#5 Black Swan
I was all set to write an extensive segment about this psycho-sexual thriller, talking about the grueling training the actors experienced, the freaky camera work and effects, and the consequences Natalie Portman's transformation from white to black swan. I was going to tell you how I appreciated the artistry of the movie but couldn't handle seeing it again. It would have been a great post.
However, I can't say anything about it because I am way too creeped out by the fact that when I went into the backyard this afternoon, I found a scattering of individual black feathers upon the smoothly drifted crisp white snow, with no tracks nearby to provide a clue as to their origin.
#4 127 Hours
While I'm sure this was amazingly wonderful, I just couldn't do it. Maybe someday, on the small screen.
#3 The Town
My coworker saw The Town with her sheriff's deputy husband and said their perspectives on the action were totally different. When *spoiler alert* the crew escapes across the bridge in their nun masks and the lone BPD officer turns his head away to let them escape, D screamed, "NO!" while H said, "That's what you had better do!" Where H was appalled to see law enforcement going into harm's way, D saw a movie that criminals might watch and get new ideas. "At least they're not actually smart enough to pull this off in real life," he said.
Ben Affleck has really come into his own in recent years, with strong directorial showings in The Town and Gone Baby Gone. This film toes the line between heist caper and something much darker. The acting is uniformly powerful - Affleck, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall and even Blake Lively in her departure from Gossip Girl's Serena van der Woodsen.
#2 The Fighter
I DIDN'T SEE MULHERN'S NUMBER TWO FILM OF THE YEAR!?!?! Unacceptable!
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