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Old 01-02-2020, 09:55 AM   #1
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What's your entertainment top 5 lists for the 2010s? Post a list for whatever mediums you're the most interested in.


I like the idea of a top 5 list, because I can be pretty confident in the accuracy of whatever I rattle off top of my head, but a longer list than that starts to require some serious soul searching. But I want to keep a loose format, so post whatever you want.


Albums
Bon Iver - Self Title
Polyphia - New Levels New Devils
Opeth - Watershed
Devin Townsend - Addicted!
M83 - Hurry up we're dreaming


Movies
Wolf of Wall Street
Mad Max Fury Road
John Wick 2
Infinity War
Inglorious Basterds

Podcasts

Joe Rogan Experience
Tin foil hat
Those Conspiracy Guys
Your moms house
How did this get made?

TV shows
Game of Thrones
Breaking Bad
VEEP
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Rick & Morty

Comedy Specials

Dave Chappelle - Sticks & Stones
Katt Williams - Kattpacalypse
Tom Segura - Mostly Stories
Joe Rogan - Strange Times
Patrice O'Neal - Mr. P

Games

Rocket League
Hearthstone
NHL
Skyrim
Divinity: Original Sin

E: Books & Comics
Patrick Rothfuss - Wise Mans Fear
GRRM - Dance of Dragons
Robert Kirkman; Tony Moore; Charlie Adlard - Walking Dead
One, Yusuke Murata - One Punch Man
Graham Hancock - Magicians of the Gods

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Movies
Wolf of Wall Street
Inception
Django Unchained
The Big Short
Sicario

Podcasts
Pardon My Take
Small Town Murder
Crime in Sports
Spittin Chiclets
Serial

TV shows
True Detective (season 1)
Shameless
VEEP
Brooklyn 99
Silicon Valley
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1. The War on Drugs - Lost in the Dream
2. Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
3. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships
4. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour
5. Sturgill Simpson - A Sailor's Guide to Earth

Movies
1. The Social Network
2. Get Out
3. Mad Max: Fury Road
4. Bridesmaids
5. Inception

TV Shows
1. Breaking Bad
2. Game of Thrones
3. Stranger Things
4. Chernobyl
5. 90 Day Fiance

Books
1. Columbine - Dave Cullen
2. Where Men Win Glory - John Krakauer
3. Meet Me in the Bathroom - Lizzy Goodman
4. All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
5. The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
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1. John Wick
2. Sicario
3. Interstellar
4. Wolf of Wall Street
5. Thor: Ragnarok

TV Shows
1. Breaking Bad
2. Rick and Morty
3. Hannibal
4. Fargo
5. Veep
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1. Dylan
2. Dylan
3. Dylan
4. Dylan
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In no particular order:

Music Books
Trouble Boys: The True Story Of The Replacements - Bob Mehr
See A Little Light: The Trail Of Rage And Melody - Bob Mould (with Michael Azzerad)
Complicated Game: Inside The Songs Of XTC - Andy Partridge (with Todd Bernhardt)
How Music Works - David Bryne
Reckless: My Life As A Pretender - Chrissie Hynde

Books
Kraken - China Mieville
The Orenda - Joseph Boyden
MaddAddam - Margaret Atwood
A Brief History Of Seven Killings - Marlon James
Borne - Jeff VanderMeer
The North Water - Ian McGuire

Board Games
Terraforming Mars
Wingspan
Roll For The Galaxy
Sagrada
Marvel Dice Masters
Space Base

Teams
New England Patriots
San Francisco Giants
Chicago Black Hawks
San Antonio Spurs
Barcelona
Calgary Stampeders

Podcasts
The Glass Cannon
The Skeptics Guide To The Universe
Fresh Air
The Dice Tower
Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend

Movies
Mad Max: Fury Road
Black Panther
The Social Network
Arrival
Ad Astra
Whiplash
Moneyball
Gravity
BlacKkKlansman
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Lion
Muscle Shoals
Bohemian Rhapsody - mainly for Rami Malek

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Albums:

Gord Downie- Introduce Yerself
Heartless Bastards- Arrow
Tom Waits- Bad As Me
Jason Isbell- Southeastern
Lowest of the Low- Agitpop

Movies:

Mad Max: Fury Road
The Big Short
Whiplash
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Inception

TV:

Chernobyl
Game of Thrones
The Americans
Better Call Saul
Stranger Things

Music books:

Bob Mould- See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage & Melody
Perfect Circle: The Story of R.E.M.
Jeff Tweedy- Let's Go (So We Can Get Back)
Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements
Is This Live?: Inside the Wild Early Years of Muchmusic
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Movies:

(Sorry I can't make a top 5 out of these)

Blade Runner 2049
La La Land
Sicario
What We Do In The Shadows
Birdman
Parasite
Wind River
The Revenant
Zero Dark Thirty
Moneyball
Prisoners
Frances Ha/Mistress America/While We're Young anything by Noah Baumbach
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Free Solo
Interstellar
Inception
Macgruber!!
The Disaster Artist

And others I know I am missing. Only thing that stands out for me for the last decade was a not a lot of really good comedies.

Worst movies of the decade:

Batman vs Superman/anything made by Zack Snyder
Suicide Squad/basically anything with Will Smith

TV Shows

Big Little Lies
Sharp Objects
Silicon Valley
Chernobyl
Mindhunter
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
American Crime Story: The People Vs Oj Simpson / OJ Simpson 30 for 30 'OJ: Made in America"
American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace
Handmaid's Tale
Girls

Albums:

Again couldn't narrow it down sorry

Kanye West: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Yeezus
The National: High Violet
Grimes: Art Angels
Jay Z and Kanye: Watch the Throne
Run The Jewels 2: Run The Jewels
Vampire Weekend: Modern Vampires of The City
Destroyer: Kaputt
Anything by Bon Iver
Caribou: Our Love
Disclosure: Settle
Anderson Paak: Malibu
James Blake: James Blake
Vince Staples: Big Fish Theory
Leon Bridges
M83: Hurry Up We're Dreaming
Jamie XX: In Colour
Lorde: Melodrama
Fleet Foxes: Helplessness Blues
Alvvays: Alvvays
Beck: Morning Phase
Alt-J: This is All Yours
London Grammar: If you wait

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After a few days to think about the entire decade I'll have a go:

Movies:
1. Mad Max: Fury Road
2. Avengers: Infinity War
3. What we do in the Shadows
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. Arrival

TV shows:
1. Veep
2. Archer
3. Mad Men
4. GoT
5. Silicon Valley

Video Games:
1. Witcher 3
2. The Last of Us
3. Tomb Raider
4. Uncharted 4
5. Spider-Man

Canadian Albums:
1. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
2. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
3. Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record
4. PUP - The Dream is Over
5. Wolf Parade - Expo 86

Australian Albums:
1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Push the Sky Away
2. Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
3. Tame Impala - InnerSpeaker
4. Gang of Youths - Go Farther in Lightness
5. Methyl Ethel - Everything is Forgotten

American Albums:
1. The National - High Violet
2. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
3. The Menzingers - After the Party
4. Joyce Manor - Never Hungover Again
5. LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
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My Media diet doesn't get enough Music, Books or games to have a top 5.

TV - HBO clearly one they decade.
The News Room
The Boys
Silicon Valley
Big Little Lies
Black Mirror
I must like Series' that twist the frame they would normally sit in.

Movies - Marvel and Disney writ large clearly won the decade.
Infinity war
Civil War
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Homecoming
The Last Jedi (I know unpopular opinion, but Kylo in this movie was the villain of the decade for me, don't need to rehash peoples fan fiction, i'll agree the disagree).
I must like movies that are careful to provide good motivation for their key conflict.

Podcasts
Common Sense
History of Rome
Philosophize This
Freakonomics radio
The Strategists (defunct but honourable mention still, for the decade. I really enjoyed the insights into the 2015 elections, very informative about how the political cake is baked).
I like dense information in my podcasts, there are others I might enjoy even more, but I would probably agree that they get a little too dense to recommend.
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1. Peace Bridge
2. Interior of Main Library
3. Vogue
4. Telus Sky
5. Bow
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Good idea
Calgary Architecture
EEEL Building - U of C
Digital library - U of C
NMC
Downtown Library
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I already did movies in another thread.

TV

True Detective S1
Chernobyl
Watchmen
South Park
Game of Thrones S1-6


Albums

QOTSA - ...Like Clockwork
Interpol - Interpol
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
Eminem - Recovery
Trent Reznor - just in general. Put out 3 NIN albums, 8 movie scores, 2 tv scores. The Social Network album and movie both amongst my favourite this decade.


Video Games

Doom
Last of Us
Spider-Man
RE2
Tomb Raider
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TV Shows

Counterpart
Absentia
Deadliest Catch
American Pickers
The Blacklist

Books


The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Escape From Camp 14
Tuesdays With Morrie
The Big Miss - My Coaching Years With Tiger Woods
Pick Up Hockey - Insights on Playing the Game

Movies

Whiplash
Captain Fantastic
Night Crawler
Spotlight
Hell or High Water
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TV Shows

Bojack Horseman
Game of Thrones
The Affair
Rick & Morty
Chernobyl

Movies

Hereditary
Mad Max: Fury Road
Parasite
Get Out
Cabin In The Woods

Albums

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid MAAD City
J. Cole - KOD
A Tribe Called Quest - We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
Big Boi - Boomiverse
Carcass - Surgical Steel

Single-Player Video Games

Doom (2016)
The Witcher 3
Skyrim
Alien Isolation
Resident Evil: 7

Multi-Player Video Games

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
SMITE
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds
Rocket League
Rainbow 6: Siege
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Holy fata what am I missing with Mad Max: Fury Road? Or is it a meme or something to put it on your list? I thought it was lame, boring, stupid and vapid.
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Holy fata what am I missing with Mad Max: Fury Road? Or is it a meme or something to put it on your list? I thought it was lame, boring, stupid and vapid.
Look up top movies of the decade on Google and you'll find it's on most of the list.
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Holy fata what am I missing with Mad Max: Fury Road? Or is it a meme or something to put it on your list? I thought it was lame, boring, stupid and vapid.
I'm with you. If this is one of the all time great movies, it is one of the few things in life that was able to fly right over my head. But I've seen it applauded so many times I didn't really take notice to people talk about how great it is.

I think your words are a little strong, but I found the movie generally, uninteresting.

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