In March, ScreenAge Wasteland will have its first annual Movie Madness tournament to determine the greatest movie of the 2010s.
Similar to the NCAA March Madness tournament that starts with 64 teams and ends with one winner standing tall, SAW is going to have 64 of the best movies from the past decade battle it out.
The great thing is you, the wasteoids, will be able to help determine the winner by voting in the matchups!
Each region is named after the director of the number one seed from that region. You will have to check back on March 1, 2020, to see what the matchups are for each region. The movies were picked by an intricate scoring system in order to get the best of the best films from this past decade with minimal opinions or bias involved. The top four movies to grade out the highest are your four number one seeds and region leaders. Also, there was a limit of only two films per director. Lastly, the vote in winners will be marked at the bottom so you can see if your pick made the field of 64.
David Fincher’s biographical drama about the birth of Facebook is the number one seed for this region. The Social Network looks to win this region and make it to the Final Four. Think that will happen or is there another film you would like to see win this region?
Miller Region Jenkins Region Coen Region
The Social Network (2010)
“As Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates the social networking site that would become known as Facebook, he is sued by the twins who claimed he stole their idea, and by the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business.”
Director: David Fincher
Writer: Aaron Sorkin
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Justin Timberlake
A Separation (2011)
“A married couple is faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.”
Director: Asghar Farhadi
Writer: Asghar Farhadi
Stars: Payman Maadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat
Parasite (2019)
“All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take a peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incident.”
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Writers: Bong Joon Ho
Stars: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo
Roma (2018)
“A year in the life of a middle-class family’s maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s.”
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writer: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey
Dunkirk (2017)
“Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.”
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan, Mark Rylance
Hereditary (2018)
“A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.”
Director: Ari Aster
Writer: Ari Aster
Stars: Toni Collette, Milly Shapiro, Gabriel Byrne
The Handmaiden (2016)
“A woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, but secretly she is involved in a plot to defraud her.”
Director: Chan-wook Park
Writers: Sarah Waters, Seo-kyeong Jeong
Stars: Min-hee Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Cho
Burning (2018)
“Jong-su bumps into a girl who used to live in the same neighborhood, who asks him to look after her cat while she’s on a trip to Africa. When back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met there, who confesses his secret hobby.”
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Writers: Jungmi Oh, Chang-dong Lee
Stars: Ah-in Yoo, Steven Yeun, Jong-seo Jun
Logan (2017)
“In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.”
Director: James Mangold
Writers: James Mangold, Scott Frank
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen
Lady Bird (2017)
“In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.”
Director: Greta Gerwig
Writer: Greta Gerwig
Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts
Carol (2015)
“An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.”
Director: Todd Haynes
Writers: Phyllis Nagy
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
“Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.”
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Terence Winter
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie
Spotlight (2015)
“The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.”
Director: Tom McCarthy
Writers: Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy
Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams
The Farewell (2019)
“A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.”
Director: Lulu Wang
Writer: Lulu Wang
Stars: Shuzhen Zhao, Awkwafina, X Mayo
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
“A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe’s nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.”
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Writers: Lynne Ramsay
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Judith Roberts, Ekaterina Samsonov
Family Vote In Winner
The Lego Movie (2014)
“An ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as “special”, is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis.”
Directors: Christopher Miller, Phil Lord
Writers: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
Stars: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks
What do you think of the films in this region? Have any predictions for which film will make it to the Final Four from this group of films?
