The MoFo Top 100 of the 2010s Countdown

Overall Arrival is my favourite Alien movie I have seen. I’m a big fan of this genre, and I have watched a long list of Alien/space movies over the past few month’s and this is hands down my favourite. It’s a beautiful movie with some fantastic soundtracks. It has a great cast, a great story, and it’s a very fascinating and interesting movie that really grips you from the get go. Absolutely flawless movie.

The Wolf Of Wall Street is fresh on my mind, and straight into my top 10 favourite movies. Maybe it will change, maybe it will not, but Scorsese has delivered yet again. Martin Scorsese is close.., if not my favourite directer out there, he's one of the best in the business, and I don't think I've seen a bad movie from him yet. The Wolf On Wall Street showcases his talent. It's funny, it's sexy, and it's pure entertainment. From the start of its 180 minute running time (which by the way flows nicely) It never once leaves you bored, never once did it seem to drag out, in fact I wanted more.

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016) +

Linguist Amy Adams is a member of one of twelve teams worldwide which tries to communicate with aliens when they arrive on earth in order to try to learn their intentions.

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) +

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013)
(Rewatch)

Aside from the fact that it stars Leonardo DiCaprio, my love of this movie is something of an anomaly for me. I like movies about kind and sensitive men, I like movies about noble and heroic men, and I like movies about bad guys who redeem themselves with noble and heroic acts. Jordan Belfort is none of those things. He's a greedy, materialistic, self-centered, abusive, ruthless, and misogynistic sack of shit.

But he's also funny as hell and in this role Leonardo DiCaprio gives what is probably my favorite performance of his career. As much as I admire his talent, I'd never even considered him as being anything of a comedic actor until this role and he is astonishingly good here. It's hard for any actor to be funny for three hours but he pulls it off and had me absolutely rolling (especially as he did a little rolling of his own with that Lemmon scene). But his is not the only really strong performance here (actually, I can't think of a weak one among the bunch), Jonah Hill is absolutely hilarious as Belfort's vice president Donnie Azoff, and Matthew McConaughey is great in the brief but memorable chest-bumping role of Belfort's mentor Mark Hanna.

It is an absolute blast of a movie to watch and if I were ranking the movies of the decade by pure entertainment value alone, it would no doubt be among my top three. It'll fall a little lower than that on my ballot because I am considering other factors, but there's no way it doesn't make top ten.

Arrival (Denis Villeneuve, 2016)
(Recommended by @SpelingError @Tugg @Yoda and @PumaMan)

Arrival has some really interesting ideas on our existence, the significance of time, and the importance of true communication and cooperation. And it presents its ideas using beautiful cinematography and effects and strong performances from a solid cast.

Here's the problem I have with it: Despite all its ideas, the movie is boring. I never cared anything for its characters or for their story and I was left completely detached from the whole thing. About the closest thing I felt to emotion was mild amusement at how the barrier and the aliens resembled something I might see at the Monterey Bay Aquarium's "Tentacles" exhibit, how Squidward and Zoidberg would've been more apt names for them than Abbott and Costello, and how closely the ship resembled a giant bar of stainless steel soap.

Like some of the other films I've seen labelled as "masterpiece," I can see why other people hold them in high regard, but this just isn't for me.

And back to 'seen both, voted for neither' for me.