2018 Movies: Miscellaneous

In the 4th Post post-Oscars, my true love sent to me: miscellaneous commendations regarding 2018 movies!

RECAP
—2018 Favorites: Introduction
—In the 1st Post post-Oscars: 2018 Movies — Intro + Complete List
—In the 2nd Post post-Oscars: 2018 Genre Movies
—In the 3rd Post post-Oscars: 2018 Movie Beginnings and Endings

And now, my favorite 2018:

USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Eighth Grade

CHARACTER NAME

Cassius Green, Sorry To Bother You

“Cash Is Green” — literally and figuratively; it’s easier to seduce green people into a corrupt system.
Honorable Mention: Jewel, The Old Man & the Gun
- If a thief will steal your heart like a jewel, then what else should his love interest be named?

FIGHT

The Long, Gruel, Bloody, Brutal Slog to the End — Under the Tree
Bathroom Fistfight — Mission: Impossible — Fallout
I, Robot — Upgrade
- Holy cinematography, an unholy rarity in recent action movies.

TRILOGY

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

LIGHTING

USE OF COLORS

TITLE

My favorite titles fall into one of three categories:

Great Titles In Themselves
- No matter their relation to the actual content of the art, these titles immediately catch the eye and make you think, “damn, that sounds interesting, I want to see THAT!” A prime example is currently playing off-Broadway: If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka.
Great Titles in Elucidating Movies
- These titles may not be impressive on their own, but they in some way enlighten an element of the art that audiences otherwise may have not contemplated.
Get You A Great Title that Does Both
- Pretty straightforward. These are the titles that, on their appealing faces, make you want to engage with the art, AND they add meaning to the art not found elsewhere.

Oh, and borrowed titles that come from pre-existing sources — i.e. a book — aren’t eligible for a shout-out here.

In Themselves…

In Elucidating Movies

Both

Unsane
Madeline’s Madeline
The Other Side of the Wind
At Eternity’s Gate
The Land of Steady Habits
Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Let the Corpses Tan
BlacKkKlansman
Destination Wedding or: A Narcissist Can’t Die Because Then the Entire World Would End
Minding the Gap
Sorry To Bother You
The Bleeding Edge
On the Seventh Day
Night is Short, Walk on Girl
The Rest I Make Up
You Were Never Really Here
People’s Republic of Desire
Assassination Nation
Watergate — Or, How We Learned to Stop an Out-of-Control President
We the Animals
Leaning into the Wind
Oh Lucy!
The Distant Barking of Dogs
Leave No Trace
Before We Vanish
Double Lover
Generation Wealth
Night Comes On
Where is Kyra
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
I Am Not a Witch
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
Let the Sunshine In
What Keeps You Alive
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Finding Your Feet

SEX SCENE

LINE OF DIALOGUE

“Gucci!” — Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
“This is unauthorized narcissism!” — Simon Russell Beale, The Death of Stalin
“Prison is not something to take lightly. I should know: I spent 3 years in Les Miz.” — Hugh Grant, Paddington 2
“I like your synthetic mind” — Let the Sunshine In
“I was removing a birthmark.” — Shinobu Terajima, Oh Lucy!
“I like it when she puts her tongue inside me.” — Olivia Colman, The Favourite
“Be still my beating vagina.” — Christine Baranski, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
“I gotta shit. Can you man the shop for 25 minutes?” — Emile Hirsch, An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
“Not as sweet as her snatch, is she?” — Blake Lively, A Simple Favor
“Don’t be so negative.” — Nicolas Cage, Mandy
“I hear you think you’re hot shit, but you ain’t nothing but a cold fart.” — Frederick Weller, BlacKkKlansman
“I like to have fun when I’m having fun. I don’t like to be told when to have fun.” — Alex Honnold, Free Solo
Using “valid” as a compliment — Skate Kitchen

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