BOT's Top 100 Films of the 2010s | Still accepting last-minute lists

[Joel M]

2 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

As for the ranking thing, that's what the tiers are for! Particularly for relieving the headache as much as possible when it comes to the bottom 50. So you can still shuffle things around before the deadline if you're so inclined. If not, 'sall good. 

Yeah, I'm not doing that. The reason I don't vote for most of the countdowns on this site is that I overthink myself to death and give up before I even make my list. You can already count it as final.

 

My reaction when I found out that 2 of my 2009 faves are eligible after I locked down my 100.

[Jake Gittes]

18 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Didn't know others have Drug War on their list. Saw it yesterday (first Johnnie To film). Contains two of the best shootout scenes ever and it was way more brutal than I expected. Also had some really nice criticism of the Chinese police force. I'm watching Don't Go Breaking My Heart (completely different kind of film but I loved it too) today and watching and Romancing in the Air tomorrow, both from Johnnie To. 

Drug War and Don't Go Breaking My Heart are both on my list. Top-shelf examples of their respective genres, and I'm sure if more BOTers saw them they would agree. Prime FYC material.

[Joel M]

Johnnie To coming for George Miller's wig?

 

[lorddemaxus]

2 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

Drug War and Don't Go Breaking My Heart are both on my list. Top-shelf examples of their respective genres, and I'm sure if more BOTers saw them they would agree. Prime FYC material.

Don't Go Breaking My Heart has way more energy to it than the any modern day romcom (Johnnie To brings many of his action sensibilities I noticed when watching Drug War to this movie more often than I expected) and also has some geniune emotional value to it. Definitely one of the genre's best. Is the sequel any good?

 

Edit: Also holy shit, the frog.

Edited March 16, 2020 by lorddemaxus

[Jake Gittes]

8 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Don't Go Breaking My Heart has way more energy to it than the any modern day romcom (Johnnie To brings many of his action sensibilities I noticed when watching Drug War to this movie more often than I expected) and also has some geniune emotional value to it. Definitely one of the genre's best. Is the sequel any good?

 

Edit: Also holy shit, the frog.

I steered clear of the sequel after seeing that some of the critics I follow most closely were seriously disappointed by it. Looking at LB, it does have a handful of auteurist fans... Then again, so does Romancing in Thin Air, and I did not enjoy that one.

[Jake Gittes]

Two weeks and a few hours left to submit your lists!

 

Who knows where we'll all be in that time, but for now this remains on track. I know this is not the most comfortable time to catch up with and/or rank movies, and plenty of us have much more pressing concerns - still, if you're interested and want to find some distraction by participating in what should hopefully be another fun BOT countdown, you're very welcome.

[Eric Duncan]

Sent Jakey my list. It has a whole bunch of movies that only I like, and movies I love way too much that nobody else loves as much. I wanted to get around to see more, especially other people's FYC, but I got lazy and outside circumstances have stressed me out and clouded my head way too much for me to even focus on movies. Whatever. I still like what I sent in.

1. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2. The Witch

3. Brooklyn

4. If Beale Street Could Talk

5. La La Land

6. Parasite

7. Call Me By Your Name

8. Fury Road

9. Leave No Trace

10. The Social Network

11. Zootopia

12. Inside Out

13. A Star is Born

14. Song of the Sea

15. Coco

16. The Florida Project

17. Creed

18. Gravity

19. Black Panther

20. The Shape of Water

21. Dunkirk

22. Hell or High Water

23. Boyhood

24. Gone Girl

25. The Peanuts Movie

26. Hustlers

27. BlacKkKlansman

28. Get Out

29. Little Women

30. Baby Driver

31. Ernest & Celestine 

32. Moonlight

33. Toy Story 3

34. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

35. Tully

36. Paddington 2

37. Lean on Pete

38. Arrival

39. Paranorman

40. 1917

41. Kingsman

42. The Breadwinner

43. Lady Bird

44. Just Mercy

45. Ready or Not

46. Star Wars: The Last Jedi

47. Star Wars: The Force Awakens

48. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

49. Avengers: Endgame

50. Uncut Gems

51. Crazy Stupid Love

52. Revenge

53. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

54. Knives Out

55. The Muppets

56. Frozen

57. Can You Ever Forgive Me?

58. Manchester by the Sea

59. Booksmart

60. The Peanut Butter Falcon

61. Birdman

62. Swiss Army Man

63. Kung Fu Panda 2

64. Rocketman

65. Rango

66. Glass

67. Split

68. Portrait of a Lady on Fire

69. Gloria Bell

70. Unsane

71. Moana

72. Mary Poppins Returns

73. The Fits

74. Logan

75. The Lego Movie

76. How to Train Your Dragon 2

77. The Nice Guys

78. The House with a Clock in its Walls

79. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

80. Sausage Party

81. The Post

82. The Equalizer

83. The Favourite

84. The Death of Stalin

85. Crazy Rich Asians

86. Silver Linings Playbook

87. John Wick 2

88. Dolemite is My Name

89. Hail, Caesar!

90. Incredibles 2

91. Pride

92. Les Miserables (2012)

93. Ocean’s 8

94. Les Miserables (2019)

95. Calibre

96. A Simple Favor

97. Pottersville

98. Love Simon

99. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2

100. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

[filmlover]

Don't know if I'll have the energy to come up with a top 100 but I'll certainly put together a top 20-25 soon now with the (depressing given the circumstances) extended amount of time now available.

[Jake Gittes]

9 hours ago, Eric Lightfoot said:

Sent Jakey my list. It has a whole bunch of movies that only I like, and movies I love way too much that nobody else loves as much. I wanted to get around to see more, especially other people's FYC, but I got lazy and outside circumstances have stressed me out and clouded my head way too much for me to even focus on movies. Whatever. I still like what I sent in.

 

7. Call Me By Your Name

You did good my son.

 

8 hours ago, filmlover said:

Don't know if I'll have the energy to come up with a top 100 but I'll certainly put together a top 20-25 soon now with the (depressing given the circumstances) extended amount of time now available.

Hope you can extend that to at least 30 

[Jake Gittes]

Some FYCs for anyone looking for things to watch rn. Mostly on the lighter/entertaining/life-affirming side. Mostly.

 

 

My favorite movie of at least the past 15 years, sadly also a victim of contract-related lawsuits to the point where it never had remotely the release it deserved and has had to fight for virtually every viewer. Not a breezy watch, but in its own way one of the most inspiring films I know. Extended cut (3 hours) streams on Amazon Prime, maybe other places as well.

 

  

 

See discussion above. Two exceptional films from the same director. As an action movie, Drug War outdoes everything Hollywood has served up in the past decade save for MMFR, also has the best pair of lead performances in the genre since Face/Off. Don't Go Breaking My Heart is maybe the best modern romcom, energetic, smart, charming as hell. 

 

 

A "we're all connected" drama done right. No pathos or histrionics, just a lot of sympathetic observation and love for people who keep the world going, each little piece building on the one before.

 

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[lorddemaxus]

15 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

 

 

 

 

Have had this on my watchlist for a few months and watching this sometime this weekend. Will be my 2nd Miike film (after Audition). Was hoping to watch his newest film too but I don't think its out on digital yet.

Edited March 19, 2020 by lorddemaxus

[RealLyre]

11 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:

Have had this on my watchlist for a few months and watching this sometime this weekend. Will be my 2nd Miike film (after Audition). Was hoping to watch his newest film too but I don't think its out on digital yet.

First Love? I think it's been out for a while

[lorddemaxus]

26 minutes ago, RealLyre said:

First Love? I think it's been out for a while

checked about a month ago and wasn't able to find it on Amazon. Yeah, eems like it is there now though.

Edited March 19, 2020 by lorddemaxus

[DAR]

Updated to add 51-100

1. Sicario
2. The Wolf of Wall Street
3. Mad Max:  Fury Road 
4. Whiplash
5. Spider-Man into the Spiderverse 
6. Inception 
7. Inside Out
8. The Social Network 
9. The Last Jedi
10. Creed
11. Edge of Tomorrow 
12. Django Unchained 
13. Gone Girl
14. Looper
15. Hell or High Water
16. True Grit
17. Moneyball
18. Sing Street
19. Warrior
20. Get Out
21. Logan
22. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
23. Rush
24. Blindspotting 
25. Popstar: Never Stop Stopping
26. Captain Phillips 
27. Locke
28. Dunkirk 
29. Blackkklansman 
30. A Star Is Born 
31. Rise Of the Planet  of the Apes
32. The Town
33. The Grey
34. Toy Story 3
35. Wind River
36. Skyfall 
37. Blade Runner 2049
38. A Quiet Place
39. Wonder Woman
40. Coco
41. The Martian
42. The Irishman 
43. Mission Impossible: Fallout
44. Nightcrawler
45. The Big Short
46. Steve Jobs
47. Everybody Wants Some
48. Deadpool
49. Game Night
50. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood 
51. Rogue One
52. The Dark Knight Rises
53. Mud
54. Leave No Trace
55. Logan Lucky 
56. The Founder
57. Zootopia 
58. Dolemite is My Name
59. Argo
60. Peanut Butter Falcon
61. Lincoln 
62. Guardians of the Galaxy
63. The Nice Guys
64. Prisoners
65. Ballad of Buster Scruggs
66. Ex Machina
67. Bridge of Spies
68. The Guest
69. Inside Llewyn Davis
70. Flight
71. Knives Out
72. Incredibles 2
73. Good Time
74. It
75. Florida Project 
76. The Other Guys
77. Silver Linings Playbook
78. Spotlight 
79. Rango
80. Fast Five
81. Grand Budapest Hotel
82. Three Identical Strangers
83. Arrival
84. Midnight Special
85. Star Trek Beyond
86. Tangled
87. Kubo and the Two Strings
88. 50/50
89. Moana
90. The Force Awakens
91. Interstellar 
92. Manchester by the Sea
93. Solo
94. Lady Bird
95. The Muppets
96. Zero Dark Thirty
97. American Hustle
98. First Man
99. Bahubali Pt1
100. Bahubali Pt2

Edited March 29, 2020 by DAR

[lorddemaxus]

LOVED the last hour of 13 Assassins, wasn't a huge fan of the rest (it wasn't bad, just servicable). Also has one of the most evil villains from the last decade imo. Been a long time since I've found a movie character so detestable. Could get in my top 100 list (I have a few spots for a bunch of 8/10 films and this could get in there). Feel like this could have gone somewhere high on my list if Miike didn't hold back on the gore and if the build-up to the phonomenal final battle was a bit shorter.

Edited March 20, 2020 by lorddemaxus

[gadd]

There are a few films from 2011 I need to catch up with before I compile my list. I had thought for a while that it was a year of many really good films but not many great ones. However, I've heard very strong things about Margaret, A Separation, Take Shelter and Detachment so I'm going to try and watch all of those before submitting my picks.

[Amadeus]

FYC

[dxmatrixdt]

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Edited April 1, 2020 by freedom slave karma dota

[Joel M]

On 3/21/2020 at 2:32 PM, gadd said:

However, I've heard very strong things about Margaret, A Separation, Take Shelter and Detachment so I'm going to try and watch all of those before submitting my picks.

I 've seen all 4, the first 3 are def worth it but Detachment is one of the worst cases of misery porn I remember this decade. A truly god awful movie.

[lorddemaxus]

HOLY SHIT, Magic Mike XXL surprised me so much. Most likely going into my top 15 of the decade, maybe even top 10. Geniunely the most joyful movie I've seen in a long, long time. The movie has practically no story to it and almost no conflict but it does a brilliant job at portraying sexuality and masculanity (espescially the way men interact with women and even more so, each other) in such a wonderful and celebratory way, that I just couldn't help but smile throughout the whole movie.  

Edited March 24, 2020 by lorddemaxus