Top Films of the Decade

[Atreides]

I have to add Avatar to my list now. I haven't been that filled with awe in a theatre since I saw The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001.

[lazerusgerbil]

Ironman and The Dark Knight get special mention for what they've done for the superhero movie genre

I'll give you Dark Knight, but I don't think Iron Man will have gone down as "Doing anything for the genre", except adding another excellent entry to it. But I don't think it's going to make any significant changes to how they're made, how they're received, or how many more will be made. Which is not to knock it as a favorite.

I think people are really forgetting how big a dent the first Spider-Man and X-Men movies made on the movie landscape because the franchises have run out of steam. (As all franchises tend to do)

[spider]

Super Troopers is from the 2-thousandsies? I thought that was from the 80's or something. Love that movie!

[Smilla]

A few more I forgot to add earlier, from the indie/underappreciated categories: my beloved Far From Heaven, which is one of the only perfect films, The Quiet American, (gorgeous cinematography) Good Night, and Good Luck, The Good Shepherd and Michael Clayton (Tilda Swinton's unremarkability notwithstanding.)

Oh, and Brick, which gets my vote for Most Original of the decade.

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Dec 16, 2009 20:03:12 GMT -4 @dwanollah said:

On my list, I'd also include the LOTR flicks, possibly Milk, and for sure Moulin Rouge.

LOVED Moulin Rouge.

My other favorites were Donnie Darko, Living Dolls (for the sheer WTF-ness), Synecdoche, New York, No Country for Old Men, Southland Tales, The Ring, and Step Brothers.

I think I have issues.

[Mutagen]

This was a really good decade for big-budget action movies. I will nth Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight and Star Trek. LOTR and TDK both stand up to repeat viewings - in fact, TDK has been on television a few times recently and it gets better the more times I watch it. I leave Trek out only because I haven't rewatched it enough to say.

Another movie I'd throw in is Red Cliff, with the caveat that I only saw the two and a half hour, edited-down-for-Americans version and not the full length Chinese version. Still, the acting and story were really solid and the final battle was just staggering. On the topic of Chinese language movies, I also completely second Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Other movies that have stayed in my brain, kicking around:

Downfall
Good Bye Lenin!
Read My Lips
Brokeback Mountain
The Emperor's New Groove
Memento
Shattered Glass
WALL-E
Grizzly Man
Amelie
Zodiac
Bend It Like Beckham
Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner
Red Eye
Dogville
The Last King of Scotland
Thank You For Smoking
Quills
The Core... lol, kidding.

Movies I really wish I could nominate because they just missed the cutoff: Office Space and Titus.

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Dec 20, 2009 11:57:10 GMT -4 Atreides said:

I have to add Avatar to my list now. I haven't been that filled with awe in a theatre since I saw The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001.

Avatar blew me away too. I had goosebumps for part of the movie because it was so amazing to feel like I was in that world with those creatures. I'm adding it to my Best of list as well.

[lpatrice]

It's that time again! As we head into the start of the '20s, I would love to know what people would consider some of the best movies of the last decade. I haven't had time to compile a top ten or twenty list but here are some of the titles that have stuck with me.....

Attack the Block
Mad Max Fury Road
John Wick (Original Recipe)
Moonlight
12 Years a Slave
The Social Network - I hated it when it came it because I thought it was DAF to make a movie about Zuckerberg and Facebook but damn this was a warning that we all missed.
The Arrival
Black Panther
Get Out
Snowpiercer
Nightcrawler
The Shape of Water
War for the Planet of the Apes
Spotlight
Dredd (don't laugh)

[forever1267]

Well, this is the list I have so far, in no particular order yet:

Call Me By Your Name
Prisoners
Skyfall
La La Land
Brooklyn
Mad Max Fury Road
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Captain America
Before Midnight
Black Swan
It Follows
The Great Gatsby
Inside Out
Coco
Her
Get Out
Carol
The Conjuring
Toy Story 3
A Star is Born

[Smilla]

For me, (so far) it's:
Rabbit Hole
The Innkeepers
A Dangerous Method
Drive
The Ides of March
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Hitchcock
Argo
The Dark Knight Rises
Spotlight
Brooklyn
Infinitely Polar Bear
Far From the Madding Crowd
My Cousin Rachel
I, Tonya
Thoroughbreds
Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins