2024 Movie Ranking Countdown: #40 through #21

We're already more than halfway through February, and I am still not even close to finishing my 2024 movie ranking. So you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to speed things up a bit. I had planned on providing a complete breakdown of each of these movies, but since that will take me till freaking July at this rate, I'm going to skip the breakdowns. I'm just going to give you a straight up numbered ranking of each of the remaining movies until we get to the top 20. No explanations. No reasoning offered. Nothing but a straight up ranking. Enjoy.

Oh, here is #60 through #41, in case you missed it

40: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Extended Edition
39: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition
38: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
37: Milo and Otis
36: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
35: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
34: Old

33: The Skeleton Key

32: Fried Green Tomatoes
31: The Four Falls of Buffalo
30: Star Trek: The Motion Picture

29: Sleeping with the Enemy

28: Milk

27: Gerald's Game

26: Platoon

25: Open Water
24: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
23: Bone Tomahawk

22: Martyrs (2008)

21: Stand By Me

There's not much that I feel guilty about leaving out of the top 20. Stand By Me almost made the cut. I found that the movie tried too hard to be "sad" and let each character have his weeping, vulnerable moment. It's a good movie, but I found it hard to be too invested emotionally when it was so obvious what they were trying to do. Martyrs is a movie that ranked super high when I first saw it several years ago, but I find that without the shock value of having never seen it, it is not as impactful. Bone Tomahawk probably suffers from whatever the opposite of recency bias is. Maybe if it was fresher on my mind, it would have ranked higher.

That's really all I have to say. Stay tuned for my top 20, which hopefully will be coming at some point before the next ice age.

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