[Movie posting] Top Ten movies of the decade discussion/preperation

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Qonas

I haven't made my list yet (I'm pretty overly serious about this kind of random opinion thing) but I'll be drawing from this list below. Note, I haven't seen Little Miss Sunshine or The Departed yet so they may appear if I rent and view them before this January deadline.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Batman Begins
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
The Producers
Casino Royale
Tropic Thunder
Boondock Saints
Boondock Saints II
Gladiator
Meet the Parents
X2: X-Men United
Shrek
A Knight's Tale
Super Troopers
Austin Powers in Goldmember
Bubba Ho-tep
The Last Samurai
Freddy vs Jason
House of 1000 Corpses
Kill Bill vol. 1
Kill Bill vol. 2
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Dodgeball
Downfall (Der Untergang)
Team America: World Police
Saw
Saw II
Sin City
Thank You For Smoking
300
Doubt

Also, just a quick little tease, here's the first three of my Absolutely Not Top 10 which I'll also be posting the same time as the top 10. :p

The Qonas 100% Accurate Absolutely Not Top 10 (Top 3 version)
1) 8 Mile
2) Every single Michael Moore "documentary" but especially Farenheit 9/11
3) You Got Served
 
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Steven Soderburgin

A top 20 would be easier, but that's not the point! Top 10 is pretty standard, and it's also hard and makes you really think about your choices.

I guess since everyone is posting their lists anyway, people can keep doing so. Not like I can stop that. Oh well! :) If everyone is having fun, I'm not going to worry about it.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Kissinger said:
A top 20 would be easier, but that's not the point! Top 10 is pretty standard, and it's also hard and makes you really think about your choices.

I guess since everyone is posting their lists anyway, people can keep doing so. Not like I can stop that. Oh well! :) If everyone is having fun, I'm not going to worry about it.
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Covar

Covar

Have another list of 5. I'll merge the two to create my ultimate top 10 list. Unless I think of 5 more

5) Shoot 'em Up - Shut your brain off when watching. Once you've done that you have the most fantastic movie about gun control ever. From the first kill (with a carrot) to the end this movie only slows down to reload.

4) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring - I had to pick my jaw up off the floor after I saw this in theaters. The best book in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy is also the best of the movies.

2) Big Fish - An amazing story, with an incredibly touching ending. I'm not usually a fan of Tim Burton, but he directs this story wonderfully.

2) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - The first Fantasy series I read as a kid. I was shocked at how good this movie was. Not just a LOTR clone Walden Media did an excellent job with the look of Narnia

1) The Incredible - Not only is this the best movie about super-heroes but Pixar also packs the more depth and themes into this movie than most live action films. Something I can watch again and again and still find new things to appreciate.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

First run pull. I'm almost assured my top 10 will come from this master list. It's admittedly based on my Criticker rankings from top to bottom, BUT that doesn't mean it's gonna be the first 10. This range of numbers isn't THAT different, and if I went and reranked all these movies right now, it could look completely different!


  • No Country for Old Men
  • Road to Perdition
  • A Serious Man
  • There Will Be Blood
  • Children of Men
  • Collateral
  • The Departed
  • Zodiac
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?
  • WALL·E
  • Almost Famous
  • Adaptation.
  • Inglourious Basterds
  • Michael Clayton
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • Stranger Than Fiction
  • Catch Me If You Can
  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
  • Memento
  • Revolutionary Road
  • Atonement
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • The Hurt Locker
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Milk
  • Blindness
  • Casino Royale
  • Che: Part One
  • The Last Samurai
  • Let the Right One In
  • Rachel Getting Married
  • Requiem for a Dream
  • Synecdoche, New York
  • The Aviator
  • The Last King of Scotland
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • Traffic
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  • Che: Part Two
  • Hot Fuzz
  • Munich
  • Mystic River
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
  • Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That
  • The Wrestler
 
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Qonas

The Wrestler!! Can't believe I forgot about that one, it's on my big list as well.
 
drawn_inward

drawn_inward

Qonas said:
The Wrestler!! Can't believe I forgot about that one, it's on my big list as well.
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Mickey Rourke gave an amazing performance, but that's it for me. I thought he was fantastic. I still think he should have been the Oscar winner. I didn't really care for the movie though. It was okay, and the story was a bit meh. I think Mickey really lived that role, and that's why his acting was so superb. I like Aronofsky, but this was his weakest movie, IMO (it wasn't a bad movie, just not great).
 
Dave

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Some of Charlie's list is in my "no fucking way" folder or the folder of "it was good, but the best of the decade...?"

The Last Samurai, for example, was a blatant attempt at Oscar trolling. Hot Fuzz was a great movie but not one of the best of the decade. Same with Road to Perdition.

I do like seeing some of the movies people like, though.
 
ElJuski

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Yeah, I wasn't too impressed with the script, or the ham-fisted ending. But I really enjoyed Mickey Rourke's acting, and yeah, I GUESS Arronovsky's direction was pretty neat.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Dave said:
Some of Charlie's list is in my "no fucking way" folder or the folder of "it was good, but the best of the decade...?"

The Last Samurai, for example, was a blatant attempt at Oscar trolling. Hot Fuzz was a great movie but not one of the best of the decade. Same with Road to Perdition.

I do like seeing some of the movies people like, though.
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Last Samurai is probably overrated. I haven't seen it since it came out, and I think I only saw it on TV. Hot Fuzz is a really great action-comedy-buddy cop movie that is just a ridiculously tightly-edited movie.

And Road to Perdition is amazing! :mad:
 
Gusto

Gusto

I didn't like Road to PErdition.

Probably because I was like 15 and had been up for like 36 hours when I saw it.
 
Cajungal

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You should give it another try. It's really well done. Watch it when you're not a fatigued crabbypants.
 
Frank

Frank

Fuck, best 10 movies of the last 10 years.

I can't even begin to imagine how to put this list together. I guess I can try and see what I can do.
 
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Qonas

Dave said:
The Last Samurai, for example, was a blatant attempt at Oscar trolling.
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Maybe for Cruise, but that's about it. And it was damn sure a lot more subtle about Oscar trolling than Milk or that movie where Charlize Theron got fat instead of them just hiring a fat actress.

fade said:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=five_shitty_movies

RE: The Last Samurai.
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This....I have no words. It's clearly just a comedy column with no actual substance to it.

You have to put Tom Cruise hatred aside. Top Gun, still a good movie. Last Samurai, still a good movie. Tropic Thunder, still an awesome comedy. With Last Samurai specifically, it tells a story that needs re-telling just so people can learn from it. It has some Hollywood changes to the historical events and people, obviously, but if me a history major had no problem with it then obviously it's fine in that regard. And while Tom brought the Oscar pandering chops and was the poster face for the movie, it's not truly about "Mr. American". It's about Ken Watanabe's Katsumoto. It's about the struggle that took place at the turn of the century between modernization and the ways of the old soldier, focusing on the samurai caste. It's about the coming devaluation of life and the past reverence for life. While present, it is not about clear and blatant political pandering for an Oscar as we have seen in years past with Milk, Juno, Letters from Iwo Jima, Crash, and that "Charlize Theron is fat" movie.
 
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Yeah, but Minority Report was okay--even with Spielberg doing a Michael Bay impression.
 
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It's okay, baby. Just lie back, relax, and let me slide in this disc of Apocalypse Now. Oooh, don't clench. Just relax.
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

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Yeah, but Minority Report was okay--even with Spielberg doing a Michael Bay impression.
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What, HEY!, NO. It was a billion times more interesting, visually cool, smart, and witty than anything Bay has shit out.

Gusto;305116][quote=Charlie Dont Surf;305091][quote=Gusto said:
My favourite Tom Cruise movie is Minority Report. :)
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so, what's life like having never seen Rain Man, Jerry Maguire, Born on the 4th of July, Risky Business, Magnolia, or A Few Good Men[/QUOTE]

It's working out okay. :)

Like I've said a MILLION times, it's not that I'm dumb at movies. I'm just inexperienced.[/QUOTE]

I didn't mean that as a crack at you! More of a backdoor recommendation of a lot of great movies he's been in :eek:
 
HowDroll

HowDroll

Hmmmmmmm...

Here are my top 10. I'll have to put them in order eventually.

Amelie
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Shaun of the Dead
Inglorious Basterds
Borat
Sin City
Kill Bill (Vols. 1 and 2, suck it)
Serenity
V for Vendetta

Unfortunately, I was still in elementary school at the beginning of the decade, so there are a lot of movies from about 2000-2004 that I was too young to watch or appreciate then and I have yet to catch up on. I've had plenty of time to develop as a book snob, but alas, my taste in movies has not yet caught up.
 
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Steven Soderburgin

Minority Report is a really great movie, even though it gets a bit unwieldy at the end. It's one of the movies I'm considering for what it's worth.
 
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Wyrminarrd

1. Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

2. Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

3. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings

If series aren't counted together then these three movie take the top three slots, they were simply to great not to dominate the list.

4. The Dark Knight

Absolutely loved this movie, after all the hype surrounding the movie it was great to see that it lived up to it. The acting, the script and the effects were all superb.

5. Iron man

Robert Downey Jr. was fantastic in this movie and really should have gotten the Oscar for it, shame that the academy is a bunch of snobs.

6. Casino Royal

I´m a big Bond fan, I was at first a bit skeptical about this movie but it proved to be the best Bond film in a long time.

7. Spider-Man 2

Great movie, had a lot of fun watching it which is how I measure the worth of a film.

8. X-men 2

The Pinnacle of the X-men movie franchise.

9. Star Trek

Great to see the franchise re-launched with such a strong movie.

10. Batman Begins

Another great Re-launch of a franchise, Christian Bale was my favorite choice for the role of Batman and he fully lived up to my expectations.

Bonus

11. V for Vendetta

Edit: Realized that I had picked two movies for the number 3 slot :)

This one surprised me, even though I´m a fan of Hugo Weaving I was surprised by how great he was in the movie even though we never see his face. They really should have cast Weaving as Dr. Doom.




This list clearly shows my taste in movies :) There are plenty of great "artsy" movies that I've seen this decade but most of them are such that I have no interest in ever seeing them again. All the movies that made it on my list are movies that I've seen multiple times and still enjoy watching again.
 
Jay

Jay

I’ve seen my share of movies in the last decade… but to choose a top 10 will be hard to do without some form of regret. Nonetheless, I’ll show you my top 10 and I’ll shamelessly state that I’m severely biased in genre of movies as well as who plays in them as they tend to provide me the most entertainment and re-watchable value.

(Ex: The Departed was a great movie, but its value went to shit the 2nd time I watched it simply because of the type of movie it is. This doesn’t mean the movie doesn’t deserve the awards it got, in fact, it is one of the few movies in the last few years that has won awards and hasn’t sucked the life out of me)

Please note that I own a copy of the DVD of every choice I made and some “spoilers” may be included.

10. Memento – Incredible movie. I truly love watching Guy Pierce act and he truly delivered a brilliant performance in this movie with an inspired script that kept me on the edge of my seat the entire movie. Very underappreciated movie that deserved at least a nomination!

9. Count of Monte Cristo – Speaking of Guy Pierce, here he is again delivering another performance along with James Caviezel. This movie is about as epic as they come in the traditional sense of good guy gets screwed and the good guy builds up to get his revenge in an epic showdown. Good times!

8. Kingdom of Heaven – What? Really? Yep. I went to the movie theatre, extremely sceptical of having Orlando Bloom at the lead of an epic movie by favourite director Ridley Scott. I was wrong… in fact SHOCKED at how good he was. Watch the DVD release as the movie release cut off 30 minutes of fat that ruined some of the character depth for all main characters. I appreciated the way the movie depicted that there were no evil sides, neither the crusaders or the arabs were the evil ones, everyone was different, well except the French. Damn them!

7. Cinderella Man – Another underappreciated movie. Good script that is based on the original “Rocky” story. Great period piece and solid acting buy Crowe and Giamatti that always brings me tears in my eyes when I see Crowe’s face when he says, “For two hundred and fifty dollars I would fight your wife!”

6. Pirates of the Caribbean (All 3) – Extremely re-watchable. Entertainment at its finest without taking itself seriously. Love the Capt. Sparrows character.

5. A Beautiful Mind – Brilliant performance by Crowe who completely had me going. I knew he was a troubled guy but I didn’t know how badly he was off. Great support cast and solid script.

4. Lord of the Rings (All 3) - Extremely re-watchable. Peter Jackson delivered an extremely watchable rendition of a legendary series whose books was personally a bore to read through mostly to Tolkien’s writing style.

3. The Dark Knight (heck even Batman Begins) – Thank you for saving this franchise Mr. Nolan. Thank you for making us almost forget the terribad days of Joel Schumaker. Great acting, strong storylines. (RIP Heath)

2. The Last Samurai – Went in being sceptical of the performance that a declining Tom Cruise could bring to the table. However, I love period pieces, especially in the Asiatic setting such as ROTK, 7 Samurai. Script was great! Support acting was FANTASIC. Ken Watanabe is a delight to watch act (he briefly appeared in Batman Begins as well) along with Hiroyuki Sanada. Cruise delivered. Possibly my favourite movie soundtrack ever from favourite composer Hans Zimmer. I always shed tears at the end of the viewing when Tom Cruise’s character says, “I’ll tell you how he lived.”

1. Gladiator - Gladiator is the epic that makes all other epics look bad and in my eyes it's flawless in almost every way. The music is more than top notch with Hans Zimmer delivering one of his best scores. The acting is top notch with brilliant performances from Russell Crowe, Joaquin Pheonix and Richard Harris (RIP old man) Djimon Hounsou.

There is one thing that completely makes or breaks a movie for me: the ending. A movie can be great up until the end but if that last scene disappoints, I leave the movie theater with a bad aftertaste. Luckily, in Gladiator, the ending is brilliant and haunting, which adds so much more to the movie. Best moment in cinema for me?

“My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.”

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SpecialKO

SpecialKO

Initial pull w/ brief thoughts:

-The Departed (take that, SJ!) - I'm a sucker for hardcore character-driven crime films, particularly from Scorsese. Matt and Leo were awesome, and Jack Nicholson was just amazing
-Up - really don't need to explain this one.
-The Incredibles - an intelligent film about parenthood seen through the lens of superheroes. Just can't beat it.
-Memento - Again, don't really need to explain this one.
-Star Trek - for whatever miniscule flaws it had, this film reminded the world of why SF is awesome.
-Dark Water - brilliant horror film about loss and alienation after divorce. Got totally shafted when its marketing department advertised it as a teen scream.
-the Bourne Identity - brought back the idea of the intelligent action thriller
-Casino Royale - The thinking man's Bond film.
-LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring - obvious
-LOTR: Two Towers - ditto
-LOTR: Return of the King - and again
-There Will Be Blood - Was like watching an amazing one-man play as DDL went off the deep end
-Inside Man - No one else will agree with this one, but this was a true New York heist film, made by a New Yorker, for New Yorkers
-Papricka - It's hard to describe just how much I loved this, but it's on this list.
-Spirited Away - Probably my favorite Miyazaki film period
-Princess Mononoke - a close second to ^
-Kingdom of Heaven - Fun, epic, and significant in how well it treats the Muslim/Arabic antagonists
-Syriana - Not as amazing as Three Kings, but an otherwise fantastic look at the complicated confluence/conflict of American national, business, and political interests in the Middle East
-Serenity - Similar reasoning as Star Trek
-Triad Election - Johnnie To's amazing triad-godfather like film. Prequel is awesome as well.
-Hero (Yīngxióng) - This is, hands-down, the most beautiful, and beautifully-paced, film that I have ever seen.
-Unleashed - Not only were this film's action sequences phenomenal, the plot scenes were moving and tightly interwoven with the action
-Red Cliff - Another one no one will agree with, but watching the legendary battle of Chi Bi, as directed by John Woo, was absoutely breath-taking
-Good Night, and Good Luck - films about combatting evil and fear always strike a chord with me. Films that do so featuring a true historical figure fighting to do so without violence and triumphing? No possible way was this film not getting on my list.

I'll have to think some more, but there were a lot of "almosts" that I'm still thinking of putting in the initial pull.

---------- Post added at 01:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:29 PM ----------

Just remembered to agree with Collateral and Minority Report.
 
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