If you had to compile a top ten list for the films of 2000-2009, what would it look like?
Rank them if you can and provide some reasoning if you'd like.
I'll work on my list and get back to everyone; I've been thinking of all the movies that have been coming out this past decade and there are a ton of good ones so it's kinda tough.
- Inglourious Basterds: enormously entertaining, my favorite QT flick (and I believe the one with the most substance), fantastic performance from Christoph Waltz as one of the most memorable movie villains I've ever seen, a fascinating study of film violence and a passionate love letter to cinema itself.
- The Dark Knight: to me TDK is pretty important because it marks the culmination of all the comic book movies that came before it, it took the genre and pushed it to the boundary, making it a movie that is extremely entertaining, but also something to take seriously, tackling a few weighty themes and moral issues. In my opinion, this is a nearly perfect Batman film with a flawless and memorable performance from Heath Ledger.
- No Country for Old Men: I wish the Coen brothers would make more movies like this. Don't get me wrong, I like their zany, kooky, crime comedies and so forth, but I felt like they harnessed their considerable talent and focused it in making this movie. This film has tension that I've not seen in any other movie, with yet another frightening and memorable villain, played by Javier Bardem.
- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: a deeply touching film that takes you straight into the mind of the protagonist as he struggles with a situation that most of us would find unbearable. Reminds us of the power of the mind, the imagination and the will to live and find meaning in the face of tragedy.
- City of God: one of the best "gangster" films, if you want to label it as that. It opens the viewer's eyes to a treacherous, slum lifestyle that effects everyone who lives there -- it takes us on a journey that spans three decades, providing a broad, yet extremely detailed and specific examination of that lifestyle. It also shows us that it is still possible, even under such circumstances, to reach your goals.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: the most genuinely human take I've seen on relationships and the memories associated with them. Fantastic performances, fantastic score, fantastic script and direction; a poignant look at romance/relationships/memory.
- Shaun of the Dead: one of my favorite comedies of the past decade and I think my single favorite zombie movie. I love how it blends so many genres that wouldn't normally fit together, but this movie makes it work to great effect.
- Oldboy: stylistically awesome, showcasing a brave performance from Min-sik Choi. Has one of my favorite twists; the whole movie has a pace and energy that adds to it's already interesting plot.
- The Fountain: open to many interpretations, this film captures thoughts and feelings about love and death that are very touching and profound. Again, great performances here, a stunning score/visuals and themes I haven't seen explored in other films.
- The Lord of the Rings (kind of cheating since there are three... but they should be considered as one long movie): epic in every sense of the word, I love these movies because they tell an archetypal story of the hero's journey in such a magnificent way. Few movies really suck you into a completely fictional world and mythology, but LotR does it with ease.
Memories of Murder
The Host
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Oldboy
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Inglourious Basterds
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
Moon
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
If we're counting trilogies as one, let me know and I'll edit the list.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: brought pirates back and posed the all important question "Pirate or Ninja?"[ironically im wearing a shirt that poses that question as we speak]. plus two words: Johnny Depp
The Dark Knight: the Joker, plus the fact that it was Heath Ledger's secdon to last movie makes it just plain epic as well as delving further into the Batman psyche
Harry Potter: cause im a nerd who's read every single book a billion times and still gets excited to see them bring the whole world thought up by J.K. Rowling to life in stunning detail
9: an amazing movie in every way too bad i had to watch it on my lonesome and got laughed at when i suggested the whole family go see it
Resident Evil: i love zombie flicks plus the guy playing Matt[who gets turned into Nemesis] is hot
The Transporter: two words: Jason Statham
Doom: i know i know. it was terrible for most people blah blah blah. it butchered the game. blah blah blah. i just plain love it okay?
Forgetting Sarah Marshall: one of the funniest movies ive ever seen. when i first saw the previews, i didnt think id like it but when i watched it one night with my mom, i absolutely fell in love with it
Oldboy: a great South Korean film that has to be seen to be understood
Sin City: effin love this movie. the plotlines are great plus all the stars that work perfectly in the style of the movie
honorable mentions:
WALL-E:its just so ****in cute!
The Others: creepy atmosphere with a great plot twist
Memories of Murder
The Host
Inglourious Basterds
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
The Vengeance Trilogy
Moon
The Dark Knight
Wall-E
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Honourable mention: Cloverfield.
Cloverfield will probably be met with contention, but I genuinely believe it to be an excellent, haunting movie. If I were to be absolutely honest I'd say it's the closest cinema has come to a Alien-esque horror/monster movie since that movie itself. Different kinds of suspenseful monster horror, but similar too.
It took a huge risk by having minimal promotion for a movie with such a contentious filming style and ambigious plot, but the way it pulled off what it was aiming for amazed me. It's just a shame that movie goers don't seem to appreciate the kind of suspense that James Cameron did so well with Alien. You barely get to see the thing, there's only one and that was enough.
Same with Cloverfield. Despite there being only one in the movie, it seemed to show up at the most perfect times and the fact that it wasn't an outwardly evil, carnivorous monster just added to it for me. It was a very chaotic kind of horror.
The scene where they're walking down the road and the giant leg comes out of nowhere, followed my a cacophany of gun and shell fire was just amazing. Additionally, it had a genuinely terrifying ending. I have nothing but good things to say about the male and female lead, they did an excellent job in conveying the terror they felt.
Some people didn't like the camera work, fine, but it wasn't "shit" in the sense most people say. It wasn't unintentionally shaky and bad, it was intentionally like that. If that's what you didn't like, fine, but don't say it was "bad camerawork".
Also, people say "It's stupid to keep a camera with you the whole time!", but without it there'd be no movie. Furthermore, it's not so much "Here's a dude with a camera.", it's the only method in which the viewer is capable of feeling as close to experiencing it themselves as possible, without it being first-person. If it were done like Doom, first-person with no camera, it'd be shit.
Sadly, it did suffer a bit for being what I consider to be a cinema-only experiene. I saw it three times and never again. I will never watch it outside of a cinema. That's why it gets honourable mention. I just feel the criticisms levelled at this movie were just unfair.
No, it was a perfect pirate copy, perfect video and audio. Just couldn't get the subtitles file to attach. So I watched 10 mins in Korean and decided to turn it off.
Sin City
The Dark Knight
The Departed
The Wrestler
Inglourious Basterds
There Will Be Blood
No Country for Old Men
Shaun of the Dead
Oldboy
Lord of the Rings
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Dec 7th, 2009 07:50 PM
FER TEA!!
