Hello, bloglings. Quick post to cover my next big poll for the next year, after the last one became a bigger project than I had expected. Every year I run a poll of the best movies of the past 12 months, and the 2010 one ended up staying up in the sidebar until now solely because I figured it was only fair to give participants time to catch up with everything on there, and not because I totally flaked out at the start of the year and almost gave up on blogging about three times because of mild mental trauma, faltering side-projects, ennui and suchlike. Nothing like that at all. It was all for you, my assorted fragrant lovelies.
So anyway, this is what you thought, and I have to say, I’m surprised:
- Scott Pilgrim’s Unwatched Adventure: 6 votes = 18%
- Sorkin Vs Facebook = Ten Million Word Count: 4 votes = 12%
- A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Jihad: 4 votes = 12%
- How Creepy Was My Ballet?: 3 votes = 9%
- Ben Stiller’s The Human Zoidberg: 3 votes = 9%
- Uncle Boonmee and the Deathly-Boring Hallows: 2 votes = 6%
- Im In Ur Dreamz Killin Ur D00dz: 2 votes = 6%
- The Kids Are All Right But Their Parents Are Fucked: 2 votes = 6%
- The Impoverished Hottie And The Quest For The Redneck: 2 votes = 6%
- Another Year, Another Grim Mike Leigh Movie: 2 votes = 6%
- Robert Altman’s Iron Man: 1 vote = 3%
- The Most Expensive Daft Punk Video Imaginable: 1 vote = 3%
- Pixar’s The Neverending Guilt Trip: 1 vote = 3%
- Harry Potter and the Unguent of Perspicacity: 0 votes = 0%
- The Execrables: 0 votes = 0%
- Twilight: Eternal Narrative Stasis: 0 votes = 0%
- Proto-Robin Hood And His Quasi-Merry Men: 0 votes = 0%
- Prince of Parkour: The Absence of Entertainment: 0 votes = 0%
Scott Pilgrim? I think I have a good idea who voted for that; there is a large pro-Pilgrim element among my Twitter clique, and that’s cool. Sadly, I might have been on the fence last year but watching it again this year made me realise how much it annoys me. But I’m glad it has a following, and I suspect it will only grow. Congratulations, Edgar Wright and your lovable cast. I trust this epic victory makes up for the non-existent box office.
Some surprises there. Two votes for Inception? Three for Greenberg? Tron: Legacy gets the same amount of votes as Toy Story 3? How peculiar. I worry that Tron: Legacy got a vote because of the new name I gave it. Anne Billson complemented me on the joke but I think I stole it from Roger Ebert. When they say “Talent borrows, genius steals” I really don’t think they meant to say I’m a genius because I plagiarised a tweet. But anyway, it has been interesting to see how the votes land, and as you can see from the huge voting pool here this qualifies as actual statistical science, so please be sure to refer to Scott Pilgrim as officially the film of 2010 from now on. Thank you to everyone who voted, and if you’ve stumbled across this again, please vote once more for your favourite movie of 2011.
- Mission Unpossible: Goat Prototype
- Harry Potter and the Dirty Pillows, Part 12
- Lynne Ramsay’s One Colour: Red
- We Need To Talk About Thor’s Lickable Deltoids
- Twilight: The One With The Werepaedo
- Cheer Up, Kirsten Dunst, It Might Never Happen
- Tarsem’s Immortale, Pour Homme
- It’s a Tree, Yeah, And It’s, Like, A Metaphor For Life, Man
- Drive, He Didn’t Say
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: A Lovely Nap
- We Need To Talk About Captain America’s Ripped Abs
- Rise and Rise Again, Until Apes Become BrainApes
- Cheer Up, Michael Shannon, It Might Never Happen
- Zack Snyder’s What’s Wrong With Being Sexy?
- Therapeutic: Freud Vs Jung
- The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Lizard Thingy
- Jean Dujardin Is: L’Artiste Adorable
- We Need To Talk About Green Lantern’s Shitty CGI Onesie
- Hey Kids! It’s Uncle Marty’s “Fun With Film Preservation!”
- Cheer Up, Michael Fassbender’s Penis, It Might Never Happen
- Transformybots: Bang of the Boom
- The Adventures of Tintin: The Whiny of the Butthurt
- Tinker, Typist, Souljah, Spelunker
- We Need To Forget About Charles Xavier’s Thinkyfingers Gesture
Thanks in advance. Get clicking (the poll should be in the sidebar) and if you get a chance, please send the link around. And remember, a vote for Steve McQueen’s Shame is a vote for penis.
