thedissolve.com top 50 films of 2010-14

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Scott Pilgrim is solid, but hasn't aged too well imo in the short time since it came out

johnny crunch, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:08 (nine years ago) link

Voted for Certified Copy over The Turin Horse but, yeah, it's not a useless list.

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link

any chart with Scott Pilgrim and Frances Ha above something like Amour is just.....

jamiesummerz, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link

What I've seen, ranked:

Margaret
Her
Before Midnight
Boyhood
Dogtooth
Toy Story 3
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Master
Take Shelter
Stories We Tell
Gravity
The Social Network
Inside Llewyn Davis
The Tree of Life
Under the Skin
Frances Ha
Melancholia
Martha Marcy May Marlene
The Wolf of Wall Street
Certified Copy
Winter's Bone
Scott Pilgrim vs the World

I'd say about half of this list qualifies as Very Good/Rewatchable, to me, but really, the top two or three are the only ones I'd save in a fire. I have problems with quite a few of the films on the latter half of the list, but the bottom two are the only ones that I'd say flat-out suck. Scott Pilgrim, in particular, is one film that has the effect on me of a severe allergy.

That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:48 (nine years ago) link

manages to include quite a few very good films while also being a hideous, hideous list - accurate.

Margaret

xp!

Simon H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link

Margaret almost certainly my favourite film here yeah, tho ranking Certified Copy beneath most of those is mind-boggling to me :O

absolute fuck is Zero Dark Thirty doing here

pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link

the ones I'd save:

Inherent Vice
Melancholia
The Turin Horse
Love is Strange
Leviathan
Blue is the Warmest Colour
Uncle Boonmee
Amour
Force Majeure
Stories We Tell
Take Shelter
The Tree of Life
The Master
12 Years A Slave
Frances Ha
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Certified Copy
Her

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:53 (nine years ago) link

What do we talk about when we talk about late Godard?

Ban this phrase.

jmm, Thursday, 5 February 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link

Movies I loved that I thought would have a good shot at making the list: Drive, True Grit, Stranger by the Lake.

That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link

Wreck-It Ralph
Everything else.

Jeff, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:00 (nine years ago) link

i watched 'her' for the 1st time yesterday and i don't think its the crime against humanity that some do but slotting it as the 2nd best film of the last 5 yrs is ludicrous

johnny crunch, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link

Including Scott Pilgrim in the top 30 tells you pretty much everything you need to know.

Matt DC, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link

white guys in bathrobes?

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:22 (nine years ago) link

Great year for films. Went with Gravity, with Whiplash a close second.

rem remrum (dog latin), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:23 (nine years ago) link

oh wait, this is 2010-2014. i thought some of these looked old.

rem remrum (dog latin), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:24 (nine years ago) link

dogtooth was very good, i thought.

rem remrum (dog latin), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:36 (nine years ago) link

ha I've only seen 6 of these; apparently I've completely lost interest in movies

50 Gravity
49 Wreck-It Ralph
45 Guardians of the Galaxy
39 Bridesmaids
30 Scott Pilgrim vs the World
8 The Grand Budapest Hotel

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:41 (nine years ago) link

This list is dogshit

it's always bunby in trilladelphia (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link

Margaret almost certainly my favourite film here yeah, tho ranking Certified Copy beneath most of those is mind-boggling to me :O

It's bottom to top!

I've actually seen 10 of them, though 2 were in the last few weeks and I've plans to see 5 more - I've seen a Leviathan, but they probably mean the Russian rather than the fish.

Always here to drink in the tears of Scott Pilgrim Haters, always delicious.

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link

Also The Dissolve = the old AV Club kids.

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link

Can't even name 50 movies without including a talking CGI raccoon

it's always bunby in trilladelphia (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 5 February 2015 15:58 (nine years ago) link

It's true, they really only review 10 a year, this is it.

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link

Looks heavily weighted towards Amurrican movies

curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link

Guardians of the Galaxy seems like the title most likely to drop off these lists by the decade's end.

That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link

I'm not really a Scott Pilgrim hater but its presence is a handy barometer of whimsical indie bullshit, and the top 10 makes sense in that regard.

Matt DC, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link

sex bob-omb hahaha it's like the flipper song and the mario enemy did we successfully pander to our audience yet, love michael cera

it's always bunby in trilladelphia (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link

at this point I'm assuming Whiney has everyone else killfilled and every submitted post is sending a quick shock to the electrodes on his nuts

"Go pet your dog" is the name of my dog (DJP), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link

Margaret just ahead of The Turin Horse and Certified Copy.

ʎɐpunsunɾɐɔ (cajunsunday), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link

Only 8&9 really fit that description though? xp

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:06 (nine years ago) link

In fairness Whiney has no way to know that indie bands often name themselves after stupid jokes.

Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link

Her

fucking worst goddam fucking worst movie. destroy this list now.

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link

liked these a lot, so i guess it works out:

Wreck-It Ralph
Upstream Color
Amour
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Dogtooth
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Winter's Bone
Moonrise Kingdom
The Tree of Life
Holy Motors
Under the Skin

favorites would be Holy Motors, Amour and Exit Through the Gift Shop, in that order. still dragging my heels on Turin Horse and Certified Copy, no idea why :(

A Severus of Snapes (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link

Coherence is a low budget time travel anomaly movie in the vein of Primer or Timecrimes. I didn't realise it was a listicle type movie, it was pretty damn good but seems a bit incongruous on this type of list.

xelab, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link

I honestly do not know but this list is really p bad

Really? I liked every film on this list.

Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:32 (nine years ago) link

Scott Pilgrim is solid, but hasn't aged too well imo in the short time since it came out

Re-watched this last week and enjoyed it! But I can't imagine anybody uncovering it in 10+ years and enjoying it.

Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link

at this point I'm assuming Whiney has everyone else killfilled and every submitted post is sending a quick shock to the electrodes on his nuts

otm

Allen (etaeoe), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link

Turin Horse
Certified Copy
A Seperation
Uncle Boonmee
Amour

Tough to choose between Scott Pilgrim and Her as the worst

sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link

Winter's Bone, Dogtooth, The Social Network are all good.

I hated both Wolf of Wall Street and Margaret (should have known I'd hate this after LJ waxed lyrical about it on it's ilx thread).

The other 20 or so I've seen are okay.

pandemic, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link

what did you hate about it

pro war Toby Keith songs would rub you the wrong way (imago), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link

lol pands

anima corrective (nakhchivan), Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link

I wouldn't say it's badly made I just didn't care about anybody in the film or believe anyone in it. Actually that's not true I found Ruffalo's character believable enough.

pandemic, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link

Always here to drink in the tears of Scott Pilgrim Her Haters, always delicious.

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link

voted for Exit Through the Gift Shop

Mordy, Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link

I scanned this list of titles on a message board

There are quite a few really excellent films here

Some I did not care for

Some are ok

The people responsible should be murdered in their sleep

socki fan taytay (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link

lol xp

socki fan taytay (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link

Which leviathan is this? I really liked both.

socki fan taytay (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link

the one with the fish heads

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link

choosing one out of any list of 50 is almost always absurd, even if ten of these wouldn't get near my top 300 of the half-decade.

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link

Two of these are in my top 100 OAT, so one of those two.

Eric H., Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link

what are your top 300 films of the half-decade so far, Dr Morbius?

socki fan taytay (wins), Thursday, 5 February 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link

Of the 27 I've seen I'd only cut Scott Pilgrim, Zero Dark Thirty and Holy Motors (which probably deserves to be in there but man I hated it) and push Her way down the list.

Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 6 February 2015 11:55 (nine years ago) link

Tree of Life. I've enjoyed the ones I've seen but they most of the ones I've seen don't belong on this list.

Brodozer Coke Buffet (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 February 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link

Christ, the Wes Anderson hate is becoming such a cliche

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 February 2015 12:41 (nine years ago) link

well, he's shite in'he?

rem remrum (dog latin), Friday, 6 February 2015 12:46 (nine years ago) link

feel kinda dumbstruck at having choose one of these, so i just chose the one i'd be happiest to watch again right now: Inside Llewyn Davis.

ryan, Friday, 6 February 2015 12:51 (nine years ago) link

http://thedissolve.com/news/4683-our-best-films-of-the-half-decade-orphans/

(only one of these I've seen is Best Worst Movie)

That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Friday, 6 February 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link

I've seen The Kid With a Bike. Its good! Its about this kid who has a bike.

ʎɐpunsunɾɐɔ (cajunsunday), Friday, 6 February 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link

and a knife

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 February 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link

Spoiler alert.

Eric H., Friday, 6 February 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link

I'm surprised I've managed to see 14 of these, considering that since I have young kids, I basically only watch about one non-kids movie a month. (I have seen Wreck-it Ralph and Toy Story 3 multiple times. Both are better than average kids movies, I guess.)

50 Gravity
49 Wreck-It Ralph
43 Upstream Color
34 Blue is the Warmest Colour
24 Exit Through the Gift Shop
17 Moonrise Kingdom
14 The Tree of Life
13 The Master
12 12 Years A Slave
11 Toy Story 3
10 Holy Motors
8 The Grand Budapest Hotel
6 Inside Llewyn Davis
5 A Seperation

Didn't really dislike any of these. Tempted to vote for Upstream Color for some reason.

silverfish, Friday, 6 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link

Thought I'd have to wait a decade from release to see Scott Pilgrim attract hate flack for being overrated!! Too soon for the backlash, but it's going to survive. Holds up nicely as a kid-touchstone movie, as its many repeats in my kid-filled living room attest (I have ended up seeing most of this a lot....anyway it gives me pleasure to tell all the mostly-younger-than-me people posting here that YOU ARE TOO OLD FOR THIS MOVIE. ha ha ha).

Anyway, haven't seen most of these so won't vote, but for me

1 - would pick "Dish and the Spoon" not "Frances Ha" (Greta Gerwig substitution)
2 - would pick "Resurrect Dead - The Toynbee Tiles" not "Exit Through The Gift Shop" (concept/unreliable narrator art documentary substitution)

Finally two notes
1 - "Gravity" will obviously last because it's a formal triumph and that never dies.
2 - "Toy Story 3" is ghastly, how in the world...?

Vic Perry, Friday, 6 February 2015 20:45 (nine years ago) link

Oh, understandably not here: "How I Live Now" (2013) was so scarily on that it got plenty of negative reviews for a range of babyish critical excuses. Most frightening movie I've seen in years.

Vic Perry, Friday, 6 February 2015 21:10 (nine years ago) link

You will no doubt also love some of these other recent "frightening" young adult dystopias like The Maze Runner & The Giver yeah?

xelab, Friday, 6 February 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link

I have only just noticed it is Winter's Bone not Ceylan's Winter Sleep on this poll, imago's post confused me.

xelab, Friday, 6 February 2015 23:58 (nine years ago) link

voted upstream color out of annoyance with We Are The Best being missing, no idea why GotG and not, I dunno, Iron Man 3 or Cap 2.

The Understated Twee Hotel On A Mountain (silby), Saturday, 7 February 2015 00:07 (nine years ago) link

We Are the Best!

^ true

contenderizer, Saturday, 7 February 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link

xelab, the movie I referred to is not a "young adult dystopia" or indeed any kind of dystopia. You are free not to like it but I suspect you actually have no idea what you are talking about.

Vic Perry, Saturday, 7 February 2015 05:02 (nine years ago) link

"Wrong Cops" got robbed.

billstevejim, Saturday, 7 February 2015 05:11 (nine years ago) link

Meg Rosoff (born 16 Oct 1956) is an American writer based in London, ... Her young-adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004

xelab, Saturday, 7 February 2015 08:07 (nine years ago) link

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a society characterized by human misery, as squalor, oppression, disease, and overcrowding.

xelab, Saturday, 7 February 2015 08:13 (nine years ago) link

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qualx, Saturday, 7 February 2015 08:18 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link

I have seen exactly four of these.

RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 02:35 (nine years ago) link

Seen 24. Feel like that is rather too many than too few.

Frederik B, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link

I've seen seven.

Mark G, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:47 (nine years ago) link

26, mostly good, some great. and her.

contenderizer, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link

i've seen about 45, way too many.

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 15:56 (nine years ago) link

like men

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link

he does iirc

k3ller of sh1p (wins), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link

I liked Boyhood a lot, but the sui-generis aspects of its creation probably lead people to overrate it.

Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:07 (nine years ago) link

whereas it was ADD-induced mania that led them to overrate Her.

touch of a love-starved cobra (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 February 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link

Wondering whether such tasteful fare such as Winter Sleep will win.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:09 (nine years ago) link

;-)

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 11 February 2015 22:09 (nine years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link

from this list

Yes! (in roughly descending order of preference):
Turin Horse (holy fucking shit yes)
Melancholia
Moonrise Kingdom
Gravity
Holy Motors
Goodbye to Language
Take Shelter
Inside Llewyn Davis
A Separation
Certified Copy
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Uncle Boonme
Leviathan
The Interrupters (this is the Kartemquin doc, right?)
The Master
Only Lovers Left Alive (to my surprise)
Inherent Vice
Toy Story 3
Guardians of the Galaxy

Eh:
Tree of Life
Wreck-It Ralph
Act of Killin
Wolf of Wall St
Frances Ha
Scott Pilgrim
Meek's Cutoff
Boyhood
12 Years a Slave
The Social Network (very mixed feelings)
Selma

No:
Winter's Bone
Before Midnight

Haven't seen:
All the others

Conclusion.
I like movies.

I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:31 (nine years ago) link

The Wolf of Wall Street 3

Kill it with fire. Otherwise, solid winners!

Simon H., Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:37 (nine years ago) link

4 votes for Wreck-It Ralph seems weird but I never actually saw it so

Simon H., Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link

it's massively overrated mediocredom

can't believe people voted for films itt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI22vpZ5ztQ (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:41 (nine years ago) link

amateurist, see Margaret!

That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 12 February 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link

nah

I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link

i get a weird "american arnaud desplechin" vibe for it, and i hate arnaud desplechin. also you can count on me was boring.

I dunno. (amateurist), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link

that's a good analogy but the movie is okay Desplechin.

What do you hate about him?

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link

lol I didn't even vote. knew I wouldn't need to :P

not that sort of birdwatcher (imago), Thursday, 12 February 2015 01:31 (nine years ago) link


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