2010's Best Movies: 10 Years Later

Oof, either Uncle Boonmee or The Arbor.

I don't know how many people here saw The Arbor? It's really fucking good and very very bleak.

i remember hearing Andrea Dunbar talking about it on the radio some years back? it sounded formally amazing and i still haven't seen it

actually it might've been Clio Barnard now i think about it

E - none of these

I'm bored of voting for Certified Copy

I'm getting in a meta fight with you at a trattoria rn.

That Inception is as close as it is to being in the master list of the top 1,000 is only somewhat mitigated by the fact that the only two that ARE in are Boonmee and Nostalgia.

a trattoria at 10:30 a.m.! That's the stuff.

Tratt Drinking Feeling

i remember hearing Andrea Dunbar talking about it on the radio some years back? it sounded formally amazing and i still haven't seen it

― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Friday, May 22, 2020 3:22 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)

actually it might've been Clio Barnard now i think about it

― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Friday, May 22, 2020 3:22 PM (twenty-six minutes ago)

Ha, yes, unlikely to be Dunbar.

grim lol yes sorry i got mixed up

Certified Copy just annoyed me at the time, liked it least of all the Kiarostami I've seen by a long way, but I'm willing to give it another go. This is Joe by a mile tho

Inception the first time on the big screen blew my away but I was a younger man then and it really didn't stand up to one rewatch even back in the day

Also liked Nostalgia For The Light, Blue Valentine, Black Swan and The Arbor. Meek's Cutoff maybe my least favourite Reichardt but it's ok

Uncle Boonmee vs Meek's Cutoff, went for the latter to give it a fighting chance. Only other one on the list I've seen is Black Swan, which was abysmal.

I think I prefer Certified Copy to Uncle Boonmee, but I'm more grateful the latter is something that exists in the world, so I voted for it.

2010 movie that deserves to be here (certainly more than Blue Valentine): Another Year

Here's where I admit that I like at least three other Joe pictures significantly better than the Palme winner.

A solid, respectable selection of films that I just don't care that much about.

(except Inception of course, whose inclusion here is indeed ludicrous)

I feel a strong regional affinity with The Arbor but also feel although it's quite moving there is something a bit underdeveloped about it, like it's a very good effort by a film student. Haven't been a big fan of subsequent Barnard movies either. But its still very good in comparison with a Banky doc and fucking Nolan droppings.

Probably Certified Copy by miles, it's one of them movies where I wasn't particularly in the mood for a sort of discursive essay about art movie but ended up fucking enjoying every minute of it!

My hot take here is that Inception was fun and no one has any business scoffing at its inclusion when there is some Banksy bullshit in there that's flying under the radar.

nostalgia for the light

Uncle Boonmee ftw.

the best thing I can say about Inception is that it inspired one hell of a classic Rick and Morty ep

good south park ep too!

Here's where I admit that I like at least three other Joe pictures significantly better than the Palme winner.

― Vegemite Is My Grrl (Eric H.), Friday, 22 May 2020 16:42 (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think I prefer 4 but it's still my favourite thing here

all 5 of his main films are almost equally great imo, maybe I would rate them 1) Tropical Malady, Uncle Boonmee, and Cemetery of Splendor, 2) Blissfully Yours, 3) Syndromes and a Century

for me 2010 is between Mysteries of Lisbon and Uncle Boonmee

I remember really liking Meek's Cutoff

I think I rank them Malady > Syndromes > Cemetery > Boonmee > Blissfully

But I agree they're all within shouting distance of each other in quality.

My hot take: Inception is a dog on fire.

I quite like to see the Ruiz someday

don't think I appreciated Certified Copy as much as the rest of you, there was a meta component to it that I wanted to like more than I did

but movies often seem very different to me when I watch them later so I'm interested in seeing it again

recently watched Nostalgia For the Light, I loved the film's idea that archeologists and astronomers are connected in that they study the most elemental past

where is morbius? would like to see him to post here

He's in the hospital at the moment, I'm sure he'd rather be here too.

really hope he's ok

hi, Christopher Nolan made a movie about the unlimited power of the dreaming mind and it was 100% gray and involved nothing more fantastic than a grenade launcher and some Escher prints and that's all you need to know about him as an artist

— Gretchen Felker-Martin (@scumbelievable) April 24, 2018

Bingo

yep

or as this wise-guy put it at the time

I get Nolan's mania about control and architecture but the best films about dreams have a much lighter touch and a greater sense of the surreal

― acoleuthic, Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:37 (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think we all know that Inception is still gonna get at least 3 or 4 lurker votes here.

I liked it when I saw it with a full crowd. Nolan's movies are big, dumb fun. I don't get the hate

That he's a talentless posh English cunt who get's a lot of smoke blown up his arse by mediocre-hack film critics and the right wing wing press in the UK is a factor this side of the Atlantic, even before the garbage movies are taken into consideration.

Why would you take anything but the films into consideration?

xxp I didn't hate the idea of the movie so much, but felt so brow-beaten by the loud, overwrought, overriding continuous music. It was incredibly obnoxious

felt the same way about The Dark Knight

xxp

even if I did it wouldn't make any discernible difference in his case

" when I saw it with a full crowd"

jesus what a fucking depressing concept of watching movies.. like a football match.

The Dark Knight is an evil film.

I do think full theaters can enhance a film experience.

I watched Inception in a semi-full theater with a friend, I like and respect him enough that I didn't want to bail on him, but I was so disappointed by the experience

"I do think full theaters can enhance a film experience."

never heard so much wrongness in my life.

that is a low blow!

very rude making fun of our endless frat party here in the USA

good to see the best movies poll getting deep into the oeuvre of auteurs Bay and Nolan

My grandpa (both of us scottish) gave me the impression that cinema in his youth was treated much like pantomine. Cheer when the goodies appear, hiss and boo when the baddies appear. Sounds awful but he loved it.

Sion Sono said he wanted film audiences to be like wrestling audiences and I don't see how that would work with his films. Maybe just a provocation for its own sake.

Mixed feelings about Toy Story 3. I've never cared for the actual animation in Pixar but I think all 3 of the films are quite stirring all the same. Ken was hilarious and they really increased the morbid aspects of the toys-are-alive concept to torment children.

Toy Story 3 is my least favourite of the four, but I'm enough of a Pixar fanboy that I voted for it anyway (had the Coens' True Grit been here, it would have been a different story).

it's amazing how much the British infer from "full crowd"

I think I only caught it on TV one night because people talked it up as a copy of Marienbad.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, May 24, 2020

I can understand people seeing similarities in tone and in narrative confusion with Inception and Marienbad, and they both had annoying scores, but Last Year at Marienbad was so much more amazing

More beautiful conceptually and visually and more mysterious.

Different leagues imo

more like Last Year at Mariengood

Yes Dan agree - Marienbad is really good, except I also really like that organ grinding score which goes along with the tone it's striking. Also shows up this earlier post as clueless:

or as this wise-guy put it at the time

I get Nolan's mania about control and architecture but the best films about dreams have a much lighter touch and a greater sense of the surreal
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 11 November 2010 12:37 (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

― imago, Saturday, 23 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink

it's amazing how much the British infer from "full crowd"

― flappy bird, Monday, 25 May 2020 00:06 (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

If by "the British" you mean one particularly excitable British person then yeah sure

more like Last Year at Mariengood

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Monday, May 25, 2020 2:01 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

^^ slept on and otm.

Voted for Certified Copy a second time.

im not voting in any of these

do u think I fucking remember how good any of them were

except Banksy deserved capital punishment

xp not sure you knew how good any of them were then

(glad to see you back tho)

not been away

Oh right, it was me who left for the last three weeks

my guess is Boonmee and Certified Copy are the winners here

ended up voting for Mysteries of Lisbon so it gets at least one vote

Bumping.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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glad all got votes. I love Boonmee more than Certified Copy but the top two here doesn’t surprise me

I like David Fincher but haven’t seen The Social Network since its opening and not sure what I would think about it now

Are there enough 1920 titles to poll?

There are two. So, I'll just include both in the comprehensive XXX0 poll.

Also, very much the correct choice here. Good job, ILX!

Good top 5

Still have to finish this one, of course: 1930's Best Movies: 90 Years Later

Banksy voter, come get yer whuppin'

Black Swan, ye gods

Find it more comforting to assume there's a bunch of joke votes

Are there enough 1920 titles to poll?
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 7:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

There are two. So, I'll just include both in the comprehensive XXX0 poll.
― Dirty Epic H. (Eric H.), Wednesday, June 17, 2020 9:34 PM (yesterday)

Eh, changed my mind, but a short deck on this one: 1920's Best Movies: 100 Years Later

Time for the showdown: The Best Movies Of Years Celebrating An Anniversary Divisible By 10 (1920-2010)