Rate These Movies Of The Last 10 Years And We'll Reveal Your Movie IQ!
- by Joshua Laurent
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Sure, taste in movies is a subjective thing, but let's be honest, we all know a masterpiece when we see one and a stinker when we see one...except that one friend of yours. They have no idea what's good or bad. If you don't have that friend, have you ever considered you could be the one with horrible taste?
We're not trying to say that every Academy Award nominated film is amazing and every superhero movie is trash. Actually, quite the opposite. We think that a "good" movies has to be both artistic, satisfying and make money. Quite a few of those movies we'd hardly heard of on Oscar night didn't seem to be either satisfying or successful.
Let's figure out if you're the one with the bad taste in movies or if you can spot a winner from a loser. We're not going to go back 50 years and we'll try to keep the obscure titles to a minimum. This should be fairly straightforward. Just tell us if a movie was great or horrible and we'll let you know at the end if you've got great taste in movies...or if you're the one people don't leave the important decisions to on movie night anymore.
Baby Driver
One of the more stylish movies of 2017 and probably the last time you're going to see Kevin Spacey in a major film role for a very, very long time. Noted for its driving and violence sequences choreographed to music, did that make the movie awesome, or just cover up that it was a clunker?
The A-Team
Over the last dozen years there are always a few movies every year that are based on a television show from the 1970s or 1980s, usually subtly poking fun at the original. The A-Team got this treatment several years ago. Did this result in greatness or not?
Angry Birds
It's one thing to make a movie based on a TV show or cartoon, but to make it on a simple mobile game? It seemed impossible, but Angry Birds proved it could be done. The film made a lot of money, but does that necessarily mean it was a good movie?
American Hustle
American Hustle is one of the 12,000 movies Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence have made together in the last decade, but seems to be forgotten over Silver Linings Playbook. Is that a crime because it was a great film or is better that this movie stay forgotten?
The Green Lantern
It's always interesting to see when filmmakers try to give a little spin to a superhero and the creators of Green Lantern thought that humor was needed in the film. It didn't make the bulk of hardcore superhero films happy, but did that really matter to its overall quality?
San Andreas
Who could ever have guessed when a smiling guy named Rocky Maivia debuted in the WWE nearly 25 years ago, he'd go on to be the biggest movie star of his time. San Andreas was the entry for summer disaster blockbuster a few years ago. Did it deliver on its promises?
Pacific Rim
We'll reserve judgment on the sequel until we see it in the near future, but Pacific Rim introduced to a world where monsters came from deep in the center of the earth. How to battle them? Create our own giant robot monsters! Did this film work for you?
Guardians of the Galaxy
Just because a movie gets a sequel doesn't mean the original was good. It just means the original made a ton of money, as Guardians of the Galaxy certainly did that. Was this Marvel superhero movie one that you told your friends was great or horrible after seeing it?
Beautiful Creatures
We found the poster for Beautiful Creatures intriguing because it hints that it could be so many different things. That probably makes it a poster that did it's job, but once you're in the theater, a poster goes just so far. Did the film deliver on the poster's promise?
Gone Girl
Based on the book of the same name, Ben Affleck stars as the husband of a woman who goes missing and everybody believes it's him. This is one of those movies where if you say a hair too much, it's all spoilers. So we'll leave it at that. What did you think?
American Sniper
Bradley Cooper bravely takes on a movie with Jennifer Lawrence in Sniper, based on the best sniper the US military ever employed. We thought there should have been a little more at the very end about what happened after the story ended, but did that ruin it for us? It doesn't matter, what did it do for you?
Thor Ragnarock
Taking another big leap into the comedic world of movies was Thor Ragnarock. Like many superhero movies of the last decade it made a huge impression at the box office, but that can't be the only criteria to determine a film's worth. How did you feel about this movie?
Dunkirk
At the Academy Awards held in early March, Dunkirk cleaned up in one area that people don't often think about: Sound. It takes a lot to make what you're seeing on screen seem realistic, but how much does that really play into deciding if a movie is good or not?
Bad Moms
Once Bridesmaids proved that there was an audience for raunchy female comedies, Hollywood has burn turning out a couple every year since. Did this take on being a mother in the 21st Century make you think a sequel was necessary or did you think they should have let it go?
Doctor Strange
One of the lesser known characters from the Marvel Universe got his own movie a couple years back. Does it hurt a film or lower your expectations when you're not as familiar with a character going into it, or does it help since you don't know what to expect?
Frozen
While people may forget the plot and characters of the original Disney animated film as time goes on, people certainly are never going to forget the title track, "Let it Go." The movie delighted nine-year-olds, but so do a lot of things. Was seeing this worth the time?
Creed
It was we think is the seventh, maybe eighth...could be ninth...film from the Rocky franchise, we see the famous boxer taking a smaller role, serving as mentor to his former friend Apollo Creed's son. Should this movie never have been made or were you glad it was on the big screen?
Blade Runner 2045
Late in 2017, Blade Runner 2045, a sequel to the film that was almost 30 years old was released with Harrison Ford reprising his role and turning over the reins to a younger cast. It didn't make as much money as was hoped, but did the film meet your expectations?
Black Panther
The most recent movie to make this list, it's broken all sorts of box office records with the money it's taken in, and the critics mostly seem to like it, but this quiz isn't about cash or critics. It's about what you think. Did you actually like Black Panther or was it all hype?
Birdman
Birdman was seen as Michael Keaton's great return to the screen in 2014 to show what he was still capable of 26 years after he defined the role of Beetlejuice. It's hard to say if it was really a comeback since we haven't seen Keaton in much since this movie. Nonetheless, did you like Birdman?
Unfriended
There are movies that only work in a very specific spot in time because they are so loaded with references to technology that given a year or two, everything is outdated. Unfriended is one such movie. It really let you know what the kids were using for apps in 2015, but will that hold up in 2025? Does it effect if the movie is good or not?
Milk
Sean Penn continues a career of proving that while he may be a sketchy person in real life, he knows how to act like a contributing member of society on the big screen. His portrayal of San Francisco legend Harvey Milk was nothing short of brilliant, but was that enough the carry the entire movie for you?
Logan
What were The Wolverine movies missing? A little girl. Or, you could also ask what was the one thing that The Wolverine movies never needed? A little girl. Depending on which question you ask probably determines how you felt about this Hugh Jackman movie about a guy with crazy fingernail issues.
Moana
It may seem hard for people to believe, but there was a time when Disney didn't turn out at least one blockbuster animated film per year. Once they saw what Beauty and Beast and The Little Mermaid could do about 25 years ago, they grabbed their pencils and started drawing. But they all haven't been perfect. What did you think of Moana?
Mad Max: Fury Road
Tom Hardy took over the role of Mad Max from Mel Gibson and rebooted the franchise, with Charlize Theron as the butt-kicking female lead. The amazing thing about this film - even if it was devoid of a lot of story - is just how few special effects were actually used. If you saw it, the odds were it happened.
La La Land
And the Oscar goes to....not La La Land! What some thought was the best movie of the year will forever be remembered for the biggest mistake ever made at the Academy Awards when it was announced as best picture but didn't actually win. Was this really a great movie or the kind of movie Hollywood just likes to make about itself?
Inside Out
While it did very well at the box office, Inside Out may not be remembered in the long run as one of the Disney Pixar's classics because it was, dare we say, too smart for audiences. We all know what it's like to have conflicting feelings inside of us, but it's never been shown on the screen it quite this way before.
The Revenant
There are movies where you see a certain performance and can sometimes mistake that performance for being the entire movie. The Revenant was like that. While nobody argued Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't brilliant, some said the overall film didn't hold up. Others thought that belief was ridiculous. Where do you fall in the debate?
Gravity
Had they filmed Gravity in outer space, it might have been easier than all of the effects that were needed, both real and CGI, to make this film come together as it did. Still, you've got to like movies where not a ton of stuff happens to put this into the great movie category. Do you like those kinds of movies?
Rogue One: A Star Wars Movie
It's hard to say that LucasFilms ever sticks its neck out and tries something too creative, but in launching its first-ever standalone Star Wars films, Rogue One proved to audiences that we didn't need Skywalker, Vader and Solo to anchor every film. Nonetheless, it still had it's detractors. Were you one of them?
Romeo & Juliet
Apparently this was based on a play written by somebody a long time ago. In reality, it's hard to think of anything that has been as done as many times as Romeo & Juliet and we have a feeling we'll see it a million more times. Some are great and some leave a lot lacking. What did you think of this particular version?
Ghostbusters
In the mid-1980s, director Ivan Reitman hit it big with a little film called Ghostbusters with starts like Bill Murray and Harold Ramis. Nearly 30 years later, we were treated to an all-female version with jokes updated for the 21st Century. Did the whole thing work or should the have just left well enough alone?
Cloud Atlas
Tom Hanks, Halle Barre, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant and a cast unlike many that have been put together in years for a book that was hugely well-received, yet most people ignored the movie at the box office. Was it ignored because it was horrible or were people just busy in late October that year?
Inception
With the movie having a name like Inception, you don't know exactly what you're in store for, but you can assume it's not going to be a comedy. This was one of those films where you'd talk about it with your friends and based on individual interpretations, you might think you'd seen two different movies. Were they both good movies, though?
Joy
Jennifer Lawrence appears on this list for the last time in yet another role where she plays a woman who ends up down on her luck and pulls herself up by the boot strings to make something of herself. The only real difference is that this time her name is Joy. Still, if you like Lawrence, this is the kind of movie you love her for.
