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Don't you feel this might be kind of a cognitive bias? Like when people poll for the best album of all time and it's always something that was released within the last 3 years of whenever the poll was.

The social network is of it's time and will date really badly, to the point where no one will watch or mention it ever again.

True Grit is a remake so specifically cannot be included as it had to be good enough to have been remade.

Inception isn't ever going to be a classic a la The Matrix.

The Kings Speech will definitely have longevity; Black Swan I'm not convinced will float above just being another film you can pick up for £3 in HMV in a couple of months but then think "well, will I ever watch it?"

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I chose these movies not necessarily because I felt they were superb (although I loved them all) but because they were critically acclaimed and all received lots of oscar nominations. Almost by definition, they are the best films of the year.

If you compare it to nominated movies ten years ago, Braveheart, Apollo 13, I think they are comparably great.

Additionally, box office returns seem to be at all time highs. Black Swan and True Grit are two films that typically would be destined for "niche" audiences, but have returned hundreds of millions for reasonably small budgets.

Also, I think that Inception will be almost as influential as The Matrix, except in a smaller genre of films (eg: Matrix built upon action movies, whereas Inception was more of a psych thriller) - in my opinion.

I never found Apollo 13 to be a compelling movie. It's so true to life that you could just watch the documentaries and get the exact same experience.

Box office returns at an all time high? With or without adjusting for the increase in ticket prices (i.e., I seriously want to know how many tickets were sold per capita)?

The social network is of it's time and will date really badly, to the point where no one will watch or mention it ever again.

I totally agree that The social network is of it's time but totally disagree that will date really badly.

The social network is about its time, and has excellent structure and dialog too. Time will tell if it becomes a classic, but as a snapshot of .dot com boom era it's excellent, and will remain so. How can one write a social history of the years 2000-2010 without mentioning social networks and facebook in particular?

> True Grit is a remake

So was the 1939 Wizard of Oz.

> Inception isn't ever going to be a classic a la The Matrix.

And you know this because...

He is using his own subjectivity like the OP did. Just because they get Oscar's doesn't guarantee anything at all.

True Grit while good was such a pale movie compared to the original John Wayne version.

> True Grit while good was such a pale movie compared to the original John Wayne version.

And in the reviews I read, it was better than the John Wayne movie, because it was more of an adult film.

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