i saw let the right one in…that was surprisingly good, didnt expect it to be that good really…it wasnt really much of a horro movie though…
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you have zoolander on your list…
different strokes man. besides “not knocking your __” is like saying “no offense but i’m gonna say something offensive”.
i gotta think about mine for awhile, my long term memory’s not so great.
Just movies that I liked this decade and can watch over and over. I mean, I put Pitch Black on my list, so I’m definitely not arthouse name-dropping.
Unbreakable deserves more credit than what most people give it (as well as M.Night as a director, despite directing some really awful stories).
PS. There’s a few movies this year I want to see (Public Enemies, The Road, a non-pirate release of Ip Man, a couple others), so my decade list definitely isn’t finished.
28 Weeks and 28 Days are very different films, so its kind of hard to compare them imo. I think 28 Days is a better film in many respects, but I personally loathe the 3rd act (when they reach the military) of it so much that it kind of sours the entire film for me.
28 Weeks is basically a really long chase scene/full out action movie. Not nearly the character development, depth or emotion of the first movie, but I enjoyed it more simply because it is loaded with fun scenes I’ve been wanting to see in a zombie movie for years.
Unbreakable is good…
I was considering History of Violence on my list, but at the end of the day, 70s/80s Cronenberg >> 90s/00s
Donner Supes 2 definitely shouldnt count, as it wasnt even theatrically released (unlike say Blade Runner Final Cut)
You answered your own question. I let you guys see the criteria I arrived at, so you’d also know which ones I didn’t use. You’ll notice that I didn’t limit it to theatrical releases, and that is deliberate.
The film medium is changing, and you can’t necessarily count on legitimate pictures fitting into the same mold as the pictures of yester-century. We no longer know that movies necessarily have to be viewed in the cinema. We no longer know that they have to be generally around two or three hours. We no longer know whether or not their purpose is to deliver narrative. And so on and so forth.
The day will come when people will easily accept the legitimacy of a 15 minute motion picture that was designed to be viewed on a computer or a cell phone. I think the day is already here, and has been for a while, that the motion picture is as much a home video phenomenon as it is a theatrical one. That’s part of what I meant by “does it represent the decade?” In other words, does it represent this time of flux that the motion picture medium is going through?
That’s the other reason. Blade Runner: the Final Cut is a reshuffling of the same material that was present in the kajillion previous versions. Including it as a 2000s release just because it had a theatrical run seems utterly arbitrary to me.
By contrast, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut is massively different from the previous version released in 1981. It is so different that it stands apart as its own entity. Furthermore, it arguably could not have existed before this decade. The fact that years of online buzz were the driving force behind its production is another thing that intrinsically ties it to the 2000s. To me, that’s a much better reason for its inclusion on this particular list than whether or not it had a theatrical run, which would have been more relevant back when theaters themselves were more relevant.
top of my head
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (this is clearly #1 for me. Give credit where it’s fucking due. LOTR deserves all the praise it can get, regardless of how mainstream it’s considered to be. Not for the acting; some did a good job and others well, didn’t. But the direction, combined with the cinematography, epic story, and sheer production scale made its mark on film making history.)
The Dark Knight (best comic adaptation ever, no explanation necessary. Heath Ledger went out in a blaze of glory.)
Requiem for a Dream (groundbreaking in its own right.)
Memento (a very intelligent and entertaining film.)
**
There Will Be Blood** (Daniel Day-Lewis is a God amongst actors, fuck your opinion.)
**
The Passion of the Christ** (not because I’m religious, which I’m not. But this film contains beautiful cinematography, direction, and acting. And Monica Bellucci’s in it.)
Gangs of New York (Daniel Day-Lewis and the direction of Martin Scorsese. Has its pacing flaws one might argue, and I’m not much of a Leo fan, but this film is epic imo.)
Gladiator (2nd only to Braveheart in the historical war epic genre imo.)
Sexy Beast (Ben Kingsely was a madman in this. A very sane and level-headed madman.)
W. (Just too damn funny, in a subtle and refreshing way. Clowns dubya FTW.)
That’s in no specific order, just as they entered my head. Except for LOTR, that’s definitely #1.
edit: fuck I dunno. I gotta have V for Vendetta on there somewhere. Maybe replace Sexy Beast with that. I would say Watchmen too but I dunno. Too many things about it that annoyed me, despite my liking it nonetheless. I might say Watchmen instead of Memento or W. though.
your example isn’t the same because I was simply surprised anyone would say it considering all the hate unbreakable and it’s director has gotten on srk.
I was just surprised not implying anything like that. Personally I thought unbreakable was decent, but I loved pitch black one of the best cheesy sci fi action films out there.
Yeah I feel you my cousin likes it better then the first one as well like I said just not something I expected to see that’s all.
I just finished watching it and my initial reacting is OMG!
Easily the most fucked up and one of the most brilliant films I’ve ever seen. You Might want to include it in your top10 list of the decade I know I probably will. To put in only in the genre of horror is wrong but that might be giving away too much, I highly recommend it (not that I think you give a shit of my opinion but yeah just strongly encourage you and your hot wife to see it asap.)
P. gorath check this review (WITH SPOILERS) out lol.
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117938283.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
I’ll have to think on this list a for a bit, but here’s some just off the top of my head:
Eternal Sunhine - one of the only romantic movie I’ve ever liked…also probably one of the most truly romantic movies ever made. Kate is also smoking hot in it.
American Psycho - for some reason,. I thought this was part of the juggernaut that was 1999. Since it isn’t, this is definately one of my favorite films of this group. It’s one of those films that has seriously gotten better with each viewing.
City of God
That’s really all I have right now.
This is a maddening movie. I guess it depends on what mood I’m in, but sometimes it comes across as much smarter than it gets credit for, and sometimes it comes across as a “message movie” without an ounce of subtlety. Maybe it’s both.
Lots of praise for american psycho interesting I liked for it’s dark humor and commentary on corporate america but like GM said it lacks subtlety, it’s “haha the bad guy doesn’t always lose” message was ab it too obvious but I should watch it again it’s been a few years. I remember my friends and I laughing nonstop when he chases the hooker naked with sneakers, and the weird noise of satisfaction he makes after dropping the chainsaw on her. Also 
@ him looking himself in the mirror n flexing his muscles while fucking the hookers, and the bathroom scene.
martyrs ending
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How come after the guy says I don’t know she says keep doubting and kills herself? obviously whatever Anna told her drove her to suicide but doesn’t that mean the prophecy or whatever wisdom Anna had was you go to heaven if you kill yourself?[/details]
You know we have a spoiler tag, right?
There are so few films that came out since 2000 that I truly loved…I think that’s why I’m having problems coming up with a list…
Almost Famous - I want to add this movie because no movie has ever made me want to be a person in a movie as bad as this one. I wanted to be William Miller through that whole damn movie. Also, when I’m feeling all emo and shit, I watch AF and feel so much better…it’s like the millenium version of Dazed and Confused…I can literally watch this movie anytime and love it…
Yeah I added the spoiler tag, also it’s funny you mention AF 2 days ago a friend was telling me how overrated he thinks it is. I haven’t seen it in years but remembered liking it a lot.
Cloverfield is up I really wanted to not like this movie but I did.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/journal_view.php?journalid=495988&view=public
Next up:
the wackness
be kind rewind
martyrs
kate hudson was great in almost famous
too bad she hasn’t had a good role since then though i did like The Skeleton Key a lot for some reason
Normally, I don’t like super thin girls, but I’d bang the fucking SHIT out of KH in Almost Famous…girls vomitting while Stevie Wonder plays in the background is one of my biggest turn ons…
seriously though, I’d knock the shit out of that bony ass…
you dont exactly read bret easton ellis for subtlety…
also everyone knows Variety reviews are a joke, and I wouldnt post any spoilers or spoiler reviews until the movie has been out, as you want people to go into Martyrs as in the dark as you were
Saw Martyrs a couple weeks ago, thought it was good but I think I prefer Let the Right One In.
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[details=Spoiler]Martyrs really caught hold of me in the first half, I loved everything about it. When the plot kicked in though it went down hill for me.
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The film and the novel are different enough that I wouldn’t judge the film by the standards of the book. Mary Harron backed off on a lot of the really fetishistic details and focused more on the social commentary, which I suppose is why the obviousness of some of it prickles me so.
how is that a review, like i never read shit on variety before but that wasnt a review really…
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