What are the best films from the first half of the decade?

No, I thought the second Hobbit movie was cheezy and awful. Haven't seen the third Hobbit movie or The Raid 2 yet.


I'm really behind on watching 2014 movies, and I'm usually catching up on the previous year's films through March. I still haven't seen things like Interstellar, Birdman, Nightcrawler, or Gone Girl either.

Check out Raid 2 for sure. Just as crazy as the first, but with a much different story.

The Grand Budapest Hotel and Interstellar

01. Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie Part III: Rebellion (2013) dir. Akiyuki Shinbo - 10/10
02. Her (2013) dir. Spike Jonze - 9/10
03. Spring Breakers (2012) dir. Harmony Korine - 9/10
04. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010) dir. Tatsuya Ishihara & Yasuhiro Takemoto (9/10)
05. Himizu (2011) dir. Sion Sono (9/10)
06. Moonrise Kingdom (2012) dir. Wes Anderson (8/10)
07. Rubber (2010) dir. Quentin Dupieux (8/10)
08. Moebius (2013) dir. Ki-duk Kim (8/10)
09. Goodbye to Language 3D (2014) dir. Jean-Luc Godard (8/10)
10. Wrong (2012) dir. Quentin Dupieux (8/10)

Just saw Whiplash a few days ago; I'd probably put that one pretty high on my list.

Force Majeure
Leviathan
The Great Beauty
Blue Ruin
Blackfish
Nostalgia for the Light
Stranger by the Lake
Beasts of the Southern Wild
Inshallah Kashmir
Samsara

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I guess at this point I'd rank 'em something like...

1. The Artist
2. Birdman
3. Her
4. The Tree of Life
5. The Social Network
6. Silver Linings Playbook
7. Incendies
8. The Grand Budapest Hotel
9. American Hustle
10. Take Shelter
11. Nightcrawler
12. Gravity
13. Even the Rain
14. The Wolf of Wall Street
15. Moonrise Kingdom
16. Django Unchained
17. Whiplash
18. True Grit
19. Calvary
20. The Act of Killing




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I'll give you five.

Mysteries of Lisbon, Birdman, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The World's End, Calvary.

There are many to be. But the really special ones:

1. The Artist. Simply Amazing. And from the last true good year for the Oscars. Most of them after this have been sub par!
2. The King's Speech.
2. Jagten.
3. Gravity
4. Tangerines.
5. Toy Story 3.

There are others... but these spring to mind first.

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The Artist is a definite favorite of mine as well.

I thought that 2012 was a mixed bag for the Oscars (I loved Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and Silver Linings Playbook) and 2013 was a generally poor year for movies on the whole (and the best of them were definitely not Academy friendly). I am a big fan of 2014, however.

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Here are my 5 favs


1. Silver Linings Playbook (2012) - Jennifer Lawrence......that is all


2. Nightcrawler (2014) - One of the greatest character transformations I've ever seen


3. Birdman (2014) - This is now my Favorite Keaton movie


4. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) - As a film Desolation was my favorite but the first one gave me so many LOTR feeeelz. Also must say Martin Freeman is the perfect Young Bilbo Baggins. (Big fan of his Watson on Sherlock as well)


5. The Way Way Back (2013) - Awesome film, being a huge Sam Rockwell fan he was hilarious in this movie

(although if Jurassic World is really good this list may change)

Honorable Mentions: Predestination, Django Unchained, Maniac, Prometheus, Star Trek: Into the Darkness, Kick Ass, Super 8, The Cabin in the Woods, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

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Silver Lining Playbook... ah might go in to the films you hate, but everyone else loves thread for me. Meaningless drivel. There was nothing special in that movie that you wont see in any another romcom.

Lincoln.. almost slept in the middle. Zero Dark Thirty was good.

This year, I was excited, but as i run through the movies, i am slowly getting disheartened. Other than the two "British" films, i really cant call anything super awesome!

The foreign language section this is year is good though!

1- Whiplash (By far)
2- The Raid 2
3- Sinister
4- The Conjuring
5- Drive

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that is true.....besides of course every other romcom doesn't have Jennifer Lawrence soooooo

What's so special about her?? Looks good, average actress. Today its her... tomorrow its someone else! So its a revolving door!

Oh... i see... JLaw Fan!

With no order to speak of, here are some of my favorites:

A Useful Life
Essential Killing
Confessions
The Garden of Words
Alyce Kills
Juan of the Dead
4:44 Last Day on Earth
The Illusionist
Berberian Sound Studio
Maniac
The Grandmaster
The Secret World of Arrietty
Bullhead
Holy Motors
Hard to Be a God
MacGruber
Escape From Tomorrow
It's Such a Beautiful Day
The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears
Tyrannosaur
Nightcrawler
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Wolf of Wall Street
Her
The Lego Movie
The Dark Knight Rises
Django Unchained
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Neighbors
Under the Skin
Bridesmaids
Black Swan
Zero Dark Thirty
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Moonrise Kingdom
Drive
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
How to Train Your Dragon (Is there a porno called How to Drain Your Dragon yet?)
Dredd
The Master
Hugo
Inside Llewyn Davis
Source Code
The Descendants
Killing Them Softly
The Tree of Life
Blue Jasmine
Blue Valentine
Seven Psychopaths
You're Next
Safety Not Guaranteed
The Inbetweeners Movie
Incendies
The Skin I Live In
Goon
Killer Joe
Super
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
I Saw the Devil
Excision
Four Lions

and of course, the best short:

The Terrys

what gave it away? lol

She is the reason i like the film so much, her performance alone. De Niro and Tucker were good and Cooper was alright but i mainly like the film because of her. If she wasn't in it being awesome i agree it probably would of been a typical romcom to me

it is the only romcom I like as well lol

From the small text below the image. Hardly recognize her from that yawning photo!

Seven Psychopaths was very good, If it wasn't for The Way Way Back that might have been my favorite Sam Rockwell performance