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Best in Film: 2010 Edition

Jan 30, 2011 14:01

The Best

1. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2. Black Swan
3. True Grit
4. Shutter Island
5. Greenberg
6. Despicable Me
7. Deadgirl
8. Up in the Air
9. The Road
10. Daybreakers

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glortw February 2 2011, 04:16:01 UTC

Really? Scott Pilgrim as number ONE? I hated it. It was so long, and it was just ooh we're so clever and videogamey...but why would any of those girls be attracted to gross boring michael cera? it wasn't funny or anything. meh. also, what is it everyone loves about black swan? i'm so glad you thought social network was overrated. i'm so sick of every magazine i ever read kissing fincher and sorkin's ass. it bored me mostly. i loved greenberg, he reminded me of myself, being such a jerk. i wanted to see daybreakers i think, what was it about? i'm so glad you saw the expendables, i'd never expect you to. i loved it, hahah. why does devil get a 4/10? predictability? the fact that nobody would've given a shit about geoffrey arend if he wasn't married to sexyredheadbitch from mad men?

numb_boy February 3 2011, 02:21:05 UTC

Aside from the fact that they look kind of similar, I think Michael Cera and Jesse Eisenberg essentially play the same character in every movie; with Scott Pilgrim, I think his neurotic whelp routine was well-utilized within the parameters of the story, which was essentially a John Hughes remix with a big FX budget. Still, I think it hit all the right character beats, had an intriguing premise, and was funny as hell. I'm a big Darren Aronofsky fan (I just re-watched The Wrestler last week), and what I liked most about Black Swan was how it recalled the subjective, paranoid obsessions of early Polanski; some of the surrealist third-act decisions seemed a little out-of-place, but on the whole I found the film gripping, disturbing, and well-performed. Greenberg was great; I really like Noah Baumbauch (even Margot at the Wedding). Daybreakers is the not-too-distant-future vampire-society film with Ethan Hawke, Sam Neill, and Willem Dafoe. Devil had a cool premise (I like films that confine their action to a singular location), but such a ( ... )

Hopefully this isn't too long-winded jochanwretch February 2 2011, 10:15:10 UTC

I've yet to see a lot of the films you've mentioned. Truth be told, I haven't even heard of some of them.

A friend recommended Shutter Island to me (assuring me that it was on par, visually, with What Dreams May Come - a film that I adore - and I sorely disagree with what he promised). Maybe I've become too accustomed to films with special effects or maybe it was my expectations, (hopefully, it's the latter) but I felt like something was missing. Perhaps I should have read the novel first.

I posted something about this a little while ago, but I couldn't stand Antichrist. I watched about thirty minutes, or so, before I paused to read more about it. I was so unnerved and anxiety-ridden by the fact that nothing had happened, that I felt/assumed the absolute worst. I never finished the film.

I was expecting something completely else from True Grit, but I ended up liking it, a lot.

Likewise, I was expecting the absolute worst from Predators, but was surprised. The only things I found disappointing were Adrien Brody's ridiculous ( ... )

Re: Hopefully this isn't too long-winded numb_boy February 3 2011, 02:37:51 UTC

Shutter Island followed the novel with an almost minute attention to detail, though I think Scorsese's mastery of the shot (and all the little contained within) and the performances (DiCaprio is slowly growing on me) elevated what was ultimately a throwback to 1950s pulp. I do recall your entry about Antichrist, and I honestly wasn't sure what to expect from it; the subjectivity of the characters (and the resulting ambiguity) both frustrated me and left me transfixed -- some echoes of early David Lynch. I haven't watched a lot of Westerns, but I think the Coen Brothers just get better with age, and True Grit was fantastic. My problem with Predators is that it slicked up the original film but didn't do anything that transcended the generic action flick the audience was expecting; still, that was one hell of a great opening.