2010

2010 is almost over, when I finally post this, it probably will be over.
2010 was a great year, a lot of things happened, like the tallest man-made structure, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai was opened on January 4.

On January 15, the longest annular solar eclipse of the 3rd millennium occurred.
See wikipedia: Solar eclipse of January 15, 2010


On February 3 the sculpture L'Homme qui marche 1 by Alberto Giacometti was sold in London for £65 million. This is the sculpture depicted on the swiss 100 franc note.
    


The Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver and Whistler, Canada from February 12 until February 28.
 




Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for Best Director (the first woman to win this award)

Jeff Bridges (Best Actor), Christoph Waltz (Best Supporting Actor), Sandra Bullock (Best Actress) and Mo' Nique (Best Supporting Actress) won Oscars too

The 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa was won by Spain (sadly my father is Dutch).


    


On October 13, the 33 miners stuck 700 meters underground in a mining accident in San José Mine, are saved after 69 days down there.



I started this blog! :)



The Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is released from house arrest.



The first total lunar eclipse since 1638 takes place on December 21.



Sadly, as well as good things, bad thing occurred also, like the earthquake in Haiti on January 12...
Or the earthquake in Chile , which triggered a tsunami over the Pacific on February 27...
  
Volcanic ash from under the ice cap Eyjafjallajökull disrupts air traffic...

The Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, it is one of the largest oil spills in history on April 20...
   
Greece went bankrupt (sadly my mother is Greek)...

Wikileaks leaks information to the public over 90,000 internal reports about the United States-led involvement in the War in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010 ...



J.D. Salinger, author of Catcher in the Rye died :(

Alexander McQueen hanged himself :(

Steve Lee, lead singer of Gotthard (and one of the few famous Swiss people) died in a freak accident :(



My Top 10 Movies of 2010:
To help me with this  difficult choosing is my secret special guest - me! No not me... she likes to call herself me... *exasperation*... I know!
10. Alice in Wonderland

To tell the truth, this movie is only on this list because I couldn't think of any other movie to fill this place, my hopes were high for this movie. But I was disappointed with the outcome... As much as wanted to like this movie, because I think Tim Burton's totally awesome, I just couldn't! I didn't like Johnny Depp's character at all! I just wanted to punch him in his stupid, annoying face!

Surprisingly I only liked Alice and the bunny.

9. The Losers

Surprisingly I didn't hate this movie, in fact it was pretty good. I've gotta' say, I liked the whole cast, the only thing that I thought was a little stupid was that the hot 20 something-year old went for the old, battered dude! Yeah right! But it was entertaining and funny and the action scenes were pretty cool! Now, I wouldn't buy this, but for a long flight I would highly recommend it!

8. The Ghostwriter

Another movie which surprised me was the Ghostwriter! I was awaiting something totally weird and boring, but it was actually exciting and the end was totally unexpected! During the whole movie I was nervous, because I had no idea what was going to happen! I have to say it's a good movie, though I'll probably never watch it again...

7. Despicable Me

I have to say, this movie was exactly what I suspected it would be, but nonetheless it was a good movie. It was cute and funny and all in all entertaining. The only things I didn't really like were Gru's (Steve Carrel's) annoying accent and the fact that it had more than one plot. It was about a villain who adopted three girls, the same villain trying to steal the moon and again the same villain and his rivalry with another villain who looks like Bill Gates all at the same time! So at times it seemed like scenes were cut short so they could flip to the rest of the other plot. Otherwise, as said before, it was a cute and funny animated family movie which I might watch again with my little brother...

6. Grown Ups

I can't say that this is my favorite comedy movie, but it was very amusing and I didn't hate it. There were a few hilarious parts and a few stupid ones... But all in all a good watch!

5. Iron Man 2

Iron Man 2 was not what I expected... I thought it'd be a totally bad-ass movie, with epic battles and an awesome villain. I was only right on the last part...

To tell the truth, this movie bored me a bit, the only reason it's so far up my list is because of Mickey Rourke. Whiplash was pretty cool! To tell the truth I was more on his side than on Iron Man's...

Otherwise there were some other cool parts, but all in all I was disappointed because the first one was so good... Mickey Rourke, Tony Stark finally getting together with Pepper Pots and some other scenes made up for this, though and landed it on Number 5 of my top 10 list.

4. Get him to the Greek

This has got to be one of the funniest movies of the year, if not the funniest!

Russell Brand is hilarious and so is Sean "Diddy" Combs!

And even though I didn't really care about Jonah Hill's character, he did a good job as the straight man. 

Also, Russell Brand can sing really well! I was surprised! Well, if it was him who was really singing... and what a great name for a band: Infant Sorrow!

And also, the African Child video was really funny! 

I actually bought this movie, because although it's dirty it's very entertaining!

3. The Other Guys

Okay, so the reason I watched this movie was, as previously mentioned, my sister loves Mark Wahlberg and my whole family's a huge Will Ferrell fan!

And to tell the truth, it was much funnier than I expected! 

Especially the "bad cop/bad cop" routine!

me: I LOVED IT TOO!

(and not just because Mark Wahlberg was in it!) 

elle: no she means it!

me: mmmhmm!

elle: Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are a great team, after a while you can really see their friendship grow!

me: *swoon*

elle: the man is 40

me: you got a problem with that! Let me just say how many people love... him...

elle: him?

me: don't make me say his name.

elle: ohh .. HIM! George Clooney. 

me: ...

elle: I see your point!

me: HE IS OLD AND ANNOYING! 

elle: i know...

me: So don't get mad at me!

2. Shutter Island

I am a total Leonardo DiCaprio fan, so of course I had to watch this movie and it's awesome!

It's just suspense from the beginning until the end!

And also I really liked Mark Ruffalo and Michelle Williams too!

The only critique I have is that towards the beginning, there's this dead guy, who just looked really fake...

But to tell the truth, I was actually kind of happy, because I didn't want to have to see some gross, scary body either.

Also, Leo's German wasn't that bad! I was impressed!

me: It was a great movie, because it wasn't too scary, sad (ooh his poor wife *sniff*... actually poor LEO!) 

elle: on we go!

1. Inception

Like so many other top ten lists, my number one is Inception.

As said before, I'm a Leonardo DiCaprio fan and this movie is pretty cool!

And all the detail they put in this movie is also impressive. I don't think I've ever seen a movie so thought-through!

And I actually liked the whole cast, I think from all the movies this year, this one had the best cast, they worked really well together!

Of course it was going to be my nr. 1 choice!

me: agree! 

me: so deep!

elle: xD

Anyway I hoped you liked my top 10 list and thank you to my dear friend, whose real name shall remain unknown, me!

me: Thank you and your welcome! ^^

So Happy New Year!

Or, as they say in Switzerland: Guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr!

Elle :)

P.S.: Sorry, I didn't watch that many movies this year, but in my defense everything comes out later here!