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

[MrGamer]

18 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

Number 41

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"Only assholes drink Mr. Pibb."
248 points, 19 lists

directed by David Mackenzie | US | 2016

 

The Pitch: Two brothers carry out a series of bank robberies to save their family ranch, while being pursued by two Texas Rangers.

 

Top 12 Placements: 3
Metacritic: 88
Box Office: $38m WW
Awards: 4 Academy Award nominations
BOT History: #5, Top Movies of 2016; BOFFY for Best Ensemble, out of 9 nominations
Critic Opinion: Hell or High Water‘s deliberate pacing gives it the feel of a heist story with its feet stuck in mud — and that’s a good thing. When the movie just sits with the characters on front porches or in backyards, Mackenzie’s generous, hands-off approach with his actors — most of the conversation scenes play out in long takes with minimal camera movement — yields poignant rewards." - Danny King, The Village Voice

"For all the methodical pacing and old archetypes, Hell or High Water is a thoroughly contemporary action film, complete with fast chases and flashes of dark comedy. But like the classic Westerns, it invites viewers to evaluate, one more time, the myth of the American outlaw, and the idea of criminals as heroes." - Tasha Robinson, The Verge
BOT Sez: The final scene between Pine and Bridges is probably best of the year for me.

It's like a climax and epilogue in one and the acting is pitch perfect from both. It's incredible how tense it feels, despite the fact that it's 'over.'
I've always liked Chris Pine, as in, he's better than his pretty boy looks suggest, but here, he outdoes himself. He's got a certain weariness, a yearning to be done with everything that that really shows throughout, and that's not something every actor can express through their body language. - @MrPink

Commentary: We wrap it up today with one of the decade's best-liked smaller movies, the crime neo-western that served at once as a throwback and an update. Sharply written by Taylor Sheridan (who becomes our second writer, after Steven Zaillian, to have two films on the list that he didn't also direct) and directed with flair but without show-offiness by David Mackenzie, it became one of the very few bright spots of summer 2016, and later rode its old-school charms to a Best Picture nomination.

 

 

 

 

 

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Edited June 25, 2020 by abusive brainwashed Christ

[Ethan Hunt]

28 minutes ago, Jake Gittes said:

"Only assholes drink Mr. Pibb."

 

The best god damn movie line of the decade. 

 

Never fails to make me laugh

[Dementeleus]

How many write-ups feature @MrPink?

 

[filmlover]

The one sequel the world actually needs is one about that waitress.

 

"Steaks cooked medium rare."

"Can I get my steak cooked..."

"That wasn't no question."

 

 

[charlie Jatinder]

Seems like Dangal will be only Indian film as I don't see any other Indian film making as high as Top 40. Which is sad because I don't think I will have Dangal in my Top 40 Indian films in 2010s.

[MrGamer]

21 minutes ago, Plain Old Tele said:

How many write-ups feature @MrPink?

 

[Madhuvan]

24 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Seems like Dangal will be only Indian film as I don't see any other Indian film making as high as Top 40. Which is sad because I don't think I will have Dangal in my Top 40 Indian films in 2010s.

Did you send your list for Top 100? 

[Cap]

28 minutes ago, charlie Jatinder said:

Seems like Dangal will be only Indian film as I don't see any other Indian film making as high as Top 40. Which is sad because I don't think I will have Dangal in my Top 40 Indian films in 2010s.

Do a Bollywood/Indian List for us plebs.  

[MrGamer]

Can’t wait for Baahubali Part 1 and 2 to top the list.

[charlie Jatinder]

48 minutes ago, Madhuvan said:

Did you send your list for Top 100? 

 

45 minutes ago, Cap said:

Do a Bollywood/Indian List for us plebs.  

I am very bad at listing. It's hard to list MCU/Pixar films or even year Top 10, decade or all time is sorta impossible.

[lorddemaxus]

A Separation didn't make it into my top 100 but I'd say it deserves to be here more than half the films on here.

 

Wish Phantom Thread was a bit higher (was in my top 10) but still good to see it making the list.

[Spidey Freak]

8 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

Number 47

 

Commentary: Our highest-ranking 2011 film! 

 

As it should. 2011 was easily the decade's weakest year in terms of film but A Separation stood head and shoulders above the BP nominees of the year (so this means The Artist and The Descendants got shut out altogether? I can vibe with that. Also, looks like nobody, including me, remembered The Help).

 

Wish this had pulled a Parasite 8 years early and taken home the BP crown but I guess it was way too early and the then make-up of the Academy wouldn't have allowed it anyway.

[Joel M]

11 hours ago, Jake Gittes said:

Number 49

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"Twelve notes and the octave repeats. It's the same story told over and over, forever. All any artist can offer the world is how they see those twelve notes."

225 points, 18 lists

directed by Bradley Cooper | US | 2018

 

The Pitch: 

 

 

Top 12 Placements: 2
Metacritic: 88
Box Office: $436m WW
Awards: Academy Award for Best Original Song, out of 8 nominations
BOT History: #2, Top Movies of 2018; BOFFY for Best Original Song
Critic Opinion: "Gorgeously shot, lighted and scored, and acted by both leads with an incandescence that feels fully lived in, Cooper’s movie seduces you almost immediately. It doesn’t promise the shock of the new, but from the first frame it casts a spell, the kind that lets you know immediately that you’re in good hands." - Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times

"This latest and fourth version is a gorgeous heartbreaker (bring tissues). Like its finest antecedents, it wrings tears from its romance and thrills from a steadfast belief in old-fashioned, big-feeling cinema. That it’s also a perverse fantasy about men, women, love and sacrifice makes it all the better." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
BOT Sez: “Cooper’s directorial debut is confident and almost always knows exactly what it’s doing. He steps back when he needs to and takes control when it’s necessary. The film feels timeless and perhaps it is. After all, the story has been remade countless times and it still feels like something we can’t keep our eyes away from. Gaga and Cooper are a duo that can’t be stopped in this film. Both of them deliver performances that are almost unfathomably good for both their characters. The music is memorable and utilized well; it’s a musical where the motifs always build in truly lovely ways.” - @Blankments
“two moments made me cry 1) sam elliott fighting the tears when bradley cooper tells him he's his idol, cos you know when sam elliott cries, coolio cries. 2) the shot of the dog sitting outside the garage after coop hanged himself, which is like the cheapest fucking thing in the world but godddaaaaaaamn it.

i have some nitpicks (rise to fame felt kinda rushed, slimy british manager is a character from a worse movie) but this is some transcendent shit. just gotta shout out the concert scenes especially because i literally did my film studies dissertation on concert films, i've seen a lot of them, and this had some of the best concert scenes i've ever seen like holy shit.” - @CoolioD1

"A Star Is Born is way more epic than LotR" - @Ethan Hunt
Commentary: Staying in 2018, we move on to Bradley Cooper's passion project that became his debut as a writer, director and musician. Taking on one of Hollywood's most oft-told dramatic stories, he succeeded in re-telling it in a way appealing to the 21st-century audience and thus scored a commercial triumph, even if he did also have to watch his 18 months' worth of singing lessons lose a whole lot of Best Actor awards to Rami Malek's lip-syncing and fake teeth. 
 

 

 

 

Never forget Bradley Cooper still has rights goddamit.

 

 

Edited April 16, 2020 by Joel M

[Jake Gittes]

4 hours ago, Spidey Freak said:

 

As it should. 2011 was easily the decade's weakest year in terms of film but A Separation stood head and shoulders above the BP nominees of the year (so this means The Artist and The Descendants got shut out altogether? I can vibe with that. Also, looks like nobody, including me, remembered The Help).

 

Wish this had pulled a Parasite 8 years early and taken home the BP crown but I guess it was way too early and the then make-up of the Academy wouldn't have allowed it anyway.

I had 13 or 14 films from 2011 on my own list, I think it can make a claim for being the strongest - it was just not great for high-profile mainstream wide release stuff. But at/outside those margins there are a lot of excellent movies that deserve to be (re)discovered - this, Margaret, House of Tolerance, The Deep Blue Sea, the original Miss Bala, Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Weekend, etc.

Edited April 16, 2020 by Jake Gittes

[The Panda]

7 hours ago, Plain Old Tele said:

How many write-ups feature @MrPink?

 

At least four more for all of the Nolan movies which will all be in the top ten

[CoolioD1]

2011 was the second best movie year of the decade after 2016 imo. i will never get the claim that it was a bad movie year. just because the oscar line-up was bad? look further!

[lorddemaxus]

3 hours ago, Spidey Freak said:

 

As it should. 2011 was easily the decade's weakest year in terms of film but A Separation stood head and shoulders above the BP nominees of the year (so this means The Artist and The Descendants got shut out altogether? I can vibe with that. Also, looks like nobody, including me, remembered The Help).

 

Wish this had pulled a Parasite 8 years early and taken home the BP crown but I guess it was way too early and the then make-up of the Academy wouldn't have allowed it anyway.

That Tree of Life erasure tho

 

Also to add onto @Jake Gittes's list of great 2011 movies, I also thought Drive, Rango, The Raid, Midnight in Paris, Warrior, Shame, Attack the Block, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, We Need to Talk about Kevin, Carnage, Cabin in the Woods were great films. Good year for blockbusters too (Captain America, Mission Impossible 4, Fast and Furious 5, Transformers 3, Rise of the Planet of the Apes were all imo the best films in their respective franchises at that time).

Edited April 16, 2020 by lorddemaxus

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Not to mention Margin Call, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Jane Eyre, The Ides of March, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Take Shelter, etc

[Jake Gittes]

Stats after #100-41

 

Yearly breakdown: 2011 (5), 2012 (7), 2013 (6), 2014 (8), 2015 (6), 2016 (8), 2017 (5), 2018 (8), 2019 (7)

Directors with multiple films on the list: Paul Thomas Anderson (2); Barry Jenkins (2); Sam Mendes (2); Quentin Tarantino (2)

Actors with multiple characters on the list: Brad Pitt (5); Chris Pratt (4); Jessica Chastain (3); Bradley Cooper (3); Robert De Niro (3); Philip Seymour Hoffman (3); Octavia Spencer (3); Cate Blanchett (2); Emily Blunt (2); Kyle Chandler (2); Jason Clarke (2); Tom Cruise (2); Benedict Cumberbatch (2); Willem Dafoe (2); Benicio del Toro (2); Laura Dern (2); Leonardo DiCaprio (2); Adam Driver (2); Chiwetel Ejiofor (2); Idris Elba (2); Chris Evans (2); Ben Foster (2); Brendan Gleeson (2); Sally Hawkins (2); Brian Tyree Henry (2); Jonah Hill (2);  John Hurt (2); Marin Ireland (2); Samuel L. Jackson (2); Scarlett Johansson (2); Daniel Kaluuya (2); Brie Larson (2); Jennifer Lawrence (2); Rami Malek (2); Lupita Nyong'o (2); Sarah Paulson (2); Joaquin Phoenix (2); Amy Ryan (2); Andy Serkis (2);  Cobie Smulders (2); Imelda Staunton (2); Emma Stone (2); Ben Whishaw (2); Forest Whitaker (2)

Edited April 16, 2020 by Jake Gittes