# Best movies of 2018 (or very late 2017) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2018, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movies-of-2018-or-very-late-2017/826896 "2018-12-30T02:09:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2019, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movies-of-2018-or-very-late-2017/826896/21 "2019-02-11T00:35:04Z")
I try to see all the movies nominated for Oscars in all the categories. I haven’t yet done that yet, but I’ve come close. The only movies left to see nominated for some Oscar this year are these: _At Eternity’s Gate_ _First Reformed_ _The Ballad of Buster Scruggs_ _Border_ _Hale County This Morning, This Evening_ _Minding the Gap_ _Of Fathers and Sons_ _Incredibles 2_ _Mirai_ _Never Look Away_ _Avengers: Infinity War_ _Solo: A Star Wars Story_ _Black Sheep_ _End Game_ _Lifeboat_ _A Night at the Garden_ _Period. End of Sentence._ I will be seeing a lot of them before the Oscars. I liked particularly this year _Widows_, _A Star is Born_, _A Quiet Place_, \*Paddington \*2, and _Tully_. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movies-of-2018-or-very-late-2017/826896/22 "2019-02-17T01:06:26Z")
I just saw the documentary shorts. I will be seeing the three full-length documentaries I haven’t seen yet next weekend. That means that I will only need to see these to see everything nominated for some Oscar: _At Eternity’s Gate_ _First Reformed_ _The Ballad of Buster Scruggs_ _Border_ _Incredibles 2_ _Mirai_ _Never Look Away_ _Avengers: Infinity War_ _Solo: A Star Wars Story_ ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movies-of-2018-or-very-late-2017/826896/23 "2019-02-17T15:28:55Z")
I’ve seen every single film nominated for an Oscar (including all 15 shorts) except for: At Eternity’ Gate Mirai Capernaum I started watching the doc “Hale County” last night and it was so incredibly boring I turned it off after 15 mins. Maybe I’ll try again. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movies-of-2018-or-very-late-2017/826896/24 "2019-02-24T02:55:52Z")
O.K., as of the Oscars ceremonies, I will have seen everything nominated in every category except the following: _At Eternity’s Gate_ _First Reformed_ _The Ballad of Buster Scruggs_ _Border_ _Incredibles 2_ _Mirai_ _Avengers: Infinity War_ _Solo: A Star Wars Story_ ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movies-of-2018-or-very-late-2017/826896/25 "2019-02-24T10:46:39Z")
I saw all the Shorts, Never Look Away and First Reformed so now I’ve seen everything (in the theater) except Hale County RGB Of Fathers and Sons Usually it’s the Foreign-language films that kill me, this year it’s the documentary features. I don’t even think Hale County opened in Chicago. I never saw that it played except once during a documentary festival that one theater had, and they played it at 4:00pm on a Tuesday, when I was at work. I had the opposite problem with RGB. It played in several different theaters for weeks and I took it for granted that I’d see it at some point, but then, it was gone and I had missed my chance. I knew precisely when Of Fathers and Sons played, but I read a synopsis and thought Nope, don’t wanna see that. So of course it was nominated. I think Minding the Gap will win anyway. We’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2019, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movies-of-2018-or-very-late-2017/826896/26 "2019-02-24T13:10:18Z")
Updating my list of 2018 movies I have seen. Ranked in order, best to worst: Roma Leave No Trace A Star is Born Eighth Grade Won’t You Be My Neighbor The Wife Green Book Three Identical Strangers BlacKKKlansman Tully Bohemian Rhapsody The Favourite Beautiful Boy First Reformed Vice Black Panther Crazy Rich Asians mmm ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movies-of-2018-or-very-late-2017/826896/27 "2019-03-10T22:43:58Z")
I went to a local theater that’s showing movies from 2018 that people might have missed, so I’ve now seen _At Eternity’s Gate_ and _Mirai_. That means that the following are the only Oscar-nominated films in all categories that I haven’t seen: _First Reformed_ _The Ballad of Buster Scruggs_ _Border_ _Incredibles 2_ _Avengers: Infinity War_ _Solo: A Star Wars Story_ At the showing of _At Eternity’s Gate_ something strange happened. It’s a movie about Vincent Van Gogh. As the film began, I think a lot of us in the audience thought, “Look, I know that Van Gogh was an artist, but the filmmakers are making a really weird artistic choice. Why are all the camera shots close-ups? Why is the film concentrating so much on small parts of the background?” Gradually those of us in the audience realized that what had happened was that someone in the projection booth had set the aspect ratio wrong for the film. We were only seeing a little less than half of the area of what was supposed to be shown on the screen. Finally enough people went out and complained to theater people to get them to do something. They stopped the movie about ten minutes into it and restarted it from the beginning with the right aspect ratio. Afterwards, I told people around me that I was going to start a new school of filmmakers. We would take old films and cut them down to just a single small rectangle of what was to be shown on the screen. We would then weave together the rectangles to make a complete film. We’d do the same thing with the dialog. We would be the quilting school of cinema. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movies-of-2018-or-very-late-2017/826896.md?page=1)