Saturday, January 8, 2011

Every 2010 movie I saw, in neat lists


(i rated everything out of 100, relative to the rest of the movies in this list, if a movie released in 2010 year isn't in this post, i haven't seen it yet)
movies in bold were added after my initial post

Best movies:
1. The Social Network - 100
An astounding piece of cinema in every way. The wordplay, the score...I've found it difficult to discuss this movie beyond the "I loved everything about it" level.
2. Black Swan - 99
Terrifyingly enthralling. I came out of the theater shaken, gasping for air.
3. Toy Story 3 - 95
Hilarious. Sublime, even.
4. Exit Through the Gift Shop - 90
5. True Grit - 85
6. The King's Speech - 82
7. The Ghost Writer - 81
8. How To Train Your Dragon - 80
9. 127 Hours - 79
10. Winter's Bone - 78
11. Inception - 77
Not as good as I wanted it to be.
12. Despicable Me - 75

Also worth watching:
The Book of Eli - 70
Shutter Island - 71
The Crazies - 65
To Save a Life - 70
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World - 65

movies i enjoyed a great deal even though they kind of weren't good:
Tron: Legacy - 50
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - 45
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief - 35

worst of the year (I try to avoid bad movies in general, so i'm sure there were much worse films out there which i fortunately missed):
5. Robin Hood - 40
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 1 - 45
It looks nice, but it's long and boring like the part of the book it's based on.
3. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - 35
The worst film in the series yet.
2. Green Zone - 25
Incoherent action sequences are all i remember.
1. Alice in Wonderland - 15
What should've been another crazy good Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaboration ended up failing to be anything. It wasn't funny, it wasn't that weird. The worst part? It was the second highest grossing movie of the year.

the other movie i saw that didn't fit into any of my lists:
Iron Man 2 - 59

3 comments:

  1. I agree with your rating of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I was sooooo disappointed! did you read the book? it was entirely different.

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  2. no, i didn't read it! nicholas read a lot of the series. i thought the movie almost had the "so bad it's good" quality to it.

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  3. Oh yeah Mila Kunis+ Natalie Portman!

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