2000-2009: The Best Movies List

Oh and Milk! That would definitely make my top 10. Ha, and Wet Hot American Summer is definitely a classic already, but I don't know if I could put such a silly film in my top 10 of the decade. I love comedies, but it's hard to put them up there with the likes of There Will Be Blood, Children of Men and so on. But I do have In Bruges and Inglorious Basterds up there. I don't know, tough call. This list really needs to be larger than 10.

Nope, you only get 10.

I could only think of a couple movies that i didn't see on the list. I thought both The Jacket, and Candy were two of the best movies this decade.

I don't think I've seen either of those.

My favourite films of this year are The Hurt Locker and In The City Of Sylvia, but I've only seen each of those once so I don't know if they'd stand up on repeat viewings.

I was meh on the Jacket and I don't think I've ever seen Candy. My favorite movies of the year so far are Moon and Goodbye Solo.

The Jacket, kind of like The Machinist, was a way cooler movie in theory than it was once executed.

let the right one in
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
moulin rouge
watchmen
kill bill vol.1
the illusionist
iron man
the notebook
sex drive
The hangover
donnie darko
wall-e
up
sweeney todd
julie and julia

Any particular reason why you would list The Illusionist rather than The Prestige?

Yeah, I was curious about that, too. I saw them both within days of each other, and although there were a few things about The Illusionist that I really dug, I loved The Prestige through and through.

Remember when it came out and we had like a 10 page thread on it that stayed on topic all the way through? That's a testament to a great film right there!

THANK YOU for reminding me of that movie. Have to download it! =D

One that hasn't been mentioned yet:
Dead Man's Shoes

Also, I'm going to see The White Ribbon next month followed by a talk with Michael Haneke AND I'M TOTALLY DORKING OUT ABOUT IT.

Oh man I love Dead Mans Shoes:

"What are you looking at?"
"YOU, YA CUNT!"

"Look, my mates have got this funny idea that you-"
"Yeah it was me."
"What?"
"I broke into your house, I painted your face. I've got you right here" (points to the palm of his hand)

I love that bit when he says "I've got you right here". Amazing. Paddy Considine is one of my favourite actors. I agree with you guys on JGL and Jamie Bell, as in they're my favourite young actors out there.

You filthy bastard, how do you do that?

Also, in three days you'll have been here for three years. I didn't realise, too, I'd joined before you. Odd.

It's mainly because I'm awesome.

Three years...crazy. And I joined on Halloween, so that's cool. I thought you had been here longer then me though.

Ah fantastic, I saw that 3 years ago and I regularly make people watch it. Damn damn good. Considine is awesome.

I am jealous of your Haneke time.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Lucky Number Slevin
A guide to recognizing your saints
Into The Wild
Oldboy
Sexy Beast
The Jesse James flick.

Been a while since i've seen 'a guide to recognizing your saints'. from what i remember, whatshisface transformers kid did a good job acting-wise.

I saw it pretty recently, and it was highly recommended, but I wasn't impressed, although some of the acting was ok.

I'm struggling, so many of my favourites have already been mentioned, but I just want to put in a good word for Shaun Of The Dead. I know it's no cinematic masterpiece, but I thought it was clever and absolutely hilarious.

Not exactly waht you asked for, but how 'bout a Top Ten list of films I haven't seen mentioned on here yet, and where they rank on my Top 50 of the decade:
Maria Full of Grace (2004) D: Joshus Marston (50)
The Squid and the Whale (2005) D: Noah Braumbach (46)
Ink (2009) D Jamin Winans (45)
Off the Map (2003) D: Campbell Scott (43)
Northfork (2003) D: Michael Polish (40)
Lars and the Real Girl (2007) D: Craig Gillespie (36)
Twilight Samurai (2002) D: Yoji Yamada (34)
No Man's Land (2001) D: Danis Tanovic (33)
The King (2005) D: James Marsh 32)
Road to Perdition (2002) D: Saam Mendes (27)
We Were Soldiers (2002) D: Randall Wallace (26)
The Wrestler (2008) D: Darren Aronofsky (25)
Garden State (2004) D: Zach Braff (24)
Frailty (2001) D: Bill Paxton (22)
Ghost World (2001) D: Terry Zwigoff (19)
Whale Rider (2002) D: Niki Caro (13)
Bad Santa (2003) D: Terry Zwigoff (12)
Life as a House (2001) D: Irwin Winkler (11)
Monster's Ball (2001) D: Marc Forster (9)
Amorres Perros (2000) D: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (6)
21 Grams (2003) D: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (2)
oops, that's more like twenty
and as much as I like Gordon-Levitt, my choice for new actor of the decade would be Gael Garcia Bernal

Well I loved A guide to recognizing your saints, and Channing Tatum did a good job in that one.

Garden state is one damn good movie.

You've an awful taste in films. Excepting Bad Santa.

Thank you Corellion, to each his own, I guess, my Top Ten is this:
10. The Lives of Others (2006) D: Florian Henkel von Donnersmarck
9. Monster's Ball (2001) D: Marc Gorster
8. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) D: Ang Lee
7. Pan's Labyrinth (2006) D: Guillermo Del Toro
6. Amorres Perros (2000) D: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) D: Michel Gondry
4. Lost in Translation (2003) D: Sofia Copolla
3. Mystic River (2003) D: Clint Eastwood
2. 21 Grams (2003) D: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
1. Gladiator (2000) D: Ridley Scott

One that I will submit that would probably be overlooked every time is Peter Berg's The Kingdom. That movie damn near made me cry by the end of it.

I thought I said Scar Movie 3? Now I gotta go back and see which 3 movie I did say.

If they made this exchange into a film it would surely be among the top 10 greatest films of the next decade!

i just saw chumscrubber and while the story is alright for me, jamie bell's acting was great.

We Were Soldiers is worth the price alone based on Sam Elliott's performance:

i had no idea bad santa and ghost world were the same guy. ghost world i loved, bad santa was eh.

Bad Santa was lame.

I wonder if he was particularly thrilled to do that movie, because it was a character without a moustache.

Monkeywright and Nathaniel Parker:
Seriously, in his most understated performance ever Sam Elliot is beautiful in 'Off the Map', in case you haven't checked it out, but the performance of young Valentina de Angelis and the paced storyline that makes for better 'solitary' viewing makes this an absolute 'hit' or 'miss' depending on who you talk to.

We Were Soldiers is one of the worst war movies I ever saw, along with Hart's War and Tigerland.

We Were Soldiers is so bad that it isn't even so-bad-it's-good, which means it is REALLY bad. I watched it a couple years ago on DVD and mentally puked. It takes itself so fucking seriously and has so little merit that the incongruity is baffling.

We Were Soldiers can be as awful as possible. It's still worth seeing for Sam Fucking Elliot!
Just fast-forward through all the scenes that don't have Sam Fucking Elliot in them.

Has he ever not had a mustache in a film?

My history has this hatred for Mel Gibson, because he ruins everything that he touches in terms of historical themes.

I thought Apocalypto was supposed to be pretty good?

Not historically. He did get some things right, though.

He knows, though, that the story is more important than the facts. The dude knows how to make a movie.

he said they hate him for his use of "Historical Themes" though, that's a big difference in hating him because of "Historical Facts."