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[Gabe Vieira]

Well, seeing how there's only 4 months left in the year (wow!) this could also be called top 10 films of the past 10 years. Call it what you want, it's the same objective either way. Here's mine.

1) The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2) Little Children
3) Michael Clayton
4) There Will Be Blood
5) Milk
6) Brokeback Mountain
7) Little Miss Sunshine
8) The Wrestler
9) Crash
10) In The Bedroom

[DaveBond21]

I find it easier to list my top 10 films of the 1970's, although it's harder to decide which to include. I have't been impressed with this decade as much, but I have been rather busy doing outdoors things and travelling to have the time to watch as many movies as I used to in the past. So I have seen the Departed, the first Lord of the Rings movie, Batman Begins, Donnie Darko and the Reader but they don't get on my list. Here it is:-


Mulholland Dr.

The Pianist

The Butterfly Effect (Director's Cut)

What Lies Beneath

The Ring

Grudge

Dark Water (original Japanese)

Casino Royale

American Pie II

Bridget Jones' Diary

[Harmsway]

I do believe we've done this before, but it's definitely time for an update. It was actually quite a painful selection, since there are a great many films I like from this decade, so much so that I was tempted to go with a top 20 (or even a top 15). But after some deliberation, here's my "Cream of the Crop" top 10 of the 00s:

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

GOSFORD PARK

MAN ON WIRE

MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD

PAN'S LABYRINTH

RUSSIAN ARK

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

TOKYO GODFATHERS

[DaveBond21]

I do believe we've done this before, but it's definitely time for an update. It was actually quite a painful selection, since there are a great many films I like from this decade, so much so that I was tempted to go with a top 20 (or even a top 15). But after some deliberation, here's my "Cream of the Crop" top 10 of the 00s:

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD

ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

GOSFORD PARK

MAN ON WIRE

MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD

PAN'S LABYRINTH

RUSSIAN ARK

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET

THERE WILL BE BLOOD

TOKYO GODFATHERS

Well, the only one out of these that I have seen is Master & Commander (nice to hear you like it, Ridley Scott being from the same part of northern England as I originate from, although, like him, I've moved to warmer climes).

I always respect your choices, Harmy, and so I guess you urge me to watch the others in your list, so as we speak, I'm noting them down and will try to get onto them as soon as possible.

[Harmsway]

Well, the only one out of these that I have seen is Master & Commander (nice to hear you like it, Ridley Scott being from the same part of northern England as I originate from, although, like him, I've moved to warmer climes).

I wasn't aware Ridley Scott had anything to do with MASTER AND COMMANDER (were referring to Russell Crowe, or confusing Scott with director Peter Weir?). Mighty excellent film, though. Practically perfect, and perhaps the best ever produced in its genre. Very unappreciated thought.

I always respect your choices, Harmy, and so I guess you urge me to watch the others in your list, so as we speak, I'm noting them down and will try to get onto them as soon as possible.

I hope you find them interesting and worthwhile, even if you're not bowled over by them. Obviously, I think the world of them. And if you're put off by one, still check out the others. They're all quite different from one another.

[Loomis]

Ah, the twenty-first century. So few years so far, so many good films. Tough to make a definitive list, but here are my current picks for the top ten:

ABOUT SCHMIDT

ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU

EUREKA

FAHRENHEIT 9/11

KENNY

LOST IN TRANSLATION

NOBODY KNOWS

SIDEWAYS

STILL LIFE

2046

As for the best of that particular bunch, the daddy of 'em all, the capo di tutti capi, it'd have to be between:

EUREKA

and

NOBODY KNOWS

[HildebrandRarity]

Is this a thread mainly about high-minded, intellectual art house films or can we list fluff too?

[Loomis]

It's for citing your top ten films of the century so far, be they "art" or "fluff" or whatever. Your choices and your choices alone.

(BORAT almost made my list, and that's hardly highbrow or obscure fare.)

[HildebrandRarity]

Ok. I will list the movies which I saw at the theatre multiple times (in some cases up to seven times) during release.

Gladiator

The Bourne Identity

LORT: The Return Of The King

Die Another Day (I saw it 6 times, so it makes my list)

Revenge Of The Sith (I like it!)

Batman Begins

Casino Royale

The Dark Knight

Quantum Of Solace


Call me shallow and provicial and a peasant! But there it is. That's 9...but those are my 9 top movies so far...and I believe in chronological order if memory serves. The decade's not over yet.


EDIT -

Completing my top 10:

http://debrief.comma...p...t&p=1047269

[Tarl_Cabot]

The best(films I love the most and will revisit) in order of release:

Black Hawk Down

LOTR(as a whole)

City of God

Kill Bill (I & II as a whole)

The Bourne Supremacy

Casino Royale

Apocalypto

The Bourne Ultimatum

The Dark Knight

Quantum of Solace

*I'm thinking District 9 could be a winner...

[Judo chop]

This is off the top de la cabeza. I’m sure I’m forgetting some. If I am, the final three marked* will be the first to be replaced.

PAN’S LABYRINTH
LOTR (three in one)
PASSION OF THE CHRIST (ditto)
ROCKY BALBOA
CASINO ROYALE
OPEN RANGE
BOURNE SUPREMACY
APOCALYPTO*
CHOCOLAT*
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN*

(ps. MASTER AND COMMANDER, Harms? Really? Heaven’s to Betsy. I wouldn’t have imagined in a million years…)

[Loomis]

(ps. MASTER AND COMMANDER, Harms? Really? Heaven’s to Betsy. I wouldn’t have imagined in a million years…)

I'm surprised that the Harmsmeister rates MAN ON WIRE and TOKYO GODFATHERS so highly.

[Tarl_Cabot]

The worst of the decade in order of release:

MI2

Any Given Sunday

Tomb Raider

Die Another Day

Star Wars: Attack of the clones

Minority Report

The Lady in the Water

Talledega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Transformers


Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

[Judo chop]

I'm surprised that the Harmsmeister rates MAN ON WIRE and TOKYO GODFATHERS so highly.

I might be surprised too if I had seen either.

I haven't seen GOSFORD PARK either, but I've heard a few good peeps about it, so I'm looking that one up now...

[Safari Suit]

I have a strict "no Bonds" policy when it comes to these things. Not because they'll be included, but becasue they'd be too tempting to use as a safety net

About Schmidt
Adaptation
Club Dread
Coraline
Dogville
Equilibrium
Public Enemies
Rocky Balboa
Shaun of the Dead
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

I looked through the Box Office stats for this decade on Box Office Mojo. Cripes, the first couple of years of this decade were pretty shoddy for mainstream filmmaking weren't they?

[Loomis]

I'm surprised that the Harmsmeister rates MAN ON WIRE and TOKYO GODFATHERS so highly.

I might be surprised too if I had seen either.

Both are worth watching, although I find the former vastly overrated. I'd hardly count them as great films, though, never mind among the best of the decade.

[coco1997]

01. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
02. The Dark Knight
03. Catch Me If You Can
04. Gladiator
05. War of the Worlds
06. No Country For Old Men
07. Click
08. The Incredibles
09. Casino Royale
10. Borat

[Harmsway]

(ps. MASTER AND COMMANDER, Harms? Really? Heaven’s to Betsy. I wouldn’t have imagined in a million years…)

Why so shocked?

I'm surprised that the Harmsmeister rates MAN ON WIRE and TOKYO GODFATHERS so highly.

I might be surprised too if I had seen either.

They are not necessarily "for sure" choices in the way that some of the other entries are, but I found myself liking those more than some of the other choices I had in my much longer 20 film list (some of the runners-up: AMELIE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BURN AFTER READING, THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE, MOULIN ROUGE!, THE PIANIST, THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI, ZODIAC). For now, though, I think they deserve their position.

Frankly, I'm a little baffled that Loomis thinks so highly of FAHRENHEIT 9/11.

I haven't seen GOSFORD PARK either, but I've heard a few good peeps about it, so I'm looking that one up now...

It's quite good. But it's a grower, so don't expect it to smash you over the head with its excellence the first time 'round.

[Loomis]

Frankly, I'm a little baffled that Loomis thinks so highly of FAHRENHEIT 9/11.

Well, I'll make a confession: I was trying to round off the list. I actually found it tough to come up with ten truly great films. There are plenty of flicks to have emerged this decade that I've enjoyed and/or truly admired, but what I was attempting to do here was cite only those that I would consider genuinely great. Picking five or six was easy, but after that.... well, to be honest, only just over a handful of 21st century films have really smacked me about the head with their utter genius.

I mean, yer BOURNE ULTIMATUMs, yer CASINO ROYALEs, yer DARK KNIGHTs, yer ROCKY BALBOAS.... love 'em to bits as I do, I'd never include them in the ranks of true greatness. They're not films that really get under your skin or inform the way you view the world. At the risk of seeming impossibly pretentious, they're not Important™ films (although I do, purely for entertainment's sake, turn to them much more often than I turn to the Important™ fare, for which I have to be "in the mood").

That said, FAHRENHEIT did make a deep impression me. Nothing to do with politics, and I certainly don't swallow whole Moore's film as The Truth™. But I do find it moving, thought-provoking, and, above all else, spectacularly well-made stuff. And its originality and unprecedented mainstream success cannot be denied.

[jaguar007]

1. Casino Royale
then comes the rest

[jrcjohnny99]

no order...

Almost Famouos

Mystic River

The Departed

Syriana

Munich

The Prestige

Pan's Labyrinth

Lost In Translation

Crash

Atonement

[tdalton]

I'll list my current top 10 of the first decade of the new millennium, but I reserve the right to go back and add one of the few films I have left to see to the list should they warrant a spot.

INTO THE WILD

TRAFFIC

ZODIAC

CORALINE

FIERCE PEOPLE

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST

MYSTIC RIVER

NICK & NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST

THE GIRL NEXT DOOR*

Aside from INTO THE WILD, which was my absolute favorite film of the decade (and one of my all-time favorite films, period) and sits at the top of the list for a reason, the list is not in any order.

*These are the two films I reserve the right to replace with other films I haven't seen yet. If ADVENTURELAND is better than THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, it's going on the list, and there are a few dramas I have yet to see that could replace I AM SAM.

Edited by tdalton, 16 August 2009 - 07:38 PM.

[Tarl_Cabot]

http://www.latinorev...ody-affair-7677

Kill Bill:The whole bloody affair is on the way afterall.

[Harmsway]

http://www.latinorev...ody-affair-7677

Kill Bill:The whole bloody affair is on the way afterall.

That's not quite news. Tarantino dropped almost identical comments a number of months ago, and as far as we can tell, there's still no real progress. (And really, does KILL BILL really need more backstory on O-Ren?)

[Tarl_Cabot]

http://www.latinorev...ody-affair-7677

Kill Bill:The whole bloody affair is on the way afterall.

That's not quite news. Tarantino dropped almost identical comments a number of months ago, and as far as we can tell, there's still no real progress. (And really, does KILL BILL really need more backstory on O-Ren?)

No, it doesn't. I also think the end of part I works beautifully becuase of the cliffhanger element...it will be interesting to see how it pays off with a simple cut to "next chapter".

[Mr. Blofeld]

Casino Royale
The Hurt Locker
Brokeback Mountain
In Bruges
Children of Men
Quantum of Solace
Oldboy
La Moustache
No Country for Old Men
The Dark Knight

[jrcjohnny99]

http://www.latinorev...ody-affair-7677

Kill Bill:The whole bloody affair is on the way afterall.

That's not quite news. Tarantino dropped almost identical comments a number of months ago, and as far as we can tell, there's still no real progress. (And really, does KILL BILL really need more backstory on O-Ren?)

This was originally announced back in 2007 and we've been in a holding pattern ever since..quite frustrating..

[The Richmond Spy]

Not sure these are the best, but these are my favorites:

1) Casino Royale
2) The Bourne Identity
3) A Beautiful Mind
4) The Good Shepherd
5) The Bourne Supremacy
6) The Sum of All Fears
7) Old School
8) Cast Away
9) Quantum of Solace
10) Die Another Day

Hopefully I'm not forgetting any!

[HildebrandRarity]

I note Quantum Of Solace in quite a few lists!

Why not, eh? Great acting by some Titants of the business, great cinematography, great music, five months of On Location shooting, a bonafide Blockbuster, leaving you breathless. Immense value for money.

Fabulous!

[Aris007]

• Catch Me If You Can
• Star Wars: Revenge Of The Sith
• Star Wars: Attack Of The Clones
• Casino Royale
• The Day After Tomorrow
• The Bourne Identity
• Lost In Translation
• Ocean's 13
• Signs
• Downfall