scottwrites.com | official blog of central new jersey writer scott neumyer author of jimmy stone's ghost town » Holidays http://www.scottwrites.com Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:04:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 My Favorite (And Not So Favorite) Movies of 2010 http://www.scottwrites.com/2010/12/31/my-favorite-and-not-so-favorite-movies-of-2010/ http://www.scottwrites.com/2010/12/31/my-favorite-and-not-so-favorite-movies-of-2010/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:50:01 +0000 Scott Neumyer http://www.scottwrites.com/?p=258 We were putting together our year-end lists of favorite (and not so favorite) movies of 2010 for the Click Communications blog (my day job as a Publicist), so I decided to add a few more lists and re-post them over here. Hope you enjoy!

“If you ask me tomorrow, these rankings would probably change. There were so many good films this year!”

Overall Top 10 Favorite Films of 2010

  1. How to Train Your Dragon
  2. Black Swan
  3. Let Me In
  4. The Social Network
  5. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
  6. Kick-Ass
  7. The Town
  8. Splice
  9. Easy A
  10. Inception

Top 13 Films I’m Embarrassed to Say I Have Yet to See and Therefore Can’t Be Included in Any Other Lists

  1. True Grit
  2. Piranha 3D
  3. Tangled
  4. The Fighter
  5. Buried
  6. 127 Hours
  7. Blue Valentine
  8. Enter the Void
  9. Never Let Me Go
  10. I Spit on Your Grave (2010)
  11. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
  12. Paranormal Activity 2
  13. The Illusionist

Top 10 Favorite Horror Films of 2010

  1. Black Swan
  2. Let Me In
  3. Splice
  4. Frozen
  5. The Crazies
  6. The Last Exorcism
  7. Shutter Island
  8. Best Worst Movie – It’s about a horror film, so that counts!
  9. [REC] 2
  10. Devil

Top 6 Hour Long TV Series of 2010

  1. LOST – I don’t care what you say… The ending was perfect.
  2. Dexter – The best still-running show on TV.
  3. The Walking Dead – It has a lot to live up to in its second (longer) season.
  4. Glee – Brings a smile to my face every week.
  5. True Blood – Not its best season by far, but certainly better than the previous one.
  6. Huge – Such a shame this was cancelled.

Top 5 Favorite Documentaries of 2010

  1. Best Worst Movie
  2. Exit Through the Gift Shop
  3. Catfish
  4. Babies
  5. Waking Sleeping Beauty

Top 5 Favorite Animated Films of 2010

  1. How to Train Your Dragon – As much as I love the next two films on the list, this one was just absolutely magical and perfect.
  2. Despicable Me
  3. Toy Story 3
  4. Shrek Forever After
  5. Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole

Top 5 Catalog Blu-ray Releases of 2010

  1. The Twilight Zone: Seasons 1 & 2
  2. Battle Royale: Limited Edition (Region Free)
  3. Back to the Future Trilogy
  4. The Exorcist
  5. Alien Anthology
  6. House of the Devil – Not a catalog release, but the Blu-ray was released in February while it premiered in ’09, so I’m including it!

Top 5 Criterion Collection Blu-ray Releases of 2010

  1. House (1977)
  2. Bigger Than Life – This was one of my Holy Grail releases. Finally!
  3. The Night of the Hunter
  4. The Red Shoes
  5. Cronos

Top 5 Films of 2010 That Surprised Me By How Much I Actually Enjoyed Them

  1. Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang (Retitled Nanny McPhee Returns for US release)
  2. She’s Out of My League
  3. Dear John – What can I say? I’m a sucker for Nicholas Sparks.
  4. Youth In Revolt
  5. Shrek Forever After

Top 5 Films of 2010 That Didn’t Live Up To Expectations

  1. Alice in Wonderland
  2. Daybreakers – I know a lot of horror fans loved this one, but I couldn’t get into it.
  3. A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
  4. The Wolfman
  5. Cop Out

Top 5 Films of 2010 That Will Never Share Shelf Space With My DVDs & Blu-rays

  1. Legion
  2. Clash of the Titans
  3. Vampires Suck – I couldn’t even bring myself to see this and it makes the list.
  4. Edge of Darkness
  5. Robin Hood (2010)
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HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to all the fantastic moms out there!!!

A super special Happy Mother’s Day to my mom, my mother-in-law, and my awesome wife (it’s her very first Mother’s Day!).

Love you ladies!

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FYI…the above video may not be safe for work.

Enjoy the day and eat lots of turkey!

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