute love and care and pure intention. If you want to see something that will make you appreciate life and being itself without intellectualization, check this out.