Ranking the previous decade's movies by year

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Rona boredom got me acting strange. Here's another movie bread.

S tier:

2014. Can't really think of a better year that defined the 2010s than this one. Birdman, Interstellar, Gone Girl, Whiplash, Grand Budapest. Even some of the formulated blockbusters had hella originality to them like Edge of Tomorrow and Winter Soldier (well, maybe not the latter but probably the best movie in the MCU). Absolute razor year.

Other kino mentions include Nightcrawler, The Raid 2, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Imitation Game, The Guest, and John Wick.

A tier:

2017. This year produced my all time favourite movie of the decade, BR2049, and also conceptualised a plethora of really technically astute films such as Dunkirk and Baby Driver. The only thing holding it back from S tier was the dreaded TLJ unfortunately. Also the new Apes movie was trash in comparison to its relatively strong predecessors.

Honourable mentions include Good Time, Call Me By Your Name, Get Out and Three Billboards.

B tier:

2015. A respectable year no doubt but not quite enough substance to reach those upper echelons. Mad Max, Sicario and the Revenant were great, but we also had to be subjected to mediocrity like Age of Ultron, Force Awakens and the new Bond movie which I never mustered the effort to finish.

Honourable mentions include The Martian, The Big Short, Hateful Eight and Creed.

C tier:

2013. The mixed bag year. While 12 Years a Slave and Gravity were landmarks in film craft (although, the latter hasn't aged as gracefully as the other admittedly), there really wasn't a lot of vigor to the year. Pacific Rim was fine, I think it's immensely overrated though, and I'd rather poke holes in my balls and watch them deflate for an hour and a half than have to go through World War Z again.

Honourable mentions include Inside Llewyn Davis, Prisoners, Wolf of Wall Street and Her.

D tier:

2016 and 2012. The meh years.

Yeah yeah, 2012 had Django and The Master, but honestly? There's nothing else that particularly stands out to me in these years.

Moderately honourable mentions include Argo and TDKR, and Moonlight and Arrival respectively.

Shit tier: 2011 and 2018

Genuinely can't even remember going to the theatre during these years except for Infinity War and the final Harry Potter.

EDIT: Hereditary was decent.

Have not included 2019 in the ranking as I feel it's too soon for me to accurately place it anywhere.

Hand over your lists.
Last Edit: May 11, 2020, 05:38:54 PM by Mordo


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Can someone explain Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2O49 because I really don't understand how people love them so much


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Original Blade Runner is a classic that inspired a lot of other stories in entertainment being made, although none could really touch on the subject of artificial life like it did. IMO the new one is only good mostly because of the meme-potential in Ryan Gosling.

Can someone explain Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2O49 because I really don't understand how people love them so much


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Can someone explain Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2O49 because I really don't understand how people love them so much
For me, 2049 is a thematically sharp, technically immaculate visual masterpiece. I don't rate Blade Runner as highly, and it's not even one of my favourite films, but I can still respect it for its accomplishments. 2049 blows it out the water though.

It's just one of the movie experiences when I first watched I knew was gonna be really, really special, you know? I realise it's not for everyone, but it virtually ticks all my boxes in what I expect from a sublimely crafted film.


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Can someone explain Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2O49 because I really don't understand how people love them so much
For me, 2049 is a thematically sharp, technically immaculate visual masterpiece. I don't rate Blade Runner as highly, and it's not even one of my favourite films, but I can still respect it for its accomplishments. 2049 blows it out the water though.

It's just one of the movie experiences when I first watched I knew was gonna be really, really special, you know? I realise it's not for everyone, but it virtually ticks all my boxes in what I expect from a sublimely crafted film.

I will say Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2O49 have great visuals and atmosphere but there isn't really anything else that stands out to me
Characters didn't grab me and plots were ok
Nothing bad but nothing that screamed best movies ever


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Can someone explain Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2O49 because I really don't understand how people love them so much
For me, 2049 is a thematically sharp, technically immaculate visual masterpiece. I don't rate Blade Runner as highly, and it's not even one of my favourite films, but I can still respect it for its accomplishments. 2049 blows it out the water though.

It's just one of the movie experiences when I first watched I knew was gonna be really, really special, you know? I realise it's not for everyone, but it virtually ticks all my boxes in what I expect from a sublimely crafted film.

I will say Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2O49 have great visuals and atmosphere but there isn't really anything else that stands out to me
Characters didn't grab me and plots were ok
Nothing bad but nothing that screamed best movies ever
Not trashing your opinion, but in the movie's defense, it wasn't going for a character driven narrative.

It probably actually complements the film even more that the protagonist is cold and unrelatable, because well, that's kinda the point. His chosen name accentuates this even further; Joe. He's an artificial replicant nobody trying to find his humanity but ends up having to earn it instead.
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The Plane Scene makes 2012 god-tier by default.


 
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Seemed-pretty-great tier:

2014 - Gone Girl, Nightcrawler, Birdman, Whiplash, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Lego Movie
2015 - The Revenant, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Hateful Eight, Sicario, The Force Awakens
2010 - The Social Network, Black Swan, Scott Pilgrim, Inception, 127 Hours, Deathly Hallows Part 1, pre-cynic Toy Story 3

Seemed-pretty-solid tier:

2012 - Wreck-It Ralph, The Avengers, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, Chronicle, Project X (viewed as social commentary)
2017 - The Last Jedi, Blade Runner 2049, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Seemed-pretty-meh tier:

2013 - The Wolf of Wall Street, Prisoners, Under the Skin
2019 - Parasite, Joker
2011 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Deathly Hallows Part 2

Wait-really?-That's-it? tier:

2018 - Infinity War
2016 - Uhhhhhhhhh... Split?

from what i've seen, Gone Girl is probably my favorite movie of the past decade; The Revenant is pretty close
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Can someone explain Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2O49 because I really don't understand how people love them so much
basically started cyberpunk, which a lot of people think is the coolest aesthetic in the world—you either get it, or you don't

one of the earliest movies to ask questions like "at what point do robots become people," which are somewhat passe now, but were very thought-provoking at the time

has great performances, great writing, cool cinematography, cool atmosphere, and overall rock-solid film-making

took me more than a couple of watches to really appreciate it, and i still think it's a tad overrated, but it's still a really cool movie
Last Edit: May 11, 2020, 07:27:33 PM by Verbatim


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