Film fans it's that time of the year of the again where I talk about what where my own personal top 5 worst and top 5 best films of the year. The bog standard rules apply here which are the films have to have a UK release date of 2022 and I have to have seen them since I can't count them if I haven't seen them and if your own personal favorite or least favorite film didn't make either just assume that it's in at number 6.
WORST
5) Black Adam
This is something that I thought long and hard about but i only put this film here because of how underwhelming the film is. Since this film had the potential to be one of the coolest DCEU films out there and yet for one reason or another it just failed to deliver the performances are fine but the film fails on every other aspect the film even failing to do justice to it's titular character turning him from a cool as heck bad guy to anti-hero for literally no reason at all.
Of course the reason James Gunn drama really doesn't help things either since this now means that this film s officially the last film to star a certain actor as a certain caped character. However given that this character only appears in one scene it was just hype for the sake of hype and while the film being this low down on the worst list is indeed a good thing since it means that it can be improved upon very easily it shouldn't have been on the worst lost at all just simply due to who is involved with making the film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
4) Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022
The first of a few horror films to be featured in this post and while this year has been a shockingly good year for the genre as a whole. The same thing cannot be said for the Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchise with this new legacy sequel being a direct sequel to the original that aims to capture the magic of Halloween 2018 however what made Halloween 2018 work is the fact that it managed to get original stars from the original film back where as this film simply cannot do that.
Not really helping things is the fact the character of Sally Hardesty in this film acts more like a glorified cameo. Instead of an actual character and when she is on screen she's acting so unlike Sally that it's hard to buy that these two characters are one in the same and when you add in the fact that this films main characters the people that we are supposed to root for are just unlikable as all heck it leaves with you with a film where the only likable character is the villain of the film and regardless of if your watching a horror film or not you should never ever want to be cheering for the villain as you should always want to be cheering for the heroes of the film.
3) Morbius
Memes and jokes aside this film like Black Adam is a waste of a really cool idea and a really cool character. However unlike Black Adam the cast of Morbius seem to be self a where enough to know that what they've made is a really bad with star Jared Leto even getting in the fun post release heck the only company who wasn't a where that this was a bad film was Sony Pictures who decided to re-release the film when the memes and jokes about this film where at it's peak.
Being fully a where that the film your making is a bad film isn't a bad move since it can show that your willing to have some fun with the movie going audience. However it still doesn't hide from the fact that the film that you've made is a bad film since this films villain is really badly written , the acting is OK at best and the less about the after credits scene and the writing of this film the better since this film fails on all of those things and then some.
2) Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore
The only reason as to why this film isn't at the number one spot on this is the fact that there shockingly is a film that's worse then this one. Since this film is just straight up bad at least with Morbius the film is so bad that it's almost good this film isn't even that since the so called secret of Dumbledore is one that's been known for quite literally decades at this point and even then Dumbledore's secret doesn't play apart in the final film it's literally just there for the sake of having a cool sounding title and that's really it.
Of course not really helping things for this film was the whole Jonny Depp debacle which i'm not going to discuss here. However I will sat that actor Mads Mikkelsen does do a good job as this films leading villain Gellert Grindelwald but with that said all of the actors are let down by a script that feels like it never made it past the first draft stage I could forgive the script for the film being bad because it's was J.K. Rowling's first time writing a screenplay but we are now three films into this new series and she's shown no signs of improving the script and when the script just isn't that good it doesn't matter how good the acting or the special effects are because the film has failed at being good at even the most basic of levels and i'm a Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling fan.
1) The Munsters 2022
I will admit that picking the number one for both the worst and best films of the year was incredibly tough this year. However what makes this film worse then Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets Of Dumbledore is the fact that this films characters aren't The Munsters at all they are only those characters in name only with the characters acting so far out of character that you could call them quite literally anything else and it work.
Not really helping this film at all is the fact that this film looks incredibly cheap which really shouldn't have been the case at all. Since this film cost a good few million to make and we don't see any of that budget on screen and when you add in the fact that the acting is just flat out bad and the fact that the film just ends with no resolution to what little story it has it's now obvious as to why this film is my top pick for the worst film of the year.
BEST
5) Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers
We re now finally out of the worst films of the year and well what better to start of this half of the post then the film that not alot of people had hope for. Since when you think of a live action adaptation of a cartoon you don't usually think of a good movie and yet this one movie blew away people expectations by not only being a good movie but also in doing something new and different and giving us something that we didn't know that we wanted.
What really made this film standout to not only me but alot of people wasn't the references altho that play a huge part of it but the fact that the film was very well written. With this film having a good script that is well paced out an jokes that are not only smart but work on different levels with kids getting certain jokes and adults getting certain jokes as well and heck this one film makes me want to see what other Disney Afternoon shows could get this kind of treatment since it would be pretty funny to see a TailSpin movie done in the style of this film.
4) Bodies Bodies Bodies
To say that this film was great for not only horror films but also for A24 would be like saying Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe was bad. However I feel like there's one film that everybody overlooks or just straight up doesn't talk about when they mention A24 or the good horror movies that came out this year and that's a shame because this film is such a well written satire on today's culture which is ready to "cancel" anybody over anything and that was something that I really did love about this film.
This film really did catch me of guard with how good it was just because the poster and the original synopsis really did make this movie sound terrible. Yet when I watched the movie I was not only on board with it's likable main character but I was also laughing alot at it's satire and it's jokes because they were very well written jokes and the satire was very well written and for a horror film the kills were not only good but when you take into account this films kind of twist ending the kills in this film come of as being kind of funny as well which was something that I wasn't expecting to be the case at all and yet it works out really well for this film.
3) Wendell & Wild
It's always going to be a good time when director Henry Selick makes a new movie and the same thing is true for this film, Which while this film isn't as good as say Coraline or even The Nightmare Before Christmas for example it's a good film that is really well animated while I do wish that the film was a little bit scarier especially given the fact that this film was released just before Halloween and is a child friendly horror film I really do think that this should have been alot more scarier then what it actually was.
I will very much admit that out of the three Netflix animated films that I saw this year Wendell & Wild is the worse of the two of three you'll understand why when you see what one of the number pucks is. That's not to say that this is a bad film tho because it's not since this is very thoroughly entertaining film that tells some good jokes whilst being a pretty grown film that deals with alot of grown themes and it handles those themes in a way that makes it feel like that there not dumbing those themes down for it's young target audience.
2) Avatar: The Way Of Water
This film is the most recent film to be featured on this post and while this film is indeed a good film it's also that has alot of problems. Those problems don't really stop this film from being one of the best films of this year since this film is still a very well made film with a good sometimes even great script and CGI effects that are just a treat to look at and that I fully expect Corridor Crew to be doing a full CGI Artists React episode on at sometime in 2023.
For me this films biggest issue is the fact that it spends alot of time setting up the over sequels instead of being it's own thing. Which in this case doesn't work well enough to this films advantage since it makes this film feel like a three hour trailer for Avatar 3 which is a shame because when this film does something that's genuinely great it is really good and this film for the most part is also a rather entertaining film as well it's just ashame that there FIVE films that beat it to my number one spot this year.
1) X , Pearl , Scream 2022 , Everything Everywhere All At Once And Netflix's Pinocchio
I'm not kidding when I say that choosing just one film to be my pick for my best film of 2022 because truth be told any of the films that I mentioned on this best of list could have quite easily have taken that spot. With all five films being incredibly beautiful in there own unique way and all five of these films deserve all of the love and attention that they got upon release because that's just how good all five of these films where for me personally.
Really helping things along is the fact that all five of these films put alot of care into there characters with all of there characters not only being very well written but also being very likable. Yes even the villains in these films come across as being likable characters with motives that whilst they don't make want to root for them you do oddly enough want to see them succeed and this makes them seem all the more complicated and complex and since a hero is only as good ad there villain that makes the heroes of all of these films come across as being well written and likable as well since they have a clear goal to archive as for why The Batman wasn't included on this list aside from the fact that I just straight up forgot about that movie that would have been a bit of cliche at this point but yes even that film just like all five of these number one films is a really great film and all of the films on this best of list are all really worth watching as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys an girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official DC Extended Universe fandom wiki page , the official The Texas Chainsaw Massacre fandom wiki page , the official Sony's Spider-Man fandom wiki page , the official Harry Potter fandom wiki page , the official Disney fandom wiki page , the official Avatar fandom wiki page , the official Scream fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from these very / particular / exact film being all of the official fandom wiki pages since alot of the images that are from these very films and that are currently still indeed up on all of the official fandom wiki pages are all really fairly freaking high in quality and as well as all of them being really fairly freaking high in definition Happy New Year everybody.