thedissolve.com top 50 films of 2010-14

Passionate vs Incoherent in the face of something far more complex and profound than your own ability to communicate?

sounds like one of AW's year end binaries.

Plus it's got an awesome soundtrack:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ3-7C6RYOE

Not really passionate, but probably incoherent. More like the one guy who doesn't get what all the critics are raving about.

I'm pretty incoherent about not getting what's so great about the Dardennes (who aren't on this list).

Still need to see a Dardennes film oneathesedays. Recommendations on best/most representative?

The Son

I'd agree with that on both counts.

U-N-I-T-Y

The Son and Rosetta.

i understood the hate for Rosetta.

so Margaret is good then? how come it took so long to be released? looked .. intense from the trailer.

lengthy articles have addressed that topic.

Its cult rivals any film's.

2 of the producers died during the making which didn't help.

Hulk wrote some good things about it here: http://badassdigest.com/2012/02/16/film-crit-hulk-smash-22-short-thoughts-about-margaret/

Favorites:

1: The Social Network
2: Boyhood
3: Margaret

Hated:

1: The Grand Budapest Hotel
2: The Wolf of Wall Street

Most Disappointing: Meek's Cutoff

Seen: 28

Huh from this list probably act of killing i think?

Only one on the list that pisses me off is Marcy Martha etc. junk. Couple of other ones seem like dumb filler (toy story 3 in particular)

semi-surprising no Argo or Lincoln, too grown up for this cru maybe, not that id really rep much for either

also there'er far too few documentaries

ive somehow seen 37, tho not yet amour or boyhood

far too few documentaries and yet exit thru the gift shop

Anything to do with Banksy needs incinerating, but yeah so many good docs in the last five years.

The Missing Picture for starters...

I still get annoyed when I think of the ending of Meek's Cutoff.

have only seen about 10 of these tbh, but would probably go for under the skin.

Still championing Zero Dark Thirty as great must be more out of stubbornness at this point

Better than Argo at any rate.

reluctantly agree. similar lies, worse craft, just a tad less odious in political context.

Suspect "Boyhood" will be the Moby's "Play" of movies.

By which I assume you mean "the superlative cultural artifact of its decade".

Argo has a fatal smugness about it as well as all the bullshit, like the level of self satisfaction you get in the worst George Clooney movies/performances multiplied a couple of times.

Suspect you're right. #1 ranking is ludicrous.

No Only God Forgives!?

xp Tho, hey, better that than Social Network.

for sure, pretentious TV on the big screen. one great scene: the regatta.

top 3 are far more regrettable/incomprehensible than the list overall

short term 12 had the potential to be good but ended up awful. no idea why its on here.

no american hustle no credibility but that's just one ilx poster's opinion

my top 10 -

Holy Motors
Uncle Boonmee
Margaret
The Social Network
A Seperation
12 Years A Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street
Certified Copy
Toy Story 3
Goodbye to Language

Voted Uncle Boonmee. Since Stray Dogs isn't on there, that seems the obvious choice. With two Iranian directors in the top five, I can't really attack it too much for americo-centrism. Annoyingly.

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.