The 2024 Movie Ranking Countdown: It begins!

Hello everyone. If you've been following this blog at all (and let's be honest, you probably haven't), you would know that I have been going through all the movies I watched in 2024, and picking my five favorite from each month. At the end I was left with sixty movies, five from each month. Now it is time to rank them from least to most favorite.

Since I like the number fifty (it just has a better ring to it than sixty), I am going to immediately cut ten movies right off the bat. That's right, they aren't even going to make the cut at all. They are going to suffer the same fate as Jonathan and Wanda of Survivor Palau.

*Note regarding the movies I watched: they don't have to be movies released in 2024. I just need to have watched them at some point in the year 2024.

Baby bye bye:

Grave of the Fireflies

Jigsaw

Halloween

Dr Giggles

The Thing

Stephen King's IT miniseries

Glass

The Deer Hunter
Cloverfield

Transformers

How could such classics not make the cut? The Deer Hunter dragged on for far too long, and I didn't find myself as emotionally connected to it as I would have liked. Grave of the Fireflies has never connected with me emotionally for some reason, and I've seen it twice now. Same with The Thing. I love the premise and you'd think this would be right up my alley, but I get bored every time I give it a shot. Halloween, while a very good movie, is a lot of walking and driving around and a lot of yacking. I was bored with it. I also wasn't feeling the It miniseries for some reason, either. Oh well, it's a miniseries. It shouldn't really be here anyway.

The other movies were underwhelming as well.

You know what, I'm going to throw a curveball out there. I like the number fifty, but let's be real: I don't have time to sit here and write down what I think about fifty damn movies. I have a four year old. I barely have time to use the bathroom. So I'm going to trim ten more off the list. That's right, we're making this a top forty.

Baby bye bye:

Dune: Part Two
Legends of the Fall

Eden Lake
Saw

Grizzly Man

The Purge

The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker

The Menendez Brothers

Rear Window 

The Disaster Artist

I thought Dune 2 was not as good as the first movie, and I fell asleep during it. It was okay. I plan to watch it again before the third one comes out. Maybe my mind will change. Legends of the Fall is good but doesn't leave as much of an impact as it probably thinks it does. I liked The Disaster Artist, but I think I would have appreciated it more if I was a Room fan. The rest of the movies are good but not good enough to make the top forty. The ones I feel the worst about are Rear Window and Grizzly Man. Those movies deserve some love.


That will do it for today. Starting soon I will began ranking the top 40 movies I watched in 2024! Listed below are the participants. Who do you think will win?

Last Night
The Help
The Greatest Night in Pop

Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Doctor Sleep
A Star is Born
Mystic River

Forrest Gump
Stand By Me
Dune (1984)
Dune: Part One
As Above, So Below
The Shape of Water
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition
Ghost
Milk
Platoon

Deadpool & Wolverine
Sleeping with the Enemy
Fried Green Tomatoes
The Four Falls of Buffalo
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Open Water
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Old
Bone Tomahawk
Manhunter
Dumb and Dumber
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
The Skeleton Key
The Illusionist
The Prestige
The Terminator
Trauma (2017)
Milo and Otis

Martyrs (2008)
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Gerald's Game

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