2010's Best Movies: 10 Years Later

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.

Nolan is a boring director who turns what should be fun pulp into ponderous and often depressing (in the case of The Dark Knight) experiences.

Of course it can for a certain type of film, are you serious or just on the wind up calzino?

Inception is still a big loud empty thing tho

Xp

xp I guess it's not the case as much anymore with everybody's 'you live in my world' attitude, but I do remember having thrilling communal experiences in movie theaters

fwiw I liked the score much more in Dunkirk, it seemed to fit the film better

I was unenthusiastic about him for a long time but The Prestige is one of my favorite films, Memento is pretty good and I was surprised just how good Dunkirk was. That puts him ahead of most for me. Didn't care for for Inception because I hate heist films.

Where's Araki's Kaboom?

no I'm not on the wind up, just struggling to conceive of how lots of people in a cinema improves a movie experience .. it doesn't stack up with me I'm afraid.

I'm telling you, when I saw Ghostbusters at the age of 8 in a full buzzing cinema, that was better than just watching it on the telly in our front room

yes, I guess in my past it was about the audience reaction, but that only seems to have been an experience I had when I was younger

if there is one thing that history teaches us it's that "the crowd" is such an intrinsic part of good art! I mean if it was movies of landed gentry getting liquidated to cheering crowds i'd take that. But fuck it when it is loud dickheads cheering a fucking Nolan movie

"I'm telling you, when I saw Ghostbusters at the age of 8"

let's all remember Digby The Biggest Dog in the World and other Children's Film Foundation classics to remind us of when our mum used to use 50p sat morning matinees as de facto childcare and leave us in a crowded cinema with a load of paedos and weirdos nostalgia, to defend a very ropey allistic idea that watching movies should be a communal activity... absolute bollox mate!

I say this as someone who watched Highlander on my own at an evening showing!

Huh, doesn’t feel like Meek’s Cutoff came out ten years ago.

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.

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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)