Favorite Films of the Decade

Zak Forsman

Zak Forsman

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They say a person's top ten list is like a window into their soul. Okay, maybe not but let's see those lists anyway!

20. Medicine for Melancholy (2008)
19. Cafe Lumiere (2003)
18. A Mighty Wind (2003)
17. The New Year Parade (2008)
16. Deep Water (2006)
15. Millennium Mambo (2001)
14. Y tu mamá también (2001)
13. Gerry (2002)
12. Before Sunset (2004)
11. George Washington (2000)
10. All The Real Girls (2003)
9. Lost in Translation (2003)
8. Elephant (2003)
7. Half-Nelson (2006)
6. Raising Victor Vargas (2002)
5. Uzak (2002)
4. Old Joy (2006)
3. Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
2. Lilja 4-ever (2002)
1. The Son (2002)

some honorable mentions
Morvern Callar (2002), Children of Men (2006), In the Mood For Love (2000), 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), All or Nothing (2002), The Wrestler (2008), Code 46 (2003), The King of Kong (2007), Wendy and Lucy (2008), Punch Drunk Love (2002), There Will Be Blood (2007), Three Times (2005), Vera Drake (2004), 24 Hour Party People (2002), Four Eyed Monsters (2006), The Girlfriend Experience (2009), The Child (2005), Silence of Lorna (2008)
 
In no particular order:

Yi Yi - (2000, Edward Yang)
Mulholland Dr. - (2001, David Lynch)
Slumdog Millionaire - (2008, Danny Boyle)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michael Gondry)
In the Mood for Love - (2000, Kar Wai Wong)
Memento - (2000, Christopher Nolan)
Adaptation - (2002, Spike Jonze)
Gosford Park - (2001, Robert Altman)
Oldboy - (2003, Chan-wook Park)
Kill Bill Vol. 1&2 - (2003, 2004, Quentin Tarantino)
The Wrestler - (2008, Darren Aronofsky)
Requiem for a Dream - (2000, Darren Aronofsky)
Amores Perros - (2000, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)
Spirited Away – (Miyazaki 2001)
The Lives of Others (2006 von Donnersmarck
A Serious Man (2009, Ethan & Joel Coen)
Snatch (2000, Guy Ritchie)
Triplets of Bellville (2003 – Sylvain Chomet)
Man on Wire (2008, James Marsh)
Almost Famous - (2000, Cameron Crowe)
No Country for Old Men - (2007, Ethan & Joel Coen)
 
The only ones that come to mind not mentioned are:

The American Astronaut (2001 Cory McAbee)
Lars and The Real Girl (2007 Craig Gillespie)
National Treasure (yes, I friggin loved it)
In The Realms of the Unreal (2004 Jessica Yu)
Do it For Johnny (2007 Haylar Garcia)
Charlie Wilson's War (Mke Nichols 2007)

EDIT: Shaun of the Dead

I'm sure there are more...but I'm supposed to be editing...
 
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My top ten (in alphabetical order):

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Babel
Children of Men
Dark Days
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
House of Sand and Fog
Lars and the Real Girl
Little Miss Sunshine
Memento
Million Dollar Baby
 
1) Match Point, 2005
2) That Evening Sun, 2009
3) A Nyomozó (The Investigator), 2008
4) Dig!, 2004
5) Mulholland Drive, 2001
6) Rachel Getting Married, 2008
7) The Lives of Others, 2006
8) Birth, 2004
9) Walk on Water, 2004
10) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004
11) Elegy, 2008
12) 25th Hour, 2002
13) Babel, 2006
14) Capturing the Friedmans, 2003
15) Sideways, 2004
16) Memento, 2000
17) City of God, 2002
18) Lost in Translation, 2003
19) The Fog of War, 2003
20) The Proposition, 2005
 
My twenty favorite (which does not necessarily mean "best")…

20. "Iraq In Fragments"
19. "Last King of Scotland"
18. "Man on Wire"
17. "Little Miss Sunshine"
16. "Up"
15. "Almost Famous"
14. "Million Dollar Baby"
13. "Pan's Labyrinth"
12. "The Hangover"
11. "Amelie"
10. "Hidden (Caché)"
9. "The Dark Knight"
8. "Let the Right One In"
7. "Lost In Translation"
6. "There Will Be Blood"
5. "Slumdog Millionaire"
4. "No Country For Old Men"
3. "Big Fish"
2. "Memento"

and…

(tie) 1. "City of God"
(tie) 1. "Transylmania"
 
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There Will Be Blood
Ghost World
The Royal Tenenbaums
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
The Squid And The Whale
Pan's Labyrinth
City Of God
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
The Wrestler
Children of Men
No Country For Old Men
Punch-Drunk Love
The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Before Sunset
Synecdoche, New York
The Science Of Sleep
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Virgin Suicides
Almost Famous
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou
Adventureland
Mutual Appreciation
Thumbsucker
Adaptation
Noi
Junebug
Once
Requiem For A Dream
Shaun Of The Dead
George Washington

I thought this was a pretty good decade in film.
 
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1. Amelie
2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
3. Me and You and Everyone We Know
4. Vanilla Sky
5. City of God
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. The Royal Tenenbaums
8. Requiem for a Dream
9. Sin City
10. Dancer in the Dark
11. Ghost World
12. The Rules of Attraction
13. Storytelling
14. Before Sunset
15. Thank You for Smoking
16. A.I.
17. Death Proof
18. A Scanner Darkly
19. District 9
20. Wet Hot American Summer
 
I'm not even gonna bother trying to rank these...

Juno
Road to Perdition
Crash
Children of Men
Star Trek
No Country For Old Men
Fellowship of the Ring
Return of the King
The Two Towers
Minority Report
District 9
Gladiator
Bourne Trilogy
Every Pixar Movie, lol.
The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
 
13 seconds

this movie is epically horrible on so many levels. even though it wasn't a comedy, i laughed harder at this movie than i have at anything in the history of cinema.

i'm glad this thread came up, because i seriously need to buy this movie. :beer:
 
No order here.

Old Boy
The Host
Requiem for a dream
Lock, stock and two smoking barrels
City of God
Best in Show
O' Brother, Where art thou?
American Beauty
Shaun of the Dead
Let The Right One In
Memento
No Country for old Men
The Bourne films
Return of the King
Children of Men
Star Trek
District 9
7 Pounds (yeah I know)
Little Miss Sunshine
The Dark Knight
The Incredibles
Finding Nemo
Slumdog Millionaire
The Hangover
 
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So many good ones... In no particular order:
Shrek
LOTR
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Dr Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog
Serenity
Dark Knight
District 9
Trpoic Thunder
Bourne Trilogy
The Departed
Pan's Labyrinth
Gladiator
American Psycho
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Snatch
Unbreakable
Donnie Darko
Ocean's 11
Death to Smoochy
Hero
Signs
Intolerable Cruelty
Kill Bill Vol 1&2
Inglourious Basterds
Layer Cake
Lucky Number Slevin
300
 
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I watch mostly comedies, so my list is a lot different than everyone elses. Some films I really enjoyed over the last 10 years are..

Tropic Thunder
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Big Stan
Stepbrothers
Alfie
Stranger than Fiction


As far as dramas, I think Crash, Big Fish and Pan's Labyrinth are amazing movies.

If we are counting 1999..add in the Matrix and Fight Club.
 
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