Will Solace
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Hey guys, here's the full list of movies I watched in 2024 ranked, with some pretty great and pretty bad movies. And to be honest a lot of okay ones.
I will give a brief rationale for my Top 5 and Bottom 5.
5th Best: Freaky Friday (1976)- I thought this was a funny movie, I liked seeing how the mother and son deal with how annoying each other's life is and there are some fun antics, such as the car climax. It's funny even when it gets awful to watch like how Annabel acts towards the guy she has a crush on when looking like her mom.
4th Best: Inside Out 2- Some fun new emotions but Anxiety especially stole the show with her constant desire to cut corners with fear for Riley, and the conflict about becoming overcome with fear wanting to impress people while you know them resonated with me.
3rd Best: Klaus- Seeing how the town changed and how the main character changed while changing the town has a lot of heart and fun, I like Santa's role here, and the animation perfectly complements the cartoony but with beauty feel.
2nd Best: The Wild Robot- Beautiful nature animation, great growth in relationships between characters, and a lot of heart as it is good it fully takes itself seriously when it needs to but still is fun. This movie's world feels immersive and even one part of it feels like a whole movie, so it's even better as a whole.
Best: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish- Seeing Puss's arc to gain a new self, with a lot of colorful new characters intertwined into the plot seamlessly, such as Death's intimidating presence, as well as all the twists and turns to the quest in the wish land, give this movie a sense of scale as it is extremely confidently crafted.
5th Worst: Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World- This movie gets some things right, like the new silent bodyguard character being a lot of fun, and some decent suspense in the middle as Ratcliffe's plan to get Pocahontas in trouble is clever. However, how much distaste is put into John Smith's writing especially making him look like a shallow condescending nobody to force certain plot elements felt extremely distasteful, and Pocahontas' role in the plot stopped feeling authentic or fleshed out well by the end.
4th Worst: Lightyear- I originally liked this movie okay because I liked the ideas in the first half of watching everyone slowly age and die, but in retrospect this movie is not good. Most of the human characters could be more interesting and I don't like Moe at all for example, and there are plot holes such as how light speed should have already have changed time drastically at the beginning of the movie.
3rd Worst: Brother Bear 2- This movie is better on a technical level than the previous two movies but its problem is I don't consider it to be interesting at all, still more than with them. I didn't care about whether Nita ended up dating Kenai much as it drops her having personality much at all by the second half, and I don't think the dialogue has an edge at all. The heart here is less interestingly executed than in the first movie, while keeping the first movie's biggest flaw of not being funny, but worse here because it hinged even more on the moose and I don't care for them much at all. The raccoon fight scene was cool but that's about as much interesting there is.
2nd Worst: Atlantis: Milo's Return- Aside from it utilizing some side characters better than in the first movie, and most of the characters didn't feel out of character except that Milo is less interesting here, this movie suffers from subpar animation and awful plot structure as the three stories feel poorly fleshed out and dull, except for a few good moments in the middle story.
Worst: Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken- While the animation has some good elements in this movie, such as that I really like how rooms in the house are designed such as Ruby's room, this is my least favorite movie on the list because it feels the most unoriginal. The plot of a teenage girl gaining powers to become massive with a mom who has a lot of secrets regarding the power and quirky friends and has to deal with liking guys all feels extremely derivative of Turning Red, and that's not the only movie it rips off. As the villain's plan of wanting to use the main character to retrieve an artifact under the sea to gain much more power feels like it's ripping off Morgana's plan in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea. While that's also on the list and not particularly high either because it has similar elements to the first movie, what I can at least say about it and Return to Never Land reusing plot elements from the originals is that they are aware that they are doing so as the point making them better, whereas this pretends to be its own thing.
Overall, this 42-movie list was much bigger than the list of movies I watched in 2023 being twice the size. And about the same on average in terms of quality, as the 2023 list had my favorite movie out of both years, Psycho (1960), but movies worse than any movie on the list in 2024, namely Call Me By Your Name and elements of/to a lesser extent Mulan II. However, I still enjoyed this list of movies as a whole. I can also explain or explain further any ranking people are curious about why it placed there.
I will give a brief rationale for my Top 5 and Bottom 5.
5th Best: Freaky Friday (1976)- I thought this was a funny movie, I liked seeing how the mother and son deal with how annoying each other's life is and there are some fun antics, such as the car climax. It's funny even when it gets awful to watch like how Annabel acts towards the guy she has a crush on when looking like her mom.
4th Best: Inside Out 2- Some fun new emotions but Anxiety especially stole the show with her constant desire to cut corners with fear for Riley, and the conflict about becoming overcome with fear wanting to impress people while you know them resonated with me.
3rd Best: Klaus- Seeing how the town changed and how the main character changed while changing the town has a lot of heart and fun, I like Santa's role here, and the animation perfectly complements the cartoony but with beauty feel.
2nd Best: The Wild Robot- Beautiful nature animation, great growth in relationships between characters, and a lot of heart as it is good it fully takes itself seriously when it needs to but still is fun. This movie's world feels immersive and even one part of it feels like a whole movie, so it's even better as a whole.
Best: Puss in Boots: The Last Wish- Seeing Puss's arc to gain a new self, with a lot of colorful new characters intertwined into the plot seamlessly, such as Death's intimidating presence, as well as all the twists and turns to the quest in the wish land, give this movie a sense of scale as it is extremely confidently crafted.
5th Worst: Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World- This movie gets some things right, like the new silent bodyguard character being a lot of fun, and some decent suspense in the middle as Ratcliffe's plan to get Pocahontas in trouble is clever. However, how much distaste is put into John Smith's writing especially making him look like a shallow condescending nobody to force certain plot elements felt extremely distasteful, and Pocahontas' role in the plot stopped feeling authentic or fleshed out well by the end.
4th Worst: Lightyear- I originally liked this movie okay because I liked the ideas in the first half of watching everyone slowly age and die, but in retrospect this movie is not good. Most of the human characters could be more interesting and I don't like Moe at all for example, and there are plot holes such as how light speed should have already have changed time drastically at the beginning of the movie.
3rd Worst: Brother Bear 2- This movie is better on a technical level than the previous two movies but its problem is I don't consider it to be interesting at all, still more than with them. I didn't care about whether Nita ended up dating Kenai much as it drops her having personality much at all by the second half, and I don't think the dialogue has an edge at all. The heart here is less interestingly executed than in the first movie, while keeping the first movie's biggest flaw of not being funny, but worse here because it hinged even more on the moose and I don't care for them much at all. The raccoon fight scene was cool but that's about as much interesting there is.
2nd Worst: Atlantis: Milo's Return- Aside from it utilizing some side characters better than in the first movie, and most of the characters didn't feel out of character except that Milo is less interesting here, this movie suffers from subpar animation and awful plot structure as the three stories feel poorly fleshed out and dull, except for a few good moments in the middle story.
Worst: Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken- While the animation has some good elements in this movie, such as that I really like how rooms in the house are designed such as Ruby's room, this is my least favorite movie on the list because it feels the most unoriginal. The plot of a teenage girl gaining powers to become massive with a mom who has a lot of secrets regarding the power and quirky friends and has to deal with liking guys all feels extremely derivative of Turning Red, and that's not the only movie it rips off. As the villain's plan of wanting to use the main character to retrieve an artifact under the sea to gain much more power feels like it's ripping off Morgana's plan in The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea. While that's also on the list and not particularly high either because it has similar elements to the first movie, what I can at least say about it and Return to Never Land reusing plot elements from the originals is that they are aware that they are doing so as the point making them better, whereas this pretends to be its own thing.
Overall, this 42-movie list was much bigger than the list of movies I watched in 2023 being twice the size. And about the same on average in terms of quality, as the 2023 list had my favorite movie out of both years, Psycho (1960), but movies worse than any movie on the list in 2024, namely Call Me By Your Name and elements of/to a lesser extent Mulan II. However, I still enjoyed this list of movies as a whole. I can also explain or explain further any ranking people are curious about why it placed there.
