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WHOA

 

I couldn't really tell you what I disliked about it. I just remember distinctly not liking it.

 

My current top 10 would be -

Interstellar
That Thing You Do
Jurassic Park
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Dazed and Confused
Pulp Fiction
The Shining
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Wet Hot American Summer
Gummo

 

Stand By Me
The Martian
American History X
Back To The Future
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Into the Spide-Verse
Toy Story 2
Forrest Gump
Titanic
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring

The Force Awakens could be replaced by A New Hope depending on the week, and any of the LOTR movies belong here but I think I’ve watched Fellowship the most so I picked that one

 

Was this a bad decade? Grant it I didn’t check out a bunch of regarded films both domestic and foreign but tried my best. But didn’t have an abundance of movies on my mind to determine the ten best.

 

The 2010s were better overall than the 2000s, in my opinion.

 

I feel like my top 10 of the 2000s is stronger

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Zodiac
3. Children of Men
4. The Departed
5. Little Miss Sunshine
6. No Country For Old Men
7. Pan’s Labyrinth
8. Inglorious Basterds
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. Shaun of the Dead

 

All great, for sure, don't get me wrong. To be honest, after looking at it a little more closely, I was kind of surprised how many parallels there were. I feel like both decades had weak years in the first half (2001-2004 vs 2011-2012) but ended strongly (2007-2009 vs 2016-2019) overall. I think both have their ups and downs, but there's more off the top of my head that stands out to me that I really connected with from the 2010s.

I will say though that there's nothing from the 2010s that's as good as There Will Be Blood, despite how much I love Boyhood, Parasite, The Social Network, etc.

 

The Master is I think

 

Felt like doing a list of my fifty all-time favourite films on Letterboxd but there is no way I could make a definitive top ten.

Top 50 All-Time Favourite Films

 

The one thing that really bugged me about the forum switch is that I lost my top 100 list. I never saved it anywhere else.

 

I have too much nonsense to grade right now but I'd love to do a top 30 for the decade.

 

The class I teach has a state-administered final exam so I don't have a midterm to worry about so that is when I am going to make my top 100 for the decade. I leave for Amsterdam the day after Christmas so I hope to get finished by then. 2019 films are going to be underrepresented, both because of release schedules and because they don't have the time to develop in my mind, but that always happens when you try to meet those deadlines.

 

The worst part about losing AP is losing the pages and pages of analysis I wrote about Spring Breakers.

 

My all-time list, my review of the Impossible, and someone's Karagarga login are my biggest losses from that switch.

 

And the loss of Deadkidsean

 

Sean, Darrick, Malcom, Tyler, Brandon, Stephen Chamberlin. A lot of really interesting voices on film.

 

I'll pass your regards to Sean.

 

haha I still text him occasionally about random shit. He's doing well afaik. Been a month or two

 

Brandon is on this site, isn't he?

 

He was banned.

 

He was definitely here under an alt for a little bit, I forget which one is him

 

also @fleetdominion is here too but he only advertises his own music like a real nerd!

 

@username aren't you the mysterious one we speak of?