Jinn's 100 Films of the 2010s

I approve, JJ. You can sleep well knowing that.

1. The Tree of Life (2011, dir. Terrence Malick)

I approve, JJ. You can sleep well knowing that.

JJ, the list was "dyn-o-mite", as the kids say.

Oh, Jinnistan, pour aller jusqu'à toi, quel drôle de chemin il m'a fallu prendre.

I slept like a baby before even seeing this post.


Thanks, Sexy. I've shared your neon-noir prequel cut with all my friends, and I'll always admire your productivity.

2. Mother! (2017, dir. Darren Aronofsky)





Bow down, ye dogs! Pay your respects to the thankless maven what brung you, bathed you, buttered your bread and bottom and now you won't even call on Sunday.

There's a lot of different takes on this film, many of them execreble. "There's even some evil mothers who'll tell you that everything is just dirt" - Lou. I'll stick with the more positive, attentive takes. Whether the film is a biblical allegory, an environmental allegory, a feminist allegory, an allegory of the relationship between artist and muse or between celebrity and fan - all convincingly supported by the text but what matters more than that is in how smoothly all of these interpretations rhyme. Why not all of them, layered like facets of a pricelessly flawed diamond?

I had a ball watching the film in the theater as those around me began to realize they were in way over their heads. Sure, I may have laughed a little too loud at some inappropriate moments in the first half. (I can relate to her social anxiety.) But as things, um, escalated, I found it quite revealing just how closely the film's chaos was reflected in the audience's increasingly vocal discomfort. I was delighted, I have no idea what they were expecting, but it probably wasn't Luis Bunuel's wet dream. But this truth really only hit home for me a couple of weeks later, when I returned to the theater to see Blade Runner. The promotional cardboard kiosk for mother! (the same image as above) had been badly mauled in the interim, the apple cheeks slashed, both eyes punctured and gouged, I think one hole was definitely made by foot. I guess some people didn't like this fine motion picture. Anyone who's seen it will get the analogy, the self-fulfilling accuracy of the movie's portrayal of the popular id. I'm sure that many of the young men involved in this desecration had so happily fapped to Ms. Lawrence's stolen naked body just a couple years previously, felt entitled to infringe on her intimacy as if she should have been thankful to them. Assh0les deserve to be disappointed every once and awhile.

I'm also a fan and was wondering if you'd have the chutzpah to rank it #1.

...although that being said, this list still needs some more Spiderverse, if you ask me.

On a side note, here's a list I put together some time ago:

https://www.listchallenges.com/top-2...s-of-the-2010s

I made it over a year ago, but it would be about the same if I remade it.

Ah yes, the only good superhero movie.