Everything I watched in January 2024 | Movies & TV Recommendations Letterboxd Wrap-Up
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Couldn't agree more on Mean Girls. I loved the Broadway show and was so looking forward to an adaptation, and they cut so many of the songs (which creates some major story transition issues), while also taking out a chunk of good stuff from the original movie, and the result feels designed to appeal to absolutely no one.
I wanna see your top 10(20? whatever😅?) best slashers cuz in the past u said it's not your favorite subgenre
The acting in Hell or High Water was phenomenal! Cinematography too! But all films have thier fans / non fans.
I was puzzled when she said she didn't get why the racism never paid off when it clearly did. It wasn't subtle at all either.
We appreciate your dedication and hard work. You'll always have our support.
omg The Curse. that ending was so, so unhinged lol
the last episode took me out of the whole season lol
3:20 Good to know you recommend Monolith. It's been one of my most anticipated movies for about a year now. It's coming to Canada, where I am, in February.
10:50 Grizzly Man is one my absolute favourite movies of all time.
Love your rants. RANT should be a periodic feature here! 😂 Like DTOY or the lists...
I've watched you forever. Great to hear your opinions. When did you get this huge!! Soo many subscribers!! Happy for you!!
Beware the pool filter: NIGHT SWIM
Thank you for recommending Beyond Utopia. I have been beyond fascinated with North Korea and those who defect. I was emotional the whole watch. It’s just heartbreaking to see how families get separated and I couldn’t help but cry when the Roh family made it.
I love the idea of a second channel with your gaming vids and non film related content!! I’m not a Twitch user but I’d watch literally anything you upload on a second CZcams channel
I’ve already got that going! Been uploading for the last 6 months over there :)
The rural juror mention was 🔥 🔥
so reliable for movie suggestions emma as always :)
The Juror is definitely a guilty pleasure. The plausibility is very low but entertainment is very high ! 🍿
Hell or Highwater is sooo good, and the ending is great, highly recommend it.
in my documentary class last year we had a whooole debate over whether or not it was entirely ethical of Herzog to create a documentary about Timothy Treadwell at all, considering some of the things that are brought to light about him and the way he is portrayed in the film. it was a lot of fun and made me consider the art of documentary altogether in a totally new way; so while Grizzly Man is by no means the best doc out there, it sure has stuck with me! i think it's a must-watch for those just getting into the form beyond the generic Hollywood true crime doc. ⭐
I remember when I was spending the weekend at my dad's. He rented it for my little brother, who was a toddler at the time, thinking it was gonna be a cute little movie about a man who befriends a bear lol.
Oopsie.
I loved Gen V, some outrageous scenes and not just gore!
Best film I saw this month (twice at the cinema) was Poor Things, so funny, outrageous and inspiring. Not horror, but kinda a reworking of the Frankenstein story, so good. I also saw Baghead at the cinema, which I enjoyed more than some people. It's nothing amazing, but I still liked it.
Grizzly Man's ending is horrific that audio and the sounds. The growling and the screaming gave me nightmares
The families tragedy is legendary. I grew up in their wrestling region. Every single person I knew, loved the Von Erichs. They were our heroes. I saw Kerri wrestle in my towns football stadium in the 80's. Can't wait to see this movie.
Hi Emma and thanks for the video!
thanks for always watching!
Awesomeness love your videos Emma ❤
I went to a screening of Monolith in October last year as part of a short MIFF encore series held at ACMI in Melbourne. The writer director was there and said that a short local cinema release was soon to happen before it went to streaming. It played at the Nova here (and I think one other cinema) for about a month. At the moment it's rent or buy from Apple and Prime. Hopefully, it might then move to SBS or Stan. Appreciate the mention, wouldn't like to see it sink without distribution of some kind as it's really worth the attention of horror/sci fans.
It’s on binge! I watched it for free
Thanks. I know people who'd love to see it.
All of Us Strangers broke me into tiny little pieces and I will NEVER recover ahaha. I'm the same as you, went in thinking it was about one thing because I didn't watch a trailer or read a synopsis and BOOM - hitting me with the feels.
I’m obsessed with all of us strangers! Emotionally draining. So devastating 😢
I would love if you could review some 🍉 films, the true horror we're living at this moment is heartbreaking 💔
Love your videos always 🙏🏽
I added Monolith to my watch list last week. Glad it was a good choice.
Waiting for All of us Strangers to start streaming over here.
Where can I watch monolith in the US?
Hell or high is frickn amazing!
This is the channel I always go to to find these horrors that go under the radar.
"Paint Your Wagon" musical is getting a blu-ray release very soon....can't wait!!
“Disturbing” would certainly not be the adjective that I would ever use to describe Iron Claw. I have no idea how someone could think that it is. 😂
Yay I’ve been waiting for this video! I hope you have a great day Emma! ❤️
Awesome video, loved the nod to 30 Rock.
I think I need to watch these true crime docs, it's been a while since I watched any.
Also, have you played Layers of fear? It's one of my favourite horror games.
I must drive home today and watch all of us strangers! His last film, 45 Years, is one of my favourites. Guts me every time.
Emma, I need to know the brand/type of lipstick you use! Your makeup is always so pretty!
Thank you honestly I use just all drug store stuff usually
Recommend Hazbin Hotel if you like musicals
Yes!!!! American Nightmare was very awesome. Gen V as well
Emmaaaaa, please watch Society Of The Snow 💙
😂 THE RURAL JUROR I forgot about that
I'm a big wrestling fan but the iron claw is not out in my country yet and I don't get why they left some of the real events out of the movie, I can't wait to watch it and see if it makes sense to me
“a film that I felt happen to me but didn’t experience” < I completely agree 😂
Where is Red Rooms available? Country and streaming services...?
The movies I watched were Mean Girls (2024) x4 and The Iron Claw!!!
I appreciate that 30 rock reference
I am so glad I'm not the only one who didn't like mean girls.
I enjoyed Mean Girls, but I think my big issue with it was Angourie Rice.
Don't get me wrong, she's cute as a button and is a very good actor, but she has the voice of a coffee shop indie girl, not the lead of a broadway show.
I love me some indie coffee shop music, but no one's asking Phoebe Bridgers to do broadway.
Spooky darling do you know if Baghead and Lisa Frankenstein are coming to Australian cinemas in Feb?
Baghead yes! It doesn’t look like we are getting Lisa :(
Did you watch Bunnyman Massacre? Looks good!
It wasn’t featured here, but wondering if you’re interested in or are planning to see Zone of Interest?
I will, its not out here
So many great recommendations I would not have caught without your monthly wrap up, especially the docs! You confirmed some things I wanted to see and made me consider some other ones more closely. These videos you do each month are the best content digest on YT. When it comes to Hell or High Water I like it because to me it was a modern Western that painted an accurate psychological portrait of America at that time. In the aftermath of the financial mortgage crisis and the Iraq/Afghanistan war, many Americans felt betrayed by the big banks and let down by government. The irony of the racist Texas ranger and his parter was that America was settled with violence and the taking of native property that created the American dream but now it is the modern institutions they created that have ripped that dream apart for so many. I also really like the cinematography and I am fine with the ending but I don't think its great. 😊
Very surprised you didn’t mention the new season of True Detective. It’s actually really good so far.
we are waiting till all the episodes are out!
I tried Surfshark to find The Red Rooms movie but can't find it???
Red Rooms was honestly a giant disappointment for me, the ending was intense but nothing really mind blowing, I do love seeing movies based in Quebec though.
What happened to Grizzly Man?
Timothy Treadwell - Wikipedia
Katmai National Park, Alaska, U.S. On October 5, 2003, Treadwell and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were killed and almost fully eaten by a 28-year-old male bear whose stomach was later found to contain human remains and clothing.-
Yeah as a Broadway fan, I'm always prepared for disappointment with musical adaptations:p they always wanna cut and changes things.
Thank goodness for Hazbin Hotel which is the musical I've been waiting for!!
Is Monolith something like Pontypool, in the sense that a lot is narrated and you get to imagine what is going on outside?
No not at all… it’s something completely new
have you seen The Bridge Curse: Ritual? tell me what do you think...ill watch this wekeend.
What app are you using to track your movies?
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Love your thoughts! Hell or High Water is one of my favorite movies so I am going to gently push back on some criticism. I will say it is a deeply *Texan* film so if you have familiarity with Texas, American oil rigs, resentment towards banks, I think that helps. It's also deeply steeped in American gun culture/vigilantism. It's really telling but subtle the scene where all the Texans are like "we got guns we can be vigilantes" but in the face of an actual crime scene have to high tail. in terms of the racist commentaries, I think it does make a statement/come full circle. It's about that type of character - who has racist attitudes even though the person closest to him in the whole world is from that identity. It's about how racism is a learned behavior; you can see in their last interaction how deeply, deeply attached to his partner Jeff Bridges's character is. It's 100% a movie about a time and a place, and I think what I love about it is how nuanced it is in terms of how it captures the American economy, the exploitation of the working class by the banks, the casual racism of the poverty stricken landscape, the obsession with guns and masculinity...it's subtle enough that people who just want a shoot-em-up tale can enjoy it, but nuanced enough like a Flannery O'Connor novel that every scene is a scathing-yet-understated critique of how corporate interests have poisoned Southern American society. I say all this because while I'm sure there are some similarities in New Zealand for how corporations exploit the working class, there is something so American about this film, so I think it's totally reasonable that if you weren't surrounded by that culture growing up, some of it might not hit as hard!
I’m in Australia! But I do understand the film, there were no issues with that, the economic state is very well explained several times in the film. I’ve also learnt a lot about it through different films and texts throughout the years, we learn a lot about America and other countries even though you may not know much about us.Australia also has a lot of history with learned racism. I do understand it, I just didn’t love it. I know a lot of people love it and that’s okay, it’s good that I don’t let others love for it sway my own opinions.. it’s just something that happens sometimes when you have different tastes.
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The movie Orphan came before Natalie Grace was adopted, so the influence is vice versa. The mother made up the story about Natalie being an adult, most likely insopred by the movie.
It's ok Em, we Americans can't say juror any better. It's one of those weird English words that trips everyone up. Like rural. 😆 I've added quite a few to my watchlist thanks to this video. I reswatched Rewind after you talked about it in the disturbing docs video, and man I forgot just how gut wrenching and heartbreaking it was.
Yeah it’s brutal
Hell or high water is top tier in my opinion
What app did you use for the list ??
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American Nightmare is one of the most frustrating things I've watched in years. For the uninitiated, it's very well done and you should watch it and read the trigger warnings! But wow.
But Jennifer taught us the most important lesson, "The rich are always right."
Horror movies and videogames?🤔 The perfect woman!😊
Thanks for the monthly re-cap, Emma. I am looking forward to seeing "Monolith" this month and I agree that "Hell Or High Water" has been kind of overrated. I think some people thought Jeff Bridges character, despite his racist attitude, had such an emotional arch towards the end when it came to his friend. For myself, I thought the film is good and it has some excellent acting. It just didn't get me fully invested.
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I feel like Plan B and Unpregnant came out around the same time, and have nearly identical set up, basically the Armageddon/Deep Impact of unwanted teen pregnancy films. Maybe I got that example backwards, I'm not sure. It's very late here. Brain not good. Either way, I found Unpregnant to be a very charming, sweet, and solidly good film.
There's a lot of people saying that we are not getting any comedies anymore, and that may be true of tentpole comedies of which we'd get at least one a year for a time. But what we are getting is a lot of female led two handers that are extremely good, always have bags of charm like Unpregnant mentioned above but also things like for example Bottoms and Booksmart. Anywho, I probably shouldn't post this because of how shit my brain is rn and I don't know how good the sentences are....but
I’ve seen unpreg and I thought they were very different as I only watched it for barbie haha
Oh no, I made a massive assumption based on the trailer at the time. I actually didn't watch Plan B partially because of that and partially because I like Unpregnant so much@@spookyastronauts
As far as Grizzly Man goes, you have to hear the audio of him and his girlfriend being mauled, and eaten alive by these bears. That’s the disturbing part.
But that’s not in the doco
And they are gonna do the same thing w the Lost Boys 😫 why oh why they have to remake that movie?! And its gonna b a musical too omg
I think a possible reason you were not as wow'd by Hell Or High Water is cultural. It's a very American (and even moreso, a Texas) film. It does a great job of capturing a very specific type of economic struggle that many rural Americans face. Chris Pine's character embodies that struggle and you completely understand his motivation for the criminal activity. Jeff Bridge's character is not just a cop, but a Texas Ranger. The Texas Rangers have a legendary pedigree for getting their man. While he's definitely racist, he's a Ranger first and his racist remarks around his partner is his way of ball busting. Then, when his partner is killed, any racist feelings he has towards him are immaterial because he was a fellow lawman first. At the end of the film, you understand exactly where each of the main character's stand. And you understand that Chris Pine's character is willing to pay the price for the crimes he was part of, but he won't do so without a fight, because he feels justified in doing what he had to do for his estranged wife, children, and the family land.
I wasn't confused or anything i got all of that, i got why he made those remarks, the economic issues are very well explained, ect but i just didnt think the film as a whole was ground breaking. It was fine just nothing special to me. I donno what to say, i wish i loved it like everyone else
The Curse was… so strange lmao. Still not sure what to think of it. On one hand, totally unexpected. On the other, feels kind of unsatisfying. Don’t regret watching it but couldn’t really recommend it to anyone.
My favourite movie this month was the kitchen
Well, I exposed myself as you requested in your last video and now I'm not allowed within 100 feet of a school.thamk you! 🙄
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piratebay or yts lol
I love you Emma, but "Hell or Highwater" was masterpiece. It seems like you kinda got hung up on Bridges's character for saying racist things, and not getting a payoff? I disagree that there wasn't one, but there was a lot more to the movie than just that. Foster and Pine knock it out of the park.
It's a 9.5/10 I think from me.
And yes to each their own obviously. That just stunned me and kind of made me sad. lol
Don't be sad, we just have different opinions. I thought it was just okay the whole way through, the ending just pushed it down further for me. Its okay, im sure i love films you hate.
@@spookyastronauts Ok, I won't be sad...at least for this reason! *Back to real reasons*
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I obviously don't always agree with you, but its a good 80-90% of the time, and that's again, obviously ok. Can't agree on everything, I think it was more just more the surprise on this one. Ah well. Carry on, don't mind me. :)
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Interesting that you have a problem with someone displaying some prejudice (Jeff Bridges character in hell or high water) but you endorse stalkers and brutal murder
Emma doesn't endorse stalkers and brutal murder. She just likes that genre. She even stated it in this video. She can choose to not like or be comfortable with racism. This is her youtube page and we can respect that. :)
I endorse? Can you name these stalkers I endorsed? Oh are you talking about fictional villains?
My issue with the hell or High waters was that it didn’t have any purpose in the fictional story for me, if I watch fictional movies about stalking or killers theres usually a reason within the plot that they are part of the story.
When people are honest about their taste and thoughts that should be encouraged not condemned, otherwise people stop sharing any thoughts that go against the grain.
I think a man being obsessed with bears to the point that he lives with them in the wilderness only to then be brutally mauled to death by them is pretty disturbing 😅
It’s definitely sad but I was surprised he lived with them for so long before that happened. It didn’t shock me at all
Emma. EMMA. oh my god. Immediately watched "American Nightmare" in one sitting last night after watching this vid. 💀🫠😱
It’s wild eh!!