Exactly and btw it was No Country for Old Men but it should have been There Will Blood, but again who cares.
Anyway after the slagging of awards and top 10's in general, here is me being hypercritical with my top 10.
10. The Last Exorcism
When the main bloke performs the first exorcism in the film I was in stitches. Such a brilliant and orginal horror/thriller film easily alongside Ringu and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for me interms of originality.
9. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
I missed this in the cinema and I really wish I had watched it in the cinema as it's a cracking, smart and twisty British thriller.
This is defiantly one of my contenders for film of the year alongside Bad Lieutenant and Inception, as from start to finish I was gripped and it kept giving you another big twist though out the film. It genuinely leaves the audience guessing through out the film with great performances from all three leads.
Normally not a massive fan of Gemma Atkinson and tend to find her very average in everything else I have seen but she is dynamite in this film with a great performance from her as the title character Alice Creed.
This film had everything I would want in a film
1. Great script
2. Good director who keeps the flow of the film on a knife edge
3. Great performances from everyone and makes me completely emotionally engaged with all characters.
4. Well thought out plan set firmly in reality that goes horribly wrong due to the human element.
Can I think of a negative though in this film that they should have fixed...hmmm...marketing.
I'm sorry but it's unfair that a film like this has to compete against blockbusters that have millions put into promoting their films. This film deserved that and I wish more studios would put more money or effort into selling/making more films like this. Only reason films like Transformers and Pirates of the Caribbean make money is because they are well promoted. The only promotion I saw for this film when it came out was on Friday Night with Jonathon Ross and mentioned for five minutes...and that was it. POTC and Transformers I am drowned with when it comes out on TV, radio and internet.
Criminal
8. A Prophet
Really good film, started off a little slow but the rest of it was gripping. Best gangster film since Gommora. On why it didn't win film of the year when so many have praised it so highly, purely because it dragged in the beginning a little too much which for cost it film of the year for me. If the filmmakers fixed that by either another draft of the script or whatever, then this would have won film of the year.
7. The Road
Really good film and the boy in it is gonna be a star in the future, he's fantastic in this film.
6. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Thought it was brilliant and I have no idea why it's made little money and it's been a marmite film with audiences.
Thought it was one of the most original films I have seen in ages and the video game nods were fantastic.
The fighting got a little boring at times but added humour and a great script hid this very well from me most of the time.
The ex's in this film were all brilliant but Brandon Routh was my fav and the Vegan police had me in stitches.
I hope this doesn't hurt Edgar Wright's career as he's clearly talented as seen before with the TV show Spaced and the two hit films Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.
5 Toy Story 3
Great film the best of the 3 as well.
4. The Social Network
I was well impressed with how well written this film was and its execution was perfect.
All casting in this film worked, he directing was well done considering it was very non-linear and the characters were just fascinating.
I think Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield are in for a good shout to get nominated for Oscars as well as Sorkin for screenplay in fact he has to win for screenplay in my opinion, as it's a complicated case (as well as computer coding involved at some parts) and he made it flow perfectly.
3. Monsters
Well this is a classic film without a shadow of a doubt to me and very nearly won film of the year for me.
The two leads are fantastic in this film but I have no idea who they are, but I found out the two actors got hitched not too long after the film was finished, might explain why they had great chemistry together in this ;)
The visual effects for an apparently five hundred thousand pound budget is money well spent to me. The visual effects looked like the quality of a 30-40 million dollar film.
But the real hero of this film is the director Gareth Edwards...Just talented and has a big future ahead of him. The crew of the film was him, a sound man and the actors...that is it...Just wow.
2. Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans
Another great film that has just missed out on film of the year for me.
Cage's best film and perormance ever. Didn't feel long at all and Cage was on fire throughout the film with me and the audience in the cinema loving every second of this gen of a film.
So number 1 and my film of the year....
INCEPTION!!!!!!!!
If you are going into this expecting The Dark Knight, you will be disappointed. The film works very similar to Memento with the narrative sometimes being in three structures, or better put a dream within a dream and then another dream lol
It's a cracking good blockbuster and even though it was as long as The Dark Knight, it never dragged like that film. It offers a film for people who like to use their brain in a film and all the action of other great blockbusters of the past like Batman Begins and Terminator 2 in terms of scope.
So in essence it really is Memento meets Batman Begins in a very good way, making it a very good film for everyone to enjoy.
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