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27.07.09 # Top Ten # 175 Comments5. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Starring: Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Kieran Culkin
Director: Edgar Wright
Release Date: 13th August 2010
One of the greatest indie comic books in recent history, Scott Pilgrim, created by writer-artist Bryan Lee O’Malley, is an epic love story, a teen comedy and a bizarre action piece set in Canada. Influenced by music, video games, manga and real life it really is like nothing else. If you haven’t read it yet, you’re missing out.
Edgar Wright’s film adaptation stars Michael Cera as Scott Pilgrim, lead singer of crappy, unsigned band Sex Bob-Omb (that’s a Super Mario reference, n00bs), and Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers, the girl of Scott’s dreams. Literally. He dreams about her, and then she shows up. In pursuit of her he has to fight her seven evil ex-boyfriends, evade his jilted ex Knives Chau, and put up with Wallace Wells (Kieran Culkin), the gay roommate that he sleeps with (but not in a gay way). Made of win.
4. Tron Legacy
Starring: Garrett Hedlund, Jeff Bridges, Olivia Wilde
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Release Date: 17th December 2010
Tron was ahead of its time. Now is that time. While the first film amazed with its vision and FX, it still managed to bore with its pace, but on the basis of this concept trailer, the sequel has managed to get the balance just right. The plot sees Flynn’s son enter Tron to find out what happened to his father (Jeff Bridges) all those years ago. Looks spectacular.
3. Toy Story 3
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen
Director: Lee Unkrich
Release Date: 18th June 2010
Pixar: the most dependable movie studio around. Coming off of Wall-E and Up, they’re returning to their roots, the movie that made their name, Toy Story. Ordinarily, threequels are something to dread, and unnecessary sequels to animated movies often feel every bit as superfluous as they actually are (yes, you, Shrek). But Pixar can (virtually) do no wrong at this point, and the first two Toy Story movies are such bona fide modern classics that you can’t help but be excited about the further misadventures of Woody and Buzz.
2. Iron Man 2
Starring: Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Mickey Rourke
Director: Jon Favreau
Release Date: 7th May 2010
Terrence Howard is probably (like the rest of us) still in shock after getting Cheadled, and Olga Kurylenko can’t believe she didn’t get Johansson’s part. She refuses to take the costume off, it’s kind of embarrassing…
1. Inception
Starring: Leonardo Dicaprio, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Director: Christopher Nolan
Release Date: 16th July 2010
Nothing else could have been number one, not after 2008, not after The Dark Knight. It. Was. Awesome. Due in no small part to the genius of Christopher Nolan, a director with an enviable track record, who now turns his attentions to the sci-fi genre with Inception, a movie shrouded in Cloverfield-levels of mystery.
We know Ken Watanabe is blackmailing Leonardo DiCaprio, who’s married to Marion Cotillard and works with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ellen Page, but that’s it. Oh, and, it’s set within ‘the architecture of the mind’, which could mean anything at this point. Inception makes number one sheerly on the basis of the talent involved, the mega cast, the phenomenal director, and, again, because of 2008, which as our top two shows, was quite a good year for movies.
In the absence of promo images, we’ve put together a poster ourselves for you viewing pleasure, it’s quite possibly 100% accurate, so beware SPOILERS BELOW!
CONCLUSION
There wasn’t room in the top twenty for everything, so some big projects are absent. Platformer adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, didn’t get any votes.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1, Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader also failed to get any support – are we suffering from long-titled kiddy-fantasy-fatigue?
The release date for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island was only switched to 2010 at the last minute, otherwise it would have made the list. Kick-Ass showed its hand too late for the vote.
And yes there’s The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, if you’re into that sort of thing.
What are your top 3 picks?
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I have tried to leave messages for upcoming 2010 movies releases but it never goes through. I think this list of films is great. I look forward to Tron 2, Clash Of T he Titans and The Expendables for the 2010 or throw an xtra in – Iron Man 2. hope this goes through.
I think the A-Team will be cool especialy with Liam Neeson Im already excited for 2011, Batman 3, I heard somewhere also Plastic Man, also I like Spiderman 4, and Pirates Of The Caribbian.
My top 2010 movies (now) would be:
5. Clash Of The Titans
4. A Nightmare On Elm Street
3. Iron Man 2
2. Tron Legacy
1. Inception
lol get off christopher nolans dick! Hes Directed Eight films (Nine if you count short films) and only 4 are really good. Out of those four , two are batman reboots that were bound to be good considering the shit quality of the old ones in comparison.
I consider him to be the new m night shyamalan, meaning hes had a string of good movies and now get ready for a string of horrble ones as he gets cocky about his directing and writing skills.
The only good sign is that Leonardo Dicaprio has signed on to this film which usually means the script is pretty solid.
OH and P.S. who else is disgusted by the amount of remakes being fired out of hollywoods ass. What the f*ck is the world coming to when we just watch the same f*cking films over and over again with new actors. and if its not remakes its live action versions of old nostalgia cartoons or video games. What the f*ck people stop paying for this garbage!
I stopped paying for movies when hollywood decided it was a good idea to remake king kong.
Which were the other two Nolan films you liked Intevai? He does have unlimited power now, it’s true, and that’s not usually a good thing, but for the moment I still have faith in him, I think all his movies have told good stories.
Jim Carrey as Murdoch in the A-Team would kick ass.
Sheridan,
I enjoyed both memento and the prestige both written and directed by nolan. The one he bombed on was insomnia but the problem with that one was casting robin williams as a crazy person/badguy.
hmm, well i liked insomnia. it was a very well made film, even if it isn’t nolan’s finest.
i can only assume you haven’t seen following or doodlebug because they’re great, especially for what they are – the work of an amateur filmmaker.
and unless you’ve seen inception, i only make that seven films…
I think that you definately need to have Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief in there. Some people are saying it might overcome the Harry Potter movie in 2010. How impossible that seems, yet it might happen.=)
I think the 2010 movies coming soon order should go like this:
4.Iron Man
3.Robin Hood
2.Clash of the Titans
1.Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief=)
I just can’t wait for The Lightning Thief to come out!!! I’ve read every book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, and I know each of them from front to back!!!!
I’m so excited for these movies! 2010 here we come!
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best movies of 2010? where is percy jackson and the olympions the lightning thief?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!the movie to the best book ever should be on here for gods sakes they have avatar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
percy jackson just wasn’t on the radar (neither was tron at first – or kick-ass) wish we knew more about it the lightning thief…it sounds like it has a lot of potential.
my top 5 movies coming out in 2010:
5. alice in wonderland
4. the last airbender
3. iron man 2
2. a nightmare on elm street (i know, i know…)
1. inception
my opinion on what inception is going to be something along the lines of “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest” or something that has too do with an asylum or generally crazy p[eople…