 Adam does movies live? Is it a Tuesday? No, it's a Friday. Wow, this week has been something else. This year has been something else. We're about ready to polish it off, with just a few days left. And I changed my camera setup. I'm kind of like shallow sinking into the floor, but we'll get it figured out for the next year. I have new title cards planned. I got a lot of ideas in the Dennis Hopper. We'll get to them. Little bit of housekeeping before we get to the main punchline here, which is the top 10 movies of 2023. These are the movies that for me kind of went above and beyond the expectation. Again, I have to, the caveat's always in play. These aren't the best movies of the year just full stop. These are the movies I like the best. These are my best movies of 2023. I didn't see some of the Oscar bait that came up. I did not watch Maestro yet. I have not seen the Holdovers. I know I was told to watch. It's not playing at the Regal by me, so I'm out of luck there. There's a few other ones that I just haven't gotten to because 5,000 movies were released in the last three weeks. It's absurd. I didn't see Ferrari. There's just too much. There's too much. This is not the be all end all. It's just my all. Okay, and that's good enough. Super chats with the name of the game. I'll get to them periodically, but for the most part, we're gonna push through this list, get it right. Let's do the housekeeping before we really fire things up. I hope my audio's on. Did I turn my audio on? Okay, we did that. That's good. Upcoming projects. Number one and the one that matters most to my heart. Finishing my movie script. I am on page 70 of 90. And I got the ending done. So the beginning, middle and end is completed. Now it's just icing on the cake. Now's the fun part. I get to go and flesh out some of the events, add some scenes if I want, put in some more jokes, some more character development. And then I can step back and I can just reflect and say, you know what, this is it. The hard part's over. Now the easy part of getting a green lip by a studio for millions of dollars, getting it shot and out the door. It's all candy now. Another thing coming up for patrons and YouTube join members. I said patrons, it's Patreon, but you're patrons, it's messy. I have a thing I did with Tony from Hack the Movies. You may have heard of a little channel. It's quite a bit smaller than mine. They're almost at 60,000 over there. That's fine. Good for them. Tony did a commentary track with me. Actually, it's the other way around. I did it with him for his Patreon users. And he said, Adam, Booby, you can use this on yours as well. And that was like a month ago. So I did get that. I wanted the video for Batman Returns. He sent it to me. We talk over the whole video. And my audio was not set up properly. So it sounds really crisp and clear for about 95% of it until Tony said, Adam, I think you're speaking through a fish bowl. I said, oh yeah, my mic is not set up properly. It was doing a multi-channel instead of singular towards me. But we got it figured out and still fun. Look for that in a day or so. And I said that was gonna be up two weeks ago. But look for it in a day or so is the new one, I'm saying. I also have an additional perk. Oh, by the way, that's for $10 an up user. Sorry, gotta give some breadcrumbs here and there. There's gonna be one for everyone though. And this is also gonna be exclusive to Patreon and YouTube join members, which is a myth roll request for the TV show. Everyone's been waiting for me to talk about final space. Yeah, I don't know. I'd never heard of this. I had to go on some, I had to go into a Reddit forum and like look down a bunch of comments. And then I found a link that took me to it. Thankfully it wasn't to some weird porn site. It was to a final space stream of the first three seasons. I watched the first full season and I put my review out. It's gonna be up probably tomorrow or the next day along with that commentary. They're both gonna be there at the same time, I promise. That will be for everyone over on Patreon and YouTube join. Okay, third thing, what do I have here? That may, I guess that was the third. Fourth thing, the last Jedi, Jan Rose request, also myth roll, it's coming tomorrow. I have filmed it, I have edited my portion and now I'm just peppering in all the footage. A lot of video footage to go in. It's gonna clock in around 30 minutes. This is a big one. This is a big one. Next week, the goal is still to get the matrix four roast out, might not happen, probably won't happen. But that's the goal. We set goals so that we can not achieve them. Okay, but we have them there. That's the carrot. It might be two weeks from now. And then there are more roasts in the future from myth roll members because that's the perk there. If you're a $30 myth roll member at Adam Does Movies Patreon or YouTube Join, every so often you can say, Adam, I want you to roast this film from a list that I have. It's a good time for everyone involved, I think, mainly for me. But one more thing, sorry, and then we're gonna get to the list. Lastly, lastly, lastly, I put out a worst of 2023 on the Tuesday livestream where I was dying and barely cognitive. This time around, I feel fresh as a Daisy. So we'll take our time a little bit more. But I know a lot of people don't like watching live streams. They wanna get right to it and that's fair. I'm that way. So I will also create a video or two, I haven't decided if I'm gonna split them or keep them as one of the best and worst of 2023 from my perspective. So look for that video before the beginning of next year. A lot of stuff on the horizon. I will be after this going on Twitch separately tonight. And I'm planning on actually editing some of my new bumpers for 2024. That's the goal, it's just work. It's all business tonight over here. All right, let's get started. I think I said everything I need to say feels like it took five hours, but we're eight minutes in only. So it's not that bad. We do have some super chats. So let's just get them out of the way right now and then we'll take a little break and intermission or something later. But they are coming in pretty hog wild. And we have one from Hack the Movies. Speaking of Hack the Movies, Tony from Hack the Movies shot out of a cannon, says Adam. I can't wait to hear you pick a shutter movie as your number one and talk about it for 15 minutes. I don't think I actually mentioned. Did I say it during my little prologue here, or not prologue, it'd be a prelogue, a pre-mortem, post-mortem, pre-mortem. I didn't say that I was on Tony's channel yesterday for two and a half hours talking about all the movies that came out in 2023. Scratch that. Talking about some of the movies that came out in 2023 during the prelude. Scratch that. Talking about movies that went to shutter exclusively and then randomly a couple more movies. It was a shit show. It was fun as heck. If you haven't checked that out, I encourage you to go watch that live stream maybe tomorrow, not right now. Please don't watch it right now. But that heck, the movie's live stream was really fun. We had a good time. I was very saucy in it. I was a little maybe a chromogeny, little bitchy, and that's okay. Thank you, Tony, for the $10 and for being a great friend this year. What a fun relationship we have. Did he give me another one? Two more dollars, Maestro. Is that a movie about Bob Cobb? That's a Seinfeld reference. I love those Seinfeld references. Tony and I mentioned about doing a Seinfeld video of sorts. We both have movie channels. It's in the name, Hack the Movies, Adam Does Movies, Adam Does Tony Does Movies, Does Adam. It's a whole thing. But I would love to do a Seinfeld video for just some shit and giggle reason. I don't know if we make it an exclusive to Patreon or something, but Tony and I, we really do need to have a three hour live stream where, or maybe a commentary track where we just go through every season of Seinfeld. You know what? We should do nine episodes commentary each season go through the episodes. I think that would be a ball. We could just, you know, I know Seinfeld front and back pretty much except for maybe season one, that's a little rocky road, but I could easily do that from memory. King Cold for $5, thank you, King. You do look slightly closer to the camera than normal, LOL. He's laughing loudly about that. Oh, good commentary on Batman Returns. Thank you, King Cold. So he must be a Hack the Movies Patreon. So he got that already because Tony is actually doing things. And there's Jan Rose, shot out of a fucking cannon with $10. Woo, wiki-wa-wa, wiki-wa-wa. She did the Will Smith in my mind. So excited for the last Jedi. I've been waiting for it. I appreciate all the hard work you've done. You're awesome. Keep it up. Happy New Year. And I hope 2024 brings a lot of success. You deserve it. Thank you, Jan. Very much. We have one from Brian Davis for $10 more, a gorgeous super chat for 10. Brian's been a champion this year. Shot out of a cannon, and Adam is back at it after enduring a three-hour marathon of randomness on Hack the Movies livestream last night that I haven't even finished watching yet. Flood of content, folks. It's everywhere. And today, today I was with a fan. The kids and I went out. I taught my daughter a little coding at a coffee shop, and my son's into editing. Connor, also out of a cannon from the top rung, he's working on his own YouTube channel where he draws anime and then comments over the top of it. It's kind of like a speed-drying, top-down view. And then he's going through the character and what it means to him. It's very Dragon Ball-centric right now. He's really into Dragon Ball Z. Thank you, Brian. Yeah, I've been busy. Doing a lot of different things. King Cold for $5. If I wanted you to watch season nine of American Horror Story 1984, what would be the best way to go about it? Just a little specificity. I don't know if there is any way to go about it anymore, King Cold, because the Mithril perk now and even like the 100 unobtainium, that $100 unobtainium is probably the way to do it if you really want to throw that much money away. But really the Mithril stuff got so random with movies. It was actually hurting my channel whenever I would put a review out. Plus it just took a lot of time and I'm really trying to buckle down and focus on just doing movie content and really building the channel. And the last two months have been freaking astronomical for this bad boy. Obviously not compared to a lot of big channels, but for me, the growth has been freaking awesome. So I don't know what to tell you, King Cold. American Horror Story, I've watched a few of them and every time it's like they have one or two or sometimes three or four really good episodes or a solid start and they just botch it by the middle and by the end I don't even finish it half the time. All right, thank you. And I apologize for not really giving you much help there. Daniel Faw. Is it Faw? I think so. $2, Adam, you are famous now. Tony Helped, of course. Yes, Tony. If you don't know Tony, he's incredibly famous. Just ask him. He was a extra in The Dark Knight Rises. You can see him in row triple J in the back. You might be able to make out a blur of him if you watch The Dark Knight Rises with super zoom and ability. He is very popular though. Alex Dothright for $5 Canadian. We accept that here. Thank you, Alex. Best for me. He's going to list off his three since I haven't even talked about mine yet. Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. Killers of the Flower Moon. And the Holdovers. There's the Holdovers. I didn't see it. What's that? What was that other movie that came out? Just Pretty Things? I didn't see Pretty Things either. That wasn't playing. Regal sucks, man. Regal sucks. We got one more. And then we'll jump into the conversation. Oh, and many. Beautiful. Super chat for $10. Some of the movies this year I've rated five or 4.5 stars on Letterbox. Have been Blackberry. Are You There, God? Oppenheimer. Across the Spiderverse. Dead Reckoning gets a five or a four and a half. That's amazing. And there it is. Past Lives. Love the content. Oh, and you saw more random movies than I've even heard of. I don't know what Blackberry is. I don't know. Past Lives, I think was up for a couple awards, I believe. But I haven't seen three of those movies that you listed. So good for you. I'm just going to a bunch of garbage. I saw Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey. I can tell you that much. That's what I watched. All right, let's get into my, I would say kind of hot take. Some of these are spicy. Some of these are going to be head scratching for people. But this is where we're at. And I'm going to stick with what I have here. Number 10 on my list. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Mutant mayhem. I took this, I went with this with my kids. We all had a really good time. It was kind of a return to form to the old school Ninja Turtle ways. They seemed like teenagers for once. I loved the voice acting. The villains were great. They even managed to make it cool without throwing shredder in there or the foot clan, which was truly impressive. I loved that spider verse has opened up this resurgence, this new renaissance of animation. And all these studios, Sands Disney are on board and they're doing it. It's got this 3D 2D visual style to it. I love the plane with the different FPS, the frames per second. It's all over the place and it works. The music was great. The setting was fantastic. Visually stunning. There's a couple moments in the film where I was just, I was a gas thinking, wow, this is storyboarded to Helen back in perfection. I love the wide angle shot of the turtles busting through mob areas and it keeps cutting to the different turtles doing their flair, their style. I was big on this. I liked it. I expected it to be decent, but it truly impressed me. And that's why it made the list at number 10. And it's not the only animated film on here. Let's go to the next one. Oh, we did not spend, according to Tony, you need to spend about 10 to 15 minutes on each one of these so that you get the monetization when you, when you split them up for clips. I don't do that. We're moving on. We got shit to do. I also don't have a panel of people with me, which is going to save a lot of time. In the number nine, what is this a freaking animated family affair we got going on? Another animated film, Puss in Boots, The Last Wish. Where did this come from? What is going on? Why is there a freaking DreamWorks animated film about a cute lovable cat voiced by Antonio Banderas on the list? Well, because it blew my socks off. I saw this on a whim. I was amazed. I was shocked when I took my son. I believe we were in Minnesota at the time still. No, we wouldn't. Why the hell 2022? No, we weren't in Minnesota. We were in South Carolina. Maybe I was back. I feel like I saw this at the Mall of America or something random, but that can't be it. I guess we just went on a random Saturday morning. You know what? It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter when I saw it. I went, I saw it. Connor's watched it a couple of times since. He's all in on this Puss in Boots last witch situation. I thought the, I thought Banderas still had it. I love the concept behind it. I love the idea that the fear of death itself is stocking down Puss in Boots. And he's in a hiding. He's already given up eight lives. He only has one to spare. It humanizes. It catanizes our furball protagonist. And it gives us something to fear for himself. Like I was truly impressed by this big bad demon-esque wolf that's hunting him down. I wish we'd have got more of him because then we kind of jump into the, what is it? The thumb dude. I can't remember his name, but he dips it in the pie. Some random obscure character. That's really fun. What they did with him as well. And then you have Goldilocks and the three bears tracking our cat. There's just a lot of fun, different elements at play and little stories that all really culminate to a great final act. But it's that first two thirds that really hits the hardest for me. And I, I thought the animation was amazing. Again, it's another one where it's definitely inspired by Into the Spider-Verse. So we owe a lot to Sony animation studios for what they were able to do with some of these other studios. Okay. Just giving them a push saying, Hey, you know what? We don't all have to be this cookie cutter Disney bullshit anymore. Let's go a different direction. Let's try something fresh. And Puss in the Boots was definitely that. And especially coming off of a very generic previous entry. Yeah. Very impressed. In the number eight spot. All right. We're done with the baby crap. We have a hard, well not hard. It's an R rated film. We have Evil Dead Rise the fourth. Fourth entry, I think maybe fifth. I'm not sure there's a TV show as well. No Bruce Campbell in this one, but there's tons of blood, tons of Gore and it's all isolated to this one apartment building. It's really kind of a bottle episode where they're all just, this family is stuck in this apartment. The mom gets taken over. She's possessed by the book and everything is off the rails. There's a cheese grater to the legs. The mom's crawling on the ceiling. There's a chainsaw of course at the end. Bloods shooting out of the back of a vehicle. It's disgusting. It's funny though. It still has that twisted dark playful side that I love. At one point the mom punches the dude in the gut or hits him in the back of the head. I can't remember the specifics, but his eyeball flies across the hallway and into his buddy's mouth. Swallows another guy's eyeball. It's glorious fun. It's disgusting fun and I'm here for it. Other things about this one, practical effects. It felt very grounded in a sense. Obviously it's over the top spectacle and Gore, but I liked that everything seemed like weirdly plausible. I didn't see a lot of fake shit going on. The makeup was really good. There were stakes and tension in this movie that often seemed to go missing in a lot of new age horror where you can see it's mainly CG monsters running around and I'm just not impressed. I'm not scared by that. Evil Dead Rise, definitely a highlight for me. I think that's the only horror movie that made the list. Although there were a couple that I was impressed with this year. This one came out really early on in the year, I believe air directed by Ben Affleck. It's a Mad Damon joint. You got Matt and Ben back again doing their thing. Jason Bateman's in this. It's really just a boys club over at Nike. They're having a hard time selling shoes. These were the top dogs, but now they're dropping a third or fourth place and they might even have to get rid of the damn line altogether. The basketball line of shoes is floundering. It's borderline out the door. And so this is the true story of a couple of guys. Matt Damon specifically is character. I'm not going to be bothered to give you the actual name of the character, but he's going to come up with this crazy idea to sign Michael Jordan, who is not even anything at this point. He's nothing but a great college player that has a ton of potential. And so they think they can get this guy secured and hope that he has a legacy that lasts for a while. And boy, did they bet wrong, right? I mean, Michael Jordan is ladies. What is he brought me lately? Obviously joking Jordan's a legend. And so this movie just really has fun. Not showing Michael Jordan at all. You don't even get the front face of him because he is so iconic. It would almost be, it would take you out of the picture if you got someone that looked like him, but isn't him. I agree with the approach Affleck took by just keeping him off camera or just showing the back. But I love this movie and how it was really focused on the business and marketing side of things. Viola Davis plays Jordan's mom. She's a beast as always, freaking vicious. And she's a great negotiator. It does a great job also of showcasing just how cool Jordan's parents were and how much of a bulldog his mom was in making sure Jordan got the best possible deal in the world. No one has ever got an endorsement like Jordan got. And it would set the stage for black athletes and, you know, athletes of any color going forward. But race is of course a big factor in this because of just, I mean, it's basketball. It's predominantly black athletes that often get a bad end of the deal when it comes to some of these signing contracts. So this really took Nike in a different direction. And it would set the stage for other basketball organizations and signing contracts going forward. I freaking dug this mainly because, listen, I tried watching Mad Men back in the day and I'm in this side of the world. I do visual communication. I do web design and development. This whole movie thing is not my day job. This is not the job that puts food on the table for the family. It's just a big passion project for me that's helping make a different income to keep my wife home because, you know, she's got stuff going on and to provide. So that's what I do it for. But I really dig this marketing angle and Mad Men promised that, but then it kind of turned into just a lot of drama and a lot of sleeping around and all the side stuff. And I was bummed because I really liked the marketing angle. And so air provides that to a T. Big fan of this film. I highly recommend it if you slept on it. One, two, three, four, five. I think we're on the five spot. Six, seven, eight, nine. Good. I did do the math correctly. I did count to 10 correctly. Oh, we're back to the kitty shit. Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse. This is the last animated film on my list. There's three animated movies on my 2023 best of lists. Can you imagine? And they all kind of look similar in a way. Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse was a very, very good film. And it's a part one, which is the only reason why I got a little sour on it towards the end because it feels like it kind of goes on a lot longer than it should. And right when it's going to hit that peak crescendo, it pulls the rug out from under us and we're left there salivating, waiting for the story to continue. But what a promising story it is about our Miles Morales stuck in the Spider-Verse, the multiverse. He's having to deal with all the conflict and all the fallout of the fact that he's kind of a mistake. With all the different things going on in this, this tapestry, this web that was spun, somehow Miles came into existence. And it's a creative idea because, you know, you have that debate with people off camera, you know, they're like, oh, Miles isn't really Spider-Man. He's Miles Morales Spider-Man. He's not the true Peter Parker. And this movie goes all in on that concept. Everyone else is a variation of Peter Parker. There's only one Miles in this. And so that's really the central core of this thing. But I love the family dynamic of it. I like that he has this relationship with his mom and dad. That's dicey, but obviously there's a lot of love there. And over the course of the film, it's going to grow even stronger. I think I like into the Spider-Verse more than the sequel, which was also one of my films of the year when that came out. But this has potential to get elevated even higher if that third entry knocks it out of the park. Now, we could have the problem where it could fall in its face. And then I do think it does a disservice to this film because this is very heavily reliant on a conclusion that hasn't happened yet. But as it stands, we have all the superficial things I can brag about, the wonderful visuals, the fact that they go in several different directions with the art style, which is both a pro and a con for me. I like the look of a lot of it. But I do think because they're so free flowing with some of the visuals, Gwen's world looks a lot different than, you know, Miles Morales world, which looks a lot different than the Indian Spider-Man. I forgot his name. He was a highlight for me. Because there is a disjointed look, sometimes the cohesion is not quite one-to-one. There is a little bit of a separation that can throw you. But for the most part, visually stunning. And I just, I really don't have any complaints about it. Even the runtime being two and a half hours or almost two and a half hours, whatever it is, it is long, but it feels earned. It feels earned. And I feel good about this being at five. We have a super chat to kind of break it up. Let me take a drink because I feel like I've just been talking like crazy. Just a water break real quick. Come off, come on the bench for a second. Master Sergeant for $50. I forget the cannon shot, he says, and take the nuke for a great year of ridiculing 2023 crap as a big Snyder fan. Oh, here we go. Rebel Moon was awesome sucked. Awesome sucked. He led me there. But then we knew where he was going, because Master Sergeant's made it clear. He's a Snyder fan. He was kind of part of the Snyder cult, but he walked away. He got out of that horrible place. And now we can just take these movies as individual pieces of art or in the case of Rebel Moon, a piece of shart, because that movie sucks. Also, I win, he says, beat $50, folks. He puts down the mantle, the mallet. What is it? What's it called? You strike down with something. He's throwing something down and he's saying, come get me. $50 is tough to beat. Master Sergeant, you've been awesome this entire year. I don't think anyone can really compete at this point. But I appreciate all the awesome super chats and support, sir. And yeah, the nuke, shot off of a nuke. We'll have to come up with something that's more powerful than the cannon that can make any sort of sense. But I appreciate it. Thank you very much. We have one more here. Dieter Bastion, baby, for $5, funny money. Thanks, Adam, for an entertaining year with all your good and bad takes. Ooh, the bad takes. I don't know if I like that. And all the other stuff, pool watch, Lego camera build, a funny commercial. Dieter, I think Dieter's the one that sent me a link to, he had a conversation on a podcast with a guy, and they were talking about Godzilla minus one. Dieter, if you're not the dude, I apologize. I thought you were though, because you said bad take, which makes me think you're referring to Godzilla minus one. Godzilla minus fun, as I like to call it playfully. He went on this podcast and I watched the couple minute clip. He sent me and the dude's like, or Dieter's like, yeah, Adam didn't like Godzilla minus one. He dropped the rotten tomato percentage. And the other guy looked like he wanted to kill me. Like he was going to lose it. He was just flabbergast. He's like, what? I'm sorry. Why didn't he like the movie? What is wrong? Why didn't he like this? And Dieter just kind of like threw me under the bus. He didn't really have a reason. He's just like, yeah, I didn't like it. I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I don't know why he didn't like it. He just, he didn't like it. And the other guy just looked pissed. I was laughing pretty hard. So thank you, Dieter. I appreciate that. Adam, yeah, he just didn't like it. He didn't like it. I don't know. I don't know what's going through his mind these days. He's completely lost it. Speaking of rotten tomatoes, let's get to the number four spot. Four, three, two. Wait, what? Is this right? Four, three, two, one. What the fuck? Wait. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five. Four, three, two, one. Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five. Okay. I'm in the five spot now. I just was, I was wrong on my math before. Everything I said previously is wrong. This is five. So Spider-Man and the Spider-Verse was six. Speaking, my God, of rotten tomatoes, they have the boys in the boat. I think at like 58% or something. It's not fresh. It's rotten over there. Half the critics over half did not like this movie or they didn't like it as much as they liked it, I guess would be more apt if we're going to use dumb words, which I tend to do. I love this movie. Yeah. I can see why maybe critics were eye rolling over it because it's your kind of stereotypical 90s throwback film where a bunch of guys pick themselves up and they get the job done rowing boats for a college. It's a, it's a poor college going up against the Yale's and all these Ivy League schools. You have University of Washington students who are basically living out of their cars. It's during the depression. These guys have nothing to their name. So they're going to get out there and they're going to prove it to not only their, their town, they're going to prove it to their country. They're going to prove it around the world because they're going to be going to the Olympics. It's a feel good story, but it's got a lot of drama. It's got a lot of your traditional things you find in movies like iron will a league of their own cool runnings, just movies about guys that chips are down, build themselves up. They build each other up. They each have their individual struggles. They have the relationships. They have their battles on the field and off the field. It's got inspiring music. It's got fantastic cinematography directed by George Clooney whose previous movie I could not stand. He's probably done a few, but the only other one I remember him in remember him. I mean, the only one I remember him directing was good night and good luck. I think it's what it's called. It was a black and white artsy fartsy thing. Not my cup of tea hated that film. So naturally it won a bunch of awards or it was nominated and people loved it and they smelled their own farts over it. I couldn't stand that film. The boys in the boat more my cup of tea is a basic. Yeah. But you know what? I'm okay with basic once in a while. I miss basic once in a while, especially when so movies these days have 15 different plot lines that don't really add up or make much sense or they're just throwing out noise at you constantly without a satisfying conclusion. The boys in the boat simple, straightforward, feel good inspiring film based on a true story. How based it is. I don't know. I think it's actually based on the book, which is based on the true events. So you have a couple of layers here. I get, I give it a shot. If you're looking for something that's just, you know, makes you feel warm in your tummy and you, it gives you good vibes. Check out the boys in the boat. I think you'll be happy with it. So now we're at four. We're at four. Guardians of the Galaxy volume three. It feels like this came out seven years ago this year. Where's it? What's been going on with this year? Guardians of the Galaxy volume three, the final chapter for the guardians, at least under James Gunn, as far as I know, James Gunn's moved on for Marvel. He's, he's over at the DC world now doing his own thing. Restarting Superman from scratch with legacy, but he left a legacy behind and he left the last great Marvel movie behind over for the MCU at least of now. And that's Guardians volume three. I think this trilogy is about as perfect as it can get. There are not a lot of movie trilogies that stick the landing quite like this did for me. You look at even the Christopher Nolan films. I think Batman begins is okay. I'm not huge on that movie. Dark Knight I think is peak. And then Dark Knight Rises is a solid conclusion that gets a little goofy at times, but still, still very much a cool movie. X-Men drops the ball by the third one. Blade drops the ball up a cliff by the third one. It's, it's rare when it works all the way through Iron Man incredibly inconsistent with a great first act, a super stupid second act and a middling third that I enjoy, but I know it didn't land for everyone. We go to Guardians though. Some people don't like the second one. They think it's a little too goofy. I think that's right where it needs to be. I love the shit out of that. Yes, some of the jokes undercut some of the drama, but this time around that's not a problem. In fact, it's, it's maybe a problem that it doesn't because this is a very sad, dire movie. A lot of the time he films it in a way that does feel distinctly separate from the first two. It's a lot more gray. It's a lot more somber in both visual tone and communicated, communicated, communicated, communicated, communicated, communicated, communicated, something else, something with the word communicate and a communicative. We'll get there. It worked though. I love this movie. I like the inclusion of the new Disney animals that get to die horrifically in front of us. It was sad. He always does such a good job, James Gunn, of making me care about things that shouldn't really mean much to me. They're fake artificial creations, but damn it, if that stupid raccoon rocket gets me in the feels every time. And shout out to Pratt, who often gets criticism for his voiceover work. That's fair. But damn it, he brought it here. The tears looked real. The emotion was raw. It was untethered. I was all in. I freaking love that scene where he's yelling over his buddy rocket as he's dying. There's some great shots in this movie too, some really creative shots. One where Gamora is just chilling in the cockpit of the plane and you can see the Drax and Mantis driving by through the road, through the window of this cockpit. And the way he shot this was just really unique. And it looked real. Something that most MCU movies nowadays forget to do. Make the movie feel real. Ant-Man and the Wasp quantum shittier. Whole things in front of a soundstage green screen. I felt nothing through the whole movie. It's just a bunch of clowns jogging in place with stuff kind of getting animated in behind them. The same thing with Thor, Love and Thunder. It's embarrassing how little they care. James Gunn puts in the work in these movies and it's up there. You may not like them and that's perfectly fine, but I don't think people can deny that the passion's on display. Whether it lands, that's personal opinion. I love this movie though, really dug it and a great send off. Hopefully these characters don't get ruined in the future without them. In the number three spots, now we're getting to, now we're getting to adult movies. Now we're getting mature. We're taking the champagne glass, smelling it and explaining what the contents are. This is Martin Scorsese folks. This is top of the line beef. Grade A. I think Grade A is the best you can get. I don't even know. I'm not a beef chronic, I love beef, but I don't have the funds to go out to a butcher and be like, give me your best cut. Here's of the flower moon. You got DiCaprio back again. You got, who else is in this? Lily Gladstone is playing the main Indian woman. She's chips are down of course, because she watches all of her family members die every few years from disease on the land or from something more, something more Maleficent. Robert Downey, Robert Downey Jr. Robert DeNiro may know something about that. He plays a friend of the tribe. Kind of, not really. Actually, you know what I said, Indian, I meant Native American, I apologize. People got upset when I said Indian last time. I did it again. It's nothing personal. I love everyone uniquely and completely. I screwed up on the terms. American Indians are on a reservation. They've had for a long time. DeNiro's there, pretends to befriend them, but really he's poisoning these people. He doesn't give a shit about them. He wants their land, he wants their wealth, he wants their oil. So he's going to use his grandson, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, to fall in love with this woman, pretend to be in love with her, and just basically use him as a means to get the money from her once she dies. It's a disgusting story because it's true. These assholes went in and they married off. They married all these different women, these different people in the tribe just so they could take their money. The film is heartbreaking, but the emotions are real, and it was a tough watch, but it was an important one, I think, and you can tell that Martin Scorsese really enjoyed working on this. It was a passion project for him. I'm glad he got to make it, even though I'm pretty sure it bombed at the box office, or it didn't put up the numbers that it was supposed to. It's a tough movie to make money off when it costs a couple hundred million dollars, and it's a drama pick that's almost three hours long. It's just a really hard pill for people to swallow. The whole white people suck. It is starting to get grading for others. I agree, white people suck, so I'll watch a million movies about that. That doesn't bother me. It's history. It happened. You can either choose to accept it or you can ignore it. Either way, it's fine, it's a story. I like a captivating story, and this was both. I don't need to praise the visuals. It's Scorsese. You know what you're going to get from him, but I do appreciate how they did some of the shots with the silhouette dancing through the oil, the DA gene. The look of DiCaprio was a little rough. This is a guy that's usually very nice on the eyes, so it was interesting watching him play a rough and tumble individual. De Niro put in the work. I love this performance by him. It seems so often when actors get into their twilight years, they start phoning it in more and more. Tommy Lee Jones did that for quite a long time. De Niro, though, it's like he hasn't missed a step. Freaking awesome. Yeah, this is a beautiful movie. A movie I want to watch again with my wife. She didn't see it. A movie that I definitely want to show my kids when they get older. It's just one of those films you can re-watch over and over again every few years and really take appreciation of what's going on. So, yeah, Killers of the Flower Moon, a definite win, one of the best of the year. Next up, another adult film, not in that way, another mature smart man's picture by Christopher Nolan. Christopher Nolan. Gotta say it fans here. The world is a vampire and Oppenheimer is going to drain it as he figures out how to build an atomic bomb over this massively long Barbenheimer experience. I did the Barbenheimer. I went to both movies and I'm glad I went to Oppenheimer first because it was a long, gorgeous, brutal film to see unfold. The way Nolan does his stories by a long, lengthy, beautiful music video where you got Zimmer. I don't think this is Hans Zimmer this time. You could have fooled me though. Hans Zimmer music just going through this whole picture, isolating scenes of dialogue and then boom, hitting you with that powerful score again and Nolan really loves the time angle. He loves playing with time. So this movie is jumping around between different parts of Oppenheimer's life from the past to the present. You have the trial going on where Robert Downey Jr. shows up on his game. It's nice seeing him not have to play Tony Stark for a little while again even though he was great as that. There's so many random people that show up in this movie too. Josh freaking Hartnett's in this. I thought it was Kyle Chandler. It looked a lot like America's hero Kyle Chandler but it was freaking Josh Hartnett shot out of a cannon. A lot of people like that. Killian Murphy, of course, a great performance here as the main protagonist or antagonist depending on how you want to look at him. He's kind of a bit of both. America was in a race much like it was with the moon landing. We were trying to be the first to get the atomic bomb built so our enemies couldn't use it on us first. Of course, didn't have to use the thing but that's what happened. It's a sad tragedy and the way Nolan plays that off through radio and just background TVs showing the devastation from a distance was pretty clever. I like when directors go the angle of let's take it from a ground perspective. Let's not do this big scale thing where we show what's going on over here and then over here. Instead, let's keep it grounded and focused on individual characters. In this case, Oppenheimer. So then he is just going to get things from his vantage point but it's still done in a way that just hurts. And then the hydrogen bomb would also have a little side story as well. A hydrogen bomb, I believe is they only say it's a hundred times. Is it 100 times or 10 times stronger than an atomic bomb? I think it's 100. It's a ridiculous number. Regardless, I don't really feel like I can hit with either of them. So hopefully we can keep that at bay and keep that at Michael Bay. I really dig Nolan movies. That's just kind of the bottom line. He just has a way with the film. He has a way of telling a story and keeping it engaging. He could do a three-hour movie on someone just drawing a smiley face on a piece of paper and I feel like he would do it in a way that would be incredibly captivating. It's like the close-ups of the pencil. And then it does like a flashback to how paper was made and the sharpening of the pencil. I could see it. I could believe it. And I believed in this. I've only watched it once. I want to go back and watch it again. Every one of Nolan's movies, I always end up watching a couple of times. Even Tenet, which a lot of people despise. I wasn't thrilled with the first time I watched it. I went back for a second viewing and I liked it quite a bit more. Still don't love that film, but it's a lot more passable than I originally thought. And even the first time I was like, yeah, it's fine. It's cool. There's some good stuff. I don't think Oppenheimer's is best. I know a lot of people do. I put this somewhere honestly lower on the Nolan totem pole. And even then lower on the totem pole, still on a Nolan totem pole. And that's high praise. I still think prestige is up there for me. Prestige is one of my favorites. Interstellar, I think is criminally underrated by him. I think it's a brilliant movie. It's one of his emotionally impactful movies. Because sometimes with Nolan, things can feel a little too sterile as well. They can feel a little dry. And Oppenheimer can get that way. But technically it's such a masterpiece from a visual standpoint. It's hard to really argue with anything else. And for my final pick of 2023, a movie I was not expecting to love as much as I did. This is from the top rope, The Iron Claw. The Iron Claw, the Von Erich story of five brothers. It's only going to focus on four, though, is freaking traumatic as shit. It's a very sad movie. But not as sad as a lot of people are saying. I don't think it's like depressing all the way through. There's a ton of heart in this film, ton of kindness in this film. I just, I really have nothing bad to say. A24 is so dicey for me. There's so many hits and misses, but they always go all in with them. It's never, oh, this movie was okay. It's almost always I freaking hate this movie or I really like this movie because they're so polarizing. And The Iron Claw was definitely on the I freaking love this movie side of things. Over two hours long again, I think the greatest joke this entire year has been played on me. I don't know how many people have watched over this course of the year, but I've bitched like a little, like a little, I don't even know. I can't come up with a metaphor on the, I can't come up with an analogy on the fly. I've bitched like an old man about a kid getting his ball off my lawn the entire year about movies being way too long. And my top three movies are well over two hours. Two of them are like over three and a half. So Iron Claw, it's 220, I think, maybe 230. It's a long movie, but man is it good. I liked every single part of this film from the super sad lows to the super high highs. The brother dynamic in this is perfection. I believed it. You could see the love on these guys. Zach Efron completely surprised me with this performance. Yes, the wigs are hilariously bad in this. Who cares? Who cares? They have bad haircuts, they have bad wigs. It's fine. I thought maybe it was going to be artsy fartsy with the wrestling. No, they show the wrestling. They show the cheapness of it. They show the raw strength it takes. They show the ugly side of it, doing the drugs, putting it on the weight, throwing up. It's all there warts and all. Someone asked me, Adam, do they like pretend that this wrestling stuff is real or do they show that it's all fake staged? They do both because it is both. Yes, it's staged. Yes, there is predetermined outcomes. Yes, they practice their moves together. Yes, they have teams that go off against each other based on popularity. But they're also giant dudes that work out 24-7, and they do have to be physically capable of taking these hits, landing on concrete and getting up and doing it again the next day. So yes, fake, but also very real at the same time. And you find out just how real this shit can get as this movie goes on. And I'm not gonna spoil any of the sad stuff. I mean, I would encourage you to go out and watch it because it does really, it's so much more elevated than anything else I saw this year. Not only because of these believable performances, but because of how the story unfolds and how they foreshadow some things and how the dynamic with the dad and the sons plays out and even the mom kind of in the shadows, a shell of her former self. And the fact that the youngest brother is killed off camera before the movie even starts, like that's not a spoiler. That's how the movie starts out. There's a picture of the brother next to the other four. And so it sets the stage right away for yeah, this is a cursed family full of tragedy. The cursed angle is really cool as well. I don't personally believe in superstitious stuff like curses, but I do believe that people can manifest within their own wellbeing, their own psyche, kind of a curse on their own. It's not technically called the curse, but you basically are setting yourself up for failure by getting in the mindset that you're going to fail by telling yourself over and over every day, look at all the tragedy of my life. It's only a matter of time before it happens to be. And when you put that kind of shit out into the world, you're going to get that shit back. And that's very much at the heart of Iron Claw. There is the relationship side of things. Overall, I love this. I can't wait to watch it again. I want to show my wife when it comes out on streaming because she hates going to the theater because people are trash now and theaters suck for the most part. But this movie's not bad at all. I really liked it. Nothing negative really to say, which is rare. I gave it five stars. I think the only movie all year I gave five stars because I guess I'm just a bitch like that. Okay, those are my movies of 2023. I think I spent a fair amount of time. Yeah, I've been time for almost an hour. If there's any more super chats for the year, this is the last live stream of 2023. There's going to be a little bit of a change up next year. The days will still be Tuesday and Friday, but I'm going to play around with some different stuff. I have some ideas and it's going to start up on the next stream Tuesday, if not Tuesday, Friday, but I'm really going to hopefully try this out on Tuesday, see if it works. I'm thinking of doing more of a variety type of live stream where essentially I will be a host, like a Jimmy Fallon or a Conan O'Brien. And I would go through the news of the day, the movie news that's come out over the weekend, tell some jokes, do maybe like a five minute opening monologue. And then I will have some pre-canned videos as well that will be up on the channel later, such as maybe a top five movies where someone dies by a boat. Like just some random stuff that's maybe relevant, since it's going to be January, maybe the worst movies that came out in January in 2022 or something. And then those will get introduced, they'll come up, then they'll come back to me I'll introduce the next thing. And maybe we do that three or four times. And then at the end I'll take super chats just to see how it goes. Maybe it'll just be a thing I do on Fridays. I don't know. I'm excited to try it out. Hopefully it goes over well. If not, we can go back to this. That's fine too. But I'm always looking for ways to separate myself enough from what everyone else is doing, just so that you have another reason to kind of tune in because there's a lot of content on YouTube, a lot of videos getting uploaded. And there's a lot of movie stuff too. A lot of guys in the same field as me. Some of them I've met this year, we've become good friends and I hope to do more collabs with in 2024. That's going to be a big push. But also I want to stay different. So we have the movie, we have movie roasts over here. I think that's pretty unique. The movie roasts come out a couple of times a month. Then we have these live streams, which have been awesome for 2023. And hopefully I can kind of grow that out to something even more special in 2024. With, of course, everyone's help. Okay, let's do the final super chats of the night. And then we'll be at 1030 almost. And then I'm going to jump on Twitch and do some editing. And I think that'll be kind of a fun experience for everyone that wants to join me. It's twitch.tv slash Adam does movies. If you have a Jeff Bezos subscription to Amazon Prime and Amazon Prime membership subscription, whatever. You also have a free Twitch subscription that you can use over there. Otherwise Jeff Bezos gets that money. It's a $5 month thing that's free for Amazon Prime members. So you go to Adam does movies. You go to twitch.tv slash Adam does movies. You go to the, my dumb face will show up or something. You follow me there. And then you have to subscribe separately. And I have no idea how that's actually accomplished. I'm just telling you and then you can figure it out or Google it because that's what I bring to the table. Next year, the goal is before the live stream starts to have different videos that kind of points you in different directions. Not just a static bumper thing. Okay, let's do the last super chats and move on. Deeter Bastion for $5. Thanks Adam for the entertaining year with all your good and bad takes. Oh, I already read this one. Damn it. Deeter, you got it again. Did I read this one? Daniel Faw, Adam, you are a genuine funny and happy new years. I think, I don't think I read that one. Thank you, Daniel. I appreciate it. If I read it, you got it two for one. Matt Sclero shot out of a cannon for $9.99. I know Point Break did not come out this year. However, since you just saw it recently for the first time where would it rank on your list? That's a good question, Matt. It's not going to be above my top three. Not going to be above Guardians of the Galaxy 3 because that's the end of an era. The boys in the boat, Spider-Man. I think I could put it, one, two, three, four. I could put it in the number five spot. I could put it in the number five spot on my list, Matt. I think that's fair. And the Princess Bride, which I also saw for the first time this year and it still triggers people, even though I've now seen it, just me saying that I just saw it for the first time, it's very much a turn off for people. They're very upset with me. But I don't know. I just never saw it when I was a kid or growing up. The Princess Bride, I would probably put... I think I would put it on the list, too. It would be lower, though. It would probably go in the eight or nine spot. It would just make the list. I would probably push off Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for it because it's so damn quotable. It's inconceivable, right, that I haven't seen it until now. We have Roger for... Oh, my God. What is going on? Roger for $199.99. Unreal. Adam... God. Okay. Adam, longtime viewer, love your content and wish you all the best in 2024. My favorite this year was When Evil Lurks. God damn, Roger. $199. When Evil Lurks. Why does it sound familiar, but I haven't seen it? Oh, fuck it. Roger, were you on the... Were you on the Hack the Movies livestream last night? Because they talked about When Evil Lurks for, like, an hour, I swear. It just never ended. When Evil Lurks, is that the shutter exclusive? You don't have to answer. I think that was the shutter exclusive. But, yeah, they seem to really like that movie. I'm going to have to give When Evil Lurks a shot, because a lot of people seem to really love it. Thank you, Roger. What an amazing super chat. You guys are awesome. Absolutely unbelievable. Unbelievable. Bubba for $199. Bubba, you don't need to be doing that. Step brother. Bubba, he's a brother. He might not be blood, but he's close enough. Here's to a new year. And also Bubba, thank you for moderating. He's not getting paid for this, guys. Bubba, special shout out to Bubba for moderating. Pretty much the entire year, since I started doing live streams, he's been freaking awesome. He texts me like, Adam, I'm going to be late. I don't know if I can make it. Like, you know, there's millions of people watching. He takes it very seriously. He's always around. It's just been great. So thank you, Bubba. I appreciate it. What a fun year it was. Thanks all to who, or thanks all who showed up in chat and made it so much fun to hang out with everyone. A great community to be part of. Happy New Year's. Thank you, Bubba. Always, always class act. Can't get over that $200 super chat. Joe Panaccio for $10. Thank you, Joe. Happy New Year, Adam. So happy I found your channel through Hack the Movies. And I look forward to what you do in 2024. What movie are you looking forward to in the new year? Nothing. I don't know what's coming out in 2024. I feel like I did a video on this. Maybe I need to do a video on this for the next live. 2024 upcoming movies. Did I do? So we have Joker 2. Oh, gross. That shitty Mean Girls remake thingy, my Bobber. We have Fall Guy, which looks all right, but I'm so sick of that trailer. It's inside out too. We'll probably be good. Our guy looks weird. Night swim. Oh my God, that beekeeper movie. I guarantee you that's going to be the Monday Mystery Regal thing. I'm just going to be miserable if it's beekeeper. That looks like hot trash. What else? Red one. Why have we not got a Hobbs and Shaw too? That's my question. Where's Hobbs and Shaw too? You know what? I'm going to say Furiosa is really got me interested because I think it looks kind of bad, but I love Mad Max Fury Road so much that I just refuse to believe that he's going to do that bad of a job with the sequel. I'm also very curious how the new Planet of the Apes trilogy is going to go. What's this new one called? Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. I'm really looking forward to that because I love that other trilogy. I'm just kind of glancing through it. I'm grazing over the movies. So Deadpool 3, of course. I love Deadpool 1 and 2. I hope it's not just a cameo show the entire time, and there's actually some substance to it, but who knows? A lot of movies I guess I'm looking forward to. There's just nothing spring to mind right away. Oh God, there's another Bad Boys movie. Bad Boys 4. Bad Boys 4 Life. Of course. Of course. Thank you, Joe. Appreciate it. Got two more here. Johnny D5 for $4.99. Thank you, Johnny. Happy New Year, Adam, for my wife and I. Thank you, Johnny D5 and Wendy D6. I don't know your wife's name, but that's going to be a placeholder. I appreciate it. That thumbnail is just frightening. Is that a gorilla with shades on it looks like? I don't know if that's a movie. Might be a movie I haven't seen. Maybe some sort of a deep cut. Jan Rose for $2. Thank you, Jan. At the end here, at the bell, Barbie, Oppenheimer, The Holdovers, and Godzilla. Those are, I assume those are Jan's favorites of the year. Jan, of course, talking about Godzilla 1997 or 1995, whatever that Matthew Broderick pile of shit came out. That's the one she loves, of course. Jan, I'm going to tell you Barbie, I tried showing the family. I'm very proud of my review on that one. I was very mixed on Barbie. I thought it had a lot of pros and a lot of cons. And after trying to watch it again, those cons are standing out way more. I stand by what I said that movie should have been 90 minutes cold out at 90 minutes, but it's a two hour chore to sit through with a lot of good spots sprinkled in. My wife hated it. Lindsay hated it. She walked away about an hour in. Olivia, my daughter loved it. She was a big fan. So we got one. Connor, of course, girls gross, Connor tried. He's sexist. What can I say? My 11 year old is garbage. I do my best, but it's baked in somehow. He refuses. He just refuses. He doesn't think women are cool. He doesn't, uh, he doesn't, um, like the strong female leads. It's just rare when I can get him to even make a compliment. I know he's an 11 year old boy. We'll get there with him. But it's a tough uphill battle. Connor likes what he likes. And he certainly hates what he hates. He likes the anime girls though. I notice on on dragon ball in one piece. Doesn't seem to have any complaints about them. God. All right. On that note. Uh, thank you guys very much. Wow. What a night. This was a, this was awesome. What a night. Okay. I'm going to go on Twitch. I'm going to put some work in over there for probably an hour. So feel free to swing by. It's usually a ghost town, but you know, chat it up while I, while I struggled to edit some new intros. And yeah, awesome year. We'll see you soon.