outstanding lists folks! Thanks for participating in this thread and sharing your lists. I see a number of stuff I need to catch up on.

Mine are all on here already, but I’ll be damned if Wolf of Wall St is not seriously considered the best movie of the 2010’s. What a hell of a fun ride that movie was.

If you skip one - skip Creed 2. Balboa isn't as good as Rocky but it has a very similar feel. It is probably #2 or #3 in the franchise.

Yeah, I can see it that way. What impresses me is how comprehensive it is in its genius.

It's not just a pretty movie, or a great story, or some great acting performances. Everything coalesces to a narrative that is both ambiguous and pointed simultaneously.

Nobody's all good. Nobody's all bad. No one big event sets everything in motion. It's the implacable inertia of fate dealing its hand out in our current times and letting the chips fall as they may.

And it's tone is all over the place while still remaining coherent.

It's something you can ruminate on and still not make progress, yet still feel the rumination was productive.

Thanks. Saves me some time in just watching Creed then. I'd like to know your rankings. I just watch 3, 4, or 5 if they're on

I can't think of 1. I don't get out much.

My ranking would go

Rocky
Rocky Balboa & Creed
Rocky 2
Creed 2, Rocky 3 and Rocky 4
Rocky 5 (this one is quite a ways below all the rest)

My order is...

Rocky
Rocky 3
Rocky 2
Creed
Creed 2
Rocky Balboa
Rocky 4
Rocky 5 sucks

What about Rocky and Bullwinkle? :D

I'd put it at number one in a Rocky Franchise

I know that Rocky 1 and 2 were solid films. I tried to watch them again recently, but I don't know if it was pacing or what, but I just can't watch them anymore. I think that I only like 3,4, and 5 due to how much they represented their time. Not that the first two didn't, but I really remember the 80's and how much fun they could be

Solid list. I agree with the ones that I've watched. I need to get around to watching Fury Road. And on the basis of the six that you've listed that I have watched, I'll need to check out the five. Extra points for Killer Joe. Such a hidden gem, and those last fifteen minutes alone could get anyone to sit through it if it isn't their thing

Most overrated movies of 2010-2019: The Arrival, Any Star Wars, Mad Max, Gravity, Manchester at the Sea.

I must of missed something about Killer Joe, I just looked back at my IMDB score and gave it a 5. I like strange movies, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Dr. are two favorites, but I thought McConaughey was trying to do his best Dennis Hopper impersonation. I rather see the real thing. I have to admit Juno and Gina Gershon were easy on the eyes and ever since Sideways, Thomas Hayden Church has been a favorite of mine.

The director William Friedkin has made some great movies and some weird ones. Who can forget Al Pacino in Cruising. Recent films like Bug was good and it gave Michael Shannon a break, and Jade was very good and I guess helped launch David Caruso. In the 80's To Live in Die in LA is a classic, French Connection and The Exorcist are the cream of the crop. I think he made Killer Joe as a satire, a joke on us.

Never heard of it. :harumph:

Not THAT overrated.

In no real order:

Blade Runner 2049
The Master
Mad Max
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Sicario
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Skyfall
Snowpiercer
Django Unchained
Moonrise Kingdom

I think that I liked it because it was different. Different doesn't always mean good. I'd argue that either WF maybe was a little lazy on this project, or went the other way, and tried too hard as a defense

Looking back at this list I forgot to mention Dunkirk. Definitely needs to be up there on my list, even Quentin Tarantino mentions it on his top 10 movies of the 2010’s. Decent little watch if you’re interested:

https://youtu.be/JpJK4MUAMDM

The Arrival didn't grab me either, but the story that it is based on is one of the best sci-fi short stories I've ever read.

After American Hustle, I can watch Amy Adams in anything she does. I thought Arrival was the deepest in thought sci-fi I've ever seen. They went beyond just showing aliens, making contact, space ships, we had the future and the past all at once. I saw it at the theater and now a couple of times on HBO.

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The Finest Hours

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I first saw Chris Pine in the Star Trek reboot.

Then this movie.

And then in Wonder Woman, and then again in Hell Or High Water.

The man can act.

Hidden Figures is a really good movie that I have not seen mentioned.

Prisoners
Nocturnal Animals
Gone Girl
Ex Machina
Argo
Dallas Buyers Club
Free Solo
Grand Budapest Hotel
What We Do In The Shadows
They Shall Not Grow Old


Lots of other really good movies, but these stuck in my memory.

Ooh!! Good one!! Lots of fun.

The series is pretty fun in it's own right, better in some ways because it has time to expand the universe.

Smokin' Aces. He is incredible.

Finally saw Knives Out.

It was competent, but fluff.
It was fun. I'm not disparaging it.

But I spent more time reassembling the pastiche of other movies, novels, and network drama episodes it sampled to cobble together the narrative than being bowled over by anything approached Best of Decade.

I can't place it, but I have a distinct memory of it. The central conceit of why, . . . OK let me be circumspect and oblique here to avoid spoilers. . . .

The central narrative conceit that made the blackmail evidence actually completely exculpatory, with the help of a little bit of extrapolation, was directly lifted from an existing narrative.

OK< at this point I can't get any more detailed without spoiling, but I'll try to minimize even behind the spoiler tag. . .



So clear to me, that I can't get past the mental way station that it must have happened in a Law and Order episode, but it probably happened in something else. Thing is I remember the exposition regarding it being nearly identical.

So now, even after it's over, I'm thinking more about where I've seen that narrative before than the movie itself.

I’ve GOTTA go ahead and put 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri on my list, still watching it on FX right now... just simply outstanding, this is what real movies look like

Hollywood needs a LOT more of these, and a lot less remakes and tired comic book overkill

edit - WOW what a movie, a tour de force of acting brilliance paired with a gripping script 5/5

The Tremor Brothers, lol

First Man

Blade Runner 2049 is so good.

How do we feel about Winter's Bone? (that's what she said). I forgot about that movie until it popped up on HBO the other day. I really liked that one.

It portrayed a certain world without commenting on it one way or the other. One of the few movies I watched all the way through without checking emails, etc.

Yes. Hope that they continue the story

Great film. Top ten is a probably. Top fifteen for sure

:thumb:

Just watched Brightburn other night really good and it's probably one of my favorites now

Very underrated movie, that kid is an excellent actor in spite of his age and the dad was really good too

Now that I've seen them, I gotta add Parasite and 1917 to the top half of this list.

Wind River is a great call

I'm a fan.

Thanks! :thumb:

Taylor Sherdian(the director) next film is supposed to come out later this year called Those Who Wish Me Dead and it sounds bonkers.

A teenage murder witness finds himself pursued by twin assassins in the Montana wilderness with a survival expert tasked with protecting him -- and a forest fire threatening to consume them all.

Definitely one of my most anticipated films of this year.