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post #101 of 150
Social Network is cleaning up almost every awards list out there. Seems like the big front runner so far.
post #102 of 150
TRUE GRIT is easily one of the best of the year hands down.
post #103 of 150
My top...10 for 2010!
1) The Expendables
2) The A-Team
3) Iron Man 2
4) Tron Legacy in 3D
5) The Warriors Way
6) From Paris With Love
7) Kick-Ass
8) Clash Of The Titans
9) Resident Evil 4: Afterlife in 3D
10) Jonah Hex
post #104 of 150
Barring a few stragglers impressing the hell out of me (still need to get a hold of Greenberg, A prophet, Harry Brown, True Grit, and a couple more), it pretty much looks like this:


Inception
Black Swan
Scott Pilgrim
Winter's Bone
Shutter Island
Exit Through The Gift Shop
The Social Network
The Fighter
127 Hours
How To Train Your Dragon
Let Me In





Shout outs to: Splice, HP and the Deathly Hallows 1, Kick Ass, Toy Story 3, Never Let Me Go, The Book Of Eli, A Town Called Panic
post #105 of 150
Not seeing Enter the Void on very many lists (and not just here). Is that not considered a 2010 film, even though it opened in the US in September?

Anyway, that'd be my top film of the year. For me there's Enter the Void and then there's just sort of everything else. Plastic Bag would rank highly. That blew me away more than most feature films did. My tastes in movies are getting weirder and less conventional as I get older, which is sort of fun in a way but also kind of frustrating in that I'm getting harder to please. "Okay, this is a good story well-told, but it might as well be a well-shot TV movie" and whatnot (see: The Social Network). I was one of the four or five people worldwide who actually enjoyed Jonah Hex, for Christ's sake, and I can't adequately explain that.

Oh, yeah. Splice. That'd be up there, still. Shutter Island, if I had to pick between the two DiCaprio mindfuck flicks. The Human Centipede. See? Weirdness. Scott Pilgrim, probably the most fun flick of the year, and in its way as pure-cinema experimental as Enter the Void.
post #106 of 150
No order yet, and the list could change since I still have a bunch to see before the year is out, but these range from notable to great (to be used for a later, more definitive top 10):

Inception
Winter's Bone (tied for no. 1 so far)
The Social Network (tied for no. 1)
Black Swan
Let Me In
127 Hours
The Fighter
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (my overall fav of the year, joy)
Shutter Island
Never Let Me Go
True Grit
How to Train your dragon
Toy Story 3
Splice
The Town

To be added upon/generally fucked with until I see more. Got a stack of DVD's and more trips to the theater to get through.
post #107 of 150
Batman: Under The Red Hood
How To Train Your Dragon
Inception
Kick-Ass
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
The Social Network
Toy Story 3

Movies I'm sure will be on the list once I see them: 127 Hours, Black Swan, Shutter Island, Splice, True Grit, Winter's Bone.
post #108 of 150
My guess is that True Grit will make it onto many of your lists. It'll be on mine.
post #109 of 150
Best pure comedy of the year: The Other Guys or Hot Tub Time Machine? I had zero expectations for The Other Guys and ended up enjoying it immensely. Great cast. Very Hot Fuzz-ish, but with the US comedy vibe. Haven't seen HTTM since the theaters. Likd it a lot then but I wonder if it will fade on rewatch.
post #110 of 150
Edge probably goes to The Other Guys. Both made me laugh, but for me the biggest laugh of the year (in an otherwise undistinguished movie) was Wahlberg's "Is that supposed to be me or Fat Albert?" in Date Night. Most sustained laugh was the midget brawl in Jackass 3D.
post #111 of 150
If Four Lions counts, I'd go with that. If not, The Other Guys. But man, this was a bad year for comedies.
post #112 of 150
Jackass made me laugh the hardest. Four Lions was the best comedy of the year. By far.
post #113 of 150
Yeah, Four Lions would be my favorite comedy also. I guess I didn't include it in the Pepsi challenge cause it's actually a real movie about an otherwise serious subject. The other two are obviously less serious films.

Anyways, I dug The Other Guys and people need to stop over criticizing Mark Wahlberg. He's not the greatest actor ever but he's great in his range.
post #114 of 150
The Town
Shutter Island
Four Lions
Devil
(Yeah, I'm probably the only person in the world with this on their list but I enjoyed the hell out of it)
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part One (Much like Devil, I'm probably a rarity with this one but thought it was great)
Animal Kingdom
The Secret In Their Eyes
Inception
Kick-Ass
Toy Story 3


I've not seen True Grit, The Fighter or The King's Speech yet so there's a possibility any of these, if not all of them, may make this list.
post #115 of 150
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pop Zeus View Post
Best pure comedy of the year: The Other Guys or Hot Tub Time Machine? I had zero expectations for The Other Guys and ended up enjoying it immensely. Great cast. Very Hot Fuzz-ish, but with the US comedy vibe. Haven't seen HTTM since the theaters. Likd it a lot then but I wonder if it will fade on rewatch.
Hot Tub Time Machine. The Other Guys sputters out so badly about halfway through. Hot Tub Time Machine, however, starts weak and gets amazing by the end, especially Clark Duke's entire performance while he's being conceived.
post #116 of 150
I liked The Other Guys and haven't seen HTTM, but I'd definitely put Jackass above the former. Both funnier and more memorable, not to mention possibly the best use of 3D I've seen.
post #117 of 150
Perhaps it's that Inception was that good, or that the best longer-form TV dramas just captivate me more, but most of "this year's best" have left me cold. I appreciate that Scott Pilgrim is fun and The Social Network is well-made, but neither made me care about what was happening. A kid pursuing a cipher of a girl or a bunch of rich guys suing each other just didn't matter. Had I known Splice was a schlocky horror film, I wouldn't have bothered. Except for a couple of good bits, I didn't find The Other Guys or HTTM particularly funny - it didn't help that HTTM had an incredibly depressing ending if you thought about it for 10 seconds.

So...

1. Inception
2. The Town
3. MacGruber
4. Monsters
5. Kick-Ass
6. The A-Team
7-10.

Those are the only ones I'd recommend... and 3-6 are marginal.

Plenty left to see though.
post #118 of 150
1. A Prophet
2. Inception
3. Scott Pilgrim
4. Kick-Ass
5. Four Lions
6. Blue Valentine
7. Inside Job
8. MacGruber
9. Hesher
10. Social Network.

Will Probally be edited once I see The Town, Carlos, Fish Tank, or Girl With Dragon Tatto0.
post #119 of 150
In no order besides Black Swan,

Black Swan
Splice
Inception
Machete
Shutter Island
The Social Network
Rec 2
Let Me In
Winter's Bone

Anticipating adding but haven't seen --

Toy Story 3
True Grit
post #120 of 150
1. The Social Network
2. Black Swan
3. True Grit
4. Toy Story 3
4. The Fighter
5. Shutter Island
6. Winter's Bone
7. Inception
8. 127 Hours
post #121 of 150
So my final 10 is looking like this.

(In Alphabetical Order)

Black Swan
Catfish
Enter The Void
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Four Lions
Greenberg
Inception
Jack Goes Boating
White Material
Winter's Bone

I have little doubt that True Grit will replace Four Lions.
post #122 of 150

Good year. Still need to catch up on a few: THE TOWN, CARLOS, NEVER LET ME GO, GHOST WRITER, MOTHER, THE FIGHTER.

Big year for creatures: I saw a Swan, a Rabbit, an Animal, some Lions, a Dragon, a Centipede, a Daddy Longlegs, and a Fish.

2010 release:

1. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
2. The Social Network
3. Inception
4. A Prophet
5. Black Swan
6. True Grit
7. Rabbit Hole
8. Winter's Bone
9. Everyone Else
10. Four Lions
11. Animal Kingdom
12. Splice
13. Greenberg
14. TS3
15. 127 Hours
16. Tangled
17. Kick-Ass
18. How to Train Your Dragon

19. The Town
20. The Human Centipede
21. The Kids Are Alright
22. Daddy Longlegs
23. Fish Tank
24. Daybreakers

25. Yogi Bear

Rep (embarrassing performance by me as a moviegoer here):

1. The Wizard of Oz (Film Forum)
2. Bad Day at Black Rock (Film Forum)
3. Cold Water (BAM)
4. Shock Corridor (Film Forum)
5. Corpse Bride (MoMA)

post #123 of 150
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Originally Posted by Kirby Drummond View Post
CARLOS
I am still mad at myself for missing the 5 hours Roadshow version of this a couple weeks ago.
post #124 of 150
Yeah, I missed it earlier this year, missed it on Sundance, missed recent run at BAM. I suck. Especially since I love Assayas.
post #125 of 150
Count me as another one pissed that I missed Carlos.

Kirby, did you see DOGTOOTH when it played here for like five seconds?
post #126 of 150
Not an original list from me, but it also excludes the following films which I haven't seen yet but are probably awesome:

True Grit
Let The Bullets Fly
Reign of Assassins
Zebraman 2 Attack on Zebra City
The Fighter
13 Samurai

Top 15:

1. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
2. I Saw The Devil (Ji-woon Kim)
3. Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)
4. Monsters (Gareth Edwards)
5. The American (Anton Corbijn)
6. Buried (Rodrigo Cortés)
7. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World (Edgar Wright)
8. The Social Network (David Fincher)
9. Secret Reunion (Hun Jang)
10. Ip Man 2 (Wilson Yip)
11. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
12. The Other Guys (Adam McKay)
13. Outrage (Takeshi Kitano)
14. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
15. The Town (Ben Affleck)

Other films that moderately entertained me this year were:

Predators
Kick-Ass
The Book of Eli
Machete
The Karate Kid
14 Blades
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
Little Big Soldier
How To Train Your Dragon
The A-Team
The Man From Nowhere
Salt

Films that were kinda 'eh':

Knight And Day
Red
Iron Man 2
Green Zone
The Expendables
Edge of Darkness

Worst films I saw were:

Tron Legacy
Confucius
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I (I know the franchise gets love here, but it bores the pants off me)
post #127 of 150
Redone.

1.The Social Network
2.Black Swan
3.Inception
4.Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
5.Winter's Bone
6.True Grit
7.Never Let Me Go
8.Everyone Else
9.Four Lions
10.Enter the Void
11.Exit Through the Gift Shop
12.The Ghost Writer
13.I Am Love
14.Rabbit Hole
15.127 Hours
16.Shutter Island
17.Dogtooth
18.Catfish
19.Greenberg
20.Animal Kingdom
21.Toy Story 3
22.Monsters
23.The Fighter
24.Mother
25.Centurion
post #128 of 150
Finalized:

Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
True Grit
Black Swan
The Social Network
Winter's Bone
The Ghost Writer
Toy Story 3
The King's Speech
127 Hours


Honorable Mention:
How To Train Your Dragon
Splice
Centurion
Catfish
Shutter Island


Significant movies I missed: The Kids Are All Right, Enter The Void, Four Lions
post #129 of 150

My Top 25 Of 2010

127 Hours (Danny Boyle)
Black Swan (Darren Aronofsky)

Blue Valentine (Derek Cianfrance)

Boy (Taika Waititi)
Cyrus (Jay & Mark Duplass)

Easy A (Will Gluck)
The Fighter (David O. Russell)

Four Lions (Christopher Morris)

Get Him To The Greek (Nicholas Stoller)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)

How To Train Your Dragon (Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn)
The King's Speech (Tom Hooper)

Lady Daddy (Lee Kwang-jae)

Machete (Robert Rodriguez & Ethan Maniquis)

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (Edgar Wright)

Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)

The Social Network (David Fincher)
Temple Grandin (Mick Jackson)
The Town (Ben Affleck)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
True Grit (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)


Edited by Barry Woodward - 7/18/11 at 4:03pm
post #130 of 150
I didn't see DOGTOOTH, no. Want to. I did see TRUE GRIT which I had to shoehorn into my top 10.
post #131 of 150
There's a ton of stuff I still need to see, but I'm pretty confident I can make a top ten after I catch BLACK SWAN and INCEPTION.
post #132 of 150
Yeah, I don't think you can make an informed top ten unless you see those two films.
post #133 of 150
As always, I'm hindered by Uk release dates (We still haven't got Black Swan, True Grit, The King's Speech or 127 Hours). That said:

The Complete Metropolis (Possibly cheating, but the most memorable cinematic experience I had this year)
Scott Pilgrim vs The World (This decade's Fight Club, with all that entails)
Inception (Overanalysed, but structurally ingenious)
Dogtooth (Intellectually terrifying, which isn't an sensation I've ever felt before, and a brilliant black joke)
Mother (Doesn't hit the highs of Memories of Murder, for me, but still a wonderfully haunting film)

To be honest, those five are the only films I've seen this year I felt were genuinely great. The rest is just making up the numbers.

Kick-Ass
Catfish
Valhalla Rising
Toy Story 3
The Last Exorcism

Still need to catch up on Winter's Bone, Enter the Void and Social Network, all of which I'm sure would push bottom entries off.
post #134 of 150
You felt Last Exorcism was genuinely Great? With a capital "G"?
post #135 of 150
No, that would be in the making-up-the-numbers half of the list.
post #136 of 150
Right, my mistake.
post #137 of 150
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hammerhead, in July View Post
For half a year I'm going with five titles:

Winter's Bone
Kick-Ass
Toy Story 3
Terribly Happy
Splice
Let's see. I may have to drop Splice to Honorable Mention. Had forgotten about Terribly Happy, but it was good. Revised:

Agora
Fair Game
How To Train Your Dragon
Kick-Ass
Scott Pilgrim
The Social Network
Terribly Happy
A Town Called Panic
True Grit
Winter's Bone
post #138 of 150
FINAL

1. Inception
2. Black Swan
3. Scott Pilgrim
4. Winter's Bone
5. I Love You Philip Morris
6. Shutter Island
7. Exit Through The Gift Shop
8. The Social Network
9. A Prophet
10. The Fighter


The B-List

1. How To Train Your Dragon
2. Let Me In
3. 127 Hours
4. Splice
5. A Town Called Panic
6. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt 1
7. Kick Ass
8. Toy Story 3
9. The Book Of Eli
10. Easy A


Respect and Honor

Iron Man 2
True Grit
The King's Speech
Never Let Me Go
The Karate Kid



FUCK THIS SHIT

1. Alice In Wonderland
2. Nightmare on Elm St.
3. The Other Guys
4. MacGruber
5. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
post #139 of 150
Really, fuck Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? I mean, it's not brilliant or anything, but it's got so much character it's far from one of the worst of the year. Plot is obviously nothing special.

Pilgrim
True Grit
Winter's Bone
Black Swan
Inception
Social Network
Enter the Void
Animal Kingdom
Four Lions
Toy Story 3

I still have a few things to catch like Dogtooth, Exit Through the Gift Shop, and The Illusionist (not out here until January 14th! Ugh...) but I feel pretty good about the best of the year. Even kind of bad years end up having good top 10-15 lists. Which frankly is all I ask for these days.

A Prophet and Mother are 2009 movies... but A Prophet would top my whole list and Mother would be in the top half.
post #140 of 150
Quote:
Originally Posted by TheCynic View Post
Really, fuck Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? I mean, it's not brilliant or anything, but it's got so much character it's far from one of the worst of the year. Plot is obviously nothing special.
There's two interesting characters/subplots, and the film seems hellbent to keep us from them as long as humanly possible. The rest is sub Masterpiece Theater dickswallow. HATED that film.
post #141 of 150
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Originally Posted by Justin Clark View Post
There's two interesting characters/subplots, and the film seems hellbent to keep us from them as long as humanly possible. The rest is sub Masterpiece Theater dickswallow. HATED that film.
Believe me, the movie is an improvement on the book, so dwell on that. They cut out at least 300 pages of bullshit for the movie.
post #142 of 150
Just saw Rabbit Hole. That would make my list.
post #143 of 150
Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll View Post
I am still mad at myself for missing the 5 hours Roadshow version of this a couple weeks ago.
Yeah, Carlos is fucking astonishingly sprawling. It's an amazing film to get lost in, and yet still has the same forward movement as The Social Network. On the list it goes.

Oh, and just caught The Ghost Writer, on the list that goes too.
post #144 of 150

Abysmal year. Best I can do is a Top Five.

 

1. A WOMAN, A GUN AND A NOODLE SHOP - Played outside the U.S. in 2009 as A SIMPLE NOODLE STORY. Deft mixture of slapstick and suspense, more ambitious and passionate than its source (BLOOD SIMPLE).

 

2. FROZEN - Lousy dialogue but gripping most of the way, and guaranteed to stick with you.

 

3. REIGN OF ASSASSINS - Writer/director Su Chao-pin's clever screenplay has enough twists and engaging characters to keep this from degenerating into another senseless and boring CGI-enhanced wuxia. Following RED CLIFF, co-director John Woo continues a bravura return-to-form.

 

4. TRUE GRIT - Love the acting. The story is still a big "so what?"

 

5. BURIED - Ryan Reynolds' terrific performance bolsters a gimmicky -- sometimes ridiculous -- thriller.

 

Wanted to see: CARLOS, THE COMPANY MEN, AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE, Takeshi Kitano's OUTRAGE


Edited by Malmordo - 2/10/11 at 4:00pm
post #145 of 150

My (weak) Top 10....and there are many I HAVN'T seen yet.....these are just the ones I have enjoyed the most:

1) Inception

2) The American

3) The Fighter

4) How to Train Your Dragon

5) Scott Pilgrim vs the World

6) The Town

7) Kick Ass

8) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 1

9) MacGruber

10) Iron Man 2

....and there are MANY I havn't seen (Social Network, True Grit, etc)

post #146 of 150

Did Beaks do a top ten list, or year in review type of thing?  If so, anyone have a link?

post #147 of 150
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey View Post

Did Beaks do a top ten list, or year in review type of thing?  If so, anyone have a link?



Last I saw, he mentioned on his Twitter that he was having a difficult time composing his introduction to his list - consisting of reasons why more popular movies were excluded - than the list itself. I think he gave it up.

 

I love the guy, but I'm disappointed in his decreasing output.

post #148 of 150

1. Inception

2. The Social Network

3. Blue Valentine

4. Enter the Void 

5. Animal Kingdom

6. A Secret In Their Eyes

7. Love and Other Drugs

8. The Town

9. Please Give

10. A Prophet

post #149 of 150

Mine:

 

Runner-ups.

 

15. Winter's Bone

14. Bluebeard

13. The Fighter

12. A Prophet

11. Carlos

 

Top Ten:

 

10. Black Swan

9. Everyone Else.

8. Prodigal Sons

7. Exit Through the Gift Shop

6. The Social Network

5. The Ghost Writer

4. Inception

3. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

2. Mother

1. Dogtooth

post #150 of 150

Better late than never, I guess.


20. 127 Hours

19. The Fighter

18. Sweetgrass

17. Scott Pilgrim

16. Everyone Else

15. Greenberg

14. Black Swan

13. Never Let Me Go

12. Winter's Bone

11. Carlos

10. Mother

 9. Catfish

 8. Plastic Bag

 7. Enter the Void

 6. Dogtooth

 5. The Social Network

 4. Exit Through the Gift Shop

 3. A Prophet

 2. Inception

 1. True Grit


Other than Another Year, I don't think I missed anything glaringly obvious.  I thought it was a pretty good year overall.  I saw a lot of good films that didn't place.


What stood out to me most were the sheer number of great performances by actresses, especially actresses I'd never seen before: Hailee Steinfeld, Jennifer Lawrence, Julie Sokolowski, Hye Ja-Kim, Birgit Minichmayr, Noomi Rapace, Aggeliki Papoulia, Greta Gerwig, Katie Jarvis, Lola Creton, Zoe Kazan, etc... Not to mention Portman, Mulligan, Swinton, Fanning, and on and on.  And those are just the lead performances.

I am hoping 2011 turns out to be a great year for female directors.  Really looking forward to Meek's Cutoff, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Attenberg, Take This Waltz, The Future, The Fields, the new Lynne Shelton movie, etc.

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