Manowar is neither of those things.

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No, you.

These are my favorites from the year.

Biker Boyz
The Recruit
Daredevil
The Life of David Gale
Cradle 2 the Grave
Old School
Dreamcatcher
Basic
Head of State
Bulletproof Monk
Malibu's Most Wanted
A Man Apart
Phone Booth
Confidence
Identity
Finding Nemo
The Italian Job
The Matrix Reloaded
Wrong Turn
Hollywood Homicide
28 Days Later
Bad Boys 2
S.W.A.T.
Freddy Vs. Jason
Cabin Fever
Matchstick Men
Jeepers Creepers 2
Once Upon A Time In Mexico
Underworld
School of Rock
Love Actually
Gothika
Paycheck
Elf
Kill Bill Vol 1.

There were so many good thrillers that came out this year. I bolded all of the thrillers that I felt were a bit underrated.

Gothika was supposed to be a horror but I don't feel like it was. It felt more like a thriller imo.

Also way better comedies that year than Bad Santa. Elf for one, Bad Boys 2, School of Rock and Old School.

I hate Elf with a passion.

sorry i'm so late.

my main complaint about the movie of 2003 is Lost in Translation loosing the oscar....it's not that i dislike Return of the King but in my opinion Fellowship was the best of three and it should have won best picture.....hmmm actually i'm not sure what it was up against....but anyways...Lost in Translation is a really good film...easily with in my top ten.....the type of film that i will not put on if i want to sleep and need background noise cause it will always pull me in

You just don't like fun.

I've made the observation that you have two options for how everything plays out on MB:

1) dislike something, which means you hate fun or are pretentious/a hipster/whatever other word Batlord wants to throw at you.

2) you like something, but liking something because it's fun isn't a good enough reason because obviously something can't be bad and fun at the same time according to Frown.

Yeah so the year that Fellowship of the ring came out. They had rough competition where they wouldn't have won.

A Beautiful Mind
Gosford Park
In the Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge and A Beautiful Mind were superior films that year. A Beautiful Mind won.

I feel like they gave them the award because it was like owed to them. Fellowship might have been the better movie but wouldn't win against that competition. I'm not sure if Two Towers was nominated for Best Picture but it lost as well. So they gave it to him for Return of the King.

You're learning.

That was the year Chicago won which is a f*cking travesty because it had no business winning that award. Thing is, Twin Towers shouldn't have won either. The Pianist was the superior film that year. Hands down.

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I think the academy feels like Holocaust movies are played out and didn't choose it for that reason. It's a ****ty reason but I think that was their logic.

How many Holocaust movies do you want to win that award though? I feel like they are right in their logic.
I would have preferred if Gangs of New York won that year over Chicago. As much as I do love Chicago I don't think it should have gotten Best Picture.

Dude....i remember seeing In the Bedroom in the theater...that film fucking floored me....i knew nothing about it except that Sissy Spacek was int it....actually someone on IMDB really wrote a review that is exactly how i feel about this film

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So simple. So honest. So heartbreaking. I dare you to see this movie and not go through a self-invasive, heartfelt understanding for the familial and emotional conflicts these characters go through. one of the best films shown at Sundance, hands down. Not a movie for the emotionally squeamish...brutally powerful... Violent, excruciating truth and beauty...the raw emotional power imbued into the scenes with Wilkinson and Spacek are Oscar-worthy. Marisa Tomei finally gets a role worthy of her talent since My Cousin Vinny. Utterly unforgettable, and a slam-dunk certainty for some kind of oscar, whether screenplay, acting, or directorial.

Wow.

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not a film i would say is a favorite.....but rather a film i will never forget

I think the best films should win regardless of topic but that's just me.

I also haven't seen In The Bedroom yet.

I can't believe the year 2009 hasn't been discussed yet.

I'm getting there calm yo tits.

Also do you mean the Oscars that were held in 2009 or the one in 2010 that was about the films from 2009?

I'm going to assume you mean the latter.


2009's Best Picture Nominations.(bolded was the best picture winner that year)
The Hurt Locker
Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
Inglourious Basterds
Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

This was the year that they opened up Best Picture by adding more nominations. They were trying to draw in more viewers by adding in movies that the average movie goer would have seen as opposed to just Oscar bait related movies.

I would have loved to seen District 9 get the win but Precious truly deserved the win for Best Picture that year with Hurt Locker being a close second.

God, I hated Precious with a passion. There isn't really a movie that jumps out to me as deserving the award. I found A Serious Man to be a let down by the Coen Brothers' standards, if I'm being honest. The Blind Side was obviously Oscar bait, and while Avatar was pretty good, it was more so for the spectacle than the film itself. I guess I'd take Inglorious Basterds, since it's in my top 3 Tarantino flicks and the first movie I'd pick to re watch from this list.

Thoughts on District 9 or did you not see it?

Oh, yeah. Forgot about that! It was a great film, not sure it's worthy of the award though. It would probably be my second pick. I didn't mention Hurt Locker because it was boring as **** and I honestly can't even remember anything about it. I liked Up, but it was a little overrated. The first 30 or so minutes were amazing, but it went downhill a bit from there.

A Serious Man should have won because it's one of my favourite Coen bros film. It really exemplifies their dry humour better than any of their other films, i think.

I thought 2009 was a great year for under the radar films. The Oscar race that year was pretty sh*t.

The Cove
Where the Wild Things Are
Revanche
Sin Nombre
An Education
A Single Man
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
A Serious Man (Middle of the pack for me Coen Bros wise)
The Hurt Locker
Bronson
Summer Hours
The Messenger
Moon
Antichrist
The Road
Food Inc
District 9
World's Greatest Dad
Un Prophete
Coraline
Inglorious Basterds
Up
In the Loop
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Ponyo
Mary and Max
Zombieland
Hunger
Red Cliff
The White Ribbon
The House of the Devil
Big Fan
Pontypool
Black Dynamite
Humpday
Collapse
A Town Called Panic

Plenty of fantastic films. Out of the Oscar nominees, The Hurt Locker was the best overall film but I enjoyed Basterds more. There were just too many scenery chewing scenes with Waltz and Fassbender for me not to love. My pick for true best film of that year would have been Bronson or Hunger.

I have yet to complete Antichrist. The opening scene just turns me off and I stop it to play something else. One of these days, I will finish it up.

Same. Best films of both directors' filmography as well.

Agreed. Also, I just finished watching another great 2009 film, Bong Joon Ho's "Mother". Beautiful film.

EDIT: These are some other films from 2009 that are great that I forgot...

Away We Go
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Bunny and the Bull
About Elly
The Secret in Their Eyes
Enter the Void
Exam
Fish Tank
I Am Love
Castaway on the Moon
Dogtooth
The Loved Ones
Mr. Nobody
Splice
Triangle
Valhalla Rising
Watchmen
Winnebego Man

Yes! Everyone I speak to tells me Shame is the superior film, but I prefer Hunger. Antichrist is a truly amazing film and is easily among my favourite horror films. I think everyone should watch it once.

Also, Drive > OGF > Bronson

Bronson is still pretty great though.

Shame is beautiful, I can respect preferring that one.

Dogtooth for the win.

I totally forgot that was 2009. Easily in the top 3 of the year for me.

Dogtooth is one of the best films I've ever seen.

83rd Academy Awards
Best Films of 2010(bolded film was the best picture winner)

The King's Speech
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone

The Best Picture category was so good this year. I really wanted Black Swan to win though but The King's Speech was pretty damn great as well. The only film I didn't see out of this category was The Fighter.

All movies that came out in 2010

I'm too tired right now to go through my favorites from this year but I will in a future post.

this is really a tough one....i'd go with either Black Swan or Winter's Bone

Toy Story 3 had such a profound emotional affect on me that i will never watch it again...same with Inside Out

The Fighter is so much more than what you may think....such a good film

every film nominated deserved to win in some way

Oh no, I haven't watched Inside Out yet. It's on par with Toy Story 3? I'm definitely going to cry at the end then.

I should give The Fighter a shot. I glossed over it as just another boxing film.

True Grit and The Social Network are great, but Black Swan is a truly amazing piece of art and would easily be my pick of the nominees. Incendies would be my pick of any movie released that year however, as it's probably the only 2010 film I would choose over Black Swan.

Yes. This is the correct answer.

Inside Out is going to fuck you up man.....like the end of Toy Story 3 was specifically designed to destroy every adult viewer...all of Inside Out does the exact same thing...enjoy dehydration man!

yes....see The fighter...even the title itself has a double meaning...is really good

Best films of 2010, bolded are personal favorites.

127 Hours
180° South
The Man From Nowhere
I Saw the Devil
Animal Kingdom
Beginners
Beyond the Black Rainbow
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
Buried
Catfish
Cold Weather
Certified Copy
Easy A
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Four Lions
Frozen
The Ghost Writer
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Hesher
Incendies
Inception
It's Kind of a Funny Story
13 Assassins
The Borrowers
Kick Ass
The Kids Are Alright
Bedevilled
The Kings Speech
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Meek's Cutoff
Monsters
Never Let Me Go
The Parking Lot Movie
Restrepo
Rubber
Senna
Poetry
Shutter Island
The Social Network
Somewhere
Sound of Noise
Stakeland
Submarine
Super
Tabloid
The Town
The Trip
Toy Story 3
The Troll Hunter
Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil
Winter's Bone

Good GOD 2010 was amazing.

Anybody else here find Inception to be decent at best?

I thought it was a 7/10 movie, but hate the reputation it has as this crazy mind**** of a movie.

I think I gave it a 6/10 the last time I saw it. That's exactly how I feel too. The first time I watched it I couldn't believe how talked up it was, a total let down when you go into it expecting to be blown away by the complexity.