Best of the decade 2010-2019 (film)

Here's my list of about 10 movies which were great in the past decade. Mind you, I haven't seen everything in 2019 (or previous) years, but I've seen a ton of comic book films and obviously Denis Villenueve and Christopher Nolan stuff.

Quite clearly for me, Mad Max was the best thing I saw. I think everyone would agree that it's the most transcendent/iconic for filmmaking in the 2010s.

• Inception (2010)
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
• Prisoners (2013)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
• Gravity (2013)
• Gone Girl (2014)
• ⭐ Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
• Tie: Black Panther (2018) or Deadpool (2016) or X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

As I finish this list, I'm going to see Star Wars: Skywalker in a few hours ...It has nothing to do with the list above... Wish me luck!

Best of 2018: Music album

Double Negative
Low

This is it. I've read two reviews that say this album is political, but I don't see it. It's one of Low's best, most complete works. Better than their early stuff, than Drums and Guns, than Invisible Way. It's quiet, it's disjointed, it's romantic. It's an album that demands headphones to hear those little raindrops. It makes you think of the husband-wife songwriters making this in the studio.






Age Of
Oneohtrix Point Never


Virtue
The Voidz


Criminal
The Soft Moon


Pinned
A Place to Bury Strangers

Best of 2018: Song

Check my Spotify playlist for various selections. By far, my favorite songs came from Low this year. The others are good, too, so take a look-see.

Shortlist:

• "Always Up" by Low
• "Young" by the Soft Moon
• "All Wordz Are Made Up" by The Voidz
• "Never Coming Back" bt A Place to Bury Strangers

https://open.spotify.com/user/steveprutz/playlist/4UwUhBz5HDX9yrPIlPB49B?si=PHqF1rQbRdWZ75brwy0Fuw

The worst film of 2018

Suspiria 2018 is almost three hours long. Imagine seeing a slow, atmospheric movie on a weeknight. That's how I experienced it, and I don't recommend seeing it even in ideal conditions. It's a movie about a witch-run dance school, but there is very little dancing. Like, I don't want to see choreographed dance routines, but I was honestly subverted on that point. I also went in knowing the 1977 original work. I wouldn't call this film a remake, no way. It's barely got the original plot, and the rest is all new. That's not a compliment. I could have been marketed as a totally new idea, and it's sad it had to go with brand recognition--which is a stretch for an Italian cult horror film. Maybe it could have been called A Coven Milling About. I was expecting great special effects demonstrating black magic and witch-power, but again, I was disappointed. Halfway through, I couldn't wait to go home.

A comment: the cast is almost entirely female. There are two males that I recall, obviously a call to how "feminist" the filmmakers wanted this whole ordeal to be. And I think the director, Luca Guadagnino, intentionally cast grotesque and ugly women to support "Susie" (Dakota Johnson). It was really distracting--too much so. I realize how superficial this whole paragraph sounds, but honesty triumphs over deception.

I'm glad it bombed. I'll be surprised if it wins any mainstream awards. Tilda Swinton isn't even worth seeing--not her best work at all. The Thom Yorke soundtrack is overrated (hard overrated). None of this is worth a second of your time. Go see the original and its sequel, Inferno, which was on Amazon Prime last I checked.