Sarcasmatron's 2010 In Movies: The Top 10 (Part 2 - #5-#1)

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Sarcasmatron's 2010 In Movies: The Top 10 (Part 1 - #10-#6)

I guess it's kinda convenient that I do a Top 10 list considering I only saw 10 movies last year.  But still, that's a good 5 or 6 more movies than I normally see at the theaters, at least.  So really, this isn't a "Best Of" considering all the stuff I missed (see the last blog post for my opinions on some of those movies), but really ranking what I saw from worst to best.  Luckily, I've seen more bad than good, so let's start off with what I consider the Most Disappointing Movie of 2010.

Sarcasmatron's 2010 In Movies: The Stuff I Missed

As I've talked to people online, I've found it odd that I've heard so many people say that 2010 was one of the worst years for movies in recent memory.  However, to me, 2010 was probably the best year for movies.  Normally, I go to the theaters maybe once or twice a year, three times tops.  But this year, not only do I have enough movies to fill a Top 10 list (which will be coming soon) but I also have a list of notable movies that I missed out on.  You see, I'm not a professional critic, no matter how much I'd like to be one.  Can you imagine complaining about crap you hate...and actually getting PAID for it?  But no, I have to spend my own money, of which I don't have much, and therefore I have to be much more judicious in what I see.  In some cases, it works out in my favor.  As much as I'd like to see how bad The Last Airbender really was for myself, I don't want to actually waste money on it.  But in other cases, there are movies that I genuinely want to see but missed out on just because I didn't want to see them badly enough or was just plain broke.

Sarcasmatron's 2010 In Music: The Top 10 (Part 2 - #5-#1)

Hey guys, surprisingly enough, I haven't died.  I figured I'd give you a bit of an update of what I've been doing the past month or so that I haven't updated Sarcasmatron before charging right back into finishing up the Top 10.  Basically, all I've been doing is laying in bed and puking my guts out.  I'm not 100% sure what I got but it was basically the flu.  Although I never had a fever or anything like that, I pretty much alternated between puking and having dizzying headaches and that was enough to lay me out for a good couple weeks.  I didn't go to work (though I tried a few times and would start throwing up within an hour or two) and I didn't have the strength to do anything but lay in bed.  And believe me, when you don't have the strength to freakin' sit in front of a computer and update a blog, you know it's bad.  I tend to avoid care due to my lack of insurance and my general distrust of doctors, especially since I usually only get sick for a day or two at a time.  But after a few weeks, I finally had to suck it up and get some blood work done at the ghetto cheap-ass clinic near my apartment that deals primarily with methadone addiction.  The blood work didn't show much, basically that I had an infection but nothing serious enough to go to the hospital, or even require medicine.  There was a little red flag raised at the Billirubin levels in my liver but if there was anything wrong with my liver, there would have been 5 or 6 other things that would've come up.  So basically I just had to wait it out.  And once I finally started feeling good enough to go to work and do things again, we got totally butt-blasted with snow last week.  We were supposed to get a blizzard and people were already calling it Snowpocalypse 2011 but while we got a shit-ton of snow, I was a bit disappointed.  Nevertheless, it was still enough for me to seclude my paranoid-driving self and stay in bed.

It sucks because for the past month or so, I've literally done nothing but lay in bed and watch movies.  Save for watching the Royal Rumble a couple weeks ago with a friend (which ended up being pretty awesome BTW), I haven't seen my friends in all this time.  I've been meaning to join up in some of their gaming sessions again but I'm still pretty disinterested and all this laying in bed doing nothing somehow hasn't given me any good character ideas.  Except for the times I've gone to work, it feels like I've been cut off from civilization.  Hell, I didn't even go to work today, not because I'm not feeling good but because business has been really slow and despite me being out for the past few weeks and getting backed up on some work, there's really no reason for me to be there right now.  So I'm going to be scraping by in the money department, which will in turn cause me to stay secluded in my apartment even more.  I haven't even played any video games since I don't want to be a dick and take my roommates' XBox 360 into my room.  I've been meaning to do another playthrough of Fable III since I went straight through the story the first time and did little to no side missions.  And I'm still not all that far into Fallout New Vegas either. 

So instead, I've been watching a ton of movies.  I thought about doing a Random Movie Roundup but with all the stuff I've watched over the course of this past month, but there's so much that I'm not even going to bother.  First off, I went through Netflix and started watching a ton of TV shows, finishing off all the available episodes of Mythbusters I haven't seen yet.  I moved onto American Pickers but I couldn't watch a whole season of two guys driving through the Midwest in a van going through piles of old people's crap without feeling wholly depressed about the situation.  So then I watched the Robocop trilogy, which then resulted in me going into an 80's movie kick with stuff like Escape From New York, The Running Man and Howard The Duck.  Then that turned into 80's wrestling where I watched a bunch of Hulk Hogan and Macho Man Randy Savage matches.  Then I got tired of watching movies so I listened to a bunch of commentaries.  That way, I could lay in bed and just listen instead of wearing myself out with the act of actually having my eyes open and paying attention to plot.  And that brings me up to the current point, where I just finished going through Seasons 1-3 of The Venture Bros. backwards (meaning from Season 3 down to 1) with commentary, which then urged me to find and watch Season 4.5 that I missed at the end of last year.  The whole thing reminded me that The Venture Bros. is indeed the best show on television today.  Sorry, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia.  Though I will say that Always Sunny is the best live-action show with Community running a close second.  Beyond that, I still don't watch much TV so I can't really comment on anything else

Anyway, enough with my rambling, it's time to finish up this Top 10.  Forgive me if the remaining list seems a bit rushed.  Honestly, I just want to get this done.  Who the hell does Best of 2010 articles in February?  And since I still have to go through my list of movies, it could be going on into March at this rate.

Sarcasmatron's 2010 In Music: The Top 10 (Part 1 - #10-#6)

To any longtime Sarcasmatron readers (as if there are any), already know this isn't going to be a typical Best Of 2010 list.  It's not so much a "Best Of" as it is albums of what I managed to get a hold of.  I tried to shine the spotlight on those I may have missed out on but this is the list that, for better or worse, I was able to accumulate through my own meager means.  So let's get this thing started:

Sarcasmatron's 2010 In Music Prelude: The Stuff I Missed Out On

It's that time of year again.  The time of year where we look upon the previous 364 days and wonder what exactly we wasted our time on...I mean fondly look back at the things that entertained us.  Yeah, that's it.  I wish I could have a massive list upwards to 40-50 titles but I'm only one man with a very limited budget.  So obviously there's going to be A LOT of things that I might enjoy that slipped through the cracks.  And since I like to believe that I have a wide range of what I do, or at least could, enjoy, the list of things that I missed out on actually ended up being quite varied.  So here we go...

My Top 10 List Of Albums I Didn't Get In 2010

A Look At The 2010 Summer Movie Season - Part 2

Before I start looking at the movies opening in July and August, I will say that I actually did go to the theaters last night.  And what did I see?  Well it wasn't The Human Centipede since there were no places near me playing it.  And it wasn't Nightmare On Elm Street because reviews haven't been kind (going so far as someone from the New York Times saying "this is why your generation sucks", which is a statement I need to make more often).  Surprisingly, the only person I've found that actually liked the Elm Street remake was The Cinema Snob.  I usually trust his opinion so I may check it out on DVD someday but I'm in no rush.  So what did I see?  Kick Ass.  Yup, for a second time.  And it was just as awesome as I remembered it.  I rarely go see a movie in theaters more than once.  The only movies I can remember going to see twice were Spider-Man and Jackass: The Movie.  Other than Nightmare on Elm Street and Kick Ass, the only real option presented to my friends and I was The Losers.  I was pretty psyched up to see The Losers a few weeks ago but Kick Ass looked so much better, even when presented with the decision of going to see it a second time.  And with opinions ranging from "Don't bother" to "Pretty good", with no one saying "OH MY GOD! You have to see this movie right now!", I figured I can wait until DVD.  I'm pretty psyched for Iron Man 2 next weekend and would like to see it in IMAX but I think the only IMAX theater near me is in Detroit.  And who wants to go to Detroit?

Anyway, let's dive back in, starting with July:

A Look at the 2010 Summer Movie Season - Part 1

Even though we're technically still in Spring, I feel that after having seen Kick Ass a few weeks back, the Summer Blockbuster Movie Season has started off already.  And surprisingly enough, unlike years past, there are quite a few movies that I actually want to see this Summer.  Despite my love for movies, it seems like I make it to the movie theater less and less because Hollywood doesn't crank out a lot of movies I want to see, and even if there is something I want to see, usually it's something not worthy of $10+ for a ticket or something I can wait for the DVD release.  Which explains why my "Best Of" list last year only had 5 movies (and 1 Worst Movie), because that's literally all I've seen.  The only movie that didn't make the list was Boondock Saints II and that was only because I had seen it after I compiled my list.  And really, what other reason would there be for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li for cracking a "Best Of" list.  Luckily, I won't have the problem of putting a crappy (yet enjoyable but for all the wrong reasons) movie on my end-of-year list this year.  So I'm going to go through the Summer release schedule week-by-week (according to IMDB, so if I miss something it's their fault) and pick out what movie I personally would like to see and try to predict which movie everyone will go see.  But somehow, between those two criteria, I probably won't touch upon what movies are actually WORTH seeing.  That's because the general public is stupid yet I still watch crap...just a better kind of crap, I guess.  Anyway, let's start with tomorrow night:

2010: The Year I Make Contact...With Your Face!

I just want to take this opportunity to thank anyone that has read this blog thus far.  That's right, all four of you.  I know I've only been doing this about a month or so but I like to believe that big things are coming, if I may be a bit presumptuous.  Of course, I'll need a bit of your help if those big things are going to happen.  It's like they say (who they are, I'll never know): "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"  In a word: Ummm...yeah.  But to extrapolate that a bit, if I write a blog and no one is around to read it, does it really matter?  Not really.