Alright motherfucks, throw it down. List your best films of the DECADE

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

Off the top of my head -

Zodiac
Memento
LOTR trilogy
Black Hawk Down
City of God
The Pianist
Ghost World
United 93
Million Dollar Baby
Ratatouille
Snatch
Wall-E

[Kestastrophe]

I'm kind of surprised that no one has mentioned The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. It would make my list

also, Lust, Caution

[Mr. Gundam]

also, Lust, Caution

Great movie (I've got the Korean Blu-ray release), but I felt like Lee was trying way too hard to ape the whole Wong Kar Wai look and style.

[Mr. Gundam]

Ok, I'm putting them in order this time.

1. In the Mood for Love
2. Talk to Her
3. Before Sunset
4. The Lives of Others
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. The Station Agent
7. Amelie
8. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
9. Almost Famous
10. Millennium Actress

[Phoenix Dark]

1) Children of Men
2) LOTR Trilogy
3) Pan's Labyrinth
4) Memento
5) No Country for Old Men
6) Zodiac
7) Let The Right One In
8 ) The Fountain
9) City of God
10) There Will Be Blood

special mention: The Incredibles

[TakingBackSunday]

Gran Torino was meh.  Shitty asian acting 

[Human Snorenado]

I know that it's not as bleak as Requiem, but I have a hard time understanding people picking The Fountain over everyone's favorite addiction movie.  Then again, there are people putting anime flicks on here, which is just plain wrong on so many levels.  WEEABOOS.

[Mr. Gundam]

I know that it's not as bleak as Requiem, but I have a hard time understanding people picking The Fountain over everyone's favorite addiction movie.  Then again, there are people putting anime flicks on here, which is just plain wrong on so many levels.  WEEABOOS.

I think I would've put Requiem for a Dream on my list if it were still earlier in the decade. I was obsessed with that movie during my sophomore year of college when it first came out (saw it opening day in Seattle). I still appreciate it, but not nearly as much as I used to.

And hey, Millennium Actress is a good film, anime or not.

Millennium Actress was very favorably received by critics, gaining a 94% "fresh" rating at RottenTomatoes.com.[1] Los Angeles Times critic Kenneth Turan said of the film "as a rumination on the place movies have in our personal and collective subconscious, "Millennium Actress" fascinatingly goes where films have not often gone before".[2] Kevin M. Williams of the Chicago Tribune gave the movie 4 stars and put his feelings for the film this way: "A piece of cinematic art. It's modern day Japanese animation at its best... It's animated, but it's human and will touch the soul of anyone who has loved deeply".

[Phoenix Dark]

I thought The Fountain was a better movie. Requiem is good but I liked The Fountain more, it was more interesting, I really liked Hugh Jackman in it, and of course the score is amazing. I doubt I'll watch Requiem again anytime soon

[Human Snorenado]

I thought The Fountain was a better movie. Requiem is good but I liked The Fountain more, it was more interesting, I really liked Hugh Jackman in it, and of course the score is amazing. I doubt I'll watch Requiem again anytime soon

ASS TO ASS tho.

[CajoleJuice]

I thought The Fountain was a better movie. Requiem is good but I liked The Fountain more, it was more interesting, I really liked Hugh Jackman in it, and of course the score is amazing. I doubt I'll watch Requiem again anytime soon

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[Phoenix Dark]

I thought The Fountain was a better movie. Requiem is good but I liked The Fountain more, it was more interesting, I really liked Hugh Jackman in it, and of course the score is amazing. I doubt I'll watch Requiem again anytime soon

ASS TO ASS tho.

Movie is too depressing. That and Kids are the only movies so depressing I'd rather not watch them again

[The Fake Shemp]

I think Requiem only rivals 1984 in films so depressing I will never watch again.

[TakingBackSunday]

My high school buddies were obsessed with Requiem for so long that I just fucking got sick of it.  Although the music used was always kinda cool.

[Great Rumbler]

Then again, there are people putting anime flicks on here, which is just plain wrong on so many levels.  WEEABOOS.

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Just barely missed my top ten, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with having it there.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

I think Requiem only rivals 1984 in films so depressing I will never watch again.

What about Dancer in the Dark?  At least there's ass to ass in Requiem.  Dancer just had death.

[Don Flamenco]

I think Requiem only rivals 1984 in films so depressing I will never watch again.

What about Dancer in the Dark?  At least there's ass to ass in Requiem.  Dancer just had death.

that made my list...that's the only time I've sobbed while watching a movie.

[Phoenix Dark]

1984 is so bad I wouldn't watch it again. One of my favorite books but wow, the movie is an abortion

[The Fake Shemp]

Calling 1984 bad is up there with your ludicrous review of Unforgiven. I think you have an aversion to cinema that doesn't spell everything out for you.

[recursivelyenumerable]

I vote for Charles Mingus' albums "mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus" and "pithecanthropus erectus".  They're neither films nor of this decade, but they win the category anyway because they're just that awesome.

[MCD]

ctrl+f "The Shawshank Redemption".

nothing.

smh.

[Diunx]

ctrl+f the thread tittle next time.

[MCD]

it's a timeless classic.

honestly i didn't read the whole title.

[Phoenix Dark]

Calling 1984 bad is up there with your ludicrous review of Unforgiven. I think you have an aversion to cinema that doesn't spell everything out for you.

Interesting critique. I can think of many movies I don't like where some might accuse me of that, but then again I like plenty of films that don't spell everything out for me. It certainly doesn't apply to a movie based on a book I read multiple times for pleasure and in school.

1984 is not good, and I don't think it's universally acclaimed so I'm certainly not the only person who hated it. It's very slow, and they take a book I found to be fascinating and turn it into a dry, boring slog.

[Robo]

Favorite films of the Aughts:

The Man with the Rubber Head
A Trip to the Moon
The Impossible Voyage
The Great Train Robbery
Humorous Phases of Funny Faces

 

[Don Flamenco]

I vote for Charles Mingus' albums "mingus mingus mingus mingus mingus" and "pithecanthropus erectus".  They're neither films nor of this decade, but they win the category anyway because they're just that awesome.

I rescind my votes and vote this instead and throw blues and roots on there

[MCD]

 

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[The Fake Shemp]

1984 is not good, and I don't think it's universally acclaimed so I'm certainly not the only person who hated it. It's very slow, and they take a book I found to be fascinating and turn it into a dry, boring slog.

Unlike Unforgiven, you will not be met with cries of blasphemy for saying you did not like 1984, but to call it a bad film is still pretty ridiculous.

[Phoenix Dark]

1984 is not good, and I don't think it's universally acclaimed so I'm certainly not the only person who hated it. It's very slow, and they take a book I found to be fascinating and turn it into a dry, boring slog.

Unlike Unforgiven, you will not be met with cries of blasphemy for saying you did not like 1984, but to call it a bad film is still pretty ridiculous.

Meh, I thought it was bad. Maybe we have different opinions on what a good or bad film constitutes. You probably look at it from a more technical aspect since you're actually involved in film, know more about it, etc. For me something doesn't have to be Val Helsing/Transformers level to be bad, and a film that gets things right on a technical level can still be bad overall. I'd love to get some examples of bad films in your eyes, but not focused on blockbusters/action stuff for instance.

Was I wrong about Unforgiven...yes.