The year's almost over and with that ends the first ten years of the 21st century. Figured with all the Best/Worst Of threads, this would be appropriate. Consider how different the films of each decade have been. Even between now and the 90s, a lot has changed in the industry.

So basically the same as all the other Best/Worst Of threads. List your best/favorite films of the last ten years. I know there's still about a couple of weeks but I really have my doubts that The Lovely Bones or something is going to blow away the rest. Besides, nobody has to post right away. It's definitely a challenge to come up with ten of these but I think it should come naturally with a few.

Anyway, here's my personal top ten. I'd add descriptions to each but I tend to rant, even more so than usual about some of these flicks (hell, I wrote a ten page research paper on American Psycho). I figure most have seen at least some of these and a lot of them have already been called the best so I'll let them speak for themselves.

1. Oldboy (beat Audition by barely a hair)
2. Audition
3. Ichi the Killer
4. American Psycho
5. Martyrs
6. Pan's Labyrinth
7. Tokyo Gore Police
8. Session 9
9. A History of Violence
10. Kill Bill, Vol. 1

And for the record, The Dark Knight was on my top ten for a while but then I remembered some better movies I hadn't seen in a while.

I didn't see that many films over the last ten years but my fave ones I saw at the cinema were:
Friday Night Lights
Serenity
Shaun of The Dead
The Lord of the Rings 3 pack (note-hated the CGI battle scenes in ROTK)
Gangs of New York
T-3

Gladiator
28 Days Later...
Iron Man
King Kong

~Zack~

Top Ten of the Twenty Zeroes

Regardless of film 'quality' and all that guff... these are the films I enjoyed the most and saw way more than once and wanna see again.

In no  particular order...



1 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2 District 9
3 Memento
4 Amelie (Le fabuleux destin d'Am�lie Poulain)
5 Tell No One (Ne le dis � personne)
6 In Bruges
7 The Prestige
8 Mullholland Drive
9 Downfall (Der Untergang)
10 Oldboy
11 The Departed
12 Inglourious Barsterds

Sorry, top twelve...

RV

Well, that's a tough call. See, James, you called it "Best of 2000s". So realistically, every list should be the same as the ten best movies wouldn't really be subjective. But, I think it was shortened from "What movies from the 2000s do you like best?" and just sounds better the way you wrote it. Either way:

1. Grindhouse
2. Dawn of the Dead (2004)
3. Zodiac
4. The Wrestler
5. American Gangster
6. Inglourious Basterds
7. Memento
8. Cloverfield
9. Sin City
10. 8 Mile

I'm pissed. Due to budget restraints and... mobility issues, I only saw 5 of them in the theater. But, I didn't mind, in the end. =)

You know, looking back, this decade is not nearly as bad as I originally thought it was.

--Julio

1 - Minority Report
2 - The Departed
3 - The Dark Knight
4 - Inglourious Basterds
5 - Walk the line
6 - Star Trek
7 - Black Hawk Down
8 - Running scared
9 - Lord of the rings trilogy
10 - Kill Bill

*have not yet seen Avatar yet so that could bump the last one off the list

James,

Good call on this. I can see from other posts you're a man of taste. Too rare these days.

Mr. Blonde,
I do hope even you don't like "Dead "As A Doornail" Proof. And, suspecting ya do, please take it to PM. The rest don't wanna have that debate again.

I can't say I agree with all your other choices but, I enjoyed all those movies.

Mods,
Please take note I am trying not to bait publicly, well, not as much as I usedta do...

RC,
I know whatcha mean. I did twelve as I love all of them. There were about ten others too, LOTRx3 (and I ain't a Tolkien head) etc I left out. Lotta dross as well, but, then again, there always is....

RV... aka Jello Biafra

Quoted from rendevous Mr. Blonde, I do hope even you don't like "Dead "As A Doornail" Proof. And, suspecting ya do, please take it to PM. The rest don't wanna have that debate again. I can't say I agree with all your other choices but, I enjoyed all those movies.

No worries. I'm not here to change anyone's mind. Overall, I prefer Death Proof to Planet Terror despite both being brilliant. As a lot of people I know don't like it, I can understand why, and that's their prerogative. =)

-Sean

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Spirited Away
3. There Will Be Blood
4. Shaun of the Dead
5. Kill Bill
6. Zodiac
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Up
9. Brokeback Mountian
10. Children of Men

Right, I'm almost cooked. Or should that be pickled.

Wow, typing's difficult.

Mr. Blonde, with your Macca Ds drinks carton stood there looking cool, "are you gonna bark all day little doggy.."
Sorry, fair enough. Can't say I agree, but it would be a very boring world if I did. Keep it up fella.

Sadly I can't put Minority Report in, and I do watch it at least once a year. Black Hawk Down & especially Walk The Line are great movies too. Damn!

Anyway, in light of some wise choices I add ten, no twelve more. All these are great films in my humble. Surprisingly, as RC pointed out, there were some amazing movies made in the last few years. As before, no particular order...

Amores perros
V for Vendetta
Children of Men
The Dark Knight
Sin City
LOTR x 3
WALL�E
Batman Begins
No Country for Old Men
The Wrestler
There Will Be Blood
Kill Bill x 2



Oh bougger! I forgot Zodiac an all. Sorry Wall-E, back to the playground...

RVed out

Ice Harvest
Employee of the Month (matt Dillon not mr. unfunny anal bead Dane Cook's movie)
The Big Empty
Garden State
Curb your Enthusiasm
The Wrestler
Rambo
Vanilla Sky
Surveillance
Rocky 6
No country for old men


All brilliant movies and or shows that pushed the industry foward in terms of what they offered.  There are no Horror movies on this list because the horror genre is dead and has been for some time now.

Memento
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Donnie Darko
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Amélie
Old Boy
Pan's Labyrinth
The Illusionist
X-Men
Eight Legged Freaks

Thought of a few more good ones...

Hannibal
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Hostel

~Zack~

There have been some pretty decent Horror films recently. None of them from Hollywood, but still:

-Martyrs
-The Orphanage
-The Descent
-Let The Right One In


And there's also....oh...wow.... damn.

Lord of The Rings (Complete Trilogy)
Clerks II
Hot Fuzz (Liked it more than Shaun of The Dead)
Lucky Number Slevin
Hero
Old Boy (However I also really liked Lady and Mr. Vengeance)
Sin City
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Just makes the list)
Bittersweet Life
Immortel (This movie really stuck out when I saw it.)

In no  particular order:

- 28 Days Later
- Memento
- V for Vendetta
- The Mist
- Zodiac
- Blackhawk Down
- Taken
- The Dark Knight
- Inside Man
- Deja Vu

- Old boy
- Memento
- Crash
- Million dolar baby
- Lives of others
- Stay
- Gran torino
- Kill bill 2
- Hours
- Requiem for a dream

In no order.

im sure i forgot a lot of movies...................

Pusher 2
Amores Perros
Oldboy
Finding Nemo
Traffic
Million Dollar Baby
Revolutionary Road
The Wrestler
Walk the Line
Spirited Away

In no particular order...

The Prestige
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8 Mile
Sin City
The Dark Knight
Pirates of the Caribbean
Saw
Garden State
Crash
Coyote Ugly

No order, just great movies...

1)  Hostel
2)  Hostel 2
3)  Wolf Creek
4)  Rogue
5)  The Descent
6)  Final Destination 2
7)  Trick r' Treat
8)  Lord of the Rings trilogy
9)  Gladiator
10) Traffic

HaHa...well maybe not all top 10 titles here, but these all stuck out for me in this decade.

1 - Adaptation
2 - Mulholland Drive
3 - Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind
4 - Lost In Translation
5 - There Will Be Blood
6 - Zodiac
7 - The Wrestler
8 - Where The Wild Things Are
9 - The Squid And The Whale
10 - Children Of Men

1) Synecdoche, New York

The rest in no particluar order:

The Man Who Wasn't There  
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Amélie
Amores perros
Memento
Requiem for a Dream
Irreversible
21 Grams
Adaptation.

Plus many "Honourable mentions" to numerous to...mention.

I wanna add a pretty underrated movie to the list.

Changing Lanes

Seriously great movie. I loved it.

~Zack~

Quoted from Zack I wanna add a pretty underrated movie to the list. Changing Lanes Seriously great movie. I loved it. ~Zack~

It is. Except the ending, how nicely it all ties up. That doesn't ruin it, but it takes something so good and is like, "Oh, right. We need a happy ending. Uh..." and then they write the last ten pages.

I've revised my list. Since I posted this, I've watched a lot of new films and rewatched a lot of old ones; I think I have a much better idea of what sticks out now. I also took replay value into greater account this time around.

Still a very subjective but much more thoughtful and complete list.

In order:

1. Oldboy
2. Audition
3. Dancer in the Dark

No order:

American Psycho
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ichi the Killer
Inglourious Basterds
Martyrs
Punch Drunk Love
Thirst

Think it might really be too difficult to pick the best of a decade but I think this is as close as I can feel comfortable with for the time being.

No Country for Old Men
Amelie
The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
The lives of others
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
There will be Blood
The Devil's Backbone
Slumdog Millionaire
Pan's Labyrinth
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly


In the reserves:

Big Fish
The Departed
Let the Right One In
The Man who wasn't there
The Reader

As some have stated, the decade doesn't seem as bad as initially thought.  I am probably forgetting some, but below is my top 12 in no particular order:

Traffic
Memento
Zodiac
Requiem for a Dream
Never Sleep Again
Kill Bill Vol. 2
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Nemo
Grindhouse
No Country for Old Men
The Royal Tenenbaums
Sin City


Rob

Quoted from Dreamscale No order, just great movies... 1)  Hostel 2)  Hostel 2 3)  Wolf Creek 4)  Rogue 5)  The Descent 6)  Final Destination 2 7)  Trick r' Treat 8)  Lord of the Rings trilogy 9)  Gladiator 10) Traffic HaHa...well maybe not all top 10 titles here, but these all stuck out for me in this decade.

Lord of the Rings??? No wonder we don't get along. Can't fault your others. Gonna go scrape ketchup off my shirt with brillow pad. Case that gives you any insight to where I'm at...  

Love most movies posted. I have to add Kick Ass. It's new, and didn't get a mention. Must second Pan's Labyrinth for those sorry souls who cannot stand subtitles....

It is a fave all time.

James

My favourites, in no order as such and way more than 10...

Vanilla Sky
There Will Be Blood
Katyn
Downfall (Der Untergang)
Inglorious Basterds
Bully
Syriana
City of God
Kick Ass
Brokeback Mountain
What Just Happened (no-one else seems to like this little gem)
Changeling
American Psycho
Right at Your Door
Training Day
Collateral
Paradise Now
The Interpreter
Crash

Andrew,

Great pick with Downfall. Glad to see that show up in this thread. A long, but extremely well made film.

Rob