Earlier, we posted a couple lists of the year's box office turkeys, and worst user-reviewed films. But since it's Thanksgiving, a holiday in which we're supposed to be thankful for the people in our lives and the rewards we've received over the past year, I thought it might be fun to start a discussion with you Fandango readers and talk about which 2010 films we're actually thankful for. These don't necessarily have to be the best films of the year – or even your favorite films of the year – but they should be films that make you happy to the point where if you ever met the filmmaker, you'd immediately thank them for making such a wonderful/ballsy movie. Here are my five...
1. Toy Story 3: I'm thankful that Pixar made an animated movie that simultaneously made kids laugh and adults cry. Not an easy thing to do.
2. Inception: I'm thankful Warner Bros. allowed Christopher Nolan to take a break from the Batman franchise in order to make a really slick, original film that blew us away with its big-budget visuals while proving that not all summer blockbusters lack brains.
3. Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: I'm thankful Universal took a chance on a British director, a Canadian comic series, a cast full of relative unknowns and Michael Cera as an action star, because the end result was absolutely bloody brilliant.
5. Splice/Piranha 3D: No, they're not the best films of the year by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm thankful that studios are still taking chances on creepy monster movies and gory-as-hell horror flicks. In a world where almost everything is sanitized so that it has the best shot at making the most money, it's nice to see that Hollywood is still down for taking a few chances each year. It may not be as many as we'd like to see, but we can't have everything. Like the Rolling Stones said: "We can't always get what we want, but we get what we need."
