Top 10 Best Movies of the 2000's

[Makaveli]

1. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
2. Adaptation (2002)

3. Million Dollar Baby (2004)
4. Crash (2005)
5. Hustle & Flow (2005)


6. A Beautiful Mind (2001)
7. Thirteen Days (2000)
8. United 93 (2006)
9. Road to Perdition (2002)
10. Cast Away (2000)


Honorable Mention:

Signs (2002)
Meet the Parents (2000)
Juno (2007)
Waking Life (2001)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Cinderella Man (2005)
Open Water (2003)
The Cooler (2003)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

[12ozLongneck]

Oh shit... I don't even know where to begin.

[AtlLonghorn]

1. City of God

...that's all I got.

[AtlLonghorn]

1. City of God
2. The Dark Knight
3. The Departed

...stumped again.

[12ozLongneck]

Still don't know where to begin.

[Simon Honeybone]

In alphabetical order

Cidade de Deus
Dark Knight
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Inglourious Basterds
Lord of the Rings 1
Lord of the Rings 2
Lord of the Rings 3
Memento
Requiem for a Dream
The Departed

[Drew Corleone]

I'll have my list in the next few weeks...

[ChuckNorrisHorn]

Twilight
New Moon

haha

[AtlLonghorn]

In alphabetical order

Cidade de Deus
Dark Knight
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Inglourious Basterds
Lord of the Rings 1
Lord of the Rings 2
Lord of the Rings 3
Memento
Requiem for a Dream
The Departed

I like this list a lot. I'm not sure about Memento, I haven't seen it in a long time and I really liked it at the time, but haven't been compelled to watch it since. I also haven't seen Inglourious Basterds yet so I can't speak on that. My list will probably include Waltz With Bashir which is the movie that has affected me most since City of God.

[12ozLongneck]

Am I the only one on here that didn't like The Departed? I remember checking my watch about 20 minutes in and realizing that i had over 2 more hours to sit through.

[Makaveli]

I think it might be among the best Thriller-Genre Pics of the decade, but I didn't see an "Oscar" film there...

The reason it is so highly acclaimed is because the Academy Awards used it as the vehicle to give Scorsese a sort-of Lifetime Achievement award since he didn't win for Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Last Temptation, Goodfellas, Gangs of New York, or Aviator


Also, City of God should have made my honorable mention list....not sure how I overlooked that

[Drew Corleone]

I can't rank them... this is alphabetically...

Top Ten:

Adaptation (2002)
Almost Famous (2000)
Cidade de Deus (2002)
Doubt (2008)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Departed (2006)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Thirteen Days (2000)

HM:

Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
Big Fish (2003)
Capote (2005)
Cinderella Man (2005)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Queen (2006)

And, for shits and giggles... my Worst Ten:

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Head of State (2003)
Hotel (2001)
Hulk (2003)
Mission to Mars (2000)
Pathfinder (2007)
The Puffy Chair (2005)
The School of Rock (2003)
Windtalkers (2002)

[Makaveli]

I LOL at the thought of a worst ten list. So now I must waste time coming up with my own. brb.

[Makaveli]

Worst First

1. Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 (2000)
2. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
3. Hulk (2003)
4. Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
5. Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
6. Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
7. Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)
8. Rent (2005)
9. A MIghty Wind (2003)
10. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

Dishonorable Mention:

The Terminal (2004)
A Gentleman's Game (2002)
Along Came Polly (2004)
Charlie's Angels (2000)
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

[Makaveli]

Put a gun to my head right now and I say "Adaptation" is the greatest movie ever made.

This comes up because of the BBC list where it didn't make the top 100.

I'm about to watch Mulholland Drive for the first time so we'll see.

[12ozLongneck]

A Sort Of In Order Top 15 List That Mak Is Going To Have Some Problems With:

The Royal Tenenbaums
Adaptation
No Country For Old Men
Almost Famous
The Man Who Wasn't There
Ghost World
Synecdoche, New York
The Aviator
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Juno
The Dark Knight
The Prestige
The Anniversary Party
American Psycho

WORST

The Black Dahlia
The Puffy Chair
The Phantom Menace
Grindhouse

[Makaveli]

Yeah so I think it's interesting that we're on the same page with Benjamin Button and Juno...

But Almost Famous and the Wes Anderson movies much closer to the worst list for me. Just don't connect at all, totally don't get it....but you knew that. Would like it explained to me sometime. But that can be hard to do in my experience, like how most people think Adaptation is terrible and makes no sense.

[Makaveli]

I just read the thread again and noticed "School of Rock" on Drew's worst list. I recently saw that accidentally and thought it was fun. In the vein of a poor man's Legally Blonde. Maybe like a 6-7 /10

ALSO...think how crappy a 2010's list is going to be by comparison.

[12ozLongneck]

What is your objection to Almost Famous?

[txlonghorn47]

What is your objection to Almost Famous?

Yeah not sure I get the objection there

[Makaveli]

I don't think it's "bad", just not great. I can't really explain it. The reason would be analogous to why I rarely like British films.

It's something intangible about visual style and also the way characters are developed. Loses my interest. It's the same unintelligible reason I didn't like "Boyhood"

EDIT:. I see I did reference it as "bad". That probably wasn't fair. Pay me no mind.

[eochs]

if you can deal with it watch the directors cut of Almost Famous... Its about 30m longer but it fills in a lot of holes where things just happen during cuts in the theatrical... One of the very few movies where the directors cut is superior to the theater

[12ozLongneck]

ALSO...think how crappy a 2010's list is going to be by comparison.

My crack at a Best of the 2010s so far:

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson back in top form.
Seven Psychopaths - I think you would really like this one, Mak. A poor man's Adaptation.
Inside Llewyn Davis - Like a ton of other Coen Brothers movies, I didn't really like it the first time I saw it and it's grown on me.

----Huge dropoff in quality--------


Sicario
Nightcrawler

[Drew Corleone]

ALSO...think how crappy a 2010's list is going to be by comparison.

My crack at a Best of the 2010s so far:

The Grand Budapest Hotel - Wes Anderson back in top form.
Seven Psychopaths - I think you would really like this one, Mak. A poor man's Adaptation.
Inside Llewyn Davis - Like a ton of other Coen Brothers movies, I didn't really like it the first time I saw it and it's grown on me.

----Huge dropoff in quality--------


Sicario
Nightcrawler

See also: Burn After Reading

[Drew Corleone]

For 2010s right now I'd probably go with:

Interstella
Spotlight
Grand Budapest
50/50
Moneyball
The Descendants
The King's Speech
Inception
TBD
TBD