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Clive Candy
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In no particular order:

1. 25th Hour
2. Adaptation
3. Y Tu Mama Tambien
4. Gladiator
5. Changing Lanes
6. Minority Report
7. Twilight Samurai
8. Peter Pan
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. Femme Fatale

Share yours!

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theamazeeaz
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I saw none of those films.
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Raymond Arnold
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Of those I saw Gladiator, Minority Report, Y TU Mama Tambien and Peter Pan. I didn't think Y Tu Mama was as great as everyone said, but liked the other ones.

I have a really hard time comparing all the good movies I like against each other though, so I will not attempt to pick 10 to represent the decade at this particular time.

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quote:
Adaptation
Bleh.
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Strider
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Adaptation is a work of genius. It's my favorite Charlie Kaufman movie...and I LOVE all his movies, including Eternal Sunshine.
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So I can't help but notice nobody mentioned The Hurt Locker yet.
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Sean Monahan
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Of those, I only saw Minority Report and Eternal Sunshine. I would put Eternal Sunshine on my list.
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Top eight (as measured by a quick recollection of my enjoyment) by mashing together my memory, Metacritic's rundown and lovehkfilm's rundown.

(in no particular order, except Hollywood preceded by East Asia)

1. Shaolin Soccer
2. Infernal Affairs
3. Hero
4. Exiled
5. In The Mood For Love

6. Lord of the Rings
7. Star Trek
8. The Dark Knight

Bonus Pool (couldn't decide on how to narrow down these)
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
2. Running on Karma
3. Needing You ...
4. Ip Man

5. The Incredibles
6. Serenity

This is definitely a work in progress. Hmmm.

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Strider
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Off the top of my head, in no particular order:

Adaptation
I heart Huckabees
Fight Club
Requiem for a Dream
V for Vendetta
Everything is Illuminated
Amelie
Donnie Darko
Memento
Fellowship of the Ring
The Last Samurai

Some other honorable mentions:

Eternal Sunshine
Waking Life
Almost Famous
Mullholland Drive
Blow
Triplets of Belleville
The Incredibles
Wall-E
Primer
City of God
Pan's Labyrinth
Befor Sunset

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Rappin' Ronnie Reagan
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My list in no particular order:

Finding Nemo
Doubt
Ghost World
City of God
Adaptation
Lost in Translation
Whale Rider
Brokeback Mountain
Marie Antoinette
The Royal Tenenbaums

And to quote Roger Ebert from his list of the best films of the decade: "All of these films are on this list for the same reason: The direct emotional impact they made on me."

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Wow, Clive. Our lists would have no overlap, even with my top 20.

Mine, in no particular order, would probably include:

Fellowship of the Ring
Pan's Labyrinth
Dark Knight
Iron Man
Watchmen
Incredibles
Memento
Fight Club
Hotel Rwanda
Slumdog Millionaire
Bourne Identity
Children of Men
Serenity
Finding Neverland
Finding Nemo
28 Days Later
Catch Me If You Can
Shrek
Waking Life
A Beautiful Mind
Chocolat

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Lisa
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I couldn't do it. I managed my top 40 movies of the decade, though. In alphabetical order:

16 Blocks (2006)
28 Days (2000)
Bring It On (2000)
Coyote Ugly (2000)
Daredevil (2003)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)
Enchanted (2007)
Equilibrium (2002)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Finding Forrester (2000)
Frequency (2000)
Hard Candy (2006)
High School Musical (2006)
Ice Princess (2005)
Identity (2003)
Imagine Me & You (2005)
Iron Man (2008)
Keep Not Silent (2004)
Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Paycheck (2003)
Peter Pan (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Ratatouille (2007)
Serendipity (2001)
Serenity (2005)
Spiderman (2002)
Stick It (2006)
The 10th Kingdom (2000)
The 51st State (2001)
The Family Man (2000)
The Incredibles (2004)
The Island (2005)
The Kid (2000)
The Prince and Me (2004)
The Recruit (2003)
The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
Unbreakable (2000)

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Godric
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Top 10 in no particular order:

Lord of the Rings
Donnie Darko
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Punch-Drunk Love
Dogville
Finding Nemo
Stevie
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Piano Teacher

Honorable mentions:

Big Fish
Spider-Man 2
The Dark Knight
The Prestige
Requiem for a Dream
Signs
Grizzly Man
The Incredibles
Up
Pan's Labyrinth
Knocked Up
Amélie
The Royal Tenenbaums
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
No Country for Old Men
25th Hour
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (haven't seen this one yet, but I think I'm safe listing it as an honorable mention)

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Sean Monahan
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quote:
Originally posted by Mucus:
Metacritic's rundown

I noticed that this site lists Eternal Sunshine as one of the best rated comedies of the decade. I fail to see how this was a comedy.
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Traceria
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Is anyone else more of a Two Towers person?
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I just had like 5 "wait, that was the 00's??!" moments.
I keep trying and failing to see Eternal Sunshine and Pan's Labyrinth. I really need to.

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What, not one mention of "Epic Movie", "Charlies Angels 2", "Dodge Ball" or any Adam Sandler movie?

I'm shocked.

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Okay, maybe Dodgeball. [Smile]
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quote:
or any Adam Sandler movie?
Actually, Punch Drunk Love is on a lot of critics' lists for the decade. I've never seen it, so can't comment on that.

I had my own list to wow you guys with, but as I was messing with the list formatting I hit some key combination that made my text box disappear. Recovery efforts were unsuccessful. Maybe later.

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Strider
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I haven't seen it yet, but I heard that Funny People is really good. I usually really enjoy Adam sandler movies, I just wouldn't put them in my favorites.

I struggled with movies like Knocked Up, Old school, and 40 Year Old virgin which while I wouldn't rate as "best", I would say were some of the most enjoyable. Definitely the funniest.

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theamazeeaz
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Here's a question: why?

Originality?
Script?
Rewatchability?
Special Effects?
Sympathy for the characters?
Storytelling?
Money it made?

What makes you put stuff on your lists?

Now that more people are listing movies, I've seen some of those, and also, I wouldn't put all of them in my favorites. Maybe the Incredibles. There were a lot of movies that came out this decade.

Maybe I have no taste, but the one movie that I haven't seen, but jumped out in my own brainstorming was "My Big Fat Greek Wedding". Even though movies make a ridiculous amount of money these days, it seems as if they don't stay in the theaters very long, but MYBFGW did, as a it was a sleeper hit and word of mouth movie.

I don't remember which other movies had "staying power" (Dark Knight?), but I think that, and rewatchability are the biggest components.

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I'll add my list later. But I do have to say, only one list with Wall-E? What's hatrack coming to?
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My Top Ten for the Decade:

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-2003)
- I'm a big fantasy fan and these are the best fantasy films yet made. Great screenplays (although some of the alterations from the books do bother me, particularly in Return of the King), great cast, great music, gorgeous visuals, awesome battle scenes. It's a keeper.
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
- This movie just really worked its way under my skin and kept me feeling anxious and unsettled while watching it in a way that no other movie I can think of has. And yet I LOVE it and can watch it over and over. Great performances all around. Oy, it makes me sad after seeing how brilliant Heath was here that we won't be seeing more of him (except for that Imaginarium movie coming up).
3. Cast Away (2000)
- The movie made me emotionally attached to a volley ball. If that ain't a sign of movie-making genius (or perhaps my emotional gullibility) I don't know what is.
4. Up (2009)
- I'm kind of using this movie as a representative for a bunch of Pixar movies (Toy Story, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Wall-E, Ratatouille). It's hilarious, suspenseful, and very moving, like many of their other movies. No other studio is so consistenly BRILLIANT.
5. The Bourne Trilogy (2002)
- Best dang action movies ever. Lean and mean and they all fit with each other really nice, like different chapters in the same novel.
6. Cinderella Man (2005)
- Russel Crowe makes for an awesome plain-decent everyman hero, the kind I don't think you see that much in movies anymore. I just love the pro-family and old school values at the heart of the movie.
7. The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
- For me this is probably the funniest movie of the decade. The guys who made this were not shooting for anything profound, no classic in The Lion King or Beauty and the Beast sense. They were just going for the funny, and they succeeded bigtime. Endless replay value for me.
8. Pride and Prejudice (2005)
- I just really, really like this adaptation for some reason. The directing/cinematogrophy (love the really long one-take during the dance), the acting (Matthew MacFayden's fantastic and Tom Hollander plays the most realistic, sympathetic Mr. Collins I've seen), and the music all work for me.
9. Harry Potter series (2002)
- Again, I'm a fantasy fan, and I've pretty much enjoyed all the movies (had some issues with Half-Blood Prince, but I guess I'm in the minority as far as that goes). It's been awesome watching the core three actor/characters grow over the course of the films; I don't know if there'll ever be a film franchise quite like this again.
10. Serenity (2005)
- As a big Firefly fan I had to include a shout-out to this movie. Malcolm Reynolds is one of my favorite fictional characters in any medium, and I marvel at how Joss Whedon can make scene go from intense to funny to intense to heartbreaking and then back to funny and have it all work.

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Strider
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glad I could be of service ricree. [Smile]
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Shanna
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I based my list on rewatchability and and social/artistic effect. No doubt I missed some but it only includes movies I loved enough to own on DVD.

28 Days Later - Its a smart zombie movie. One of my all time favorites.

About a Boy - A movie where I actually enjoy Hugh Grant's performance. But the kid is the real star.

Crash - I don't rewarch this often because it's too difficult emotionally, but as a film was more than well deserving if it's Oscar win over Brokeback Mountain.

Frailty - A great thriller that my dad and I love. Everyone I lend the DVD to really enjoys it. It's also includes great performances from several actors I otherwise hate.

Remember the Titans - My favorite football movie after Rudy. I swear, if it's on tv I have to watch it.

Shaun of the Dead - Who doesn't love this movie?!?

Stranger Than Fiction - Its smart and funny and way too often overlooked.

Spirited Away - Not my favorite Miyazaki film but Studio Ghibli finally got the mainstream American attention it deserved.

Shrek - Very original and no doubt it started a movement, good or bad, of computer animated movies meant to have mass appeal.

The Incredibles - My favorite Pixar movie and probably their most mature and complex full-length film. But Finding Nemo deserves a nod for really making Pixar such a huge success.

Lagaan - A great romantic Bollywood sports film. It's the movie I use to introduce people to Indian cinema.

10th Kingdom - Technically a miniseries but I've lost count of how many times I've watched this.

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I've always had a hard time narrowing down a short list of favorites, but here's ten of the movies of the past decade that I thought were great, in no particular order.

1. The Dark Knight
2. Fight Club
3. Eternal Sunshine
4. The LotR Trilogy
5. Pan's Labyrinth
6. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
7. Memento
8. Star Trek
9. Requiem for a Dream
10. Primer (wow, Strider, we have pretty similar tastes)

And some honorable mentions/movies that could perhaps make it into the above list if you asked me again tomorrow, again in no incredibly particular order:

A Beautiful Mind
The Prestige
The Illusionist
Little Miss Sunshine
Garden State
Signs
Donnie Darko
The Life of David Gale
28 Days Later
District 9
Iron Man
Watchmen
Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
I'm Not There
Punch-Drunk Love
Funny People
Synecdoche, New York
Good Night, and Good Luck
Brokeback Mountain

And I'm sure there's a few more I've forgotten.

Adaptation was...not a favorite of mine. Maybe it deserves a rewatch. We'll see how that goes.

Lisa, you've got some doozies in there. "The Island"? Really? Hell, I'm embarrassed I've even seen it.

Oh, and Dodgeball was hilarious. That, Super Troopers, and South Park: BL&UC are great to watch with friends, even on the sixth or seventh rewatch.

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quote:
Originally posted by Strider:
[qb] I haven't seen it yet, but I heard that Funny People is really good. I usually really enjoy Adam sandler movies, I just wouldn't put them in my favorites.

I just saw Funny People this weekend. My expectations had been lower than normal thanks to some of my film critic friend's opinions. But after actually seeing it, they shouldn't have been. Great movie.

Sandler is either hit or wildly miss for me. I guess you could say his more "serious" films (and The Wedding Singer) are usually spot on for me. But his goofball-fests are "meh."

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I struggled with movies like Knocked Up, Old school, and 40 Year Old virgin which while I wouldn't rate as "best", I would say were some of the most enjoyable. Definitely the funniest.
Knocked Up affected me on a personal level, and it's also very funny. And it, along with Apatow's 2 other films have been a reformulation of the basic Hollywood comedy, adding elements of ethics and morality and character development I haven't seen in many other similar type films.
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quote:
Originally posted by theamazeeaz:
What makes you put stuff on your lists?

Covering the first few that I listed, the primary criterion was enjoyability for me. Going into detail with just the Chinese ones (since others will probably do the rest).

1. Shaolin Soccer: The peak of Stephen Chow, representing a mix of the best of Cantonese mo lei to comedy and Western production values. Either going too deep into the adult humour (as his earlier films) or catering to Hollywood too much (as in the following film). This was simultaneously boldly original and good homage.

2. Infernal Affairs: The mix of a good tight story, spot-on casting, high production values, and style. So good it had to be copied [Wink]

3. Hero: Top notch casting (best dramatic couple in Hong Kong, best "core" martial arts actor in Asia, and former "it" girl I guess), a story with some measure of originality above most wuxia, and beautiful cinematography (good music too).

Exiled and In The Mood for Love are more representative films for Johnnie To and Wong Kar-Wai than anything. It was hard to pick these two since their films are more enjoyable as a block rather than individually due to the links between stories.

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1-3. Lord of the Rings (extended editions for the last two)

I have nitpicks that are fixed with things from the extended editions, like more time being spent on Faramir, which made his scenes in Return of the King more effective.


4. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

This is the movie that might not get listed by anyone else. Brad Pitt is his best ever in this movie, and the directing captures the mythological angle of westerns.

5. There Will Be Blood

Awesome acting, pacing, effects, humor, and the first scene, where the main character drags himeself from an oil accidnt, in the words of Quentin Tarantino, justifies the rest of the movie.


6.The Prestige

The entire movie is a human metaphor for the profession the main characters are a part of. The last scene reall gets some emotion from me.

7. Pan's Labrynth: Fantasy at it's most wonderfully ambigious.

8. Pirate of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. Great good guys, badguys, in betweens. It has a sort of unserious feel but also feels like their could be more to the story that meets the eye. And Geoffrey Rush in underrated in this movie.

9. Digimon: The Movie

Shut up

10. Casino Royale

"I'm Bond" "James Bond"

Never before has a cliche movie catphrase sound so fresh and brilliant and awesome.

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After seeing some others I would add these honorable mentions to my list:

28 Days Later
Shaun of the Dead
Stranger than Fiction
Garden State

rollainm, you seem to love Charlie Kaufman's other movies, so I would certainly give Adaptation another shot. I'm sure there are certain standard things that draw all of us to his movies, he's got one of the most creative brains writing in the movie industry today. But what clinches it for me with Adaptation is that it is by far the most brilliant script ever written. The narrative structure and way in which the story unfolds is the most ingenious thing I've ever experienced.

I was already a big fan of the use of self reference in film, but writing himself into his own movie, telling a story within a story within a story, creating a doppelganger of himself as a vehicle for playing out the very things he's criticizing, for the deliberate change in narrative style after he asks his brother to help with his script, and most of all, for the payoff the audience receives of realizing they have been watching the process of a character writing the very movie they have just seen. In the end, the movie you see is exactly what his character is trying to do, it's "sprawling new yorker stuff" and yet you do gain an appreciation for the beauty and majesty of orchids. "how do you make a book about Orchids interesting" indeed.

I also love how inside his own head his character is. While I can't relate to the extreme level of self loathing and doubt his character embodies, I can certainly relate to a constant stream of conscious internal monologue and extreme over analyzing.

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quote:
I struggled with movies like Knocked Up, Old school, and 40 Year Old virgin which while I wouldn't rate as "best", I would say were some of the most enjoyable. Definitely the funniest.
Knocked Up affected me on a personal level, and it's also very funny. And it, along with Apatow's 2 other films have been a reformulation of the basic Hollywood comedy, adding elements of ethics and morality and character development I haven't seen in many other similar type films.
Agreed, and that's what I appreciate most about his movies. Knocked up, while hilarious, is also very honest and real. I find myself pondering an idea as much as I find myself laughing at a joke in his movies.
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No one has mentioned Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!!! My word!!! *tsk tsk*

That was released this decade, wasn't it?

Ah, how memory fades away.

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quote:
Originally posted by rollainm:
Lisa, you've got some doozies in there. "The Island"? Really? Hell, I'm embarrassed I've even seen it.

I've seen it twice. It's a little like Gattaca for the 21st century.
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quote:
Originally posted by Shan:
No one has mentioned Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!!! My word!!! *tsk tsk*

That was released this decade, wasn't it?

Ah, how memory fades away.

As a fan of the original BBC series, I hate the redo. You simply cannot fit that much into one movie! so many jokes went missunderstood.
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1. Gran Torino
Brutally honest, and definatly a work of love by Clint Eastwood.

2. Black Snake Moan
Great music scenes, a southern tall tale approach overall. Alot more humor than you might expect if you havent seen it yet.

3. Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior
Tony Jaa really made an impact on the international martial arts movie industry in this film.

4. The Departed
Martin Scorsese and a slew of the top dramitic actors, I think thats enough of a reason.

5. Paranormal Activity
Even if you didnt like it, you have got to admire the gumption of the makers, all that work only to claw thier way into to theatres.

6. Stranger Than Fiction
My favorite love story, Harolds HUD stole the show even though its only used in the beggining.

7. The Prestige
Christopher Nolan (director of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) Christian Bale (the new Batman) Micheal Caine (Alfred) Hugh Jackman (Wolverine) David Bowie (awesomness) make a film about the secret society of magicians during the time of Nikolai Tesla.

8. Gangs of NewYork
Great cast, commitment to a story and a setting, extremly violent.

9. Stardust
I enjoyed the movie overall, especially Dinero's pirate character but I am comic book nerd so when it comes from Gaiman I always like it.

10. The Hills Have Eyes
While it is a remake, that movie has some very disturbing scenes.

And just a note, Failure To Launch had some good jokes (plus I am Kathy Bates fan) but there is one scene in particular with Zooey Deschanel and Rob Corddry that really just stole the movie away from the (then) more famous stars of the film.

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quote:
Originally posted by Lisa:
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Originally posted by rollainm:
Lisa, you've got some doozies in there. "The Island"? Really? Hell, I'm embarrassed I've even seen it.

I've seen it twice. It's a little like Gattaca for the 21st century.
Yeah, I guess I can see that. No offense, btw. Take with a grain of salt criticism from the guy who watches Commando whenever it comes on. What can I say? It's a guilty pleasure.
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Fight Club is from 1999.

As for the list, I would probably be comfortable with 40, I could narrow things down to 20 if I really wanted to, but 10 films for a whole decade would be really hard to select.

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quote:
Originally posted by rollainm:
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Originally posted by Lisa:
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Originally posted by rollainm:
Lisa, you've got some doozies in there. "The Island"? Really? Hell, I'm embarrassed I've even seen it.

I've seen it twice. It's a little like Gattaca for the 21st century.
Yeah, I guess I can see that. No offense, btw. Take with a grain of salt criticism from the guy who watches Commando whenever it comes on. What can I say? It's a guilty pleasure.
No offense taken. And I love Commando.
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Answering "why" I chose these films:

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Originally posted by Clive Candy:
In no particular order:
1. 25th Hour
2. Adaptation
3. Y Tu Mama Tambien
4. Gladiator
5. Changing Lanes
6. Minority Report
7. Twilight Samurai
8. Peter Pan
9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
10. Femme Fatale
Share yours!

1. 25th Hour: Someone once said that a good film contains three great scenes and no bad ones. This film has about six really great scenes and no bad ones. The main character is a criminal but he's utterly redeemed in our eyes by his relationships with the people who love him -- his two friends, his girlfriend and his dad. Spike Lee's directorial flairs actually enrich the story. It's David Benioff's (who also wrote "Troy" and "X-men Origins: Wolverine) best script (it's based on his novel.)
One other thing: The script was probably set in pre-9/11 New York but Lee chose to set the movie a month or two after 9/11 and it definitely reflects the atmosphere of that time without feeling gratuitious.

This is one of the great scenes (language warning.)

2. Adaptation: Charlie Kauffman is the heir to Philip K. Dick. Kauffman's films have that same sense of inside-outness. Generally I don't care for over the top artsy movies, like the film's of David Lynch. However, Kauffman's films, while complex, are always coherent and logical (the premises might be absurd but the progression has a nice sense of logic: Like, it's absurd that there is a portal to John Malkovich's brain, but why shouldn't John Malkovich himself enter that portal?). Anyway, Adaptation feels like an M.C Escher painting: the character is writing the same movie we're watching. Maybe the real Kauffmann cheated by writing himself into the story and making his frustrations the central point, but then again, maybe there really was no way to adapt Orlean's book into a good movie.

3. Y Tu Mama Tambien: The childishness and relationship of the two main characters is funny and moving. The sexuality with the older woman is a function of their childishness. They were right to throw up when they woke up that one morning.

4. Gladiator: I was in middle school and managed to see it in theaters when I snuck out to the movies one night. I was so glad I managed to get a ticket, and the film simply overwhelmed me. It's probably not that great of a movie but for that one night it was the greatest movie of all time.

5. Changing Lanes: What a touching film. Two men accidently cross paths, ruin each other's momentous day, horribly mess with each other for the better part of a day and end up saving each other's souls.

6. Minority Report: The film's central mystery isn't that good. Why radically change PKD's story? The motivation of the main bad guy is also less than stellar. Also, I really didn't like the way they tried to endear Tom Cruise's character to us by making him and his wife suffer a horrible tragedy (their child was abducted and they never heard from him again.) I considered that cheap writing and when I first saw the movie in theaters I considered it to be so horrible a thing that it simply took me out of the movie. However, I've seen the film about ten times. Even with its storytelling shortcomings, the film is visually gorgeous and many of its scenes are awesome. Like the apartment Robot Spiders sequence. Or when Agatha and Anderton are moving through the mall towards the end ("Don't go home. He knows.") And just overall many of the action sequences: they're beautiful and well staged and the technology depicted is interesting.

7. Twilight Samurai: One time I rented this movie from Blockbuster and I ended up REALLY liking it.

8. Peter Pan: I never knew the Peter Pan story. Didn't read the book, or see the play, or see the Disney movie. This was my first experience with Peter Pan and it was wonderful.

9. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: I wish Spike Jonze directed this instead of Michel Gondry. It just would have been fitting given their previous successful collaborations. Unlike Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, this film had some conventional elements: i didn't like how things were resolved at the end. It was just too simple to have whatsherface send out those letters. But anyway, everything else was brilliant.

10. Femme Fatale:

Brian De Palma's masterpiece. He has said that it's impossible to make a true noir film today as modernity is incompatible with the film noir feel. In "Femme Fatale" De Palma finds an ingenious way to get around that limitation. The story doesn't quite make sense, and the coincidences that occur are outrageous. The whole thing is the triumph of style over substance. But this sort of style IS substance.

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Here are six of my favorite films from 2000-2010:

Whale Rider (2002)
Peter Pan (2003)
LotR Series (2001-2003)
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
In America (2002)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

Others that I ranked as highly originally, but don't seem to make my subjective cut at the moment:

The Royal Tennenbaums (2001)
Bella (2006)
Moulin Rouge! (2001)
The Importance of Being Earnest (2004)
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Unbreakable (2000)
Memento (2000)
AI (2001)
Pay it Forward (2000)
The Queen (2006)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Serenity (2005)

My films are almost entirely from 2000-2004 and none are from the last two years. I figure this is due to 1) watching fewer movies in general 2) mostly watching movies that've been out a couple of years (and hence available at the library) and 3) my continual transformation into a curmudgeonly old man.

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Wow, Pay it Forward was that recent? I could have sworn it was older than that.

I would also like to add/second:

AI
Matchstick Men
The Savages
Sideways
Sweeney Todd (does that count?)

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Shaolin Soccer was pretty funny.

1. Serenity
2. Stranger than Fiction
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Ironman
5. Dan in Real Life
6. Finding Nemo
7. Children of Men

Um, looks like it's just 7. A lot of really good movies just missed the cutoff in 1999.

Ooops.
8. Becoming Jane Austen

I just became a lot harder to entertain as I got older.

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not exactly 10 but close enough
In no particular order: (post edited to include wall-e and goal)

Cool Runnings
Monsters Inc
The Bourne Identity
LOTR
Coraline
Elf (or Finding Nemo, I can't decide which)
Gladiator
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Slumdog Millionare
The Incredibles
WALL-E
Goal: The Dream Begins

Fight Club would definately be on my list if came out in 2000

haha a lot of kids movies in my list but I stand by every movie on there!

and regarding The Island I've seen it twice and cannot reccolect a single part of that movie. I just remember it consisted of Scarlet Johansen running around in a jumpsuit for about 2 hours and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[ January 07, 2010, 12:10 AM: Message edited by: LargeTuna ]

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Cool Runnings? The bobsled movie that was made in the early 90s?

They were actually playing it on a projector today in the student union. It was pretty random, but I grew up on that movie.

Or did you mean something else?

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quote:
Originally posted by Lyrhawn:
Cool Runnings? The bobsled movie that was made in the early 90s?

They were actually playing it on a projector today in the student union. It was pretty random, but I grew up on that movie.

Or did you mean something else?

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme, get on up, it's bobsled time!
[ROFL]

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I think it's "feel the rhythm, feel the ride..."
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In alphabetical order, and subject to change without notice:

Adaptation
Cars
Charlie's Angels
Chicken Run
Josie and the Pussycats
Little Miss Sunshine
Ratatouille
Serenity
Spellbound
Thank You for Smoking

HONORABLE MENTION:
A Mighty Wind
Bring It On
Ella Enchanted
Hamlet 2
Harry Potter, collectively
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Legally Blonde
Ten Things I Hate About You
Zoolander

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