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[Honey Bunny]

I think the top 5 will look like:

3. Argo

pls no

Blackhat #1

 

[Poimandres]

I didn't realize that 21-50 were already up.

http://www.avclub.com/article/100-best-films-decade-so-far-21-50-217472

Woah. Getting some of the heavy hitters out of the way already.

 

[OrlanisWorks]

Pretty surpassing picks, especially some overtaking others that I've seen as ones I wouldn't consider a top spotter. The Grey, especially.

 

[Jigorath]

12 Years and ZDT didn't make the top 20? There goes my prediction.

 

[supernormal]

Read the first few pages- surprised at the love for The Social Network (Top 3 Movie of all time for me) - and then brought back down by some of the hate in the last few pages.

My favorite movies from 2010 to now are:

The Imposter
The Town
Tangled
Interstellar
Drive
Inception
Django
Gone Girl
Her
The Social Network

 

[spekkeh]

Atrocious characterization, bad acting, tin-eared dialogue, a narrative that made no sense even in continuity, laughably bad attempts at visual symbolism, cinematography and sound design with all the subtlety of a student film. Other than maybe good visual effects (a plaudit with a shelf life of a few years, at most), I can't really think of any way in which the film was anything other than pandering, lowest common denominator crap. At least movies like Dredd and Fast Six embrace what they are, rather than trying to make something deep out of a bad summer blockbuster plot.

Ahahaha I don't ahahaha

Dat Academy eh, bunch of students. It has three layers of rhetoric, being disaster blockbuster, gestalt character study and 2001-inspired evolution of the space human all in one with impeccable directing and a long overdue Oscar for Cuaron. It should be on top of any decade list precisely because it subverts blockbusters while you can still enjoy it on the blockbuster level.

99% of the complainers don't even get the symbolism but luckily you saw right through it.

 

[CassSept]

Black Swan is waaay too low.

Hopefully Social Network and Her are both in Top 5.

 

[TheGreatDirector]

50-21 According to A.V. Club

50. Amer
49. House of Pleasures
48.The World's End
47 We Are the Best!
46. A Touch of Sin
45. Upstream Color
44. Stranger by the Lake
43. Computer Chess
42. The Loneliest Planet
41. The Wolf of Wall Street
40. Gone Girl
39. Force Majeure
38. Bernie
37. Magic Mike
36. 13 Assassins
35. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
34. The Grey
33. Amour
32. Martha Marcy May Marlene
31. Take Shelter
30. Inception
29. Leviathan
28. 12 Years a Slave
27. Melancholia
26. Drive
25. The Immigrant
24. Zero Dark Thirty
23. Moonrise Kingdom
22. Everyone Else
21. Meek's Cutoff

 

[ATastyMuffin]

No, that would be Nolan.

Spoiler

I like most of Fincher and Nolans films

Fincher is >> Nolan.

 

[kruis]

Meek's Cutoff at 21? I'd call it an interesting rambling failure, not one of the best films of the decade. Tommy Lee Jones' The Homesman is very similar but succeeds at what Meek's Cutoff fails to do.

 

[Daffy Duck]

Inception gonna be #1

You didn't read the list did you?

Edit: I see there may be a temporal displacement here, you may have posted that before the list went up in the form I see it.

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Good to see The Loneliest Planet on there.

 

[MidnightCowboy]

Scroll past Amour to see Inception and Take Shelter higher on the list. No. I like those movies, but no.

Edit: Oh god, not Melancholia too.

My final edit: Big Wes Anderson fan. Moonrise Kingdom ain't that great.

 

[diehard]

A lot of artsy fartsy shit and then .. Haywire?

what?

 

[SCULLIBUNDO]

Scroll past Amour to see Inception and Take Shelter higher on the list. No. I like those movies, but no.

Edit: Oh god, not Melancholia too.

Melancholia > Amour.

Holy fuck was Amour disappointing as hell, especially given Haneke's previous catalogue. Don't know what made everybody suddenly latch onto that film.

 

[Jigorath]

I'm gonna be pretty irritated if American Hustle places higher than Wolf of Wall Street.

 

[Peru]

Meek's Cutoff at 21? I'd call it an interesting rambling failure, not one of the best films of the decade. Tommy Lee Jones' The Homesman is very similar but succeeds at what Meek's Cutoff fails to do.

Nah it's pretty great but one of my top 10s of the 00s above it would be Wendy and Lucy, a perfect film by the same Reichardt.

 

[higgsboson1997]

I bet the top 20 will have:

The Master (I know it will, but I hope it doesn't - this movie is only famous because it's made by PTA imo)
The Social Network
Inside Llewyn Davis
Birdman
Boyhood
Her
Ida
The Artist
A Seperation
Whiplash
The Grand Budapest Hote

(maybe) Spring Breakers

 

[overcast]

Ghost Protocol being that high? Yeesh

 

[way more]

A hated GAF movie that I'm glad to see on the good list.

It's gross how the fanboys that live on the site judge movies based on trailers solely. It's a nice fuck you.

 

[spekkeh]

I bet the top 20 will have:

The Master (I know it will, but I hope it doesn't - this movie is only famous because it's made by PTA imo)
The Social Network
Inside Llewyn Davis
Birdman
Boyhood
Her
Ida
The Artist
A Seperation
Whiplash
The Grand Budapest Hote

(maybe) Spring Breakers

I agree with this, also with your appraisal of The Master. Given that Skyfall inexplicably made the list I expect No Country for Old Men (possibly at the cost of Inside..), and Magic Mike's high placing would pave the way for either the Hangover or Borat. I also expect Dallas Buyers Club.

But I would respect them more if they included Spring Breakers.

 

[Relativ9]

Needs more Repo Men.

 

[Violet_0]

21. Meek's Cutoff

they must be seeing something in this movie that I don't

 

[Rembrandt]

50-21 According to A.V. Club

50. Amer
49. House of Pleasures
48.The World's End
47 We Are the Best!
46. A Touch of Sin
45. Upstream Color
44. Stranger by the Lake
43. Computer Chess
42. The Loneliest Planet
41. The Wolf of Wall Street
40. Gone Girl
39. Force Majeure
38. Bernie
37. Magic Mike
36. 13 Assassins
35. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
34. The Grey
33. Amour
32. Martha Marcy May Marlene
31. Take Shelter
30. Inception
29. Leviathan
28. 12 Years a Slave
27. Melancholia
26. Drive
25. The Immigrant
24. Zero Dark Thirty
23. Moonrise Kingdom
22. Everyone Else
21. Meek's Cutoff

yeah, her, before midnight, and boyhood are definitely top 10. Spring Breakers might surprise me and crack top 10. I think wolf of wall street should be top 20, imo.

Needs more Repo Men.

Was incredibly hyped for this but it disappeared when it released. was it any good?

 

[starchild excalibur]

I disagree with much of this (What else is new, I guess)

 

[Baron Doggystyle von Woof]

Where is is HER? One of the best movies I have seen.

 

[Aselith]

Take Shelter should be higher but glad to see it on the list!

 

[Strax]

Melancholia > Amour.

Holy fuck was Amour disappointing as hell, especially given Haneke's previous catalogue. Don't know what made everybody suddenly latch onto that film.

Well since Haneke stole the entire thing from another filmmaker its not shocking it feels disappointing, he didn't understand the core of the story.

 

[Joni]

Tag, more inspiration movies I need to add to my wishlist.

 

[Mangoverboard]

Amour deserves higher I think, stunning film. List is really good otherwise, still a couple of these I need to see.

 

[CloudWolf]

Looper is on this? Why?

 

[Real Hero]

Looper is on this? Why?

Its good

 

[DerZuhälter]

Do I have to feel bad about the fact that I don't even know half of the movies listed? Not only not seen them, but never heard about em?
Can some of the GAF film buff regulars reassure me that some of those are really obscure movies no one has seen?

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

There ain't enough o's to looooooool at Drive and Melancholic being above 12 Years a Slave.

 

[Real Hero]

Do I have to feel bad about the fact that I don't even know half of the movies listed? Not only not seen them, but never heard about em?
Can some of the GAF film buff regulars reassure me that some of those are really obscure movies no one has seen?

Most of them seem pretty well known.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

Ahahaha I don't ahahaha

Dat Academy eh, bunch of students. It has three layers of rhetoric, being disaster blockbuster, gestalt character study and 2001-inspired evolution of the space human all in one with impeccable directing and a long overdue Oscar for Cuaron. It should be on top of any decade list precisely because it subverts blockbusters while you can still enjoy it on the blockbuster level.

99% of the complainers don't even get the symbolism but luckily you saw right through it.

The Academy has one of the worst track records for recognizing quality of any film organization.

 

[John Dunbar]

There ain't enough o's to looooooool at Drive and Melancholic being above 12 Years a Slave.

i'm surprised you liked 12 years a slave, or at least enough to care where it places on that list. knowing your tastes i would have hoped you would have seen what a cynical affair that movie was.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

i'm surprised you liked 12 years a slave, or at least enough to care where it places on that list. knowing your tastes i would have hoped you would have seen what a cynical affair that movie was.

12 Years a Slave is a GREAT work of art about the nature of power in a man's life. Great writing, acting, cinematography, and editing, no way it's not at LEAST top 10.

I also am sure that the almost flawless Shame won't be in the top 20, which is ridiculous, as it's an easy top five.

 

[John Dunbar]

12 Years a Slave is a GREAT work of art about the nature of power in a man's life. Great writing, acting, cinematography, and editing, no way it's not at LEAST top 10.

12 years a slave is a great work to demonstrate how a by-the-numbers hollywood production featuring white canadian jesus brad pitt can have power by simply being based on reality. unlike something like schindler's list, the movie never does anything to rise above its origins. 12 years a slave is a competent movie but an empty one.

 

[Gintamen]

avengers, looper, gravity, skyfall over black swan. that is ridiculous.

why the hate?

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

12 years a slave is a great work to demonstrate how a by-the-numbers hollywood production featuring white canadian jesus brad pitt can have power by simply being based on reality. unlike something like schindler's list, the movie never does anything to rise above its origins. 12 years a slave is a competent movie but an empty one.

Never shall ye see me defend white Jesus Brad Pitt, my brother.

 

[Gintamen]

24. Zero Dark Thirty

Those are american votes, right?

 

[munchie64]

Not a bad list. I though half of these were last decade though, I have a messed up perception of time.

 

[SamVimes]

12 years a slave is easily the worst Steve McQueen movie.

 

[way more]

Uh, Isn't AVclub the website that gave Uncharted 3 a 8.9 purely as a click bait measure? And now we trust them?

Sorry, give a Sony AAA game less than a 9/10 shame on me. Give it a 8.9 rating shame on you for making me write about it all over my blog.

 

[Wynnebeck]

I expect Django to be in the top 10.

 

[Snowman Prophet of Doom]

12 years a slave is easily the worst Steve McQueen movie.

Worse than Shame, approximately as good as Hunger, with different strengths and weaknesses.

 

[Erevador]

I am one of the two people who actually saw Meek's Cutoff in the theater. As someone who loves weird westerns, I have to say... it is a horrible movie with no redeeming qualities. Number 21?

 

[Aselith]

Those are american votes, right?

Eh?

 

[way more]

Why is Croupier on there?