Wicked Part One entered the list in 2024 late with a good to fun premise, but as a part 1 is not a contender for a best award. Sure everyone has heard the songs from the musical, but like the first act of said musical, whether or not a padded remake for movie theaters was necessary is up for debate.
Lord of the Rings, War of the Rohirrim was last on the see list, a cartoon animated film from the guy that did some of the sequels to Ghost in the Shell. Like the not watched but heard of Rings of Power, an entirely unnecessary story. It isn't bad, just not really worthy.
Star Trek Lower Decks ended its fifth and final season with the most member berries for the fans to date, but this time ignoring events of last season to favor Starship Locations by just not bringing Locarno up ever again like it never happened. Well maybe not.
Transformers Earth Spark aired another season where they erased the background of a gay trans character or just neglected to mention it, so as not to annoy the hard right which complained about season one before it even aired, and said character. This is season two and a half. The story is resolved so there is no reason to make more of these, but not because of a trans character, because the toys just aren't selling. The character was called Nightshade, and she was there and you miss it, with any references to her gender. This season. Disappointing. Even so, her figure appears in Cohnirri as another figure. She is trans as frack. So there.
Joker 2, what a way to make Lady Gaga unlikable.
Moana 2, yet another very unnecessary sequel, did have some forgettable songs, but ultimately we did not need aged up Moana now a teenager going on another let's save Maui mission.
I did not see Mufasa. Don't ask.
Transformers One, really wanted to like this origin story, besties become fremeies deal and want to give it something for at least trying, and for bringing back Timinus to our cast for a weekend. At least that was something.
Beverly Hills Cop, Axel F, please, Eddie, give it up already. You are too old to be convincing. You are no longer edgy or hip. The only hip you are now is to be worried about breaking a hip walking. No, no more.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, again with the let's pretend like 30 years haven't turned them all into pale ghosts of their former glory.
Alien Romulus was trying very hard to be great. At times it was, but then they put in dad jokes and thin references to better movies, so you are tossed out into the airlock with alien goo and aliens.Not as bad as those Ridley remake origin stories though. Those sucked. This at least would have made a fun TV pilot.
Godzilla x Kong, uhm, it did not age well and Millie's not in it. And he gets a cheeky Aussie gay veterinarian. Really.
Star Trek Prodigy Season 2 rescued from the dustbin to Netflix to air a fine animated send off to the series. It even had Wessian. Nice.
Bad Boys Ride or Die, meh title, meh movie. Oh, but there's a marine beating bad guys, on a TV screen, because the footage was damaged or something, so it's done all shaky cam with angles, even though security cams don't do that.
Haikuu 2 the Dumpster Battle was a Japanese anime movie about volleyball actually. Not bad. Not great. It had some homo erotic tension it did not shy away from. It just never went for it.
Star Trek Discovery ends its fifth and final season of a troubled show that did not find itself until going from unneeded prequel to the far future where it could have the cast not be known at all to the fleet. Not conflicted or sad to see it go, but not happy either.
Furiosa a Mad Max story should have been more fun than it claimed to be. Prequel we did not need again.
Dune part 2 closes the first book but moves things up, but as a whole the two Dune reimagined films deserve at least cinematic awards.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes review was our first with a guest, nephew Johnny Cook. It had ape people in it. Okay.
Rebel Moon 2 the Scar Giver was by far the worst thing I saw this year, so it's going to get something.
The Wild Robot walks away with best picture. Yay for parental machines.
