200 Films of 2010

It's been a habit of mine to compile a list of 200 films that are released during each year, looking for trends, idea swipes, or themes that the medium just doesn't seem to get away from.


127 Hours
Alice in Wonderland^3D,B
Alpha & Omega^3D,A
American^B
And Soon the Darkness^R
A-Team
Back-Up Plan
Best Worst Movie^D
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
Book of Eli
Bounty Hunter
Brooklyn’s Finest
Buried
Burlesque
Case 39
Casino Jack
Catfish^D
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore^3D,S
Centurion
Charlie St. Cloud^B
Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader^3D,B
Clash of the Titans^3D,R
Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer^D
Conviction
Cop Out
Cowboys in Paradise^D
Crazies^R
Cropsey^D
Cyrus
Date Night
Daybreakers
Dear John^B
Death at a Funeral^R
Despicable Me^3D,A
Devil
Diary of a Wimpy Kid^B
Dinner For Schmucks^R
Don McKay
Due Date
Easy A
Eat Pray Love^B
Edge of Darkness
Exit Through the Gift Shop^D
Expendables
Extra Man
Extraordinary Measures
Fair Game^B
Faster
Fighter
For Colored Girls
Freakonomics^B
From Paris With Love
Frozen
Furry Vengeance
Get Him to the Greek
Get Low
Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest^B
Girl Who Played With Fire^B
Going the Distance
Good Guy
Green Zone^B
Grown Ups
Gulliver’s Travels^3D,B
Happy Tears
Harry Brown
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1^B
Hatchet II^S
Heartless
Hereafter
Hot Tub Time Machine
How Do You Know
How to Train Your Dragon^3D,A,B
Howl
Human Centipede
I Love You Phillip Morris^B
I Spit on Your Grave^R
I’m Still Here
Inception
Inside Job^D
Iron Man 2^C,S
It’s Kind of a Funny Story^D
Jack Goes Boating
Jackass 3D^3D,TV
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work^D
Jonah Hex^C
Joneses
Just Wright
Karate Kid^R
Kick-Ass^C
Kids are All Right
Killer Inside of Me^B
Killers
King’s Speech
Knight and Day
Last Airbender^3D,TV
Last Exorcism
Last Song^B
Leap Year
Leaves of Grass
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole^3D,A,B
Legion
Let Me In^R
Letters to God
Letters to Juliet
Life as We Know It
Little Fockers^S
Living in Emergency^D
Losers^C
Lottery Ticket
Love and Other Drugs^B
MacGruber^TV
Machete
Marmaduke
Megamind^3D,A
Monsters
Morning Glory
My Soul to Take^3D
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang^S
Never Let Me Go^B
Next Three Days^R
Nightmare on Elm Street^R
Nothing Personal
Nowhere Boy^B
Oceans^D
Other Guys
Our Family Wedding
Oxford Murders^B
Paper Man
Paranormal Activity 2^S
Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief^B
Piranha 3D^3D
Please Give
Predators^S
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time^V
Rabbit Hole
Ramona & Beezus^B
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Rec 2^S
Red^C
Remember Me
Repo Men^B
Resident Evil: Afterlife^3D,S,V
Robin Hood
Rubber
Runaways^B
Salt
Saw 3D: The Final Chapter^3D,S
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World^C
Secretariat
Serbian Film
Sex & The City 2^S,TV
She’s Out of My League
Shock Doctrine^B,D
Shrek Forever After^3D,A,S
Shutter Island^B
Skyline
Smash His Camera^D
Social Network^B
Somewhere
Sorceror’s Apprentice
South of the Border^D
Splice
Spy Next Door
Standing Ovation
Step Up 3D^3D,S
Stolen
Stone
Survival of the Dead^S
Switch
Takers
Tangled^3D,A
Teenage Paparazzo^D
Tooth Fairy
Tourist
Town^B
Toy Story 3^3D,A,S
Tron: Legacy^3D,S
True Grit^B
Twelve^B
Twilight Saga: Eclipse^B,S
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Unstoppable
Valentine’s Day
Vampires Suck
Virginity Hit
Waiting for Superman^D
Waking Sleeping Beauty^D
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps^S
Warrior’s Way
When in Rome
Why Did I Get Married Too?^S
Winter’s Bone^B
Wolfman^R
Woman, A Gun, and a Noodle Shop^R
Yellow Handkerchief
Yogi Bear^3D,A
You Again
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Youth in Revolt^B

Legend:
3D = Filmed/converted to 3D
A = Animated film
B = Book adaptation
C = Comic book adaptation
D = Documentary
R = Remake
S = Sequel
TV = Television show adaptation
V = Video game adaptation

3D: The Way of the Future … Again
2009 vs. 2010: 8:22
Movies where “3D” featured in the title: 4 (“Jackass 3D”/ “Piranha 3D”/ “Saw 3D”/ “Step Up 3D”)
Of those, movies that were third in a series: 2 (“Jackass 3D”/ “Step Up 3D”)
Films that had no business being in 3D: “Jackass 3D”/ “Saw 3D”/ “My Soul to Take”
Films that surprisingly didn’t have a 3D rendering, in this 3D-crazed era: “Iron Man 2;” “Inception;” “Expendables;” “A-Team;” “Scott Pilgrim vs. The World;” “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”
Films that oh-so-desperately should have been 3D: “Human Centipede;” “Oceans”

ROY G BIV:
“Red” – “Yellow Handkerchief” – “Green Zone” – “Blue Valentine”
 - Honorable Mention: For Colored Girls

Movies in Numerical Order:
“Next Three Days” – “Twelve” – “Case 39” – “127 Hours”

Originality, Wherefore Art Thou?:
Screwball buddy cop films: 2 (“Cop Out”/ “Other Guys”)
Facebook.com as major plot factor: 2 (“Catfish”/ “Social Network”)
Fuckin’ vampires: “Daybreakers;” “Let Me In;” “Twilight Saga: Eclipse;” “Vampires Suck”
Number of movies that start with “D” starring Steve Carrell: 3 (“Date Night”/ “Despicable Me”/ “Dinner for Schmucks”)
Just Say Know: “Life as We Know It;” “How Do You Know”
The Last Last: “Last Airbender;” “Last Exorcism;” “Last Song”
Who, What, Where, When, Why: “Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” “Girl Who Played With Fire,” “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives;” “Nowhere Boy,” “Somewhere;” “When in Rome;” “Why Did I Get Married Too?”
 - How: “How Do You Know,” “How to Train Your Dragon”
 - What about “What?” No “what.” Maybe next year.
The war between Heaven & Hell: “Devil;” “Last Exorcism;” “Legion;” “Rec 2”
Aliens invade, and in the West Coast no less: “Monsters;” “Skyline”
Character Name and The Plot Point: “Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows;” “Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang;” “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief”
Movies where a stupid girl falls for an undercover spy: 3 (“Killers”/ “Knight and Day”/ “Spy Next Door”)
Sorta, but not quite: “Alice in Wonderland”/ “Rabbit Hole”
Movies with a cop who’s almost a week from retirement: 2 (“Faster”/ “Brooklyn’s Finest”)
Movies involving artificial insemination: 3 (“Back-Up Plan”/ “The Switch”/ The Kids are All Right”)
Paparazzi documentaries: 2 (“Smash His Camera”/ “Teenage Paparazzo”)

Too Much/ Too Little:
Too Much: Michael Cerra; Jonah Hill; Craig Robinson; Movies with colons in the titles (12!); Katherine Heigl
Too Little: Edward Norton; Michael Caine; Adam Greene