2020 in MOVIES - FILM (the weirdest year ever?)

Bloody Nose Empty Pockets & Bacurau are the best 2020 releases I've seen.

Also decent:
Siberia
I'm thinking of ending things
The Sheriff

yeah I've been hearing a lot about Bacurau. it's like Mandy, but in the outback?

I watched it night before last. I don't see a Mandy comparison, but I did think it could have been a straight adaptation of the early Samuel Delany novel They Fly at Ciron.

It's generally good except for the cinematography, which looks a bit 80s-camcorder.

Not as hallucinatory as Mandy. Not to give too much away but I went in knowing nothing about the plot but it does start out as a rural social drama about political corruption and then takes a hard turn into more genre-y waters

Since this is a general movie thread and not entirely dedicated to the best stuff, it might be worth mentioning the Mandy-adjacent pre-pandemic trifecta of suck: Daniel Isn't Real, Come To Daddy, and Color Out Of Space.

Yeah Color out of Space came here for like a week back in February, I missed it. Definitely post about anything that came out in 2020/2019

Color out of Space was okay!

I thought all three of those were Jan/Feb but Daniel Isn't Real might have come out around December 2019. Close enough lol

It completes the Elijah Wood through line as he produced the other two.

Sorry, he produced DIR and COOS and starred in CTD.

come to daddy is no good?

I thought it was dumb but I can't speak for everyone.

I don't recommend I Used to Go Here

I liked Come to Daddy

New fav movie of 2020 (i saw it last nite):

Spree

Bump

Scare Me, available on Shudder - not actually a horror film but rather a dark comedy about a dude going to a far off cabin to write and finding that the cabin next door is owned by a successful female author. They tell each other scary stories, but it's not an anthology film where it cuts to anything - the stories are sold entirely on the actor's performances.

quite angry at seeing Bacurau described as "Mandy in the outback" itt >:(

Having now actually seen "Shithouse" I can highly recommend it as a sweet-minded, low key but ultimately moving (sort of) romantic comedy, with a couple of great performances and funny bits. RIYL "Palm Springs" but didn't feel like it necessarily needed the sci-fi artifice, though that still makes it sound slicker than it is when it's clearly pretty low budget and closer to Linklater and later mumblecore stuff. I'm sure I said it elsewhere but I think it would have been a sleeper indie "hit" if not for the stupid title. Might still be, who knows.

A Sun, a Taiwanese film by Chung Mong-hong is pretty amazing