RESULTS! Blu-ray.com Community Top 100 Films of the 2010s

[CreasyBear]

The Revenant is so abysmal. Iñárritu takes what should be an efficient 100 minute revenge film, shoots the entire god damn thing through a fish eye lens with extremely long takes so all the critics can circle jerk him, and extends it to an ungodly laborious 156 minutes. I can only imagine how amazing that film would have been if someone like John Milius had made it 30 years ago.

[PipesDonatello]

Although not bold, my predictions for the top 10 are (in no particular order):

Inception
Interstellar
Warrior
Drive
Avengers: Endgame
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Django Unchained
The Social Network
Whiplash
Mad Max: Fury Road

[cgpublic]

Originally Posted by CreasyBear

I can only imagine how amazing that film would have been if someone like John Milius had made it 30 years ago.

Well, Milius did a fine job writing Jeremiah Johnson, and while I'm a fan of the film, in my opinion it's not as ambitious or compelling as The Revenant.

While I do agree the overall length of the film could have been edited down without sacrificing its impact, how many films in this thread can match the spectacle of the opening scene?

[cgpublic]

Originally Posted by PipesDonatello

Although not bold, my predictions...

...are spot on once you swap out Warrior for Blade Runner 2049.

[PipesDonatello]

Originally Posted by cgpublic

...are spot on once you swap out Warrior for Blade Runner 2049.

Exactly, I forgot all about that one. Also I just went back and checked, and Warrior is surprisingly missing from a lot of lists.

[willtopower]

Originally Posted by bonehica

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives or Ida for arthouse would be pretty sweet (and of course The Turin Horse )

Big budget? Well, Avengers: Endgame is still out there or maybe Black Panther could surprise.

It is a real bummer Apichatpong couldn't crack the list at all

[Mothravka]

Even if it isn't in the list, it's nice to see more people here giving a nod to The Turin Horse (2011), my number one.

The same with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) that I had somewhere in my top 25.

[DanTheMan]

Originally Posted by Juels Winnfield

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~13~
The Master (2012)


Directed by: Paul Thomas Anderson
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
954 Points from 28 Votes | Highest Ranking: #1 (4x)





~12~
Gone Girl (2014)


Directed by: David Fincher
Starring: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry
957 Points from 36 Votes | Highest Ranking: #2





~11~
The Revenant (2015)


Directed by: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter
970 Points from 39 Votes | Highest Ranking: #1

Very sexy group of three there. 2/3 made my Top 10. Gone Girl was my #16 which is still highly acclaimed.

Also, if not for Fury Road stealing 2015, The Revenant would've easily been my #1 film of that year. As it is, I still love the 1-2 punch of Fury Road and The Revenant as my favorites of that respective year. Both are masterful works of filmmaking on a grand scale IMHO. I've no doubt they'll hold up extremely well for decades to come.

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by cgpublic

Well, Milius did a fine job writing Jeremiah Johnson, and while I'm a fan of the film, in my opinion it's not as ambitious or compelling as The Revenant.

Ambition only matters if it serves the story and is pulled off successfully. Revenant accomplishes neither of those.

While I do agree the overall length of the film could have been edited down without sacrificing its impact, how many films in this thread can match the spectacle of the opening scene?

It's not "spectacle". It's garish and indulgent in all the worst ways. This is a simple, bare bones story. It doesn't need 10 minute fish-eye lens takes and a 156 minute runtime. Someone like Milius, for example, would have stripped this story down to well under two hours and given it a purpose and efficiency that Iñárritu is not capable of.

[BluLobsta]

If anything, the discussion has given me the opportunity to explore some interesting films which I never really had time for before. Picked up Cloud Atlas. I will screen The Master on Netflix and The Lost City of Z on Prime this weekend. The cast for The Master looks incredible. Didn't realize Gone Girl was so highly acclaimed. Just picked that up. Blind buy but I'm sure that I will like it. Love Rosie Pike. I already own The Revenant. Not sure where I would place it, though. I am a big sci-fi fan so Interstellar and Blade Runner 2049 would be in my Top 10. I have the UK digibook for Interstellar which is really beautiful and the story is top notch. Love the theory of time and space. When you walk toward someone standing still, time moves slower for you. Really hard to grasp that. Every time I see Blade Runner 2049, it quickly becomes my favorite film. I have the suitcase version (Ultimate Collection) of Blade Runner. LOTS of versions. I remember when it first came out. Didn't have near the acclaim it has nowadays. Too progressive I guess for that time. Can't wait to see the Top 10.

[BluLobsta]

LOL just saw that filming for Gone Girl was stopped for four days because Affleck didn't want to wear a Yankees cap for a scene. Fincher and Affleck eventually agreed on a Mets cap. Fincher must have thought Affleck was being petty but I know all about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. It was far from petty

[imsounoriginal]

Originally Posted by BluLobsta

LOL just saw that filming for Gone Girl was stopped for four days because Affleck didn't want to wear a Yankees cap for a scene. Fincher and Affleck eventually agreed on a Mets cap. Fincher must have thought Affleck was being petty but I know all about the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. It was far from petty

yeah IIRC Fincher talks about it in the commentary. (Although I don't get why it took them four days to come up with the idea for the Mets hat...)

I think there was a similar issue with Jack Nicholson not wanting to wear a Red Sox hat in The Departed.

[BluLobsta]

Originally Posted by imsounoriginal

yeah IIRC Fincher talks about it in the commentary. (Although I don't get why it took them four days to come up with the idea for the Mets hat...)

I think there was a similar issue with Jack Nicholson not wanting to wear a Red Sox hat in The Departed.

Yeah, sports is a passionate subject with people, worse than politics. A Celtics jersey would've burned Jack's skin. You always see him at Lakers games.

[cgpublic]

Originally Posted by CreasyBear

Someone like Milius, for example, would have stripped this story down to well under two hours and given it a purpose and efficiency that Iñárritu is not capable of.

Sure, just like Apocalypse Now.

[CreasyBear]

Originally Posted by cgpublic

Sure, just like Apocalypse Now.

Is Apocalypse Now a relatively simple tale about one man's revenge against another man set in the wilderness? No, it's a meditative examination on the horror's of war and the darkness in the human heart. It's an entirely different subject and film and has no bearing on whether Milius could (he definitely could) adapt himself to a story like The Revenant. Friedkin or Frankenheimer or Siegel also would have done a great job at something like this as well. A story like The Revenant deserves a hard hitting back to basics approach, not an overlong arthouse circle jerk. Milius also only wrote the script for Apocalypse Now. The length came from Coppola.

[Boccaccio]

Originally Posted by DanTheMan

Very sexy group of three there. 2/3 made my Top 10. Gone Girl was my #16 which is still highly acclaimed.

Also, if not for Fury Road stealing 2015, The Revenant would've easily been my #1 film of that year. As it is, I still love the 1-2 punch of Fury Road and The Revenant as my favorites of that respective year. Both are masterful works of filmmaking on a grand scale IMHO. I've no doubt they'll hold up extremely well for decades to come.

No love for Sicario ? I'd rate that one as highly as the other 2.

[Will.]

Originally Posted by Boccaccio

No love for Sicario ? I'd rate that one as highly as the other 2.

I'd say it's higher than Revenant but about a mile lower than Max.

[Boccaccio]

Originally Posted by Will.

I'd say it's higher than Revenant but about a mile lower than Max.

Those 3 movies I've rated 10/10 that year. I've ranked them #4,5,6 on my list but I could easily switch them around.
IMO all 3 are masterpieces.

[Juels Winnfield]

#10
Django Unchained (2012)


Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, Don Johnson
1000 Points from 37 Votes | Highest Ranking: #2

[imsounoriginal]

Good movie, higher than I would've placed it but fine.