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Post by SweetOblivion on Dec 2, 2009 17:03:31 GMT -4
Everyone else is doing it, so let's hop on! I didn't put "Top 10" films, because only 10 choices limits what was a pretty good decade for film. These were my favorites, some aren't necessarily the "Best", but I liked them anyway. In no particular order:
Memento
O Brother Where Art Thou
Amelie
Bend It Like Beckham
Lord of the Rings
Spirited Away
Munich
Finding Nemo
Kung Fu Hustle/ Shaolin Soccer
Shaun of the Dead
The Dark Knight
L'Enfant
The Departed
Brokeback Mountain
Hero
Thank You For Smoking
Les Triplettes De Belleville
Unbreakable
Galaxy Quest
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Fellow Greecies, what were your favorites?
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Post by ikmccall on Dec 2, 2009 17:48:00 GMT -4
The only ones I didn't see (yet) are Kung Fu Hustle, Hero, The Departed (it's on my Netflix queue, I swear), L'Enfant, and Thank You For Smoking. But I think my favorite has to be Lord of the Rings, especially the first movie. Unbreakable is my favorite Shymalan movie and I think it's one of Bruce's best acting jobs.
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Post by Babycakes on Dec 2, 2009 18:42:59 GMT -4
Everyone else is doing it, so let's hop on! I didn't put "Top 10" films, because only 10 choices limits what was a pretty good decade for film. These were my favorites, some aren't necessarily the "Best", but I liked them anyway. In no particular order: Memento
O Brother Where Art Thou
Amelie
Bend It Like Beckham
Lord of the Rings
Spirited Away
Munich
Finding Nemo
Kung Fu Hustle/ Shaolin Soccer
Shaun of the Dead
The Dark Knight
L'Enfant
The Departed
Brokeback Mountain
Hero
Thank You For Smoking
Les Triplettes De Belleville
Unbreakable
Galaxy Quest
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Fellow Greecies, what were your favorites? It's so hard to believe that some of those came out in this decade! Galaxy Quest, CT,HD seem like mid 90s now. I remember clapping in the audience watching CT, HD's fight scenes. Gosh, now I feel old. Anyhoo...I've seen about 75% of that list, and can't remember right now my own faves to add, but I will definitely agree on: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Dark Knight
Brokeback Mountain
Finding Nemo
Kung Fu HustleThose five movies (IMO) changed the game. These are the movies that you watch whenever they come on, and you love to introduce people to them. On a smaller scale, Galaxy Quest as well, but most people who aren't sci-fi geeks won't get it. And I'd swap Hot Fuzz for Shaun of the Dead.  Oops, I just remember one: 28 Days Later. The premise may have been trite, but the execution, Jebus... |
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Post by huntergrayson on Dec 2, 2009 18:51:23 GMT -4
I actually think The Departed is Scorcese's weakest film that he's made this decade. Or least interesting.
Fricking loved Hero. Loved House of Flying Daggers even more
I kept forgetting how awesome Munich was - I should probably buy it on DVD soon.
Moulin Rouge definitely earns a place in the Top 10, for me. It was definitely a game-changer in terms of reviving the movie musical and doing something completely new with it.
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Post by SweetOblivion on Dec 2, 2009 19:06:31 GMT -4
Moulin Rouge definitely earns a place in the Top 10, for me. It was definitely a game-changer in terms of reviving the movie musical and doing something completely new with it. Ah, that's another movie that was so long ago, I keep forgetting it was released in this decade. Yes, absolutely loved it. babycakes, 28 Days Later was one of my faves, too. Seriously, if I put my mind to it my list could be 100 movies long, easily. ETA: Pirates of the Caribbean. LOVE that movie. |
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Post by huntergrayson on Dec 2, 2009 19:23:44 GMT -4
Then Chicago came out the next year and won the Oscar for Best Picture that Moulin Rouge deserved. If I had any control, the Best Picture Awards from the start of the decade would have gone Moulin Rouge/LOTR: The Two Towers/Lost in Translation rather than A Beautiful Mind/Chicago/LOTR: ROTK. One of the New Yorker's Film Critics has his list here and...there's arty and then there's being really really obscure. I haven't heard of half these films and I'm a total film geek! I think any Top Ten of the Decade would have to include at least one film from the whole indie crew of Wes Anderson/Kaufman/Jonze/Sofia Coppolla/etc - I think Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the masterpiece that's still going to be a classic thirty years from now. |
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Post by Atreides on Dec 2, 2009 19:51:57 GMT -4
In no particular order:
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (ROTK being my favourite film of the decade)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Hero
House of Flying Daggers (my favourite of the Big Three wuxia films)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Star Trek
Tropic Thunder
Atonement
The Jason Bourne movies (Ultimatum being my favourite)
Brokeback Mountain
Stardust
Moulin Rouge!
Before Sunset
I'm sure I'm forgetting lots of good ones though.
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Post by PearlySweetcake on Dec 2, 2009 20:41:36 GMT -4
Hojo to everyone's picks, plus The Lives of Others as best foreign language film on my list.
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Post by kateln on Dec 2, 2009 21:53:53 GMT -4
The Lord of the Rings (I adore ROTK the best as well--though the Battle at Helm's Deep was awesome)
Amelie
A Very Long Engagement
Oh Brother Where Art Thou? (Love it, one of my all time favorites)
The Bourne Movies (I was comparing The Bourne Identity to The Matrix today, how both were good stand alone films. But unlike The Matrix Sequals, The Bourne Ultimatium and Supremecy were great films.)
Away We Go
Sean of the Dead
The Others
House of Flying Daggers (gorgeous movie)
Sweeny Todd (Disclaimer, I love Johnny Depp, I love Tim Burton--so I get very, very happy whenever they work together. I know other's are like "move on", while I go "More!")
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Post by Atreides on Dec 3, 2009 0:09:41 GMT -4
Oh yeah, The Others was a fantastic movie and so creepily atmospheric. I believe it was also the last movie with a pre-Botox Nicole Kidman.
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