22 9 / 2011

Pop Culture Consumption: 2010 Report

I saw 70 films this year:

  • 6 one stars
  • 6 two stars
  • 42 three stars
  • 15 four stars
  • 0 five stars

My average film rating for the year was 2.91.

Of the 70 films, 43 were new (released in 2010). Here’s my top 15:

  1. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy)
  2. *Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer (Alex Gibney)
  3. The Kids are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)
  4. Greenberg (Noah Baumbach)
  5. *127 Hours (Danny Boyle)
  6. *The Fighter (David O. Russell)
  7. The Social Network (David Fincher)
  8. The American (Anton Corbijn)
  9. Cyrus (Jay Duplass, Mark Duplass)
  10. Toy Story 3 (Lee Unkrich)
  11. The Town (Ben Affleck)
  12. Please Give (Nicole Holofcener)
  13. Kick-Ass (Matthew Vaughn)
  14. Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (Jan Kounen)
  15. Last Night (Massy Tadjedin)

*Actually watched in 2011 and do not count towards totals listed above.

The most disappointing 2010 films I saw were (listed in no particular order):

  • Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton)
  • Ghost Writer (Roman Polanski)
  • The Other Guys (Adam McKay)
  • Dinner for Schmucks (Jay Roach)

I also saw 27 older films for the first time (films not released in 2009). The films from this list that I enjoyed the most include (listed in no particular order):

  • A Single Man (Tom Ford)
  • The Young Victoria (Jean-Marc Vallee)
  • Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater)
  • Little Children (Todd Field)
  • Julie & Julia (Nora Ephron)

Television

I saw one or more seasons of 5 television shows this year (both old and new shows; listed in no particular order):

  • Reno 911!
  • Bored to Death
  • The Sarah Silverman Program
  • Parks and Recreation
  • Modern Family

Books

As always, I didn’t get to read as many books as I would have liked this year. In 2010, I read the following (listed in no particular order):

  • Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity by Kerry Cohen
  • Straight Up and Dirty by Stephanie Klein

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