Am I the one who thought Toy Story 3 was a great, heartfelt short film padded out by an hour or more of video game "get out of this jam, now get out of this jam" nonsense? I adore 1 and 2, and I weep at Monsters, Inc. every time. Buy TS3 seemed like Pixar found a fantastic idea they didn't know how to execute.

Most of the films mentioned here are either terrible or terribly over-rated.

My baby's three favorite films of 2010 were I Am Love, Winter's Bone, and Scott Pilgrim vs the World. If you want to know why, you can ask her yourself.

Clearly Erik and Andrew are the only people on this list who have seen True Grit.

Black Swan. Actual title should have been "Black Shit", this could have been a movie of the week, or rather "weak". Marjorie, Jamie, you need to see more films, cuz that should be on the bottom ten list...

Winter's Bone, The Fighter, and Cyrus...this year was good. Merc' writing staff need to know when to hold some of their snark back.

I thought it was an okay year for cinema in Portland, mostly because of a lot of great European 2009 cinema washing up late on our distribution shore. Haneke's White Ribbon was hands down the winner for me, followed by Clair Denis' White Material. On-year for Sophia Coppola, Roman Polanski & the Coen brothers, off-year for Woody Allen & Martin Scorsese. Fincher is still a pedestrian director, Nolan still a hack, still don't know what the hell Aronofsky is, still not curious enough to find out. Au revoir to Jacques Rivette with his bittersweet and whisper-thin Around a Small Mountain.

Kudos to the French for getting back to bread-and-butter (pain et beurre?) genre fare in a mean way. The twin Mesrine flicks and Audiard's A Prophet were winners. Same to Ben Affleck (who knew?) for scoring with a back-to-basics heist film, The Town. A clear loser in this category was the misfired noir-suspense The Square, which was too cute for its own good.

A lot of stuff I still haven't seen -- Certified Copy, Taymor's Tempest, Breillat's Bluebeard, which I overlooked at the International Film Festival. Somehow dodged I Am Love, which looked more fun in concept than in practice. Also missed out on Mother. In short, there were a lot of interesting things if you were looking.

I'll go with Machete and Scott Pilgrim. But I'd add Exit Through the Gift Shop and Restrepo.

Hi, my name is Scott and I am 'campaigning' for my new movie project. I am a local homeless success story and my first movie was featured in The Oregonian, Streetroots, and is now on the shelves of the Multnomah County Library ! My next movie will bring hope and great things into the lives of four homeless folks and many people in PDX and I need your help. Please visit my upcoming project page on Kickstarter. You may also watch my first movie on my website. Seeking backers, and the rewards are great !

Feel free to tell others about this also.

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Scott


My New Movie Project :

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/scottp…

My website here :

http://www.homelessinpdx.info/

Here is a recent article in The Oregonian:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.s…

Original Article in The Oregonian:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.s…

Article in Streetroots :

http://streetroots.wordpress.com/2010/08/1…