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What's with all that "Best film of 20XX" nonsense?

Posted by Victor Khomenko on January 27, 2011 at 13:46:50:
I get really curious when I see people say "This is the best of this year"... what exactly does that mean and why does anyone care? The best of bad year... is that better than not the best of the better one?
I would much rather rate films in absolute sense. Most of the time when Oscars hit I have not seen most, or all of the nominees. Usually turns out I did not miss anything.
Case in point - the Hurt Locker. A real exercise in mediocrity, totally weak film any way you look at it. Best film of 2009? Give me a break... Too bad I wanted to see what all that noise was about so I paid six bucks for On Demand. Should have had another Big Mac instead. Truth is - soon everyone will forget about that piece of crap, but somewhere in the annals there will be line: "Best of..." But so what it won the 2010 Oscars? It is still farshtunken.