Blade Runner 2049

Too many good weeb series tbh, GoT for western though i havent seen the last 2 seasons Mr.Robot

Machine Code - Environments, 2011 and hasnt been topped

Nier Automata

Movies: 1 + 1. Granted that's the only film of this decade I've watched and enjoyed.
TV series: haven't seen any
Anime: Mardock Scramble, I guess, idk.
Game: played too many games, not played enough games
Music: there is way too much I've listened
Visual novel: Va11Hall-A, sorry Kagetsu Tohya, but you are 18 years old
Light novel: The Empty Box and Zeroth Maria. Granted that's the only light novel I've read so far.
Books: haven't read any

Conclusion: this decade is shit and we never going to have nice things, except music and games I guess.

I do get the sense that this was a weaker decade than the 2000s and 1990s.

Yes

Especially for non-indie games.

1. Iron Man (made history with the MCU)
2. Inception (Intellectualism is fine if it's entertaining)
3. Moonrise Kingdom (drama is fine if it's entertaining. Anderson achieves this with cuteness),
4. Spirited Away (I don't shun foreign film)
5. Baby Driver (creatively utilized music)
6. Star Wars VI (send off to a historic trilogy)
7. Happy Gilmore (classic comedy)
8. Rocky (my favorite probably)
9. The Godfather (shows that a film can still be slow and great)
10. The Godfather II (unique use of nonlinear story telling)

The Lego Movie (2014)
Eromanga Sensei (2017)
Florida Georgia Line, Dig Your Roots (2016)
Goat Simulator (2014)

Especially for non-indie games.

What, you dont like interactive movies and asset flips?

Movie of the Decade: Blade Runner 2049

I struggled coming up with much for this category. It does seem like there's less to choose from compared to previous decades. Not saying that the movies were worse, just safer.

Doesn't look like anyone's going to disagree with me on this one. 2049 ticked all the boxes for me and was the first movie in a while where I felt blown away while walking out. It kind of surprises me that it's become so popular on this forum: I saw it in an empty theater and two people in my party fell asleep through it.

Some of the other movies I could have listed were the Social Network, Inception, Django Unchained, the Wolf of Wall Street, and Nightcrawler.

Series of the Decade: Mr. Robot

I’m not sure if Breaking Bad even counts since it started in the previous decade but I still like Mr. Robot better, regardless. This seems like a show that everyone was raving about back in 2015 and subsequently forgot about; which surprises me because season 1 is an almost beat-for-beat ripoff of a very popular movie, whereas the next two seasons are more original while maintaining the same level of quality.

Breaking Bad is easily my second favorite show of all time and I don't think much else can compete. Every list on the internet has the same exact shows listed as the best (I just haven’t seen Sopranos or the Wire). BB is still the only show I've watched that finished without there being a significant dip in writing quality.

I don’t think it’s fair to compare miniseries’ with long-running shows, because we can see how many shows these days go downhill after only one season, so I'll say that Chernobyl and True Detective S1 are tied for best miniseries. I just started watching Better Call Saul last night, and it's pretty good so far.

Album of the Decade: no clue 🙈

Game of the Decade: Grand Theft Auto V

Like with albums, I don’t have much insight on this topic. It’d be like a guy that’s casually watched a handful of movies picking the best one.

I personally judge games by how much time I got out of it for the price. So games that I played for a couple days and never touched again are at the bottom. In this regard, both of Rockstar’s games stand out above all others. The Rockstar games have a massive amount of content and seem to have the longest playthroughs of any games.

I liked Red Dead 2’s story better but the multiplayer was pretty bad when I tried it. Despite all the criticism it got, I loved GTA Online and kept going back for years. I thought the game modes were really fun and not at all grindy like everyone said they were. I’m sure the only reason they did it was so kids would keep buying those shark cards (in game currency) but I personally never bought those and I really appreciated how GTA Online was updated for years and for free.

I'd like to give the Witcher 3 another try, since it's pretty widely regarded as one of the best. I've tried to play it a couple times but got overwhelmed. Aside from that, I just played through Dark Souls III for the first time a couple days ago, which is probably my favorite From Software game and the only one I've beaten. Trying to decide if I want to go to NG+ or buy Serkiro. I'll also give Skyrim an honorable mention.

I find it hilarious how no one's mentioned GoT as a whole.

Had the potential to be legendary tier and would have made my list had it not utterly shat the bed post season 5.

Actually the more I think about it the more I realise the 2010s was actually a really shitty decade for TV.

2000s had Sopranos, Rome, Deadwood and The Wire as its hallmarks of television . Absolute peak kino TV.

Excluding miniseries and standalone seasons the 2010s really only has GoT as its decade definer, if we're going by the metric of cultural impact. I probably wouldn't even count BB because it kicked off at the back end of the 2000s.

Blade Runner 2049

Young Justice

Random Access Memories

GTA 5

Blade Runner 2049 might be my favorite film tbh.

Album: Bowie's Blackstar I suppose

TV show: I never watched GoT personally. This one is hard to decide upon.

Game: Difficult to decide. I think New Vegas?

Quote from: Mmmmm Napalm on December 28, 2019, 06:01:44 PM

I never watched GoT personally.

don’t

That is the impression I'm getting

Interstellar
Game of Thrones (HM: Better Call Saul)
Breath of the Wild

Quote from: maverick on December 28, 2019, 06:45:18 PM

Quote from: Mmmmm Napalm on December 28, 2019, 06:01:44 PM

I never watched GoT personally.

don’t

That is the impression I'm getting

I'm not gonna bother beating the "post S5 it goes downhill" horse but what I will say is that you can watch seasons 1 through 3, then come up with your own fantatistical fan theory to its ending and it'll still be better than what we got. Would save you the inevitable disappointment.

For all the shit we talk about it, when it does peak it's ultra kino. Shame it was run into the ground by a duo of incompetents.

The Season 4 finale kinda works as a series finale anyway, most of the characters end up in the same or very similar positions at the end of Season 8 as they do around this point in the series.