Top 15 Films of 2010 Picspam!

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[fairchilds]

besides How To Train Your Dragon which I think is grossly overrated, along with Despicable Me, i enjoyed your list! I still have to see True Grit, The King's Speech and 127 Hours, but otherwise I think I pretty much have my list done up. I'm done with the graphics but I'm holding out for screeners just in case.

i ranked my list. it was easy at the top but so difficult toward the middle and end. and i was a little bias with some films (Tangled, Inception, Kick-Ass)

[breakattiffanys]

idk, i found HTTYD, just like Tangled, to be such a nice surprise cause the trailers made them look so stupid/pedestrian, and the visuals were pretty. i didn't really love despicable me either but i don't think that film was particularly ambitious; it basically accomplished its goal. although it's a little weird to me that despicable me has made like $250 million at the box office while tangled probably will only get to like $180 million on a far bigger budget. i expected better legs for it, but it just hasn't performed like HTTYD did with its crazy long run.

i couldn't really rank things easily this year. last year, there were a few films that i felt were instant all-time favorites, while this year, it's more like overall good stuff but i don't know if any will end up on my all-time.

[fairchilds]

i guess it's just me... Have you watched I Am Love? I thought it was really overrated too, besides the visuals/style/score of the film and Tilda, the entire film had nothing much going for it.

that's a pity! i really wanted it to make back its budget!

for my top films i picked the ones that were likely to be my all-time favorites and left the really-good-ones-but-not-sure-if-all-time for the honorable mentions, including some films i thought were well-made but didn't fully connect with.

[breakattiffanys]

I felt the same way about I Am Love as I did last year about Julia - amazing Tilda Swinton performance in a not so great movie. I'm not really sure why it's winning some of these foreign movie awards, there definitely were way better ones.

I think it will internationally, but i don't think a film can be considered a "hit" unless the worldwide gross at least doubles its budget cause of advertising costs, etc. but i guess it lost its 3D screens last week because of Tron and Yogi Bear.

I'm not sure which ones will end up on my all-time list here. The only one that I'm almost 100% positive will is True Grit (but even still, I already have like 3 westerns on my favorites lol) and maybe Inception. I do need some time to settle though. Last year, I didn't think too much of The Hurt Locker when I first saw it in the summer, but eventually after rewatches, it's made my all-time favorites.

[fairchilds]

yes that's what i'm thinking too... i haven't finished watching Mother yet, have you seen it? And oh have you seen the Thai film that won the Palme d'or?

well i really hope it does, Kick-Ass failed in the US but apparently it's considered a hit world-wide.... although that's what the magazines write, i'm not actually sure about it's box office gross.

haha i really enjoyed what i've seen in the previews of True Grit, i don't usually like Westerns but this looks like a nice revenge drama--- is it?

[breakattiffanys]

I've seen Mother, Dogtooth, Incendies and a few others. But I haven't seen Uncle Boonmee, Biutiful or Of Gods and Men, which are getting most of the buzz right now.

Kick-Ass has a low budget though (like $30 mil) so even its domestic gross isn't considered too horrible and add in international gross, it tripled its budget. And that's considered pretty good. Tangled's budget is just so massive that anything less than $200 million domestic looks like a flop.

I'd say it's more like a traditional John Ford Western than a revenge drama (if you're expecting some kind of Kill Bill revenge climax, I think it'll be disappointing).

[fairchilds]

Oh yeah, I've been looking for Biutiful.

Oh I see!

Haha, I don't think I'm expecting anything like Kill Bill! Kill Bill was just fully-fledged action fantasy. But I do like revenge dramas, even if it's less extreme.