BOT's Top 100 Films of the 2010s: The Countdown | List complete

[CoolioD1]

wait, wait. there's been a mistake

 

Spoiler

 

[Cap]

3 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

"Technically, it's ... great … obviously directed with a lot of verve [...] I ran into a huge, huge ... moment [...] I wanted ... Ryan Gosling every time he was on screen. Emma Stone was ... man oh man [...] "City of Stars" is a lovely song." - @Plain Old Tele

Fucking Genius.

[Plain Old Tele]

@Jake Gittes 

 

Edited April 20, 2020 by Plain Old Tele

[Plain Old Tele]

8 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

wait, wait. there's been a mistake

 

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A better choice. 

[Eric Atreides]

Just now, Plain Old Tele said:

A better choice. 

...you know what im gonna say

[Cap]

1 minute ago, Eric Atreides said:

...you know what im gonna say

He’s right?!

[Ethan Hunt]

Tbh La La Land missing the top 10 is the biggest surprise of the list 

[filmlover]

15 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

"Technically, it's ... great … obviously directed with a lot of verve [...] I ran into a huge, huge ... moment [...] I wanted ... Ryan Gosling every time he was on screen. Emma Stone was ... man oh man [...] "City of Stars" is a lovely song." - @Plain Old Tele

[The Panda]

If you were hoping for La La Land in the top 10, looks like it fell flat.  Just like Ryan Gosling and the rest of the singers’ intonation in the movie.

[charlie Jatinder]

wtf

[The Panda]

While on the topic of La La Land... Remember these?

 

 

[Ethan Hunt]

Fucking iconic 

3 minutes ago, The Panda said:

While on the topic of La La Land... Remember these?

 

 

 

[filmlover]

Damien Jizzelle saved jazz with La La Land. Now he's gonna save quarantine with his new jazz miniseries on Netflix in a few weeks.

[Jake Gittes]

Number 11

Spoiler

 

"I just thought there would be more."
442 points, 23 lists

directed by Richard Linklater | US | 2014

 

The Pitch: The childhood and adolescence of a boy growing up in Texas from 2002 until 2013.

 

#1 Placements: 2
Top 5 Placements: 5
Top 12 Placements: 2
Metacritic: 100
Box Office: $57m WW
Awards: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, out of 6 nominations; BAFTA for Best Film, Director and Supporting Actress; Silver Bear for Best Director - Berlin Film Festival
BOT History: #2, Top Movies of 2014; #8, Top 100 Movies of the Century (2015); #73 (2016), #98 (2018), Top 100 Movies of All Time; BOFFY awards for Best Director and Supporting Actress
Critic Opinion: “Near the end of the film, Arquette mentions a “series of milestones” to Mason, including “the time we thought you were dyslexic, the time we taught you how to ride a bike”; also weddings, divorces, getting her master’s degree. At this point, we realize that we didn’t see any of this onscreen. Most great movies require the audience to complete them, and this is especially the case for Linklater’s film, which plays—completely, uncynically—to each viewer’s own memories of childhood, however socioeconomically or geographically different those experiences likely were from the Texas suburban world we’re watching. Because the film is so focused on time rather than event, it allows us to recall life when it moved at a different pace. The years of youth we see dramatized and documented onscreen, from 2002 to 2013, are a blip on the radar for adults, but as they cocooned Mason and Ellar Coltrane from age seven to eighteen, they are a lifetime. In this experiencing of someone else’s time, Boyhood registers as a work of enormous empathy.” - Michael Koresky, Reverse Shot
BOT Sez: “There's something really heart warming about finding beauty in a movie about normal people doing normal things. Big events and the excitement they give us don't last forever, they are just transitory, if you take a closer look you'll see that our ordinary lives aren't boring, they are really beautiful. I felt like the movie was trying to show how fast life goes by, not in a sad way, but showing us that even those tiny little moments of our lives matter, and suddenly you have so many memories that life doesn't seem that insignificant anymore. And it's exactly when we recognize the importance of what happened in our past that we develop hope for our future.” - @JohnnY
 “There were moments during the first hour of Boyhood when I became concerned. This wasn't the peerless masterpiece I had been reading about. In fact it was often messy and clumsy, with scenes that felt awkward and unnecessary. However, looking back on the film several hours later, those clumsy and awkward moments feel every bit as pivotal as anything else. Boyhood is a celebration of life, of each moment lived, of the clumsy and awkward as well as the profound and beautiful. Life is a miracle, all of it, and this miracle of a film exists to remind us of that indisputable, higher truth.” - @yads
Commentary: Our last film to not make the top 10 is Richard Linklater's one-of-a-kind, much-argued-over experiment in building a film over 12 years. (It can take solace in the fact that 45 points separate it from #10, and that it has the sixth highest average point score in the top 100.) A film whose essential qualities have been taken as virtues by some and issues by others, and one that's arguably less fashionable to like now than it was when it came out, it nevertheless hasn't faded as much as one could have expected/worried for this list's participants; no 2014 film ranks higher here.
 

 

 

 

Edited April 20, 2020 by Jake Gittes

[The Panda]

5 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Number 11

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"I just thought there would be more."
442 points, 23 lists

directed by Richard Linklater | US | 2014

 

The Pitch: The childhood and adolescence of a boy growing up in Texas from 2002 until 2013.

 

#1 Placements: 2
Top 5 Placements: 5
Top 12 Placements: 2
Metacritic: 100
Box Office: $57m WW
Awards: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, out of 6 nominations; BAFTA for Best Film, Director and Supporting Actress; Silver Bear for Best Director - Berlin Film Festival
BOT History: #2, Top Movies of 2014; #8, Top 100 Movies of the Century (2015); #73 (2016), #98 (2018), Top 100 Movies of All Time; BOFFY awards for Best Director and Supporting Actress
Critic Opinion: “Near the end of the film, Arquette mentions a “series of milestones” to Mason, including “the time we thought you were dyslexic, the time we taught you how to ride a bike”; also weddings, divorces, getting her master’s degree. At this point, we realize that we didn’t see any of this onscreen. Most great movies require the audience to complete them, and this is especially the case for Linklater’s film, which plays—completely, uncynically—to each viewer’s own memories of childhood, however socioeconomically or geographically different those experiences likely were from the Texas suburban world we’re watching. Because the film is so focused on time rather than event, it allows us to recall life when it moved at a different pace. The years of youth we see dramatized and documented onscreen, from 2002 to 2013, are a blip on the radar for adults, but as they cocooned Mason and Ellar Coltrane from age seven to eighteen, they are a lifetime. In this experiencing of someone else’s time, Boyhood registers as a work of enormous empathy.” - Michael Koresky, Reverse Shot
BOT Sez: “There's something really heart warming about finding beauty in a movie about normal people doing normal things. Big events and the excitement they give us don't last forever, they are just transitory, if you take a closer look you'll see that our ordinary lives aren't boring, they are really beautiful. I felt like the movie was trying to show how fast life goes by, not in a sad way, but showing us that even those tiny little moments of our lives matter, and suddenly you have so many memories that life doesn't seem that insignificant anymore. And it's exactly when we recognize the importance of what happened in our past that we develop hope for our future.” - @JohnnY
 “There were moments during the first hour of Boyhood when I became concerned. This wasn't the peerless masterpiece I had been reading about. In fact it was often messy and clumsy, with scenes that felt awkward and unnecessary. However, looking back on the film several hours later, those clumsy and awkward moments feel every bit as pivotal as anything else. Boyhood is a celebration of life, of each moment lived, of the clumsy and awkward as well as the profound and beautiful. Life is a miracle, all of it, and this miracle of a film exists to remind us of that indisputable, higher truth.” - @yads
Commentary: Our last film to not make the top 10 is Richard Linklater's one-of-a-kind, much-argued-over experiment in building a film over 12 years. (It can take solace in the fact that 45 points separate it from #10, and that it has the sixth highest average point score in the top 100.) A film whose essential qualities have been taken as virtues by some and issues by others, and one that's arguably less fashionable to like now than it was when it came out, it nevertheless hasn't faded as much as one could have expected/worried for this list's participants; no 2014 film ranks higher here.
 

 

 

 

Maybe the most relatable movie ever made, given I grew up in Suburban Texas in that same general time frame

[filmlover]

So the top 10 is gonna be (in some order):

 

Inception

The Social Network

Gravity

The Wolf of Wall Street

Inside Out

Mad Max: Fury Road

Arrival

Get Out

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Parasite

 

Pretty sure none of these have shown up yet.

[Fancyarcher]

La La Land is wonderful. I'll never forget the first time I saw it, months before it got a proper release at Dartmouth. That observatory sequence left me jaw-dropped. 

[mldardy]

25 minutes ago, The Panda said:

Maybe the most relatable movie ever made, given I grew up in Suburban Texas in that same general time frame

For you.

[grey ghost]

2 hours ago, filmlover said:

So the top 10 is gonna be (in some order):

 

Inception

The Social Network

Gravity

The Wolf of Wall Street

Inside Out

Mad Max: Fury Road

Arrival

Get Out

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Parasite

 

Pretty sure none of these have shown up yet.

That would be a solid top ten.

[Rorschach]

4 hours ago, MrGamer said:

The extras and the stairs in the boat were the true stars of the film.

Edited April 20, 2020 by Rorschach