Your Top Ten of 2010

[eternity]

I know it's probably too soon for this, but might as well start it now.

[MadMan]

This spot reserved, and to be finished completely by oh, 2020.

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

Worst List:

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

Up Next: Either True Grit

[eternity]

So weak.

Fresh:
1. Toy Story 3 dir. Lee Unkrich 87
2. Precious Little Life dir. Edgar Wright 80
3. Kick-Ass dir. Matthew Vaughn 76
4. How to Train Your Dragon dir. Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders 75
5. Hot Tub Time Machine dir. Steve Pink 71
6. MacGruber dir. Jorma Taccone 64
7. Eclipse dir. David Slade 60
Rotten:
8. Date Night dir. Shawn Levy 58
9. Creation dir. Jon Amiel 56
10. Get Him to the Greek dir. Nicholas Stoller 52


11. The Karate Kid dir. Harald Zwart 49
12. The Last Airbender dir. M Night Shyamalan 48
13. The Book of Eli dir. Albert and Allen Hughes 41
14. The A-Team dir. Joe Carnahan 39
15. Alice in Wonderland dir. Tim Burton 38
16. Leap Year dir. Anand Tucker 35
17. Youth in Revolt dir. Miguel Artera 33
18. Clash of the Titans dir. Louis Letterier 26
19. Dear John dir. Lasse Hallstrom 25
20. Legion dir. Scott Stewart 18
21. Valentine's Day dir. Garry Marshall 11

[Ezee E]

1. A Prophet
2. Fish Tank
3. Shutter Island
4. Book of Eli
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Good list!

[Ivan Drago]

I thought My Son, My Son came out last year?

[Ezee E]

I thought My Son, My Son came out last year?
Just festivals. Never went wide.

[soitgoes...]

A Prophet (Audiard)
The Secret of Their Eyes (Campanella)
Triangle (Smith)
The Book of Eli (Hughes Bros.)

[ledfloyd]

1. White Material
2. Somewhere
3. Father of My Children
4. Sweetgrass
5. Mother
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
7. Secret Sunshine
8. True Grit
9. Hadewijch
10. Carlos

[soitgoes...]

1. Love Exposure

I have the feeling this won't see a US release any time soon.

[NickGlass]

Just festivals. Never went wide.

It may not have gone wide, but it certainly got a limited release. It opened at the IFC Center back in November, and is still playing there.

[ledfloyd]

I have the feeling this won't see a US release any time soon.
i doubt it as well, but i may as well leave it there.

[baby doll]

1. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
2. Un prophète (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.

[Ezee E]

It may not have gone wide, but it certainly got a limited release. It opened at the IFC Center back in November, and is still playing there.
Doubt it will ever go wide either. Although I hope Match Cutters can see it. For that, I'll keep it as a 2010 release.

[NickGlass]

Doubt it will ever go wide either. Although I hope Match Cutters can see it. For that, I'll keep it as a 2010 release.

Um, ok, but it's not.


1. Fish Tank

[Ezee E]

Um, ok, but it's not.


1. Fish Tank
NY/LA release in early December. You win this time Glass.

[baby doll]

1. The Shaft (Zhang Chi)
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

I also liked Fish Tank and Youth in Revolt.Updated.

[Fezzik]

Shutter Island
The Book of Eli


Yeah, yeah, I've been seeing a lot of older films. Sue me :p

[Dukefrukem]

Is this the thread where people get mad if you post your top 10 of 010 even if they're crappy movies because there hasn't been a decent release yet?

well here's mine then...

1. The Book of Eli [75]
2. The Wolfman [60]
3. Edge of Darkness [49]
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Legion [26]

[baby doll]

Is this the thread where people get mad if you post your top 10 of 010 even if they're crappy movies because there hasn't been a decent release yet?As I said last year, if you put a bunch of films on your list just because you haven't seen that much, how is the reader supposed to know how much you liked each film? I wouldn't say I'm "mad" about it, but I dislike the ambiguity.

Also, a 99 for Terminator 2? It's almost certainly Cameron's most interesting film, but that seems a bit much. Also, what's the difference between a 99 and a 100 really? It's like trying to choose between Lola and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.

[Dukefrukem]

As I said last year, if you put a bunch of films on your list just because you haven't seen that much, how is the reader supposed to know how much you liked each film? I wouldn't say I'm "mad" about it, but I dislike the ambiguity.

Also, a 99 for Terminator 2? It's almost certainly Cameron's most interesting film, but that seems a bit much. Also, what's the difference between a 99 and a 100 really? It's like trying to choose between Lola and Les Demoiselles de Rochefort.

Well that's what the ratings in my sig are for. Unless you want me to attach them to the movies as well.

Didn't we talk about this rating system before? I don't rate films at 100.

[Eleven]

Anyone else seen Bong's Mother? Pretty sure that's getting a limited release in March.

[baby doll]

Well that's what the ratings in my sig are for. Unless you want me to attach them to the movies as well.

Didn't we talk about this rating system before? I don't rate films at 100.No, but let's not make this another discussion about ratings. I was just curious if there was some small thing that was holding T2 back from aesthetic perfectomundo, or if you were grading on a scale (i.e., It's pretty incredible but not quite in the same league as Au hasard Balthazar and Playtime). But now that I know that's your highest possible rating, my question becomes: Do you really think that's the best cinema can do? James Cameron? It's been a while since I've seen that particular film, but based on my more recent viewing of Avatar, I find him merely adequate as both a storyteller and a stylist. He's not attempting anything very original, either in terms of plot or style, and he demands very little of the viewer (and with the kind of budgets he works with, he can't afford to). Both T2 and Avatar are above-average for their genre, especially the former which has the advantages of two charismatic stars (Schwarzenegger and Hamilton) as opposed to none, better action scenes, and a more interesting story (particularly in its ambivalent feelings about technology), but if I seriously thought it was the best cinema had to offer, I'd have outgrown watching movies a long time ago.

[Derek]

Anyone else seen Bong's Mother? Pretty sure that's getting a limited release in March.

I got it from KG, but haven't gotten around to it yet. What did you think of it?

[ledfloyd]

Anyone else seen Bong's Mother? Pretty sure that's getting a limited release in March.
yeah, it's a fun little hitchcockian thriller.

[Eleven]

I got it from KG, but haven't gotten around to it yet. What did you think of it?

Kim Hye-ja gives the female performance of . Its feel is very similar to [I]Memories of Murder: the solving of a violent mystery impeded by institutional roadblocks and punctuated with bleak, black humor (I guess a lot of that applies to The Host as well). Mesmerizing opening credits and closing sequence.

[Ezee E]

Four movies for the year so far, and I like them all a fairly good amount.

[Stay Puft]

I probably owe it another chance, but I found Mother underwhelming compared to Bong's previous two. Kim Hye-ja is awesome, without a doubt, and there a couple great scenes, but overall it felt like a weaker effort. I was distracted by the aspect ratio, too, which probably sounds weird. I don't think I care for how Bong frames in widescreen.

[Dukefrukem]

No, but let's not make this another discussion about ratings. I was just curious if there was some small thing that was holding T2 back from aesthetic perfectomundo, or if you were grading on a scale (i.e., It's pretty incredible but not quite in the same league as Au hasard Balthazar and Playtime). But now that I know that's your highest possible rating, my question becomes: Do you really think that's the best cinema can do? James Cameron? It's been a while since I've seen that particular film, but based on my more recent viewing of Avatar, I find him merely adequate as both a storyteller and a stylist. He's not attempting anything very original, either in terms of plot or style, and he demands very little of the viewer (and with the kind of budgets he works with, he can't afford to). Both T2 and Avatar are above-average for their genre, especially the former which has the advantages of two charismatic stars (Schwarzenegger and Hamilton) as opposed to none, better action scenes, and a more interesting story (particularly in its ambivalent feelings about technology), but if I seriously thought it was the best cinema had to offer, I'd have outgrown watching movies a long time ago.

To put it simply... I think it's the greatest action movie ever made and I don't think anything else comes close to challenging it... with the exception of Avatar. The way you phrase it, "best cinema had to offer" if I walked around thinking this phrase should be used when rating movies in a genre, I'd have found a new hobby.

[Ezee E]

To put it simply... I think it's the greatest action movie ever made and I don't think anything else comes close to challenging it... with the exception of Avatar. The way you phrase it, "best cinema had to offer" if I walked around thinking this phrase should be used when rating movies in a genre, I'd have found a new hobby.
Don't worry duke. Babydoll has friends over on Von Trier night and makes a drinking game out of Breaking the Waves.

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Another Year
2. Winter’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

[baby doll]

1. Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
2. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
3. The Shaft (Zhang Chi)
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

I also liked Fish Tank and Youth in Revolt.Updated for the end of March.

[Briare]

1. Winter's Bone
2. Inception
3. Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
4. Oceans
5. Micmacs
6. The Runaways
7. Shutter Island
8. Ramona & Beezus
9. Green Zone
10. Robin Hood

[Ivan Drago]

1. Black Swan
2. Let Me In
3. Inception
4. The Social Network
5. TRON: Legacy
6. Greenberg
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
8. The American
9. MacGruber
10. Exit Through The Gift Shop


11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
12. Tangled
13. Toy Story 3
14. The Fighter
15. The Expendables
16. Piranha 3D
17. Batman: Under The Red Hood
18. Iron Man 2
19. Shutter Island
20. Despicable Me
21. I'm Still Here
22. Easy A
23. The Town
24. True Grit
25. You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger
26. Alice in Wonderland
27. Kick-Ass
28. Machete
29. Predators
30. Splice
31. Legend of the Guardians
32. Get Him To The Greek
33. Paranormal Activity 2
34. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
35. Clash of the Titans
36. The Human Centipede
37. Grown Ups
38. Titanic II

[Fezzik]

How To Train Your Dragon
Shutter Island
Alice in Wonderland
The Book of Eli

[BrianCan't]

So far, this is the stuff, good and bad, that I've seen in the theater so far this year:
1. Greenberg - 9
2. A Single Man - 9 (technically '09)
3. Youth in Revolt - 8.5
4. Shutter Island - 8.5
5. The Ghost Writer - 8
6. She's Out of My League - 7
7. Green Zone - 6.5
8. Edge of Darkness - 6
9. From Paris with Love - 5
10. The Lovely Bones - 4 (technically '09)

[baby doll]

1. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
2. Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
3. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
4. The Misfortunates (Felix van Groenineg)
5. The Shaft (Zhang Chi)
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

I also liked Fish Tank and Youth in Revolt.Updated for the end of April.

[Barty]

Out of 5 stars:

1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - [****1/2]
2. Shutter Island - [****]
3. City Island - [****]
4. The Ghost Writer - [****]
5. Green Zone - [****]
6. Kick-Ass - [****]
7. Edge of Darkness - [***1/2]
8. Youth in Revolt - [***1/2]
9. Chloe - [***1/2]
10. How to Train Your Dragon - [***1/2]

[MadMan]

Bumpage :cool:

[origami_mustache]

1. Greenberg

really the only film I've seen this year of note.

[Sxottlan]

Are we counting A Prophet? I thought that was from 2009?

[soitgoes...]

Are we counting A Prophet? I thought that was from 2009?
US release dates.

[baby doll]

1. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
2. Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
3. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
5. The Misfortunates (Felix van Groenineg)
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

I also liked Ajami, Fish Tank, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Shaft, The Trotsky, and Youth in Revolt.Updated for the end of May. Between The Ghost Writer and Exit Through the Gift Shop, it's a bit of a toss-up honestly, because I've just seen them once each. And I decided to demote The Shaft to the runners-up. It just didn't seem like it belonged on the list.

[Pop Trash]

1. Inception
2. Greenberg
3. The Ghost Writer
4. Dogtooth
5. Toy Story 3
6. Please Give
7.
8.
9. Shutter Island
10. Hot Tub Time Machine

[dreamdead]

1. Greenberg - 7.5
2. Inception - 7
3. Shutter Island - 6
4. Iron Man 2 - 5
5. MacGruber - 4.5
6. Alice in Wonderland - 4
7. Leap Year - 3

[kopello]

1. Shutter Island
2. Valhalla Rising
3. How to Train Your Dragon
4. Kick-Ass
5. A Closed Book
6. Hot Tub Time Machine
7. Alice in Wonderland
8. Valentine's Day
9. ......
10. .......

Even though the plot twist in Shutter Island is lame the performances are top notch and there really are some powerful images throughout the film and some amazing scenes that have stayed with me long after seeing it. If anything I think it'll improve on a rewatch.

[eternity]

I've seen a lot of crap this year. Not a lot of anything else, however.

[balmakboor]

Films I've Reviewed Favorably (though somewhat mixed below the line)
1. How to Train Your Dragon
2. The Karate Kid
3. Date Night
4. Shrek Forever After
5. The Crazies
---
6. Shutter Island
7. Hot Tub Time Machine
8. Death at a Funeral
9. Splice

Films I've Reviewed Negatively (Worst is #1)
1. Robin Hood
2. A Nightmare on Elm Street
3. Iron Man 2
4. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
5. Kick-Ass
6. Alice in Wonderland

It's weird reviewing movies almost every week. I've been seeing a lot of things that I would've never seen if it wasn't a "job."

[jenniferofthejungle]

I'll play, but I haven't seen much this year.

1. Shutter Island
2. The Crazies
3. Iron Man 2
4. Splice
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

[megladon8]

I'll play, but I haven't seen much this year.

1. Shutter Island
2. The Crazies
3. Iron Man 2
4. Splice
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.


I REALLY want to see The Crazies after hearing it's actually really good.

And I'm so glad you enjoyed Shutter Island. I think you liked it more than me :D

[jenniferofthejungle]

I actually did like Shutter Island a little more than you did. I watched it 3 times in two days. :D

The Crazies wasn't "out-of-this-world-wonderful," but it was surprisingly good. I had assumed it would suck, but was pleasantly surprised by it.

I am sure Toy Story 3 will make an appearance on this list come Monday.

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Exit Through the Gift Shop
2. The Crazies
3. Get him to the Greek
4. Shutter Island
5. Kick-Ass
6. Iron Man 2
7. Splice
8. Alice in Wonderland
9. MacGruber
10. The A-Team



Pretty underwhelming so far :/ Maybe I should be seeing less crap though.

[baby doll]

Pretty underwhelming so far :/ Maybe I should be seeing less crap though.Yeah, how is it that you live in Montreal and still haven't seen The Ghost Writer (which, by the way, is still playing at AMC), or for that matter, Les Amours imaginaires? Are you living in Pointe-Claire (or some other, equally obscure area), or just lazy?

[balmakboor]

1. How to Train Your Dragon
2. Toy Story 3
3. The Karate Kid
4. Date Night
5. Shrek Forever After
6. The Crazies
7. Shutter Island
8. Hot Tub Time Machine
9. Death at a Funeral
10. Splice

[MadMan]

I REALLY want to see The Crazies after hearing it's actually really good.

And I'm so glad you enjoyed Shutter Island. I think you liked it more than me :DI'm a bit biased in favor of The Crazies since some of it was filmed in Iowa. But seriously, its a damn good remake and one of the better movies I've viewed from this year so far.

[Rowland]

1. Universal Soldier: Regeneration (Hyams) ***
2. Get Him to the Greek (Stoller) ***
3. Kick-Ass (Vaughn) ***
4. Youth in Revolt (Arteta) **½
5. Shutter Island (Scorsese) **½
6. Defendor (Stebbings) **½
7. Splice (Natali) **½
8. Iron Man 2 (Favreau) *½
9. The A-Team (Carnahan) *½
10. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (West) *

Now THAT'S a list......

[Rowland]

1. Universal Soldier: Regeneration (Hyams) ***
2. Day and Night (Newton) ***
3. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich) ***
4. From Paris with Love (Morel) ***
5. Get Him to the Greek (Stoller) ***
6. Kick-Ass (Vaughn) ***
7. Youth in Revolt (Arteta) **½
8. Shutter Island (Scorsese) **½
9. Defendor (Stebbings) **½
10. Splice (Natali) **½

11. Alice in Wonderland (Burton) **
12. Knight and Day (Mangold) **
13. Iron Man 2 (Favreau) *½
14. The A-Team (Carnahan) *½
15. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (West) *

Alright, well my top ten is finally comprised entirely of movies to which I gave positive scores. And yet my number one remains a DTV release, directed by the son of Peter Hyams, starring Van Damme, that is a sequel to some shitty early-90s Emmerich movie.

[Philosophe_rouge]

Yeah, how is it that you live in Montreal and still haven't seen The Ghost Writer (which, by the way, is still playing at AMC), or for that matter, Les Amours imaginaires? Are you living in Pointe-Claire (or some other, equally obscure area), or just lazy?

Lazy and busy :/ Me and my friends go to the Paramount every tuesday because it's cheap, but that's pretty much the only time I've been to the theatre. I work 5-6 days a week right now, I don't even watch movies on dvd. I'm hoping to turn that around in July with Fantasia. I also am going to try and catch Amours ithis week.

[Watashi]

1. Toy Story 3
2. Shutter Island
3. Iron Man 2

That's it, really. The others aren't worth mentioning.

[Morris Schæffer]

1. The Ghost Writer
2. Kick Ass
3. How to Train Your Dragon
4. Shutter Island
5. Toy Story 3
6. Date Night
7. The A-Team
8. Iron Man 2
9. Edge of Darkness
10. ????

Quite a surprisingly strong top 5 given that we're not even July yet.

[ContinentalOp]

1. Shutter Island
2. Kick Ass
3. Daybreakers
4. Splice
5. Hot Tub Time Machine
6. Iron Man 2
7. Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths


Hoping the bottom four won't even be close to my top 10 at the end of the year.

[B-side]

1. Shutter Island (Scorsese)

2. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
3. A Closed Book (Ruiz)
4. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)

[Stay Puft]

1. Winter's Bone
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Fish Tank
4. Mother
5. Hot Tub Time Machine
6. [REC] 2
7. The Losers

That's all the stuff I rated a "yay" in E's thread, at any rate.

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Winter's Bone
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Fish Tank
4. Mother
5. Hot Tub Time Machine
6. [REC] 2
7. The Losers

That's all the stuff I rated a "yay" in E's thread, at any rate.

I am seeing Winter's Bone this week, and I'm excited that I've only seen/heard good things so far.

[baby doll]

1. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
2. Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
3. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
5. The Misfortunates (Felix van Groenineg)
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

I also liked Ajami, La Fille du RER, Fish Tank, Please Give, Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Shaft, The Trotsky, and Youth in Revolt.Updated for the end of June. I'll probably check out Breillat's Blue Beard next time I'm in the video shop.

[Rowland]

1. Universal Soldier: Regeneration (Hyams) ***
2. Day and Night (Newton) ***
3. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich) ***
4. The Crazies (Eisner) ***
5. From Paris with Love (Morel) ***
6. Get Him to the Greek (Stoller) ***
7. Kick-Ass (Vaughn) **½
8. Edge of Darkness (Campbell) **½
9. Youth in Revolt (Arteta) **½
10. Shutter Island (Scorsese) **½

11. Defendor (Stebbings) **½
12. Splice (Natali) **½
13. The Wolfman (Johnston) **
14. Please Give (Holofcener) **
15. Daybreakers (Spierigs) **
16. Knight and Day (Mangold) **
17. Alice in Wonderland (Burton) **
18. Iron Man 2 (Favreau) *½
19. The A-Team (Carnahan) *½
20. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (West) *

[Pop Trash]

Found this for your reading pleasure. I realize this year has stunk so far for mainstream releases but they could at least have Toy Story 3 in there. I haven't seen it but I'd imagine its at least as good as Please Give (which is solid but not amazing). I still think Greenberg is much, much better than many are giving it credit for.

http://theplaylist.blogspot.com/2010/06/2010-best-films-of-year-so-far.html

[Sxottlan]

Now that we're halfway through this (pretty uninspired) year, here's my list so far:

1. Toy Story 3: ***1/2
2. The Ghost Writer: ***1/2
3. How to Train Your Dragon: ***1/2
4. Green Zone: ***1/2
5. Kick-Ass: ***1/2
6. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: ***1/2
7. Shutter Island: ***1/2
8. Iron Man 2: ***
9. Book of Eli: ***
10. Hot Tub Time Machine: ***

Not a single four star film. Almost always by this time there's been at least one.

And even the films on this list already out on disc I'm not racing out to buy.

[baby doll]

Now that we're halfway through this (pretty uninspired) year...

Not a single four star film. Almost always by this time there's been at least one.

And even the films on this list already out on disc I'm not racing out to buy.Personally, 2010's been pretty good to me so far (I've even seen one four star movie), though I imagine that has a lot to do with my living, for the first five months of the year, in town only a few hours outside Montreal, which gets more specialized commercial movies. (In addition to my five favorites, I also belatedly caught up with My Dear Enemy and The White Ribbon, and I saw two terrific documentaries, Black Bus and Last Train Home, which have yet to open in New York.) It's only since I've moved back to Halifax, where there's less selection, that things have started to slow down.

Also, there's still a ton I haven't seen. Some films I'm looking forward to seeing when they come out on DVD are: Dogtooth, Everyone Else, Les Herbes folles, Mother, No One Knows About Persian Cats, The Oath, Le Père de mes enfants, Trash Humpers, Vincere, and Women Without Men--and that doesn't take into consideration commercial features which haven't yet been released in the US (like J'ai tué ma mère, which I saw in Montreal a year ago) or avant-garde movies.

[Ezee E]

:sigh: Half the year goes by, and I've really only seen two movies I like this year. The others are from festivals in '09.

1. Fish Tank
2. Shutter Island
3. A Prophet
4. The Book of Eli
5. The Good, the Bad, and the Weird

+ 5 others not worth ordering.

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Winter’s Bone
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. The Crazies
4. Get him to the Greek
5. Toy Story 3
6. Shutter Island
7. Kick-Ass
8. Iron Man 2
9. Splice
10. Alice in Wonderland

]
Improved #1, rest of the list still pathetic... hoping to change that soon.

[Boner M]

1. Dogtooth
2. Everyone Else
3. Wild Grass
4. A Prophet
5. Winter's Bone
6. The Father of My Children
7. Shutter Island
8. Fish Tank
9. Toy Story 3
10. The Most Dangerous Man in America

Actually pretty happy with this list, although only 2 are technically '10 releases.

[Pop Trash]

Actually pretty happy with this list, although only 2 are technically '10 releases.

Didn't Winter's Bone have its world premiere at Sundance 2010?

[Mysterious Dude]

1. A Prophet
2. Winter's Bone
3. Ajami
4. The Good, the Bad, the Weird

[balmakboor]

1. Winter's Bone
2. Toy Story 3
3. The Karate Kid
4. How to Train Your Dragon
5. The Crazies
6. Shutter Island
7. Date Night
8. Shrek Forever After
9. Hot Tub Time Machine
10. Splice

[ContinentalOp]

1. Toy Story 3
2. Shutter Island
3. Kick Ass
4. The Crazies
5. Daybreakers
6. Hot Tub Time Machine
7. Splice
8. Iron Man 2
9. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
10. Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. Winter’s Bone
2. Get him to the Greek
3. Possessed
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop
5. The Crazies
6. I Spit on your Grave
7. Toy Story 3
8. Shutter Island
9. Kick-Ass
10. Iron Man 2

]
Still a lot of crap. The order is still a mess too.

[Dillard]

Woah, is there a Winter's Bone thread yet? I'm curious as to how it jumps to the top of your list Rouge.

[Ivan Drago]

Still a lot of crap. The order is still a mess too.

You know a year is crappy when a remake of a shitty horror movie is on your top ten. Or when you don't even argue with your teenage cousins about how vehemently opposed you are to seeing Grown Ups with them. :frustrated:

[soitgoes...]

It's amusing that halfway through every year people claim that the current year is shitty for film.

[baby doll]

It's amusing that halfway through every year people claim that the current year is shitty for film.Every year is a crappy year for wide releases, and this time of year, that's mostly what people have seen, which maybe helps to explain why everyone is so excited about Inception.

[Russ]

Every year is a crappy year for wide releases, and this time of year, that's mostly what people have seen, which maybe helps to explain why everyone is so excited about Inception.
It's comments like this and those I've read of yours in other threads that strike me as coming from someone who has formed an opinion on the film in advance of seeing it.

[transmogrifier]

It's comments like this and those I've read of yours in other threads that strike me as coming from someone who has formed an opinion on the film in advance of seeing it.

I do this all the time. It's keeping me from ever seeing Grown Ups, for example.

I think what you are trying to say is that baby doll has formed a negative opinion on a film in advance of seeing it when you have formed a positive opinion on the same film in advance of seeing it :)

[Russ]

I think what you are trying to say is that baby doll has formed a negative opinion on a film in advance of seeing it when you have formed a positive opinion on the same film in advance of seeing it :)
Not really. I haven't posted thoughts one way or the other on it yet.

However, if it truly is a suckfest, I believe I can own up to that more easily, I think, than that of baby doll recognizing the opposite to be true. IMO, of course.

I guess I am looking forward to it, but believe me, I'll have no problem bringing the hammer down if warranted.

[Spaceman Spiff]

I do this all the time. It's keeping me from ever seeing Grown Ups, for example. :)

You should give it a chance. It's a masterpiece of classical narrative cinema.

[Derek]

You should give it a chance. It's a masterpiece of classical narrative cinema.

Would you expect any less from Dennis Dugan, our modern equivalent to Renoir?

[Ezee E]

This year has been pretty shitty though.

[Watashi]

This year has been pretty shitty though.
Yep.

These are all the films I've seen so far:

1. Toy Story 3
2. Shutter Island
3. Youth in Revolt
4. Iron Man 2
5. The Karate Kid
6. How to Train Your Dragon
7. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
8. Robin Hood
9. Predators
10. Edge of Darkness
11. Kick-Ass
12. Alice in Wonderland
13. Clash of the Titans

Sure, there are some indepedent stuff I'm missing out on, but that is one pitiful lineup halfway through the year. I'm hoping Tron and Malick can save this year.

[soitgoes...]

Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
A Prophet (Audiard)
The Secret of Their Eyes (Campanella)
The Book of Eli (Hughes Bros.)
The Secret of Kells (Moore)
Valhalla Rising (Refn)
Youth in Revolt (Arteta)
Hot Tub Time Machine (Pink)
I Love You Phillip Morris (Ficarra, Requa)


If Love Exposure gets a US release it will be #1.

[NickGlass]

Yep.

These are all the films I've seen so far:

Sure, there are some indepedent stuff I'm missing out on, but that is one pitiful lineup halfway through the year.

Yeah, because you saw a lot of shitty films. Don't you live in L.A.? Why does your list look like it's from someone who lives in Iowa and has no chance to see independent and foreign films?

[Ezee E]

What's your top ten Nick?

[NickGlass]

So, I've seen roughly 35 films from 2010 up to this point, and here are the twelve that stand out in particular so far (tiered for quality):

Excellent:
Everyone Else

Very Good/Solid:
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Dogtooth
The Kids Are All Right
Winter's Bone
I Am Love
Prodigal Sons
A Prophet

Quite good:
The Father of My Children
Fish Tank
Greenberg
I Killed My Mother

So, yeah, if 1/3 of the films I've seen this far have gotten ranked above "quite good," then the year hasn't been so bad.

[Ezee E]

One thing that's slightly disappointing this year is the lack of indie/foreign films that do make it to the bigger cineplexes. Where something like The Kids Are Alright, Winter's Bone, or Greenberg would usually hit my theaters, they're now being taken up by the 3D version of something. I think that's a large reason of why I've seen so few movies this year, and my Netflix list is waiting for those indies to get to DVD.

I could go to the Landmark Theaters, but since I'm closer to Boulder now, it's quite the drive to downtown Denver.

[Watashi]

The closest arthouse theater is about 40 minutes away from me and I don't feel like driving that far when the DVD will hit shelves only a few months later.

My theater got I am Love (no interest) and Winter's Bone (will see soon) this week.

[baby doll]

It's comments like this and those I've read of yours in other threads that strike me as coming from someone who has formed an opinion on the film in advance of seeing it.I haven't formed an opinion of Inception, though I don't expect very much from it based on Nolan's previous work. In any event, what I meant (in case it wasn't clear) is that the vast majority of wide releases are pretty terrible. In any given year, there are a few outliers (last year we had Fantastic Mr. Fox and Inglourious Basterds, as well as a few I probably missed; I still haven't seen Coraline, for instance), but most are garbage. I think the fanboy hype around Inception has to do with the impression that it's going to be more ambitious than your average blockbuster; something akin to The Matrix or Fight Club, or for that matter, Nolan's earlier Memento--all overrated in my opinion, but certainly superior to the majority of wide releases.

Just to be clear, the majority of independent and experimental (or no release) movies are pretty terrible as well, but we're less likely to see them than blockbusters which are too expensive not to get some kind of distribution, even if they're dreadful and no one wants to see them. On the other hand, this year alone I've seen a number of excellent films in limited release, so when I see people complaining that it hasn't been a good year so far, I can only conclude that they're basing this on what films get big tent-pole releases, which is a bit like saying there are no great novels based on what you can buy at the airport.

[MadMan]

One thing that's slightly disappointing this year is the lack of indie/foreign films that do make it to the bigger cineplexes. Where something like The Kids Are Alright, Winter's Bone, or Greenberg would usually hit my theaters, they're now being taken up by the 3D version of something. I think that's a large reason of why I've seen so few movies this year, and my Netflix list is waiting for those indies to get to DVD.Despite having a serious lack of interest in The Kids Are Alright, I would like to see the others listed. Even Cyrus, which seems to be somewhat funny at least. Another reason to hate on 3D, although due to only having two auditoriums capable of showing 3D movies my big local theater did not get Despicable Me in 3D, which is a tad funny to me. This summer hasn't been any worse than last summer, but this year is really disappointing so far.

[B-side]

1. Inception (Nolan)
2. Greenberg (Baumbach)
3. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
4. A Closed Book (Ruiz)
5. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
6. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)

[Fezzik]

Inception
Toy Story 3
How To Train Your Dragon
Despicable Me
Shutter Island
Iron Man 2
Knight and Day
Alice in Wonderland
The Book of Eli


I'm somewhat surprised at the fact that I've only seen nine movies released this year. It seems like a lot more.

[Ezee E]

1. Inception
2. Fish Tank
3. Shutter Island
4. A Prophet
5. Brooklyn's Finest
6. The Book of Eli
7. The Good, the Bad, and the Weird

[Raiders]

I really need to see more...

1. DAY & NIGHT (Teddy Newton)
2. TOY STORY 3 (Lee Unkrich)
-----------------------------------
3. SHUTTER ISLAND (Martin Scorsese)
4. INCEPTION (Christopher Nolan)
5. GREEN ZONE (Paul Greengrass)
6. LETTERS TO JULIET (Gary Winick)
7. IRON MAN 2 (Jon Favreau)
8. BOOK OF ELI, THE (Hughes Brothers)

I have really only liked one of the seven feature films I have seen and the best film I have seen this year was 6 minutes long.

[MacGuffin]

1. Un prophète
2. Winter's Bone
3. Trash Humpers*
4. Hot Tub Time Machine
5. Shutter Island

6. Gone With the Pope
7. Youth in Revolt
8. Cyrus

Probably only 1 and 2 belong on a year-end list, both rated ***1/2.

*Can I include this? If so, I'll update the New Release Database thread as well.

[baby doll]

3. Trash Humpers*

*Can I include this? If so, I'll update the New Release Database thread as well.I don't see why you shouldn't be able to, since it's a commercial release.

[Dukefrukem]

1. Inception
2. Fish Tank
3. Shutter Island
4. A Prophet
5. Brooklyn's Finest
6. The Book of Eli
7. The Good, the Bad, and the Weird

Have you only seen 7 2010 movies this year or are you not including the crap?

[Ezee E]

Have you only seen 7 2010 movies this year or are you not including the crap?
There's maybe 4 or 5 crap movies as well.

[Henry Gale]

1. Inception (Nolan)
2. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
3. Greenberg (Baumbach)
4. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
5. How To Train Your Dragon (DeBlois/Sanders)
6. Green Zone (Greengrass)
7. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)
8. The Crazies (Eisner)
9. Get Him To The Greek (Stoller)
10. Hot Tub Time Machine (Pink)

I'm now at ten things I can say I enjoyed quite a bit, even if I don't really see anything but the top three sticking around by year's end (assuming the rest of the year's films get better).

[ContinentalOp]

1. Toy Story 3
2. Shutter Island
3. Kick Ass
4. Inception
5. The Crazies
6. Daybreakers
7. Hot Tub Time Machine
8. Splice
9. Iron Man 2
10. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

[baby doll]

1. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
2. Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
3. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
5. The Misfortunates (Felix van Groenineg)
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

I also liked Ajami, Barbe bleue, Cyrus, L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot, La Fille du RER, Fish Tank, Get Him to the Greek, Inception, Please Give, Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Shaft, The Trotsky, and Youth in Revolt.Updated for the end of July, although there's a chance I'll wind up seeing The Kids Are Alright in the next week or so. I mean, any movie with Annette Benning and Julianne Moore as a mega-hot lesbian power couple can't be all bad.

[MadMan]

Hopefully by September I'll have a decent Top 10 list. Probably not.

[Morris Schæffer]

1. The Ghost Writer
Inception
Kick-Ass
How to Train Your Dragon
5. Shutter Island
Toy Story 3
Date Night
The A-Team
The Crazies
10. Iron Man 2

[origami_mustache]

1. Night Mayor
2. Toy Story 3
3. Greenberg
4. Inception
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop

[Ivan Drago]

3. Trash Humpers*

It's that good?

[balmakboor]

1. Cyrus
2. Winter's Bone
3. Toy Story 3
4. The Karate Kid
5. How to Train Your Dragon
6. The Crazies
7. Shutter Island
8. Date Night
9. Shrek Forever After
10. Hot Tub Time Machine

[MacGuffin]

It's that good?

I liked it a lot, although I'm hoping I'll see more to eventually replace it on that list.

[baby doll]

1. Night MayorWait, are we counting this? I thought it was 2009. Also, for those of you who haven't seen it, you can watch it for free on the NFB's website (http://films.nfb.ca/night-mayor/).

[soitgoes...]

Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
A Prophet (Audiard)
The Secret of Their Eyes (Campanella)
The Book of Eli (Hughes Bros.)
The Secret of Kells (Moore)
Valhalla Rising (Refn)
Youth in Revolt (Arteta)
Hot Tub Time Machine (Pink)
I Love You Phillip Morris (Ficarra, Requa)


If Love Exposure gets a US release it will be #1.

Inception (Nolan)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
A Prophet (Audiard)
The Secret of Their Eyes (Campanella)
The Book of Eli (Hughes Bros.)
The Secret of Kells (Moore)
Valhalla Rising (Refn)
Youth in Revolt (Arteta)

[Rowland]

1. Universal Soldier: Regeneration (Hyams)
2. Day and Night (Newton)
3. Prodigal Sons (Reed)
4. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
5. The Crazies (Eisner)
6. From Paris with Love (Morel)
7. Get Him to the Greek (Stoller)
8. Kick-Ass (Vaughn)
9. Edge of Darkness (Campbell)
10. Youth in Revolt (Arteta)

11. Undisputed III: Redemption (Florentine)
12. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
13. Defendor (Stebbings)
14. Splice (Natali)
15. Inception (Nolan)
16. The Wolfman (Johnston)
17. Cyrus (Duplass Bros.)
18. Legion (Stewart)
19. Chloe (Egoyan)
20. Please Give (Holofcener)
21. Daybreakers (Spierigs)
22. Predators (Antal)
23. Knight and Day (Mangold)
24. Alice in Wonderland (Burton)
25. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)
26. The A-Team (Carnahan)
27. Green Zone (Greengrass)
28. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (West)
29. Babysitter Wanted (Barnes/Manasseri)

[Philosophe_rouge]

1. The Loved Ones
2. Winter's Bone
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
4. Fish Story
5. Dale and Tucker vs. Evil
6. Summer Wars
7. The Last Exorcism
8. Inception
9. Get him to the Greek
10. Exit Through the Gift Shop
Many new additions. Order iffy.

[trotchky]

1. Everyone Else
2. Greenberg
3. The Kids Are All Right
4. Daddy Longlegs
5. The Human Centipede
6. Winter's Bone
7. Sorry, Thanks
8. Shutter Island
9 Toy Story 3
10. Inception

[Derek]

Wait, are we counting this? I thought it was 2009. Also, for those of you who haven't seen it, you can watch it for free on the NFB's website (http://films.nfb.ca/night-mayor/).

US release was 2010, though that was only at festivals as well.

[baby doll]

US release was 2010, though that was only at festivals as well.Speaking of a-g cinema, one that's definitely a 2010 release is the new Kenneth Anger (http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2098) (which is technically an ad for a two-minute for an Italian fashion line).

[Rowland]

1. I Am Love (Guadagnino)
2. Universal Soldier: Regeneration (Hyams)
3. Day and Night (Newton)
4. Prodigal Sons (Reed)
5. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
6. The Crazies (Eisner)
7. Bluebeard (Breillat)
8. From Paris with Love (Morel)
9. Get Him to the Greek (Stoller)
10. Kick-Ass (Vaughn)

11. Edge of Darkness (Campbell)
12. Youth in Revolt (Arteta)
13. Undisputed III: Redemption (Florentine)
14. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
15. Defendor (Stebbings)
16. Splice (Natali)
17. Inception (Nolan)
18. The Wolfman (Johnston)
19. Cyrus (Duplass Bros.)
20. Legion (Stewart)
21. Chloe (Egoyan)
22. Please Give (Holofcener)
23. Daybreakers (Spierigs)
24. Predators (Antal)
25. Knight and Day (Mangold)
26. Alice in Wonderland (Burton)
27. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)
28. The A-Team (Carnahan)
29. Green Zone (Greengrass)
30. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (West)
31. Babysitter Wanted (Barnes/Manasseri)

[Stay Puft]

1. Soul Kitchen
2. Winter's Bone
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop
4. Fish Tank
5. Inception
6. Mother
7. From Paris With Love
8. Hot Tub Time Machine
9. [REC] 2
10. The Losers

Well, there's ten. List could change radically if more films I have already seen finally get theatrical releases this year, but I'm betting some of them (e.g. Matsumoto's Symbol, anything Kitano has done recently) have no chance of that.

[dreamdead]

1. Secret Sunshine - 8.5
2. Everyone Else - 8
3. Mother - 7.5
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop - 7.5
5. Greenberg - 7.5
6. Inception - 7
7. Valhalla Rising - 6.5
8. Date Night - 6
9. RED - 6
10. 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

[Pop Trash]

Getting better...

1. Inception
2. Winter's Bone
3. Greenberg
4. Let Me In
5. The Ghost Writer
6. Dogtooth
7. Toy Story 3
8. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
9. The American
10. A Prophet

[Dead & Messed Up]

The story so far:

01. Inception
02. Shutter Island
03. MacGruber
04. Hot Tub Time Machine
05. Cyrus
06. The Kids Are All Right
07. Kick-Ass
08.
09.
10.

[balmakboor]

1. Cyrus
2. The Ghost Writer
3. Winter's Bone
4. Toy Story 3

5. The Karate Kid
6. How to Train Your Dragon
7. The Crazies
8. Shutter Island
9. Date Night
10. Shrek Forever After

[balmakboor]

1. The Kids Are Alright
2. Cyrus
3. The Ghost Writer
4. Winter's Bone
5. Toy Story 3

6. The Karate Kid
7. How to Train Your Dragon
8. The Crazies
9. Shutter Island
10. Date Night

Wow. Two updates in one day.

[Boner M]

1. Dogtooth
2. Everyone Else
3. Wild Grass
4. Carlos
5. Inception
6. A Prophet
7. Winter's Bone
8. Sweetgrass
9. The Father of My Children
10. Shutter Island

Alright, '10 is officially not a bad year.

[ContinentalOp]

1. The Ghost Writer
2. Toy Story 3
3. Shutter Island
4. Kick Ass
5. Inception
6. Predators
7. Hot Tub Time Machine
8. Daybreakers
9. The Crazies
10. Splice

[soitgoes...]

Inception (Nolan)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
A Prophet (Audiard)
The Secret of Their Eyes (Campanella)
The Book of Eli (Hughes Bros.)
The Secret of Kells (Moore)
Valhalla Rising (Refn)
Youth in Revolt (Arteta)


Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
A Prophet (Audiard)
Dogtooth (Lanthimos)
The Secret of Their Eyes (Campanella)
The Book of Eli (Hughes Bros.)
The Secret of Kells (Moore)

[dmk]

1 . Leap Year
2 . Certified Copy
3 . The Ghost Writer
4 . Gone with the Pope
5 . Kosmos
6 . Greenberg
7 . The Strange Case of Angelica
8 . Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
9 . Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
10 . If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle

[Rowland]

1. I Am Love (Guadagnino)
2. Prodigal Sons (Reed)
3. Universal Soldier: Regeneration (Hyams)
4. Day and Night (Newton)
5. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
6. The Crazies (Eisner)
7. The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
8. The Eclipse (McPherson)
9. Bluebeard (Breillat)
10. From Paris with Love (Morel)

11. Get Him to the Greek (Stoller)
12. Kick-Ass (Vaughn)
13. Edge of Darkness (Campbell)
14. Youth in Revolt (Arteta)
15. Undisputed III: Redemption (Florentine)
16. Winter's Bone (Granik)
17. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
18. Splice (Natali)
19. Defendor (Stebbings)
20. The Wolfman (Johnston)
21. Inception (Nolan)
22. Cyrus (Duplass Bros.)
23. Legion (Stewart)
24. The Other Guys (McKay)
25. Chloe (Egoyan)
26. Please Give (Holofcener)
27. Daybreakers (Spierigs)
28. Greenberg (Baumbach)
29. Predators (Antal)
30. Knight and Day (Mangold)
31. Alice in Wonderland (Burton)
32. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)
33. Green Zone (Greengrass)
34. The A-Team (Carnahan)
35. Don't Look Up (Chan)
36. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (West)
37. Babysitter Wanted (Barnes/Manasseri)

[Raiders]

Update...

1. DAY & NIGHT (Teddy Newton) 9.0
2. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Edgar Wright) 8.5
3. GHOST WRITER, THE (Roman Polanski) 8.5
4. TOY STORY 3 (Lee Unkrich) 8.0
5. KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT, THE (Lisa Cholodenko) 7.5
6. CRAZIES, THE (Breck Eisner) 6.5
-----------------------------------
7. SHUTTER ISLAND (Martin Scorsese) 6.0
8. INCEPTION (Christopher Nolan) 5.0
9. GREEN ZONE (Paul Greengrass) 4.0
10. LETTERS TO JULIET (Gary Winick) 3.5
11. IRON MAN 2 (Jon Favreau) 3.0
12. BOOK OF ELI, THE (Hughes Brothers) 3.0

[Stay Puft]

1. Soul Kitchen
2. The Ghost Writer
3. Winter's Bone
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop
5. Fish Tank
6. Inception
7. Mother
8. From Paris With Love
9. Hot Tub Time Machine
10. [REC] 2

[Watashi]

1. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2. Toy Story 3
3. Inception
4. Shutter Island
5. Greenberg
6. Youth in Revolt
7. Cyrus

That's all I have so far. Really want to see A Prophet, Greenberg, and Valhalla Rising.

[B-side]

1. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
2. Inception (Nolan)
3. Greenberg (Baumbach)
4. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
5. A Closed Book (Ruiz)
6. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
7. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)

[ledfloyd]

1. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2. Toy Story 3
3. Wild Grass
4. Mother
5. Bluebeard
6. Fish Story
7. Fish Tank
8. Dogtooth
9. Carlos

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. Inception
02. Shutter Island
03. The Expendables
03. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
05. MacGruber
06. The Other Guys
07. Hot Tub Time Machine
08. Cyrus
09. The Kids Are All Right
10. Kick-Ass

[Fezzik]

Inception
Toy Story 3
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
How To Train Your Dragon
Despicable Me
Shutter Island
The Expendables
Iron Man 2
Knight and Day
Alice in Wonderland


Finally got to ten 2010 movies over the weekend. Jeebus, took me long enough.

[ContinentalOp]

1. The Ghost Writer
2. Toy Story 3
3. Shutter Island
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
5. Kick Ass
6. Inception
7. Predators
8. Hot Tub Time Machine
9. The Other Guys
10. Daybreakers

[Rowland]

1. Wild Grass (Resnais)
2. I Am Love (Guadagnino)
3. Prodigal Sons (Reed)
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
5. Universal Soldier: Regeneration (Hyams)
6. Day and Night (Newton)
7. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
8. The Crazies (Eisner)
9. The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
10. The Eclipse (McPherson)

11. Bluebeard (Breillat)
12. From Paris with Love (Morel)
13. Get Him to the Greek (Stoller)
14. Kick-Ass (Vaughn)
15. Edge of Darkness (Campbell)
16. Youth in Revolt (Arteta)
17. Undisputed III: Redemption (Florentine)
18. Winter's Bone (Granik)
19. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
20. Splice (Natali)
21. Defendor (Stebbings)
22. The Wolfman (Johnston)
23. Inception (Nolan)
24. Cyrus (Duplass Bros.)
25. Legion (Stewart)
26. The Other Guys (McKay)
27. Chloe (Egoyan)
28. Please Give (Holofcener)
29. Daybreakers (Spierigs)
30. Greenberg (Baumbach)
31. Predators (Antal)
32. Knight and Day (Mangold)
33. Alice in Wonderland (Burton)
34. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)
35. The Losers (White)
36. Green Zone (Greengrass)
37. The A-Team (Carnahan)
38. Don't Look Up (Chan)
39. Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (West)
40. Babysitter Wanted (Barnes/Manasseri)

My top 10 is finally getting somewhat respectable, yay for that. So far I've seen 40 new-ish releases this year, liked about half-ish of them. Hmm.

[baby doll]

1. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
2. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
3. Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
4. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
6. The Misfortunates (Felix van Groenineg)
7. Last Train Home (Lixin Fan)
8.
9.
10.

I also liked Ajami, Barbe bleue, Cyrus, Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl, L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot, La Fille du RER, Fish Tank, Get Him to the Greek, Inception, Missoni, Mother Please Give, Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Shaft, The Trotsky, Winter's Bone, and Youth in Revolt.Updated for two-thirds of August. According to Apple Trailers, Last Train Home opens in the US on September 3rd, so I figure why wait?

[Lazlo]

Haven't seen nearly as many as I usually would have by this point in the year. Some of these are great and some of them are OK. Nothing terrible.

1. Inception
2. Toy Story 3
3. Shutter Island
4. Un Prophète
5. Youth in Revolt
6. Greenberg
7. The Runaways
8. Green Zone
9. Predators
10. Hot Tub Time Machine

[balmakboor]

1. The Kids Are All Right
2. Cyrus
3. The Ghost Writer
4. Winter's Bone
5. Toy Story 3
6. Piranha 3D
7. How to Train Your Dragon
8. The Crazies

9. The Karate Kid
10. Shutter Island

[Ezee E]

1. Inception
2. Shutter Island
3. Mother
4. A Prophet
5. Fish Tank
6. Green Zone
7. Brooklyn's Finest
8. The Good, The Bad, and the Weird
9. Toy Story 3
10. Kick-Ass

[soitgoes...]

Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
A Prophet (Audiard)
Dogtooth (Lanthimos)
The Secret of Their Eyes (Campanella)
The Book of Eli (Hughes Bros.)
The Secret of Kells (Moore)


Mother (Bong)
Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
Everyone Else (Ade)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
A Prophet (Audiard)
Dogtooth (Lanthimos)
The Secret of Their Eyes (Campanella)

Well, it's starting to get some semblance of a good list. I imagine/hope that only the top 4 have a chance of still being on here in 6 months.

[B-side]

1. Act Da Fool (Korine)
2. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
3. Inception (Nolan)
4. Greenberg (Baumbach)
5. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
6. A Closed Book (Ruiz)
7. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
8. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)

[soitgoes...]

Mother (Bong)
Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
Everyone Else (Ade)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
A Prophet (Audiard)
Dogtooth (Lanthimos)
The Secret of Their Eyes (Campanella)

Well, it's starting to get some semblance of a good list. I imagine/hope that only the top 4 have a chance of still being on here in 6 months.


Mother (Bong)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
Everyone Else (Ade)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
A Prophet (Audiard)

[dmk]

1 . Leap Year
2 . Certified Copy
3 . The Ghost Writer
4 . Gone with the Pope
5 . Kosmos
6 . Greenberg
7 . The Strange Case of Angelica
8 . Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
9 . Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
10 . If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
1 . Leap Year

2 . Certified Copy
3 . The Ghost Writer
4 . Gone with the Pope
5 . Kosmos

6 . Exit Through the Gift Shop
7 . Greenberg
8 . The Strange Case of Angelica
9 . The Kids Are All Right
10 . Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

[Ezee E]

1. Black Swan
2. Inception
3. Shutter Island
4. Mother
5. A Prophet
6. Fish Tank
7. 127 Hours
8. Green Zone
9. Brooklyn's Finest
10. The Good, The Bad, and the Weird

[origami_mustache]

my favorite films are also ads haha

1. Act Da Fool
2. Missoni
3. Night Mayor
4. Greenberg
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
6. Toy Story 3
7. I'm Still Here
8. Inception
9. Life During Wartime
10. Exit Through the Gift Shop

[balmakboor]

1. Cyrus
2. Flipped
3. The Kids Are All Right
4. The Ghost Writer
5. Toy Story 3
6. Winter's Bone
7. How to Train Your Dragon
8. The Crazies
9. The Karate Kid
10. Piranha 3D

[ContinentalOp]

1. The Ghost Writer
2. Toy Story 3
3. Shutter Island
4. The Square
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
6. Kick-Ass
7. Inception
8. Predators
9. Hot Tub Time Machine
10. Greenberg

[Ivan Drago]

1 . Leap Year

Really? It's that good?

[MacGuffin]

Really? It's that good?

Not that Leap Year.

[Ezee E]

Not that Leap Year.
Amy Adams sure can surprise people.

[B-side]

1. Act Da Fool (Korine)
2. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
3. Inception (Nolan)
4. The Town (Affleck)
5. Greenberg (Baumbach)
6. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
7. A Closed Book (Ruiz)
9. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
9. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)

[balmakboor]

1. Cyrus
2. The Kids Are All Right
3. Flipped
4. Easy A
5. Toy Story 3
6. Winter's Bone
7. How to Train Your Dragon
8. The Ghost Writer
9. The Crazies
10. The Karate Kid

[B-side]

1. Act Da Fool (Korine)
2. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
3. Inception (Nolan)
4. The Killer Inside Me (Winterbottom)
5. The Town (Affleck)
6. Greenberg (Baumbach)
7. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
8. A Closed Book (Ruiz)
9. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
10. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)

[Bosco B Thug]

Reached 10! I've decided to preserve this while it still includes Lottery Ticket:

1. Toy Story 3
2. The Town
3. Splice
4. Inception
5. Survival of the Dead
6. Shutter Island
7. Machete
8. Despicable Me
9. Alice in Wonderland
10. Lottery Ticket

[balmakboor]

5. Survival of the Dead


That's encouraging. I loved all five previous Deads so I'm sure this will be at least a like.

[Bosco B Thug]

That's encouraging. I loved all five previous Deads so I'm sure this will be at least a like.
Yeah, totally. It's pretty average craft-wise (exacerbated by Romero's lowest budget), but it has an enticing story and rich thematic layers.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. A Prophet
2. Winter's Bone
3. Ajami
4. The Good, the Bad, the Weird

I can finally fill this out with a few movies I caught on the airplane. A few rearrangements, too.

1. Winter's Bone
2. A Prophet
3. Ajami
4. Inception
5. Greenberg
6. The Good, the Bad, the Weird
7. Animal Kingdom
8. Agora
9. The Karate Kid
10. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

[MadMan]

That's encouraging. I loved all five previous Deads so I'm sure this will be at least a like.Despite the weak characters, I thought it was a good zombie/comedy. But I thought the release date on that movie was 2009.....

[balmakboor]

Despite the weak characters, I thought it was a good zombie/comedy. But I thought the release date on that movie was 2009.....

Has it really been floating around for that long? I really should get around to seeing it soon.

[Briare]

1. The Town
2. Winter's Bone
3. Inception
4. The American
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
6. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
7. Leslie, My Name is Evil
7. Oceans
9. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
10. Micmacs

[ContinentalOp]

1. The Ghost Writer
2. Toy Story 3
3. Shutter Island
4. The Town
5. The Square
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7. Kick-Ass
8. Batman: Under the Red Hood
9. Inception
10. Predators

[baby doll]

1. Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
2. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
3. Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
4. The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
6. You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen)
7. The Misfortunates (Felix van Groenineg)
8. Last Train Home (Lixin Fan)
9. A Film Unfinished (Yael Hersonsky)
10.

I also liked Ajami, Barbe bleue, Cyrus, Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl, L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot, La Fille du RER, Fish Tank, Get Him to the Greek, Howl, Inception, Machete, Missoni, Mother, Please Give, Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, The Secret in Their Eyes, The Shaft, The Trotsky, Winter's Bone, Women Without Men, and Youth in Revolt.Updated for the end of the Atlantic Film Festival. I'm waiting till I Love You Phillip Morris actually comes out before adding it, in case its release gets bumped back again. Incidentally, anyone know when Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is coming out? Also, I'll try to get to Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, The Town, and maybe Wall Street 2 in the next week.

[Boner M]

Incidentally, anyone know when Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is coming out?
Strand have picked it up (as always); I'd imagine it'll be early next year.

[baby doll]

Strand have picked it up (as always); I'd imagine it'll be early next year.God bless those queer boys over at Strand Releasing. They truly do the lord's work.

[MadMan]

Has it really been floating around for that long? I really should get around to seeing it soon.I think you would dig it more than some folks 'round here, although I don't have a great handle of people's film tastes so I donno.

[balmakboor]

1. Restrepo
2. Cyrus
3. The Kids Are All Right
4. Flipped
5. Winter's Bone
6. Toy Story 3
7. Easy A
8. How to Train Your Dragon
9. The Ghost Writer
10. The Crazies

[B-side]

1. Certified Copy (Kiarostami, 2010)
2. Act Da Fool (Korine)
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
4. Inception (Nolan)
5. The Killer Inside Me (Winterbottom)
6. The Town (Affleck)
7. Greenberg (Baumbach)
8. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
9. A Closed Book (Ruiz)
10. 8: The Mormon Proposition (Cowan/Greenstreet)

[Ezee E]

1. Black Swan
2. Inception
3. Shutter Island
4. Mother
5. A Prophet
6. Fish Tank
7. 127 Hours
8. The Social Network
9. Green Zone
10. Brooklyn's Finest

[soitgoes...]

Mother (Bong)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
Everyone Else (Ade)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
A Prophet (Audiard)

I'm Still Here (Affleck)
Mother (Bong)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
Everyone Else (Ade)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
Get Him to the Greek (Stoller)

Sean Combs with two films in the top 10! :lol:

[baby doll]

Sean Combs with two films in the top 10! :lol:Does he stroke the furry Joaquin?

[soitgoes...]

Does he stroke the furry Joaquin?Ha, I wouldn't say stroke. I'd be interested if he knew that the film was a hoax. I'd hope not, because he had a look at one point that was priceless, and I like to think that was genuine.

[Henry Gale]

1. Inception (Nolan)
2. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
3. Greenberg (Baumbach)
4. Toy Story 3 (Unkrich)
5. How To Train Your Dragon (DeBlois/Sanders)
6. Green Zone (Greengrass)
7. Iron Man 2 (Favreau)
8. The Crazies (Eisner)
9. Get Him To The Greek (Stoller)
10. Hot Tub Time Machine (Pink)

It's seems that it's been a few months since I've done this:

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

[Izzy Black]

1. Greenberg
2. The Town

Haven't many movies this year, I guess.

[balmakboor]

1. Let Me In
2. Cyrus
3. The Social Network
4. Restrepo
5. The Kids Are All Right
6. Flipped
7. Toy Story 3
8. Winter's Bone
9. How to Train Your Dragon
10. The Ghost Writer

[Boner M]

1. Dogtooth
2. Everyone Else
3. Wild Grass
4. Carlos
5. Inception
6. A Prophet
7. The Other Guys
8. Winter's Bone
9. Sweetgrass
10. The Father of My Children

By world premiere:

1. Meek's Cutoff
2. Carlos
3. The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
4. Leap Year
5. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
6. Inception
7. The Other Guys
8. Curling
9. Promises Written on Water
10. Rubber

[B-side]

1. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
2. Act Da Fool (Korine)
3. The Social Network (Fincher)
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
5. Inception (Nolan)
6. The Killer Inside Me (Winterbottom)
7. The Town (Affleck)
8. Greenberg (Baumbach)
9. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
10. A Closed Book (Ruiz)

[trotchky]

1. Enter the Void
2. Everyone Else
3. Greenberg
4. The Kids Are All Right
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
6. The Social Network
7. Daddy Longlegs
8. The Human Centipede
9. Cyrus
10. Winter's Bone

[Ivan Drago]

1. Enter the Void
2. Everyone Else
3. Greenberg
4. The Kids Are All Right
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
6. The Social Network
7. Daddy Longlegs
8. The Human Centipede
9. Cyrus
10. Winter's Bone

Yay, you're back!

Updated with The Social Network.

[TripZone]

IMDb dates strictly

1. Certified Copy
1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
3. The Strange Case of Angelica
4. Hahaha
5. Año bisiesto
6. Poetry
7. I Wish I Knew
8. The Social Network
9. L'illusionniste
10. The Ghost Writer

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Detective Dee, Honey, Street Days.

[Stay Puft]

1. Soul Kitchen
2. The Ghost Writer
3. Winter's Bone
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop
5. The Exploding Girl
6. Women Without Men
7. Fish Tank
8. Inception
9. Mother
10. [REC] 2

[origami_mustache]

1. Enter The Void
2. Face
3. Act Da Fool
4. Missoni
5. Night Mayor
6. Greenberg
7. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
8. Toy Story 3
9. I'm Still Here
10. Inception

[Rowland]

1. Wild Grass
2. I Am Love
3. Prodigal Sons
4. The Social Network
5. Scott Prilgrim vs. the World
6. Universal Soldier: Regeneration
7. Frozen
8. A Prophet
9. The Crazies
10. Toy Story 3

[Pop Trash]

1. Inception
2. Winter's Bone
3. Greenberg
4. Let Me In
5. The Ghost Writer
6. The Social Network
7. Dogtooth
8. Toy Story 3
9. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
10. The American

[eternity]

This time last year, I had seen I think twice as many films and I actually really liked some of them. :/

1. Toy Story 3 dir. Lee Unkrich
2. The Social Network dir. David Fincher
3. A Prophet dir. Jacques Audiard
4. The Square dir. Nash Edgerton
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World dir. Edgar Wright
6. Prodigal Sons dir. Kimberly Reed
7. Catfish dir. Ariel Schuman, Henry Joost
8. Trash Humpers dir. Harmony Korine
9. Easy A dir. Will Gluck
10. Cyrus dir. Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass

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

[angrycinephile]

13. MacGruber dir. Jorma Taccone
14. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse dir. David Slade
31. Leap Year dir. Anand Tucker
32. Inception dir. Christopher Nolan
35. Greenberg dir. Noah Baumbach

:crazy:

[eternity]

:crazy:
MacGruber is funny, 30 Days of Light had Bryce Dallas Howard get beheaded and then set on fire, Amy Adams and Matthew Goode make mediocre romcoms watchable, Christopher Nolan is a garbage filmmaker, and Greenberg was Baumbach's first real misfire (I'm not as critical on Margot as everyone else seems to be).

Yeah.

[soitgoes...]

I'm Still Here (Affleck)
Mother (Bong)
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
Inception (Nolan)
Carlos (Assayas)
Everyone Else (Ade)
Greenberg (Baumbach)
Ip Man (Yip)
The Ghost Writer (Polanski)
Get Him to the Greek (Stoller)

Sean Combs with two films in the top 10! :lol:

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)
------------------------------------
Get Him to the Greek (Stoller)
How to Train Your Dragon (Dean DuBlois, Chris Sanders)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright)
A Prophet (Audiard)
It Came from Kuchar (Kroot)
Wild Grass (Resnais)
Dogtooth (Lanthimos)
The Secret of Their Eyes (Campenella)
The Book of Eli (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes)
Hot Tub Time Machine (Steve Pink)
The Secret of Kells (Moore)
Valhalla Rising (Refn)
Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
MacGruber (Jorma Taccone)
Triangle (Smith)
Youth in Revolt (Arteta)
Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn)
I Love You Philip Morris (Ficarra, Requa)
Date Night (Shawn Levy)
The Milk of Sorrow (Llosa)
The Disappearance of Alice Creed (Blakeson)
Ondine (Jordan)
Green Zone (Paul Greengrass)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
The Trotsky (Tierney)
Centurion (Neil Marshall)
Daybreakers (Spierig, Spierig)
Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (de Oliveira)
The Crazies (Breck Eisner)
Leaves of Grass (Nelson)
The Good, the Bad, the Weird (Kim)
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (Richet)
Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton)
Agora (Amenábar)
The Wolfman (Joe Johnston)
Iron Man 2 (Jon Favreau)
Repo Men (Miguel Sapochnik)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Oplev)
She’s Out of My League (Jim Field Smith)
Death at a Funeral (Neil LaBute)
Predators (Nimród Antal)
Splice (Natali)
Robin Hood (Ridley Scott)
Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Samuel Bayer)
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Mike Newell)
The Last Airbender (M. Night Shyalaman)
The A-Team (Joe Carnahan)
Edge of Darkness (Martin Campbell)
Frozen (Adam Green)
Legion (Scott Stewart)

[Lazlo]

1. Inception
2. Toy Story 3
3. Shutter Island
4. Un Prophète
5. Youth in Revolt
6. Greenberg
7. The Runaways
8. Green Zone
9. Predators
10. Hot Tub Time Machine

1. Inception
2. Toy Story 3
3. The Social Network
4. Shutter Island
5. Un Prophète
6. Youth in Revolt
7. The Town
8. Kick-Ass
9. Greenberg
10. The Runaways

[Dead & Messed Up]

01. Inception
02. The Social Network
03. Shutter Island
04. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
05. The Expendables
06. MacGruber
07. The Other Guys
08. Hot Tub Time Machine
09. Cyrus
10. The Kids Are All Right
11. Kick-Ass

[Fezzik]

Haven't updated this in a while:


Inception
Toy Story 3
The Social Network
Let Me In
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
How To Train Your Dragon
Easy A
Despicable Me
The Kids Are All Right
Shutter Island


11. The Book of Eli
12. The Expendables
13. Iron Man 2
14. Knight and Day
15. Alice in Wonderland


I'm not that confident that I actually haven't seen more movies since June, but I really can't remember them if I have (not a good sign, really).

[B-side]

1. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
2. Act Da Fool (Korine)
3. The Social Network (Fincher)
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
5. Inception (Nolan)
6. The Killer Inside Me (Winterbottom)
7. The Town (Affleck)
8. Greenberg (Baumbach)
9. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
10. A Closed Book (Ruiz)

1. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
2. Act Da Fool (Korine)
3. The Social Network (Fincher)
4. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
5. Inception (Nolan)
6. Jackass 3D (Tremaine)
7. The Killer Inside Me (Winterbottom)
8. The Town (Affleck)
9. Greenberg (Baumbach)
10. Shutter Island (Scorsese)
11. A Closed Book (Ruiz)
12. Hot Tub Time Machine (Pink)
13. I'm Still Here (Affleck)

[Boner M]

The Town - mild yay

[soitgoes...]

The Town - mild yayYou're confused.

[Boner M]

You're confused.
Whoopsie.

[Lazlo]

1. Inception
2. Toy Story 3
3. The Social Network
4. Shutter Island
5. Un Prophète
6. Youth in Revolt
7. The Town
8. Kick-Ass
9. Greenberg
10. The Runaways

1. Inception
2. Toy Story 3
3. The Social Network
4. Shutter Island
5. Un Prophète
6. The Promise: The Making of "Darkness on the Edge of Town"
7. The Ghost Writer
8. How to Train Your Dragon
9. Youth in Revolt
10. The Town

[B-side]

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. The Social Network (Fincher)
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
6. Inception (Nolan)
7. Jackass 3D (Tremaine)
8. The Killer Inside Me (Winterbottom)
9. The Town (Affleck)
10. Greenberg (Baumbach)

[Spinal]

Mid-October and I still only have four films above three stars, which says more about my failure to watch a lot of films than it does about the quality of the year. Going to be a while before I have 10 I'm afraid.

[Boner M]

Mid-October and I still only have four films above three stars, which says more about my failure to watch a lot of films than it does about the quality of the year. Going to be a while before I have 10 I'm afraid.
See Dogtooth. Very Spinal-y.

[soitgoes...]

See Dogtooth. Very Spinal-y.I agree. I also think you can pimp Everyone Else to him too and be successful.

[Spinal]

I don't even know what Dogtooth is, but I will look into it.

[Boner M]

I also think you can pimp Everyone Else to him too and be successful.Spinal going for a steadfastly naturalistic account of one a couple's relationship woes? I don't think so.

[Spinal]

Spinal going for a steadfastly naturalistic account of one a couple's relationship woes? I don't think so.

Heh.

[Spinal]

I do like Scenes from a Marriage.

[Boner M]

I don't even know what Dogtooth is, but I will look into it.

. Focusing on the incalculably warped products of stringent, goldfish bowl-protective family values, Dogtooth locks us in a pale, closeted dream world where cats are vicious and fatal, plastic airplanes fall from the sky and into the grass to be competed for and then played with, the word “cunt” denotes a large lamp, and sex is a joyless mechanism for controlling, as well as occasionally regenerating, both genders. Moreover, wrangling free of this cruel and unusual cerebral battery requires undergoing an ironically old wives-y rite of fictional passage—when the canine incisors fall from their gums, the kids can leave the nest.
...
To be sure, Dogtooth knows well the coldly observed sadism of Haneke’s director-versus-audience rounds of chess, and the slowly collapsing, self-mutilating clockwork of Von Trier. But the appropriations never feel self-consciously allegorical or exploitative; this grim gut-torking is an anaerobic exercise in psycho-thrill aesthetics with a Repulsion-like good-gone-bad mental dither at its creepily ichor-inflamed core.
Sounds aight, huh?

[Boner M]

I do like Scenes from a Marriage.
Actually, this is the film it most closely resembles, so maybe do check it out. It also features a great performance from Birgit Minichmayr of Downfall and Perfume.

[Spinal]

Sounds aight, huh?

Sex as a joyless mechanism? Coldly observed sadism? Grim gut-torking? Sign me up!

Don't think it's come to Portland yet.

[Pop Trash]

See Dogtooth. Very Spinal-y.

Definitely. It's Bunuel with a bit of Haneke and Von Trier perhaps. Also could compare to Bad Boy Bubby or House of Yes.

[ContinentalOp]

1. The Social Network
2. The Ghost Writer
3. Toy Story 3
4. Shutter Island
5. The Town
6. Kick-Ass
7. The Square
8. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
9. Batman: Under the Red Hood
10. Jackass 3-D

[baby doll]

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

US commercial releases by grade:

A-
Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
Hereafter (Clint Eastwood)
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)

B+
Carlos (Olivier Assayas) [140 min. version]
Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
The Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
Last Train Home (Lixin Fan)
The Misfortunates (Felix van Groenineg)
Un prophète (Jacques Audiard)
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (Woody Allen)

B
Ajami (Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani)
Eccentricities of a Blond Haired Girl (Manoel de Oliveira)
La Fille du RER (André Téchiné)
A Film Unfinished (Yael Hersonsky)
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
L'Enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot (Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea)
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Edgar Wright)
The Shaft (Zhang Chi)
The Social Network (David Fincher)
Women Without Men (Shirin Neshat)

B-
Barbe bleue (Catherine Breillat)
Cyrus (Jay and Mark Duplass)
Get Him to the Greek (Nicholas Stoller)
Howl (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman)
Inception (Christopher Nolan)
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work (Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg)
Machete (Ethan Maniquis and Robert Rodriguez)
Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
The Oath (Laura Poitras)
Please Give (Nicole Holofcener)
Reel Injun: On the Trail of the Hollywood Indian (Neil Diamond)
The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella)
The Town (Ben Affleck)
The Trotsky (Jacob Tierney)
Winnebago Man (Ben Steinbauer)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik)
Youth in Revolt (Miguel Arteta)

C+
American Radical: The Trials of Norman Finkelstein (David Ridgen and Nicolas Rossier)
The American (Anton Corbijn)
Chloe (Atom Egoyan)
Holy Rollers (Kevin Asch)
Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese)
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (Oliver Stone)

C
The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)

C-
The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore)
Tamara Drewe (Stephen Frears)

D
The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (Kim Jee-woon)Updated for the end of October, and I'm finally at ten films.

[Mysterious Dude]

1. Winter's Bone
2. A Prophet
3. Ajami
4. Inception
5. Greenberg
6. The Good, the Bad, the Weird
7. Animal Kingdom
8. Agora
9. The Karate Kid
10. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

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

I've decided that I like Inception a little more than I thought I did.

[Eleven]

1. Winter's Bone
2. Mother
3. The Ghost Writer
4. Dogtooth
5. Vincere
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
7. Wild Grass
8. A Prophet
9. Greenberg
10. Shutter Island

Still want to see: The Social Network, The American, Carlos, Exit through the Gift Shop, Film Socialism, The Town, Toy Story 3, Certified Copy, Let Me In, Hereafter.

[baby doll]

Still want to see: Film Socialism.(Cough) Torrent (Cough, Cough).

[Eleven]

(Cough) Torrent (Cough, Cough).

Way ahead of you, I just haven't had time to watch.

[B-side]

1. Catfish (Joost/Schulman)
2. Certified Copy (Kiarostami)
3. Act Da Fool (Korine)
4. The Social Network (Fincher)
5. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Wright)
6. Inception (Nolan)
7. Jackass 3D (Tremaine)
8. The Killer Inside Me (Winterbottom)
9. The Town (Affleck)
10. Greenberg (Baumbach)

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

[balmakboor]

1. Let Me In
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
3. Cyrus
4. The Social Network
5. Restrepo
6. The Kids Are All Right
7. Flipped
8. Toy Story 3
9. Winter's Bone
10. How to Train Your Dragon

[Henry Gale]

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

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)

[B-side]

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

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)

[origami_mustache]

Seeing Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives tonight, Certified Copy Tomorrow, and Poetry next week so I expect my list will change.

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. Exit Through the Gift Shop
2. How to Train Your Dragon
3. The Crazies
4. Hot Tub Time Machine
5. Macgruber
6. Inception
7. Despicable Me
8. Kick-Ass

I think that's all I've seen this year. I suck at watching movies.

[Boner M]

I suck at watching movies.


Don't Look Back (1973) - ***
And remembering their titles too.

[TripZone]

And remembering their titles too.

Or year (1976), but then it would have to have no apostrophe.

[soitgoes...]

Or year (1976), but then it would have to have no apostrophe.1967, but I'm pretty sure he meant Don't Look Now which is 1973.

[TripZone]

1967, but I'm pretty sure he meant Don't Look Now which is 1973.

Typo. Ironic one. I knew he meant the Roeg. Let's move on.

[Kurosawa Fan]

And remembering their titles too.

Son of a...

[origami_mustache]

1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2. Enter The Void
3. Face
4. Act Da Fool
5. I Wish I Knew
5. Blue Valentine
7. A Prophet
8. This Is My Kingdom
9. Missoni
10. Night Mayor
11. Dogtooth
12. Animal Kingdom
13. Carlos
14. Everyone Else
15. White Material
16. Greenberg
17. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
18. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
19. I'm Still Here
20. Cave of Forgotten Dreams
21. Toy Story 3
22. Somewhere
23. Never Let Me Go
24. I'm Here
25. Valhalla Rising

Certified Copy
The Other Guys
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Inception
Micmacs
Tetsuo: The Bullet Man
Life During Wartime
Jackass 3D
Despicable Me
Revolution
Catfish
The Social Network
The American
Runaway
Tron: Legacy
True Grit
Black Swan
The Ghost Writer
Hahaha
127 Hours
The Housemaid
Due Date
Cyrus
Air Doll
Hot Tub Time Machine
Youth In Revolt
The Fighter
The Runaways
The Killer Inside Me
Winter's Bone
Wild Grass
Survival of The Dead
The Human Centipede
Cop Out

[ledfloyd]

1. Visage
2. Air Doll
3. Adrift
4. Father of my Children
5. Certified Copy
6. Scott Pilgrim vs the World
7. Mother
8. The American
9.The Social Network
10. Heartbeats
getting better.

[Boner M]

Did Face get a US release this year? Cos it's a '09 premiere otherwise.

[baby doll]

Crash (Cronenberg, 1996) **½You're pissing on my childhood, you know that?

[Derek]

You're pissing on my childhood, you know that?

You were obsessed with vagina-shaped wounds and recreating fatal celebrity car crashes as a kid too!? *Hugs*

[Boner M]

You were obsessed with vagina-shaped wounds and recreating fatal celebrity car crashes as a kid too!? *Hugs*
Baby baby doll: "WAHHHH WAHHHH I WANNA WATCH FRACAS NOW" *bashes toy cars together*

[baby doll]

You were obsessed with vagina-shaped wounds and recreating fatal celebrity car crashes as a kid too!? *Hugs*It was on TV.

[Barty]

I really should post about movies more:


1. Inception - ****1/2
2. The Social Network - ****1/2
3. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - ****1/2
4. The Town - ****
5. Shutter Island - ****
6. The Ghost Writer - ****
7. The Secret in Their Eyes - ****
8. Toy Story 3 - ****
9. City Island - ****
10. Green Zone - ****
11. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - ****
12. Kick-Ass - ****
13. Red - ****
14. The Last Exorcism - ****
15. The Karate Kid - ***1/2
16. Easy A - ***1/2
17. The Expendables - ***1/2
18. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - ***1/2
19. Robin Hood - ***1/2
20. The Tillman Story - ***1/2
21. Machete - ***1/2
22. Edge of Darkness - ***1/2
23. Splice - ***1/2
24. Megamind - ***1/2
25. Chloe - ***1/2
26. How to Train Your Dragon - ***1/2
27. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World - ***1/2
28. Youth in Revolt - ***1/2
29. The Switch - ***
30. Iron Man 2 - ***
31. Countdown to Zero - ***
32. Despicable Me - ***
33. The Other Guys - ***
34. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - **1/2
35. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lighting Thief - ***
36. Knight & Day - ***
37. Dinner for Schmucks - ***
38. A Nightmare on Elm Street - ***
39. Letters to Juliet - ***
40. Predators - ***
41. Due Date - ***
42. She's Out of My League - ***
43. Leap Year - ***
44. The Kids Are All Right - ***
45. Going the Distance - ***
46. Mao's Last Dancer - ***
47. It's Kind of a Funny Story - ***
48. Catfish - ***
49. The Joneses - ***
50. Cyrus - **1/2
51. Winter's Bone - **1/2
52. Get Him to the Greek - **1/2
53. Hot Tub Time Machine - **1/2
54. The Girl Who Played With Fire - **
55. Conviction - **
56. Greenberg - **
57. Babies - **
58. When in Rome - **
59. Alice in Wonderland - *1/2
60. Clash of the Titans - *

[Watashi]

I really should post about movies more:


19. Robin Hood - ***1/2
29. The Switch - ***
35. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lighting Thief - ***
38. A Nightmare on Elm Street - ***
39. Letters to Juliet - ***
42. She's Out of My League - ***
43. Leap Year - ***



56. Greenberg - **

You should probably like better movies first.

[baby doll]

You should probably like better movies first.


Hereafter (Clint Eastwood, 2010) - *Oh, like you're one to talk.

[eternity]

Oh, like you're one to talk.
He was kidding. Kind of.

[baby doll]

He was kidding. Kind of.So was I. Kind of.

[eternity]

1. Fair Game dir. Doug Liman
2. Toy Story 3 dir. Lee Unkrich
3. The Social Network dir. David Fincher
4. A Prophet dir. Jacques Audiard
5. The Square dir. Nash Edgerton
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World dir. Edgar Wright
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. Ondine dir. Neil Jordan
22. Monsters dir. Gareth Edwards
23. Paranormal Activity 2 dir. Tod Williams
24. Date Night dir. Shawn Levy
25. Creation dir. Jon Amiel
26. Get Him to the Greek dir. Nicholas Stoller
27. Film Socialisme dir. Jean-Luc Godard
28. Shutter Island dir. Martin Scorsese
29. Tamara Drewe dir. Stephen Frears
30. Knight and Day dir. James Mangold
31. Fish Tank dir. Andrea Arnold
32. Iron Man 2 dir. Jon Favreau
33. Robin Hood dir. Ridley Scott
34. The Karate Kid dir. Harald Zwart
35. The Book of Eli dir. Albert and Allen Hughes
36. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo dir. Niels Arden Oplev
37. Alice in Wonderland dir. Tim Burton
38. Leap Year dir. Anand Tucker
39. Inception dir. Christopher Nolan
40. The Girl Who Played with Fire dir. Daniel Alfredson
41. Youth in Revolt dir. Miguel Artera
42. Dear John dir. Lasse Hallstrom
43. Greenberg dir. Noah Baumbach
44. The Wolfman dir. Joe Johnston
45. The Expendables dir. Slyvester Stallone
46. The Human Centipede dir. Tom Six
47. The A-Team dir. Joe Carnahan
48. Devil dir. John Erick Dowdle
49. Clash of the Titans dir. Louis Letterier
50. Legion dir. Scott Stewart
51. Vampires Suck dir. The Blunder Twins
52. Secretariat dir. Randall Wallace
53. The Last Airbender dir. M Night Shyamalan
54. Valentine's Day dir. Garry Marshall

[Boner M]

1. Fair Game dir. Doug Liman[/SPOILER]
Dude, seriously?! One of the most bland liberal flattery exercises in recent years, w/ Penn is at his most insufferable.

[eternity]

Dude, seriously?! One of the most bland liberal flattery exercises in recent years, w/ Penn is at his most insufferable.
I disagree, but it being #1 is the result of the rest of the films on the list being just okay. I did really like it, but it shouldnt be #1 for long, I hope.

[Kurosawa Fan]

1. Exit Through the Gift Shop
2. How to Train Your Dragon
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
4. The Crazies
5. Hot Tub Time Machine
6. Macgruber
7. Inception
8. Toy Story 3
9. Despicable Me
10. Kick-Ass

Well. I made it to ten. What a pathetic list that is. I mean, anything below the top three has no business being on a "best of" list.

[Pop Trash]

Dude, seriously?! One of the most bland liberal flattery exercises in recent years, w/ Penn is at his most insufferable.

Yeah, plus that doesn't sound very "eternity." MORE SNARKY TEENAGERS PLS!!!

[eternity]

Yeah, plus that doesn't sound very "eternity." MORE SNARKY TEENAGERS PLS!!!You don't know what sounds very "eternity." then.

[Pop Trash]

You don't know what sounds very "eternity." then.

SORRY JUS' MESSIN' WIT YOU! XOXO

[StanleyK]

I've finally seen 10 films from the year 2010 (two of them are actually officially 2009 releases). And it only took me 11 months!

1. Dogtooth (Giorgios Lanthimos) - ****
2. Inception (Christopher Nolan) - ***½
3. The Book of Eli (Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes) - ***
4. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich) - ***
5. Day & Night (Teddy Newton) - ***
6. Shutter Island (Martin Scorsese) - **½
7. The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella) - **
8. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (Zack Snyder) - *½
9. Red (Robert Schwentke) - *
10. Clash of the Titans (Louis Leterrier) - *

[dmk]

1 . Leap Year
2 . Certified Copy
3 . The Ghost Writer
4 . Gone with the Pope
5 . Kosmos
6 . Greenberg
7 . The Strange Case of Angelica
8 . Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
9 . Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
10 . If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle
1 . Leap Year
2 . Certified Copy
3 . Road to Nowhere
4 . I'm Still Here
5 . Blue Valentine
6 . The Ghost Writer
7 . Gone with the Pope

8 . The Social Network
9 . Kosmos
10 . Greenberg

A rewatch of both IMH and TSN proved satisfying, especially the former, which was deliriously hilarious this time around as opposed to "boring and fascinating and reminding me of Norman Mailer’s 60’s films, and finding the ending beautiful." It’s still most of those things, but not so much boring as utterly captivating. I watched it at 3am in the morning though (being intoxicated probably helped a bit too).