
PopGap #01 Recap: Movies of the 2010s
Written by dorrk | 30 January 2015 |
Movies of the 2010s: Completed
The first PopGap has been completed. During January I watched the Top 20 Movies of the 2010s (so far) which I hadn't already seen (sort of), as rated by the users of Flickchart. I've now seen all but 4 of Flickchart's Top 100 from the first half of this decade, and that includes 2 movies from 2014 not yet on video.
This was harder to accomplish than I had expected, having watched 48 horror movies last October. Mostly this was because a majority of the movies on this month's to-do list were over 2 hours long, and I was generally restricted to viewing them sometime after 11 p.m. This made me tired.
Quality-wise, the movies were a mixed bag. I discovered just a couple of new favorites, a few movies that I appreciated highly, some mediocrity, and a handful that lived down to my low expectations and validated my reasons for resisting them in the first place.
Here's how I rank the 20 movies I watched for PopGap this month:
- Boyhood (2014)
- A Separation (2011)
- Nightcrawler (2014)
- Take Shelter (2011)
- I Saw the Devil (2010)
- Before Midnight (2013)
- Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
- Interstellar (2014)
- Argo (2012)
- Gone Girl (2014)
- Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
- The Intouchables (2011)
- Snowpiercer (2013)
- Shutter Island (2010)
- Lincoln (2012)
- Warrior (2011)
- Blue Valentine (2010)
- The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
- Shame (2011)
- Cloud Atlas (2012)
The top half of that list I would highly recommend, and the bottom 5 I'd prefer never to watch again. Only two movies from this month made it onto my overall Top 20 of the decade to-date:
- American Hustle (2013)
- The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
- Life Itself (2014)
- The Descendants (2011)
- Django Unchained (2012)
- Boyhood (2014)
- Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
- True Grit (2010)
- Winter's Bone (2010)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
- A Separation (2011)
- 13 Assassins (2010)
- The Avengers (2012)
- 50/50 (2011)
- Kick-Ass (2010)
- Nebraska (2013)
- A Hijacking (2012)
- Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)
- Goon (2011)
Nightcrawler just missed out, but I have a feeling that's a movie that will climb the list as I let it sink in.
What did I learn?
Was I supposed to learn something? I learned that Jessica Chastain is everywhere. I learned that movies about tough guys can easily fake their way onto "Top" lists. I learned that my instincts for avoiding movies are pretty good. I learned to watch more Iranian movies. I learned that the French can make lightweight feel-good pap. I learned to aim for 15 movies next month, not 20.
In the next day or two I'll announce the watchlist for February's PopGap theme: the Top Academy Award Nominated Movies I've Missed, using Flickchart once again. Details coming soon...

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