thedissolve.com top 50 films of 2010-14

comment folks underneath the feature seem most perturbed by the lack of Drive, although i bloody loathed it so no harm done.

wish i liked uncle boonmee more. or that syndromes & a century had been released a little later.

margaret -- one of my favorites of any half-decade

boyhood at 1 is a good argument for waiting 20 years before trying to build a canon

the dissolve is supposed to be like a classier attempt at the av club right? av club would put out a v similar list probably

Since Stray Dogs isn't on there, that seems the obvious choice.

― Frederik B, Thursday, February 5, 2015 3:23 PM (4 minutes ago)

since i've been dying to see this for quite some time & holding out for a decent copy, thought i'd mention it's now up on netflix instant view

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GREAT:
Gravity
Whiplash
Dogtooth
Inherent Vice

GOOD:
Inside Llewyn Davis
Wreck-It Ralph
Coherence
The Wolf of Wall Street
Toy Story 3
Take Shelter

OKAY:
Her
Meek's Cutoff
Upstream Color
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Zero Dark Thirty
The Master
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Exit Through the Gift Shop

SHITE:
Only Lovers Left Alive
Moonrise Kingdom
The Tree of Life
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Social Network

Glad Drive didn't make it in.

Of the 27 I've seen I'd only cut Scott Pilgrim, Zero Dark Thirty and Holy Motors (which probably deserves to be in there but man I hated it) and push Her way down the list.

Tree of Life. I've enjoyed the ones I've seen but they most of the ones I've seen don't belong on this list.

Christ, the Wes Anderson hate is becoming such a cliche

well, he's shite in'he?

feel kinda dumbstruck at having choose one of these, so i just chose the one i'd be happiest to watch again right now: Inside Llewyn Davis.

http://thedissolve.com/news/4683-our-best-films-of-the-half-decade-orphans/

(only one of these I've seen is Best Worst Movie)

I've seen The Kid With a Bike. Its good! Its about this kid who has a bike.

and a knife

Spoiler alert.

I'm surprised I've managed to see 14 of these, considering that since I have young kids, I basically only watch about one non-kids movie a month. (I have seen Wreck-it Ralph and Toy Story 3 multiple times. Both are better than average kids movies, I guess.)

50 Gravity
49 Wreck-It Ralph
43 Upstream Color
34 Blue is the Warmest Colour
24 Exit Through the Gift Shop
17 Moonrise Kingdom
14 The Tree of Life
13 The Master
12 12 Years A Slave
11 Toy Story 3
10 Holy Motors
8 The Grand Budapest Hotel
6 Inside Llewyn Davis
5 A Seperation

Didn't really dislike any of these. Tempted to vote for Upstream Color for some reason.

Thought I'd have to wait a decade from release to see Scott Pilgrim attract hate flack for being overrated!! Too soon for the backlash, but it's going to survive. Holds up nicely as a kid-touchstone movie, as its many repeats in my kid-filled living room attest (I have ended up seeing most of this a lot....anyway it gives me pleasure to tell all the mostly-younger-than-me people posting here that YOU ARE TOO OLD FOR THIS MOVIE. ha ha ha).

Anyway, haven't seen most of these so won't vote, but for me

1 - would pick "Dish and the Spoon" not "Frances Ha" (Greta Gerwig substitution)
2 - would pick "Resurrect Dead - The Toynbee Tiles" not "Exit Through The Gift Shop" (concept/unreliable narrator art documentary substitution)

Finally two notes
1 - "Gravity" will obviously last because it's a formal triumph and that never dies.
2 - "Toy Story 3" is ghastly, how in the world...?

Oh, understandably not here: "How I Live Now" (2013) was so scarily on that it got plenty of negative reviews for a range of babyish critical excuses. Most frightening movie I've seen in years.

You will no doubt also love some of these other recent "frightening" young adult dystopias like The Maze Runner & The Giver yeah?

I have only just noticed it is Winter's Bone not Ceylan's Winter Sleep on this poll, imago's post confused me.

voted upstream color out of annoyance with We Are The Best being missing, no idea why GotG and not, I dunno, Iron Man 3 or Cap 2.

We Are the Best!

^ true

xelab, the movie I referred to is not a "young adult dystopia" or indeed any kind of dystopia. You are free not to like it but I suspect you actually have no idea what you are talking about.

"Wrong Cops" got robbed.

Meg Rosoff (born 16 Oct 1956) is an American writer based in London, ... Her young-adult novel How I Live Now was published in 2004

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Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I have seen exactly four of these.

Seen 24. Feel like that is rather too many than too few.

I've seen seven.

26, mostly good, some great. and her.

i've seen about 45, way too many.

like men

he does iirc

I liked Boyhood a lot, but the sui-generis aspects of its creation probably lead people to overrate it.

whereas it was ADD-induced mania that led them to overrate Her.

Wondering whether such tasteful fare such as Winter Sleep will win.

;-)

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from this list

Yes! (in roughly descending order of preference):
Turin Horse (holy fucking shit yes)
Melancholia
Moonrise Kingdom
Gravity
Holy Motors
Goodbye to Language
Take Shelter
Inside Llewyn Davis
A Separation
Certified Copy
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Uncle Boonme
Leviathan
The Interrupters (this is the Kartemquin doc, right?)
The Master
Only Lovers Left Alive (to my surprise)
Inherent Vice
Toy Story 3
Guardians of the Galaxy

Eh:
Tree of Life
Wreck-It Ralph
Act of Killin
Wolf of Wall St
Frances Ha
Scott Pilgrim
Meek's Cutoff
Boyhood
12 Years a Slave
The Social Network (very mixed feelings)
Selma

No:
Winter's Bone
Before Midnight

Haven't seen:
All the others

Conclusion.
I like movies.

The Wolf of Wall Street 3

Kill it with fire. Otherwise, solid winners!

4 votes for Wreck-It Ralph seems weird but I never actually saw it so

it's massively overrated mediocredom

can't believe people voted for films itt

amateurist, see Margaret!

nah

i get a weird "american arnaud desplechin" vibe for it, and i hate arnaud desplechin. also you can count on me was boring.

that's a good analogy but the movie is okay Desplechin.

What do you hate about him?

lol I didn't even vote. knew I wouldn't need to :P