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Your Movies of the Decade

Started by radiator, 13 November, 2019, 06:56:47 PM

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radiator

OK, seen this doing the rounds on social media - list your favourite movie for each year of this decade.

Here's mine:

2010: Toy Story 3
2011: Attack the Block
2012: Dredd
2013: Inside Llewyn Davis
2014: Paddington
2015: Mad Max: Fury Road
2016: Hunt for the Wilderpeople
2017: I, Tonya
2018: American Animals
2019: Jojo Rabbit

Honourable Mentions:
Paddington 2, Sing Street, Whiplash, Nightcrawler, Captain Fantastic, What We Do in the Shadows, Hell or High Water, Green Room, The Wolf of Wall Street, Guardians of the Galaxy Volumes 1&2, Super, The Avengers, Avengers: Endgame, Pacific Rim, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Colossal, Django Unchained, Dunkirk

IndigoPrime

#1
2010: Monsters
2011: Attack the Block
2012: Dredd
2013: Gravity
2014: The Lego Movie (a very good year, this one – hard to choose!)
2015: Ex Machina
2016: Arrival
2017: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018: The Death of Stalin (although very nearly Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
2019: we have a 5yo and so have seen bugger-all that came out this year

radiator

#2
Quote2012: Dredd

Shouldn't that be Skyfall?  ;)

Quotea very good year, this one – hard to choose!

Agreed. 2013 was surprisingly tough though, struggled to think of much I really loved from that year.

Greg M.

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 13 November, 2019, 07:45:57 PM
2014 ... (a very good year, this one – hard to choose!)

Whilst the films I'm into are wildly different from the choices so far, it's interesting to note that 2014 also ranks extremely highly in my own half-cobbled-together list - though 2012 seems to have been the real standout for me. I'm struggling with 2016 though.

radiator

Quote from: Greg M. on 13 November, 2019, 08:07:40 PM
Quote from: IndigoPrime on 13 November, 2019, 07:45:57 PM
2014 ... (a very good year, this one – hard to choose!)

Whilst the films I'm into are wildly different from the choices so far, it's interesting to note that 2014 also ranks extremely highly in my own half-cobbled-together list - though 2012 seems to have been the real standout for me. I'm struggling with 2016 though.

Moonlight?
Hell or High Water?
Arrival?
The Handmaiden?
Deadpool?
Captain America: Civil War?

None of them do anything for ya?

Greg M.

I liked Captain America: Civil War, but I couldn't say I loved it. If anything, I might go High-Rise, 'cos it was quite stylish. (It's arguably a 2015 film, but 2016 in UK.)

Frank


Everyone else is just typing 'film 201X' into google, right? I couldn't tell you which years these came out (or which year I saw them) if you held a gun to my head:


2010: True Grit      Four Lions/Winter's Bone/The Other Guys/The Social Network
2011: Take Shelter      Drive/The Help/Moneyball
2012: Pitch Perfect      21 Jump Street/Chronicle
2013: Wolf Of Wall Street      Alan Partridge/Gravity/Lone Survivor
2014: Grand Budapest Hotel      Lucy/Whiplash/Edge of Tomorrow/Paddington
2015: Sicario      Straight Outta Compton/The Big Short/The Revenant/Room/Brooklyn/Inside Out/
2016: Hail Caesar       Hell Or High Water/Hunt For The Wilderpeople/Moana
2017: I, Tonya      Death Of Stalin/Three Billboards/Valerian
2018: Eighth Grade       Bohemian Rhapsody/Ballad Of Buster Scruggs/Green Book
2019: Booksmart     (I don't see anything until it comes out on video, basically)


Choice of top pick is mostly arbitrary, with the tie-breaker being most repeated viewing.



radiator

#7
QuoteEveryone else is just typing 'film 201X' into google, right?

A bit yeah, though I generally have a pretty decent memory for release dates. All my life I've tended to use movie release dates as memory aids - eg I can remember when certain events in my life happened because of what movies were out at the time.

Having said that, I forgot Wolf of Wall Street was 2013 - I'd probably replace Llewyn Davis with that instead in my list.

QuoteBrooklyn

Ah, good shout. I really enjoyed that movie, though it's seemingly fashionable to bash it. I tend to enjoy almost anything involving Nick Hornby - great screenwriter/adaptor. Wild was another one of his from this decade that I loved. Also it has Domhnall Gleeson in it, kind of the MVP character actor of the decade, he's been in so many great movies.

dweezil2

Certainly not exhaustive, but I had a go!  :lol:

2010: The Social Network
2011 We Need to Talk About Kevin
2012 Dredd
2013 Under the Skin
2014 Interstellar
2015 Spotlight
2016 Hell or High Water
2017 Paddington 2
2018 First Man
2019 (so far) Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

Loads that nearly made it on the list.
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Funt Solo

Best:
2010   Winter's Bone
2011   Young Adult
2012   Moonrise Kingdom
2013   Nebraska
2014   Birdman
2015   Mad Max: Fury Road
2016   Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
2017   Dunkirk
2018   The Favourite
2019   Booksmart

Best Horror Movies:
2010   Let Me In
2011   You're Next
2012   The Cabin in the Woods
2013   Warm Bodies
2014   The Babadook
2015   What We Do in the Shadows
2016   10 Cloverfield Lane
2017   Get Out
2018   Mandy
2019   Midsommar
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Dark Jimbo

Was going to play, but there are sooooo many of these I haven't seen; and most I've seen relatively recently, once they came to Netflix or telly, so I couldn't tell you what year they belong to. One for the cinema-goers!*

*This may change now that Vue are doing their £4.99 tickets. This year I've had three cinema visits with an unprecedented fourth planned!
@jamesfeistdraws

IndigoPrime

#11
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 November, 2019, 05:23:45 AMLet Me In
I never watched that one, having heard not great comparisons with Let the Right One In. Did you watch both? (Edit: Having looked around, it seems the movies are basically identical, and so not watching Let Me In would be more down to redundancy than quality.)

I, Cosh

This has really highlighted how few films I've seen in the last few years. Can't think of anything special between the double-whammy of Fury Road/Sicario in 2015 and The Favourite last year.

2012 was a great year. Any one of The Raid, Beasts of the Southern Wild or Spring Breakers.
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Funt Solo

Quote from: IndigoPrime on 14 November, 2019, 09:17:28 AM
Quote from: Funt Solo on 14 November, 2019, 05:23:45 AMLet Me In
I never watched that one, having heard not great comparisons with Let the Right One In. Did you watch both? (Edit: Having looked around, it seems the movies are basically identical, and so not watching Let Me In would be more down to redundancy than quality.)

I have watched both - but as Let the Right One In was 2008, I had to go for the remake to get it on this list. I think the original is 10/10 and the English-language remake is 9/10. I still think that the remake is the best horror movie of 2010.

Really, it's been a great decade for horror movies - if you skirt around the exploitative shock and awe of things like the centipede movies.
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Greg M.

2010: Black Death
2011: Trollhunter
2012: The Act of Killing
2013: A Field in England
2014: The Rover
2015: The Wolfpack
2016: High-Rise
2017: It
2018: Arcadia
2019: Stan and Ollie

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