Top 10 this past decade.

[Willmore]

Leonard Maltin came up with one fucked up Top 10 of the decade list.

Amelie
Adaptation
City of God
Lost in Translation
Finding Nemo
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Spider-Man 2
Milk
Slumdog Millionaire
The Social Network


I know I can do better, in no particular order:

Up in the Air
Once
Deliver Us From Evil
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Lives of Others
No Country for Old Men
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Sideways
The Return
Lost in Translation

[Snacks]

I agree with

Slumdog
Sideways
Up in the Air

I will let you know about The Social Network when it comes out on DVD I believe this week. I expect to agree with that one because it looks great!

[realmenhatelife]

I havent tried to think about this, but even the movies I like on that list dont seem like top movies of the decade. Some of them are dogshit even.

[Fallon]

City of God was awesome, I almost walked out on Spiderman 2.

That guy is weird.

[Snacks]

I was looking at imdb top 200 the other day and city of god was ranked very high. but it looked like it was a foreign low budget film that was all subtitles.

What is it about and is it in subtitles or not? I can watch partial subtitles but after a while I get board, I would rather read a book then read subtitles through out an entire movie!

[Furtherman]

I was looking at imdb top 200 the other day and city of god was ranked very high. but it looked like it was a foreign low budget film that was all subtitles.

What is it about and is it in subtitles or not? I can watch partial subtitles but after a while I get board, I would rather read a book then read subtitles through out an entire movie!

You might get bored.

It's in all subtitles, but you'd be treating yourself to stick with it, because it's an amazing movie about living and surviving in the slums of Rio. Based on true events if I remember correctly.

[Willmore]

I was looking at imdb top 200 the other day and city of god was ranked very high. but it looked like it was a foreign low budget film that was all subtitles.

What is it about and is it in subtitles or not? I can watch partial subtitles but after a while I get board, I would rather read a book then read subtitles through out an entire movie!

Rio favelas. Shit gets real.

[sailor]

You might get bored.

It's in all subtitles, but you'd be treating yourself to stick with it, because it's an amazing movie about living and surviving in the slums of Rio. Based on true events if I remember correctly.

I always heard how great that movie was, but it sounds totally boaring to me.

[Furtherman]

Rio favelas. Shit gets real.

Yea, plenty of gunplay and death, if that fits your style.

If you rent the movie, be sure to see the actual documentary in the special features (or maybe extras) menu. That IS the real shit.

[Gutter]

Dark Knight
Pans Labryinth
Lord of the Rings (as a trilogy)
The Departed
Avatar (for its technical accomplishments).
Slumdog Millionaire
City of God
Wall-E
V for Vendetta
Inception

but really, the list should only include movies from 2000 until 2009 since the year 2000 isn't considered part of the 90's, but part of the 2000's. that makes this the end of the first year of the new decade.

[sailor]

Wrong, HTG.

[Furtherman]

Wrong, HTG.

I didn't see that movie, how was it?

[Melk]

Here is my list of 10 (bear in mind that I have not seen as many movies between the years 2006 to now as I watched between the years 2000-2005)

Up in the Air
Oldboy
Almost Famous
Ghost World
The Royal Tenenbaums
American Splendor
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Revolutionary Road
Munich
Good Night, and Good Luck


My honorable mentions:

The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Borat
The Wrestler
Food, Inc.
Kill Bill


Movies that are not the greatest, but many people missed:

Brotherhood of the Wolf
Human Nature
Waking Life
Equilibrium
Twilight Samurai
Whale Rider
Millions
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
I Love Huckabees
Black Dynamite
Scott Pilgrim v. The World

[Kublakhan61]

Ten
Hamlet 2
The Lives of Others
Punch Drunk Love
The Fall
Inland Empire
Invincible
I <3 Huckabees
The Presitge
Amelie
There Will Be Blood

Ten More
28 Days Later
Spirited Away
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Kill Bill (Combined 1 + 2)
The Fountain
Whale Rider
Adaptation
Waltz With Bashir
Me, You, and Everyone We Know
Il Divo

Final Ten
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Inside Man
Russian Ark
Smiley Face
Wet Hot American Summer
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Jeepers Creepers
James' Journey to Jerusalem
Synecdoche, New York
Control

[CountryBob]

Lost in Translation blows!:thumbdown:

[Willmore]

Dark Knight
Pans Labryinth
Lord of the Rings (as a trilogy)
The Departed
Avatar (for its technical accomplishments).
Slumdog Millionaire
City of God
Wall-E
V for Vendetta
Inception

but really, the list should only include movies from 2000 until 2009 since the year 2000 isn't considered part of the 90's, but part of the 2000's. that makes this the end of the first year of the new decade.

Decade is any 10 year sequence you want it to be. You can call 1995-2004 a decade if you wanted to. Now, if you want a true sequential decade, then it starts from year 1 to year 10, and goes to 2001-2010. The 90s, is not a sequential decade, but a chosen one to define years that start with 199x. The 1st millenium (which was the whole controverse in 2000) started on January 1st, year 1 and went to December 31st Year 1000. So the second millenium ended on December 31st 2000. But that has nothing to do with decades.

When 2000 hit, it was a nice round number, so it was convenient to consider it as an ending to something, the 90s, the 19 hundreds, etc. So we had the lists of the best films of the 90s, the best of the last 100 years, etc. etc.

Now that we passed the momentous occasion, we can use whatever we want as a measuring stick. The end of 2010 has as much cache for its roundness as any other year, so using it as an end to a decade seems logical enough.

I don't care. I can do another top 10 the last ten years next year, and I'm sure a couple films in my current list will not make it as I see something even better. Maybe Inception will make it next year, even though it didn't make it this year, because I felt that I didn't have the perspective this year to judge it against the films I know I love 5-10 years later.

[Willmore]

Naming more than ten, I'm looking at you, Kublai, is cheating. I fucking struggled to name just 10.

I dumped Adaptation, The Royal Tenenbaums, and a dozen other movies to make my top 10.

[Kublakhan61]

Naming more than ten, I'm looking at you, Kublai, is cheating. I fucking struggled to name just 10.

I dumped Adaptation, The Royal Tenenbaums, and a dozen other movies to make my top 10.

I know, I know! Ok if I could only take 10 of these with me into the new year, I think it would look like this:

The Lives of Others
Punch Drunk Love
Inland Empire
I <3 Huckabees
The Presitge
Waltz With Bashir
Il Divo
There Will Be Blood
The Fountain
Smiley Face