I saw a film today, oh boy

Exit Through the Gift Shop

I recently did a post ranking all of the movies I saw in 2010. Well, since then I've seen three more (from last year), and they were all quite good, so I've gone back and added them to the list.

A word about and a score for each:

1. Exit Through the Gift Shop - 90
A fascinating, hilarious documentary about street art. Examines essential questions like the difference between art and vandalism, and, later, the difference between good art and bad art.

2. The King's Speech - 82
A well-acted, slow-paced classy movie for old people.

3. 127 Hours - 79
Spoiler: James Franco cuts his arm off. Disgusting.

Another word about The King's Speech:
All the Oscar talk is starting to point towards this one taking home best picture, and that worries me. It's not that The King's Speech doesn't deserve it, like, I wouldn't be disappointed that it won or anything, it's just that this other movie, The Social Network, deserves it so much more.

Note: I have now seen 8 of the 10 movies nominated for best picture. Everything except The Kids Are All Right and The Fighter.

The King's Speech

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

chill

At the end Kanye's official remix to his new single, "Power", one of the guest artists says "chill" like ten or fifteen times. "Chill, chill, chill, chill, man. Chill, ‘Ye, chill," he says.
I'll admit Kanye probably does need to chill, but so does everyone else. Everybody everywhere just needs to chill. Like, kick it in a chair for a few minutes, world. Grab some pretzels or something and chill. It'll do you some good, for real.
Right now, I'm listening to this band called Radiohead, just chillin'. One of their cds just randomly came in the mail to me today, so I'm just sittin' here listenin' to it. It's not really that chill of a cd, but it's pretty chill just sittin' here listenin' to it.

Top three things that are chill
1. going outside
2. checking the mailbox for mail
3. finding a Radiohead cd in your mailbox
Because I just did all three of those things, today is chill. I realize number 3 is probably only a one-time occurrence for most people, but anyone can easily manage number 1 and 2 on any given day.

Top three things that are not chill
1. applying to college
2. mowing your lawn
3. reading novels
Now, this list might inspire some controversy. A lot of you out there believe reading novels is a chill thing to do, because you're sitting down and everything. But it's actually not very chill. Reading a novel requires a lot of concentration and thinking, unlike listening to Radiohead or checking you mailbox. Now, reading a magazine or a newspaper is pretty chill, and so is reading novels in public places, so I guess it just really depends on the context.
Next, I'd like to address the chillness of mowing your lawn. Yeah, you have to go outside to do it, which is chill, but once you start the mower it becomes loud. Loud is not chill in this scenario.

Another thing that is chill is lowercase letters. I realized this just now, and I would go back and change all the capitol (capital?) letters to lowercase, but it's chiller just to leave what I already have. I'll settle with making my title lowercase