Your Top Ten of 2010 [Archive] - Page 2

jamaul

11-16-2010, 04:22 PM

1. Carlos (Olivier Assayas)
2. The Social Network (David Fincher)
3. Inception (Christopher Nolan)
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Edgar Wright)
5. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
6. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
7. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
8. [tbd]
9. [tbd]
10. [tbd]

2010 has been rather slow-going for me; the above choices are 2010 films I rated 4 or 5 on Netflix. Really looking forward to catching up with some titles via Netflix, and catching Boonmee, Certified Copy and Enter the Void if/when they trickle into theaters.

By the way, does anyone know if Enter the Void leaked?

baby doll

11-16-2010, 04:31 PM

By the way, does anyone know if Enter the Void leaked?Not on KG last time I checked.

soitgoes...

11-16-2010, 09:12 PM

By the way, does anyone know if Enter the Void leaked?Yes it has, but it's only a Region 5 or screener so the the quality doesn't look great. France is releasing their DVD at the beginning of December, so a much better quality version will be out soon.

MacGuffin

11-16-2010, 10:07 PM

Yes it has, but it's only a Region 5 or screener so the the quality doesn't look great. France is releasing their DVD at the beginning of December, so a much better quality version will be out soon.

Amazon says it's being released in January. I'm skeptical.

right_for_the_moment

11-16-2010, 10:51 PM

1. Certified Copy
2. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
3. Inception
4. Le quattro volte
5. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
6. Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl
7. The Ghost Writer
8. Hahaha
9. The Social Network
10. MacGruber

Exit Through the Gift Shop
Everyone Else
City Island
The Army of Crime
The American

Winter's Bone
Robin Hood
Love and Other Drugs
The Town
Oki's Movie

Boy
The King's Speech
Shutter Island
Some Days Are Better Than Others
A Prophet

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Wild Grass
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Toy Story 3

I Am Love
The Other Guys
Get Low
Animal Kingdom
Get Him to the Greek

Iron Man 2
Date Night
Tucker & Dale vs Evil
Don McKay
The Kids Are All Right

Greenberg
Catfish
Micmacs
Vincere
Red

Cyrus
Despicable Me
Grown Ups
Solitary Man
La Mission
The Human Resources Manager

Please Give
Piranha 3D
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
The Last Airbender
When in Rome

Philosophe_rouge

11-16-2010, 11:19 PM

1. Another Year
2. Winterâ€™s Bone
3. Tournee
4. Summer Wars
5. Uncle Boonme who can Recall his Past Lives
6. The Loved Ones
7. Fish Story
8. The Social Network
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
10. Marwencol

Seems redundant to bold any of them, as it is almost completely different from the last incarnation.

soitgoes...

11-17-2010, 12:29 AM

Amazon says it's being released in January. I'm skeptical.Yes, but Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Enter-Void-Collector-double-dvd/dp/B0040JUU8Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289956944&sr=8-1), which caters to the country I mentioned, says December 1st (actually 1 dÃ©cembre which I take means December 1st in English). So I imagine some upstanding film pirate will have a great quality version available for stealing in just over two weeks on KG. Other sites that are less restrictive on film uploads that don't coincide with its actually release might have it sooner.

TripZone

11-17-2010, 12:42 AM

Yes, but Amazon France (http://www.amazon.fr/Enter-Void-Collector-double-dvd/dp/B0040JUU8Y/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289956944&sr=8-1), which caters to the country I mentioned, says December 1st (actually 1 dÃ©cembre which I take means December 1st in English). So I imagine some upstanding film pirate will have a great quality version available for stealing in just over two weeks on KG. Other sites that are less restrictive on film uploads that don't coincide with its actually release might have it sooner.

Condescending enough? :D

French pirates are the worst. But Enter the Void is so hyped they won't fail.

ledfloyd

11-18-2010, 02:05 AM

Seems redundant to bold any of them, as it is almost completely different from the last incarnation.
i guess i should get around to watching winter's bone.

Spinal

11-18-2010, 02:16 AM

I finally have a top five!

1. Inception
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Enter the Void
4. How to Train Your Dragon
5. Catfish

Gonna be tough to crack that amazing top 3.

Irish

11-18-2010, 02:22 AM

3. The Book of Eli (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes) - ***
I've only just skimmed through some of the selections in this thread, but this struck me as one of the more interesting choices.

StanleyK

11-19-2010, 08:38 PM

I've only just skimmed through some of the selections in this thread, but this struck me as one of the more interesting choices.

I don't love the film or anything, I just haven't seen too many from this year. Here's what I wrote about it March; haven't given it a lot of thought since.

A clichÃ©d and blunt, but effective film on people's blind adherence to some canonized text; I also think there's some subtext underneath about racism- note how Denzel Washington is pretty much the only black person in the film, and in the first half he's frequently treated as 'the Other'. I wish it had ended a bit sooner as Eli dictates the Bible, as the rest feels superfluous. The Hughes Brothers continue to prove themselves masters at visual storytelling and provide a very entertaining and stylish film, only somewhat lacking in content.

Irish

11-19-2010, 08:48 PM

I don't love the film or anything, I just haven't seen too many from this year. Here's what I wrote about it March; haven't given it a lot of thought since.

I like your write-up. I also haven't seen much from this year, and I didn't love Eli either. But it is one of those movies that I keep going back to and thinking about, just because it tried to say a lot of interesting things in a limited format.

In the end I found it frustrating, and a failure, but goddamn I gotta give it credit if not for pushing the envelope than at least for poking around the edges.

baby doll

11-23-2010, 04:44 PM

1. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
2. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
3. Un prophÃ¨te (Jacques Audiard)
4. Carlos (Olivier Assayas) [140 min. version]
5. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
6. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
7. Hereafter (Clint Eastwood)
8. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen)
9. The Misfortunates (Felix van Groenineg)
10. Last Train Home (Lixin Fan)

I also liked: Ajami, Barbe bleue, Cyrus, Eccentricities of a Blonde Haired Girl, L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot, Fair Game, La Fille du RER, A Film Unfinished, Fish Tank, Get Him to the Greek, Les Herbes folles, Howl, Inception, Inside Job, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Machete, Mother, The Oath, Please Give, Real Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Shaft, The Social Network, The Town, The Trotsky, Winnebago Man, Winter's Bone, Women Without Men, and Youth in Revolt.Slightly reshuffled for the end of November.

TripZone

11-23-2010, 11:26 PM

I don't think Baby doll and I have similar taste.

Vincere made me want to hurt myself.

Derek

11-23-2010, 11:35 PM

I don't think Baby doll and I have similar taste.

Vincere made me want to hurt myself.

Oooh, it's on instant watch. Gotta see it now.

baby doll

11-23-2010, 11:40 PM

Vincere made me want to hurt myself.It made me wanna touch myself.

TripZone

11-23-2010, 11:50 PM

I couldn't understand why the main actress wasn't quite Marion Cotillard. She was so close to being her, but wasn't! It was frustrating.

baby doll

11-23-2010, 11:57 PM

I couldn't understand why the main actress wasn't quite Marion Cotillard. She was so close to being her, but wasn't! It was frustrating.Okay... I guess I can see the resemblance. On an unrelated note, I have a friend who fell in love with Marion Cotillard after seeing her in Jeux d'enfants. I haven't asked him his opinion on Inception, although I know he wasn't a fan of La MÃ´me.

link (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1oz61_edith-piaf-la-foule_creation)

Derek

11-24-2010, 01:07 AM

Vincere made me want to hurt myself.

It made me wanna touch myself.

This film will be in Spinal's top 10.

ContinentalOp

11-24-2010, 02:48 AM

1. The Social Network
2. The Ghost Writer
3. Toy Story 3
4. 127 Hours
5. The Town
6. Shutter Island
7. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
8. Kick-Ass
9. The Square
10. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Spinal

11-24-2010, 03:16 AM

I've waited way too long on Vincere. This week, it will happen.

Spinal

11-24-2010, 05:38 AM

Tried watching on Instant Watch, but the picture quality is too shitty to watch. Not sure what's up. Argh.

B-side

11-24-2010, 05:41 AM

Tried watching on Instant Watch, but the picture quality is too shitty to watch. Not sure what's up. Argh.

Odd. I just checked it out and it looks just fine.

TripZone

11-24-2010, 05:42 AM

You're so much better off.

Spinal

11-24-2010, 05:58 AM

Odd. I just checked it out and it looks just fine.

I'm in a hotel. Might have something to do with it.

Spinal

11-25-2010, 01:56 AM

Odd. I just checked it out and it looks just fine.

Tried again at a different location. Still having problems in the same place, about 10-15 minutes in. Tried watching something else and it looked just fine. I'm going to have to just get the DVD.

MacGuffin

11-25-2010, 02:06 AM

Tried again at a different location. Still having problems in the same place, about 10-15 minutes in. Tried watching something else and it looked just fine. I'm going to have to just get the DVD.

Wifi hotspots likely won't have the speed of your home wireless connection. I'm not 100% sure, but fairly sure.

Spinal

11-25-2010, 06:07 AM

The Movies You Have to See Before Making Your Top 10 of 2010 (http://www.ifc.com/news/2010/11/the-movies-you-have-to-see-bef.php)

Link has NSFW Peta Ad featuring a sorta-nude David Cross.

MacGuffin

11-25-2010, 06:08 AM

The Movies You Have to See Before Making Your Top 10 of 2010 (http://www.ifc.com/news/2010/11/the-movies-you-have-to-see-bef.php)

Link has NSFW Peta Ad featuring a sorta-nude David Cross.

Good list. Although there are a number of movies on there I'm just not gonna see.

Watashi

11-25-2010, 06:10 AM

The Movies You Have to See Before Making Your Top 10 of 2010 (http://www.ifc.com/news/2010/11/the-movies-you-have-to-see-bef.php)

Link has NSFW Peta Ad featuring a sorta-nude David Cross.
Resident Evil After Life....The Last Airbender.... really?

Spinal

11-25-2010, 06:12 AM

Resident Evil After Life....The Last Airbender.... really?

Yeah, it was made from Twitter responses, so it's sketchy in places.

Watashi

11-25-2010, 06:13 AM

1. Inception
2. The Social Network
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
4. Greenberg
5. Toy Story 3
6. The Ghost Writer
7. 127 Hours
8. Shutter Island
9. Winter's Bone
10. Cyrus

Getting better. Greenberg is a film that is growing with me.

soitgoes...

11-25-2010, 06:17 AM

The Movies You Have to See Before Making Your Top 10 of 2010 (http://www.ifc.com/news/2010/11/the-movies-you-have-to-see-bef.php)

Link has NSFW Peta Ad featuring a sorta-nude David Cross.
I can safely say that if I were to have a list of "The Movies You Have to See Before Making Your Top 10 of 2010" The Last Airbender would not be included on it.

Spinal

11-25-2010, 06:24 AM

I can safely say that if I were to have a list of "The Movies You Have to See Before Making Your Top 10 of 2010" The Last Airbender would not be included on it.

Then your Top Ten list will be invalid. You'll just have to accept that.

soitgoes...

11-25-2010, 06:27 AM

Then your Top Ten list will be invalid. You'll just have to accept that.But, but, mine will have The A-Team. Promise. It'll still be all sorts of kick-ass!

eternity

11-25-2010, 03:40 PM

I have some serious work to do, it appears.

Kurosawa Fan

11-26-2010, 07:25 PM

1. Mother
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. How to Train Your Dragon
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
5. The Crazies
6. Hot Tub Time Machine
7. Macgruber
8. Inception
9. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
10. Toy Story 3

Well, thanks to Mother, it's a list that's improving.

Ezee E

11-26-2010, 09:01 PM

Nice to see more people getting around to Mother.

MacGuffin

11-26-2010, 09:14 PM

Yeah, I'm going to have to watch Mother soon. Is the HD stream on Netflix substantial or should I wait to rent the Blu-ray?

Ezee E

11-26-2010, 10:34 PM

Yeah, I'm going to have to watch Mother soon. Is the HD stream on Netflix substantial or should I wait to rent the Blu-ray?
That's how i saw it. Worked just fine for me.

eternity

11-27-2010, 01:09 AM

1. Fair Game dir. Doug Liman
2. The Social Network dir. David Fincher
3. Winter's Bone dir. Debra Granik
4. Toy Story 3 dir. Lee Unkrich
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World dir. Edgar Wright
6. The Square dir. Nash Edgerton
7. Prodigal Sons dir. Kimberly Reed
8. Catfish dir. Ariel Schuman, Henry Joost
9. Trash Humpers dir. Harmony Korine
10. The American dir. Anton Corbijn

11. Easy A dir. Will Gluck
12. Cyrus dir. Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
13. Kick-Ass dir. Matthew Vaughn
14. How To Train Your Dragon dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
15. Hot Tub Time Machine dir. Steve Pink
16. MacGruber dir. Jorma Taccone
17. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (or 30 Days of Light) dir. David Slade
18. Centurion dir. Neil Marshall
19. The Kids Are All Right dir. Lisa Chodolenko
______________________________ _________
20. Heartbeats dir. Xavier Dolan
21. Breaking Upwards dir. Daryl Wein
22. Ondine dir. Neil Jordan
23. Monsters dir. Gareth Edwards
24. Paranormal Activity 2 dir. Tod Williams
25. Date Night dir. Shawn Levy
26. Creation dir. Jon Amiel
27. Get Him to the Greek dir. Nicholas Stoller
28. Film Socialisme dir. Jean-Luc Godard
29. Shutter Island dir. Martin Scorsese
30. Tamara Drewe dir. Stephen Frears
31. Knight and Day dir. James Mangold
32. Fish Tank dir. Andrea Arnold
33. Iron Man 2 dir. Jon Favreau
34. Holy Rollers dir. Kevin Asch
35. Robin Hood dir. Ridley Scott
36. The Karate Kid dir. Harald Zwart
37. The Book of Eli dir. Albert and Allen Hughes
38. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dir. Niels Arden Oplev
39. Alice in Wonderland dir. Tim Burton
40. Leap Year dir. Anand Tucker
41. Inception dir. Christopher Nolan
42. The Girl Who Played with Fire dir. Daniel Alfredson
43. Youth in Revolt dir. Miguel Artera
44. Dear John dir. Lasse Hallstrom
45. Greenberg dir. Noah Baumbach
46. The Wolfman dir. Joe Johnston
47. The Expendables dir. Slyvester Stallone
48. The Human Centipede dir. Tom Six
49. The A-Team dir. Joe Carnahan
50. Devil dir. John Erick Dowdle
51. Clash of the Titans dir. Louis Letterier
52. Legion dir. Scott Stewart
53. Vampires Suck dir. The Blunder Twins
54. Secretariat dir. Randall Wallace
55. The Last Airbender dir. M Night Shyamalan
56. Valentine's Day dir. Garry Marshall

I removed A Prophet because it might as well count as 2009.

TripZone

11-27-2010, 02:54 AM

Urgh, E, watch some American movies.

eternity

11-27-2010, 05:33 PM

Urgh, E, watch some American movies.
I watch what I have immediate access to. I seldom if ever KG anything only because I have stacks of movies to watch already that don't require me to use bandwidth.

So...I'll get to those.

Kurosawa Fan

11-28-2010, 12:09 AM

1. Mother
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Everyone Else
4. How to Train Your Dragon
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
6. The Crazies
7. Hot Tub Time Machine
8. Macgruber
9. Inception
10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Spinal

11-28-2010, 12:34 AM

7. Hot Tub Time Machine
9. Inception

:|

Kurosawa Fan

11-28-2010, 12:37 AM

:|

:lol:

What can I say? At times, I still have a very juvenile sense of humor. The constant arm gags with Crispin Glover eclipsed anything in Inception.

As for your top five, was Bluebeard not deserving, or did you just forget about it? I was going to watch it since it's available on Netflix streaming, but it would be my first Breillat, and I wasn't sure whether it's a good place to start, or whether it was very good to begin with, since you're her biggest champion on here and it wasn't on your list.

Spinal

11-28-2010, 12:46 AM

As for your top five, was Bluebeard not deserving, or did you just forget about it? I was going to watch it since it's available on Netflix streaming, but it would be my first Breillat, and I wasn't sure whether it's a good place to start, or whether it was very good to begin with, since you're her biggest champion on here and it wasn't on your list.

I'm not putting anything below ***1/2 into my top 10 list, which is why I only have 5 films right now.

Bluebeard is fine. It's a fairly simple tale told well. It doesn't have many of the extreme elements that Breillat in known for, so, in that respect, it may be a good place to start. It does retain her pet themes of female sexuality and death, usually intertwined. It has been consistently appreciated by various Match Cutters, so yeah, give it a go.

The Last Mistress might be another one you'd like, if I were to guess. Beyond that, it gets a little more dicey.

Rowland

12-08-2010, 09:27 AM

1. Wild Grass
2. The Oath
3. Prodigal Sons
4. Amer
5. October Country
6. I Am Love
7. The Social Network
8. The Secret of Kells
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
10. Universal Soldier: Regeneration

Morris SchÃ¦ffer

12-08-2010, 10:46 AM

1. The Ghost Writer
2. Inception
3. Kick-Ass
4. Buried
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. The Social Network
7. Shutter Island
8. The Town
9. The Karate Kid
10.Toy Story 3

B-side

12-08-2010, 10:49 AM

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. Heartbeats (Dolan)
5. The Social Network (Fincher)
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
7. Inception (Nolan)
8. Howl (Epstein/Friedman)
9. Jackass 3D (Tremaine)
10. The Town (Affleck)

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
5. Heartbeats (Dolan)
6. The Social Network (Fincher)
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
8. Inception (Nolan)
9. Howl (Epstein/Friedman)
10. Jackass 3D (Tremaine)

Stay Puft

12-08-2010, 11:45 PM

1. Soul Kitchen
2. The Oath
3. The Ghost Writer
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop
5. Winter's Bone
6. Women Without Men
7. It Came From Kuchar
8. The Exploding Girl
9. Fish Tank
10. Inception

balmakboor

12-10-2010, 04:21 AM

1. Let Me In
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. I'm Still Here
4. Cyrus
5. Trash Humpers
6. The Social Network
7. Restrepo
8. The Kids Are All Right
9. Flipped
10. Toy Story 3

Watashi

12-10-2010, 06:22 AM

1. The Social Network
2. Inception
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
4. Greenberg
5. Toy Story 3
6. The Ghost Writer
7. Valhalla Rising
8. Tron Legacy
9. 127 Hours
10. Shutter Island

Updated.

Eleven

12-10-2010, 02:17 PM

Some rearranging since my last post.

1. Certified Copy
2. Mother
3. The Ghost Writer
4. Winter's Bone
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
6. The Social Network
7. Dogtooth
8. The Oath
9. Vincere
10. Wild Grass

Still want to see: Another Year, Carlos, Film Socialism, Hereafter, Let Me In, Poetry, The Town, Uncle Boonmee.

NickGlass

12-10-2010, 02:56 PM

I suppose it's time for an update. Hm, it appears I've only seen 56 films so far? That seems sort of paltry (I suppose I usually average around 80), but I suppose I've been pickier.

Excellent:
Everyone Else
Certified Copy
Dogtooth

Very Good/Solid:
Leap Year (Rowe)
Exit Through the Gift Shop
I Am Love
Prodigal Sons
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Black Swan
The Kids Are All Right
Winter's Bone
Uncle Boonme Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Quite good:
A Prophet
I Love You, Phillip Morris
The Father of My Children
Fish Tank
The Social Network
Greenberg

Kurosawa Fan

12-10-2010, 04:30 PM

1. Mother
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Everyone Else
4. How to Train Your Dragon
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
6. Restrepo
7. The Crazies
8. Hot Tub Time Machine
9. Macgruber
10. Inception

soitgoes...

12-11-2010, 08:35 AM

I'm Still Here (Affleck)
Mother (Bong)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
Everyone Else (Ade)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Winter's Bone (Granik)
Ip Man (Yip)
The Ghost Writer (Polanski)

I'm Still Here (Affleck)
Secret Sunshine (Lee)
Mother (Bong)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
Alamar (GonzÃ¡lez-Rubio)
Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
The Oath (Poitras)
Everyone Else (Ade)
Greenberg (Baumbach)

One new viewing. Two old viewings given US releases.

EDIT: Forgot about Alamar. Two newish viewings, and one that has received a US release. Sorry Four Lions! You had a good solid hour on my Top 10 list.

TGM

12-12-2010, 12:15 PM

As of right now, here's what my top 10 is currently looking like:

Inception
Let Me In
The Ghost Writer
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
The Social Network
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Kick-Ass
Toy Story 3
Tangled
The Expendables

eternity

12-14-2010, 04:04 AM

1. Fair Game dir. Doug Liman
2. The Social Network dir. David Fincher
3. Tron Legacy dir. Joseph Kosinski
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop dir. Banksy
5. Toy Story 3 dir. Lee Unkrich
6. Somewhere dir. Sofia Coppola
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World dir. Edgar Wright
8. Winter's Bone dir. Debra Granik
9. Prodigal Sons dir. Kimberly Reed
10. Catfish dir. Ariel Schuman, Henry Joost

11. Trash Humpers dir. Harmony Korine
12. The American dir. Anton Corbijn
13. Easy A dir. Will Gluck
14. Cyrus dir. Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
15. Kick-Ass dir. Matthew Vaughn
16. How To Train Your Dragon dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
17. Hot Tub Time Machine dir. Steve Pink
18. MacGruber dir. Jorma Taccone
19. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (or 30 Days of Light) dir. David Slade
20. Centurion dir. Neil Marshall
______________________________ _________
21. Heartbeats dir. Xavier Dolan
22. Black Swan dir. Darren Aronofsky
23. Cop Out dir. Kevin Smith
24. Breaking Upwards dir. Daryl Wein
25. Ondine dir. Neil Jordan
26. Monsters dir. Gareth Edwards
27. The Kids Are All Right dir. Lisa Chodolenko
28. Paranormal Activity 2 dir. Tod Williams
29. Date Night dir. Shawn Levy
30. Creation dir. Jon Amiel
31. Get Him to the Greek dir. Nicholas Stoller
32. Film Socialisme dir. Jean-Luc Godard
33. Shutter Island dir. Martin Scorsese
34. Tamara Drewe dir. Stephen Frears
35. Knight and Day dir. James Mangold
36. Fish Tank dir. Andrea Arnold
37. Iron Man 2 dir. Jon Favreau
38. Holy Rollers dir. Kevin Asch
39. Robin Hood dir. Ridley Scott
40. The Karate Kid dir. Harald Zwart
41. The Book of Eli dir. Albert and Allen Hughes
42. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dir. Niels Arden Oplev
43. Alice in Wonderland dir. Tim Burton
44. Leap Year dir. Anand Tucker
45. Inception dir. Christopher Nolan
46. The Girl Who Played with Fire dir. Daniel Alfredson
47. Youth in Revolt dir. Miguel Artera
48. Dear John dir. Lasse Hallstrom
49. Greenberg dir. Noah Baumbach
50. The Wolfman dir. Joe Johnston
51. The Expendables dir. Slyvester Stallone
52. The Human Centipede dir. Tom Six
53. The A-Team dir. Joe Carnahan
54. Devil dir. John Erick Dowdle
55. Clash of the Titans dir. Louis Letterier
56. Legion dir. Scott Stewart
57. Vampires Suck dir. The Blunder Twins
58. Secretariat dir. Randall Wallace
59. The Last Airbender dir. M Night Shyamalan
60. Valentine's Day dir. Garry Marshall

Boner M

12-14-2010, 10:37 AM

1. Alamar
2. Everyone Else
3. Dogtooth
4. Wild Grass
5. Secret Sunshine
6. Another Year
7. Carlos
8. Inception
9. A Prophet
10. The Other Guys

Alright; all ***1/2 at least.

NickGlass

12-14-2010, 02:38 PM

1. Alamar

Shit, do I have to see this? I also pity myself for passing on Carlos. That was stupid.

balmakboor

12-14-2010, 06:10 PM

Year is winding down. Still need to see a few things, especially Black Swan.

Top 10
1. Let Me In
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. I'm Still Here
4. Cyrus
5. Trash Humpers
6. The Social Network
7. Restrepo
8. The Kids Are All Right
9. Flipped
10. Toy Story 3

Bottom 10
1. Robin Hood
2. Solitary Man
3. The Last Airbender
4. Iron Man 2
5. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
6. Nightmare on Elm Street
7. Megamind
8. Alice in Wonderland
9. Secretariat
10. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

balmakboor

12-14-2010, 06:12 PM

1. Alamar
2. Everyone Else
3. Dogtooth
4. Wild Grass
5. Secret Sunshine
6. Another Year
7. Carlos
8. Inception
9. A Prophet
10. The Other Guys

Alright; all ***1/2 at least.

I find it interesting and very encouraging that I haven't seen a single movie on your list yet.

Derek

12-14-2010, 06:27 PM

Shit, do I have to see this? I also pity myself for passing on Carlos. That was stupid.

You should. It seems like something you'd dig.

Just watched Part 1 of Carlos yesterday and it's real good. I'll finish it up in the next day or two and wouldn't be surprised if it ends up in my top 10.

Raiders

12-14-2010, 06:42 PM

Yes, I most definitely need to watch the three parts of Carlos and Winter's Bone I have on my DVR and watch Everyone Else and Exit Through the Gift Shop off Netflix and Hadewijch on my computer (scandal!). Alamar opens up at the West End on Jan. 7th, so I may force my wife to take me as a birthday present. I keep seeing a 12/31 release date attached to Leigh's Another Year but can't find it actually opening around here that weekend. And I also see Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff ain't coming out until April, so poo on that--though, I guess that's being counted as 2011 for these purposes, so that's good.

Ezee E

12-14-2010, 08:44 PM

What is this Alamar?

Boner M

12-14-2010, 08:50 PM

What is this Alamar?
Mexican fiction/doco thingy that you'll find boring.

Ezee E

12-14-2010, 08:52 PM

Mexican fiction/doco thingy that you'll find boring.
Sounds like a surefire #1.

Derek

12-14-2010, 09:06 PM

Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1951) **Â½

:cry:

Derek

12-14-2010, 09:07 PM

Sounds like a surefire #1.

Likeable characters though, even a likeable seagull to boot!

Ezee E

12-14-2010, 09:14 PM

Likeable characters though, even a likeable seagull to boot!
Better then Finding Nemo seagulls? Impossible!

Derek

12-14-2010, 09:18 PM

Better then Finding Nemo seagulls? Impossible!

More intelligent at least! Actually, that probably is the most moving scene in the movie now that I think about it.

NickGlass

12-14-2010, 09:18 PM

You should. It seems like something you'd dig.

Just watched Part 1 of Carlos yesterday and it's real good. I'll finish it up in the next day or two and wouldn't be surprised if it ends up in my top 10.

Hm, I have to find a way to see both, but it won't likely be in the theater, which is terribly disappointing. Does anyone know how I can get my hands on Alamar or Carlos?

Derek

12-14-2010, 09:21 PM

Hm, I have to find a way to see both, but it won't likely be in the theater, which is terribly disappointing. Does anyone know how I can get my hands on Alamar or Carlos?

Karagarga, if you're not above dl'ing.

B-side

12-15-2010, 02:13 PM

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
5. Heartbeats (Dolan)
6. The Social Network (Fincher)
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
8. Inception (Nolan)
9. Howl (Epstein/Friedman)
10. Jackass 3D (Tremaine)

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
5. Buried (CortÃ©s)
6. Heartbeats (Dolan)
7. The Social Network (Fincher)
8. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
9. Inception (Nolan)
10. Howl (Epstein/Friedman)

origami_mustache

12-15-2010, 07:15 PM

Can I change the Tree of Life trailer to my #1? haha
I think it works as a stand alone piece.

Briare

12-15-2010, 07:39 PM

1. Never Let Me Go
2. Winter's Bone
3. True Grit
4. Another Year
5. The American
6. Inception
7. Let Me In
8. 127 Hours
9. The Town
10. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

B-side

12-17-2010, 12:31 PM

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
5. Buried (CortÃ©s)
6. Heartbeats (Dolan)
7. The Social Network (Fincher)
8. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
9. Inception (Nolan)
10. Howl (Epstein/Friedman)

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
5. Buried (CortÃ©s)
6. Unstoppable (Scott)
7. Heartbeats (Dolan)
8. The Social Network (Fincher)
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
10. Inception (Nolan)

dmk

12-18-2010, 12:40 PM

1 . Leap Year
2 . Certified Copy
3 . Road to Nowhere
4 . I'm Still Here
5 . The Ghost Writer
6 . Somewhere
7 . Gone with the Pope
8 . Blue Valentine
9 . The Social Network
10 . Kosmos

transmogrifier

12-18-2010, 06:24 PM

1. Shutter Island 73
2. Toy Story 3 71
3. Despicable Me 70
4. The Social Network 68
5. Hot Tub Time Machine 68
6. Inception 67
7. The Town 67
8. Four Lions 66
9. Boy 63
10. The Crazies 62

As comparison, here are the scores of the 10th best film of previous years:

2009: 69
2008: 69
2007: 72
2006: 72
2005: 69
2004: 77
2003: 73
2002: 80
2001: 76
2000: 76

Derek

12-18-2010, 06:42 PM

As comparison, here are the scores of the 10th best film of previous years:

Don't blame 2010 for your poor selection of film viewings. :)

transmogrifier

12-18-2010, 06:55 PM

Don't blame 2010 for your poor selection of film viewings. :)

Oh, no doubt 2010 will get better the more films I watch. I just wanted to show that from my list as it stands right now, none of the films from 4 down would have got into any of the Top 10 lists from previous years.

Henry Gale

12-18-2010, 07:58 PM

1. Inception (Nolan)
2. Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy)
3. Let Me In (Reeves)
4. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
5. The Social Network (Fincher)
6. The American (Corbijn)
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Wright)
8. Greenberg (Baumbach)
9. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
10. How To Train Your Dragon (DeBlois/Sanders)

1. Black Swan (Aronofsky)
2. Inception (Nolan)
3. Exit Through The Gift Shop (Banksy)
4. Let Me In (Reeves)
5. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
6. The Social Network (Fincher)
7. The American (Corbijn)
8. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (Yates)
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Wright)
10. Greenberg (Baumbach)

DavidSeven

12-18-2010, 10:50 PM

Oh, no doubt 2010 will get better the more films I watch. I just wanted to show that from my list as it stands right now, none of the films from 4 down would have got into any of the Top 10 lists from previous years.

My sense of the year, having probably seen a lot less than everyone else, is that it's quite top heavy. A solid proportion of the good stuff actually ended up being pretty good, but that pool seems smaller than in prior years.

balmakboor

12-19-2010, 12:02 AM

1. Let Me In
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. I'm Still Here
4. Cyrus
5. Trash Humpers
6. The Social Network
7. Restrepo
8. The Kids Are All Right
9. Flipped
10. Toy Story 3

I don't know. When I look at my list, I'm impressed by both the variety and the quality. Or at least, obviously, the quality according to my sometimes strange tastes. And it still feels like I'm the only person alive who saw Flipped, a Rob Reiner film for Christ sakes.

By the way, I think Trash Humpers is a hilarious and unforgettable homage to Even Dwarfs Started Small that sees both infancy and old age as approaching anarchy.

Pop Trash

12-19-2010, 03:29 AM

1. Black Swan
2. Inception
3. Winter's Bone
4. Greenberg
5. Let Me In
6. The Ghost Writer
7. Mother
8. Dogtooth
9. True Grit
10. The Social Network

Fezzik

12-20-2010, 01:44 PM

Black Swan
Inception
Toy Story 3
The Social Network
Let Me In
The Town
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
How To Train Your Dragon
Tangled
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

11. Shutter Island
12. RED
13. Tron: Legacy
14. Easy A
15. The Kids Are All Right
16. The Book of Eli
17. The Expendables
18. Iron Man 2
19. Knight and Day
20. Alice in Wonderland

Newer in Bold.

Still hoping to see The Ghost Writer, Winter's Bone, 127 Hours, Exit Thru the Giftshop and The King's Speech before the end of the year.

B-side

12-20-2010, 03:52 PM

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
5. Buried (CortÃ©s)
6. Unstoppable (Scott)
7. Heartbeats (Dolan)
8. The Social Network (Fincher)
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
10. Inception (Nolan)

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
5. Unstoppable (Scott)
6. Buried (CortÃ©s)
7. Heartbeats (Dolan)
8. The Social Network (Fincher)
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
10. Black Swan (Aronofsky)

baby doll

12-20-2010, 03:54 PM

Still hoping to see The Ghost Writer, Winter's Bone, 127 Hours, Exit Thru the Giftshop and The King's Speech before the end of the year.But come January 1st, fuck it because there's no point in seeing a movie unless you can put it on a list.

Fezzik

12-20-2010, 07:12 PM

But come January 1st, fuck it because there's no point in seeing a movie unless you can put it on a list.

Seriously, dude, what's your problem?

Not that I owe you an explanation, but I've been wanting to see them all this time, but I haven't been able to, either because I haven't had them available, I've been out of town on business or because I'm in the middle of moving.

And since I promised a Top Ten 10 to some people who read my blog, I'd like it to be somewhat comprehensive.

Frankly, I'm tired of your almost constant condescending tone.

baby doll

12-20-2010, 07:25 PM

Seriously, dude, what's your problem?

Not that I owe you an explanation, but I've been wanting to see them all this time, but I haven't been able to, either because I haven't had them available, I've been out of town on business or because I'm in the middle of moving.

And since I promised a Top Ten 10 to some people who read my blog, I'd like it to be somewhat comprehensive.

Frankly, I'm tired of your almost constant condescending tone.Dude, I was joking. It just seems that sometimes, rather than making lists of movies they like, people see certain movies in order to put them on their lists.

Pop Trash

12-20-2010, 08:36 PM

Aw, that's just Baby Doll being Baby Doll. Where would Match-Cut be without his constant barrage of snark, grouchiness, and contrarian button pushing? Life just wouldn't be the same!

TGM

12-20-2010, 10:37 PM

After checking out a few more movies, I've gone ahead and made some updates to my own list:

1. Inception
2. Tron: Legacy
3. Let Me In
4. The Ghost Writer
5. Black Swan
6. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
7. The Social Network
8. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
9. Kick-Ass
10. Tangled

11. Toy Story 3
12. The Expendables
13. Red
14. The Book of Eli
15. Daybreakers
16. Devil
17. Resident Evil: Afterlife
18. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
19. Machete
20. A Nightmare on Elm Street

21. Due Date
22. Clash of the Titans
23. Iron Man 2
24. Catfish
25. The Last Airbender

MadMan

12-21-2010, 03:42 AM

The list is starting to actually improve, although it still has a ways to go.

Best of the Year List:

1. The Social Network-100
2. Inception-95
3. Winter's Bone-94
4. Scott Pilgrim vs the World-92
5. Kick-Ass-91
6. Shutter Island-90
7. How To Train Your Dragon-90
8. A Prophet-90
9. The Ghost Writer-88
10. The Crazies-87

The In Between List:

1. The Other Guys-85
2. Cyrus-85
3. Iron Man 2-85
4. A Nightmare on Elm Street-84
5. Hot Tub Time Machine-84
6. Death at a Funeral-84
7. Machete-83
8. MacGruber-82
9. Salt-82
10. Predators-81
11. Get Him To The Greek-78
12. The Expendables-75
13. Cop-Out-72

Worst List:

1. Clash of the Titans-57
2. Robin Hood-60
3. The Karate Kid-61

Up Next: True Grit

B-side

12-22-2010, 07:25 AM

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
5. Unstoppable (Scott)
6. Buried (CortÃ©s)
7. Heartbeats (Dolan)
8. The Social Network (Fincher)
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
10. Black Swan (Aronofsky)

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
6. Unstoppable (Scott)
7. Heartbeats (Dolan)
8. Buried (CortÃ©s)
9. The Social Network (Fincher)
10. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)

Rowland

12-22-2010, 06:22 PM

Going on vacation for a couple days, unlikely that I'll watch any movies, so I'll post my current list, which is still subject to change a great deal when I get back to buckling down in my 2010 catch-up marathon next week.

1. Wild Grass
2. Black Swan
3. The Oath
4. Amer
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop
6. Prodigal Sons
7. October Country
8. I Am Love
9. The Social Network
10. Sweetgrass

Honorable Mention: The Secret of Kells; Scott Pilgrim vs. the World; Universal Soldier Regeneration; Mother; The Crazies; A Prophet; Vengeance; Frozen; The Human Centipede (First Sequence); The Ghost Writer

DavidSeven

12-22-2010, 07:34 PM

2. Black Swan

Very nice.

Watashi

12-22-2010, 08:06 PM

1. Inception
2. The Social Network
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
5. Toy Story 3
6. Greenberg
7. The Ghost Writer
8. Valhalla Rising
9. 127 Hours
10. Tangled

I finally have 10 films with ***Â½ stars or more.

Boner M

12-23-2010, 06:14 AM

1. Alamar
2. Everyone Else
3. Dogtooth
4. Wild Grass
5. Secret Sunshine
6. Another Year
7. Carlos
8. Blue Valentine
9. A Prophet
10. Inception

Worst:

1. Love & Other Drugs
2. The Secret in Their Eyes
3. Fair Game
4. Kick-Ass
5. Catfish

baby doll

12-24-2010, 08:23 PM

1. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
2. Un prophÃ¨te (Jacques Audiard)
3. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
4. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
5. Carlos (Olivier Assayas) [140 min. version]
6. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
7. Hereafter (Clint Eastwood)
8. Milyang (Secret Sunshine) (Lee Chang-dong)
9. I Love You Phillip Morris (Glenn Ficara and John Requa)
10. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen)

I also liked: Ajami, Another Year, Barbe bleue, Cyrus, Eccentricities of a Blonde Haired Girl, L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot, Fair Game, La Fille du RER, A Film Unfinished, Fish Tank, Get Him to the Greek, Les Herbes folles, Howl, The Illusionist, Inception, Inside Job, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Last Train Home, Machete, The Misfortunates, Mother, The Oath, Please Give, Real Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Shaft, The Social Network, The Town, The Trotsky, Winnebago Man, Winter's Bone, Women Without Men, and Youth in Revolt.Updated for the end of December.

Spaceman Spiff

12-24-2010, 09:14 PM

Still need to check out Carlos, Black Swan and maybe the Dolan flick. This has certainly been a weak year, and I'm not one of those guys that says that every year, either.

1. Inception (8.5)
2. Greenberg (8.5)
3. Un prophÃ¨te (8.0)
4. True Grit (7.5)
5. Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives (7.0)
6. Shutter Island (7.0)
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (7.0)
8. The Social Network (6.5)
9. Hot Tub Time Machine (6.5)
10. How to Train your Dragon (6.0)

balmakboor

12-25-2010, 01:23 AM

Yep. Any year where Scott Pilgrim places on this many top tens is certainly nothing to write home about.

eternity

12-25-2010, 02:04 AM

Yep. Any year where Scott Pilgrim places on this many top tens is certainly nothing to write home about.
Seriously. It's probably the most disappointing film I've seen this year and it's still one of the year's best.

eternity

12-25-2010, 02:06 AM

1. The Social Network dir. David Fincher
2. Fair Game dir. Doug Liman
3. Tron Legacy dir. Joseph Kosinski
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop dir. Banksy
5. Toy Story 3 dir. Lee Unkrich
6. Somewhere dir. Sofia Coppola
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World dir. Edgar Wright
8. Catfish dir. Ariel Schuman, Henry Joost
9. Prodigal Sons dir. Kimberly Reed
10. Winter's Bone dir. Debra Granik

11. I Am Comic dir. Jordan Brady
12. Trash Humpers dir. Harmony Korine
13. The Ghost Writer dir. Roman Polanski
14. The American dir. Anton Corbijn
15. Everyone Else dir. Maren Ade
16. Easy A dir. Will Gluck
17. Cyrus dir. Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
18. Kick-Ass dir. Matthew Vaughn
19. How To Train Your Dragon dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
20. I'm Still Here dir. Casey Affleck
21. Bluebeard dir. Catherine Breillat
22. Hot Tub Time Machine dir. Steve Pink
23. MacGruber dir. Jorma Taccone
24. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (or 30 Days of Light) dir. David Slade
25. Centurion dir. Neil Marshall
26. Heartbeats dir. Xavier Dolan
______________________________ ________
27. Black Swan dir. Darren Aronofsky
28. Cop Out dir. Kevin Smith
29. Breaking Upwards dir. Daryl Wein
30. Ondine dir. Neil Jordan
31. Monsters dir. Gareth Edwards
32. The Kids Are All Right dir. Lisa Chodolenko
33. Paranormal Activity 2 dir. Tod Williams
34. Date Night dir. Shawn Levy
35. Creation dir. Jon Amiel
36. Get Him to the Greek dir. Nicholas Stoller
37. Film Socialisme dir. Jean-Luc Godard
38. Shutter Island dir. Martin Scorsese
39. Tamara Drewe dir. Stephen Frears
40. Knight and Day dir. James Mangold
41. Fish Tank dir. Andrea Arnold
42. Iron Man 2 dir. Jon Favreau
43. Holy Rollers dir. Kevin Asch
44. Robin Hood dir. Ridley Scott
45. The Karate Kid dir. Harald Zwart
46. The Book of Eli dir. Albert and Allen Hughes
47. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dir. Niels Arden Oplev
48. Alice in Wonderland dir. Tim Burton
49. Leap Year dir. Anand Tucker
50. Inception dir. Christopher Nolan
51. The Girl Who Played with Fire dir. Daniel Alfredson
52. Youth in Revolt dir. Miguel Artera
53. Dear John dir. Lasse Hallstrom
54. Greenberg dir. Noah Baumbach
55. The Wolfman dir. Joe Johnston
56. The Expendables dir. Slyvester Stallone
57. The Human Centipede dir. Tom Six
58. The A-Team dir. Joe Carnahan
59. Devil dir. John Erick Dowdle
60. Clash of the Titans dir. Louis Letterier
61. Legion dir. Scott Stewart
62. Vampires Suck dir. The Blunder Twins
63. Secretariat dir. Randall Wallace
64. The Last Airbender dir. M Night Shyamalan
65. Valentine's Day dir. Garry Marshall

dmk

12-25-2010, 02:11 AM

eternity

12-25-2010, 02:18 AM

Weak year? Ya'll need to get out more.

Monte Hellman
Vincent Gallo
Kelly Reichardt
Radu Muntean
Jerzy Skolimowski
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Jean-Luc Godard
Takeshi Kitano
Frederick Wiseman
Abbas Kiarostami
Anh Hung Tran
Peter Weir
John Carpenter
Tsui Hark
Roman Polanski
Sang-soo Hong
Sang-soo Hong
Cristi Puiu
Olivier Assayas
Darren Aronofsky
JosÃ© Luis GuerÃ*n
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Angela Schanelec
Manoel de Oliveira
Å*arūnas Bartas
Raoul Ruiz
Raoul Ruiz
Raoul Ruiz
Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Lech Majewski
Nina Menkes
BenoÃ®t Jacquot
Noah Baumbach
Martin Scorsese
Mike Leigh
Spike Jonze
John Sayles
Clint Eastwood
David Fincher
KÃ´ji Wakamatsu
Mark Romanek
Catherine Breillat
Sofia Coppola
Jia Zhang-Ke
Coen Bros.made films

A significant chunk of those have not been made available to 99%+ of the general public, like the new Reichardt for instance.

soitgoes...

12-25-2010, 02:19 AM

dmk

12-25-2010, 02:21 AM

A significant chunk of those have not been made available to 99%+ of the general public, like the new Reichardt for instance.
But they still exist.

soitgoes...

12-25-2010, 02:26 AM

A significant chunk of those have not been made available to 99%+ of the general public, like the new Reichardt for instance.
Therein lies the problem of judging a year of film in December of that year. It's why I'm never satisfied when we do year end lists. It isn't until a solid full year later where I feel confident I haven't missed anything. Still I find that films have snuck by me. Saying that a year is weak when a good chunk of films remain unseen is weird. I know, at this point I'm beating a dead horse.

eternity

12-25-2010, 02:32 AM

Therein lies the problem of judging a year of film in December of that year. It's why I'm never satisfied when we do year end lists. It isn't until a solid full year later where I feel confident I haven't missed anything. Still I find that films have snuck by me. Saying that a year is weak when a good chunk of films remain unseen is weird. I know, at this point I'm beating a dead horse.
Definitely. The year a movie comes out shouldn't matter in theory, but when we're posting on forums, there is a huge amount of pressure on remaining topical. That's why I feel like I NEED to watch over 40 2010 films by January 1st; otherwise they wouldn't be topical anymore and thus their worth is diminished. Shouldn't be that way since the whole idea of that is fucking asinine, yet here we are.

Pop Trash

12-25-2010, 04:50 AM

Spinal

12-25-2010, 05:29 AM

I don't think you can count Raoul Ruiz three times.

B-side

12-25-2010, 05:32 AM

I don't think you can count Raoul Ruiz three times.

If anyone deserves it, he does.

Speaking of Monsieur Ruiz, what's going on with the director consensus? Have we abandoned it?

B-side

12-25-2010, 05:58 AM

Speaking of Monsieur Ruiz, what's going on with the director consensus? Have we abandoned it?

I may or may not be volunteering for thread duty here.

balmakboor

12-25-2010, 12:10 PM

Weak year? Ya'll need to get out more.

Monte Hellman
Vincent Gallo
Kelly Reichardt
Radu Muntean
Jerzy Skolimowski
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Jean-Luc Godard
Takeshi Kitano
Frederick Wiseman
Abbas Kiarostami
Anh Hung Tran
Peter Weir
John Carpenter
Tsui Hark
Roman Polanski
Sang-soo Hong
Sang-soo Hong
Cristi Puiu
Olivier Assayas
Darren Aronofsky
JosÃ© Luis GuerÃ*n
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Angela Schanelec
Manoel de Oliveira
Å*arūnas Bartas
Raoul Ruiz
Raoul Ruiz
Raoul Ruiz
Jean-Paul Civeyrac
Lech Majewski
Nina Menkes
BenoÃ®t Jacquot
Noah Baumbach
Martin Scorsese
Mike Leigh
Spike Jonze
John Sayles
Clint Eastwood
David Fincher
KÃ´ji Wakamatsu
Mark Romanek
Catherine Breillat
Sofia Coppola
Jia Zhang-Ke
Coen Bros.made films

But oh so few of those have been available for me to see.

Of course, my post prior to this was mostly a joke, just a quick stab at Scott Pilgrim which I mostly disliked. I've already said that I consider every movie on my list to be strong top 10 quality stuff and I know there are 10-20 more movies out there that will help me end up with a pretty damn solid top 20 at least. I'll finally be seeing Black Swan and True Grit over the next few days, hopefully.

balmakboor

12-25-2010, 12:14 PM

That's why I feel like I NEED to watch over 40 2010 films by January 1st; otherwise they wouldn't be topical anymore and thus their worth is diminished.

Fuck. I knew I should have caught Citizen Kane before 1/1/1942.

dmk

12-25-2010, 12:36 PM

I don't think you can count Raoul Ruiz three times.
It felt immoral to list him once, because he did release no less than three films this year.

Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
L'estate breve (2010)
A Closed Book (2010)

B-side

12-25-2010, 12:39 PM

It felt immoral to list him once, because he did release no less than three films this year.

Mysteries of Lisbon (2010)
L'estate breve (2010)
A Closed Book (2010)

Did you get to see Lisbon? I'm assuming maybe 2 people have seen the documentary.

dmk

12-25-2010, 12:44 PM

Did you get to see Lisbon? I'm assuming maybe 2 people have seen the documentary.
Nope. I want to see Shattered Image most of all though. William Baldwin is freaking hilarious.

EDIT- He's no Stephen however.

B-side

12-25-2010, 12:46 PM

Nope. I want to see Shattered Image most of all though. William Baldwin is freaking hilarious.

You would.

PS: Watch Mary. You'll love it.

dmk

12-25-2010, 12:50 PM

PS: Watch Mary. You'll love it.
Pfft, that's so 2008. Silly ending. It's also no China Girl. David Caruso is freaking hilarious.

B-side

12-25-2010, 12:54 PM

Pfft, that's so 2008. Silly ending. It's also no China Girl. David Caruso is freaking hilarious.

Lies and shenanigans is what that is. You loved it. Admit it.

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli showed up on KG a few days ago. I have it.

dmk

12-25-2010, 01:01 PM

Lies and shenanigans is what that is. You loved it. Admit it.Top 90 of 2005. So, kinda.

Napoli, Napoli, Napoli showed up on KG a few days ago. I have it.
I guess I'll watch it in preparation for my 2009 list. There are 53 films yet to see, so I'll get to it too in the next six-to-twelve months, why not.

But mostly, I'm waiting for this to come out on DVD (February 11):
http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/Repo%20Chick%20blog1.jpg
yeah, baby.

B-side

12-25-2010, 01:04 PM

I guess I'll watch it in preparation for my 2009 list. There are 53 films yet to see, so I'll get to it too in the next six-to-twelve months, why not.

But mostly, I'm waiting for this to come out on DVD (February 11):
http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/thegeekfiles/Repo%20Chick%20blog1.jpg
yeah, baby.

I'm not familiar with this Alex Cox character.

Mysterious Dude

12-25-2010, 01:09 PM

But they still exist.
How do I know they don't suck? You might as well add Tim Burton and M. Night Shyamalan to that list, for all the quality it proves. It's just a list of names.

dmk

12-25-2010, 01:35 PM

I'm not familiar with this Alex Cox character.
Not a brighty-sidey type of filmmaker. Maybe Walker though.

How do I know they don't suck? You might as well add Tim Burton and M. Night Shyamalan to that list, for all the quality it proves. It's just a list of names.
Not the point at all. Any year that is this (quality) auteur-driven can hardly suck at all in theory or logic. I did purposely omit Woody Allen and Nolan and Burton and what-have-you, because these filmmakers have only recurrently revealed their assured sucktude. Sure, that list was made by me so it generally follows my sensibilities rather than Isaacs, so thereâ€™s a chance the Godard and the Carpenter wonâ€™t be to everyoneâ€™s liking, but at the same time there was an attempt for a partially objective (or, to be more precise: canonical/critically acclaimed/auteurist) summation of the yearâ€™s directorial offerings (ie: in the method your children will study the said year in 50 years). If it was an entirely instinctively individual system, Nanouk Leopold and Jean-Claude Van Damme would also make the list, and Clint Eastwood would not.

balmakboor

12-25-2010, 04:12 PM

I can't wait to see Alex Cox's Straight to Hell Returns. I saw it back in the eighties and had mixed feelings. But then nothing would've seemed a satisfying follow-up to the one two punch of Repo Man and Sid and Nancy.

eternity

12-25-2010, 05:43 PM

Fuck. I knew I should have caught Citizen Kane before 1/1/1942.

I know right!?!?!?!

eternity

12-25-2010, 05:44 PM

I'm still really excited for Repo Chick, even though I can't come up with a rational reason why at this point.

ContinentalOp

12-26-2010, 01:44 AM

1. The Social Network
2. The Ghost Writer
3. Toy Story 3
4. True Grit
5. 127 Hours
6. The Town
7. Shutter Island
8. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
9. Winnebago Man
10. Kick-Ass

balmakboor

12-26-2010, 03:23 AM

1. Let Me In
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. I'm Still Here
4. Inception
5. Cyrus
6. Trash Humpers
7. The Social Network
8. Restrepo
9. The Kids Are All Right
10. Flipped

I finally saw Inception and liked it a lot more and was confused somewhat less than I expected. Not sure where I rate it, but I'll try #4 on for size for a while. It certainly deserves kudos for its conceptual audacity and visual design if nothing else.

soitgoes...

12-26-2010, 07:32 AM

I'm Still Here (Affleck)
Secret Sunshine (Lee)
Mother (Bong)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
Alamar (GonzÃ¡lez-Rubio)
Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
The Oath (Poitras)
Everyone Else (Ade)
Greenberg (Baumbach)

One new viewing. Two old viewings given US releases.

EDIT: Forgot about Alamar. Two newish viewings, and one that has received a US release. Sorry Four Lions! You had a good solid hour on my Top 10 list.

I'm Still Here (Affleck)
Secret Sunshine (Lee)
Mother (Bong)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
Alamar (GonzÃ¡lez-Rubio)
Black Swan (Aronofsky)
Hadewijch (Dumont)
Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
White Material (Denis)

Mal

12-26-2010, 10:59 PM

1. Somewhere
2. Life During Wartime
3. Black Swan
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop
6. The Ghost Writer
7. The American
8. Alamar
9. Despicable Me
10. The Social Network

balmakboor

12-27-2010, 02:21 AM

1. Let Me In
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. I'm Still Here
4. Black Swan
5. Inception
6. Cyrus
7. Trash Humpers
8. The Social Network
9. Restrepo
10. The Kids Are All Right

dmk

12-27-2010, 07:51 AM

1 . Leap Year
2 . Certified Copy
3 . Road to Nowhere
4 . I'm Still Here
5 . The Ghost Writer
6 . Somewhere
7 . Gone with the Pope
8 . Blue Valentine
9 . The Social Network
10 . Kosmos
1 . Leap Year
2 . Certified Copy
3 . Road to Nowhere
4 . I'm Still Here
5 . The Ghost Writer
6 . Somewhere
7 . Gone with the Pope
8 . Tuesday, After Christmas
9 . Blue Valentine
10 . Film socialisme

bottom:
5. Green Zone
4. Death at a Funeral
3. A Serbian Film
2. Summer Coda
1. The Crazies

TripZone

12-27-2010, 11:32 AM

Yep, around the bottom of the top 10 seems right to me at this stage, too.

Chac Mool

12-27-2010, 01:12 PM

bottom
1. The Crazies

I don't know if this has been discussed recently (if so, direct me, por favor), but ... why? This was rather good, what with the tight direction, efficient screenplay, good acting, visceral action and bare-bones, honest, no bullshit feel of it all.

balmakboor

12-27-2010, 05:42 PM

I don't know if this has been discussed recently (if so, direct me, por favor), but ... why? This was rather good, what with the tight direction, efficient screenplay, good acting, visceral action and bare-bones, honest, no bullshit feel of it all.

Don't pay much attention. The Crazies is actually near top 10 quality.

TGM

12-27-2010, 08:41 PM

After seeing a few more films and doing a few more shuffles, this is beginning to look more and more like my finalized list:

The Best:

1. Inception
2. Tron: Legacy
3. Let Me In
4. The Ghost Writer
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
6. Black Swan
7. The Social Network
8. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
9. Kick-Ass
10. Tangled

The Middle Tier:

11. The Fighter
12. Toy Story 3
13. The Expendables
14. The King's Speech
15. Red
16. The Book of Eli
17. Daybreakers
18. Devil
19. Resident Evil: Afterlife
20. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

And the very bottom of the barrel:

21. Machete
22. A Nightmare on Elm Street
23. Due Date
24. Clash of the Titans
25. Iron Man 2
26. Catfish
27. The Last Airbender

MadMan

12-28-2010, 01:43 AM

As good as the Coens are, their latest was merely very good. I like that they have set the bar high for themselves, though. Means when they make a great film I actually notice.

Best of the Year List:

1. The Social Network-100
2. Inception-95
3. Winter's Bone-94
4. Scott Pilgrim vs the World-92
5. Kick-Ass-91
6. Shutter Island-90
7. Tron: Legacy-90
8. How To Train Your Dragon-90
9. A Prophet-90
10. The Ghost Writer-88

The In Between List:

1. The Crazies-87
2. True Grit-86
3. The Other Guys-85
4. Cyrus-85
5. Iron Man 2-85
6. A Nightmare on Elm Street-84
7. Hot Tub Time Machine-84
8. Death at a Funeral-84
9. Machete-83
10. MacGruber-82
11. Salt-82
12. Predators-81
13. Get Him To The Greek-78
14. The Expendables-75
15. Cop-Out-72

Worst List:

1. Clash of the Titans-57
2. Robin Hood-60
3. The Karate Kid-61

Up Next: The Fighter, or something. And hey, post 9,000 spent on a consensus list. Figures.

dmk

12-28-2010, 06:15 AM

Don't pay much attention. The Crazies is actually near top 10 quality.
I don't know if this has been discussed recently (if so, direct me, por favor), but ... why? This was rather good, what with the tight direction, efficient screenplay, good acting, visceral action and bare-bones, honest, no bullshit feel of it all.
Iâ€™d contest â€œtight directionâ€, unless thatâ€™s analogous with â€˜a string of poorly executed jump scaresâ€™. Because thatâ€™s all it was â€“ a repetitive orchestra of horror elements leaping with jolts, shrieks and thumps, with a scant understanding of timing and mood. Breck Eisner is craft-less. There is no understanding of filmmaking technique anywhere here. His camera is boring. It doesnâ€™t move or position or exist with an inkling of imagination - it is a stupid camera. Also, itâ€™s another occasion where the film look is rendered vile with unsubtle tonally-retarded colour-grading â€“ I wouldnâ€™t call it colour-grading, itâ€™s closer to Magic Bullets preset-selection â€“ watching the Blu-ray was torment. Itâ€™s all thorough incompetence for what feels like nothing more than a tedious retread of Escape from New Yorkâ€™s bridge finale stretched into feature length (and lo and behold who they hired for that remake â€“ prepare for... exactly the same thing). As a narrative with plot and character, The Crazies may well be fine and fun and subtextually appealing, maybe, but as a film, a technical collage of images and sound it is down-right offensive â€“ at least for anyone with an appreciation for filmmaking craft.

ledfloyd

12-28-2010, 06:28 AM

1. Somewhere
2. Father of My Children
3. Mother
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop
6. True Grit
7. The Social Network
8. The American
9. Toy Story 3
10. Fish Tank
updated to conform with us release dates.

TripZone

12-28-2010, 08:12 AM

dmk, have you seen Resident Evil: Afterlife yet? Good stuff.

Rowland

12-28-2010, 07:33 PM

dmk, have you seen Resident Evil: Afterlife yet? Good stuff.It played for the most part like a feature-length cutscene from a RE videogame to me, albeit a pretty decent one with many visually/aurally compelling moments, but it was deeply stupid and entirely uninterested in provoking any emotional or thoughtful response. It just sits there, trying very hard in its dopey way to look cool.

Ivan Drago

12-28-2010, 07:59 PM

It played for the most part like a feature-length cutscene from a RE videogame to me, albeit a pretty decent one with many visually/aurally compelling moments, but it was deeply stupid and entirely uninterested in provoking any emotional or thoughtful response. It just sits there, trying very hard in its dopey way to look cool.

But it has GROUNDBREAKING 3D TECHNOLOGY!!!!!1

TripZone

12-29-2010, 12:00 AM

dmk

12-29-2010, 01:03 AM

dmk, have you seen Resident Evil: Afterlife yet? Good stuff.
I like the first one, so I might. The other two not, although Russell Mulcahy is always good value, with his reliably garish visual sensibilities.

I'm fairly certain RE: Apocalypse is a complete piece of shit though.

MadMan

12-29-2010, 01:06 AM

Itâ€™s all thorough incompetence for what feels like nothing more than a tedious retread of Escape from New Yorkâ€™s bridge finale stretched into feature length (and lo and behold who they hired for that remake â€“ prepare for... exactly the same thing). As a narrative with plot and character, The Crazies may well be fine and fun and subtextually appealing, maybe, but as a film, a technical collage of images and sound it is down-right offensive â€“ at least for anyone with an appreciation for filmmaking craft.Heh. I guess I forgot to be offended, but then maybe I don't have an appreciation for filmmaking craft. Silly me.

dmk

12-29-2010, 01:15 AM

Heh. I guess I forgot to be offended, but then maybe I don't have an appreciation for filmmaking craft. Silly me.
Ha, after submitting that post I realised how pretentious that final line read. But I'm not sorry.

Raiders

12-29-2010, 02:01 AM

I have to say, I think I have seen enough films to know it is objectively incorrect to state The Crazies is a poorly-made film. Its craft, that is to say its efficient and quick editing rhythms, its elegant establishing shots, its effective compositions (moving isn't all a camera is good for) which do harbor a good deal of mood, all prove that I feel very confident in outright declaring it is simply a fact that the film is well made.

ContinentalOp

12-29-2010, 02:11 AM

1. The Social Network
2. The Fighter
3. The Ghost Writer
4. Toy Story 3
5. True Grit
6. 127 Hours
7. The Town
8. Shutter Island
9. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
10. Winnebago Man

I think that's going to be final.

RoadtoPerdition

12-29-2010, 06:10 AM

1. Black Swan
2. Inception
3. The Social Network
4. The Fighter
5. 127 Hours
6. Shutter Island
7. Smash His Camera
8. Teenage Paparazzo
9. The Killer Inside Me
10. Edge of Darkness

This is pretty much all I've seen from 2010 so far so, no, I'm not, on purpose, omitting certain movies (and I didn't care for Edge of Darkness all that much).

TGM

12-29-2010, 02:16 PM

I like the first one, so I might. The other two not, although Russell Mulcahy is always good value, with his reliably garish visual sensibilities.

I'm fairly certain RE: Apocalypse is a complete piece of shit though.

After watching it a second time, I think the newest RE may be my favorite in the series. It definitely has its problems (too much slow-mo being the biggest offender), but these issues weren't nearly as bothersome on a second viewing.

Oh, and you're definitely correct. Apocalypse was indeed a piece of shit. I've given it a few shots, but it's the only one in the franchise that's continued to bother me just as much every time I've seen it.

Spinal

12-29-2010, 05:41 PM

I finally have a top five!

1. Inception
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Enter the Void
4. How to Train Your Dragon
5. Catfish

Gonna be tough to crack that amazing top 3.

1. Inception
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Enter the Void
4. Everyone Else
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
6. How to Train Your Dragon
7. Catfish

Dead & Messed Up

12-29-2010, 11:13 PM

01. Inception
02. The Social Network
03. Exit Through the Gift Shop
04. Shutter Island
05. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
06. MacGruber
07. The Other Guys
08. Hot Tub Time Machine
09. Cyrus
10. The Expendables

11. The Kids Are All Right
12. Kick-Ass
13. Alice in Wonderland
14. Legion

I watched Exit and Alice today, and I was going to keep it going by watching The Crazies, but the first ten minutes had two of those awful violin-shriek jump-scares that augment nothing. Maybe I'll tackle it later. Toy Story 3 will be watched tomorrow.

Eleven

12-29-2010, 11:34 PM

I was going to keep it going by watching The Crazies, but the first ten minutes had two of those awful violin-shriek jump-scares that augment nothing. Maybe I'll tackle it later.

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/2891/473igblogo.gif

eternity

12-29-2010, 11:57 PM

1. The Social Network dir. David Fincher
2. Fair Game dir. Doug Liman
3. Tron Legacy dir. Joseph Kosinski
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop dir. Banksy
5. Toy Story 3 dir. Lee Unkrich
6. Somewhere dir. Sofia Coppola
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World dir. Edgar Wright
8. Catfish dir. Ariel Schuman, Henry Joost
9. Prodigal Sons dir. Kimberly Reed
10. Trash Humpers dir. Harmony Korine

11. I Am Comic dir. Jordan Brady
12. Winter's Bone dir. Debra Granik
13. The Ghost Writer dir. Roman Polanski
14. The American dir. Anton Corbijn
15. Everyone Else dir. Maren Ade
16. Easy A dir. Will Gluck
17. Cyrus dir. Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
18. Kick-Ass dir. Matthew Vaughn
19. How To Train Your Dragon dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
20. The King's Speech dir. Tom Hooper
21. I'm Still Here dir. Casey Affleck
22. Bluebeard dir. Catherine Breillat
23. Hot Tub Time Machine dir. Steve Pink
24. MacGruber dir. Jorma Taccone
25. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (or 30 Days of Light) dir. David Slade
26. Centurion dir. Neil Marshall
27. Heartbeats dir. Xavier Dolan
______________________________ _______
28. Black Swan dir. Darren Aronofsky
29. Cop Out dir. Kevin Smith
30. Breaking Upwards dir. Daryl Wein
31. Ondine dir. Neil Jordan
32. Monsters dir. Gareth Edwards
33. The Kids Are All Right dir. Lisa Chodolenko
34. Paranormal Activity 2 dir. Tod Williams
35. Date Night dir. Shawn Levy
36. Creation dir. Jon Amiel
37. Get Him to the Greek dir. Nicholas Stoller
38. Film Socialisme dir. Jean-Luc Godard
39. Shutter Island dir. Martin Scorsese
40. Tamara Drewe dir. Stephen Frears
41. Knight and Day dir. James Mangold
42. Fish Tank dir. Andrea Arnold
43. Iron Man 2 dir. Jon Favreau
44. Holy Rollers dir. Kevin Asch
45. Robin Hood dir. Ridley Scott
46. The Karate Kid dir. Harald Zwart
47. The Book of Eli dir. Albert and Allen Hughes
48. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dir. Niels Arden Oplev
49. Alice in Wonderland dir. Tim Burton
50. Leap Year dir. Anand Tucker
51. Inception dir. Christopher Nolan
52. The Girl Who Played with Fire dir. Daniel Alfredson
53. Youth in Revolt dir. Miguel Artera
54. Dear John dir. Lasse Hallstrom
55. Greenberg dir. Noah Baumbach
56. The Wolfman dir. Joe Johnston
57. The Expendables dir. Slyvester Stallone
58. The Human Centipede dir. Tom Six
59. The A-Team dir. Joe Carnahan
60. Devil dir. John Erick Dowdle
61. Clash of the Titans dir. Louis Letterier
62. Legion dir. Scott Stewart
63. Vampires Suck dir. The Blunder Twins
64. Secretariat dir. Randall Wallace
65. The Last Airbender dir. M Night Shyamalan
66. Valentine's Day dir. Garry Marshall

Added: The King's Speech, a movie which is so damn good in some ways and yet absolutely abysmal in others.

Boner M

12-30-2010, 12:10 AM

Added: The King's Speech, a movie which is so damn good in some ways and yet absolutely abysmal in others.
Really? I thought it was just hummingly pleasant throughout, never outright terrible or transcendent.

eternity

12-30-2010, 12:16 AM

Really? I thought it was just hummingly pleasant throughout, never outright terrible or transcendent.
The cinematography is wonderful and the performances are all-around quite good. The script made me cringe in how bad it was at times, however.

Spinal

12-30-2010, 12:19 AM

1. Inception
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Enter the Void
4. Everyone Else
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
6. How to Train Your Dragon
7. Catfish

1. Inception
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Enter the Void
4. Tangled
5. Everyone Else
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
7. How to Train Your Dragon
8. Catfish

Dead & Messed Up

12-31-2010, 04:31 AM

[it gets better image]

It got somewhat better. Joe Anderson was impressive.

01. Inception
02. The Social Network
03. Exit Through the Gift Shop
04. Shutter Island
05. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
06. MacGruber
07. Toy Story 3
08. The Other Guys
09. Piranha 3-D
10. Hot Tub Time Machine

11. The Crazies
12. Cyrus
13. The Expendables
14. The Kids Are All Right
15. Kick-Ass
16. Alice in Wonderland
17. Legion

TGM

01-01-2011, 01:01 PM

Very last minute changes jumped Tangled into my Top 5 (and dropped Machete into my Bottom 5):

5. Tangled
4. The Ghost Writer
3. Let Me In
2. Tron: Legacy
1. Inception

Now I'm satisfied with my list. :)

Mysterious Dude

01-01-2011, 01:36 PM

1. Winter's Bone
2. Inception
3. The Misfortunates
4. A Prophet
5. Ajami
6. The Social Network
7. Greenberg
8. The Good, the Bad, the Weird
9. Agora
10. Animal Kingdom

1. Winter's Bone
2. Mother
3. Black Swan
4. Inception
5. A Prophet
6. The Misfortunates
7. Ajami
8. The Social Network
9. The Good, the Bad, the Weird
10. Greenberg

11. The Exploding Girl
12. Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
13. Agora
14. I Am Love
15. Exit Through the Gift Shop
16. Boy
17. 127 Hours
18. True Grit
19. Shutter Island
20. Vincere

21. Valhalla Rising
22. The Kids Are All Right
23. Alamar
24. Everyone Else
25. The Ghost Writer
26. Animal Kingdom
27. The Karate Kid
28. Robin Hood
29. TRON: Legacy
30. Alice in Wonderland

31. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
32. The Runaways
33. Centurion

Fezzik

01-04-2011, 01:25 PM

How To Train Your Dragon
True Grit
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Inception
Tangled
The Ghost Writer
Black Swan
Let Me In
Toy Story 3
Exit Through the Gift Shop

11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
12. The Social Network
13. Shutter Island
14. RED
15. The Fighter
16. Tron: Legacy
17. Easy A
18. The King's Speech
19. The Kids Are All Right
20. The Book of Eli
21. The Expendables
22. Iron Man 2
23. Knight and Day
24. Alice in Wonderland

After some new watches, some rewatches and some thought, here's what probably will by my final list unless I'm suddenly able to find the means to sneak out to the movies in the next couple of days. Lots of re-ordering, as I decided to go back to what I used to do, which is just making my list about how much I enjoyed a film instead of rating it strictly on its craftsmanship. Granted, sometimes the craft of a film HELPED me enjoy it, but that's neither here nor there.

Kurosawa Fan

01-04-2011, 03:52 PM

1. Mother
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Everyone Else
4. How to Train Your Dragon
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
6. Restrepo
7. The Crazies
8. Hot Tub Time Machine
9. Macgruber
10. Inception

1. Mother
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Everyone Else
4. A Prophet
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7. Restrepo
8. The Crazies
9. Hot Tub Time Machine
10. Macgruber

Ivan Drago

01-04-2011, 05:07 PM

Edited for Exit Through The Gift Shop and I'm Still Here.

Kurosawa Fan

01-05-2011, 01:01 AM

1. Mother
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Everyone Else
4. A Prophet
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7. Restrepo
8. The Crazies
9. Hot Tub Time Machine
10. Macgruber

1. Mother
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Everyone Else
4. A Prophet
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
8. Restrepo
9. The Crazies
10. Hot Tub Time Machine

ledfloyd

01-05-2011, 11:03 AM

1. White Material
2. Somewhere
3. Father of My Children
4. Mother
5. Sweetgrass
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
7. Exit Through the Gift Shop
8. The Social Network
9. True Grit
10. Toy Story 3

new number one.

soitgoes...

01-05-2011, 11:11 AM

new number one.Sweetgrass was awesome. The telephone call from the mountaintop has to be one of the top scenes of the year for me.

number8

01-05-2011, 02:03 PM

Ta-dah. Mine.

http://www.justpressplay.net/movies/movie-news/7295-10-overlooked-films-of-2010.html

Kurosawa Fan

01-05-2011, 07:11 PM

1. Mother
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Everyone Else
4. A Prophet
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
8. Restrepo
9. The Crazies
10. Hot Tub Time Machine

1. Mother
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Everyone Else
4. A Prophet
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
8. Restrepo
9. The Ghost Writer
10. The Crazies

eternity

01-05-2011, 08:39 PM

1. The Social Network dir. David Fincher
2. Fair Game dir. Doug Liman
3. Tron Legacy dir. Joseph Kosinski
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop dir. Banksy
5. Toy Story 3 dir. Lee Unkrich
6. Somewhere dir. Sofia Coppola
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World dir. Edgar Wright
8. Catfish dir. Ariel Schuman, Henry Joost
9. Prodigal Sons dir. Kimberly Reed
10. Trash Humpers dir. Harmony Korine

11. I Am Comic dir. Jordan Brady
12. Winter's Bone dir. Debra Granik
13. The Ghost Writer dir. Roman Polanski
14. The American dir. Anton Corbijn
15. Never Let Me Go dir. Mark Romanek
16. Everyone Else dir. Maren Ade
17. Easy A dir. Will Gluck
18. Cyrus dir. Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
19. Kick-Ass dir. Matthew Vaughn
20. How To Train Your Dragon dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
21. The King's Speech dir. Tom Hooper
22. I'm Still Here dir. Casey Affleck
23. Bluebeard dir. Catherine Breillat
24. Hot Tub Time Machine dir. Steve Pink
25. MacGruber dir. Jorma Taccone
26. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (or 30 Days of Light) dir. David Slade
27. Centurion dir. Neil Marshall
28. Heartbeats dir. Xavier Dolan
29. True Grit dir. Joel and Ethan Coen
______________________________ _______
30. The Town dir. Ben Affleck
31. Black Swan dir. Darren Aronofsky
32. Cop Out dir. Kevin Smith
33. Breaking Upwards dir. Daryl Wein
34. Ondine dir. Neil Jordan
35. Monsters dir. Gareth Edwards
36. The Kids Are All Right dir. Lisa Chodolenko
37. Paranormal Activity 2 dir. Tod Williams
38. Date Night dir. Shawn Levy
39. Creation dir. Jon Amiel
40. Get Him to the Greek dir. Nicholas Stoller
41. Film Socialisme dir. Jean-Luc Godard
42. Shutter Island dir. Martin Scorsese
43. Tamara Drewe dir. Stephen Frears
44. Knight and Day dir. James Mangold
45. Fish Tank dir. Andrea Arnold
46. Iron Man 2 dir. Jon Favreau
47. Holy Rollers dir. Kevin Asch
48. Robin Hood dir. Ridley Scott
49. The Karate Kid dir. Harald Zwart
50. The Book of Eli dir. Albert and Allen Hughes
51. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dir. Niels Arden Oplev
52. Alice in Wonderland dir. Tim Burton
53. Leap Year dir. Anand Tucker
54. Inception dir. Christopher Nolan
55. The Girl Who Played with Fire dir. Daniel Alfredson
56. Youth in Revolt dir. Miguel Artera
57. Dear John dir. Lasse Hallstrom
58. Greenberg dir. Noah Baumbach
59. The Wolfman dir. Joe Johnston
60. The Expendables dir. Slyvester Stallone
61. The Human Centipede dir. Tom Six
62. The A-Team dir. Joe Carnahan
63. Devil dir. John Erick Dowdle
64. Clash of the Titans dir. Louis Letterier
65. Legion dir. Scott Stewart
66. Vampires Suck dir. The Blunder Twins
67. Secretariat dir. Randall Wallace
68. The Last Airbender dir. M Night Shyamalan
69. Valentine's Day dir. Garry Marshall

balmakboor

01-05-2011, 09:16 PM

10. Trash Humpers dir. Harmony Korine

:)

Fezzik

01-06-2011, 12:36 PM

OK, so I was wrong. Had to sit down and think about this a lot, but...here is my final top ten:

How To Train Your Dragon
True Grit
Inception
Tangled
Black Swan
Toy Story 3
Let Me In
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Ghost Writer
Exit Through the Gift Shop

Kurosawa Fan

01-06-2011, 02:18 PM

1. Mother
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Everyone Else
4. A Prophet
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
8. Restrepo
9. The Ghost Writer
10. The Crazies

1. Mother
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Everyone Else
4. A Prophet
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
8. Black Swan
9. Restrepo
10. The Ghost Writer

MadMan

01-06-2011, 07:59 PM

Ha, after submitting that post I realised how pretentious that final line read. But I'm not sorry.Nah, I was just being snarky. I don't have a problem with anyone not liking The Crazies.

And I'm seeing Tron Legacy, finally. Took me long enough. After that, I will hopefully view The Black Swan and The Fighter.

eternity

01-08-2011, 05:11 AM

1. The Social Network dir. David Fincher
2. Fair Game dir. Doug Liman
3. Tron Legacy dir. Joseph Kosinski
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop dir. Banksy
5. Toy Story 3 dir. Lee Unkrich
6. Somewhere dir. Sofia Coppola
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World dir. Edgar Wright
8. The Trotsky dir. Jacob Tierney
9. Catfish dir. Ariel Schuman, Henry Joost
10. Trash Humpers dir. Harmony Korine

11. Prodigal Sons dir. Kimberly Reed
12. I Am Comic dir. Jordan Brady
13. Winter's Bone dir. Debra Granik
14. The Ghost Writer dir. Roman Polanski
15. The American dir. Anton Corbijn
16. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work dir. Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
17. Never Let Me Go dir. Mark Romanek
18. Everyone Else dir. Maren Ade
19. Easy A dir. Will Gluck
20. Cyrus dir. Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
21. Kick-Ass dir. Matthew Vaughn
22. How To Train Your Dragon dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
23. The King's Speech dir. Tom Hooper
24. I'm Still Here dir. Casey Affleck
25. Bluebeard dir. Catherine Breillat
26. Hot Tub Time Machine dir. Steve Pink
27. MacGruber dir. Jorma Taccone
28. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (or 30 Days of Light) dir. David Slade
29. Centurion dir. Neil Marshall
30. Heartbeats dir. Xavier Dolan
______________________________ _______
31. The Fighter dir. David O. Russell
32. Cop Out dir. Kevin Smith
33. Breaking Upwards dir. Daryl Wein
34. True Grit dir. Joel and Ethan Coen
35. The Town dir. Ben Affleck
36. Ondine dir. Neil Jordan
37. Monsters dir. Gareth Edwards
38. The Kids Are All Right dir. Lisa Chodolenko
39. Paranormal Activity 2 dir. Tod Williams
40. Date Night dir. Shawn Levy
41. Creation dir. Jon Amiel
42. Get Him to the Greek dir. Nicholas Stoller
43. Film Socialisme dir. Jean-Luc Godard
44. Shutter Island dir. Martin Scorsese
45. Enter the Void dir. Gaspar Noe
46. Black Swan dir. Darren Aronofsky
47. Tamara Drewe dir. Stephen Frears
48. Knight and Day dir. James Mangold
49. Fish Tank dir. Andrea Arnold
50. Iron Man 2 dir. Jon Favreau
51. Holy Rollers dir. Kevin Asch
52. Robin Hood dir. Ridley Scott
53. The Karate Kid dir. Harald Zwart
54. The Book of Eli dir. Albert and Allen Hughes
55. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dir. Niels Arden Oplev
56. Alice in Wonderland dir. Tim Burton
57. Leap Year dir. Anand Tucker
58. Inception dir. Christopher Nolan
59. The Girl Who Played with Fire dir. Daniel Alfredson
60. Youth in Revolt dir. Miguel Artera
61. Dear John dir. Lasse Hallstrom
62. Greenberg dir. Noah Baumbach
63. The Wolfman dir. Joe Johnston
64. The Expendables dir. Slyvester Stallone
65. The Human Centipede dir. Tom Six
66. The A-Team dir. Joe Carnahan
67. Devil dir. John Erick Dowdle
68. Clash of the Titans dir. Louis Letterier
69. Legion dir. Scott Stewart
70. Vampires Suck dir. The Blunder Twins
71. Secretariat dir. Randall Wallace
72. The Last Airbender dir. M Night Shyamalan
73. Valentine's Day dir. Garry Marshall

Henry Gale

01-08-2011, 05:52 PM

Ta-dah. Mine.

http://www.justpressplay.net/movies/movie-news/7295-10-overlooked-films-of-2010.html

Huh, looking over this list is like "10 Movies I Really Want To See But Haven't Done So (Yet)" for me, even though I didn't actually make it (with the exception of Catfish, which I saw a while back and liked). So well done, and personally quite encouraging.

(I meant to post this the other day, but for whatever reason it seems like it didn't work.)

eternity

01-09-2011, 11:26 PM

This thread feels sort of redundant when Mubi's listmaking function is quite awesome.

http://mubi.com/lists/20891

Stay Puft

01-10-2011, 05:09 AM

1. Soul Kitchen
2. The Oath
3. The Ghost Writer
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop
5. Carlos
6. Father of My Children
7. Women Without Men
8. Winter's Bone
9. It Came From Kuchar
10. Fish Tank

B-side

01-10-2011, 01:12 PM

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
6. Unstoppable (Scott)
7. Heartbeats (Dolan)
8. Buried (CortÃ©s)
9. The Social Network (Fincher)
10. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. The Housemaid (Im)
5. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
6. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
7. Unstoppable (Scott)
8. Heartbeats (Dolan)
9. Buried (CortÃ©s)
10. The Social Network (Fincher)

right_for_the_moment

01-11-2011, 08:35 PM

1. Certified Copy
2. Somewhere
3. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
4.You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop
6. Inception
7. Le quattro volte
8. Made in Dagenham
9. True Grit
10. The Ghost Writer

dreamdead

01-12-2011, 01:33 AM

1. Secret Sunshine - 8.5
2. Mother - 7.5
3. Everyone Else - 7.5
4. Alamar - 7.5
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop - 7.5
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - 7
7. Inception - 7
8. Greenberg - 7
9. Winter's Bone - 7
10. Valhalla Rising - 6.5

Wild Grass - 6.5
Date Night - 6
RED - 6
Shutter Island - 6
Despicable Me - 6
Until The Light Takes Us - 6
Toy Story 3 - 6
Iron Man 2 - 5
MacGruber - 4.5
Due Date - 4
Alice in Wonderland - 4
Leap Year - 3

B-side

01-12-2011, 12:28 PM

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. The Housemaid (Im)
5. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
6. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
7. Unstoppable (Scott)
8. Heartbeats (Dolan)
9. Buried (CortÃ©s)
10. The Social Network (Fincher)

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. Oki's Movie (Hong)
5. The Housemaid (Im)
6. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
7. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
8. Unstoppable (Scott)
9. Heartbeats (Dolan)
10. The Social Network (Fincher)

kopello

01-14-2011, 04:26 AM

1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives [Weerasethakul]
2. The Social Network [Nolan]
3. Four Lions [Morris]
4. Inception [Nolan]
5. The Ghost Writer [Polanski]
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World [Wright]
7. The Kids Are All Right [Cholodenko]
8. If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle [Serban]
9. How to Train Your Dragon [DeBlois & Sanders]
10. Jackass 3D [Tremaine]

11. Restrepo [Hetherington & Junger]
12. Shutter Island [Scorsese]
13. Exit Through the Gift Shop [Banksy]
14. A Closed Book [Ruiz]
15. Black Swan [Aronofsky]
16. Toy Story 3 [Unkrich]
17. Death at a Funeral [LaBute]
18. Get Him to the Greek [Stoller]
19. Winterâ€™s Bone [Granik]

20. Kick-Ass [Vaughn]
21. The Kingâ€™s Speech [Hooper]
22. Certified Copy [Kiarostami]
23. Greenberg [Baumbach]
24. Hot Tub Time Machine [Pink]
25. Alice in Wonderland [Burton]
26. Valentineâ€™s Day [Marshall]
27. The Town [Affleck]

MadMan

01-14-2011, 09:16 AM

Best of the Year List:

1. The Social Network-100
2. Inception-95
3. The Fighter-95
4. Winter's Bone-94
5. Scott Pilgrim vs the World-92
6. Kick-Ass-91
7. Shutter Island-90
8. Tron: Legacy-90
9. How To Train Your Dragon-90
10. A Prophet-90

The In Between List:

1. The Ghost Writer-88
2. The Crazies-87
3. True Grit-86
4. The Other Guys-85
5. Cyrus-85
6. Iron Man 2-85
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street-84
8. Hot Tub Time Machine-84
9. Death at a Funeral-84
10. Machete-83
11. MacGruber-82
12. Salt-82
13. Predators-81
14. Get Him To The Greek-78
15. Piranha-77
15. The Expendables-75
16. Cop-Out-72

Worst List:

1. Clash of the Titans-57
2. Robin Hood-60
3. The Karate Kid-61

Up Next: Black Swan. I have a feeling someone will drag me to The King's Speech, too.

B-side

01-14-2011, 02:08 PM

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. Oki's Movie (Hong)
5. The Housemaid (Im)
6. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
7. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
8. Unstoppable (Scott)
9. Heartbeats (Dolan)
10. The Social Network (Fincher)

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2, The Sleeping Beauty (Breillat)
3. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
4. Act Da Fool (Korine)
5. Oki's Movie (Hong)
6. The Housemaid (Im)
7. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
9. Unstoppable (Scott)
10. Heartbeats (Dolan)

eternity

01-15-2011, 05:27 PM

1. Blue Valentine dir. Derek Cianfrance
2. The Social Network dir. David Fincher
3. Fair Game dir. Doug Liman
4. Toy Story 3 dir. Lee Unkrich
5. Tron Legacy dir. Joseph Kosinski
6. Exit Through the Gift Shop dir. Banksy
7. Somewhere dir. Sofia Coppola
8. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World dir. Edgar Wright
9. Catfish dir. Ariel Schuman, Henry Joost
10. The Trotsky dir. Jacob Tierney

11. Trash Humpers dir. Harmony Korine
12. Prodigal Sons dir. Kimberly Reed
13. I Am Comic dir. Jordan Brady
14. Winter's Bone dir. Debra Granik
15. Solitary Man dir. Brian Koppelman, David Levien
16. The Ghost Writer dir. Roman Polanski
17. The American dir. Anton Corbijn
18. Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work dir. Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg
19. Never Let Me Go dir. Mark Romanek
20. Everyone Else dir. Maren Ade
21. Easy A dir. Will Gluck
22. Cyrus dir. Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass
23. Kick-Ass dir. Matthew Vaughn
24. How To Train Your Dragon dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
25. The King's Speech dir. Tom Hooper
26. I'm Still Here dir. Casey Affleck
27. Bluebeard dir. Catherine Breillat
28. Hot Tub Time Machine dir. Steve Pink
29. MacGruber dir. Jorma Taccone
30. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (or 30 Days of Light) dir. David Slade
31. Centurion dir. Neil Marshall
32. Heartbeats dir. Xavier Dolan
______________________________ _______
33. The Fighter dir. David O. Russell
34. Cop Out dir. Kevin Smith
35. Breaking Upwards dir. Daryl Wein
36. True Grit dir. Joel and Ethan Coen
37. The Town dir. Ben Affleck
38. Ondine dir. Neil Jordan
39. Monsters dir. Gareth Edwards
40. The Kids Are All Right dir. Lisa Chodolenko
41. Paranormal Activity 2 dir. Tod Williams
42. Date Night dir. Shawn Levy
43. Creation dir. Jon Amiel
44. Get Him to the Greek dir. Nicholas Stoller
45. Film Socialisme dir. Jean-Luc Godard
46. Shutter Island dir. Martin Scorsese
47. Enter the Void dir. Gaspar Noe
48. Black Swan dir. Darren Aronofsky
49. Tamara Drewe dir. Stephen Frears
50. Knight and Day dir. James Mangold
51. Fish Tank dir. Andrea Arnold
52. Iron Man 2 dir. Jon Favreau
53. Holy Rollers dir. Kevin Asch
54. Robin Hood dir. Ridley Scott
55. The Karate Kid dir. Harald Zwart
56. The Book of Eli dir. Albert and Allen Hughes
57. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dir. Niels Arden Oplev
58. Alice in Wonderland dir. Tim Burton
59. Leap Year dir. Anand Tucker
60. Inception dir. Christopher Nolan
61. The Girl Who Played with Fire dir. Daniel Alfredson
62. Youth in Revolt dir. Miguel Artera
63. Dear John dir. Lasse Hallstrom
64. Greenberg dir. Noah Baumbach
65. The Wolfman dir. Joe Johnston
66. The Expendables dir. Slyvester Stallone
67. The Human Centipede dir. Tom Six
68. The A-Team dir. Joe Carnahan
69. Devil dir. John Erick Dowdle
70. Clash of the Titans dir. Louis Letterier
71. Legion dir. Scott Stewart
72. Vampires Suck dir. The Blunder Twins
73. Secretariat dir. Randall Wallace
74. The Last Airbender dir. M Night Shyamalan
75. Valentine's Day dir. Garry Marshall

Pop Trash

01-16-2011, 05:43 AM

1. Black Swan
2. Inception
3. Greenberg
4. Winter's Bone
5. Blue Valentine
6. Let Me In
7. Exit Through the Gift Shop
8. The Ghost Writer
9. Mother
10. Dogtooth

Stay Puft

01-18-2011, 02:14 AM

1. Soul Kitchen
2. The Oath
3. I Am Love
4. The Ghost Writer
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop
6. Father of My Children
7. Carlos
8. Women Without Men
9. Winter's Bone
10. It Came From Kuchar

B-side

01-18-2011, 02:59 PM

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2, The Sleeping Beauty (Breillat)
3. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
4. Act Da Fool (Korine)
5. Oki's Movie (Hong)
6. The Housemaid (Im)
7. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
9. Unstoppable (Scott)
10. Heartbeats (Dolan)

1. Blue Valentine (Cianfrance)
2. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
3. The Sleeping Beauty (Breillat)
4. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
5. Act Da Fool (Korine)
6. Oki's Movie (Hong)
7. The Housemaid (Im)
8. I Wish I Knew (Jia)
9. Unstoppable (Scott)
10. Heartbeats (Dolan)

Stay Puft

01-19-2011, 08:55 PM

1. Soul Kitchen
2. The Oath
3. White Material
4. I Am Love
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop
6. Father of My Children
7. Carlos
8. The Ghost Writer
9. Women Without Men
10. Winter's Bone

dmk

01-20-2011, 12:23 AM

1 . Leap Year
2 . Certified Copy
3 . Road to Nowhere
4 . I'm Still Here
5 . The Ghost Writer
6 . Somewhere
7 . Gone with the Pope
8 . Tuesday, After Christmas
9 . Blue Valentine
10 . Film socialisme
1 . Leap Year
2 . Certified Copy
3 . Road to Nowhere
4 . I'm Still Here
5 . The Ghost Writer
6 . Oki's Movie

7 . Somewhere
8 . Gone with the Pope
9 . Tuesday, After Christmas
10 . Blue Valentine

Boner M

01-20-2011, 02:57 AM

So, everyone cool for another year-end countdown, with a special guest and bad photoshops and such? I'll start another thread specifically for US releases (and a bottom 10) if you're all down with that idea.

Kurosawa Fan

01-20-2011, 03:04 AM

What's our deadline? I have a few movies I want to see before my lame-ass ballot becomes official.

Boner M

01-20-2011, 03:06 AM

Around mid-Feb, but I'll stretch it for stragglers and POSDT-dwellers like you.

Rowland

01-20-2011, 04:39 AM

Is there going to be an official thread for us to post our final ballots, or is this the thread to do it? I'll just make up a ballot on the day of the deadline.

D_Davis

01-20-2011, 05:34 AM

Man, I don't think I even watched 10 new films this year. However, two of them that I did see were very awesome, and one of them was one of the most powerful films I've ever seen:

1. A Serbian Film
2. Valhalla Rising
3. True Grit
4. Solomon Kane
5. Dragon Hunters

Ezee E

01-20-2011, 05:39 AM

Is there going to be an official thread for us to post our final ballots, or is this the thread to do it? I'll just make up a ballot on the day of the deadline.
We've always done a separate thread before, fairly sure Boner said he'd do another one.

TripZone

01-22-2011, 09:16 AM

1. Certified Copy
2. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
3. The Strange Case of Angelica
4. Hahaha
5. Another Year
6. Leap Year
7. The Social Network
8. Poetry
9. The Illusionist
10. Tuesday, After Christmas

11. Oki's Movie
12. I Wish I Knew
13. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
14. The Ghost Writer
15. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
16. Film Socialisme
17. Unstoppable
18. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
19. Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
20. Honey

D_Davis

01-23-2011, 04:45 AM

Updating with True Legend at number 1.

So good.

MadMan

02-14-2011, 07:44 PM

Best of the Year List:

1. The Social Network-100
2. Inception-95
3. The Fighter-95
4. Winter's Bone-94
5. Scott Pilgrim vs the World-92
6. Kick-Ass-91
7. Shutter Island-90
8. Tron: Legacy-90
9. How To Train Your Dragon-90
10. A Prophet-90

The In Between List:

1. True Grit-90
2. The Ghost Writer-88
3. The Crazies-87
4. The Other Guys-85
5. Cyrus-85
6. Iron Man 2-85
7. A Nightmare on Elm Street-84
8. Hot Tub Time Machine-84
9. Death at a Funeral-84
10. Machete-83
11. MacGruber-82
12. Salt-82
13. Predators-81
14. Due Date-80
15. Get Him To The Greek-78
16. Piranha-77
17. The Expendables-75
18. Cop-Out-72
19. Family Guy: Its a Trap!-68

Worst List:

1. Clash of the Titans-57
2. Robin Hood-60
3. The Karate Kid-61
4. I Spit On Your Grave-65

Okay, 30 movies on the year. I have 3 more in the Netflix queue.

Pip

02-14-2011, 09:53 PM

01. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1
02. Enter the Void
03. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
04. Micmacs
05. Exit Through the Gift Shop
06. Mother
07. The Good, The Bad, The Weird
08. Black Swan
09. Kick-Ass
10. The Wolfman

Sxottlan

03-26-2011, 02:09 AM

Thanks to Netflix, I'm basically caught up on all I wanted to see for 2010 (with Monsters and Centurion still to come, but I'm thinking that neither will have any real shot), so finally here's my top ten of 2010:

1. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: ****
2. Inception: ****
3. Black Swan: ****
4. True Grit: ****
5. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, I: ****
6. The Social Network: ***1/2
7. The Ghost Writer: ***1/2
8. Toy Story 3: ***1/2
9. How to Train Your Dragon: ***1/2
10. Let Me In: ***1/2

Alternates (films I've just seen, but I'm not sure if they'll stay with me):
The Red Riding Trilogy: ***1/2
Exit Through The Gift Shop: ***1/2
Dogtooth: ***1/2

Worst Films of 2010:
Knight and Day: *1/2
Skyline: *1/2
Hereafter: *1/2
Unstoppable: *1/2
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief: **
Legion: **
Robin Hood: **
The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: **
The Wolfman: **
The Last Airbender: **

Most disappointing film of 2010: The Killer Inside Me