Best and Worst Films of 2010

[Kaiden]

The worst movie I paid to go see this year was "Kickass." I walked out of the theater so bleh. I have seen the movie after and it's not as bad as my first impression but not good enough to bring it out of the cellar.

Did "The Men Who Stare at Goats" come out this year? If it did that was a really bad movie too. The plot was too weird and the jokes just weren't funny.

I almost forgot about this movie, Robin Hood. A movie I was so excited to go see and couldn't have let down more. I thought Ridley Scott with Russell Crowe was going to be epic battles and great action. Instead I got a poorly edited love story with terrible action scenes. I am still trying to figure out how Crowe got from the top of the cliff setting up the archers, to leading the mounted charge on the beach two seconds later.


The Best Movie...

True Grit: Maybe it’s because it’s the last movie I saw, but I loved Jeff bridges in this movie. I true western movie through and through. The acting was really good though and made the movie that much better.

Inception: I went and saw it twice. There are some major plot holes. Given that it’s a movie to make you think it’s hard to overlook them, but I did and just enjoyed the ride on a weird action filled adventure.

Dinner for Schmucks: I just wanted to put in a good comedy here. I laughed almost the whole way through the movie. Steve Carell is always good as that dumb/smart character. He’s pulled it off in several movies and "The Office."


Then there is a large group of just ok movies: Red, Ironman 2, Centurion, She's Outta My League, Date Night, Clash of the Titans, The Book of Eli. I am sure I am forgetting a lot.

[charliepanayi]

I'm going by my favourite films which came out in the UK in 2010:

Still Walking
Hirokazu Kore-eda is a fantastic director, and this was another beautifully done film by him in its quiet depiction of a family remembering a dead son. The moments where the facade of politeness cracks revealing raw emotion are especially good.

Up in the Air
It gets a little unstuck towards the end but this is a very funny film in places, and George Clooney is excellent (even if he is just playing himself).

Toy Story 3
Confirms Toy Story as one of the great film trilogies, a fitting end to the series. And the ending is wonderful. But it's Pixar, what did you expect?

The Social Network
People who deride this as just being a film about Facebook rather miss the point. It touches on themes that are universal, and charts the rather sad breakdown of a friendship. Sorkin's whip-smart dialogue crackles at times.

Another Year
Mike Leigh has been making great films for years, he's maybe the master of the bittersweet. The relationships between the characters are sketched out perfectly and the slow descent of Lesley Manville's character into depression as her life crumbles is painful to see.

Honourable mentions: Inception, The Illusionist, Scott Pilgrim vs the World