Breaking Boundaries: Journey To The Center Of The Film

This morning I caught wind of this new trend going around that seems to have originated from Top 10 Films where you (and I suppose me in this case!) are given a magic ticket that lets you jump in to any movie world that you wanted. I wanted to see this in action, and luckily Jessica at The Velvet Cafe and Alex at BoaCE both gave me a template to work from. The idea is apparently based on The Last Action Hero. Now I haven't seen that film, so instead of a ticket I will think of this more in the sense of time traveling device in Chrono Trigger. This time though it's like I'm my own Lucca!

The exercise seems fun, because I usually don't go in to films with the hope to escape from my real world. Instead, I want to learn more about myself and the world around me, so with that idea in mind let's take a trip down in to the bowels of my imagination. Welcome to my desires!

Taking on 2010 - Supporting Performances

With the year officially over, and my inclusion of 2010 winding down as well, I need to start wrapping up my end of the year awards. Naturally I have not seen all the films I hoped to get to over the year, but life happens. I am going to try and continue to catch up with films that need to be seen, but for the most part I think I have had a chance to see most of the films that boast the buzzed about performances. It should probably be noted that I am only drawing from a sample size of 80 films for these lists.

Taking on 2010 - Film Rankings

And with the end of the Oscars I can probably close the book on 2010 in film. Did not hit 100, as I had hoped, but below are all the films I've seen ranked and in order from best to worst. Here's hoping that 2011 is even better! Also, sorry for the formatting inconsistencies, I could not figure out what was going wrong, so it looks sort of sloppy and uneven, but the rankings are there and they all correspond numerically.

Great (1-12)

Summer Wars

Black Swan

The Social Network

True Grit

Somewhere

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

Runaway

Mother

Cyrus

Plastic Bag

The Life of the World to Come

The Illusionist

Good (13-45)

Winter’s Bone

Blue Valentine

Dogtooth

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?

I’m Still Here

It’s Kind of A Funny Story

4.3.2.1

A Town Called Panic

The Secret of Kells

Rabbit Hole

Machete

The White Ribbon

Greenberg

Remember Me

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Ramona and Beezus

MacGruber

Mystery Team

Another Year

Afterschool

I Am Love

Despicable Me

I’m Here

My Dog Tulip

Mary and Max

Splice

Charlie St. Cloud

Shutter Island

A Prophet

Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl

The Secret in their Eyes

TRON: Legacy

127 Hours

Mediocre (46-84)

Four Lions

Easy A

Let Me In

Animal Kingdom

Exit Through the Gift Shop

The Winning Season

Catfish

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Get Him to the Greek

Youth in Revolt

Twelve

FISH TANK

Never Let Me Go

Micmacs

The White Stripes: Under the Great Northern Lights

Alice in Wonderland

Batman: Under the Red Hood

Valentine’s Day

Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam

I Love You, Phillip Morris

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

FRED: The Movie

The Kids Are All Right

Avalon High

Kick-Ass

The Last Song

I Am Comic

The Fighter

The Town

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work

Solitary Man

Holy Rollers

Victorious: Freak the Freak Out

Starstruck

iPsycho

Iron Man 2

16 Wishes

Restrepo

The King’s Speech

Bad (85-92)

Tooth Fairy

The Book of Eli

Inception

Den Brother

City Island

She’s Out of My League

Toy Story 3

The Cartel

Terrible (93-94)

Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars

How to Train Your Dragon