2010 in Review

So, now that the year's over, what were your favorite and least favorite 2010 movie releases? Best and worst made, if you have an opinion? Did the movies you were anticipating live up to your expectations? And so on, just general comparison talk.

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Well, over this past year, I've seen Sherlock Holmes, Shutter Island, Clash of the Titans, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Alice in Wonderland, The Last Airbender, Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Toy Story 3 (twice), Despicable Me, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part I, and Megamind.

I can't really narrow the list down to one favorite, but I loved Holmes, Apprentice, Deathly Hallows, and Megamind. The smiling the whole time kind of like. Megamind is the one I've seen most recently, so it's the one that sticks out foremost in my mind, but I liked all four of them at the time. But I was also especially pleased with DH, particularly since it's not my favorite book, and the movies have been so hit and miss for me. They nailed it here, imo.

Least favorite is either The Last Airbender or Eclipse. On the one hand, though I'm one of the few who did like TLA, there was just so much wasted potential. Of the ones I was anticipating, this definitely let me down the most. But then, the source of material was so brilliant that I think I would always see that in the movie (even if it were a lot worse) and give it a thumbs up for it. On the other hand, I think Eclipse was the better made movie, but the story is so damn ridiculous that no amount of decent directing, less cheesy scriptwriting, or whatever could make it good. Eh, I'll give the suckiest award to Eclipse. Gotta hate Twilight.

Best made movie of the ones I've seen is probably Toy Story 3. Worst, The Last Airbender.

I haven't seen Inception or Scott Pilgrim vs the World, or a score of other movies released last year (yet), but anyways, here's my skewed sum up of the year anyhow. What'd you all think of the year in film?

 

I think you're right, but what the hell, I saw it in 2010, so I'm counting it anyhow. XD And personally, I thought they nailed Holmes' character from the books perfectly. He was always kind of eccentric and a bit of an asshole (no doubt why I liked him so much), but he had this bromance going on with Watson which I think the movie also did extremely well. The lethargic fits, followed by the cocaine use and hyperactivity were there, the shooting the walls of the rooms he was renting was even there, and everything.

I've been fortunate enough to miss out on all of the films those two morons wrote/directed, but I've heard Vampires Suck is a real piece of crap. I'd imagine it's at the bottom of everyone's list who has seen it. Which is a shame, because a really good Twilight parody would have done well, and I would have wanted to see it.

Too high expectations, overzealous fans wanting everything their way, and racists offended by the "whitewashed" casting I think were a big part. But there was a disappointing lack of actual bending, the script was really quite terrible, and some of the acting a little hammy (which wasn't helped by some awkward camera work). I think another big problem was that Paramount couldn't decide who they were making the movie for. The series was originally made with younger kids in mind, but I think the most vocal fans are teens and young adults. So they started a darker movie geared to the fans, then seemed to cut out a ton of stuff they'd already filmed and made it shorter for the tiny attention spans of grade schoolers (or to cut the cost of the 3D conversion, I dunno), which just didn't satisfy anyone, really. [/rant]

I just rented and watched Scott Pilgrim last night, and I enjoyed it, but it wasn't quite in the 'smile the whole time I'm watching' class as the few I mentioned above. But it was one of the better movies of 2010 for me, for sure.