PLEASE DO NOT POST YOUR BALLOTS HERE (I will have a different thread for that)

I will post the Q&D full results in the Master List thread once that is ready (and I finish updating the Master List)

The Master List is updated and I posted the remaining movies that got votes in that thread too.

If you so choose - feel free to post your full ballots here. PLEASE PUT THEM IN THE SPOILER BOX!!!

Some people just mention the things they voted that didn't make the list. (You also don't have to do any of that)

I am going to continue to post things in the Facts and Figures thread too. In fact now that I posted the full list - it allows me to tackle a couple of things there.

Highest ranked animation film will be Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Confident in that call.

Taika Waititi has a shot at the director who appears the most. Paul Thomas Anderson will be up there.

I think Mad Max: Fury Road will come out on top. Parasite has a chance. Get Out as well. I'm probably drawing a blank on others. What am I missing?

Avengers: Infinity War or Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the highest ranked MCU entry.

Coco beats Toy Story 3 as Pixar's highest movie.

A Total of 19 Ballots were submitted

Ballot Breakdown

• 100: 12 Ballots
• 70+: 1 Ballot
• 60+: 2 Ballots
• 50+: 4 Ballots

A Total of 656 Movies were named in some form on ballots

248 movies made the final reveal. This represents 38% of the movies voted for. (For context, the Best of the 90s redo had 47% make it. The GOAT poll had 29%. I like being in the middle of that.)

Any movie that had 98 or more points made the list. This means that everyone's Top 3 made the final reveal. (There was only one third place vote specifically that was getting screwed.) It only added 4 movies beyond the traditional 100 point cutoff. (As a reminder 1st place vote = 100, 2nd place vote = 99, etc...)

TIEBREAKERS

1) Honorable Mention

1a) Fewer # of votes

2) Highest Individual Vote

3) Magic

(I think Honorable Mention votes and Fewer # of Votes will basically always end up falling the same way but I am not 100% sure because it is easier to break the ties as I go)

OTHER THINGS

Please don't reveal that you voted for a movie that hasn't been revealed yet. I do want to keep some of the mystery

Full list of votes will be posted at the end

I will keep a separate thread that will contain just the list that only I can post in. Mainly to keep the size of individual posts down to a manageable load time. (See the GOAT subfolder to see what I mean).

I will start the reveals later today after I eat lunch and do one last last check of the list

But, my list is not 100 movies.  It is perilously close to that - I think it's at 90, but I left gaps because I felt like I was probably missing things here and there that would eventually fill in the blanks. So, you will see *actual numbering gaps*.  These are not typos.  I consider it a bit of a living document, because I watch way too many movies and I feel like I will never see everything I want to. Good example: I still haven't brought myself to finish watching The Act of Killing because it's one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen, but it's also undeniably a top-20 or higher pick if I ever get around to watching the last half.  This will take some time to write up, since I'm doing it on the fly, so I'm basically consulting my Letterboxd list (which I will link to) and pumping these out 10 or 20 at a time as I go along.  Buckle up, kiddies.

Also, like some others, my first 10 choices (91-100) are less "these were that good" and more things I felt like recognizing for other reasons.

See the full list here: https://letterboxd.com/contentiousc/list/badly-attempting-to-rank-the-2010s/

100. Captain America: The First Avenger (2011, J. Johnston)

I can’t justify putting this higher and I can’t justify leaving it off entirely.  I came out of the theater thinking I’d watched a pretty solid film that was ultimately a 2-hour advertisement for a different film.  But, as time has gone by, the quality of this has shone through, thanks to Evans’ decade-long work as the backbone of the MCU, and this film lays the groundwork for nearly all of that.  He and Hayley Atwell somehow divert a superhero movie into one of the better romances in recent memory.  Every other actor has something fun to add, even jerks like Weaving, and Johnston was probably the perfect choice to direct this, given how the film looks from start to finish, and given how ably he shifts the focus from origin story to punchline to throwing punches.

99. Prometheus (2012, R. Scott)

Oooowee, let’s have some fun, shall we?  Michael Fassbender may just be the actor of the decade (or is he?  I'll revisit this...) when you stop and look at his output (even if he is an abusive piece of shit).  You could (and probably should) leave off his whole run as (a far better than Ian McKellen) Magneto and still have half a dozen great movies of his – pretty much all of which will end up on this list. But he’s easily the best nuts-and-bolts part of this film, with Noomi Rapace not too far behind. 

But the real beauty of this movie, despite the plot holes you could drive a tractor-trailer through, is how divisive it is.  It’s crazy how people failed to notice what they experienced as the audience was *what the film is trying to say about its characters*.  It’s a fun piece of meta-analysis: Person X sits down to watch some movie about xenomorphs, has a fantasy built up in their head about How Everything Began, is disappointed and flails horribly when the reality doesn’t live up to the fantasy.  That’s the message of the plot, too!  Except replace “watch some movie about xenomorphs” with “go on a space mission to meet God” and “flails horribly” with…no, nope, still flailing horribly, just flailing to death.  Love it.

98. These Final Hours (2013, Z. Hilditch)

This sounds about right.  If you’re looking for apocalyptic suspense that strips down to its barest form and gets at the meaning of our choices and ourselves, you can do a lot worse than this.  It's less allegorical than other, similar movies, but it's as humanist as a movie like this can get.  Jessica de Gouw might be the only familiar face to anyone in the U.S. – she played Huntress on the first couple of seasons of Arrow – but a lot of the rest of this feels right, in a way that’d be strangely comforting if it weren’t about such creepy material. I’d expect things to go this way if, say, the events of the Fallout game series happened on the other side of the world: everyone else would go apeshit, but they’d eventually come to their senses just a little and take a long, hard look at who they truly were.  But, far from the best film of the decade where the film ends when the world does.

97. The Cabin in the Woods (2011, D. Goddard)

The 2010s might be the decade that simultaneously proved that satire was not dead (this, Parasite, Sarah Cooper TikToks) and also proved that it totally was dead (literally everything else for the last 4 years).  Schrodinger's Satire?  Whatever.  I doubt I have anything remotely original to say about this that hasn't already been said.  It's one of those films I heard a lot of good things about, but nothing overtly spoiler-y, and then when I finally saw it, I wanted to bounce my head off a brick wall for not watching sooner.

96. Blue Ruin (2013, J. Saulnier)

I greatly prefer this to the also-color-titled and absurdly-plotted Green Room, and I think its dearth of recognizable faces helps in that regard.  I went it with no expectations and I was fucking absorbed like the cover art to Videodrome inside of 5 minutes.  The desolate quiet of that hopeless perspective sucks you in and stays with you, no matter how crazy the movie becomes. 

95. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010, E. Wright)

I can't believe you guys ranked this # 4 for the halfsies list.  Jesus.  But I've rarely ping-ponged as hard on any film as this one: saw it in the theaters and loved it.  Bought it years later and practically had to hold my nose.  Saw it again for this project and suddenly saw the charm again.  But great?  Nah.  Definitely a "had to be there" sort of movie, though, as I think the humor would not have aged very well were it not for Edgar Wright knowing exactly how to play it.  The comics were frankly never as appealing to me.  The casting is also close to perfect, which never hurts. 

94. Skyfall (2012, S. Mendes)

There are 5 or 6 Bond movies I have a soft spot for, and while I can't really say this is the best Bond movie - Hell, it's not even Daniel Craig's best - this is certainly the best-looking one anyone's ever done, and it's way better than Spectre was (which others hated and I actually didn't mind so much).  Given this was the Decade of Tentpole Bullshit, it seems fitting to take the time to recognize one of the better entries in the original tentpole franchise.

93. The Death of Stalin (2017, A. Iannucci)

I can't say that Veep is my cup of tea - there comes a point with some satirical work where it cuts so close to the bone that you're really only laughing because otherwise you'd cry - but this strikes the right balance.  I think it's got maybe 1 or 2 too many characters in it to work as tightly as it could, but hey, I guess they were trying to be at least passingly accurate with respect to history.  This doesn't approach the level of the best Christopher Guest movies, but at least it's a little comforting to know that there's someone else out there trying, and reminding us not to fall into this trap (even though clearly we've been too stupid to listen ever since).

92. Sorry to Bother You (2018, B. Riley)

This was just too enjoyably ridiculous to leave off.  This definitely pushes into the "laughing because you want to laugh" end of the satire spectrum, which I appreciate.  It feels like 80% of the movie was done, and Boots kind of ran out of ideas by the end, but going as far as he did at least makes that ending feel like it's still of a piece with the rest, since he found a way to up the ante on his own absurdity. 

91. Thor: Ragnarok (2017, T. Waititi)

God, the Thor franchise.  When this one was lined up, I dreaded it.  I figured it would just be another cocked-up movie involving Thor.  And I really hoped there'd be a stand-alone film based on Planet Hulk.  But, I can still remember seeing the trailers for this during Guardians Volume 2 and thinking, "They're finally going to do a good Thor movie!"  And they did a lot more than that.  Taika Waititi probably deserves more credit than anyone (aside from Chris Hemsworth himself) from turning the most boring Avenger into the most interesting Avenger in the span of 2 movies.

90. Young Adult (2011, J. Reitman)

I feel like this is relatively interchangeable with the later Diablo Cody/Jason Reitman/Charlize Theron collaboration, Tully, and it sort of depends on what you value the most.  The latter movie is more of a two-woman show (sort of, watch it and you'll see what I mean), but Young Adult has a little more breadth to it, even if the relationship with Patton Oswalt is a bit hard to fathom.  But Charlize Theron, despite being an actual goddess, somehow breathes a metric ton of realism and emotional depth into these roles that she should probably be classed right out of based on her looks.  I mean, she does her share of total garbage work, like Umpteenth Furious Fastness Whatever, but I guess that pays the bills so she can shine in things like this.

89. Booksmart (2019, O. Wilde)

This is this decade's Superbad, if Superbad had believable characters, actual emotional resonance with its audience, real creativity from the director, and wasn't a cheap knockoff of every other "great" teen movie for the last 30 years.  Let's face it, practically that whole genre was born as tired and boring as the facial expression of a 15-year-old convenience store clerk.  This is one of the only films to do it well; the last couple of plot points get a bit out of hand, but the rest is so well-done it's hard to ding it just for that.

88. Magic Mike (2012, S. Soderbergh)

A strange number of lists actually seem to think the sequel is better, so I suppose I should get around to watching that.  But, frankly, I went into this with no expectations whatsoever that it would be good in any way, shape, or form, and it really surprised me.  I thought about sticking a pun in there about how it knocked my socks off, but then you'd be asking yourself where I was wearing the sock, and no one needs that mental image, right?  Hey, wait...I mean, no movie featuring Joe Mangianello using a penis pump should legitimately be this good, but somehow it is.  Is this Soderbergh's best movie of the decade?  He's pretty polarizing for me; I either love his stuff or want to throw my TV out the window.  I don't know for sure, but I liked it better than Contagion or Side Effects by a wide margin.

87. Chronicle (2012, J. Trank)

Maybe the best found-footage movie anyone has done, and still pretty far up there as far as superhero origin stories go.  Too bad Trank pissed away this goodwill, and I wonder if the stench of the Fantastic Four debacle means that people end up ignoring this.  It's weird how so many others in the movie kind of peaked here, except for Michael B. Jordan, who somehow was in F4 and yet could probably buy and sell the careers of everyone else at this stage.  I haven't watched this but the once, but once was enough to appreciate how good the slow burn was and how the death spiral is both delicately and incredibly indelicately woven.

86. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, J. Gunn)

I think a part of me likes Vol. 2 more, but I can't honestly say that it *works* better, because there's the whole Taserface bit and a lot of jokes that don't land (aside from Mantis and Drax being PURE COMEDY GOLD AT ALL TIMES).  This is thinner with respect to the plot, and the Thanos bits feel tacked-on (because they were) other than Ronan leveling himself up, but there isn't anything about it that is less than a home run.  I was a massive fan of the Annihilation: Conquest storyline that underpins the whole movie, and I was really banking on this being the film that finally crashed and burned Marvel's run of relatively quality movies (in retrospect, Iron Man 2 already had!), but instead, this ended up being the one that propelled it forward even more.

OK, that's the first 15, which is enough stuff for this post (and I've been typing for like a damn hour here).  I'll re-up the list link for the subsequent posts I do as well.

BALLOTS DUE: Sept 7, 2020 (Labor Day in the US)

BALLOT LENGTH: MINIMUM 50. MAXIMUM 100 movies (1-100). You may also "vote" for up to 25 movies as Honorable Mention (Honorable Mentions serve as first tiebreaker and some other stuff based on my whims)

BALLOTS EMAIL: DVDVRMAIL AT GMAIL DOT COM (In an ideal world you will submit your ballot 1-100 MOVIE TITLE, DIRECTOR, YEAR)

ELIGIBILITY: Anything that has a release date in IMDB between 1/1/10 and 12/31/19

You can update your ballot at anytime - just make sure you let me know that it is a corrected ballot when sending it (I also sometimes need to ask for corrections too)

(More Details In Next Post)

Some early reference materials that you may or may not find helpful

That's the first half of the decade poll that @Chaos did. Not sure if he has the list in one complete form (Her was the #1 movie)

This was the discussion thread of the decade (thus far) when we were doing the Greatest Movie Poll

The main reason why I've started this topic is because I've seen very little Disney and Pixar films from the last decade so seek recommendations. Toy Story 3 (2010) and Inside Out (2015) are the only ones I've seen. I will watch The Incredibles 2 (2018) and Toy Story 4 (2019) having seen the previous entries in each respective series.

Thanks!

Anyway

BALLOTS DUE: July 1, 2020 (clearly a tentative date)

BALLOT LENGTH: Minimum Ballot Length: 50 Movies. Maximum Ballot Length: 100 (Ranked 1-100)

BALLOTS EMAIL: DVDVRMAIL AT GMAIL DOT COM (In an ideal world you will submit your ballot 1-100 MOVIE TITLE, DIRECTOR, YEAR)

ELIGIBLE MOVIES: Release date between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2019 per IMDB

I know there will be some wackiness with the IMDB dates... there are with any method we choose.

We will hammer out the other stuff as we go. This thread will stay here for now for more eyeballs and then move to the sub-folder

There clearly will be cross-over since folks could easily talk about Train to Busan or Under the Shadow here or in horror

For a starting point - Academy Awards nominations 2010-2014

2010

In a Better World (Winner)

Biutiful

Incendies

Hors la loi (Outside the Law)

Note: Dogtooth was also nominated but that is considered 2009 by IMDB

2011

A Separation (Winner)

Rundskop (Bullhead)

Hearat Shulayim (Footnote)

In Darkness

Monsieur Lazhar

2012

Amour (Winner)

Kon-Tiki

No

A Royal Affair

Rebelle (War Witch)

2013

La grande bellezza (The Great Beauty) (Winner)

The Broken Circle Breakdown

Jagten (The Hunt)

The Missing Picture

Omar

2014

Ida (Winner)

Leviathan

Tangerines

Timbuktu

Relatos salvajes (Wild Tales)

Some places you might want to start (or totally disagree with)

Film School Rejects (Top 50)

Bloody Disgusting (Top 25)

I’m not committing to anything here.  Just kind of reaching out to see if there’s interest, dates, discussion and who wants to run it etc. etc.

Anyway - this is a reminder that these are movies too and you might want to consider them.

A starting point - these are the things that were nominated for Best Documentary at the Oscars (links go to IMDB). This is 2010-2014

2010

Inside Job (Winner)

Exit Through the Gift Shop

Gasland

Restrepo

Waste Land

2011

Undefeated (Winner)

Hell and Back Again

If A Tree Falls

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Pina

2012

Searching for Sugar Man (Winner)

Five Broken Cameras

The Gatekeepers

How to Survive a Plague

The Invisible War

2013

20 Feet From Stardom (Winner)

The Act of Killing

Cutie and the Boxer

Dirty Wars

The Square

2014

Citizenfour (Winner)

Finding Vivian Maier

Last Days in Vietnam

The Salt of the Earth

Virunga

Documentary will have an earlier deadline. The only thing I know for certain is that ballots should be due in Sept and the countdown done in October.

The two big questions around Horror

1) How are we defining Horror? 

2) Length of Ballot

I will expand on these in two separate posts that follow (So you can quote them if you want)

Once we hammer out details I will make another formal post

Helpfully if you are trying to find things to catch up on. This is only Youtube you can find more in other places (like definitely DailyMotion)

In no particular order...

Hoop Dreams

Magic & Bird

The Dream Team

When We Were Kings (Quality Sketchy)

Unforgivable Blackness
Part One
Part Two

Senna

Pumping Iron (Actual doc starts about 13 minutes in)

Beyond the Mat

Wrestling With Shadows

The Undefeated

Once in a Lifetime

Dogtown and Z Boys

The King of Kong

Meru

The Armstrong Lie

Horror will come after Documentary but my goal for Horror is Ballots Sept, Countdown Oct so for documentary...

Shit umm... I guess it is gonna have to be Ballots late August, Countdown Sept. (August is a hell month with the start of the school year so I know I can't start the countdown until probably Labor Day weekend)

Ballot Length: Umm... submit a ballot of either 25 or 50 (I know documentaries is narrowcasting for folks so I want to make it accessible for folks to make a ballot).

Also, I'm going to tag everyone who voted last year, so that they see this thread.  My apologies if any of y'all are not interested!
@Execproducer @Chaos @The Z  @S.K.o.S. @The Natural @Brian Fowler @J.T. @SolidGoldBomb @Control @peterien @caley @Cameron Swift

WHO?: Open to any DVDVR member.  No limits on post counts.  Yeah!
WHAT?: Film poll!  Anything classified as 2016 by Rotten Tomatoes is eligible to be voted for.  Any films you're not sure if they qualify by want to make a case for, let me know in here and we/I'll come up with a decision.
WHERE?: Post your ballots in-thread, submit them to me on here via PM, or email them to me caleycmiddleton@gmail.com
WHEN?: February 17th, 2017.  Will I push the date as always?  Maybe.  But don't count on it.  This year I'm really going to try to get this thing rolled out in a more timely manner before everyone stops caring.
WHY?: Because I don't want to let the tradition die!
HOW?: Make a list of up to 30 films.  Extra weight will be given to your #1, Top 10, and 1 point each for anything from 21-30.

BALLOTS RECEIVED:
-Paco
-Cyanide
-King Leonidas of Sparta

We ended up with 12 ballots, no film was on all 12 ballots, while one got on 11 of them (Way to go, SKOS!).  I heavily weighted the Top 10, middle-weighted the middle 11-19, and everything 20 and below got 1 point each.

Also, rather than get frustrated and quit again, I'm going to just dump 33-11 here and do nicer roll-outs for the Top 10.

@Execproducer @Chaos @The Z  @S.K.o.S. @The Natural @Brian Fowler @J.T. @SolidGoldBomb @Control @peterien @caley @Cameron Swift

We had 13 ballots submitted to make up 284 films (there's a technicality here that will show itself very late in the reveals list.

I went back and fourth on the number of films before resting on starting this countdown at #110 for a couple of reasons. 

1) 110 is a nice number when considering the decade tie-in.
2) The first film that will be shown in the countdown is one that caused great debate on this board (and honestly, everywhere) after its release.

I did allow for ties on this list. I broke any ties where a film received more votes. (Due to the low volume of ballots, I decided vote volume should supersede point averages in a tie). 97 movies hit 100 movies also hit the 100 point threshold. I also tried a couple of different point variables, and it did not shuffle my top too drastically, so the formula is straight forward. Each vote was a descending scale of 2 points with #1 vote getting 100 points.

WHO: Uhhhh...us.
WHAT: The DVDVR Movie Poll!
WHERE: Post your lists here in the thread, via PM, or email them to me caleycmiddletonATgmail.com

WHEN: NEW DATE: March 29th, 2016!
WHY: Because we're the best.

HOW: You can vote for up to 30 films, extra weight will be given to the Top 10, slightly less to 11-20 and 21-30 will each receive one vote.

Let's go!

"We live, we die...we live again!  And we vote for a Maximum of 30 Films!"

We will just have to wait and see, Leo. We will just have to wait and see!

This thread can probably more appropriately be called "films I am embarrassed that I have yet to see."

Due Date: Sunday, March 27, 2016.

Criteria: Any full length film released between 2010 and 2014. We will use Rotten Tomatoes for this, as I feel it better captures theatrical release date over (debuted at 'x' foreign film festival).

Ballot Size: Would everyone be open to a ballot size of 50? Is that too big? Would you like a range?

How to Vote: For right now, you can PM me your ballot. I am debating whether to just share my personal email as an option or to create an email address for submitting these. I will update this thread

We can use this thread for pimping purposes, or I can create another thread for that. I do not have the previous years ballots stored to see how this bored voted on an individual year basis, but I know we have held this vote every year in this decade.

Also, at some point, I would appreciate if Caley, Rippa, Hollinger, or anyone else that has manned these things as to what their best practices are on scoring methodology.

I am looking forward to using this ballot as a chance to revisit certain films and get other films I have needed to see off my pile of shame.

We had 7 Ballots (6 100 vote and 1 50 vote ballot). This will make things a little wonky but not too bad.

297 Movies Received Votes (675 the last time)

102 movies made the 100 point threshold. 8 additional movies were added to get me to a nice even 110.

Those 8 movies either A.) Had a Top 5 vote or B.) Got at least 3 votes

So the bottom half is a little different but the whole point of this is for you to discovery movies you wanted to watch so I am not sure folks will mind too too much.

Other things to remember

Tiebreakers

1) Fewer # of votes

2) Highest individual vote

3) Magic

- Please don't post your ballots in this thread (there will be a separate thread for that near the end). It's okay to say that you voted for something after a movie shows up but we want to keep the mystery alive.

I am going to try and post the 8 random movies before I leave work. Let's see how that goes.

I have received ballots from

Ray

Tim Evans

OJ

Caley

Yo-Yo

jae

If you are working on one let me know. As I said - I might have to tweak some stuff depending on the number of ballots so if I have a rough idea how many I am getting I can plan.