# Top movie of the decade? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2019, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466 "2019-11-15T02:34:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466/21 "2019-11-19T02:07:18Z")
Forgot about a big one! 2018: A Star is Born ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466/22 "2019-11-19T02:22:28Z")
12 years a slave the VVitch Birdman Wolf of wall street Django unchained interstellar Dark Knight rises Logan (excellent ending to the series) Mudbound A ghost story It follows ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466/23 "2019-11-19T09:23:10Z")
I’ve read these lists (and the baffling AV Club Top 100, which his barely one spot), and pretty much never connect with most of the choices. Always kind of strange, really, to see other’s judgement on such a period of time, and not have anything like the same answers. I guess my criteria would be “Would I watch it a third time?” and most peoples choices on here are a definite “No”. Seen most of them, appreciated a lot of them, wouldn’t sit down to watch more than a scene or two if they were showing on advertless TV. I’ve not tracked most of the movies over the last ten years, but I’ve got a rental list where I can pick out what is best of, and what was “interesting” (memorable, different) Best of Cabin in the Woods It Follows Lego the movie Thor 3 Searching For Sugarman Spiderman into the Spiderverse Train to Busan Your Name Hounds of Love A Quiet Place Bad Times at El Royale Us Memorable Compliance Behind the Candelabra Occulus Hunt for wilderpeople The Iceman The Bridge Machette Kills Absentia Green Room Popstar: Never stop stopping Don’t breathe Sightseers The autopsy of Jane Doe Hereditary Deadpool 2 Pet Booksmart Unsane ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466/24 "2019-11-19T12:03:05Z")
I don’t usually rank movies, it’s so hard to really say why one is better than another. Also I don’t watch enough of them to make a fair judgement of where they should stand. A good two thirds of the films you have all listed so far I have no interest in ever watching. Anyway, here’s a list of some I liked or have rewatched most frequently. Tangled Dredd Edge Of Tomorrow Rogue One (I liked all the Star Wars movies very much) Dunkirk Bumblebee The Lego Movie Zootopia Hunt For The Wilderpeople Chef Paddington 1 and 2 Most of Marvel ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2019, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466/25 "2019-11-19T23:06:21Z")
Looked at the AV Club Top 100 (yeah lists, I know…) and the only movie I’d add is Christian Petzold’s _Transit_, which is not even on that list and currently the least popular of Petzold’s three great films this decade. In any case, we’re always decades away from a consensus on the last one, nobody will have seen enough films and those who’ll claim they’ve seen an entire Top \*\*\* list are way too influenceable. I mean even critics who see a boatload of films are just starting to realize After Hours (1985) is the greatest movie ever made and will never be topped, and that was 35 years ago! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466/26 "2019-11-20T21:09:18Z")
My favorite film of each year from 2010-2018 Winter’s Bone The Tree of Life Moonrise Kingdom Upstream Color Timbuktu Mustang Moonlight Personal Shopper Blindspotting ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466/27 "2019-11-20T21:19:08Z")
I’ve enjoyed a lot of the movies that have already been listed, but of those the only one really in contention for me is Fury Road. There are probably others that were released in the past 10 years that would compete, but nothing comes to mind at the moment. Others I really enjoyed: Get Out The Big Short Spotlight The Martian Room Moneyball The Social Network Ex Machina Logan Looper ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466/28 "2019-11-21T10:31:25Z")
Not sure if I’d stand behind these as “great” films, but they’re the ones which had the biggest impact on me. In no particular order (except the first): _ **Get Out** _ _Hereditary What We Do in the Shadows It Follows Dunkirk Hell or High Water Room Don’t Breathe Revenge_ (2017, directed by Coralie Fargeat) Doesn’t quite make my list, but \*Mandy \*is a wild ride with some amazing imagery. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466/29 "2019-11-21T14:43:54Z")
Would also add “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” to the list. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466/30 "2019-11-21T16:31:42Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > … > Edge Of Tomorrow > … Seriously underrated movie, probably in my top 3 of the decade. Also, the first Guardians of the Galaxy is my favorite MCU movie. I’d put it up there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-movie-of-the-decade/843466.md?page=1)