Just me or was 2010 one of the worst years for movies in recent history????

[J. J. Hunsecker]

I enjoyed Toy Story 3, Shutter Island, The Social Network, Inception, The Town, The American, and even Black Swan. (Red was alright, too.) I'm looking forward to seeing True Grit, The Fighter, and The King's Speech. So I think it was a better year than last year.

[the new scum]

Every year, without fail, people whine about how much worse movies were this year than ever before. While I would certainly agree that there were fewer Hollywood movies that i'd rate above a 7/10, there were just as many 8+/10 as ever. Inception, Scott Pilgrim, True Grit, etc.

I also think there were as many or more great independent movies. Nevermind a plethora of great foreign movies.

A bad year for movies? Any year with Black Swan, Scott Pilgrim and Mother is a good year to me.

[P@t_Mtl]

I am pretty sure that if the Internet was around in 1961, someone would have posted

"is it me or was 1960 the worst year in movie history?"




By the way, the best movie of 2010 was Toy Story 3

[blufellas]

My favorites from 2010.

Inception
Kick-Ass
Shutter Island
Toy Story 3
Scott Pilgrim
127 Hours
The Social Network
Buried

[Rolo01]

Yeah I agree. I think this year was ok. Toy Story 3, Expendables, From Paris with Love, Inception,

[Talal86]

I think the year started out awful until the second half which was good to great

[miller_time22]

Must just be me, but I'm happy in any year in which we get new films from:

Fincher
Aronofsky
Scorsese
Nolan
The Coen Bros.
Edgar Wright
Danny Boyle
and many others

Could've used a little PT Anderson though.

[Battra92]

The only film of 2010 I enjoyed was Toy Story 3. Honestly, Hollywood has been going downhill ever since the studio system broke up. Foreign markets aren't producing quality films at any sort of good pace.

But you're a movie fan! Movie fans should know that 99.99999% (a scientifically derived number) of all movies are utter crap.

[fatediesel]

I thought there was several very good films in 2010, but as a whole I would say it wasn't a great year, although I thought 2009 was worse. It's not surprising that 2009 and 2010 wouldn't be great because that is when the consequences of the writer's strike really became evident. In addition Hollywood has become too dependent on remakes, sequels, and superhero movies. Sometimes those films can be very good but too often the movies just don't work.

[Gamma_Winstead]

Originally Posted by bingtau

when a movie like winters bone is getting a ton of cred you know its a bad year. i mean you couldnt find any supporting performances better than jeremy renner's in the town. that movie sucked. guy pearce was way better than him in animal kingdom. the social network is proly the best all around film of the year yet as perfect as it was it was nothing groundbreaking. you have to look back to 07 with no country for old men and there will be blood as far as a halfway decent year. i usually see around 5 to ten movies every fall/winter at the theater but the last couple of years have been a bit dull. films from the 50's through 90's rule, however there's hope in 2011 since pta is working. did i mention pta's the master, yea, it's going to be the shiit!!!

Christain Bale and Geoffery Rush were leagues better than Renner. Hell, so was Andrew Garfield and Matt Damon.

[Bytor2112]

yeah, im not sayin 2010 was a total write-off, but it seems like in every movie, someone is wearing a cape ( i did like Kick-ass alot ) or they have fangs or what-not, and there is not a lot of originality anymore from Hollywood. its kind of sad when you think of it.

when an idea is hot in hollywood (superhero, vampires, etc.), they just seem to soak every last drop out of it and beat it until it's red in the face, and it ends up ruining the ideas for 20 years or so, and then they start fresh again.

i will agree, independant films are more of a joy for me, mostly because you don't have hollywood bigshot producers getting there fingers in on everything.

[Dustin44]

I really enjoyed:

Black Swan
Inception
The Town
The Social Network
Kick-Ass
Shutter Island
The Ghost Writer
Buried
Exit through the Gift Shop
Scott Pilgrim


And I still want to see:

True Grit
The Fighter
The King's Speech
Blue Valentine

and a few others.

[Blu-ray Fanatic]

To me, every year is about the same. There's gonna be some good ones, average ones, and bad ones but I'm always hoping it'll get better. I would like a year when retailers would release more steelbooks.

[Trogdor2010]

I was just thinking some Avid Laserdisc fans could get many forgotten independent films from 1980's-90's which is much larger than the DVD selection, but that's packed with movies from the 2000's.

Anyone got a stash of 35mm prints of forgotten films from the 1960's?

Why we don't get those movies? It's still alot of us spend alot of time we on movies from this year.

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Blu-ray Fanatic

To me, every year is about the same. There's gonna be some good ones, average ones, and bad ones but I'm always hoping it'll get better. I would like a year when retailers would release more steelbooks.

I dunno, last summer sure FELT like 2003:
All the studio-hype "blockbuster" mistakes falling like bowling pins, and nobody having anything left to go see but the one Pixar hit which everyone went on a rampaging mania for praising as The Greatest Movie Ever Made...

Don't think that makes the December "Tron Legacy" analagous to "Return of the King", though (although Yogi Bear/Cat in the Hat seems to bear out the historical parallel).

[Deadset]

Originally Posted by Bytor2112

just wondering, i can only think of a few movies last year that i really enjoyed. im kind of getting sick of the loud obnoxious block busters. they seem to be the same re-hash every year, just with different actors.

It's just you.

Inception, Book of eli, Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon, Black Swan are all favorites of 2010. Great year.

[Jellybeans]

Originally Posted by Deadset

It's just you.

Inception, Book of eli, Toy Story 3, How to Train Your Dragon, Black Swan are all favorites of 2010. Great year.

How was How To Train Your Dragon ?

[Foggy]

In all honesty, I enjoyed

Kick-Ass
Scott Pilgrim
127 Hours
Inception
The Social Network
Harry Potter 7: Pt 1
Toy Story 3
Black Swan
Buried
Shutter Island
Iron Man 2
Predators
The Book of Eli
The Crazies
The A-Team
The Expendables
Tron: Legacy

Plus a quite a number of entertaining Rentals as well that are fun.

Bareing in mine, I am yet to see True Grit, The Kings Speech and The Fighter along with others- I think it's been fairly decent.

[Walts Ghost]

Well for me I enjoyed:

The Social Network
Toy Story 3
127 Hours
The King's Speech
True Grit
The Town
Tron Legacy
Tangled
Shutter Island
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Inception
Cemetery Junction
Iron Man 2
How to Train Your Dragon
The Expendables
The A-Team
Prince of Persia
Kick-Ass
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

That's a pretty good year I think. That's a lot of fun, really well done movies. One of the better years for movies in a while I thought.

[KilloWertz]

I didn't have a problem with last year. Sure, some of the movies I really enjoyed would be considered crap by some, but there were plenty of movies I really enjoyed. Any year where there are movies like Toy Story 3, Kick-Ass, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, How to Train Your Dragon, Inception, The Town, Easy A, Iron Man 2, among others can't be a bad year.