The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford  
The Departed - Lots of fackin swearin'.
No Country For Old Men - hardcore
Anchorman - Comedies don't get a lot of respect on "best of" lists because they're considered less-than-important filmmaking. But damn, that movie made me cry with laughter in the theater which I had never done before or since.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Epic visuals.
The Royal Tenenbaums - Epic storytelling.  
Ghost World - Jeez that feels like a lifetime ago.  
Amelie - Gorgeous.
Kill Bill 1&2 & Inglorious Basterds - Considering I despise Tarentino as a personality/celebrity, not a bad decade, sir. Kudos. You read my blog, right, QT?
Zodiac - Gorgeous.
High Fidelity: I don't think you could work at a used music store and not appreciate this movie on some level.

Proof Family Entertainment Can Rock: The Incredibles & WALL-E - Really well-done & solid. The design of the Incredibles, the film titles, and a lot of the merch was just excellent. WALL-E: the robot itself was just great. A fucking CUBE with a hollow MIDDLE. And he folded up SO NEAT.

My Post-Apocalyptic Winners: Children of Men and The Road

My Mid-Apocalypse Winners: 28 Days Later and Shawn of the Dead

Best geek movie franchise: Lord of the Rings

Worst: Star Wars prequels

I think Fight Club should get an honorable mention, as it was released in Oct. of '99 & it's still fucking rad.

I think The Matrix should get an honorable mention (another '99er) because, despite whether you liked it or hated it, and despite the rest of the trilogy which totally gayed up a good thing, I think this movie held a lot of impact on the last decade. It took the wire-fu from Hong Kong and transformed it into a hyper-real high-tech computery visual language for fight scenes. 10 years later and you watch a trailer for a movie like "Kick Ass", and the Matrix is all over it. As a direct result of it, kung fu has become a standard fight scene element in most American action films (heck, it actually turned around and affected a lot of the subsequent Hong Kong output). Unlike hype surrounding movies like The Phantom Menace & Avatar, The Matrix really DID affect how (certain types of) films are made.

Semi-Honorable Mentions go to Death to Smoochy, Idiocracy, Team America: World Police, and Pootie Tang, which I enjoyed certain moments of immensely, even if the movies themselves were sort of mediocre. Generally eh movies with a few really really incredibly good scenes. Derka derka.

AFTERTHOUGHTS:

Moon - Jeez, that was pretty fuckin' good.

Triplets of Belleville - Jeez, that was pretty fuckin' good.

Labels: 2010, blog, Rambling

Starting in 2010, I am merging my occasional radio broadcasts/podcasts with my new weekly comic strip, The Optimist. You can read and listen to all of 'em over at the-opt.com. And I hope you do. These lil' audio stories are supposed to be funny. Or at least mildly entertaining. Or at least not so bad that you'd bother to change the station. I mean, you're probably not going to want to cut yourself when you hear them. They are sorta interesting, especially if you are one of those rare listeners who likes to listen to me talk. Lord knows that I am one of those rare listeners, so surely there must be others. A new piece airs about once a month. The 2009 ones are below, and also archived on the-opt.com. Enjoy?

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Labels: 2010, Audio, Radio

THE OPTIMIST is an open-format black and white weekly comic strip. It's about whatever I feel like it being about. The Optimist is also a series of occasional podcasts - same type of humor, just ideas that I couldn't easily condense down into a comic. Plus, I love the sound of my own voice. If you are familiar with Whiskey! Tango! Foxtrot! (below) or Pinhole (also below), you will pretty much know what you're getting here. - Visit THE OPTIMIST site

Labels: 2010, Comic Projects, Comics, Self-Published