During the past year, I kept track of movies in two ways: 1) ticket stubs and 2) a spreadsheet that included the movie title, date when I saw it, IMDB link, my rating of the movie on IMDB, and where I saw it (specific theater, Netflix, rental, purchase, etc). This made it easier for me to come up with the rankings below. They are ordered by how good I think the movies actually were combined with how much I enjoyed them. For the most part, the better I think a movie is (objectively) the more I enjoy it. However, as in the case of Inception, a movie can have terrible flaws or tendencies but I can still love the hell out of it for other reasons.
So, here are my rankings of the movies released in 2010 that I actually saw:
- The Social Network
- Winter’s Bone
- The King’s Speech
- Black Swan
- 127 Hours
- True Grit
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
- Inception
- Toy Story 3
- Greenberg
Biggest surprises: Inception being a disappointment, seeing my first Noah Baumbach movie, outstanding performances by Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit)
Movies I still need to see that would possibly mess up the rankings above: A Prophet, The Kids Are All Right, Exit Through the Gift Shop, Enter the Void, Dogtooth, Mother, The Illusionist, The Ghost Writer
Favorite closing lines: “It was perfect” and “Oh, this is you”
Favorite performances: John Hawkes in Winter’s Bone and Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Favorite screenplays: The Social Network and The King’s Speech
Favorite scores: Inception and The Social Network
