Austin Improv

The year isn't over yet, but what are the favorite films you saw in 2010? Here's a list of every movie that came out this year, except for some films that played during festivals in town like SXSW and Fantastic Fest. Admittedly, most of my favorite films I saw this year came from Fantastic Fest.

Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Social Network
Winnebago Man
Toy Story 3
Splice
Four Lions
The Troll Hunter
Bedeviled
Rare Exports (playing at the Alamo S. Lamar now! The trailer gives away some of the best bits though.)
A Somewhat Gentle Man
Cold Fish (I'm not sure I could watch it again, but it was good.)
Drones
Gallants

Almost made the list:
Golden Slumber
Sound of Noise

I'm positive True Grit will be on the favorite movie list when it comes out, and it has nothing to do with me being an extra in it. Okay, a little bit.

The ones that caught my fancy (and I have some catching up to do)

Cyrus
Mic Macs
Inception
Shutter Island (I had read the graphic novel first.)


Cryus, arguably, inspired the whole actorhood thing.

Spots wrote:The ones that caught my fancy (and I have some catching up to do)

Cyrus
Mic Macs
Inception
Shutter Island (I had read the graphic novel first.)


Cryus, arguably, inspired the whole actorhood thing.

I had no idea Shutter Island was a graphic novel, but I read the novel that came first a few years ago.

I've heard really good things about Cyrus, but haven't seen it yet.

As an improviser I think you would love alot about it. I was fortunate and got to hear John C. Reilly and Jonah Hill talk about the process at SXSW. It's as close as you can get to a feature film of improvisation (adlibbing entire scenes with a full Hollywood production crew, atleast).

Well that might need amending. Let's say for a film that Tony Scott produced, it's as close as you can get to a feature film of improvisation.

The Town

I have not seen a single 2010 release and don't feel any void in my life whatsoever.

Why am I even posting here?

Nevermind.

EDIT: I take it back. Lisa rented "Alice in Wonderland" at some point. I remember the costumes being nice.

hmm...i reserve the right to come back and edit this list as i both see more movies and remember others from the past 12 months.

Social Network
Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Iron Man 2
The Kids Are All Right
Kick Ass
Megamind
The Losers (which wasn't great, but a lot of fun and damn it i didn't see that many movies this year, all right? ya happy now? sniff...)

True Grit is bound to join the list and i can assure you it has NOTHING to do with Justin being an extra.

Saw Black Swan tonight and thought it was great. It may have to be added to the list of best movies. I'm not sure it filled a void in my life, but it was pretty damn good.

Top 10:

Mic Macs
Inception
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Kick Ass
Red
127 Hours
The Social Network
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Love and Other Drugs
Get Low

Best Sequels:

Iron Man 2
Toy Story 3

Fave Docs:

Exit Through the Gift Shop
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

Fun stuff I can't defend (empty calories)

Hot Tub Time Machine
Dinner For Schmucks
Get Him to the Greek
Megamind
How to Train Your Dragon
MacGruber (yeah MacGruber - wanna fight about it?)

oh, forgot about Waiting for Superman. very moving stuff.

This one was pretty good:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4dEWOB6THE[/youtube]

Marc: Every insult in the world.


Alex: You must've attended SXSW. It was a GREAT year. The best. But you liked Get Low that much? I thought it was decent but hear me out: The film didn't have a protagonist (and it wasn't an ensemble either). There was no protagonist. The closest thing to it was the boy from Sling Blade but I thought that was sort of slung together haphazardly (haha). The greatest thing about that film was Duval and Murray's charm. Their charm saved the film.

Yeah - good point. I reserve the right to drop Get Low off the list for Black Swan or Tron. I also forgot Troll Hunter. This is tough...

I didn't see Waiting for Superman because I was worried it would make me so upset I would want to go all "V" on the public school system. As a teacher who chose to home school his kids it is a topic near and dear to me - also kind of a hot button topic. Did it do a good job of making it's case?

Alex Gray wrote:I didn't see Waiting for Superman because I was worried it would make me so upset I would want to go all "V" on the public school system. As a teacher who chose to home school his kids it is a topic near and dear to me - also kind of a hot button topic. Did it do a good job of making it's case?

yeah, it definitely made its point, though it also had an agenda. i don't mind "biased" documentaries (i quite enjoy most of Michael Moore's stuff, for instance). it's important to ask questions. it starts to cross into dangerous territory when you start ANSWERING them, or at least giving definitive answers. it spends most of the film drawing attention to how complicated and intractable a lot of the problems in our education system are, and then kind of tries to say at the end, "which could all be fixed simply if we did these things!" starting a dialogue is good. dictating the terms of it, not so much.

but for all of that, it was VERY well made and incredibly powerful. the above is pretty much my ONLY issue with it.