re: The 25 Best Films of The 2010s

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Phantom Thread



Looked tedious AF in the trailer. Nothing but Oscar fodder from the moment it was greenlit.

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You obviously don't watch many "Oscar" movies. Phantom Thread is genuinely bizarre.

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Obviously a list created by some pretentious art house snob.

I watch a lot of movies and I’ve never heard of many on the list.

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First, most of these are popular indies that made money and/or were nominated for Oscars. Hardly the stuff of snobbery.

Second, it's from a website with a team of contributors, not some random blog. These sites poll their writers and they typically weigh the positions of films in the poll results. It's likely that Cameraperson, the most obscure film on the list, made it because it was one writer's #1. It likely made it onto zero other lists from the group.


Unrelated. Why do people here hate Boyhood so much?

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The lead was unlikeable

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Isn't that part of the point? Aren't teenagers generally unlikable?

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Why do people here hate Boyhood so much?

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Probably because it gets overhyped due to the way it was made. It was a great achievement. But if we’re talking the actual movie, I thought it was just pretty good at best. Have no desire to watch it again

Whiplash
Yesterday
Three Billboards Outside Ebbings. Mo
The Wolf of Wall Street
Argo
American Hustle
Lion
Lady Bird
Hell or High Water

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Movies should be fun, funny, exciting, horny, captivating, scary and most of all, escapism.

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Sweeping generalities about what makes movies good are always stupid. (see what I did there?)

But for real, way to say that about a bunch of films you haven't actually seen.

Ready Player One would be on my list. That was a movie that I went in with low expectations and left very impressed.

Clearly, Tree of Life is number one and it isn't even remotely close.

I proclaimed that back in 2011 and will continue to proclaim it til the day I die. I was mocked relentlessly by the uncultured here at that time.

I would argue more. Tree of Life isn't just the best film of the 2010s; it's also the greatest film ever made.