So flicks.co.nz is having a competition, where you list your favourites films of the year.
I had to think about some of the answers.
Here’s what I put.
(…actually, here’s what I think I put. I copied and pasted what I entered, then saved the draft until I had time to write more. I came back, and the form had wiped my answers.)
BEST FILM OF THE YEAR
How To Train Your Dragon
BEST NZ FILM
This Way Of Life (I think I just wanted to be original, as most people would vote for Boy)
BEST ACTION
Kick-Ass
BEST DRAMA
Winter’s Bone
BEST COMEDY
Hot Tub Time Machine
BEST THRILLER
The Crazies
BEST HORROR
The Last Exorcism
BEST SCI-FI/FANTASY
Monsters
BEST DOCUMENTARY
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
BEST ANIMATED
How To Train Your Dragon
WORST FILM OF THE YEAR
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time*
MOST OVERRATED FILM
The Human Centipede
What would you have put in this list?
*okay, I haven’t actually seen this film. But I’m not a Jerry Bruckheimer fan. And I couldn’t think of anything else. And it had some of the worst reviews I had read/heard.
Some of them I had to um and ah over. Best Action? Scott Pilgrim or Kick-Ass? Actually. Hmmm…
Best documentary was a given. Although maybe I should have put ‘Teenage Paparazzo’. Or ‘Exit Through The Gift Shop’ as a joke answer.
Crap, I didn’t get Harry Brown in there (drama?). Or Four Lions (comedy). Predators could be up there for action. Hmmm…
And then I looked at Flicks.co.nz’ list of their best 20 films for the year. Crap, I didn’t include Animal Kingdom, The Secret In Their Eyes, or The Disappearance of Alice Creed.
I must admit, because I see a lot of films, and I forgot all of the films that I had seen this year, I searched on the IMDb for some hints. If you want to think of the best films of 2010, go to Top 250 on the IMDb; go to votes by decade 2010-2019. All the best 2010 films will appear (at least until 2011 films make it onto the list). You can also search by genre. I did that for horror and thriller.
Now I see that Empire UK has an online ‘list your best movies of 2010’. I’m going to have to think more about this…
Busy Times 