Despite what angry people on the internet say, or logical fallacies created to support your opinions, or the group think thought mobs of petulant fandoms might say (Joker, Alita, people that choose companies over people whatever), taste is subjective.
The only exception I can think of is people with that cilantro gene that makes you think cilantro tastes like soap. For example, I don’t have that gene and I didn’t like cilantro for most of my adult life. Then my tastes changed. Hopefully, everyone will change and modify their tastes and thoughts as they grow.
Speaking of changing tastes, movies I really loved might not appear here; some things have changed. I have changed, my views have changed. It is what it is. I’m also less interested in boosting movies that have more than plentiful signals. Also, I may have missed things because I only started journaling everything I watch two years ago. Movies that destroyed me a few years ago don’t hold the same feelings now, which is why a spectrum style list feels so right.
Therefore, this is not a list of the greatest movies of the decade. I’m not equipped with that type of objectivity, I’ve not seen every movie that could be evaluated as the best, and I don’t want anyone badgering me for missing something from QT or any “visionary director” I am missing.
When someone asks me my favorite comic, I say “that comics exist.” Sometimes that is enough. When Marcus sent me his idea and draft, I was happy to see a story without the need of explanations (though many of the movies, if you click on, you will find reviews). It was a postmodern take on that GI Joe comic where Snake Eyes is the star and there are no word bubbles.
If you know Marcus, this narrative makes total sense; it’s intrinsically him. If you don’t, you get an idea of what he’s about.
So all Jokers aside, here is an incredibly flawed list of movies that came out this decade that did something for me.
TOP TIER
A Dark Song
Personal Problems
Holy Motors
The Killing of A Sacred Deer
Mad Max: Fury Road
It Felt Like Love
Blue Ruin
Blue Valentine
Inside Out
Cemetery Of Splendor
Klown
Clouds Of Sils Maria
Paterson
MISUNDERSTOOD/UNDERAPPRECIATED OR: MOVIES I FEEL I HAVE A LOT OF EXPLAINING (OR APOLOGIZING) TO DO FOR INCLUDING ON THIS LIST:
Your Highness
The Night Comes For Us
Skin Trade
The Raid
Chappie
Mood Indigo
Cloud Atlas
Hugo
MOVIES I FEEL I HAVE MINOR EXPLAINING (OR APOLOGIZING) TO DO FOR INCLUDING ON THIS LIST:
Post Tenebras Lux
Blade Runner 2049
Only God Forgives
Hard To Be A God
To The Wonder
Upstream Color
Before We Vanish
Uncle Boonme...
Newlyweeds
Personal Shopper
ON THE FENCE:
Get Out
Sorry To Bother You
Menashe
Mandy
You Were Never Really Here
The Goon/The Goon 2
Rust and Bone
Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse
VERY CONFLICTED/PROBABLY DON'T DESERVE TO BE ON THIS LIST BUT I'LL PUT THEM ON ANYWAY:
The Spy Who Dumped Me
The Boy And The Beast
That’s My Boy
The Road Movie
Wetlands
The Silver Linings Playbook
Les Miserables
Batman V Superman Snyder Cut
Dark Knight Rises
EH, WHY NOT?
Glass
Thor Ragnarok
Sing Street
Free State Of Jones
VERY UNDECIDED BUT DESERVE TO BE MENTIONED
Ekaj
Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far On Foot
Person To Person
TOO EARLY BUT DESERVE TO BE MENTIONED
The Souvenir
Zama
High Life
The Fanatic
An Elephant Sitting Still
