Anyway, enough waffle.\u00a0 Here it is.\u00a0 My pick of the Ten Best Films of 2010.<\/p>\n
Kick-ass<\/em> was an unexpectedly great superhero film that came out in the summer blockbuster season.\u00a0 For such an oversaturated genre, Kick-ass<\/em> felt fresh and was highly entertaining with its sweet blend of action and comedy.\u00a0 Listening to a pint sized ten year old girl cuss out some hoodlums before disembowelling them with her katana was one of the cinematic highlights of the year.<\/p>\n A wonderful Swedish adaptation of the book of the same name, TGWTDT<\/em> is an entertaining whodunnit mystery that mixes a fifty year old unsolved murder with computer espionage, investigative journalism and lots of twisted evil men.\u00a0 They certainly didn\u2019t call the original Swedish novel Men Who Hate Women<\/em> for nothing.\u00a0 This film also contains two highly entertaining leads in Lisbeth Salander, a messed up gothic computer hacker and Mikael Blomkvist, an aging journalist who sleeps with every single woman he meets.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n An unexpectedly funny follow-up to Forgetting Sarah Marshall<\/em>, GHTTG<\/em> looks like it might just be another instalment in the long line of Judd Apatow comedies but this particular instalment does an exceptionally good job at portraying the hedonistic lifestyle of rock stars.\u00a0 Some of the party scenes delve into such a level of anarchic chaos and have such a halucogenic quality to them that it evokes memories of the excellent Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The long awaited concluding instalment to the Toy Story<\/em> trilogy did not disappoint.\u00a0 Pixar continue to deliver an improbably high standard in their films and this latest effort is no different.\u00a0 It can be enjoyed on face value as an all ages adventure but such is the film\u2019s finesse is exploring its themes of childhood innocence that the final chapter gained the film a reputation for reducing many men to tears.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By reputation, Dreamworks\u2019 animated films tend to cop a bit of flack for not measuring up to the quality of their contemporaries at Pixar.\u00a0 How To Train Your Dragon<\/em> however, has a lot more in common with the qualities you would associate with the best Pixar efforts.\u00a0 Maybe that comes as little surprise when you learn it was made by the creative mind behind the excellent Lilo & Stich<\/em>.\u00a0 Once you get over the bizarre decision to make the Vikings sound Scottish and the lead actor sound like Woody Allen, the rest of this film is wonderfully entertaining and heartwarming.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A bittersweet French animated feature set in the Fifties about an aging magician who plays to smaller and smaller crowds.\u00a0 This wordless feature film does an excellent job balancing gentle physical humour with a darker tone that depicts carnival entertainers struggling to find work in a contemporary society that has replaced them with television, rock bands and other modern distractions for their source of entertainment.\u00a0 It’s no small irony that the film is done in traditional hand drawn animation rather than the much favoured computer animation style.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Easy A<\/em> is a charming high school comedy about a girl who gains noteriety at school for helping awkward boys lose their virginity and features a star-making performance from Emma Stone.\u00a0 This is an immensely likable film that draws favourable comparisons to other classic contemporary teen comedies such as Clueless<\/em> and Mean Girls<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Restrepo is an eye-opening low tech documentary that portrays life on the frontline for American troops in Afghanistan.\u00a0 This apolitical film does an excellent job showcasing the bizarre idiosyncracies and desperate challenges facing the soliders.\u00a0 We see them barter with village elders for their support and often all thats changing their allegiance to the Taliban is the offer of $5 or a goat.\u00a0 The military conflict itself is so impersonal that you never even see a shootout with anyone on camera.\u00a0 Instead popping noises echo around the valley and occasionally someone falls over dead.\u00a0 It is a thoroughly depressing documentary but also a highly insightful one.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010kickass.jpg\" "\\"2010kickass\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\nKick-ass<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThe Girl With The Dragon Tattoo<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nGet Him To The Greek<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nToy Story 3<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nHow To Train Your Dragon<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nThe Illusionist<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nEasy A<\/strong><\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nRestrepo<\/strong><\/h2>\n