Monday, December 13, 2010

AFI's Top Picks of 2010

The American Film Institute announced its top-10 movies and its top-10 TV shows.

AFI certainly doesn't always appeal to my tastes, but it generally does better than, say, the Academy Awards, for instance.  In fact, I just started watching my last film on AFI's top-100 movies of all time list, the three+ hour, 1915 silent film, Intolerance.  When I knock that one out, I will have seen all 100 films on the list and 90-95 of them are what I would consider great films.  The Oscars are a smaller sample size each year, but they always feel 50-50 to me and driven by fads and popular mood swings.

So here's AFI's list for 2010.


Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
127 Hours
The Social Network
The Town
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
The Kids Are All Right


I've not seen any of these (yes, I'm the one person in America who hasn't either Inception or Toy Story 3) but I have five of these on my urgent to-watch list.

5 comments:

Bryan Champ said...

My guess at the 5 on your list are as follows (in no particular order).

Inception
Toy Story 3
True Grit
The Town
The Fighter

Thumper said...

Also The Social Network, but I don't know hardly anything about some of the films on that list.

Thumper said...

Saw Inception last night and Toy Story 3 is under the tree.

Bryan Champ said...

and? Was Inception worth the watch?

Thumper said...

I thought it was good, but nearly as good as people were saying. Not film of the year.