Top 10 Films of the 2010s Review

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200th episode is Comet Concierge Dan. Hello.

Hey, how's it going? Yeah, I changed my name

for 200. I wanted to throw people off. So today

we're gonna break away from our turtles talk

for a minute We've been covering all of the Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtles movies whether it be live

-action or animated as we've been Going through

that we have one left plus the new release this

year of the turtles to still cover So we'll come

back and cover those in our next two episodes

but today since it's episode 200 we thought we

should do something special and way back when

and 2019 slash 2020 we were covering a whole

bunch of lists about the best of the previous

decade that would be the 2010 to 2019 decade

and we did things like the top 10 action films

and the top 10 superhero films and all kinds

of different genres but we never got to our actual

just overall film list so this is a good opportunity

for us to cover that so Dan we're gonna be covering

our top 10 films The past decade and you have

any opening thoughts or kind of things that you

were thinking about as you made your list was

it easy was a hard. Oh it was really hard I think

because you're talking about you know hundreds

of movies a year to 10 films is really difficult

like I definitely felt like I knew what my top

five was actually made this list years ago when

I first started doing it and I'm like I'm gonna

go and blind and see how familiar like how similar

they are they are you know compared to what I

did like two years ago and The movies I thought

would say the same and say the same but their

word changes so it isn't ever changing less but

yet is it is challenging to narrow it down because

you're like, okay, well There's this has to be

my top tennis has to be there and then you're

like, okay That's 20 films and now numbers work.

So we got to figure out something Yeah, I had

like some that were for sure. No doubters like

I knew in my mind. There's no chance They're

not gonna be on the list And that covered probably

at least a good half of it. And then I had another

half that came fairly easy. And then I had like

number 10 and I was like, how do I fit 10 films

into this tense spot? So I yeah, there was a

lot of things that I wanted to make it. And I'm

like, oh, I only have one spot left and that's

a problem. So I waffled back and forth on the

top 10. I also had done this originally way back

when we did it a few years back. When we were

starting this whole project of all the different

genre films and i also went back and looked at

it and i changed one. As far as like one specifically

i some stuff moved up and down but like i changed

one that was on the list that's not on anymore

and i inserted something else on it so i'm so

minor changes but i think it'll be interesting

to go and i'm kind of excited to hear some of

your pics i know. You know just doing all the

podcasts together that we've done over the years

and you know There was a certain time during

that 10 year section where you and I especially

were covering a lot of films together So I do

have a feeling that I'll have some predictions

for what you have on your list that I might have

as well But it'll be interesting to see all the

other ones as well. So why don't you kick us

off and give us your number ten? so number ten,

of course, I think is always the hardest because

it's like, you know the last ones like trying

to determine what should go here, and I had like

four different responses. I went with a few things,

but I ultimately went with Blue Ruin, and large

part because it was one of the best blind watches

I ever had in that past decade. I ended up watching

it with not knowing much about it. It was like,

it just appeared on demand one day, poster looked

interesting, concept seemed interesting, and

watched it and I was like, wow, this is really

quite good. And I think it's actually really

beneficial to watch that movie knowing nothing

about it because it opens up like a very different

movie than it ends up being. It opens up with

this spirited homeless guy who's kind of like

traversing the world. I'm like, okay, I'm settling

in for like this picture about an individual

just like coming to charge with who he is, a

person or something like that, something more

introspective. And then it ends up actually being

kind of a deconstruction of the revenge genre

in a rather effective manner. And, you know,

obviously directed by Damali Signe, Malcolm Blair's

in this and this. They've done a lot of great

stuff in the past decade. And I just love so

much about it, like how it kind of took a lot

of those tropes we often see and just tweaked

them a bit and made them, I don't say like too

realistic, but at least kind of turn them on

their head, like even smaller things like the

difficulty of cutting open a tire and how that's

so much harder than it seems. And to, you know,

someone trying to do self surgery that we always

see in those movies and always go swimmingly

and not go there. So plus it had, you know, the

big brother from Home Alone, you know, the Home

Alone movies as well. You know, he showed up

for a bit. He was great. So there's a lot about

this movie I really loved. I actually did an

article. Last year, two years ago, comparing

this to another comic called Kill to Be Killed,

because both of them look at individuals that

are taking on vengeance in their own hands that

are way over their head. And there's a lot of

similarities between both of them, but they go

about it different ways. There's also an underlyingness

regarding the aspect of gun control and what

that means, because that's a big part of this,

as well, is trying to find a gun to actually

you know murder the people that hurt his parents

or you know what have you them going back in

news but you know it's a great film like i said

a big part because i went in with so zero expectations

it made me fans of pretty much everyone in that

movie for life and anything they do i've been

able to enjoy you know green room as a movie

i also thought about but i went with the run

mostly because like you know it's Is that surprise?

It's really hard to man happen and when it does

it's it's hard to forget. So it was my number

10 Yeah, I like that one quite a bit too. I've

only seen it once but I do remember Enjoying

it and I enjoyed also the fact that it just has

like this unique feel to it. It's not this like

Polish studio like genre film or anything like

that. It's like this like quirky, you know take

on this and it's so Like you said, you mentioned

a bunch of the things but it peels the curtain

back on things that we just Some of us probably

assume like those are how things happen in real

life Just because we've seen it in movies like

a thousand times like you talked about with the

tire, etc And and there's just all these other

things that it's like, oh this movie's so real

like I can relate to this because it's not You

know, they're not all superheroes in this movie

They're not all doing these things that human

beings can't do or you're a different stuff like

that So there's just a realness to this film

that I really appreciate it Yeah, there's a lot

of violence too. There's a lot of scenes with

no dialogue whatsoever, like setting up with

the climax. You see him just going through, like

he's trying to hunt down his family. And you

just kind of see him going through and determining,

like, what is he supposed to do? You see him

questioning himself. Yeah, it definitely is a

movie that I think was definitely done on a smaller

budget, but considering its confines, really

overachieved. Yeah. I'm going to go from that

movie that enjoys quiet times and realism to

about the most polar opposite that we can possibly

go to with my number 10. I'm going to go with

what was also considered probably the best action

film of the decade by many people. It was not

on my top 10 original list, but I made it in

here when we were when I was fine tuning in here.

So I'm going to go with Mad Max Fury Road here

from George Miller from 2015. I know a lot of

people could make a case for John Wick, but I

think Mad Max Fury Road is just better in multiple

different levels across the board, but it's definitely

bombastic. It's definitely Like crazy unreal

as far as some of the stuff that's happening

But it's just stuff that it's just fun to see

on the big screen It all works together and it

was something that like I had no idea what to

expect going into this after The all the other

Mad Max's that had come out, you know in there

in the 80s and things like that. They were super

cheesy like We got, you know, Tina Turner singing

songs for us and the Thunderdome and all this

kind of craziness. And it's like, how is this

going to translate? You know, that fit in the

80s. But how is this going to translate to 2015

when Mad Max Fury Road came on? And it was just

amazing. Like it's just a visual spectacle and

experience that defines what you want when you

go to see a blockbuster. And I think it also

did something to I kind of try to make some notes

on some of these films that made my top 10. As

far as some of the bigger messages are bigger

impacts influences like what the decade stood

for in film in my opinion i guess and for this

one i think there was really a movement to give

us more. Strong females in in film not just action

films but just more strong female roles and obviously

there's there's still a long way to go in the

male female balance etc as far as that goes but

i think. Obviously furiosa was a major statement

there in 2015 we've seen a lot since then where

more females have gotten those major roles and

especially in action films but across the board

so i just think max max period is. There's not

much bad to say about it, so I couldn't figure

out a reason why I would keep it out of my top

10, so I'm going to put it in my 10 spot. Yeah,

I mean, it's hard to add more to that. Mad Max

is a great movie. It's not my top 10, not because

it's not a good movie, but it's definitely impressive

just what George Miller is able to do with that.

Like you talk about practical effects and it

certainly kind of showed just the limits of what

can happen when you have no limits, which you

do wonder sometimes. There had to be zero safety

regulations sometimes with some of those things

that they were doing. But yeah, it was the definition

of a throw -out. I was really hoping when it

came out that year that it was going to sneak

in and maybe get a bad picture nomination, because

that would have been amazing. I know it had no

shot, but it did get a few Oscars, including

Best Editing and stuff like that. But yeah, hard

to argue. It just stopped working that incredible.

But you mentioned how you're looking for things

that define the decade. And when it comes to

defining the decade, superhero films certainly

did it within the box office. Easily the decade

of the superheroes, even though we had them beforehand,

hit a new threshold, I think, in that decade,

especially with the MCU expanding and getting

all the Infinity War Avengers movies. And I do

have a Marvel movie on my list, although it's

not an MCU film. It is an animated film. And

I think it's in the argument of one of the greatest

superhero films of all time, and that is Spider

-Man Into the Spider -Verse. I did want to include,

I didn't feel like it would be wrong to not include

any superhero films considering how much they

did define the decade. And there's a lot that

I enjoy, Logan, Civil War, I think all those,

you know, even if they are popcorn entertainment,

when it looks at overall quality with the genre,

they're there. But Into the Spider -Verse does

so much. I've watched this movie many times because

my kids enjoy it. So I've seen it, probably the

most of any movie on this list. And it still

holds up every time. We obviously got the sequel

this year. I can't say which one's better because

I've only saw that movie once compared to this.

Also great soundtrack. And I think what it did

was just not only for superhero genre, but the

animated genre, because I think with animation,

we've had a lot of great animated films, but

when it comes to popular animation, there is

a sustain -ness to design. Like everything kind

of looked like Pixar for a while. And then here

comes into the Spider -Verse and completely changes

that. It looks completely different. It does

some interesting things within like how it handles

Miles Morales and like frame rate, how it just

looks and incorporates so much of the language

of comics into the actual movie itself and of

course has all the craziness including a talking

pig and whatnot and Nick Cage but that stuff

to me is just extra but what it really got right

was Miles Morales, his story, his family's story,

his struggles and you know there's something

universal about that and I think mostly because

of the authenticity it added I think even better

compared to a lot of the comics so it you know

it kind of honestly came out of nowhere but I

think it was this small animated film that you

know people had interest in but I think it blew

everyone away and how now it's become this franchise

and you know definitely an argument of one of

the greatest animated films of the decade and

I think now I think it defined what superhero

films could be as well so that's why it's my

number nine Yeah, I've only seen this one one

time So I definitely need to revisit it because

I just haven't seen it enough to like form great

opinions on it either way I mean, I know it's

universally loved and and I haven't heard hardly

any bad things about it I think what's interesting

you bring up a point as far as the animation

style and difference that you know kind of gave

us a new look and something different it wasn't

like the classic Disney animation look it wasn't

like the Pixar animation look that we It's interesting

to me That animation when it comes to movies

and animation when it comes to cartoons or animated

series that are on TV or streaming etc How different

it is because in animated films we get the same

type of animation over and over and over again

It seems like mainly because they're coming from

the same studios But then everybody else kind

of just jumps on board with that I guess as well

But then when you go to like animated cartoons

or things that are on TV, there is so many different

styles out there there's stoning and so many

different looks and different Differences in

the way they're animating that it's weird that

more hasn't translated to the big screen like

we saw with into the spider verse So I don't

know if that's just something that they're just

afraid to do when it comes to actual feature

-length films or what and they they're just more

adventurous when it comes to cartoons I guess

but into the spider verse I think what you said

a lot of people hold that as one of the best

Superhero films of the decade one of the best

animated films of the decades so it makes total

sense I can understand why it's here so For my

number nine there's gonna be one thing that probably

comes up a little a couple times on my list a

little bit heavier topic maybe but the movie

that i'm gonna be talking about a nine does it

in a way that it doesn't seem as heavy but i

think the last decade and even on into this current

decade you know we've seen a whole lot of issues

revolving around race racial race relations and

things of that nature You know, it's not something

that we've solved like a lot of people throughout

the 90s seemed like they thought we had. I don't

know why, but it's something that just definitely

came to the forefront, I think, in that decade.

And so I'm going to have a couple of films on

my list that deal with that. But the first one

here and put in a number nine is from Spike Lee

and that's Black Klansman from 2018. I don't

know if it's just my love for. The washington

family like i as far as seeing them act on stage

with john david washington and this was just

like a revelation to me and the way that he.

Exudes his father's acting style and cadence

and things like that speak like speaking cadence

and stuff like that from Denzel is just incredible

Adam drivers in this a couple other people obviously

have no but I think what this one does interesting

interestingly is that it does this you know heavy

topic like race relations and the Ku Klux Klan

etc. And then it adds like this completely almost

ridiculous comedic like. Element to it. So it

doesn't feel heavy, but it still is Eye -opening

it's still like something that is important like

that can I Know like wake people up. Maybe I'm

not gonna say most of our country can't be woken

up it seems like but But it's like it does it

in a way that it's not just like bashing you

over the head to me It's like this most preposterous

thing where this But you know, African -American

person is in the KKK, et cetera. And so it leads

to all these like somewhat on -service comedic

things, but it's like also under this huge undertone

of like a super important thing that we're needing

to still deal with. So I just thought Spike Lee

did a great job with this. I thought John David

Washington acted perfect in this and this was

one of my favorite films of 2018 and it just

kind of stuck with me. I haven't literally rewatched

it a bunch of times or anything like that but

it just has been something that's stuck with

me as far as things that I think about and stay

in power as far as that goes. Another great decade

two for M Driver and obviously he's in this as

well so one of one of his many films that you

could highlight on a list like this so Black

Clansman is my number nine. Yeah, again not on

my list, but definitely loved that movie. It's

really it Seemed like it was you know Spike Lee

he was making some good movies But occasionally

he'll come out with a great one and that was

certainly I think black lands man I think it

helps when he had a had has a subject matter

for it and he you know Well, Spike Lee is like

he does not hold back when it comes to know what

he's trying to say He salty is not you know his

forte, which I don't think it's necessarily a

bad thing but as you mentioned and driver being

and Your pick out of drivers also and my next

pick although not a huge part only in one scene

But it's one of the best scenes of the movie

eight. I have inside luan davis from the cohen

brothers Which I always see like Generally, it

seems like people often are down on this when

it for some people are for the overall cohen

brothers Philography, but I really enjoy this

movie a great deal Although I know enjoy is the

right word because it is it's kind of a downer

And I think in the forefront of that is Oscar

Isaac. I saw him in a few other things, but this

is where I became a huge fan of him. His performance

in this from the opening scene, talking about

soundtracks. I've listened to soundtracks so

much. And I'm not a huge folk singer person,

but this made me into one. But just the emotion

that he has throughout this entire movie. He

plays a really intriguing character who's not

very likable. And he's super talented, but just

can't catch a break. And I think with a lot of

times with Cone Brother movies, you don't necessarily

always appreciate them until you've watched them

a few times. This one I loved the first time,

but I've enjoyed it more. We watch this as well.

And just the story it's telling and just packed

with great performances. Some humorous moments

as well, mentioning Adam Driver, that scene with

him and Justin Timberlake kind of doing the outer

space one. Hilarious and like it it's a scene

that necessarily like doesn't really forward

the plot all that much It's not necessarily movie

about plot. It's you know, it's very much a character

piece which isn't always What the cologne brothers

do you think something about fargo? Which is

pretty intricate when it's what when it comes

to its storytelling with this it doesn't really

know It's not in a hurry really to go anywhere.

It's taking its time. It's kind of just finding

itself along the way which is I think fitting

for a song about a folk singer, so I just I those

movie and i i don't know if you look at prestige

it maybe deserves the top 10 but for me it was

just going based upon how i feel and movies that

have impacted me and and because this is one

that only impacted me with watching the film

but listening to the soundtrack and it just wanted

it's the one i think about a lot so i have that

number eight Think this is definitely worthy

of being in this discussion for sure and the

talk about another actor that had a decade for

themselves Oscar Isaac was definitely a good

decade for him when this came out and I haven't

I haven't revisited inside Leland Davis This

could be a broken record because I actually like

looked at my top ten I don't know if I've revisited

any of my top ten either like I just It's hard

for me to rewatch films because I to me I have

to justify the fact that I'm not gonna watch

something I haven't seen before so it's just

like a Hard thing for me personally to do. Yeah

So I could say that to almost all of my films

So most of this is just on that initial impact

or you know that initial watch or just how much

it stayed with me after the fact But I did enjoy

inside the one Davis. I think it's a great Cohen

Brothers film and I don't Don't see I maybe you

have heard more people that ranked, you know

filmography is and things like that But I haven't

heard anybody say anything bad about inside doing

Davis, but I don't I guess I don't listen to

as many People that are just like breaking down

the whole fromography. I just want to remember

at the time there was there's a lot of people

loved it, but there was some people that were

Tractors of it. I think we large for it because

it's not a very flashy movie It's not it's it's

in a fact like it's called palette. It's pretty

dull and they purposely so I know it's it takes

place in 1961, but you really can't tell because

it doesn't really wear its decade on a sleeve,

which I think I prefer because it gives it more

of a timeless quality. But yeah, I mean, there's

a lot of people who love it, but I know there's

with Cone Brothers. It wasn't as hated as like

Hail Caesar, which I is another Cone Brothers

movie I really enjoyed. So maybe I'm just a sucker

for what they do. There are movies I've done

I don't like, but yeah. What's your number eight?

My number eight, I'm gonna go to a film that

I was not expecting to like as much as I did.

This one's from 2014. That's from Damien Chazelle,

and this is Whiplash. It was my number one film

of the year, the year that it came out, and it

has pretty much stayed that way. I don't have

any other films from 2014 on my list at all.

And I think this one, number one is just a, seems

like it's brilliantly constructed, like it's...

Brilliantly acted directed written etc. So like

it seems like it has all of the fundamentals

It has all the structure pieces, you know has

all of the what a movie needs to be good type

stuff, but then I don't know it just it has this

undertone of like this quest for success that

or not necessarily quest for fame but quest for

success like just how Much we can become obsessed

with with certain things what we're willing to

do to achieve Whatever it is that we are becoming

so over not just passionate about but you know,

I think obsessed with and I just think this movie

worked for me for reasons. I don't even know

I mean I did I was in music and band and stuff

like that for over a decade So like I was never

on like any type of level, you know, like that

was that great but I know so I kind of get it

but I don't know it just worked for me and this

is another one where miles teller i think just

does a great performance jk simmons is fantastic

in this and. I don't know i can't really explain

why it works for me as much as it did because

if you just told me the plot and kind of explain

like the story of what this was gonna be about

i would be like that seems like it might be a

fairly boring. Couple hours for me, but I just

did not find it that way at all. So whiplash

really worked for me I can't really explain why

but it's stuck with me ever since then so I'm

gonna keep it here at my number eight Yeah, I

think what blush is one of those movies like

as you watch it and you don't like it I just

I feel like why how do you feel bad? But yeah,

it's I mean I can get it cuz like Jake instruments

are so intimidating that like you could like

just feel uncomfortable So maybe that's why but

yeah, what flush is so good. I that was hard

not putting up my top 10 but Oh, yeah, I've not

watched that yet. So that is a long three hours

to get through and don't watch it around any

parents, kids or anybody that you'd be embarrassed

about watching crazy shenanigans. All right.

That's your next one. So why number seven? Very

different than anything we've been talking about.

I am going back to the world of animation and

I'm going with Studio Ghibli film, although you

may not be able to tell that just based upon

when you look at the poster, because It's not

like your typical studio Ghibli film. It's not

directed by Hayao Matsuki. It is The Red Turtle.

And it's a really simple story. Again, maybe

that's what I love. I love simplicity. But it's

just this individual living on an island. And

what I love about it, I love movies that kind

of take something away and have limitations,

either if it's budget with something like Blue

Ruin. or with The Red Turtle where there's no

dialogue whatsoever. Like, how do you tell a

story where you have no dialogue? Not even like

with a silent film where you have title cards.

You gotta just rely on your storytelling when

it comes to animation, which is not an easy thing

to do. It's hoping that the audience can really

understand what you're trying to portray, especially

when you're dealing with actual animals in some

instances and things like that. But I find this

movie to be brilliant, loving, It's emotionally

impactful throughout, especially near the end.

But it's a beautiful film as well, animation

-wise. It's an interesting clashing of you have

it obviously being produced within Studio Ghibli,

but the style is much more European. It looks

rather unique, again, compared to really even

anything else out there. It has the smoothness

of something with computer animation, but it's...

It has a hand -drawn quality as well, so it looks

like no other animated film. And what's great

about it, it is legitimately universal, because

there's no dialogue to be, no subtitles or anything

like that, even though it's coming from another

country, because there's no words. And something

like that always impresses me, just being able

to do that at a sufficient level, let alone at

quite the level that this does it. So I didn't

have it as my best animated film. I think I had

Inside Out. as I went back and just looked at

again the thing that came to my mind was how

much these movies impacted me and this was near

the top of the list so I have it here. Like it

I like the the animation animation representation

that you have so far I would I wanted to have

some and I just I wanted to fit Kubo and the

two strings in my list Somewhere and I just couldn't

quite do it So I like the the animation spotlight

that a couple of years have have done so that's

awesome For my next one some of these are gonna

be super boring for me to talk about I think

because it's just like stuff that has been already

Well talked about by a lot of people it's you

know they've had a claim they've had awards and

things like that and so i apologize if some of

this is gonna be a little bit worried i'm taking

some of the easy pics i guess but my number seven

i think sexuality is something that has been

a major theme of the last of that decade and

i don't know if a film captures that more than

moonlight did from 2016 with barry jenkins obviously

the movie that kind of defines or looks at three

different segments or chapters of You know that

individual's life, you know, we have. Trivante

Rhodes and Mahershala, I can't say his name,

Mahershal Ali. I'll just say it real fast, so

he looks like I said it. But I just think this

is an important topic. It's an important thing

that we're wrestling with, even maybe more so

in the last, you know, three or four years. But

it was all kind of set up by that decade is almost

seems like a decade where, you know, we had the

70s, which was. Sixties or seventies which one

kind of in there where they refer to it is like

a sexual revolution type deal and i feel like

there was a another one of those types of things

going on in that decade where you know we were

looking at things differently in. You know accepting

or not accepting and including not including

and wrestling with that it's a struggle that's

ongoing just like kind of like the race relations

that we talked about with black clansmen something

we're still struggling with with uh, how we deal

with that and how we accept or include people

and You know how much we want to be closed -minded

or open -minded etc So i think moonlight does

a lot of things and it talks about stuff that

i think for many decades if not you know, through

most of the most of humankind, people have been

afraid to talk about or afraid to admit or afraid

to shine a light on it. And I think Moonlight

does as good of a job as you can hope for. And

so I could not keep it off of my list. So it's

at my number seven. Yeah, I mean, Spock talking

about being able to rewatch some I want to watch

this once it was when I was watching the best

picture showcase and it was like the third movie

out of like, you know, five that day. But I really

like that it was in my top 10 that year. Just

couldn't find spots for it. So I'm really happy

you found a place for it. Well, you're talking

movies that are highly acclaimed and my number

eight is also very highly acclaimed, although

rather polarizing because there's people that

will put it on a list like this and there's people

that will put it on one of the worst movies ever.

And that's Terrence Malick's Tree of Life. And

that's often the case with a lot of Terrence

Malick films, I feel. And I'm not a huge Terrence

Malick fan. I don't love everything he does.

There's some stuff he does I enjoy. I'm kind

of 50 -50 with him. But Tree of Life, I just

clicked with. And I get why people would enjoy

it. I actually saw this, again, at AMC Best Picture

Showcase, where they show all the best pictures.

This was nominated. So I saw a pretty full theater

of genuine moviegoers. And you could just, and

I've saw it before, that's always my second time

watching it. And you could just feel the theater

just like turning because people had no idea

what they were watching. It is very, it completely

removes any type of like linear storytelling.

It goes all over the place. It is much more about

theme and atmosphere and emotion. I get that

doesn't work for everybody. And when people say

like, it's, you know, it's pointless. And yeah,

if you feel that way, I think I can understand

that. But it just walks over me. Again, I think

the Tree of Life element is pretty fascinating.

There are parts of the movie that I'm not hugely

into, like the whole going back in time and basically

recreating the world. That might go off a little

bit, but the ties are so high that I can mitigate

what doesn't work for me. So and I did help I

think watching it multiple times because the

first time I watched it singing a theater also

think helped even though like people were like

actively doing by the end which was interesting

that never been in the theater before where like

people were so angry about what you're watching

but it was an awesome it also just almost added

to it as well but I had to put in the top 10

something in here. Fair enough yeah this is actually

what I haven't seen so it's one that. I have

a there's certain directors that I will avoid

like specifically no matter what and It feels

like Terrence Malick should be one of those for

me But I actually just haven't seen hardly any

of his films so I can't necessarily say that

he's in that group the problem with me with Terrence

Malick is yes, he made it like a couple films

in the 70s I guess but like he mainly like for

our lifetime. I mean he took like 20 years off.

So like 1998 was like his re -entrance into the

film world And I remember seeing a thin red line

and it was one of the I think that's one of the

first films that really made me want to like

Dive into movies more and be more like do more

thoughts do more discussions be critical of them

and stuff like that, but It was because of how

much I could not stand that movie like a thin

red line was like one of the first movies I actively

disliked in my lifetime and so so that is the

only Terrence Malick film I've seen so I really

need to give him a chance and I've always thought

like especially in the last like five six years

like that tree of life would be the next one

that I would watch on his filmography just because

of how much love so many people give it that

I am aware of and I know that it's popular with

a lot of critics. I know, like you said, it's

also polarizing. There's a lot of people dislike

it, but I think that will be the next one that

I do watch. But yeah, I'm still trying to get

over, apparently, like a 25 year grudge against

Thin Red Line from. So that's probably not fair.

Let's say if you watch anything, try like Badlands,

like one of his first films, because that one's

much more straightforward. It's it's really good

mostly, but it's also I think you realize, OK,

he can do more than just shoot people. Walking

in grass and holding a handbag. He can actually

like, you know, there's days of heaven as well

that has a lot of that. But yeah, certainly badlands

and then like, okay, and then maybe maybe like,

and make something like tree of life a little

bit more palpable. But yeah, I don't I think

I think you would hate it. Alright, so I'm gonna

go from one light to another. So I had moonlight

at number seven, and I'm gonna move it over to

spotlight on number six. I think just First of

all, films that deal with investigative journalism

and things like that are really appealing to

me just on the surface. But also with what has

happened in the last decade and a half or however

long it's been, especially the last six or seven

years, with how much journalism has just gone

in the toilet. Our media is so bad are the people

that are the fact that the internet exists and

like anybody can write an article like there

is no like it seems like there's no journalistic

like integrity. Half the times there's like typos

and grammar errors and people's articles so it's

like this it's like a art form that has just

gone down so much so like a film like this the

kind of really goes into that investigative journalism

not just talking about the written stuff i'm

talking about reporting etc etc. Where we're

actually looking for the truth and we're concerned

about the truth is is good in one standpoint

And the other thing that we've we see in this

one is also kind of going back to that same thing.

You know how much We've seen in recent times

about crimes of the church or crimes of you know

different people when it comes to abuse of Women

abuse of minors, you know, etc. Etc has become

a big theme in our lifetime. Unfortunately, so

I think spotlight just does a good job highlighting

kind of all of those things and I could watch

you know it's kind of like the reason I like

many documentaries is because of the same type

of thing as why like a movie like Spotlight or

different things like that that kind of really

dig into topics like that so and it has a ridiculously

good cast as well like Mark Ruffalo another actor

who's had a fantastic Decade that decade, you

know, Michael Keaton's in there Rachel McAdams.

There's so many good performances in that film

and it just I feel like it's It might not be

the best film of the last decade that we're covering

here but it's I feel like it's one of the more

important ones to just like not forget and not

ignore and you know realize that that is a thing

and there's been a lot of other films and series

and things like that have kind of come out since

then that do similar things. So I don't know

if this opened the door for people, you know,

made people more willing to do that. But I think

it's good. The more spotlight we can show on

that stuff. No pun intended, the better. It isn't

because this movie is one best picture. And I

feel like it doesn't really get talked about,

I think, because it's so quiet and subdued with

its execution. It's like it's easy to overlook

in a sense of like how good it is. And I think

because it. Like you said, it's putting the story

first, literally the real life story and not

trying to overdramatize it. It's what people

always say they want when it comes to things

based upon real life. Why do they need to make

it so over the top? And then you have a movie

that does that. I mean, it gets a claim, but

it seems to be overlooked. And honestly, I should

have probably considered it for my top 10, but

I didn't. I don't think it'd make it, but it

certainly would be. Like you, I love movies about

journalism, the news. And like, you could argue

it's like our generation's all the president's

been. And I'm sure he spent a lot of his time

on this, but good pick. My number five is something

I love movies that just allow us to spend time

with people, especially when it's like a subculture

I don't know or have no experience with. And

that's certainly the case with the Florida Project.

And the thing I think about this movie the most

when I think about it are just the colors of

this movie, right? Because it's about these individuals

that live in this motel literally in the shadow

of Disneyland. And it's so like the colors are

so vibrant and like exaggerated and you know,

pinks and yellows and things like that. But you

realize like underneath things are not as they

seem. I know it got some criticism for being

like poverty porn and I can understand that but

I think there is there is purpose here to what's

what's being done and in large part I think it

also works because the performances are really

good a good use of like non -professional actors

along with professional actors starting with

Willem Dafoe who I think this is one of his greatest

performances you know we know him from being

over the top characters like you know, Green

Goblin. Here he's just a normal guy, like he

really tones it down and plays as a subdued individual,

just this person, this trying to make some sort

of sanity in an insane world. But I also think

it does have a bit of a message too. I know the

ending, some people weren't a huge fan of because

it does kind of end abruptly. I don't know, I'm

indifferent towards it. Everything I love so

much up to that. And the more, again, some of

those movies that I think about all the time,

every time I Think about Disneyland anything

actually think of hotels. There are so many scenes

in this that stick with me So yeah, I really

love this film so much. So it's why it's one

of five Glad you put that in there, too. It didn't

make my list, but it's a it's a really good film

Willem Dafoe is amazing in it and I too I agree

like these sections of our world that or societies

or Things that you can go through life and just

not realize that they exist You know, you can

sometimes we get so blinded by our day -to -day

like our you know our routine, we wake up, we

go to work, we spend time with our family, you

know, we have our hobbies, etc, etc. And a lot

of times we don't realize that there's other

People living completely different lives just

even within our country not even talking about

worldwide but and i think films like this highlight

that are always very intriguing very interesting

and kind of peel back the curtain again on stuff

like that i think about that not as good of a

film but things like american honey and there's

a there's quite a few like different things that

came out films that came out that kind of do

that but this one probably did it best and i

think it's very worthy. I did not mean to do

this for my number five but there's gonna be

a lot of five involved i know i'm like the the

one that always champions this movie and i've

not i don't think i've ever heard anybody else

say. Too much about this like it's never on anybody

else's list but i'll continue to champion forever

because i don't think there's been any topic.

That has affected more people like it's just

a universal thing like there's nobody that hasn't

been affected by cancer in our world unfortunately

and 50 50 to me is just an important film that

came out in 2011 so it might have got lost because

it's you know very early in the decade, but It's

just another one that takes kind of similar to

like black Klansman in a completely different

way I'm taking I mean in the fact that it's taking

something very serious and it's blending this

comedy in it to where it's palatable for someone

to watch but I think this one is just something

that people need to watch because i think it

really highlights different things that people

go through when they're dealing with the fact

that either they know somebody that has cancer

they have cancer themselves or as you know things

of that nature. I think joseph gordon levin is

great and seth rogan's great we got anna kendrick

you know so not these like oscar all these oscar

worthy like people you think of when you think

of like best actor. I was out of maybe joseph

gordon love is pretty good but. but i think the

ensemble just does really well and like i said

i think if you haven't seen this i would still

urge you to go see this because i just think

it's a very well put together movie and i think

it handles that topic that is affecting all of

us on a daily monthly yearly basis throughout

you know this time period and seems to have no

end to how long it's going to kind of ravage

our society so 50 50 at number five mike would

love that but it was unintentional so that's

my number five pick Good choice. Yeah, and I

love the friendship of your Rogan and Georgie

Gordon -Levitt and that it's just I don't know

something about it. It's just Especially when

there's the scene where he finds the buck and

not this part of anything But like if you know

the movie, you know what I'm talking about. And

yeah, good choice. Definitely What's my number

four? I talked about like I love movies that

kind of give us a window into a world. We know

nothing of Number five with Florida Project.

Number four is another movie that does that,

but a very different type of world in The Rider

by Chloe Zhao, who ends up winning her movie,

of course. No Man Land wins Best Picture. She

makes The Eternals. But I think the best thing

she did has done, in my opinion, is The Rider.

I didn't include documentaries in my top 10.

I thought about it. If I did, it would probably

be a little bit other films. But it's really

hard to compare documentaries to new films that

aren't. So I didn't. Although you can argue the

writer is basically a documentary, you know,

it was started that way. Its lead actor, if you

want to say it, wasn't really an actor. He was

kind of living this life and they just made a

movie around it and it works really well. I think

that's a big why that has so much authenticity.

And there are some scenes that clearly are not

designed or not something you could write in

a script. I think literally one of my scenes

of the decade would be like the scene where he

is kind of doing a rodeo thing with someone who's

been injured. And it's been paralyzed, but he's

kind of mimicking it. It's hard to explain without

seeing it. Basically going through it and pretending

in this mechanical bowl type of thing. And it's

just, as you think about bittersweet, it is that.

Because obviously, this individual can't do what

he used to love, but he's kind of getting this

moment of it happening. And it's in a movie,

but you can't, I think. rate that type of emotion

without it being there already like you couldn't

like if that weren't if these were people who

Did this type of stuff in real life? It wasn't

coming from a place of You know, this is what

the actor is just playing those parts that I

don't think it would work as well It would come

off as maybe a bit cheesy and hokey, but knowing

that they're individuals that this is not a role

for them This is life. It helps a great deal.

I mean, that's the entire movie again Love it.

We don't necessarily have a lot of plot. They

often click with me and you'll see that more

with other movies on my list And this is not

again. There's not like there's a story here

something there isn't necessarily but that's

not the point of it really, you know, it's just

It's these character studies. It's about being

part of this world And I think you know, it always

made me huge fan Chloe's out no man landed. There's

a lot of similarities I think no man lands a

good movie, but I think this one is it's just

because it is You don't maybe have a lead actor

with someone, you know, that is an actual Hollywood

actor and it's just normal people for the most

part. It's just that extra special for me. So

that's why I have it here at number four. All

right. I have not seen the writer, so I will

add it to my list of things I need to watch.

I think you would really like it. Actually, I

think unlike, you know, tree life, which I think

you'd hate. I think you might like the writer.

So all right, I can I can balance them each by

watching. Yeah, I can balance it out. All right.

So for my number four, I'm going to go to a film

that I'm sure nobody has watched a second time

because it seems to be kind of like a Schindler's

List type of film where you see it once in like

your. that i'm good on that but that doesn't

make it any more or less impactful or any less

important to me and i'm going with i believe

what was at the time might have been my number

one for 2015 that has changed since but i'm going

with beasts of no nation From 2015 obviously

a highlight of this third world situation and

you know, the way they're treating the the children

etc and Subscribing them into the you know army

is quote -unquote. You can call it from this

from Kerry Joe Fukunaga and starting at Idris

Elba Again, like this isn't something that you

want to watch twice Probably you see it once

and it has a big enough impact on you as well.

I know a lot of people don't like that in their

films you know, we even one of our fellow cinema

geeks like For the satellite you know there's

a lot of people out there that are trying to

get that in their movies they don't need that

necessarily that realism they don't want to be

depressed by a film or you know affected that

much and that sort of heavy way but i gravitate

towards those types of films i don't know why

but like that's just something that's. I don't

know if I need something like that to bring the

emotions out of me that I don't get necessarily

if it's not as heavy but so beast of donations

work really well for me in kind of in a similar

way. But completely different to what you're

talking about with Florida project showing China

light on. Societies and places in the world that

I had no idea. Existed at least to that point

like yes, you know, I know third world countries

exist and I know you know some of this types

of stuff You know you hear you read the news

headlines and you kind of know but it's like

in America we it's far too easy for us to just

Turn a blind eye to that. It's like the you know,

the homeless person you see on the side of the

road It's like, um, you know, you could it's

easy enough to drive past and just not try to

think about it. But this movie really shows you

exactly what Is going on in some of these places

and it's just heartbreaking heart -wrenching

and important for us to not forget that You know

that type of stuff still exists in the world

and it's important and we need to realize it

and make efforts to help In any way we can so

I think beasts of no nations is a super important

film and it's my number four Yeah, I think that

movie got really limp not ignored because it

was one of the first really big films to come

out on Netflix and And it just because of that

it almost felt like the Academy and stuff like

that I think it actually wasn't did it not qualify

I forget but it should have been up for much

more than it was but I think because of this

there was a huge backlash for streaming films

and Not necessarily there anymore. Maybe you

could argue There's some it's kind of wishes

there that there was because it maybe it's hurt

the movie industry in a bit But that movie itself,

I think it definitely deserved much more recognition

than I got for shoulder. You're talking about

how with the writer I think you would like it

and Tree of Life I think you'd hate it. I know

my number three you're not a fan of so there's

some debate there but it is under the skin and

you're not alone because I know a lot of people

don't like this movie and I get it. I've actually

had many debates regarding this film but I'm

through many people and I think it's either those

things that it's kind of it's like arguing what

your favorite color is because like it's like

either it hits you the right way, like either

you like blue or you don't because there's no

there's no change and there's no like there's

no no nothing you could say that's going to change

someone's mind but again a movie that doesn't

necessarily have much of a plot you just have

Scarlett Johansson playing this alien type creature

she goes around and but again the presentation

I talk about scenes that like kind of impact

me mentioning with the writer there's the one

with them doing the mechanical you know the bull

thing with Under the skin, there's a lot. There's

a scene with a person with a deformed face that

stuck with me. There is the beach scene or scenes

that especially the one like a lot of the final

one, which is just disturbing. I love the score

with this and how effective it is. It's just

a beautiful looking movie. And it's just interesting

approach to science fiction because it was science

fiction. We don't think small scale a little

bit more now, but this was science fiction film

with a shoestring budget that I think didn't

necessarily feel that way. But it worked on me

actually on the theater and it really grabbed

a hold and I just didn't let go. And there's

it. And yeah, so it's my it's my number it's

my number three. And I know you hate it. That's

OK. We can get it. We're all allowed to like

our own films. I don't need to I'm not going

to try to poop on your pick at all. A lot of

people love it. So for my number three, I'm going

to keep the heaviness going, I guess. I guess

there's a theme there. So this is another one

that obviously deals with racial relations, more

so in a more of a past racial relations. But

just as important today, I'm going with the 2013

film from Steve McQueen. And this is 12 Years

a Slave with Chewy Edgy for a Fassbender Cumberbatch.

I mean, the cast for this is ridiculous. But

I just think. There's moments that happen their

scenes from twelve years a slave that will never

leave my brain there sequences that were shot.

So well there was so much thought put in to every

shot every camera angle how long we leave certain

things on camera we talked about this in depth

on a review early on in our cinema geek life

or something like that somewhere back in 2013

we cover this i think in depth. So you can always

go back and listen to my thoughts there but 12

years later it was very well acclaimed and received

when it came out. It's another one though that

I feel like kind of like Beasts of Donation Schindler's

List those types of films where it's like yes

people respect it and people like it but you're

not going to see a whole lot of them wanting

to talk a whole lot about it it seems like because

it's like we thought and we'd want to move past

it but I think it's still rather important and

impactful and. I just think it was a master class

from Steve McQueen and just filmmaking and the

acting and everything. Like it's just almost

a masterpiece. If I don't know, that's a weird

word that people don't like to throw around,

but to me it seems like it is. But I don't know,

12 Years a Slave is just something that I will

never forget. It was in a very competitive year

of film and it was hard not to have it as my

number one for that year. But 12 Years a Slave

comes in here at my number three. Interesting

so now we've we're gone this far. I don't think

we've had any crossover yet. I didn't obviously

not my list, but it's very Difficult to keep

it off if you talk about memorable scenes that

certainly has one that almost hanging scene I

don't even know how to describe it. That is one

that's forever etched in my yeah, that's That

is a tough tough watch for sure I think maybe

in my, I was looking, I kind of avoided the tough

watches a little bit in the sense of like movies

like that. Maybe that was, I don't know. Maybe

if I did this list like a year from now that

would change, but I don't know if we're gonna

have any crossover. I think we're, I'm pretty

sure we're gonna have at least one crossover,

but I don't think we'll have a crossover with

my number two. Again, continuing my theme of

having movies that don't have much of a plot.

I am, if anything, I am consistent. But that

is the movie that literally took, you know, ten

years to make for my number two in boyhood Richard

Lake later is my all -time favorite director

and obviously you can tell what I like is kind

of the style he makes Movies and movies are just

kind of about people. You obviously have the

before trilogy I thought really hard about putting

before midnight on this list It's hard to because

like that movie so related within that trilogy

it felt like almost cheating and I bet but I

went with boyhood and There's a moment in this

I think that kind of encapsulates not only like

what I love about this movie, but like films

like this in general. And it's just Ethan Hawke

having a conversation with his son about like

the, you know, talking about how much of real

life we would think was fantasy if we looked

from an editing perspective, talking about like

blue whales and back whales. And like, what if

you were to describe those, there's aspects of

them that you would think are fanatical or out

there and crazy, but their real life. We don't

think of it that way. And I think that's a lot

of what this movie is. It's just aspects of real

life. And just trying to find the fascination

in those. It's small snippets of this person

literally growing up. And I know some people

called it was a gimmick. And it is a gimmick,

but I think it's a gimmick that's executed really

well with great performances. I think it's Ethan

Hawke's greatest performance, even with the before

films because of what he's asked to do here.

I love how he kind of pops in and pops out. There's

a great conversation about Star Wars and getting

more movies well before that was even a thing

that was possible. But yeah, again, like, it

doesn't try to, it's gotta be difficult to even

think of logistics of making something like this.

Like how do you do it, where are you going with

it? But I think someone like Richard Binklater

can make it work, but I think he's never trying

to force something that's not there. But sure

cat as well. I think she won an Oscar for this.

She was really good I I know they're Maybe the

one of her final scenes maybe goes a bit too

much when it comes to trying to connect the dots

with the one place where Maybe it tries to force

a narrative that didn't need to be there But

in general, you know, I just really dug this

movie and that's why it's my number two not just

the You call it the gimmick, but not just like

the logistics of actually making that happen,

but also the risk. There was a huge risk in everybody

still being around, everybody still being willing,

you know, nobody had, you know, there was there

was a lot of risk. So it wasn't just like something

you're just doing willy nilly like it takes.

It took a lot of time. It took a lot of thought.

It took a lot of dedication from a lot of different

people to pull that all off and make it seem

seamless. And I think they were very successful

in doing that. so um for my number two it's just

a personal favorite of mine there's going to

be obviously a theme for the rest of my list

my number two and my number one it's going to

revolve around technology because i think there's

almost nothing in that decade that has been more

prevalent in our society than the advancement

of technology and the way it has affected life

the way it is has affected communication. People

social norms people's ability to socialize with

people you know things of that nature and it's

seeming like it's even gonna become more important

obviously as technology does throughout the other

future years etc so i'm going with a personal

favorite of mine is from two thousand fifteen

the film that i had above piece of donations

that year which would be alex garland's ex machina.

With Oscar Isaac Alicia Vikander and Donald gleason

a great performance from Oscar Isaac a great

decade from Oscar Isaac Alicia Vikander is probably

my favorite actress of the decade as well and

I just think this movie is important. It's fascinating.

It's intriguing. It's everything I want in a

science fiction technology based film and You

got I know everybody wants to like talk about

the dance scene and whatnot for Oscar Isaac,

but like that is just like so like Minor when

it comes to the reasons why I like X Machina

and this is a film that I do Want to watch again

like it's not you know I've given you like 12

years of slave and beasts of no nation and all

these things that you probably don't want to

watch like X Machina is something that I Personally

would not mind rewatching a few more times because

I just think it's that good And that's why I

have it all the way up here at my number two

It was it was interesting when you were saying

about technology. I'm like, oh here number two

gonna be my number one because my number one

very much about technology i think we might have

the same number i don't know i think we'll see

but uh i won't be beat around the bush any any

longer i do like ex machina but my number one

and i don't think it's a prize because we when

we did our top 100 this was my number 10 it's

spike jones is her uh i i love this movie so

much it is i remember i actually saw this i got

it free screening for something it was like i

don't know online or whatever and i was just

like Saw it a little bit beforehand and I couldn't

wait for people to see it so I could talk about

it because there's just so much about this movie

to discuss obviously you can't do it here, but

you know people you know this idea of walking

you paint a character falling in love with his

phone You know, it takes it's going to be this

commentary on our addiction to technology and

that's in there but it's really just One small

bit of so much else. I love about this movie

And starting with the fact that you have this

so much chemistry between Joaquin Phoenix and

Scarlett Johansson, which is hilarious, because

when Joaquin Phoenix performed this, he was performing

with another actress. Scarlett Johansson came

back in and kind of redid those lines. And you

can never tell. And I think it also helps enhance

the story itself, knowing that in a way. Walkie

Phoenix is, again, talking about actors of the

decade. He certainly is up there. Really, he's

playing creative characters here. More of a kind

of this guy living his life. I love the world

that's built here. This is obviously the future,

but it doesn't make a big deal about it being

the future. Just some subtle changes of high

-waisted pants. I love the cinematography here.

There's so many. great moments isn't so much

I love about her. I think it also gets into just

the authenticity of relationships, long distance

relationships. And it's, you know, it's crazy

that this story about someone falling in love

with their felon would be my movie of the decade.

But I think it's fitting for the decade that

we're in, considering I'm doing this podcast

on my phone right now. So it shows you where

we come from. But yeah, I This was one that have

rewatch obviously multiple times. It's it has

such a huge personal impact on me I just it made

the movie that made me realize why I love films

a lot of my movies don't necessarily have a lot

of plot this does much more so but Just I guess

I'll just shut up and I don't know what your

number one is My number one sir as well. Yeah,

so obviously you probably could see that the

technology theme will continue Can we convince

by Jones to stop doing stuff with the jackass?

like franchise and price to do other films again.

Like nothing against Jackass, but like that's

all he's done since her is Jackass stuff. Come

on, man. But yeah, just walking in Phoenix, like

you said, is probably would be like without actually

doing the the work of going through the actual

decade to like. Find out who the best actor was

like Joaquin Phoenix would be like my early pick

like I would say like he's got to be number one

two or three somewhere in there like fastbender

maybe up there too, but Joaquin Phoenix's is

way up there and I everything you said like this

is such an important film in the same reasons

that I'm talking about ex Machina apply to this

as well as far as the impact technology has and

the relationship that we have with technology

and how Where that can go and like the void that

is left in our life when we become the society

that is just work and then going home to yourself

and like the the Longing that you have to not

be alone and where you can find that connection

and where you can find that relationship and

well, you know even the human race is meant to

be connected to things and to have relationships

and you know When there's people not involved

in technology takes that place and kind of all

the different things that kind of. Unpacked as

you watch that is fascinating to watch and i

think walking phoenix is amazing scarlet johansson

and some people try to like. Say bad things about

her performance and that i think it's great and

i think those two together even if they weren't

knowingly acting against each other it still

works so well and i think her is. One of the

most important films one of the most fascinating

films that i've ever seen so it easily was my

pick for the number one for this last decade

as well just like you so we're we didn't have

a single crossover but we share it until we got

to number one so that's interesting so i guess

if you're going to agree on something it might

as well be number one right yeah that makes sense

you know so we had yeah top tens uh Nine different

films and then number one. So obviously you can

tell what our decade would be. So yeah, right,

right And then we're gonna spend a little bit

of time maybe just talking about some films I

know we've mentioned some in passing as far as

ones that just didn't quite make our list But

we had kind of highlighted to that, you know,

that number ten was really hard There was you

know, three or four films that didn't quite make

it I mean if you want to rattle off your ten

that didn't or however many you want to talk

about any films that you'd like To highlight

that didn't quite make your list Sure. I had

mother in there originally at number ten Uh,

but I guess technically it's a 2009 movie So

I was like, I don't know if it would qualify

because I can't because I saw in 2010 for the

first time so I was Hesitated I mentioned I didn't

include documentaries if I did The movie buck

from 2011 would have been there also lit the

fire burn to my favorite documentaries of the

year Uh, the social network was really close

to making my list. Um started up a movie, uh,

you know, probably better known the You know

to come from when the director of hell or high

water who probably got much more recognition

for that, but I love Start -Up. I love both of

those movies, but Start -Up just has so much

intensity. The Master was up there, you might

have mentioned Mad Max. Drive, Before Midnight,

Parasite was really close. I'm just thinking

of others. I like Father, I like Son. I saw Devil,

The Raid. I'm talking of great action movies.

Also, I had some love for Ridley Scott, The Martian

is one of my favorite movies. It was up there

in my top 25. And Arrival and A Separation. Came

really close as well, so. I guess those like

50 movies that came really close to my top 10.

I'm the same way man. I'm the same way so I had

the master up there as well that was fighting

for that last spot along with the social network

and parasite and then ones that also were pretty

close. I had Manchester by the sea. The Martian

like you talked about inception. I really had

a soft spot for a monster calls for some more

personal reasons I even thought a beautiful day

in the neighborhood for Mariel Heller was was

worth talking about I have a personal affinity

for Les Mis even though a lot of people hate

that film is that for that version of it the

hunt from Thomas Vinterberg from 2012 12 ish

thought that's an important film and it should

be seen by more people Let's see if there was

anything else I had annihilation to once upon

a time in Hollywood The Irishman Heller Highwater

arrival so a lot of them owned what we do in

the shadows I should throw that in there too

is what I think is on our top list for comedies

So those were some of the ones what what else

I found interesting. Maybe just kind of a closing

commentary here Is there a year that really stands

out on your list? I don't know if you highlighted

the years, but for me it was like there were

some years that seemed Rather not weak necessarily,

but I don't have hardly any representation from

like 2017 and Whiplash is the only one I have

from 2014 and when I like top Twenty five thirty

films, but I have so many from a couple of these

other years like 2013 for me with her The hunt

kind of came out in 2013 12 years of slave I

know you had a couple pics on yours that weren't

on mine that are also from 2013 your number 10

and I believe your number 8 were both from 2013

But 2015 X Machina beast of no nation spotlight

Mad Max Fury Road the Martian room what we do

in the shadows technically in the US Like, I

don't know if there's a year for me that's better

than 2015 in that decade. Did you have any years

that really stood out to you? 2013 was probably

up there, Blue Ruin, The Rider, or no, that's

2017. Her, Under the Skin, also 2013. 2017, The

Rider, Florida Project, both up there for me.

So, yeah, those, it's pretty spread out outside

of that. Like, I do have some... I don't have

anything from 2020 because that's a different

decade. So that's explain that. But yeah, outside

of the 30 2013 is definitely the last year that

pops up the most. And then it gets obviously

a little funky when it comes to like foreign

film releases. Yeah, because like the red turtle

thing is 2016. I think it's 2017 in the US. So

that's where it gets ready. And then you have

festival dates and whatnot. So like, yeah, it's

hard to But yeah, I mean, I'm looking at like

my top film list, but 2013, like four of those

movies made my top five or four of those movies

made my top 10. So I really liked movies that

year. So and that's when we were probably and

I think that was the year. Yeah. Yeah. So I was

watching what I was also watching much more movies

in the first five years of the decade than the

second half. You know, kids will do right. So.

Yep, yep, and I mean at my top four is two films

from 2013 and two films from 2015 So I think

those two years are just huge in the decade if

it were to come to that So that's our top ten

picks of our films from the last decade and now

that we're you know Three years into the next

decade. We have some or four years I guess and

into the next decade if you count 2020 I guess

you have to but it's just an interesting. It's

gonna be completely different Like dynamic when

it comes to this because we had the whole COVID

situation And we had all of this different weirdness

going on at the beginning of this next decade

So it's gonna be interesting once this one gets

closer I'm sure we'll do like a half decade here

in you know, another year or so So it'll be interesting

to see how that goes Dan Anything else that you'd

like to highlight as far as how people can reach

out keep in touch with you or what you're doing

online? Sure, you can find all my stuff. I'm

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I think since I signed up so there's that as

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I'm due to do a new video soon I think it's gonna

be one of the Star Trek cast rankings because

I already have done my top ten Animated rats

and kind of conjunction with the release of the

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie So I was gonna

do turtles, too I just don't know if I'll get

to it quite yet or not so you can keep all that

stuff I have a good. I love I love the wrap movie

a lot rapidly I was I was like there's so many

rats I did not know that there was that many

fictional rats, but I was impressed and they're

usually bad guys And they're usually die so I

guess So that does it for this episode of the

cinema geeks you can tune in next time where

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