Film rankings of 2010s

Submitted by Zacharyyy on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 21:59
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  1. 10/10.
  2. 9.7/10.
  3. 9.5/10.
  4. 9.2/10.
  5. 9/10.
  6. 8.7/10.
  7. Melancholia. Lars Von Trier. 2011.
  8. 8.5/10.
  9. 8.2/10.
  10. 8/10.
  11. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 2010.
  12. The Artist. Michel Hazanavicius. 2011.
  13. 7.5/10.
  14. Surviving Life (Theory And Practice). Jan Švankmajer. 2010.
  15. Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu. Andrei Ujica. 2010.
  16. I Want Your Love. Travis Mathews. 2012.
  17. Yearning. Walheed Nesyif. 2011.
  18. 7/10.
  19. Tokyo Oasis. Kana Matsumoto, Kayo Nakamura. 2011.
  20. Ernest & Celestine. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner. 2012.
  21. The Tree Of Life. Terrence Malick. 2011.
  22. Putty Hill. Matthew Porterfield. 2010.
  23. I Want Your Love. Travis Mathews. 2010.
  24. Day & Night. Teddy Newton. 2010.
  25. Islands. Saam. 2010.
  26. 6.5/10.
  27. Take This Waltz. Sarah Polley. 2011.
  28. Blood⁄Sweat⁄Tears. Kevan Funk. 2011.
  29. Guilt, Or. Sarah Warren. 2011.
  30. 6/10.
  31. Hotbox in stereoscopic 3D. Nick Kalish. 2012.
  32. Not Worth Mentioning. Martin Kessler. 2011.
  33. The Dimming. Ippiksaut Friesen. 2011.
  34. 5.5/10.
  35. Manhattan Flyer Deluxe. Bernie Yao. 2011.
  36. Picture Start. Harry Killas. 2011.
  37. Fat. Margaret Donahoe, Gillian Good. 2011.
  38. My Name Is Mitch. Michelle Yoon. 2011.
  39. 5/10.
  40. The Mill And The Cross. Lech Majewski. 2011.
  41. ParaNorman. Sam Fell, Chris Butler. 2012.
  42. Inception. Christopher Nolan. 2010.
  43. Black Swan. Darren Aronofsky. 2010.
  44. Pina: Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost. Wim Wenders. 2011.
  45. 4/10.
  46. The Dark Knight Rises. Christopher Nolan. 2012.
  47. Leash. Kevin Doherty. 2011.
  48. Basic Space. Carrie Mombourquette. 2011.
  49. Pasa Doble. Jamie Metzger. 2011.
  50. Wreck-It Ralph. Rich Moore. 2012.
  51. 3/10.
  52. Toy Story 3. Lee Unkrich. 2010.
  53. How To Train Your Dragon. Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois. 2010.
  54. Summer of Goliath. Nicolás Pereda. 2010.
  55. 2/10.
  56. Scott Pilgrim Vs The World. Edgar Wright. 2010.
  57. A Fine Young Man. Kevan Funk. 2010.
  58. Bramula. Sarah Rotella. 2011.
  59. Source Code. Duncan Jones. 2011.
  60. 1/10.
  61. Blink. Miles Jay. 2011.
  62. Shuffleboard Kings. Chris Aitken. 2011.
  63. Gandu. Qaushiq Mukherjee. 2010.
  64. 0/10.
callanyvegetable09/09/2011

Uncle Boonmee was really good. I saw it about a year ago and I can vividly remember many images. Gotta love the catfish scene. I also liked the parallel world suggestion. Should see it again.

Yeah Tree of Life is kind of overrated. I mean the ending was pretty bad, I think Malick panicked. Coming of age story segment was brilliant tho.

You didn't like Toy Story 3? Not even the security monkey or holocaust finale? I thought it was really entertaining. At least a 6.5

Zacharyyy09/10/2011

I think my favourite scene is the dinner scene where the ghosts come. I liked how it was kind of ambiguous WHO Boonmee may have been in the Catfish/Princess scene; it seems equally likely that he could have been the fish or the princess or the guard.

Over-rated but by no means "bad" really.

I just was not entertained even at all. Didn't laugh, didn't cry, didn't feel anything toward 90% of the toys, the story was telegraphed a halfhour in advance.
It was just so boring. But that kid has a fucking totoro plushie <3 So that's good. And the old dog Buster was cute as fuck. But the story was just so stilted and predictable; there were points where it could almost have been a story about acceptance and necessity of death, but instead it's just a kids' movie, pulling the film down into the whirlpool of sameness. The holocaust would have been interesting if it actually had some form of consequence instead of deus ex machina.
There's also the fact that I just generally can't stand kids' bantering, so that kept me from having any real connection or sympathy for Young-Andy in the beginning or that one girl, who I can at least acknowledge isn't a compelte fuckup like the rest of the kids in the film are characterized as. I didn't find their narrations interesting or cute, I just found them annoying.
Voiceacting was good all around. The animation was "Pretty" in the same way that Anne Geddes photos and Thomas Kincaide paintings are "pretty". They're slick and sellable and insincerely patly designed. The only times I've ever felt like CG animation wasn't really cold, stiff and distancing was in The Incredibles and Ratatouille.
At least it gives the story closure, though, I guess?
But now it is time for another 27 direct-to-dumpster sequels like Disney always does.
The most depressing thing though is just for every post on IMDb anyone makes saying anything to the effect of "did anyone else not think it was all that great? Overrated at all?" there will be at least a hundred people ganging up on them talking about how objectively wrong they are to doubt anything pixar does. THAT just about made me cry. :'c...

callanyvegetable09/10/2011

Yes, the dinner scene was really fun and heart-warming. I liked how it felt lighthearted even though it was dealing with heavy stuff.

Re: Tree of Life. It's definitely not bad, in fact it was probably the best purely visual experience I've had in the theater since Hausu (or maybe even Sin City). It was the ending that basically disappointed me. At that point, it felt like Malick was just throwing everything on the screen that he could randomly think of, a barrage of ultimately meaningless images, because he was trying really hard to make a "very important point". It was one of the few times any of his movies felt forced. What was the deal with the floating mask? Why stop with an image of a bridge? Even the people walking around with Penn irritated me. It felt too solemn, to the point of artificiality. It was odd really, maybe because of how it was filmed (or Penn's lack of screen time), but I didn't connect with anyone on the screen in that moment.

That's a great point about Toy Story 3 avoiding the reality of death for the sake of younger audiences. And the plot is pretty predictable. But I enjoyed it anyway. Maybe sometimes the familiarity of Hollywood schemata (if not outright cliches) is comforting. I dunno. I don't really see the insincerity of the animation. I thought it was clever enough in its jokes and ideas, a superficial but nevertheless successful creativity. While I can't really agree with you about Pixar in general, I definitely agree that no film company (or filmmaker for that matter) should be placed on a pedestal. It is probably nostalgia for the first Toy Story that is giving the third one such impressive chart rankings.

Zacharyyy09/11/2011

Yeah it really did fall off once it got into that almost-end-of-world-surreal-scenario because most of the rest of the film was quite direct, even the universe creation stuff and dinosaurs-showing-morality thing were very concrete things. The movie, and most movies, survived better on the experiential level more than when they try desperately for profound metaphors. Some images of that scene, divorced from the rest of the film were very striking, but I would agree that whole bit was the weakest part.

It makes me feel like a total pretentious ass-hat that I often just cannot "relax and enjoy" popcorn movies, and get more popcorn-enjoyment out of things like Faces, even, more than Toy Story 3. I've just always found most CG animation extremely stiff feeling-- even the best ones still have an entirely too digital feel.
Nostalgia makes people mean and pretentious when Pixar is involved, apparently. D:

But yeah, the short that played with Toy Story 3 in theatres, Day & Night was great, though! So at least there's that.

Zacharyyy09/17/2011

Someone in IMDB made what I thought was a great suggestion for an ending:

"Losto was climbing the ladder, refused to push the button and walk away. When suddenly, he had a flashback of all the memories he had with Daisy. So he decides to push the button, however, we realize it has a 5 second delay, which is enough time for the toys to be thrown into the incinerator. They all prepared for the end, when suddenly, the claw comes! And misses all of them. The toys go into the incinerator and die. We then cut to see Lotso watching all this from the top of the conveyor belt watching the death of the toy gang. So he travels back to Sunnyside to tell the other toys. However, the toys don't believe him and think Losto killed them, so they basically destroy Lotso. Then the toys at Sunnyside do a memorial for Woody and the Gang for basically they of what they done. When suddenly, we see Andy at college, sad because he couldn't find his toys. So, on one of his spare weekends, he searches for his toys. He does eventually find Woody however, at the dumb. He sees his hat next to a dark burnt object, where Andy, trying to hold sadness saids "Goodbye Woody." And then, we zoom to a dark, cloudy, windy sky with a cloud shaped like Woody replying "Goodbye Partner." Then we cut the credits with sad music for ten seconds, before the jazzy 'You Got A Friend In Me' plays. Then, at the very end of the credits, one of the staff members wakes up and saids "Hey! Now that's a good idea for Toy Story 3! Why didn't we use it?" Then we zoom out to the movies to find that there is another Toy Story 3 movie which turned out to be a critical disaster. "

Naturally followed by 6 pages of hate on him.

Eggman_Walrus_Taxman03/13/2013

That would have been a better ending, I agree. I'm not sure it would've been a critical disaster though.

Where is this thread though? I want to read the 6 pages of hate so badly XD

How would you rank the Pixar movies (along with shorts) overall?

Zacharyyy03/15/2013

I cannot remember what the thread was or who started it, and frankly I found it pretty depressing to read myself.

And ranking the pixar films I've seen:

01 The Incredibles
02 Ratatouille
03 Day & Night
04 Monsters Inc
05 Toy Story
06 A Bug's Life
07 Finding Nemo
08 Toy Story 2
09 Your Friend The Rat
10 Up
11 Wall-E
12 Toy Story 3
13 Lifted
14 For The Birds
15 Cars

Eggman_Walrus_Taxman05/25/2013

I happened to be looking at the IMDb forums for TS3, and I found the thread. It's only 4 pages though ;) A lot of posts were quite annoying (particularly the ones pointing out the grammatical mistake in the thread title), but that does leave a few posters who seemed to be more open-minded and a few who genuinely thought that wasn't a good ending, so...not all is lost I guess?

So I'm not the only one who hasn't seen a single Pixar film since TS3? Yay! BTW that's a great list, and A Bug's Life is underrated, I agree (though it might be more relative to other Pixar films' acclaim rather than being a masterpiece, but, you know). TS3 being lower than Wall-E was a slight surprise considering the ratings I remember, but I think I agree more with that placement than Wall-E being lower.