# Your top 10 fav films of 2010 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-fav-films-of-2010/565836 "2010-12-30T16:31:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-fav-films-of-2010/565836/41 "2011-01-13T21:24:02Z")
1. _Winter’s Bone_ – Many months after seeing it, this movie has stuck in my mind more than any other I’ve seen this year. True-to-life performances like few others I’ve seen (and many of the actors were not, in fact, actors). 2. _The Fighter_ – great performance by Christian Bale, but Amy Adams really, really surprised me here – showed me a completely new side of her. The story was great, of course. 3. _True Grit_ – the Coens put their spin on a great story, and it’s a resounding success. 4. _Inception_ 5. _127 Hours_ 6. _Kick-Ass_ – I agree with DRM re: rewatchability; I saw this twice in the theater and would watch it again right now. 7. _Scott Pilgrim vs. The World_ – see #6 8. _Let Me In_ – while I don’t think the story needed to be retold from an American standpoint, this movie was a very solid effort 9. _The Kids Are Alright_ – good performances all around helped move it into my top 10; the story was a little bleh. 10. _Monsters_ – in every frame, you could see the heart and soul the director and writer (and SFX guy, and producer, and …) put in this movie I have not yet seen _Toy Story 3_, _Black Swan_, _The King’s Speech_ nor _The Social Network_ (I love David Fincher movies, but loathe Facebook and want nothing to do with it). I will see them eventually, and, based on reviews I’ve read elsewhere and here, expect that they will move into my top 10 list and displace the bottom four. I agree with other posters, though – there’s a division between the outstanding movies of 2010 and the ones that are only very good. I really wish AMPAS hadn’t extended the category of Best Picture to 10 nominees. ---
**Author:** ![blinkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@blinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinkie)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-fav-films-of-2010/565836/42 "2011-01-13T22:26:52Z")
The King’s Speech-Far and away the best I’ve seen all year ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-fav-films-of-2010/565836/43 "2011-01-14T00:29:50Z")
> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > 1. _Winter’s Bone_ – Many months after seeing it, this movie has stuck in my mind more than any other I’ve seen this year. Same here. > [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > 1. _Let Me In_ – while I don’t think the story needed to be retold from an American standpoint, this movie was a very solid effort. Great to see this on your list! If I ever get around to making one, this will be on it. > [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > 1. _Monsters_ – in every frame, you could see the heart and soul the director and writer (and SFX guy, and producer, and …) put in this movie. I’m just _kicking_ myself for missing this. It played for like a week at a theater I detest. I was going to see it anyway but then it left. I was really looking forward to it too. I hoped and hoped it would re-open at one of the other art house theaters, ones I like, but it never did. The same thing happened with **Animal Kingdom**. > [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > I have not yet seen _Toy Story 3_, _Black Swan_, _The King’s Speech_ nor _The Social Network_ (I love David Fincher movies, but loathe Facebook and want nothing to do with it). As I told **Mahaloth** , you don’t have to like Facebook, you can utterly loathe Facebook with every atom of your being, and you can still appreciate and even like **The Social Network**. To steal a couple of lines from someone else at another site, “it is actually a classic tale of ambition and betrayal in the best traditions of Shakespeare’s plays…Facebook is just the device for which Sorkin and Fincher have hinged their morality play.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2011, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-fav-films-of-2010/565836/44 "2011-01-14T03:42:01Z")
Agreed. I dislike what little I know of Facebook and still really enjoyed the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-fav-films-of-2010/565836/45 "2011-01-17T00:44:34Z")
OK, having now seen 127 Hours, my list looks like this: 1. [The Town](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0840361/) 2. [The Social Network](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1285016/) 3. [The King’s Speech](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1504320/) 4. [Winter’s Bone](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399683/) 5. [True Grit](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1403865/) 6. [The Fighter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964517/) 7. [127 Hours](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1542344/) 8. [Blue Valentine](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0964517/) 9. [Let Me In](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228987/) 10. [Machete](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-10-fav-films-of-2010/565836.md?page=2)