Things I Enjoyed In 2023

Film, Television and Books

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This post is the former, just things I enjoyed over the past year and why.

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Film and Television

There’s something about going to the movies, to an actual movie theater. The crowd, the popcorn, the seats, the big screen, it all feels good. Like an event. Of course, there can be negative experiences, loud and/or rude movie-goers, technical difficulties, and overpriced food and drink, not to mention the expense of the movie ticket itself, the effort to get there, park, get your ticket, find your seat, etc. There’s many reasons to not go to the cinema, to instead watch a film in your own home with its many comforts but never do I appreciate a movie more than when I go to the theater.

I hope to go more often in 2024.

Best Movie

I saw this in IMAX and it was truly incredible. I think it’s Christopher Nolan’s masterpiece. He uses all of his skills as a storyteller and film maker and presents a fascinating story of the man behind the nuclear bomb. Nolan loves to use time in interesting ways and does so here to great effect. It’s ambitious, going through Oppenheimer’s life through college, the Manhattan Project and his years after, but I was transfixed throughout. Never bored and never lost. I also had no idea about the controversies of Oppenheimer in his later years, so this was really interesting to me. The cast is fantastic. Cillian Murphy, I believe, is the greatest actor of our time and he puts in, possibly, the best performance of his life (although Tommy Shelby from The Peaky Blinders might be a close second).

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