The 1A Movie Club's Favorite Movies Of 2023
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🗓️ 1 January 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
We got blockbuster moments like Barbenheimer, a showdown between two very different but highly anticipated movies releasing in theaters on the same day.
There were also moments of original content that might make you laugh like "Bottoms," and ones that might make you cry like "The Holdovers" or "Past Lives."
And the other historical moment: new contracts for the Writers Guild and Screen Actors Guild after historic months of striking. That pushed some other highly anticipated movies like "Dune: Part 2" and "Challengers" to 2024.
Before we look forward to them — we look back on 2023 with the 1A Movie Club.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we leave 2023 behind we want to look back on the pictures and performances it gave us. We got Blockbuster |
| 0:14.2 | moments like Barbinheimer. You are the man who gave them the power to destroy |
| 0:19.0 | themselves and the world is not prepared. |
| 0:23.0 | Hi Barbie! |
| 0:25.0 | Hi Ken, |
| 0:27.0 | Some well-known franchises returned without the same success. |
| 0:31.0 | Ethan, the submission of yours is going to cost you dearly. But for you it didn't matter how much a movie made at the theater you liked what you liked. |
| 0:57.0 | Hey I loved Barbie and I loved Oppenheimer but the movie that moved to be the most was Godzilla minus one. |
| 1:05.0 | My name is Matt. I'm calling from Alexandria and the greatest movie I saw in |
| 1:09.5 | 2023 was The Outwaters. A low-budget horror movie that has had me shook ever since I saw it. |
| 1:17.0 | Best movie I've seen recently is Common Ground. |
| 1:20.0 | Hi, my favorite movie for 2023 was Bernard Greskin. |
| 1:25.0 | He could win an Oscar, absolutely wonderful, wonderful. |
| 1:29.3 | So what movies made a splash and what movies are better left unwatched. We'll get into it after the break. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm Jen White. You're listening to the 1A Podcast, where we get to the heart of the story. |
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