The MoFo Top 100 of the 2010s Countdown

62: The Imitation Game

62. Moonrise Kingdom (Boyhood is a better guess)
61. The Master (The Favourite is an awfully good guess)

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61. Birdman

I do think it's The Favourite or Eighth Grade though.

Before Midnight: Another reminder to me to catch up on the Before trilogy.

Gone Girl: Solid thriller that takes advantage of Ben Affleck's blend of charisma and guilt and provides a couple of career highlights (I don't think Tyler Perry has looked this good unless it was one of his own films...if you don't like it, I got some candies I can toss at your head). Rosamund Pike more than makes up for her bland wife role in Hector and the Search for Happiness and dives into her complex role with glee. Some parts of it were kind of weak, but at least it finished strong and had some things to say on relationships in the public eye. Not on the list.

Manchester by the Sea: Hadn't seen it.

Spotlight: Was my #11. A sure sign of a good film is that you can make it interesting even if you know the story and all the facts. Director Tom McCarthy turns this one into a thriller that has big messages about "The Power of the Press" as the journalists dive into the story about a cover-up involving the Catholic church which runs through the bloodline of Boston. They made spreadsheets compelling and touching.

Some great guesses off the gate, so...


62. Predestination
61. Midsommar

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62. Tree of Life
61. The Favourite

For me, it's the part when they're going through the records and starting to realize the patterns of reassignments and people being moved around. The rest of the film didn't move me all that much.

62. The Florida Project
61. The Death of Stalin

I can't think of anything not yet said, so I'll just put my guesses on
The Imitation Game
Midsommar

I watched Manchester By the Sea for this countdown, and I considered it for my list, but it ultimately ended up getting cut. But I'm glad to see that it made the list without my help.


Spotlight is another movie that I watched for this countdown, and it's a great movie, but it's not the type of movie that I would rewatch, so I didn't consider it for my list.

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Manchester by the Sea is one that I haven't seen but I really like Michelle Williams and I keep hearing how great Casey Affleck is in this, so maybe one day.

Haven't seen Spotlight but the cast looks great and I like a good investigative film, so again, one day. Therefore, no votes from me.

List so far:
#10. Hell or High Water #73
#15. Edge of Tomorrow #68
#24. Gone Girl #65

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I'm not sure that either of these movies have a chance to make the countdown, but:

62. Stronger (2017)
61. Beautiful Boy (2018)

So many gud guesses already gone ... can't even see the delivery truck today
62. Avengers: Infinity War
61. The Social Network

62. Son of Saul
61. We need to talk about Kevin

(Just decided to give the people in the clue pictures names.)

62. The Winter Soldier, solely because of Cap trying to curl a helicopter.
61. Man of Steel. I highly doubt it would show up on this Countdown, but that scene where everyone is trying to touch Superman is all that comes to mind.

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This just makes me want to see it more.

This makes sense and is, partly, why I've still not seen Spotlight.

Seen neither, but I am interested in and would watch Spotlight, more so as All The Presidents Men is on my 100.

Manchester By Sea is exactly the kind of film which, at 20, I'd really want to see and would probably love/rave about, but by 40 it feels like I've seen so many of 'these' kinds of films and it's just more emotional masturbation. No interest at all in sitting through that.

Boyhood and It for the clues.

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