Halfway point, really.
Best movies of 2010?
A Prophet.
Then...
Hmmm.
Ummm.
Well...
Inception.
Let's see.
Thinking...
Exit Through the Gift Shop was good.
Yeah, I got nothing. :yabbse-thumbdown:
This year has been pretty bad.
Haven't seen The Kids Are Alright yet, but I'm hearing great things.
I think this is a good year for some young filmmakers to really come out of left field. It's wide open, really.
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Give it time. Big Money Rustlas hasn't come out yet.
Fucking hard to find best films of the year, how do they work?
Inception
Toy Story 3
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (not really '10 but i don't live in Sweden)
Exit through the Gift Shop
...Babies
i hear Winter's Bone and Kids Are Alright are great.
this had better be the greatest second half ever. then i'll consider the year even.
happens every single year.
the best movies are released TOWARDS THE END OF THE YEAR.
we ALWAYS complain that the year is shit and then at the end we've got a really great list but the problem is that it's never acknowledged DURING THE ACTUAL YEAR because most people complete their best-of-year lists (that they're happy with, not just trying to make a deadline of 31st december) THE FOLLOWING YEAR after catching up on DVD.
this ALWAYS HAPPENS. EVERY SINGLE YEAR. i just think it's hilarious and unbelievable that anyone still acts like this year is any different. there are exceptions where great movies are released early on but this right now is the norm. we won't know what 2010 was really like until early to mid 2011.
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1. Inception
2. Toy Story 3
3. Greenberg
Notable:
# Kick-Ass
# Exit Through The Gift Shop
# Please Give
# Waking Sleeping Beauty
# Red Riding Trilogy
# Best Worst Movie
# Shutter Island
# Un Prophet
# The Kids Are All Right
that toy story tagline is so stupid.
(Has everyone forgotten about) The Ghost Writer
Inception
Toy Story 3
The Ghost Writer isn't very good.
P, i'm firmly aware that the first half of every year is always weaker than the second half because good movies are released later so they can be remembered for awards season slash winter is becoming the new summer, but this year is definitely particularly bad. at this point last year i'd seen a handful of great movies. even in years where i've seen fewer great movies, there were at least several movies that were trying something or were moderately good. this year's batch has been practically dead in the water.
I've seen a dozen good ones. I'm surprised 2010 has been as good as it has been (so far). Fall still has a chance to disappoint though.
y'all need to see I Am Love
I hated I Am Love.
Mother and The Good the Bad the Weird, both Korean genre films from last year that hit the US theaters this year. both are great.
un prohete is considered this year? didn't it get nominated for the 2009 oscars?
From the limited selection I've seen so far this year (yeah, having a newborn isn't at all restrictive), I'd say Red Riding: 1983 is the best I've seen. Looking forward to TS3 and we've got a babysitter sorted to go see Inception Imax in about a week.
I liked the red ridings when I first watched them but they all had crap endings and the scripts all turned out to be pretty potboiler/ slight despite some intense acting and craftsmanship. there is a resurgence of noir thriller mystery stuff but really the only one that really brought it - with style and freshness to the genre, is mother. well, there's this other korean film called the chaser that's also part of that category but its too gruesome for me to like it personally.
the others in the past couple of years - ghostwriter, the millennium trilogy, state and play, amongst others all have been standard. I think Mother really made me re-examine the genre. I saw ghostwriter and saw how plainly and economically it handled the materials I thought thriller must be a really tough form (and it is) if Polanski himself is constrained by the 1970s still. but then a month later I saw Mother and realized one could still breathe freshness into the genre - and Mother itself isn't even trying that hard to push things.
1.) Christopher Nolan's Traumnovelle
2.) Scott Pilgrim: Serial Killer
3.) Nicolas Cage's Batman
2010 movies i've seen rated p4k style
Fish Tank – 9.4
True Grit - 9.0
I Am Love – 9.0
Black Swan - 8.5
Blue Valentine - 8.4
The Social Network - 8.3
The Fighter - 8.3
Everyone Else – 8.3
12th and Delaware – 8.2
Inception – 8.2
Toy Story 3 – 8.2
Let Me In - 8.2
Never Let Me Go - 8.0
That Evening Sun - 8.0
Exit Through the Gift Shop – 7.8
Animal Kingdom - 7.8
Catfish - 7.8
Greenberg – 7.8
The American - 7.8
Shutter Island – 7.5
The Town - 7.5
The Lottery - 7.5
Dogtooth – 7.3
The Kids Are All Right - 7.2
Trash Humpers – 7.0
MacGruber - 7.0
Winter's Bone – 6.5
Cyrus – 6.5
Youth in Revolt – 6.5
Splice – 6.5
Leaves of Grass – 6.5
It's Kind of a Funny Story - 6.5
127 Hours - 6.5
The Missing Person - 6.2
Green Zone – 6.0
Jackass 3D - 6.0
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work – 5.8
The Other Guys – 5.8
The Crazies – 5.5
Centurion - 5.5
Life During Wartime – 5.0
Winnebago Man - 5.0
The Killer Inside Me – 4.0
I'm Still Here - 1.0
Everyone Else was the worst movie I've seen all year. And I Am Love was close.
It PAINS me to see them above Toy Story 3 and Inception. :yabbse-angry:
WHAT'S DONE IS DONE.
I like ILAM's idea of a P4K rating scale. I think it's a good scale. I hate just a basic 5-star rating scale and it's even worse when you can't get half-stars. 10-point may be pompous and narcissistic, but dammit if it doesn't work so well.
So far this year.
Let Me In - 8.9
Toy Story 3 - 8.8
Un Prophet - 8.5
Inception - 8.5
127 Hours - 8.4
The Social Network - 8.3
Catfish - 8.2
True Grit 8.2
Exit Through The Gift Shop - 8.1
Black Swan 7.9
The American - 7.7
The Fighter 7.6
The Town 7.5
Rabbit Hole 6.9
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - 6.9
Scott Pilgrim vs The World - 6.9
Jackass 3D - 6.7
Somewhere 6.6
Splice - 6.5
Kick-Ass - 5.5
Never Let Me Go - 5.3
Knight and Day - 5.0
The A-Team - 4.6
The Expendables - 3.5
Have we decided if we're putting Mother in 2009 or 2010?
I won't be able to see any of the hard to find films until prob. early next year when they come out on video. Shame.
This year more than most I've actually watched tons of older stuff and discovered a lot of films. Investing in a PS3/Blu-Ray has really changed the way I watch movies. This year has been great in discovering older stuff.
Did I miss the discussion on Wild Grass or was there not one? While not my favorite of the year, it was a pretty awesome experience upon a rewatch.
Also, beyond the greats already covered, did anyone else check out Vincere?
i'll be pretty bowled over if i see a better film this year than certified copy.
Cahiers du Cinema Best of 2010
1. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
2. The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, Werner Herzog
3. Film Socialisme, Jean-Luc Godard
4. Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich
5. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson
6. A Serious Man, Joel & Ethan Coen
7. To Die Like a Man, João Pedro Rodrigues
8. The Social Network, David Fincher
9. Chouga (aka Ainour), Darezhan Omirbayev
10. Mother, Bong Joon-ho
They had a number on Bad Lieutenant with so much praise for the film it almost made me love it less.
Cahiers is a bit weird now