Gentlemen! Top 25 films of the previous decade.

[CMoon]

I really liked Scott Pilgrim too, but that could just be me. Don't know how well it was received generally

Commercially it was a total failure.

[Skykid]

I really liked Scott Pilgrim too, but that could just be me. Don't know how well it was received generally

Commercially it was a total failure.

I thought it was great.

[njiska]

I'm not going to say what's best, but these are the movies I really enjoyed for a number of different reasons:

Drama:
Defendor
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Wrestler
The Dark Knight
Lord of War
Layer Cake
3:10 to Yuma (Massively under-appreciated)
The Departed
Hard Candy
Donnie Darko
House of Sand and Fog
Taken
In Bruges

Horror:
A Tale of Two Sisters
Dark Water (Both versions. The US Remake with Connelly is amazing)
American Psycho
Ginger Snaps


Comedy:
The Haunted World of El Superbeasto
Young People Fucking
Shaun of the Dead
Zombieland
The Hangover
Snatch
The Incredibles
Shaolin Soccer

Other:
Repo! The Genetic Opera

[Rob]

Commercially it was a total failure.

Hallelujah.

[KindGrind]

I have yet to see Scott Pilgrim... Will do so if the stars align in a near future.

Felt like adding the last 10 to make my own top 25 (albeit not in order), so changed my original post.

[drauch]

RAMBO

[ED-057]

I would throw in my vote for Shaolin Soccer, as well as Kung Fu Hustle. Can`t think of anything else that I would be willing to watch again. Maybe the one about a French dude named Stefan who kept mixing up his dreams with reality. But a decade is too long. In 2001 I worked next to a video rental place and watched a pile of movies, of which I can`t tell you anything about at this point.

[1up]

I would throw in my vote for Shaolin Soccer, as well as Kung Fu Hustle. Can`t think of anything else that I would be willing to watch again. Maybe the one about a French dude named Stefan who kept mixing up his dreams with reality. But a decade is too long. In 2001 I worked next to a video rental place and watched a pile of movies, of which I can`t tell you anything about at this point.

I agree. I watched a shitton of movies in the early 2000s. Cant really recall anything as its all a blur

[Obiwanshinobi]

At least nobody mentioned bloody Shrek yet.
So, count the following as my votes (the list is not definitive yet):

Angelus
Freddy Got Fingered
Krew z nosa
Hero
Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
Innocence (Ghost in the Shell 2)
Kontroll (that 2003 Hungarian film, not to be confused with a bunch of films called Control)
Enlightenment Guaranteed

I'm gonna watch Rambo and theatrical Suzumiya Haruhi. Had better be good.

[DEL]

Looks like everyone has missed the film of the decade from their whole lists

Black Hawk Down

My Western list so far:-

Black Hawk Down
City of God
Four Lions
Collateral
In Bruges
Sideways
Moon
Traffic
Snatch
A History of Violence
Eastern Promises
Chronicles of Riddick
Van Helsing - Yes I said it.
Munich
Dawn of the Dead Remake
EDIT:- adding...Small Time Crooks - awesome Woody Allen film
Scoop

[emphatic]

I don't get how so many liked In Bruges. It was a snore-fest for me.

[GaijinPunch]

I completely forgot the Cohen brothers. I know they are both recent, but No Country for Old Men and True Grit at least should be considered.

What do you mean considered? It is the best.

Anton Chigur >>>>>>>>> Doom

Stuff I enjoyed the most:
No Country For Old Men
LOTR
Dark Knight
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (far more original than just about everything listed)
Capote
Departed (I never saw Internal Affairs --- sue me).
Collateral (I'll join DEL b/c I like Michael Mann, and it was nice to see Tom do something not stupid. It can't hold a stick to Heat though).
The Wrestler (Marissa Tomei's tits alone are worth the price of admission).

Might edit this up later. Most of my BluRay keeper movies are pre-2000.

Anyone see The American? I missed this last time I was in town by about a day.

3:10 to Yuma (Massively under-appreciated)

It's b/c of the totally useless ending.

[Skykid]

RAMBO

Oh shit, of course!

[RGC]

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[charlie chong]

terrible decade for films. at least c.g.i has got a little better

zombieland
district 9
bad santa
four lions
the wrestler
No Country For Old Men
28 days later
napoleon dynamite


i might be able to think of more but mebbes not

[jonny5]

Surprised to see all the zombie love, but no mention of 28 days later

Why don't you read hard?

sorry, wall of text scared me off, I just read people's lists.

Tokyo Zombie kinda sucked, I'd go with something more like X Cross or Uzumaki as far as Japanese stuff went this decade, there were better zombie movies from them, Bio Zombie, Junk, Stacy..

Seriously? You thought Stacy or Bio Zombie was better than Tokyo Zombie?

More zombie flicks, yes I would agree! Just didn't want to fill up a list with them; Resident Evil; Degeneration (can't wait for the sequel!), Dance of the Dead, Zombie Land, Slither, Flight of the Living Dead, Land of the dead, Diary of the Dead, Planet Terror.
28 Days Later sucks!

Wait, you thought 28 Days Later sucked, but you liked Flight of the Living Dead and Diary of the Dead(!).

[Herr Schatten]

Most of my favourites have already been mentioned. Here are a few more that deserve attention, imo:

Little Miss Sunshine
Match Point
Hot Fuzz
Secretary

I also think that the first Pirates of the Caribbean was quite entertaining. Probably one of the better movies of the Hollywood blockbuster type.

[xris]

Seriously? You thought Stacy or Bio Zombie was better than Tokyo Zombie?

Wait, you thought 28 Days Later sucked, but you liked Flight of the Living Dead and Diary of the Dead(!).

Okay, maybe I was being a little harsh on Tokyo Zombie, it had a neat fight, and it was prolly better than Stacy. The buddy chemistry in TZ irked me, they would not be friends in real life, but in Bio Zombie, I could relate to the two main charas in that, and I loved the mall setting in it, it reminds me of the shitty mall we had downtown in my city. (it just got torn down, it was the first indoor mall ever built.)
28 Day Later could never escape the shadow of Day of the Dead, the similarities are way too close IMO, all of the charas in it should have been eaten, they were all shmucks, especially the main chara.
Flight of the Dead never tried to take it's self seriously, slow moving for the first half hour, but once the zombies appeared it was on. It also did a fantastic job at keeping you off balance as far as who the hero was, and who lived and died. Allot better than I hoped it would be, and put Snakes on a Plane to shame.
Diary of the Dead, well.. The reason I like this is that it was filmed rather well under the premise of being filmed by the people involved. They were able to skirt this by having them be film students, and i liked that they would stop and edit the footage as they went along. This put Cloverfield to shame, the filming in that was a disaster.

[jonny5]

Seriously? You thought Stacy or Bio Zombie was better than Tokyo Zombie?

Wait, you thought 28 Days Later sucked, but you liked Flight of the Living Dead and Diary of the Dead(!).

Okay, maybe I was being a little harsh on Tokyo Zombie, it had a neat fight, and it was prolly better than Stacy. The buddy chemistry in TZ irked me, they would not be friends in real life, but in Bio Zombie, I could relate to the two main charas in that, and I loved the mall setting in it, it reminds me of the shitty mall we had downtown in my city. (it just got torn down, it was the first indoor mall ever built.)
28 Day Later could never escape the shadow of Day of the Dead, the similarities are way too close IMO, all of the charas in it should have been eaten, they were all shmucks, especially the main chara.
Flight of the Dead never tried to take it's self seriously, slow moving for the first half hour, but once the zombies appeared it was on. It also did a fantastic job at keeping you off balance as far as who the hero was, and who lived and died. Allot better than I hoped it would be, and put Snakes on a Plane to shame.
Diary of the Dead, well.. The reason I like this is that it was filmed rather well under the premise of being filmed by the people involved. They were able to skirt this by having them be film students, and i liked that they would stop and edit the footage as they went along. This put Cloverfield to shame, the filming in that was a disaster.

hmm...Never really thought of 28 Days Later being like Day of the Dead; aside from the military base bit, they are completely different. That seems like a rather broad comparison tbh. The actual meat of the films were different like night and day.

Diary of the Dead was a huge disappointment ; especially if you have seen 'the Zombie Diaries', which was a much better execution of what they were trying for with Diary of the Dead. Heck, even the straight to DVD 'remake' of Day of the Dead was better than Diary of the Dead, and I remember being confused as to why the one went stright to the DVD and what was IMO the lesser of the 2 got theatrical release.

'I, Zombie' is an excellent example a great zombie flick nobody has mentioned yet. If you haven't seen that, check it out. It's the kind of zombie story I enjoy, more about the characters and how they react/move through the situation rather than mindless gore and stuff.

[xris]

No, Survival of the Dead was the disappointment.. I can see how you might not like Diary though, it's a very poorly paced film, that is predictable. I'll have to look into The Zombie Diaries. I do appreciate hoe 28 Days brought Zombie films back into the main stream though. I think maybe I just don't like how the main charas naivety rubbed off on all of his companions. It's held in to high of a regard by most fans, and created a new set of trappings for movies to fallow. Hell, even Resident Evil did the whole let's fallow the radio signal on blind faith thing. Don't ever head toward a recording, establish communication and ask to speak to as many as possible first!
edit: lol, the Day of the Dead remake! Puking, jumping zombies for the shear fun of it! The radio station scenes were kinda good in it though. That was a concept further developed in the movie Dead Air, wich was ..okay, I guess.

[jonny5]

No, Survival of the Dead was the disappointment.. I can see how you might not like Diary though, it's a very poorly paced film, that is predictable. I'll have to look into The Zombie Diaries. I do appreciate hoe 28 Days brought Zombie films back into the main stream though. I think maybe I just don't like how the main charas naivety rubbed off on all of his companions. It's held in to high of a regard by most fans, and created a new set of trappings for movies to fallow. Hell, even Resident Evil did the whole let's fallow the radio signal on blind faith thing. Don't ever head toward a recording, establish communication and ask to speak to as many as possible first!
edit: lol, the Day of the Dead remake! Puking, jumping zombies for the shear fun of it! The radio station scenes were kinda good in it though. That was a concept further developed in the movie Dead Air, wich was ..okay, I guess.

The Zombie Diaries is on netflix, at least on the Canadian network.

Definitely make the effort to see I, Zombie, it's great and one of the more original zombie flicks of recent years! I will probably shoot you a PM in the near future with some recommendations of stuff worth tracking down.

[RGC]

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[CMoon]

Don't think I can make 25.

Stuck in a similar boat. I mean, when I limit to films I would consider buying the blu-ray of or at least see multiple times, that list starts getting really short.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Oh yes, Una noche con Sabrina Love was pretty great and I'd gladly re-watch it (seeing wannabe-Altman stuff like Amores perros getting more recognition is depressing when Latin cinema is about so much more than that), but doesn't quite count since it's a 2000 film (previous decade means 2001-2010, like "one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten" - that's ten years for you). There's no year 0 in Gregorian calendar and if you count decades (and centuries) beginning with the year 1, the last year of each ends with a 0.

[RGC]

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[Acid King]

There's no year 0 in Gregorian calendar and if you count decades (and centuries) beginning with the year 1, the last year of each ends with a 0.

Only no one counts decades like that so the point is moot.

[genecyst]

i can't understand why so many people liked no country for old men...

my favs:
there will be blood
dolls (kitano)
moon
blindness
adaptation
chan-wook park's "vendetta trilogy"
batmans (both)
antichrist
district 9
animal kingdom
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
synecdoche, new york
secret of kells
let the right one in (not the hollywood shitty remake)
eternal sunshine of a spotless mind
mindgame
up
wall-e
dogville-manderlay
hot fuzz
the boss of it all
mulholland drive
ferro 3
v for vendetta
the devil's rejects
dear wendy
survival of the dead
amnesia (nolan)

[KindGrind]

i can't understand why so many people liked no country for old men...

+1

I saw Being John Malkovich a few times on you guys lists... it's great and would definitely make my list... of best of the 90's.

[Skykid]

i can't understand why so many people liked no country for old men...

I don't know why you liked V for Vendetta. Are you blind?

[terry330]

In no order and off the top of my head:

Brick
Doomsday
Grindhouse
Life Aquatic
2046
Inglorious Basterds
Black Swan
The Fall
City of God
Let the Right One In
Tell No One
Time Crimes
Sunshine
Moon
Eastern Promises
Revanche
Gozu
There Will Be Blood
Mulholland Drive
Slither
Spirited Away
Tekkonkinkreet(sp?)
Children of Men
Infernal Affairs trilogy
Casino Royale

Also I don't know if Blade Runner: The Final Cut counts but you know...

Some are solid picks, some are guilty pleasures and some just desreve a watch by anyone that has an interest.