A few weeks ago, @Jennelis mentioned she didn't think any good movies were made after 2010. I told her I would come up with a list of movies made since 2010 that I indeed believe are worth watching. So, here you go. If anyone has a favorite movie from the last decade to add, please do so!
Note:
1) There's lots of overlap in categories for some of these films, I just placed them where it seemed to best fit. I also didn't include categories like horror, musical, animated, etc. Jenny doesn't seem like the type to enjoy horror movies, and I don't watch musicals. Animated wouldn't have had a ton of additions, and all the best animated movies that come to mind aren't that recent, the lone exception being Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse, hence...
2) I didn't include a category for superhero movies for a reason. Basically, if you like Marvel, you will have already watched all those. If you don't, you won't. Personally, I love the Marvel movies, but I know not everyone feels that way. That said, all the Marvel movies from the past decade are worth watching, in my opinion. Standouts are Thor: Ragnarok, Guardians of the Galaxy, and the last two Avengers movies.
3) This list is honestly kind of off the top of my head. I'm sure there's dozens of films I missed, hence me welcoming more additions!
Comedy/Romance/Other
Crazy, Stupid, Love
This Is The End
That Awkward Moment
Grand Budapest Hotel
Neighbors
The Nice Guys
Logan Lucky
Tag
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
World's End
The Cabin in the Woods (best comedy horror I've seen, maybe ever)
Action/Thriller
Drive (one of my personal favorite movies of all time)
Warrior (another one of my favorite movies of all time)
Source Code
Skyfall
The Dark Knight Rises
Chronicle
Jack Reacher
Looper
Dredd
Gravity
Prisoners
Interstellar
The Equalizer
Godzilla
Kingsman: The Secret Service
The Hateful Eight
The Big Short
The Shallows
The Accountant
Mad Max: Fury Road
Edge of Tomorrow
Drama
Margin Call
The Ides of March
The Place Beyond the Pines
American Hustle
Our of the Furnace
Whiplash
Gone Girl
Nightcrawler
Love & Mercy
The Martian
Rudderless (heartbreakingly good)
Arrival
Wind River
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Beautiful Boy
Hillbilly Elegy
Boyhood
Beasts of the Southern Wild
War/Historical Fiction/Based on a True Story
The Darkest Hour
The Founder
In the Heart of the Sea
Joy
Unbroken (Beautifully done adaptation)
Hacksaw Ridge (see above)
Argo
Moneyball
The Impossible
Lawless
Dunkirk
13 Hours
The Revenant
The Imitation Game
American Sniper
Fury (amazing WWII movie)
Lone Survivor
12 Years a Slave
Zero Dark Thirty
1917
Lincoln
While driving yesterday, I had an idea to help facilitate more regular content creation, especially during this time when it is all but impossible to make videos outside of livestreams from my phone. The idea is that of a biweekly post that roughly takes the form of a newsletter, of which this is shall be the first volume. As an aside, evidently a synonym for biweekly is 'fortnightly,' which I'd totally use if it weren't for the association with a game of stupid dances.
My current plan for the format is as follows, though obviously this is likely to change.
-Introduction, brief life updates, and maybe a thought or two I've had lately that I wanted to share with you.
-What books I have been going through, and any excerpts or takeaways I feel are worth sharing.
-Any other noteworthy podcasts or media I've consumed lately.
-What stories I'm paying attention to (if any) and why
-Any questions I might have for you guys
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Alright, it's called TL;DR for a reason. Let's jump in.
As I mentioned earlier, we have Covid again. I'm not going to ...
I know it's been quiet here lately. I'll eventually explain what's been going on with my personal life (most of it has been a mixture of our new baby being really, really difficult, and perpetual sickness. For example, last week three our of the four of us had to go to the hospital) but this is what has consumed virtually all free time outside of work and family time.
Please consider helping us bring justice to these bastards. Their indifference and complicity in the harm done to these kids has to stop. Please help us make that happen.
For those who missed it, here's an open letter I wrote to my community last fall after the suicide of a former student, himself a victim of this school district:
https://returntoreason.medium.com/an-open-letter-to-the-citizens-of-albany-county-ca507fa24cd8
Thank you for everything you do. You guys are awesome, and I look forward to filling you in on what's been going on in the near future. See you soon.
ps- I will be...
Salutations! I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas. Here is my list of top ten the things I learned/conclusions I reached from this past year. Some are directly related to events, others are not. Either way, I tried my best to create a list of useful ideas for you to incorporate into your view of the present moment. I hope you find this list useful, as many of the items on it are lenses I find incredibly important for understanding the world around me. As always, I welcome any feedback you might have!
In Part 2, I use Conquest's Three Laws of Politics to expand on my specific critiques of Peterson's Manifesto, and flush out some of my own axioms that I failed to explain in Part 1. This is where I get into the nuts and bolts of how institutions deviate from their original purpose and begin to generate and pursue their own interests.
What began as a singular episode critiquing one of my intellectual heroes has turned into a multi-part series going after some foundational axioms of mainstream Conservatism.
In this introductions, I discuss Permanent Washington and the concept of accountability, and sew the seeds for what's to come in either trusting or rejecting many mainstream Western institutions.
It's worth mentioning that this recording, along with every other part in this series, has taken almost (in some cases more than) a day to upload. I have no idea why my internet is failing me as hard as it is, but here we are. Hopefully you find these recordings in time to assist you in your vote tomorrow 🤙
I've been wanting to do this for a while. It might have taken me two days to figure out how to get this from my phone to my computer, but I finally got it to work.
On Saturday, I used the voice recorder app on my phone to record a podcast covering Karl Schmitt, his discussions of power, and how we can map this onto our contemporary situation with The Regime that runs our country, and the Bureaucratic State which does its ideological bidding.
After listening to it, I realize there is some more context I need to add to the ending, so I might record another one tomorrow or Wednesday. Either way, it feels good to be recording stuff again. As always, I welcome your thoughts and feedback!
"We don't know where this thing isn't."
-Bret Weinstein
@JamesDerian suggested I pin and regularly update a thread of sources I'm compiling to illustrate the total societal takeover of Far-Left Orthodoxy, including their explicit targeting of our kids for indoctrination. Here is that thread.
Compromised entities:
Nickelodeon
Cartoon Network
Kellogg's Cereal
Mattel Toys
Lego
Sesame Street (SESAME STREET 🤦♂️)
PBS
CNN
The New York Times
The Washington Post
NPR
NBC News
Gender/Sexuality
Cartoon Network celebrating transgender children:
https://twitter.com/stage13network/status/1377332951659151360?s=20
More Cartoon Network trans stuff:
https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1377259794294259717?s=20
Cartoon Network on "normalizing gender pronouns"
https://twitter.com/cartoonnetwork/status/1338539346530537475?s=20
Lego released "rainbow set" for Pride Month:
https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2021/may/everyone-is-awesome/
"Queer up your morning routine" with Kellogg's new cereal featuring edible glitter, ...
