Top 10 films of 2011

[hopefuldreamer]

So, i've just been back through this thread, and not a single person has even mentioned Water for Elephants...

I gotta ask... am I the only one who's seen it, or just the only one who liked it?

I mean, i'm aware I have unsusual tastes, and a lot of people hate Robert Pattinson cause of Twilight (couldnt give a stuff myself)... but it's an lovely story, based on a beautiful book, and I enjoyed it more than any other film this year.

It's a simple story in terms of character expectations, but that's the kind I love. Kind of like Moulin Rouge if it wasn't a musical and had an elephant in it

 

[Brian2887]

I haven't seen it, but honestly, not that excited to either.

 

[Kane52630]

Updated on the films i've seen so far plus films I need to see. I think once the year ends i'll make my top 10 and my bottom 10 lists.



Films I've Seen (this includes Blu rays/DVDs; bold titles means watched in a theater)

Season of the Witch (Blu Ray)
The Green Hornet
Cedar Rapids (Blu Ray)
Unknown (Blu Ray)
Drive Angry 3D (Blu Ray)
The Adjustment Bureau (Blu Ray)
Rango
I Saw the Devil (Blu Ray)
Battle: Los Angeles
Mars Needs Moms (Blu Ray)
Limitless (Blu Ray)
The Lincoln Lawyer (Blu Ray)
Paul (Blu Ray)
Sucker Punch
Hobo with a Shotgun (Blu Ray)
Insidious (Blu Ray)
Source Code
Super (Blu Ray)
Wrecked (Blu Ray)
Hanna (Blu Ray)
Your Highness (Blu Ray)
Rio (Blu Ray)
Scream 4 (Blu Ray)
The Greatest Movie Ever Sold (Blu Ray)
Fast Five
Thor
Bridesmaids (Blu Ray)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Blu Ray)
Everything Must Go (Blu Ray)
Midnight in Paris (Blu Ray)
The Tree of Life (Blu Ray)
X-Men: First Class
Super 8
Green Lantern
Bad Teacher
Cars 2 (Blu Ray)
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Real D)
Horrible Bosses (Blu Ray)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
Captain America: The First Avenger
Cowboys & Aliens
Attack the Block (Blu Ray)
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
The Help
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
Red State (Blu Ray)
Hangover Part II (Blu Ray)
30 Minutes or Less (Blu Ray)
Conan the Barbarian (Blu Ray)
Colombiana (Blu Ray)
Our Idiot Brother (Blu Ray)
The Devil's Double (Blu Ray)
Apollo 18 (Blu Ray)
Puncture (Blu Ray)
The Debt (Blu Ray)
Atrocious (Blu Ray)
Real Steel
Fright Night (Blu Ray)
Warrior (Blu Ray)
Straw Dogs (Blu Ray)
Drive (Blu Ray)
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (DVD)
The Thing
Paranormal Activity 3
Tower Heist
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (Real D)
11-11-11 (DVD)
Hugo (Real D)
The Muppets


Films that I Need to see
Contagion
Killer Elite
Moneyball
50/50
Johnny English Reborn
In Time
Immortals
J. Edgar
The Artist
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
The Adventures of Tintin
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Darkest Hour
War Horse

 

[The Dark Defender]

So, i've just been back through this thread, and not a single person has even mentioned Water for Elephants...

I gotta ask... am I the only one who's seen it, or just the only one who liked it?

I mean, i'm aware I have unsusual tastes, and a lot of people hate Robert Pattinson cause of Twilight (couldnt give a stuff myself)... but it's an lovely story, based on a beautiful book, and I enjoyed it more than any other film this year.

It's a simple story in terms of character expectations, but that's the kind I love. Kind of like Moulin Rouge if it wasn't a musical and had an elephant in it

I kinda liked it, not one of my favorite movies of the year though.

 

[hippie_hunter]

My rankings of the films I've seen this year:

Super 8
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Captain America: The First Avenger
X-Men: First Class
Paul
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Bridesmaids
Paranormal Activity 3
Thor
The Thing
Green Lantern
Horrible Bosses
Apollo 18
A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas
Fright Night
Hanna
The Change-Up
The Hangover Part II
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Cars 2
Battle: Los Angeles
Scre4m
The Mechanic
The Green Hornet
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Bucky Larsen: Born to be a Star

 

[Call Me Darkman]

This year has been rather weak for movies, so it'll be tough to make a top 10 list. From the top of my head, the only film I find worthy is "50/50" with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen.

 

[Visiting Arkham]

The hardest part of my top 10 is the 3 superhero movies, which I go back and forth on all the time.

1. Drive
2. Bridesmaids
3. Midnight in Paris
4. Warrior
5. Thor
6. Captain America
7. X-Men: First Class
8. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
9. Hanna
10. Attack the Block

And the rest.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 2
Super
Black Death
Ip Man 2
Hobo With a Shotgun
Immortals
50/50
The Adjustment Bureau
Super 8
Fast Five
Hesher
Source Code
The Beaver
Conan the Barbarian
Battle: Los Angeles
Paul
Sucker Punch
Unknown
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides
30 Minutes or Less
Horrible Bosses
Cowboys and Aliens
Green Lantern

 

[moviedoors]

I'm pathetically behind this year. I plan on changing this in the very near future. I'm going back to the old film goer I used to be, who saw two movies a week at least.

I'll pick one as the "it" movie of the year for me:

Bellflower

I'm still chewing on it, and I imagine I will be for months to come. It's a film I have to share with people. I want to have long drawn out discussions about it. I know it's a great film in my gut, a film that hit me like bus. But it's one I must return to, share, talk about. I want to crack it.

If that isn't a sign of a great film, I don't know what is.

Number two is Attack the Block.

 

[echostation]

Drive, Tin Tin, Tinker Tailor, Attack the Block, Thor, X-men First Class, Captain America, Stanley Ka Dubba (it's an Indian art house film... you guys MUST see it, it's such a sweet gem of a film, please watch it... really it's quite superb)

Still need to see Descendants and ides of March and Skin I live in, in the middle of Tree of Life at the moment.

What about Moneyball? or 50:50 or Tyrannosaur?

 

[echostation]

stupid duplicate post...

 

[flickchick85]

What about Moneyball? or 50:50 or Tyrannosaur?

Oooh, I forgot about 50/50! That was definitely a good one. I'm not sure it would crack my top 10, but it certainly deserves an honorable mention.

 

[joypride]

Best Movies of the year :

Source code
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
Rango
Kungfu Panda2
Xmen First class
Tintin

OK movies :

Thor
Captain America
super8
Adjustment bureau

Worst movies:

Sucker punch
Battle field Los angeles

 

[Evil Twin]

I don't have a top 10 yet, the year's been fairly weak so far, but the 5 that really made an impression on me are:

Incendies
Tree of Life
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Midnight in Paris
Rise of the Planet of the Apes

 

[Laderlappen]

Havent seen much so

1. The Tree of Life
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
3. Melancholia
4. X-Men: First Class
5. Bridesmaids
6. Rango
7. Thor
8. Horrible Bosses
9. Hanna
10. Captain America

Im predicting top 3 to stay.

 

[ALP]

Don't have a top 10, still lots of stuff I haven't seen. But my favorite so far this year I think is Super 8, really loved it.

These are the ones I loved:

Super 8
Harry Potter Deathly Hallows
X-Men First Class
Rango
Rise of the Planet/ Apes

Need to see Tree of Life, and Attack The Block. Awaiting TinTin, Muppets, Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Hugo. Thought Captain America was decent, Pirates 4 was decent, Scream 4 was decent, Columbiana was fun, Cowboys & Aliens was fun, Thor was fun, Transformers was awful, and Sucker Punch was bad.

 

[nite-owl]

So far:

1. We Need To Talk About Kevin
2. The Skin I Live In
3. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
4. Moneyball
5. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
6. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
7. Drive
8. Source Code
9. X-Men: First Class
10. Captain America

We'll see how the list changes after I've seen Snowtown, Take Shelter, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Tree of Life and Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Right now Drive is on top followed closely by X-Men: First Class. Hannah also has a spot.

 

[Hotwire]

Of the movies I've seen Rango and Deathly Hallows Part 2 top my list.

 

[Assassin32]

1. We Need To Talk About Kevin
2. The Skin I Live In
3. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
4. The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
5. Drive
6. Source Code
7. X-Men: First Class
8. Bridesmaids
9. Melancholia
10. Captain America

 

[Lasirius]

The Skin I Live In was amazing, it's easily on my list as well.

In no particular order:

Drive
The Skin I Live In
50/50
Scre4m
Crazy Stupid Love
X-Men: First Class

So far..

 

[DoomsdayApex]

1.) Warrior (so underrated)
2.) Source Code
3.) Drive
4.) X-Men: First Class
5.) 50/50
6.) Bridesmaids
7.) Battle: Los Angeles
8.) Rise Planet of the Apes
9.) Super 8
10.) 13 Assassins

War Horse, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo could be up there after December.

 

[Drizzle]

1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
2. X-Men: First Class
3. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
4. The Muppets
5. Super 8
6. Transformers: Dark of the Moon
7. The Hangover Part II
8. Thor
9. Captain America
10. Bridesmaids

Didn't make the cut:
11. Rango
12. Cowboys and Aliens
13. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
14. Horrible Bosses
15. A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas
16. Paul
17. Cars 2
18. Battle: Los Angeles
19. Just Go With It
20. Hall Pass
21. Your Highness

Worst of 2011:
22. Green Hornet
23. Green Lantern
24. Arthur
25. Sucker Punch

 

[flickchick85]

Saw a couple more today.

1. Drive
2. Warrior
3. Tree of Life
4. Hugo
5. X-Men: First Class / Captain America: The First Avenger
6. Midnight in Paris
7. Bridesmaids
8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Pt. 2
9. The Skin I Live In
10. Moneyball


Honorable Mentions: 13 Assassins, The Muppets, 50/50, Take Shelter, Melancholia, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Hanna, Source Code, Super 8, Immortals, Thor

 

[moviedoors]

So, am I the only one whose seen Bellflower? You guys are missing out on one of the most exciting new voices in cinema. I implore you, see it. You can thank me latter.

 

[Superhero 101]

1. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
2. The Descendants
3. Moneyball
4. Rise of The Planet of the Apes
5. X-men First Class
6. Harry Potter 8
7. Captain America
8. Drive
9. Bridesmaids
10. Thor

Worst
1. Green Lantern
2. Immortals
3. Sucker Punch
4. Green Hornet
5. Priest

Honorable Mention:
1. 50/50
2. Source Code
3. Super 8
4. Cowboys and Aliens
5. Lincoln Lawyer