Best Films of 2010

Zipp101

Inception and Toy Story 3 are two obvious examples.

Didn't seem to be a very memorable year for films generally though..

What was good?

get_d_hand_in

Inception and the Town.... My personal favorites

krudler

Off the top of my head aside from what was mentioned:

The Social Network
Tron (not the best movie, but stunning to look at)
The Town
How To Train Your Dragon


errr...fcuking hell it has been a crap year for big movies.

Nolanger

Another year.

mdwexford

Black Swan
Despicable Me
Inception
Kick Ass
Machete
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Shutter Island
The Social Network
The Town
Toy Story 3

Tomohawk

Another Year was pretty good.

FortuneChip

I think The Town edges it for me. I didn't see The Social Network though, and usually like David Fincher movies.

Inception was fantastic to watch, and I look forward to seeing it again, but, yeah, The Town. Jeremy Renner is a quality actor, and being a Mad Men fan, got to love anything Jon Hamm is associated with (save for The Day The Earth Stood Still)

Duggy747

Back To The Future :pac:

Ciaran_B

My best of the year.
1. The Social Network. Easily the best thing I seen in the cinema this year and I think this is now my favourite David Fincher film. Superb in every department; acting, directing, script and every thing else. A masterpiece.
2. Kick Ass. Brilliantly entertaining, great soundtrack and some killer set pieces.
3. Black Death. A film I enjoyed at the time but that’s grown on me as the moths went by. In a year when some of my favourite directors (Christopher Nolan, Neil Marshall) let me down Chris Smith kept up his run of great movies. This was a fine attempt at what Mark Gatiss (I think) called ‘folk horror’.
4. Easy A. I’m a sucker for High School movies and loved this retelling of The Scarlett Letter. Emma Stone is a new favourite.
5. A Prophet. Not the amazing experience I was expecting after The Beat My Heart Skipped but it’s still a fantastic film with a great central performance.
6. Scott Pilgram. Best special effects I saw on screen all year, it was just a pity the characters and the story couldn’t match them.

Honourable mentions: Up In The Air, The Losers, Shutter Island, Toy Story 3, The Loved Ones ( I haven’t seen Tron, Monsters or The Tourist yet so this list might change)


My worst of the year.
1. Cyrus. The closest I’ve ever come to walking out of a cinema – fine cast, terrible film.


My biggest let downs
1. Inception. Christopher Nolan, Leonardo De Caprio, Cillian Murphy, high concept sci-fi with a huge budget – what can go wrong? Well, pretty much everything. An annoying story, dull characters and a soundtrack that sounded like an out of tune radio added up to a massive disappointment. For some reason I really enjoyed reading the theories about the film but watching it was a real downer.
2. The Expendables. Proof that you just can’t recapture the spirit of 80’s action movies. Dull, noisy and hard to tell what was happening on screen.
3. Centurion. I’m a big Neil Marshall fan and I loved the cast but this was really poor stuff. I read somewhere that there were major issues with this film after filming was finished so maybe we’ll see the directors cut some day.
4. Iron Man 2. The spirit of Michael Bay was strong in this tripe and I loved the first one.



Films I missed at the cinema – 4 Lions, White Ribbon, Winters Bone, Buried, The Kids are All Right, Alice in Wonderland and Another Year.

Sad Professor

No lists, folks. See the charter. Discuss your choices, or discuss the year as whole.

The Film Awards will be starting soon and you'll be able to nominate your choices for best film in a number of categories. See this thread and post any suggestions you have for new categories, etc.

Gabbro

My favourite would also be Un Prophète but IMDB says it's from 2009? Looks like 2010 was quite a poor year.

saintsaltynuts

The Town just about out does Inception.

Scuid Mhór

Zipp101 wrote: »

Inception and Toy Story 3 are two obvious examples.

Didn't seem to be a very memorable year for films generally though..

What was good?

i don't know about toy story 3. all of my friends wouldn't stop raving about it and 99% of them all told me they started crying towards the end but when i watched it i felt nothing. it didn't strike me as a good send off to what i loved as a child. and that's really why i think everybody raved on about it as they did - it wasn't the film's quality as much as the overwhelming sense of nostalgia they felt while watching it.

inception, however, was top notch. i arrived late on the scene for that as well and was told there'd be no way i'd understand it by just watching it once but i proved my critics wrong. i honestly don't see anything confusing about it except for maybe the very end which is clearly nolan just wanting to mess around with his audience.

krudler

i compeltely forgot about Kick Ass, yeah that too, loads of fun, Matthew Vaughn is definitely a director to watch.

DazMarz

My favourites from 2010 were:

Inception

Breathtaking stuff. Powerful acting from all concerned, with my personal favourite in the film being Tom Hardy as the cynical and brilliant forger Eames. Christopher Nolan took over 9 years to write and then produce this film... Well worth the wait, people. See it now if you haven't seen it already!

Kick-Ass

In a world when a nobody decides to become a superhero and make himself a 'somebody', is anyone any better off or safer... Probably not. But that is besides the point. From the opening scene of the film, the laughs come thick and fast in this expletetive-strewn romp that pulls no punches and neatly goes in the exact opposite direction to which the audience would expect (and also lampooning many Superhero clichés en route). Christopher Mintz-Plasse is superb as the (anti) Hero 'Red Mist', but Aaron Johnson really does well as the doe-eyed and pleading superhero wannabe. And as a pleasant aside, any action sequences are also brilliant, making it much more than a simple comedy film! Sequel coming out soon, too.

Nolanger

Of course all of the best films from this year got an Irish release?

Hank_Jones

I think it has been another atrocious year for films, haven't seen many good ones, very few seem to make the cut for me.

Toy Story 3 and Inception would be the main two which I thought worked well, I think Inception raised the bar with regards to effects.

Kick-Ass was a good film, but it is possibly a bit overrated.

Really wish there was a cultural cinema where I am....sick of this main stream nonsense...

johnny_ultimate

Film awards shall be beginning very soon, in fact just going to make a post about it, so will lock this for the moment!