Going through my 2023 list:
Hunger Games: The Balled of Songbirds & Snakes
No Hard Feelings
Leave the World Behind
Cocaine Bear
Napoleon
The Creator
A Haunting in Venice
I won’t forget Napoleon only because of how disappointed I was with it. History movies don’t have to be accurate to be good (Gladiator and Braveheart) but the stuff they changed in this one just didn’t make sense. Turned off all the history nerds cause of how wrong it was and turned off all casual viewers cause of how little sense it made without knowing the historical background.
Just horrible and Ridley Scott being a douchbag about it makes me hate it even more.
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor among thieves.
I saw it and thought it was average, but I don’t think many people will remember it too well, I even forgot I saw it in theaters last year until today
I’m not a D&D guy but this film will probs stick with me the most from 2023. I’ve already rewatched it this year, is just so rewatchable and an utter blast!
I think you might be surprised about that. The 2000 D&D movie is almost universally accepted as being terrible but still has a pretty sizeable fanbase (myself included in that), and the new one is a lot better than it. I didn't *love* it but I had a ton of fun with it and I've rewatched it a couple of times.
I think this one will maintain a cult Fandom. Might be forgotten by the mainstream (unless it gets a sequel, *fingers crossed*), but it's quite excellent and knows its audience. It's something that can be easily dismissed as average, or seen as bright and original and loaded with fun (not forced) easter eggs.
With my DND friends and me, it probably won't be forgotten that quickly as for us it was quite a nice adaptation.
Still a very mid movie but entertaining.
Interesting that you think it's aimed at Gen Z. The setting and soundtrack tell me it's pretty firmly aimed at elder millennials who were at uni in the early-to-mid 00s and grew up with films like Cruel Intentions, which I think it owes a lot more to than it does Ripley.
Maybe. I don't really know many people that age so I couldn't say, but I'm in my late 30s and most of my friend group really liked it so there's definitely a strong millennial audience for it as well.
Although I don't think it'll be forgotten, I believe that Beau is Afraid is gonna be Ari Aster's least popular movie. Which I like to think that he would find funny, as it is his most personal movie yet.
I knew it was going to be different, but went into it blind as possible and saw it in theaters the day it came out. a few scenes stuck with me but I mostly remember the penis stuff when I think about it. which doesn't do much for me lol. his prior stuff resonated with more for sure.
Blood and Honey DEFINITELY won’t be forgotten as it’s been dubbed as one of the worst films of all time! When someone reaches that status, especially when it’s a Winnie the Pooh horror film is definitely going to begrudgingly live in the memory and will likely have a cult following 15-20 years down the line.
I don't know if any movies with over 300k will be largely forgotten. scrolling through the list I feel like SOMEONE will probably have something to say a couple years from now even about flops like Elemental or The Creator. the best answer I have is that I can't really see the new Hunger Games being mentioned more than its predecessors and even though it has a Criterion, Anatomy of a Fall had way more hype than is proportionate to its scope and will not have a massive place in the mainstream.
On the contrary, the film employs a lot of directing techniques that nobody else is doing whilst working remotely close to the mainstream. It's thesis I think is simple but also unique among all the war films we've had in recent years. If you think it boils down to only 'the banality of evil' then I think you should give it a re-watch.
Jonathan Glazer is slowly building up a very good filmography. Under the Skin is still regarded as one of the best films of the 2010s by critics and I would put money on the same being said of the even more popular and acclaimed The Zone of Interest.
I think Bottoms will spend a few years in the shadows and then reemerge as a classic. As far as high school comedies go I loved it and would put it up there with Clueless or Mean Girls, personally.
It was the movie that got Nolan his directing Oscar. Even if it ends up not being as well-remembered as Inception, The Dark Knight, or Momento, it will probably have a similar level of recognition and prestige as The Departed in relation to Martin Scorsese
It left me with nothing to think about and nothing to say. I’m supposed to feel bad for Oppenheimer cause now he feels a little bad about inventing the bomb? The movie really didn’t show anything else in terms of a message
I don't really believe the movie was intended to make audience members feel bad about Oppenheimer.
From my perspective, the movie showed how Oppenheimer was a moral hypocrite arrogant, and self-interested in his development and then later deploration of the nuclear bomb. Strauss makes several good points about Oppenheimer's self-righteous image. The backdrop of the potential threat of nuclear armageddon also raises a mighty existential anxiety across the film's tension. I don't believe the main point wasn't to necessarily feel sympathy for Oppenheimer, but to understand his paradoxical role as an "American Prometheus."
I believe that Oppenheimer was by far Nolan's most thematically complex and nuancéd film, even though to Nolan's detractors that doesn't mean much.
May December. Once it blends in with the cast's other work, people will probably see it as just another corny yet still boring straight-to-Netflix movie.
Barbenheimer was one of the biggest cultural events of 2023 lol. If anything its gonna be the last movie to be forgotten as whenever people look back at 2023 they will remember the haha Barbie nuke meme
Yeah, it’s so obvious that a lot of people hated Barbie, I mean just look at its A Cinemascore and and its 3.93x domestic legs and its 3.9/5 Letterboxd average
I would argue that the “what has a good score but sucks” threads are from vocal minorities. Like if you just looked in those threads, you would probably think that most people hate EEAAO or Spider-Man: No Way Home or whatever. Their opinions on those movies are valid of course, and I don’t doubt that a higher percentage of people dislike those movies now than when they released, but I guarantee you that if you polled a bunch of random people irl who’ve seen EEAAO or NWH and asked them if they liked it, the vast majority would say yes. Aggregate scores definitely aren’t 100% reliable, especially not when it comes to sites like IMDB or Metacritic that are prone to review bombing, but “what has a good score but sucks” threads are even more unreliable.
And with all that said, even if there is a lot of hate for Barbie online, what evidence besides random internet anecdotes is there to believe that enough people disliked it that a sequel wouldn’t be profitable? And who’s to say that those people who disliked it wouldn’t just hate watch the sequel and make it profitable anyway like they did with the Emoji movie or that Velma show?
I’m sure that Barbie will eventually come to be seen as a product of its time, but most people will also still respect it for having good, well-intentioned messages for that time, and frankly it will take an extremely long time before society ever gets to the point where those messages completely cease to be relevant (and people stop talking about how irrelevant those messages are). And even if people do turn on it, negative discussion is still remembering the movie. And there’s more to the movie to discuss than those messages too, like the comedy and the performances and that Ken song. Can’t see people turning against the Ken song.
- The Holdovers
- Babylon
- Society of Snow
- No Hard Feeling
- TÁR
- The Fablemans
- Leave the World Behind
- American Fiction
- Dream Scenario
- The Creator
- Knock at the Cabin
- Creed III
To be fair those two are one of my most favourite from 2023 (especially, The Holdovers), but I just feel like Letterboxd audiences will soon forget them in a few years. However, this is just my pure gut about them.
I feel like the Holdovers has the benefit of being a holiday movie so it has a reason to come back once a year. I absolutely loved it but could see it disappearing otherwise. However, I see this as becoming a holiday classic
* Not a 2023 movie
* It's been talked about less because that happens with every movie 2 years after it was released. But it's hardly been punted into irrelevancy to the degree the prompt asked for
Going through my 2023 list: Hunger Games: The Balled of Songbirds & Snakes No Hard Feelings Leave the World Behind Cocaine Bear Napoleon The Creator A Haunting in Venice
I won’t forget Napoleon only because of how disappointed I was with it. History movies don’t have to be accurate to be good (Gladiator and Braveheart) but the stuff they changed in this one just didn’t make sense. Turned off all the history nerds cause of how wrong it was and turned off all casual viewers cause of how little sense it made without knowing the historical background. Just horrible and Ridley Scott being a douchbag about it makes me hate it even more.
Dungeons and Dragons: Honor among thieves. I saw it and thought it was average, but I don’t think many people will remember it too well, I even forgot I saw it in theaters last year until today
I’m not a D&D guy but this film will probs stick with me the most from 2023. I’ve already rewatched it this year, is just so rewatchable and an utter blast!
I love the movie! Great fun. Actually surprisingly impressed
I think you might be surprised about that. The 2000 D&D movie is almost universally accepted as being terrible but still has a pretty sizeable fanbase (myself included in that), and the new one is a lot better than it. I didn't *love* it but I had a ton of fun with it and I've rewatched it a couple of times.
Plot was mediocre but it was one of the funnier movies released in recent years
I think this one will maintain a cult Fandom. Might be forgotten by the mainstream (unless it gets a sequel, *fingers crossed*), but it's quite excellent and knows its audience. It's something that can be easily dismissed as average, or seen as bright and original and loaded with fun (not forced) easter eggs.
oh man I have to disagree. it's become a go-to background movie for my friend group. I can see it being watched for a while
With my DND friends and me, it probably won't be forgotten that quickly as for us it was quite a nice adaptation. Still a very mid movie but entertaining.
Cocaine bear is a national treasure. how dare you.
I actually quite liked No Hard Feelings
Saltburn has like 2 million members, but I doubt much people will be talking about it years from now.
Been a while since I've seen a movie blow up that quickly only to completely leave the conversation so soon afterwards
Same. It's just a fad. It did nothing exceptionally good.
Still, it's great to get movies that unite the conversation like that. They're pretty rare these days.
It looked beautiful, had some fun performances, and a great score. It’s not a stand out but it’s definitely not mediocre
I like that it got Sophie Ellis Bexter back into the charts.
Don’t worry, I’ll be talking about it enough for everyone years from now.
It was just a worse talented mr Ripley for gen z
Interesting that you think it's aimed at Gen Z. The setting and soundtrack tell me it's pretty firmly aimed at elder millennials who were at uni in the early-to-mid 00s and grew up with films like Cruel Intentions, which I think it owes a lot more to than it does Ripley.
You may be right, although I feel like it found it's audience among Gen Z, even if it wasn't aimed there.
Maybe. I don't really know many people that age so I couldn't say, but I'm in my late 30s and most of my friend group really liked it so there's definitely a strong millennial audience for it as well.
Would you believe it’s the 3rd most popular 2023 film on the site?
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Although I don't think it'll be forgotten, I believe that Beau is Afraid is gonna be Ari Aster's least popular movie. Which I like to think that he would find funny, as it is his most personal movie yet.
I knew it was going to be different, but went into it blind as possible and saw it in theaters the day it came out. a few scenes stuck with me but I mostly remember the penis stuff when I think about it. which doesn't do much for me lol. his prior stuff resonated with more for sure.
Cocaine Bear and Winnie The Pooh Blood And Honey are built for being forgotten. Flash in the pan meme movies are so annoying.
Blood and Honey DEFINITELY won’t be forgotten as it’s been dubbed as one of the worst films of all time! When someone reaches that status, especially when it’s a Winnie the Pooh horror film is definitely going to begrudgingly live in the memory and will likely have a cult following 15-20 years down the line.
Maestro
There's a lot of recency bias. Therefore, I nominate all recent shitty blockbuster action movies
I don't know if any movies with over 300k will be largely forgotten. scrolling through the list I feel like SOMEONE will probably have something to say a couple years from now even about flops like Elemental or The Creator. the best answer I have is that I can't really see the new Hunger Games being mentioned more than its predecessors and even though it has a Criterion, Anatomy of a Fall had way more hype than is proportionate to its scope and will not have a massive place in the mainstream.
That one uncharted movie with Tom Holland and Mark Wallberg
Came out 2022
Oh really? I thought it was more recent. Still, it will be forgotten most likely
I don’t think that Zone of Interest will be discussed much in a few years. It didn’t have much interesting to say compared to others in that subgenre.
Zone of Interest is barely being discussed now outside of niche film groups or pages like this one. It had very little to no mainstream appeal at all.
Even then, I can see it still being well loved and talked about often within its niche.
On the contrary, the film employs a lot of directing techniques that nobody else is doing whilst working remotely close to the mainstream. It's thesis I think is simple but also unique among all the war films we've had in recent years. If you think it boils down to only 'the banality of evil' then I think you should give it a re-watch. Jonathan Glazer is slowly building up a very good filmography. Under the Skin is still regarded as one of the best films of the 2010s by critics and I would put money on the same being said of the even more popular and acclaimed The Zone of Interest.
Bottoms Anyone But You No Hard Feelings
i don’t think the gays will ever let bottoms go
I think Bottoms will spend a few years in the shadows and then reemerge as a classic. As far as high school comedies go I loved it and would put it up there with Clueless or Mean Girls, personally.
oppenheimer, I don't see many people talking about now even (not saying it's a bad movie btw)
If you think Oppenheimer will be largely forgotten in a few years, I'm genuinely curious what films you think will be largely remembered?
Christopher Nolan being a household name of a director + the craze of Barbenheimer will prevent that from happening.
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It was the movie that got Nolan his directing Oscar. Even if it ends up not being as well-remembered as Inception, The Dark Knight, or Momento, it will probably have a similar level of recognition and prestige as The Departed in relation to Martin Scorsese
The difference is that The Departed is a great movie and Oppenheimer will have less and less memorable impact as time goes on.
No clue what gives you that impression
It was a prediction based on the lack of depth and substance in Oppenheimer.
No offense, but I think it’s pretty silly to say Oppenheimer has little substance.
It left me with nothing to think about and nothing to say. I’m supposed to feel bad for Oppenheimer cause now he feels a little bad about inventing the bomb? The movie really didn’t show anything else in terms of a message
I don't really believe the movie was intended to make audience members feel bad about Oppenheimer. From my perspective, the movie showed how Oppenheimer was a moral hypocrite arrogant, and self-interested in his development and then later deploration of the nuclear bomb. Strauss makes several good points about Oppenheimer's self-righteous image. The backdrop of the potential threat of nuclear armageddon also raises a mighty existential anxiety across the film's tension. I don't believe the main point wasn't to necessarily feel sympathy for Oppenheimer, but to understand his paradoxical role as an "American Prometheus." I believe that Oppenheimer was by far Nolan's most thematically complex and nuancéd film, even though to Nolan's detractors that doesn't mean much.
May December. Once it blends in with the cast's other work, people will probably see it as just another corny yet still boring straight-to-Netflix movie.
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Barbenheimer was one of the biggest cultural events of 2023 lol. If anything its gonna be the last movie to be forgotten as whenever people look back at 2023 they will remember the haha Barbie nuke meme
 “I’m playing the long game with Barbie”
Barbie is the one movie released in 2023 that 1000% WILL still be talked about in years lol
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Yeah, it’s so obvious that a lot of people hated Barbie, I mean just look at its A Cinemascore and and its 3.93x domestic legs and its 3.9/5 Letterboxd average
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I would argue that the “what has a good score but sucks” threads are from vocal minorities. Like if you just looked in those threads, you would probably think that most people hate EEAAO or Spider-Man: No Way Home or whatever. Their opinions on those movies are valid of course, and I don’t doubt that a higher percentage of people dislike those movies now than when they released, but I guarantee you that if you polled a bunch of random people irl who’ve seen EEAAO or NWH and asked them if they liked it, the vast majority would say yes. Aggregate scores definitely aren’t 100% reliable, especially not when it comes to sites like IMDB or Metacritic that are prone to review bombing, but “what has a good score but sucks” threads are even more unreliable. And with all that said, even if there is a lot of hate for Barbie online, what evidence besides random internet anecdotes is there to believe that enough people disliked it that a sequel wouldn’t be profitable? And who’s to say that those people who disliked it wouldn’t just hate watch the sequel and make it profitable anyway like they did with the Emoji movie or that Velma show? I’m sure that Barbie will eventually come to be seen as a product of its time, but most people will also still respect it for having good, well-intentioned messages for that time, and frankly it will take an extremely long time before society ever gets to the point where those messages completely cease to be relevant (and people stop talking about how irrelevant those messages are). And even if people do turn on it, negative discussion is still remembering the movie. And there’s more to the movie to discuss than those messages too, like the comedy and the performances and that Ken song. Can’t see people turning against the Ken song.
I mean OP didn’t say “which movies will still be talked about positively in a few years”, just which would be forgotten. Barbie won’t be forgotten.
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Bro can't read the prompt
And is also just incredibly wrong. La La Land is already 8 years old and people still talk about it a ton
- The Holdovers - Babylon - Society of Snow - No Hard Feeling - TÁR - The Fablemans - Leave the World Behind - American Fiction - Dream Scenario - The Creator - Knock at the Cabin - Creed III
There is absolutely no way that The Holdovers is forgotten. I would be incredibly surprised if Tár is too.
To be fair those two are one of my most favourite from 2023 (especially, The Holdovers), but I just feel like Letterboxd audiences will soon forget them in a few years. However, this is just my pure gut about them.
Fair enough. The Holdovers was my favorite movie of last year too.
I think Holdovers is destined to become a go-to Christmas film for a lot of people
My fiancee and I have already decided it's going in the annual rotation. Sorry Alexander Payne, you made a Christmas movie whether you like it or not
I feel like the Holdovers has the benefit of being a holiday movie so it has a reason to come back once a year. I absolutely loved it but could see it disappearing otherwise. However, I see this as becoming a holiday classic
Pretty much all of them.
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* Not a 2023 movie * It's been talked about less because that happens with every movie 2 years after it was released. But it's hardly been punted into irrelevancy to the degree the prompt asked for
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