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Heres the top ten movies from 2000-2009
Warren:
10: Juno
9:Mystic River
8:American Psycho
7:Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
6:No Country For Old Men
5:The Royal Tenebaums
4:Elephant
3:Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
2:Memento
1:Synecdoche New, York

Darren:
10: There Will Be Blood
9:High Fidelity
8:Adaptation
7:The Man Who Wasn't There
6:Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
5:Memento
4:Adventureland
3:Juno
2:Mulholland Drive
1:Synecdoche New, York



Compare lists film FREAKS!

fuck i really need to see synecdoche new york sometime still

this will be tough.

post for later.. will edit this tomorrow when i have more time to think about it / sleep

I'm not trying to be pretentious, but adventureland and juno for best of the decade?

KYLESTYLE wrote:I'm not trying to be pretentious, but adventureland and juno for best of the decade?

Soundtrack was dope and come on when else does Michael Cera have a chance to play the role of George Michael?

#1 is The Hangover

honorable mentions: Forgetting Sarrah Marhsall, 40 year old virgin, Batman, Avatar

adventureland was SO bad. i always get shit for saying this cuz everyone somehow enjoyed it, but i just don't get it. kristen stewart is SO unlikeable.


anyway, my top ten (not in order)



superbad
revolutionary road
the life aquatic with steve zissou
let the right one in
punch drunk love
there will be blood
wet hot american summer

i can't think right now, i'm still in calgary and can't lurk my dvd collection. will do it when i return to the island tomorrow.

forgot about Superbad

No Country For Old Men
Dogville
The Dark Knight
Pan's Labyrinth
Kill Bill 1/2
LOTR Trilogy

can't think of anything else.

In no particular order or reason:

Noi
High Fidelity
The Lives Of Others
Man On Wire
Let The Right One In
Primer
Stevie
Hedwig and The Angry Inch
The Dark Knight
Dear Zachary

Maybe a few too many downer flicks in there, but there it is. I didn't include any Almodovar in there, but he'll always be my guy. Also, I think I could've easily placed Science Of Sleep, Where The Wild Things Are, and Being John Malkovich on this list. So many movies that meant so much to me this decade.

Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls
Mean Girls

I am in love with kristen stewart. you think she's unlikeable because you CRAZY. but yeah, I agree about disagreeing about juno and adventureland, though I liked adventureland.

so many I keep thinking of adding but they came out in 98 or 99...dammit. (pi, the matrix, lost in translation, virgin suicides, rushmore)

here's a list of movies in the 2000s that I came up with that I liked a LOT. I can't really rank them that well but closer to the top means I thought of them quicker which has to mean something. I am also aware that I may have forgotten some and that some of my picks make my taste seem unreliable when compared to other picks.

lost in translation
trapped in the closet
donnie darko
spirited away
into the wild
the go-getter
elephant
the squid and the whale
high fidelity
the science of sleep
mulholland drive
wall-e
almost famous

edit: forgot life aquatic!
edit: shit, also dude where's my car!

Rude Boy Puff wrote:

KYLESTYLE wrote:I'm not trying to be pretentious, but adventureland and juno for best of the decade?

Soundtrack was dope and come on when else does Michael Cera have a chance to play the role of George Michael?

Every role he's ever played? He plays the role exquisitely though.

KYLESTYLE wrote:I'm not trying to be pretentious, but adventureland and juno for best of the decade?

If Juno isn't on yourlist for top 10 of the decade it isn't a good list. It was a comedy that wasn't all like "bro lets get laid and drink or something dude" and the soundtrack was rad and Ellen Page is awesome. But as for Adventureland that was a personal choice as I personally just really connected with the film.

-Darren

officespace wrote:

KYLESTYLE wrote:I'm not trying to be pretentious, but adventureland and juno for best of the decade?

If Juno isn't on yourlist for top 10 of the decade it isn't a good list. It was a comedy that wasn't all like "bro lets get laid and drink or something dude" and the soundtrack was rad and Ellen Page is hella super duper. But as for Adventureland that was a personal choice as I personally just really connected with the film.

-Darren

meh i liked juno and all. it was cool to see it become pretty well known and not be the typical laid and drink or something dude stuff. Put top 10 of the decade. or well saying it isn't a good list without it... i don't know
I felt ellen page was better in Mouth to Mouth and Tracey Fragements for films in the last decade. Maybe even Hard Candy (but i haven't seen it)


Okay going to make a list of ten movies.
this will be hard.

Dear Wendy
Squid and the Whale.
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Lost In Translation
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Punch Drunk Love
let the right one in
there will be blood
me you and everyone we know
Wendy and Lucy


Ones i enjoyed yet couldn't make the cut. Most of them could be interchangeable with the ones above

high fidelity
science of sleep
elephant
donnie darko
tokyo sonata
tracey fragments
primer
dogville & manderlay
match point
waking life
i <3 huckabees
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rules of Attraction
Broken Flowers
Igby Goes Down
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

edit: forgetting about some of course

TF was brilliant but had nothing on Juno. Good call on Let The Right One in movie was totally killer best movie I saw at VIFF that year

Juno was too indie cutesy to be top of any list.

recipe for a cutesy indie hit:
-pay someone lots of money to make a hand drawn title
-michael cera or someone equivalent (like the dude from the office)
-soundtrack full of "classic" "underground" bands or "indie" bands that happen to be on or distributed by major labels
-attempts to seem like the budget isn't in the millions even though it is
-linear storyline akin to a drawn out sitcom
-references to some forgotten aspect of 80's or 90's pop culture
-"awkwardness"

and thanks troy, I forgot about rules of attraction, that bumps out a shitload of my picks. you know I love that movie.

dalamar501 wrote: Dear Wendy
Squid and the Whale.
Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Lost In Translation
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Punch Drunk Love
let the right one in
there will be blood
me you and everyone we know
Wendy and Lucy

Ones i enjoyed yet couldn't make the cut. Most of them could be interchangeable with the ones above

high fidelity
science of sleep
elephant
donnie darko
tokyo sonata
tracey fragments
primer
dogville & manderlay
match point
waking life
i <3 huckabees
The Royal Tenenbaums
Rules of Attraction
Broken Flowers
Igby Goes Down
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

Huge fan of Punch Drunk Love. I'd probably bump out Stevie to put it in mine, now that I'm thinking of it. PT Anderson will always have my heart. Wrapped up in a plotline of deception and morality. ilu pt.

In no real order

Almost Famous
Burn After Reading
Darjeeling Limited
The Departed
Mystic River
No Country For Old Men
Star Trek
Zombieland
Where The Wild Things Are
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

Mikey wrote: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

I owned this then it was fucking STOLEN from me by crackheads