The MoFo Top 100 of the 2010s Countdown

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My List:
1. The Florida Project (2017)
2. Interstellar (2014)
3. Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

4. True Grit (2010)
5. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

6. Hereditary (2018)
7. Leviathan (2014)

8. Parasite (2019)
9. The Platform (2019)

10. Drive (2011)
11. Uncut Gems (2019)
12. The Lighthouse (2019)
13. The Act of Killing (2012)
14. Argo (2012)

15. The Gift (2015)

16. Midsommar (2019)

17. Nocturnal Animals (2016)

18. Midnight in Paris (2011)
19. Django Unchained (2012)
20. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
21. The Impossible (2012)

22. Detachment (2011)

23. Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)

24. A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

25. Death at a Funeral (2010) (1 Pter)





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Seen: 33 - Mad Max: Fury Road - This movie was good, I find these apocalyptic type movies fun to watch.

Not Seen: 64 - La La Land, Whiplash, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Parasite

My Ballot List
1. The Avengers (2012)
2. Happy Death Day (2017)
3. Peppermint (2018)
4. Ted (2012)
5. Deadpool (2016)
6. Easy A (2010)
7. The Other Guys (2010)
8. The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
9. 22 Jump Street (2014)
10. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
11. Scream 4 (2011)
12. Halloween (2018)
13. Final Destination 5 (2011)
14. RED (2010)
15. The DUFF (2015)
16. This Is the End (2013)
17. No Escape (2015)
18. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
19. Spider-Man: Far from Home (2019)
20. Wonder Woman (2017)
21. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
22. Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
23. Jurassic World (2015)
24. The Expendables (2010)
25. The Purge: Election Year (2016)
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John-Connor's Ballot



25. 1-pointer Scream 4



24. Shutter Island



23. The Hunt



22. Sicario



21. The Florida Project



20. Capernaum



19. The Grand Budapest Hotel



18. Dredd



17. The Revenant







16. The Martian



15. The Great Beauty



14. Drive



13. The Hateful Eight



12. X-Men: Days of Future Past




11. Hell or High Water



10. The Descendants



9. Edge of Tomorrow



8. Arrival



7. Midnight in Paris



6. The Man from Nowhere



5. Knives Out



4. Mud



3. The Irishman



2. John Wick



1. The Raid 2



I had 10 in the top 100, 7 in the top 50, 4 in the top 25, and 1 in the top ten.

My highest ranked film was ranked #10 (The Tree of Life), and your lowest ranked film was #763 (Finding Dory).



I'm very happy with the final list and with the way the countdown was down. Bravo, great job and a special thank you to our host with the most, the one and only SpelingError!



Also, just for fun, and since some people asked, there were eight (8) "superhero" films...

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Just now realizing I could definitely integrate a "you've seen X out of 100" thing on the Ballot Results page, at least in the sense of tying it into the Seen/Lists systems.

Making a note for next time!



John-Connor's Ballot



25. 1-pointer Scream 4


That ain't no 1 pointer, I had scream 4 also , it would of been nice to see this movie sneak its way on the list though



1. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2011)
2. The Florida Project (2017)
3. The Act of Killing (2012)
4. The Raid 2 (2014)
5. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
6. Melancholia (2011)
7. Stinking Heaven (2015)
8. Black Swan (2010)
9. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
10. Django Unchained (2012)
11. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
12. Inherent Vice (2014)
13. Computer Chess (2013)
14. Warrior (2011)
15. Phoenix (2014)
16. Eighth Grade (2018)
17. One More Time with Feeling (2016)
18. The Blackcoat's Daughter (2017)
19. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
20. In the Family (2011)
21. Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)
22. Everybody Wants Some (2016)
23. Finding Vivian Maier (2014)
24. The Alchemist Cookbook (2016)
25. Winter Brothers (2017)



More random trivia:

Mad Max: Fury Road actually received the MOST first place votes (6). But it had 11 other votes in people's top ten lists, while Parasite had 17. And it was on 25 total ballots, while Parasite was on 32, IE: just shy of a third of all ballots. That was the difference.

That last fact is particularly wild: the film on the second-most ballots was Whiplash (26). A six-ballot gap is pretty huge. In the Comedies list, for example, the top two films were within one ballot of each other.

It has happened before, though: both Foreign Language and the 2000s saw a similar six-ballot gap.
To add to that, the point gaps between the Top 5 were the biggest gaps in the whole countdown, with the one between #1 and #2 being the biggest at 85.

Also, appropriately, Parasite had one of the Top 5 highest Tomatometer scores (99%) of the countdown and one of the Top 5 highest IMDb scores (8.5) of the countdown.



My list, with a note that First Reformed would likely have been on here had I watched it in time:

1. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) (#2)
2. Phantom Thread (2017) (#15)
3. Moana (2016)
My favorite animated film of the decade, and possibly my all-time favorite? The moment when Moana walks through the parted seas to Te Kā/Te Fiti gets me every time.

4. Raw (2016)
One of the best final shots in memory.

5. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) (#25)
6. Mandy (2018)
7. Margin Call (2011)
Best film on the financial meltdown of 2007-08.

8. The Babadook (2014)
9. Meek's Cutoff (2010)
Slow-moving (anti-)Western rewards patience.

10. The Act of Killing (2012) (#47)
11. Leave No Trace (2018)
What can we do with, and for, the people our world has broken?

12. A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Moody vampire Western.

13. Colossal (2016)
Strange and entertaining film about abusive relationships.

14. Shirkers (2018)
Maybe the most film-loving film on my list.

15. Song of the Sea (2014)
Second of the Irish-folklore trilogy, this is possibly my favorite (but they're all good).

16. It Follows (2015) (#93)
17. Parasite (2019) (#1)
18. Apollo 11 (2019)
I'm a sucker for moon-related docs. We went to the moon! The freakin' moon! That's incredible!

19. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) (#26)
20. 56 Up (2012)
No one should have their entire lives scrutinized the way these people have. Then again, social media has opened up all of our lives in ways this series could not have imagined at the start.

21. Before Midnight (2013)
This is the least of the Before trilogy, but only because the first two are so good.

22. Frank (2014)
Strange film about a very strange guy.

23. The Death of Stalin (2017)
We've talked a lot about the death of comedy lately; this was the best pure comedy of the decade for me.

24. Robot & Frank (2012)
I like films about people named Frank, apparently.

25. Anton Chekhov's The Duel (2010)





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Congrats to SpelingError for running such a fun countdown!
Here's my ballot. I bolded the ones that didn't make it.

1. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
2. Moonlight (2016)
3. What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
4. Whiplash (2014)
5. Anomalisa (2015)
6. The Lobster (2015)
7. Hugo (2011)
8. The Lighthouse (2019)
9. The Raid (2011)
10. The Irishman (2019)
11. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
12. Sicario (2015)
13. Snowpiercer (2013)
14. Mandy (2018)
15. Cold War (2018)
16. Good Time (2017)
17. The Florida Project (2017)
18. Uncut Gems (2019)
19. Gravity (2013)
20. Boy (2010)
21. Manchester by the Sea (2016)
22. The Red Turtle (2016)
23. Her (2013)
24. The Ghost Writer (2010)
25. Foxcatcher (2014)



Bolded made it.

1. The Act of Killing (2012)
2. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
3. The Master (2012)
4. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)

5. The Look of Silence (2014)
6. The Lighthouse (2019)
7. Under the Skin (2014)
8. The Witch (2015)
9. Burning (2018)
10. World of Tomorrow (2015)

11. Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
12. Sorry to Bother You (2018)
13. The Death of Stalin (2017)
14. Anomalisa (2015)
15. Inherent Vice (2014)
16. Columbus (2017)
17. Annihilation (2018)
18. The Lobster (2015)
19. Phoenix (2014)
20. It Follows (2015)
21. Meek's Cutoff (2010)
22. Greenberg (2010)
23. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
24. Raw (2016)
25. The Florida Project (2017)



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I am so relieved Mad Max: Fury Road is not number 1.

Look, on a technical level the movie is extremely wellmade. The cinematography and overall look of the movie is gorgeous. It deserves all the praise it can get in this regard. And at first you are drawn into the story with an infectiously mad energy that promises a long exciting ride to come.

Even Max himself is incredibly boring, and a huge waste of Tom Hardy as an actor. He's relegated to pretty much nothing but a series of grunts, and whenever he speaks he doesn't have much of significance to say anyway. It's like they sucked all the depth and nuance they possibly could out of the character, which became even more noticeable for me years later when I got around to watching the first movie with Mel Gibson.
And even the action scenes as pretty as they are, get repetitive and tiresome after a while.
This is pretty much how I felt, with an emphasis on the bolded, which is why it is tied for my 3rd-favorite Mad Max film and, honestly, is probably just 4th.
I didn't mind at all that they transitioned from Max to Furiosa as the protagonist because Theron was great as always and given something to do. But Max was just dull. If that's all he was gonna say or do, why even get Hardy to play him, almost any competent actor would have done.
And I agree, the action became pretty repetitive. And even though I did enjoy the film, I was kinda ready for it to end.



I usually average two a day with an approximate new watch/rewatch ratio of 2:1. Perhaps it's just a matter of you not seeing as many 2010s films specifically.
Wow, two a day that's a lot. I average one a day or approximately 325 a year. I don't log my movie watches but I do know I've seen at least 414 films from the 2010s, I posted them here Not many of them made the countdown which is fine by me, I watch what I like and I guess it's not the most popular films.



I haven't posted about the films that made the Countdown in awhile because I didn't really have much to say about Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, Whiplash, or the Grand Budapest Hotel. I haven't seen La La Land or The Social Network.

I've seen both of today's films though, and one of them was on my list. I had Parasite at #2, but I'm not going to talk about that either. Those of us who have it on our ballets already know why it's great, and since it scored the top spot on the Countdown, those who haven't seen it at least know that it's a well-liked film.

So instead, I'm going to briefly touch on the films I voted for that didn't make the cut. I'll start with the two I already mentioned in the thread, then toss the rest below my ballot.


22. Shin Godzilla (2016)
The real monster in this film isn't the doofy looking Godzilla - it's bureaucracy and red tape. The horror comes from realizing how useless the worlds' governments would actually be in the face of this kind of threat. It's a fun flick, and an equally great satire.


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11. Barbara (2012)
If you've seen Phoenix (by the same director, and starring the same actress), you have a pretty good idea what to expect here. Barbara is definitely a slower, more straight forward film, but it has an oppressive atmosphere and eerie silence that I quite enjoy. It does a fantastic job capturing the distrust prevalent in East Germany at the time.

Seen: 68/100

My List: 14
01. Dredd (2012) - #42
02. Parasite (2019) - #1
03. The Raid (2011) - #100
04. John Wick (2014) - #48
05. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - #39
06. The Hunt (2012) - #57
07. Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - #8
08. Predestination (2014) - DNP #110
09. Edge of Tomorrow (2014) - #68
10. The Raid 2 (2014) - #75
11. Barbara (2012) - DNP #493
12. Thor Ragnarok (2017) - DNP #139
13. I, Daniel Blake (2016) - DNP #121
14. The Martian (2015) - #82
15. Hereditary (2018) - #96
16. Get Out (2017) - #19
17. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) - DNP #606
18. What We Do in the Shadows (2014) - #56
20. Cabin in the Woods (2011) - #88
21. One Cut of the Dead (2017) - DNP #132
22. Shin Godzilla (2016) - DNP #280
23. Upgrade (2018) - DNP #484
24. Annihilation (2018) - DNP #160

25. Mandy (2018) - DNP #112


12. Thor Ragnarok (2017)
There is exactly one properly good Thor film, and this is it. Hate on the MCU all you guys want - I'll even join in, but I stand behind my love of Ragnarok. It's colourful, it's fun, and who doesn't like Jeff Goldblum?


17. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
Did I forget I voted for this until now? Yes. Do I regret it? Maybe. Do I still love that action scene with Colin Firth at the end of the film anyway? Hell yes.


21. One Cut of the Dead (2017)
This remains one of the favourite film "twists" of all time. It's a great, strangely heartwarming comedy that shows a lot of love for what it takes to create a film. If you haven't seen it, go in as blindly as you can.


23. Upgrade (2018)
I'm always on board with sci-fi films that don't take themselves too seriously. This was originally going to be my one-pointer, but I rewatched it after being disappointed in Mandy and had a great time. I bumped it up a little higher on my list, but knew it never had a chance to make the Countdown.


24. Annihilation (2018)
I also made time to rewatch this before submitting my list, since I had a sort of mixed opinion about it when I saw it in theatres. I'm still a little on the fence, but I really enjoy the premise, and some of those visuals were still hauntingly beautiful.

Thanks SpelingError, Yoda, and anyone else who helped out behind the scenes of this Countdown. It's been a blast.



Still going through other people's lists but for now here is my full list here using Yoda's nifty tool. One side note: I somehow forgot to include The Big Short, which could have, maybe should have, made my list.

Harry Lime's Ballot



  1. Good Time (2017)
  2. Parasite (2019)
  3. The Act of Killing (2012)
  4. Holy Motors (2012)
  5. O.J.: Made in America (2016)
  6. Shoplifters (2018)
  7. Carol (2015)
  8. Under the Skin (2014)
  9. Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
  10. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
  11. The Master (2012)
  12. Joker (2019)
  13. The Tree of Life (2011)
  14. The Turin Horse (2011)
  15. HyperNormalisation (2016)
  16. The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
  17. Birdman (2014)
  18. What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
  19. It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
  20. Melancholia (2011)
  21. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
  22. Moonlight (2016)
  23. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
  24. The Death of Stalin (2017)
  25. Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
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