Your favorite movies for the last 9 years?
5People on Twitter have been talking about it. You’ve been dreaming about it. The Meh forum post is finally created regarding it!
Think of the years between 2010 and now. Which movie (or movies, if you can’t decide) is/are/were your favorites for each year?
I’m an insufferable weepy arthouse dweeb, so I’ll get things rolling in an annoying direction with my list:
2010 Black Swan/True Grit
2011 Take Shelter/Melancholia
2012 House with a Turret (Nobody has seen this but me and the director’s mom. More’s the pity.)
2013 Blue Jasmine
2014 99 Homes
2015 Carol/Inside Out/Brooklyn
2016 Paterson
2017 Call Me by Your Name/Lady Bird
2018 I dunno, haven’t seen much. Death of Stalin? Prospect?
Chime in with your list! And don’t say First Man, because that movie suuuuucked.
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The only correct answer is The Princess Bride
@therealjrn Yeah, this is kind of ambiguous. I’m not sure my favorite movie has changed since 2010. I am assuming this is supposed to be favorite movies that came out each year?
@therealjrn I think you might be a few decades off
@spitfire6006006 The question was favorite movie for the last nine years. You need to read the question more better.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@spitfire6006006 @therealjrn The answers to the question posed at the top of this page are correctly parsed as: “The Princess Bride”, “The Avengers”, “The Shawshank Redemption”, “Memento”, “The Green Mile”, “Saving Private Ryan”, “The Fifth Element”, and a few others I’m trying to remember, because they have been my favorite movies for at least the past nine years.
Now, on the other hand, if you asked which movie released in each of the last nine years is your favorite; or said “Name your favorite movie which was released for each of the last nine years”- my answers would be different.
I’ve seen two movies on your list.
Black swan and melancholia.
Black swan was fine.
Melancholia was weird as fuck. That’s all I remember.
I hardly ever go to movies but I really loved The Shack and A Dog’s Purpose. Both came out at precisely the right time for me.
@llangley Did you happen to read The Shack? I liked the book much better than the movie. I read the book first and when watching the movie felt that some things would have been missed if I hadn’t read the book. Just passing this along in case you hadn’t read the book - I recommend it.
A Dog’s Purpose was awesome as well!!
@kathyl @llangley My daughters’ said the same thing about the Shack. They loved the book. (I have not read or seen it)
@kathyl @lseeber I haven’t read the book The Shack…yet. My friend Sue loved it though and said it was such an inspiration as she battled lung cancer and other demons. It is definitely on my list!!
And, ditto on The Dog’s Purpose!! The book was so much better than the movie, even though the ending was different. Explains more about the fire, and why Bailey was able to recognize those woods near the farm. Kinda like Cujo book vs movie; we could better understand what he was thinking, etc with a different ending.
I would need a cheat sheet to know which movies were in each year.
Wait - is this another one of your tricky puzzles?
2010 True Grit (w/honorable mention to Four Lions)
2011 Limitless
2012 Life Of Pi
2013 Gravity
2014 The Imitation Game
2015 The Martian/The Big Short
2016 Deadpool
2017 Blade Runner 2049 (but only on the second viewing, at home, where I could control the audio)
2018 I haven’t seen much either - I mostly watch movies at home, so I have some catching up to do. Was not that impressed with Infinity War at the theater, but may like it better at home.
@macromeh
WAS BLADE RUNNER 2049 TOO LOUD?
Did you see Mother? Just interested in an art house dweeb’s opinion.
@sammydog01 no…didn’t sound like my bag
Why nine years?
@TheFLP
Because 2010 to present, but asking about the last 8.9 years would just look weird. 
@rockblossom
Ah, good point.
… But then, why 2010? I’m pretty sure they had movies in 2009. I think I even saw one of them, which is more than I can say for most of those years.
If it was just for the nice round year, they should have waited until the end of 2019 when it would be a nice round number, too.
@TheFLP I dunno…some guy on twitter asked it originally. People like thinking in decades, I guess!
@TheFLP @UncleVinny - Because odd numbers, right? Works for me!
@kdemo @TheFLP the odder the better, I always say!
I have 99 Homes on my Prime watch list and will see it very soon.
Arthouse is also one of my high preferences - but haven’t been to the cinemas in a long time and just joined Prime.
2010 Inception
2011 The Cabin in the Woods
2012 Prometheus
2013 The Zero Theorem
2014 Interstellar
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road
2016 Deadpool
2017 Blade Runner 2049 (I haven’t seen it yet, but I’ll probably replace this favorite with John Wick 2)
2018 The Girl in the Spider’s Web
2010 Inception
2011 The Guard
2012 Looper
2013 The World’s End
2014 What We Do in the Shadows
2015 Mad Max
2016 The Nice Guys
2017 Baby Driver
2018 Death of Stalin
Few of these years were hard to pick (or were easy but I still want to give props), close runners up: 2012 Skyfall and 21 Jump Street; 2013 The Gamers: Hands of Fate; 2014 22 Jump Street, Calvary; 2015 Ex Machina; 2016 Rogue One, Popstar; 2017 Logan, Blade Runner, and Three Billboards
Last year was apparently pretty good for movies
@spitfire6006006 We actually also ended loving “Ready Player One”
2010: Scott Pilgrim vs The World
2011: Hanna
2012: Django Unchained
2013: American Hustle
2014: American Sniper
2015: The Hateful Eight
2016: Arrival
2017: Molly’s Game
2018: Annihilation
I’m liking more than a few from a couple of these lists: Limitless, The Martian, Deadpool, The Cabin in the Woods, Interstellar, Mad Max: Fury Road, All 3 of The Gal w/ Dragoon Tattoo movies [original versions], Looper, The Nice Guys, Baby Driver, Zombieland, All the Resident Evil movies, Hanna, Guardians of the Galaxy, Pitch Black and the other Riddick movies, etc, etc- but t choose a favorite for each year may take me another 8.9 years to re-watch all the contenders and keep score.