Top 15 Films of 2010 Picspam!

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[hauntes]

I loved Exit Through the Gift Shop. That and Fish Tank were my favorites though I technically saw Fish Tank in late 2009.

[breakattiffanys]

tbh, i was initially only interested in exit through the gift shop cause of all the controversy about if it was fake but i personally think if it was all an act, it's an even better movie! same deal with catfish.

[hauntes]

Yeah I genuinely don't know quite what to think of EatGS but Catfish seems fake to me. So much doesn't seem right and now they are getting lawsuits.

[breakattiffanys]

I agree, Catfish totally seemed fake. idk, it's like, who would be that gullible? lol.

[la_petite_singe]

Excellent, excellent list, and I love the spams. :D I have to see several more things before I can make my list, but you made some great choices. Basically all of mine are on this list somewhere, I expect.

[breakattiffanys]

Thank you! I still have quite a few movies to see as well, but I don't think I'll get around to some of them until February at least so I decided to just make this list now.

[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.

[suzyx]

oooh, good list! some of these are on my must see list.

i'm looking forward to the girl with the dragon tattoo - when i read the book, i pictured daniel craig as the main character and then i find out he's playing him in the movie. perfect casting for me!

[breakattiffanys]

thanks!

daniel craig is good casting. i was a little unsure about rooney mara, but after seeing her in TSN, i think she's definitely up for it. i was just glad they didn't cast someone too famous even though every young actress was apparently fighting to get the role.

[cent]

Great selection! Black Swan is one of my favorites as well (though, despite certain unmistakable cues, I’d hesitate to call it a horror film), and this post totally reminds me there are A TON I have yet to see!

[breakattiffanys]

Thanks! I do feel like there are horror elements in Black Swan (and it does borrow some of its campiness from the horror genre), although the main genre would be psychological thriller.