Your 10 worst/best films of the 2010s

I'm into everything.

Commented on your Mubi list. Inspired by it, I just finished watching The Golden Thread (1965) which I've been meaning to watch for years. Needless to say, a masterpiece!

If anything, the Japanese are known for subduing their emotions, but I see why you could come off thinking this after only merely scraping the surface of the absolute behemoth Japanese cinema is. I presume you're one of the people who watched a samurai Kurosawa flick with Toshiro Mifune, and resolved that's what all Japanese films look like, totally ignoring the influence of Kabuki theatre (one, two) on Kurosawa, and above all, a giant number of other Japanese films that are totally different.

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Look, I'm not judging you - after all, I'm posting here myself, but maybe, just maybe, if you spent less time here and more time watching films, maybe, and I stress, maybe your taste would be of some value. Just a thought, ya know.

Which generation were the directors from? Japan had some great directors in the past. Of late if it's Asia, it's mostly a Korean takeover now. And Farhadi and Majidi from Iran. And a few others here and there.


I absolutely hate Manga. Find them unappealing.

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It's better for both of you if Guap never sees this.

I see no reason to presume this, and certainly no value or benefit in presuming it before knowing. There are no points for guessing the reasons for someone's taste before they've told you, but plenty to lose for guessing wrong uncharitably.

That's fine. To each his own. Not into that much over the top stuff. If I am to see a cartoon over a bunch of episodes, might as well make it Dexter's Lab or Top Cat or Hey Arnold.

But, hey, guessing is fun! I bet they saw Kurosawa, maybe some Miyazaki etc. Doesn't seem to me he's seen too many Japanese films, though, or else he wouldn't be saying this. There's a difference between taste and ignorance. A friend always frowns upon me listening to hip hop knowing I hate the genre, but little does he know, there are some gems that I do like, and intend to deepdive into the cesspit to pick them. So yeah, maybe he's been watching Japanese cinema his entire life, and ended up hating every single film, but this is quite unlikely. See, you can't watch two Fellini films and claim you hate all Italian cinema. This reminds me of people who "hate" jazz or metal, but after they've been asked to name a jazz or metal artist, they frown. In order to hate something you gotta know it quite well (no scat fetish argument, please).

In his defence, he never said he hates all Japanese cinema, and my post was meant as informatory guesswork.

I'm pretty sure you'd change your opinion if you delved into the world of those lewd hentai babes just waiting for you! Don't know how knowledgeable Guap is about this particular area, and I'm definitely not very knowledgeable either, but I guess if all other branches of anime and manga failed you, this is your last resort.

I have seen some of them. They do tend to over-sexualize women. But Japanese porn industry is pretty big and a bit weird, but still enjoyable, and PH is always there. So no need for cartoons!!

Nice list. Love Happy Hour too.

Japanese way more introvert as compare to western society like America.
But in context of their acting's culture, their approach in acting that was theatrically convey their emotion: being more excessive or over the top by movement, gestures,and expression; but at the time this aesthetic also applied to, for extent, the like silent film and classical hollywood.
The different i guess, in Japan the stage acting influences --of the traditional play like kabuki, noh or even classic Western play, like Shakespeare-- pave their way to the contemporary and across media(manga, anime, even tv shows).

As matter of generalization, I believe the term Shakespearean actors still the best to describe most performers in japan today.


I'll say it is unfortunate if some as movie lovers cant find affection(even a little) in japan's aesthetic in cinema, as it was one of developed and rich one out there, but again to each of their own.

Doesn't all porn do this? But I think I know what you mean. They over-exaggerate the acts big time, and an occassional womb X-ray might be too much to bear. I prefer live-action, too. Please, don't kill me 2D girl lovers.

Jp oversexualize anything that sell.
This just Mild level.

Opened it at work. Do you want my co-workers to think I'm gay?

yes, i do :3

Quick! Send me a picture of a cute girl now! Maybe if I set it as my wallpaper, there is still a chance!

how far we gonna ruin this thread!
Whatever how about two cute girls for your dose

Let's move on to Asian Corner, shall we? :3

The best 10 movies that I have seen from 2010-2019


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Movies I have not seen that might bump some of my choices
Dunkirk
Theory of Everything
Captain PHillips
Lady Bird
Sicario
Django Unchained

The hateful Eight

— BEST —

• Like Someone in Love (Kiarostami, 2012)
• Communists (Straub, 2014)
• Lost Land (Vandeweerd, 2011)
• Film Socialisme (Godard, 2010)
• Pasolini (Ferrara, 2014)
• The Day He Arrives (Hong, 2011)
• Knight of Cups (Malick, 2015)
• "A Century of Energy" (de Oliveira, 2015)
• American Sniper (Eastwood, 2014)
• Bastards (Denis, 2013)

Honorable Mentions: Blackhat (Mann, 2015), 24 Frames (Kiarostami, 2017), In the Family (Wang, 2011), Goodbye to Language (Godard, 2014), Welcome to New York (Ferrara, 2014), Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (Wiseman, 2017), Office (To, 2015), The Turin Horse (Tarr-Hranitzky, 2011), Passion (De Palma, 2012), Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong, 2015), Horse Money (Costa, 2014), The Irishman (Scorsese, 2019)


— WORST —

(For the sake of list variety, I'm not including Disney films/major properties)

• Swiss Army Man (Scheinert-Kwan, 2016)
• Holmes & Watson (Cohen, 2018)
• Midsommar (Aster, 2019)
• Velvet Buzzsaw (Gilroy, 2019)
• Suspiria (Guadagnino, 2018)
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
• Climax (Noe, 2018)
• Baby Driver (Wright, 2017)
• Hereditary (Aster, 2018)
• Rings (Guiterrez, 2017)

Wow, I didn't even realize how many of my most disliked films were from the latter half of the decade, haha.

You seem to have a preference for established directors, don't you?

Not really. I enjoy lots of filmmakers both old new. Of course, most of my all time favorites directors have been steadily working for at least 3 or 4 decades, only because they have larger bodies of work that I've put more time into. But the high amount of newer names in my "worst" list is largely just coincidence.

I'll name one for each year since I have alot of favorites from these years

The ones I thought were the best

2010 - The Expendables
2011 - Scream 4
2012 - The Avengers
2013 - Hunger Games 2
2014 - Guardians of the Galaxy
2015 - Jurassic World
2016 - Deadpool
2017 - Happy Death Day
2018 - Halloween
2019 - Spiderman: Far From Home

The movies that I thought were the worst

2010 - My Soul to Take
2011 - Sucker Punch
2012 - The Woman in Black
2013 - American Hustle
2014 - Let's Be Cops
2015 - Unfriended
2016 - The Boy
2017 - Keep Watching
2018 - The Strangers 2
2019 - Us