TIFF Cinematique's Top 30 films of the last decade...

I'm not as active as Mizzou, but a pretty avid viewer and certainly not afraid to hit the art house.
I've seen two: History of Violence and The Royal Tenenbaums.
Liked HOV a lot, LOVED the Tenenbaums.

 

I used to be much more of an active moviegoer before the kids arrived, but Mrs. Runaway and I still make good use of Netflix and have decent taste in movies.

I've seen four of the ones on this list. Liked all of them, to varying degrees.

I agree with the vibe on this thread. Bunch of pretensious asshats trying to outdo one another in a film snob circle jerk.

 

This.

And speaking of pretentious, how pretentious do these douchenozzles have to be to included 54 films in a "top 30" list?

 

None of us seems to have seen or heard of most of these films, mainly because the vast majority of them are non-American and don't show up at your local Cineplex. And it doesn't say top "30 American films of the last decade".

If someone put together a list of the "Top 30 Novelists/Short Story Writers of the last decade" , there probably wouldn't be more than half dozen American writers on the list. Doesn't make the list pretentious----just means you don't read very much international/non English fiction.

So, yeah, there's always a certain amount of dick swinging among literary/film critics, but to dismiss these films outright as pretentious art films when you've never seen them, smacks of awful closed mindedness.

How many here seen the Fast Runner--it's on the list A brilliant movie shot entirely set in the Arctic using native actors The fact that it's entirely in Inuktitutan, the aboriginal language of the Inuit--with sub titles--doesn't change the sheer drama and adventure of the movie. There's absolutely nothing pretentious or artsy about it.

 

Yeah. I liked it, too.

 

I don't think that makes them more pretentious -- but it does make them indecisive.

 

Oh, here we go again.
Won Best Picture.
Deserved it.
Period.

 

Crash was a bunch of bad actors thinking this was their big shot at an Academy Award. They were right. Say more about the Academy Awards than it does about Crash.

 

I only trust Hollywood when it comes to politics. They know jack shit about a good movie.

 

Why do I think that vicd is a double-nought spy in our liberal midst?

 

I think he used to pop up over at The Board Whose Name Cannot be Spoken.

 

Crash is a very good movie that takes an unfair beating because a homophobic academy voted for it over Brokeback Mountain. Shakespeare in Love also takes a similar beating for besting Saving Private Ryan.