1 . Uruguay back in the football radar + Sebastian Abreu trolling Richard Kingson
The only southamerican team who managed to get far enough in this last World Cup, Uruguay showed the world how a talented team with enough guts and enough love for the game can reach and give the best soccer teams in the world a good fight. I’m not gonna get into the argument that the referee in every game was a piece of shit, that Suarez shouldn’t have made that handball, and that Fucile was the manliest player in the world cup for coming back into play after falling head first and nearly killing himself, or that Germany apparently didn’t really wanted to play against Spain, De Jong trying for Van Damme’s next stunt double, England being screwed, Maradona’s antics or anything like that.
It was simply a great feeling to watch my home country finally being part of football elite once again.
Also, even if you weren’t cheering for Uruguay, you gotta admint that Abreu’s chipping the ball to claim the semifinals was the greatest trolling act in sports since Mike Tyson started biting people.
Arriba la Celeste, CARAJO!
2 - Inception.
Nolas is quickly becoming my favorite film director (Note to David Lynch: Make more awesome movies, kthxbai) and Inception is clearly his best movie. If you don’t agree, it’s okay. Not everyone is as awesomely right as I am.
Inception is the thinking man’s (who really thinks a lot) action movie. Some people compare Nolan and Cameron. Let’s just hope Nolan doesn’t begins to fall in love with CGI.
3 - Bioshock 2
Even as annoying as it is to have to deal with the first quarter of the game being awesome, the next 50% being a total bore, and an incredible last 25%, this was the game that I really enjoyed this year. It could have been better, but once you realize that, save for the inferior graphics, is simply just as good as the first, you can figure out this was much better than what the haters originally claimed.
People said the star of the game, the Big Daddy, was reduced to a minor role, and they were right, but they fail to reveal that the new star was the Big Sisters, the new Splicers, and the Alpha Series. Just have a close encounter with a Big Sister and feel exactly the same you felt when you had to get past a Big Daddy in the first game.
Really good plot and music as well. Here’s me waiting for Infinite. :D
4 - Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow
IMO best album of the year: Coheed and Cambria, despite already being one of the most well regarded bands of the new millenium, have grown tremendously from their previous efforts, stopping the gimmicks and producing really good music.
I might be slightly biased since this is by far their heaviest album, but it is still a very good choice.
5 - Black Swann
Best movie of the year, even if it isn’t my personal favorite.
6 - Forlan winning Best Player in the World Cup.
Curiously the award that the FIFA didn’t had much to do. A fitting reward for a player who had a really good year with both club and country, and a reminder that, sometimes, justice does exist.
7 - Damn it was about time: Starcraft 2
Many felt dissapointed, many felt like it was the best game ever. To be fair, it isn’t gound breaking, it isn’t perfect, but it is a VERY good game which seeks to continue a saga that’s long due waiting for an ending.
Don’t fix what ain’t broke.
Also, the Protoss mini-campaing ending is the most fucked up thing in videogames this year.
8 - Toy Story 3
A fitting ending to a story that’s been with me for 15 years.
9. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
A very different take on the Gorillaz project, both in music and image, yet still catchy and interesting. It must be somewhat frustrating to Damon Albarn that the bad he created out of funny looking characters is probably more famous that his original band, Blur.
10 - Mass Effect 2
One of the star games of the year. Yes it’s hardly an RPG, yes it’s hardly a breakthrough game, yes, it’s enormously difficult to make a character that doesn’t look like a retard, but hell is it an awesome game.
TOP TEN OF RANDOM 2010 IMPORTANT STUFF
