In terms of favorite years... 2017 was a big one for me.

BR2049 is one of my favorite movies of all time.

From Marvel we got:
Ragnarok
Guardians 2
Spider-Man: Homecoming

Logan and Wonder Woman for two other good Comic book movies.

Dunkirk for your Nolan fix.

John Wick 2 for your pure action needs.

I feel like those blockbusters make up for the disappointment some might have felt from Justice League and TLJ.

And on top of all that there was:
I, Tonya
Three Billboards
Wind River
Molly's Game
Disaster Artist
Logan Lucky
Baby Driver
The Big Sick
Coco
Get Out

Plus a ton of movies I can't remember right off or didn't get around to seeing.

I'll go with 2015

Big Short
Spotlight
Mad Max
The Revenant
The Martian
Hateful Eight
Sicario
Room
Jurassic World
Spectre
Force Awakens
Age of Ultron
Ant Man
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
Terminator Genisys
Secret in Their Eyes
Krampus
Creed
The Danish Girl
The Night Before
Hunger Games 2
San Andreas

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Seriously. Not to sound like Redstone (who I swear has a Google alert for his name and will pop up momentarily now),

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"We have just lost cabin pressure."

I keep asking for the explanation but he never says it. Some sort of inside joke that only he gets?

It's a running gag. He's just purposely and flippantly misspelling the initials, which even I think is funny.

Does Redstone also bang supermodels and run an oil and gas empire??

I wish either of those were true.

TCTTS said:

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Before this decade if you would have told me some of my favorite films would be about the founding of Facebook, the housing crisis, and baseball analytics I would have thought it was crazy. But my top 3 films might be The Social Network, The Big Short, and Moneyball.

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Seriously. Not to sound like Redstone (who I swear has a Google alert for his name and will pop up momentarily now), but I read the script for The Social Network like a year and a half before it came out. It was and still is the best script I've ever read, but for months I would tell anyone who would listen that a movie about Facebook was coming out and that it was going to be amazing. Yet every single person - even fellow writers I knew - would look at me like I was crazy, and understandably so. But it's weird to think that there was a time when everyone doubted this movie and thought the very notion was ridiculous. Then the trailer hit - still one of the greatest trailers ever made - and the rest is history.

I contend that July 2010 was, ironically, for me at least, the cinematic peak of the decade. The trailer for The Social Network - my favorite movie and favorite trailer of the decade - hit on Thursday, July 15, and then Inception - my second favorite movie of the decade - released on Friday, July 16. That weekend was the nexus of both, and nothing has quite compared since.

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Not to get off the current topic, which I'm enjoying, but I just wanted to echo that Social Network and Moneyball both sounded terribly boring to me. I laughed at the idea of them, but they're two of my favorites from the decade.

Another worthy entry for the decade is Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! Great movie.

In no particular order:

War Dogs
Lone Survivor
Moneyball
Wolf of Wall Street
Django Unchained
Zero Dark Thirty
Skyfall
The Martian
Hateful Eight
John Wick

There are still lots of movies listed on here I haven't seen but want to. Was surprised nobody had Lone Survivor on their list.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. The Irishman
3. The Social Network
4. The Big Short
5.Avengers Infinity War/Endgame
6.Blade Runner 2049
7.Everybody Wants Some
8.Whiplash
9.The RAID 2:Bernendal
10. Inception

Honorable Mentions:

Boyhood
Sicario
Hell or High Water
Moonlight
Gravity
Roma
Knives out
Looper
The Raid
John Wick 1-3
Silence
The Wolf of Wall Street
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Green Room
Zero Dark Thirty
The Grey

General Themes/Observations:

-if you knew where to look, old school action made a huge comeback.

-Fury Road is a miracle of a film-An over-budgeted, delayed, decades-old sequel to a series long since considered dead that somehow became a phenomenon. It's perfect, visceral action filmmaking done at the highest level. I have no clue how someone didn't die making this, which is the ultimate mark any great action film is shooting for.

-Scorsese had a great decade.

-Marvel obviously was the pop culture heavyweight of the '10s, but the list of TRULY great Marvel films is really Only two: Infinity War and Endgame. Both are perfect cappers to smaller stories done with spectacle and sense of character. However, as much as I love Marvel and what they've accomplished, I can't help but look back and see a bunch of films that basically just get to the level of "pretty good." There are very few bad ones-Thor 2- but only a couple stick out upon retrospection which I find interesting.

-Smaller films like Whiplash and Moonlight helped keep a sense of balance with al of the huge corporate tent pole stuff I experienced this decade. Whenever I started getting Franchise fatigue, films like these always affected me in real, emotional ways.

-Richard Linklarter basically put my childhood/early adulthood on screen in the 2010s. Boyhood and Everybody Wants Some connected with me personally in ways I really can't put into words.

-Upon retrospect, this was a pretty decent decade of film. Not quite as iconic or deep as the '90s and '00s, but there are some great films here that I'll be watching for a long time.

Interstellar
Ex Machina
Inception
Wolf of Wallstreet
Sicario

Bumping this out of boredom and because this decade is not exactly off to a hot start in movies. The end of this thread we started talking about favorite movie years,

I was kind of curious, so I went through the process of grabbing a list of the top 100 movies each year based on number of votes on IMDb, pulled their IMDb rating, Letterboxd score, and Metacritic score and then averaged them for each year. I did this using the OMDb API, so it was a little tedious but not nearly as bad as it sounds.

Basically, I came up with a pretty mediocre and unscientific way to find what the "Best" and "Worst" years in movies were from 2010-2019.



I was surprised to see 2010 being the lowest average across the board, as I would have said that 2011 was probably my least favorite year for movies. Likewise, it's interesting to see Letterboxd and Metacritic both consider the last three years to be the best overall, while IMDb seems to believe the sweet spot is 2014-2016.

I'm sure there is something to be said for older movies having more votes (possibly even more negative ones) and probably a host of other issues when it comes to using average scores as a metric. But I had a little time to kill during the quarantine and thought I'd share.

So since there's no new movies to watch I've been going back to watch some of my favorites. This week I rewatched The Social Network, which I haven't watched in several years. I feel confident in saying a better movie has not been made since it came out, it's basically perfect. The script, the visuals, the score, the tone, everything.

I was kind of in awe of something I watched the first time a decade ago. I appreciate it more at 40 than I did at 30, it was like watching it with fresh eyes, almost like I hadn't seen it before. Fincher and Eisenberg were robbed in my opinion by The King's Speech, which is a decent movie, but The Social Network is a ******* masterpiece of film making. You can turn on this movie at any point and get pulled in immediately. If you haven't watched this movie in a while, it's worth your time, it's on Netflix so it takes minimal effort. I can't get the score out of my head, in the best way.

If you can't go to the theater, might as well are watch something great.

What a decade of mediocrity

Yikes