My Top 25 Movies of 2022

2022 was a step up for movies over the past couple, and I hope this list reflects that.  

I've done a terrible job at keeping up on writing any kind of reviews for the movies I've been watching over the past few years, but even though I'm a little later on this than I would usually aim to be with a 2022 countdown, I'm still happy that I've gotten this done at all. I watched about 90-100 movies from this last year, and these are my favorite ones. At least, as I see them right now. I really want to start doing a series of redos on these lists that show how much my opinion has changed over the years, but that's for another time. Anyway, here is the list.

Also, there are too many movies for me to cover in honorable mentions, so if your favorite isn't on here, just pretend it barely missed the cut if that helps you sleep at night.

25. Nope

Directed by Jordan Peele

My Top 10 UGH Movies of 2022

I generally don't bother watching a lot of the "worst" movies of the year. That being said, sometimes movies that I really do hate slip through the cracks, which is bound to happen when you watch around 100 movies from each year. So instead of doing a traditional countdown of the worst movies of the year, I do what I call the top "ugh" movies of the year. Basically, that means the movies I found the most disappointing, overrated, over-hyped, or bad. It's an all-encompassing thing that's (almost) purely subjective, so there's (almost) no objectivity to it. 

I don't remember doing one of these lists for the past year or two, but hopefully I'll be able to go back in time and fix that, but until then here are my top UGH movies of 2022!

10. Don't Worry Darling

Directed by Olivia Wilde

My Top 10 Favorite Movies of 1940

You've read the title, let's not waste any time. These are my favorite films of 1940, in the order I thought felt right at the time of my posting this. I might try to do more of these moving forward, but I'm terrible at committing to any series of lists, so why even pretend that I'll follow through with that?

10. Pinocchio

Survivor: The Australian Outback - contestant ranking (spoilers)

Before beginning, I'm making this list based on how the contestants came across as characters on a TV show, not based on who they are or what they did outside of the show. This means I'm going to try my hardest not to let the awful things many of the people who have been on this show have done outside of Survivor have any effect on this list. Additionally, for any repeat contestants, I'm trying not to allow my feelings about them elsewhere change the way I judge them on the season in question. I know it's difficult, but it's what I have to do in order to maintain the "integrity" of my already-difficult-to-make list. 

I'm including the above statement on every one of these lists, so in the future you can skip it if you don't want to read the same thing over and over again. But what I've said in that opening actually does have a direct impact on people (who I don't choose to name) involved on this list, and many more in the future. To me, they're TV characters, and for better or worse I have to judge them as such.

Survivor: Borneo - contestant ranking (spoilers)

Before beginning, I'm making this list based on how the contestants came across as characters on a TV show, not based on who they are or what they did outside of the show. This means I'm going to try my hardest not to let the awful things many of the people who have been on this show have done outside of Survivor have any effect on this list. Additionally, for any repeat contestants, I'm trying not to allow my feelings about them elsewhere change the way I judge them on the season in question. I know it's difficult, but it's what I have to do in order to maintain the "integrity" of my already-difficult-to-make list. 

Making a ranking list of Survivor contestants by season is inherently going to be difficult compared to the contestant rankings I do for Taskmaster, since a good deal of the people on this show will have significantly less screen time than the comedians on TM, as well as different sorts of appeal. While some may be more fun to watch, others will be more strategic, or conniving. Others are going to be useful around camp but worn out for challenges, while others will be lazier at camp and dominant in challenges. Some people will have made it further in the game by slipping under the radar but lack much personality, others have big personalities and almost instantly knocked out.