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]]>- Ex Machina
The 2010s was a good decade for sci-fi. We got great high-concept science fiction films from Nolan, countless space movies like Gravity or Ad Astra, stylish dystopias like Fury Road and Blade Runner 2049. But the best of the bunch is Ex-Machina. If Zack Snyder and Jessee Eisenberg wanted to create a hipster supervillain for the 21st century in their version of Lex Luthor and failed, this is how you do it right.
Oscar Isaac is just the kind of guy who you'd want to hang out with and yet be suspicious of all the while. Alicia Vikander plays his most brilliant invention, Ava, and Domnhall Gleeson is the lucky guy who gets to ister the Turing test. Gleeson was in one of the very first episodes of Black Mirror, and Ex-Machina feels like one long, fantastic episode of the show. It works as sci-fi, horror, and black comedy. Concern about the advance of technology has been present as long as technology itself, but has really accelerated this past decade. No movie has depicted it better. - Toy Story 3
One fun exercise for film geeks is to choose a director who defines a decade. Coppola in the 70s, Spielberg in the 80s, Tarantino in the 90s. To me, no such director exists for the 2000s. But there is a studio, and that is Pixar. In the aughts, it churned out such masterpieces as Ratatouile, Wall-E and Up. In fact, those three are part of an amazing four-movie run that culminated with Toy Story 3 in 2010.
When the last Avengers movie came out, much was made about how a whole generation grew up with these characters, but Toy Story did it first. Recently, Giulio Zoppello wrote about the special place the franchise holds in millennials' hearts. Certainly the most emotional of the Toy Story movies, Toy Story 3 is the best coming of age movie in a decade that has seen quite a few notable entries in the genre (see Lady Bird.)
Pixar's 2010s weren't as solid as their previous decade, though Inside Out could've also made my list. Eventually, they decided to create Toy Story 4, which plays more like a coda. But Toy Story 3 remains one of Pixar's very best. - The Social Network
A shocking number of people seem to be under the impression that The Social Network is some sort of two hour-long Facebook ad. Naturally, most of these people haven't seen the film.
You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who actually defends social networks in the year 2021. For every piece about the connectivity benefits they've provided during the pandemic, there's five about the fake news and hateful rhetoric that reigns supreme online. If there's something sad and pathetic about the idea of social networks, then it's only fitting that its origin is indeed sad and pathetic too.
College movies, like high school movies, have traditionally painted jocks as bullies and nerds as victims. But The Social Network has at its center a high-functioning wunderkind who also happens to be an enormous jerk. Jesse Eisenberg's performance is great, not overly influenced by Mark Zuckerberg's public persona. He's awkward, yet arrogant, spewing Aaron Sorkin’s characteristic fast-paced dialogue, underlined by Trent Raznor and Atticus Ross’ iconic score. Fincher’s famously cold and distant approach is to the movie’s benefit, since it never tries too hard to get us to find redeeming qualities in its protagonist.
The film's full of great performances, notably Andrew Garfield. But the best line in the movie is uttered early on by Rooney Mara, and has turned out to be quite prescient about a whole new type of online jerk: “you're going to go through life thinking that girls don't like you because you're a nerd. And I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, that that won't be true. It'll be because you're an asshole.” - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
Roger Ebert used to say he was weary of films that were "for everyone ", since this usually meant they were for nobody in particular. I don't think Birdman is for everyone, but it's definitely for me.
The borders between so-called high and low culture are always interesting, and no movie has tackled them in a more interesting way in recent times. Of course, the parallels between Riggan Thomson and Michael Keaton's real life career are evident. To this day Michael Keaton is associated with Batman, no matter how much he tries to break out of it. This movie began a sort of renaissance for him and I think it's safe to say he was robbed of an Oscar.
It's no surprise critics gave this movie a pretty lukewarm reception, since it's pretty tough on the concept of critics. As a fan of movies who is somewhat put off by some of the masturbatory academia surrounding film, I loved it. I think winning the Oscar somehow weirdly damaged its reputation, and it came off as Hollywood giving itself another pat on the back. I think it's much deeper than that. It's also very witty, funny, and breathes a theater atmosphere that draws me in every time. We also shouldn't forget it has one of the best scores of the last 10 years. Birdman might not be for critics, but it's certainly for movie lovers. - s Ha
- Inception
- Whiplash
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- Parasite
- The Shape of Water
- GoodFellas
- Taxi Driver
- The Departed
- Raging Bull
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- The Irishman
- Killers of the Flower Moon
- After Hours
- Shutter Island
- The King of Comedy
...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>The truly golden age of movies.
]]>Only major theatrical releases
- The Dark Knight
- The Batman
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
- Batman Begins
- The Lego Batman Movie
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Batman Returns
- Batman
- Batman
- Batman Forever
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>It's a year ending in 2, so we're getting another Sight & Sound poll. Very exciting for the film geek community (generally speaking, i'm sure someone hates it) and while we all ponder how the list will differ from the 2012 one, i decided to do my own. Listing your favorite films is one of those activities we all know is actually silly, yet we do it anyways. I'm actually quite happy with it, it's a faithful representation of my somewhat eclectic tastes. I felt bad not having any westerns (good the bad and the ugly was the closest one) and leaving off some directors I love like Kubrick, Billy Wider, Fincher, and Woody Allen. But i'm also glad I left room for someone like Robert Zemeckis, who is rarely talked about but has made 4 or 5 of my favorite movies. Anyway, I encourage everyone to pretend they're participating in the poll too and have some fun. I did it in alphabetical order just like the actual one, so this isn't a ranking.
]]>- Fight Club
- The Social Network
- Zodiac
- Gone Girl
- Se7en
- The Game
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- Panic Room
- Mank
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
]]>Pan's labrynth
]]>Didn't include Blade Runner because it's virtually unrecognizable as L.A. The city in Balde Runner is much cooler. Some honorable mentions would be Greenberg, Marriage Story, and the L.A. segment in Annie Hall, all of which tackle the city from a very New York point of view.
]]>The godfather
]]>The best from the year I was born.
]]>Rise of independent movies, rise of pixar, and culmination of the carreers of established directors like Scorsese, Spielberg and Eastwood.
]]>From prestige dramas to unapologetic escapism, Spielberg has done it all. It's hard to compare these movies because a lot of them are drastically different. Somehow it feels like we take Spielberg for granted.
]]>Hard to make a top 10 list of one of the most prolific directors of all time.
]]>Hitchcock and Kurosawa at the height of their powers, so I forced myself to pick just one from each. Also plenty of great westerns to chose from and Brando came along and revolutionized acting,
]]>The 60s showed a clear decline in Hollywood, which only bounced back towards the end of the decade. In the meantime, European cinema had some strong showings. Leone and Fellini made the list, but Truffaut, Tatti, Rohmer and Bergman also could have.
]]>The rise of the blockbuster. The 80s might not be as well-regarded as the 70s, but the art of the big budget movie was truly perfected here.
]]>The best from the best.
]]>My favorite superhero movies, in order of sheer enjoyment.
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