The MoFo Top 100 of the 2010s Countdown

At least it wasn't The Dark World.

A mixed bag - one film I know nothing about, and finally one I voted for.

26. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - I don't really know all that much about Spider-Man's voyage into multi-universes, alternate realities, quantum dimensional time warps and worm-hole expanding physical nano-realms. At number 26, this one must have done something awfully right though.

25. Portrait of a Lady on Fire - I had only just given up on this appearing. Portrait of a Lady on Fire was an unforgettable first-time watch, and left it's indelible mark on me despite me only having seen it once. I'm going to get it on Criterion of course, so I can once again bathe in the visual brilliance of it, with Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel simmering as two women falling in love in a film all about looking, and seeing. I figure my taste in film has changed by light years when I consider how I would have looked at this film as a teenager, in need of explosive action. Now a slow burn period piece has me entranced - but I also have to consider that not all films like Portrait of a Lady on Fire are as well filmed, or as hypnotic. It's fitting that it is like it is, considering the film's theme, and that's a kind of final stamp of brilliance on this French masterpiece. I never thought it would climb as high as 25, but I'm very pleased that it has. It was my #20

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Seen 68/76

Films on my radar : 3
Films I've never even heard about : 5

Films from my list : 8

#25 - My #20 - Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
#41 - My #16 - Melancholia (2011)
#54 - My #11 - Under the Skin (2013)
#60 - My #4 - Joker (2019)
#64 - My #8 - Manchester by the Sea (2016)
#71 - My #12 - Ida (2013)
#93 - My #15 - It Follows (2014)
#96 - My #1 - Hereditary (2018)

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24. The Lobster
23. Annihilation

Yeah, I got stronger Annihilation vibes from the second one.

With you all the way.
I wonder what was the youngest age at which I could have sat all the way through this film. I'm thinking maybe 30 (though I did love Dangerous Liaisons as a teenager).
And now I felt as riveted and engaged as if my television were actually bursting into flames. With no music (only the three diegetic pieces) to build tension or give emotional cues this movie still bristled. While the action films of these past few years seem mind-numbingly dull by comparison. Oh, something blew up - again? Whoopdeedoo. Have you seen this scene of women singing around a fire?

Wait, did Error just get banned or something?

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a lot of fun, and I love the way they integrated a comic book feel into the movie with the comic pages. The movie was almost like an animated version of Spider-Man: No Way Home with a bunch of different versions of Spider-Man from different universes coming together. The only downside for me in this movie was that they showed too many spiders. One origin story would have been more than enough for me. (I know they're animated, but they still kick in my phobia of spiders. ) However I still considered it for my list, but it didn't make the final cuts.


I've never heard of Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

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OPEN FLOOR.

The only thing I could find that Mark wrote about Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was when he listed as one of his "favorite movies from 2018".

I only have one more superhero movie on my list, and it's not likely to make the countdown. However, I do have several rom-coms, but those won't make the countdown either.

Nah, I put that there myself. I'm seeing how many people I can trick into believing I was banned.

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Have seen neither of the latest films on the countdown, therefore no votes.

My guess for the hint for #23 would be if I was with a group of people trying to get off an upside down ship and suddenly the urge to go really hit me hard, and I'd be looking for...

23. A Quiet Place


My List so far:
#2. Moonrise Kingdom #37
#5. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri #44
#6. True Grit #40
#10. Hell or High Water #73
#11. Zero Dark Thirty #58
#15. Edge of Tomorrow #68
#24. Gone Girl #65

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"Miss Jean Louise, Mr. Arthur Radley."

24. The Last Jedi
23. La La Land

"A sex scene so graphic you'll think 'Oh right, a man directed this'"

That joke doesn't even make sense considering Portrait Of A Lady On Fire was directed by a woman.
As with a lot of modern SNL sketches there are a few amusing parts, but as a whole it never fully comes together.

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24. The Master
23. Wolf of Wall Street

I'm not familiar with Ammonite, the other name-checked movie. Looking at the IMDb synopsis and director, it makes me think that maybe that was the real inspiration for the skit, and Portrait got lumped in there due to pastiche and release timing reasons.

Though, my assumption was this was leftover criticism of Blue is the Warmest Color, which isn't a period drama.

The Duke of Burgundy did not make my ballot.