Here are my favorite movies of 2010, in no particular order:<\/p>\n
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World As the credits rolled, my wife asked me what I thought of the movie.\u00a0 I told her that if anyone still needed to get me a Christmas present and had no idea what to get me, it was Scott Pilgrim (the Blu-ray, not the man).\u00a0 I’m pretty sure that it was my favorite movie of the entire year.\u00a0 When you open with the A Link to the Past<\/em> title screen music, I have high expecations of you, movie.\u00a0 You did not disappoint.\u00a0 Well done!\u00a0 I want my own announcer now, proclaiming, “Steve earned the power of <insert power here>!”<\/p>\n My only qualm with the movie was how expensive the Blu-ray was, compared to all the deals I got around Black Friday.\u00a0 I finally broke down and bought it just a few days ago from Amazon for $23.99 – $4 coupon, and wouldn’t you know it, it goes on sale next week for $19.99.\u00a0 Such is the pain of my movie-buying.<\/p>\n Toy Story 3<\/strong><\/p>\n This was my other favorite movie of the year, and one of the four that I saw in the theater, thanks to the free tickets included with the Toy Story and Toy Story 2 Blu-rays.\u00a0 I love Pixar.\u00a0 I don’t know how they did it, but they managed to make the third entry in a series the best one.<\/p>\n How to Train Your Dragon<\/strong><\/p>\n This and Kung Fu Panda<\/em> are Dreamworks Animation’s best, with Shrek<\/em> and Shrek 2<\/em> also somewhere up there, but paling beside HtTYD <\/em>and KFP.<\/em> I love a movie that my kids can watch over and over and over and over without me not only not hating it, but still liking it a lot.<\/p>\n Tangled<\/strong><\/p>\n This year’s daddy-daughter date movie was Tangled.\u00a0 We were late for the 2D show so I got to pay the exorbitant 3D price (and complain about it to everyone who would listen over and over again).\u00a0 (Seriously, it bothers me that I paid $18.75 for two matinee<\/em> tickets, one of which was for a child, when come March I will be able to buy the Blu-ray\/DVD combo pack for less than that.\u00a0 Ugh.)\u00a0 Anyway, we both liked it, plus it has Chuck.\u00a0 Does anyone else think it’s funny that Scott Pilgrim and Chuck both bested Superman?\u00a0 Both funny ha-ha and funny interesting.<\/p>\n As a side note, I’m pretty sure I saw a trailer for Tangled at some point before seeing the actual movie, but I don’t recall its contents.\u00a0 Some of the reviews I read mentioned how for a princess movie, it was heavily marketed to boys.\u00a0 The other day I was at the Disney store with my daughter buying her a birthday present when a trailer came on.\u00a0 Sure enough, it looked like a boy movie.\u00a0 I don’t know what my point was.<\/p>\n Inception<\/strong><\/p>\n Everyone I know who has seen Inception loved it.\u00a0 A girl I work with saw it five (?) times theatrically, and seemed disappointed when I didn’t share her glowing enthusiasm.\u00a0 I thought it was really good, but it didn’t blow my mind like I think it was supposed to.\u00a0 I certainly don’t regret the $7.99 it cost me.\u00a0 The story was very interesting, and I did think the zero-gravity sequence was really, really cool.\u00a0 The cast was good too–I particularly like Ellen Page in anything I’ve seen her in.\u00a0 And Michael Caine!\u00a0 How do you not love Michael Caine?\u00a0 It seemeth me impossible.\u00a0 I especially love him in The Muppet Christmas Carol<\/em>.<\/p>\n I do like Christopher Nolan’s films generally.\u00a0 Batman Begins <\/em>and The Dark Knight <\/em>go without saying, since I love me some Batman (except for you, Batman and Robin<\/em>; you are a crime against humanity), and I also remember enjoying The Prestige.<\/em> A few months ago I watched Memento<\/em> and that was pretty good, too.<\/p>\n
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