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'Shaun of the Dead'
'Donnie Darko'
'Lars and the Real Girl'
'Doubt'

Those are just a few I could think of from the top of my head. No particular order.

I'd probably go with No Country for Old Men, at least, off the top of my head. It is weird to remember that we're almost at the end of a decade.

Dude!
and since many of you have been on a date.

I had been successfully blocking that out of my memory.
Thanks a fuckin' lot...

...

GoRAMMIT! I'm outta fuckin' bullets, too...

...and I picked the wrong month to quit I.V. opiates... D'OH!!

MirrorMask and Requiem for a Dream are definitely up there for me. As is Brokeback, though it may be a bit of a cliche to say it.

Hm. I'll have to get back to you with two more....

Let the right one in ( which I thought was the best in 2008)
Iron Man
The Descent
The Dark Knight
28 Days later
That is off the top of my head.

Ah fuck, thanks Jay

*cuts Finding Nemo, replaces with 'Eternal Sunshine'*

... fuck, Life Aquatic. fuckStranger than Fiction....

Life Aquatic was by no means a perfect movie but it had some unbearably exquisite scenes. and Stranger than Fiction... dammit I'm going to need a bigger list.

Y Tu Mama Tambien
Donnie Darko
Slumdog Millionaire

oh, yes. and Eternal Sunshine... and a toss up between Grindhouse (both movies, since that's how I saw it) and Donnie Darko. And possibly Saved!.

In no particular order -

1) Serenity
2) Finding Nemo
3) Stardust
4) The Dark Knight
5) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Finding Neverland and Shaun of the Dead are ready to step in should any of the other winners be unable to carry out their duties...

The Lives of Others

(They don't have to be American, do they?)

I can't believe nobody has mentioned "Big Butt Sluts Go Nuts" yet.

Cinematography was better on Airtight Grannies 4.

Wall E (yeah piss off)
The Dark Knight
V for Vendetta
Cinderella Man (even with squinty)
Fearless
Hero
The Wedding Crashers (except the last half hour)
Gladiator
The Wackness
No Country for Old Men
Monsters Inc.

What.....five?

Fuck off.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD!!

I'm gonna go dark horse with a couple of these and pick ones that stuck with me at the time:

Virgin Suicides
Punch Drunk Love
The Royal Tenenbaums
Garden State (SUCK IT, it was great, and no amount of post-hipster-haterade will take that away from me)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Traffic
Big Fish
Finding Neverland
The Prestige

and of course the more obvious choices of Eternal Sunshine, anything Pixar, Iron Man and the Batman reboot.

These maybe wouldn't be Oscar's best picks, but they are the ones that lingered with me after I left the theater, and that's usually the best praise I can give a film.

5) Oldboy(2003)
3) Elephant (2003)
3) In the mood for love (2000)
2) Let the right one in(2008)
1) Brokeback Mountain (2005)

You mean "the Aughts, so far," right?

I mean, only because many would put the "Watchmen" film in there, if "they" do it the proper justice, right?

My choices (though, I doubt there is much love for 3/5 of my list, here).

Shaun of the Dead
LotR: Fellowship of the Ring
LotR: The Two Towers
LotR: The Return of the King
Serenity

1) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2) Amelie
3) The Royal Tenenbaums
4) Lost in Translation
5) Shaun of the Dead

Rocket Science
Traffic
Hot Fuzz
Thank You for Smoking
The Incredibles
Stranger Than Fiction
Anchorman-- it's the funniest of the aughts

Motherfucker, with the Almost Famous and the Big Fish! Five is too hard.

My vote goes to the director's cut of Almost Famous, though.

Little Miss Sunshine
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Royal Tenenbaums
Love Actually
Bend it Like Beckham.

Wait a godamn second. There's a whole other year to finish before the decade is over, and we're already discussing the best films of the decade? That's just counter-intuitive. This piece would be much more appropriate in a few months. That's my opinion.

There is just way too many for a top 5. There has been a ton of crap but there have also been some great ones. Eternal Sunshine, The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 2, X-Men 2, Stardust, Shaun of the Dead, Bubba-Ho Tep, Pan's Labyrinth, The Fountain, The Royal Tenenbaums, Finding Nemo, The Prisoner of Azkaban, Casino Royale, The 40 Year Old Virgin, The Constant Gardener, The Devil's Rejects (yeah I said it),etc.

This is going to be a HELL of a smackdown when the 10 are revealed this year. Should make the back lash on the Best TV of All Time look tiny in comparison.

Shaun of the Dead and Eternal Sunshine are at the very top, with some amalgamation of other ones already mentioned (Big Fish, Serenity, Stranger Than Fiction, Stardust, No Country for Old Men) following and perhaps Little Children and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang thrown in somewhere.

Way, way too hard. I can't do an order so I'll just list some favorites.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Amelie
The Dark Knight
Gladiator
Knocked Up
Garden State
Spirited Away
Lost in Translation
Snatch
Shaun of the Dead
Unbreakable (shut up, I love this movie)

In determining "best" movies, I'll have to go stick with those movies that I've watched more than three times because I love them so. So while I think Brokeback was great, I don't re-watch on a regular basis. That said:

- Amelie
- The Fountain
- LOTR (since it was all filmed at once, I feel it should be judged as one film)
- The Hours
- Love Actually

There, I said it, "The Hours." Take that, haters.

In no particular order....

Crouching Tiger
Pulp Fiction
Eastern Promises
There Will Be Blood
28 Days Later

-Some of the above, though not all, are on my all time fave list- IMO all of these movies were revolutionary/groundbreaking for one thing or another (effects, editing, story, cinematography etc)

I'm not going to go with my favorites and instead list what I think will probably endure as the most significant films of the Aughts, in no particular order:

-- Children of Men: All hand-held, non-American, sci-fi morality tale.

-- Pan's Labyrinth: Spanish-language, hyper-violent, adult fairy tale that does wonders for the power of fantasy in film. Del Toro's career gets a much-deserved boost, and the style's already seen some posers.

-- Finding Nemo: Established Pixar as a box-office juggernaut and is still their highest grossing film. As such, it also showed the movie studios that a CG children's movie can be more than just bright colors (although it had plenty of that) and still make big bucks.

-- No Country for Old Men: Gritty, violent, nihilistic. Redefined what an action movie could be while lifting the Coen Brother's out of their slump and giving them the most exposure of their careers, which will hopefully continue to flourish for a long time.

-- Knocked Up: I thought about putting Forty Year-Old Virgin here, but I think Knocked Up gained a lot more clout, along with a wider audience, and really proved that R comedies can be both heartfelt and successful. Again, it hasn't even been two years and there have already been plenty of imitators, mostly from Apatow himself (hey-oh!).

A worst-of list for this decade is just a sad, sad joke.

No, I believe 2000 counts, being an aught year after all.

Am I right though, Dustin?

But isn't "Girl In The Cafe" a TV movie? Is there a rule about those (Not that I want to throw Kelly MacDonald out of anything, except her ludicrous marriage to......Dougie).

Well I'll be damned, Snath, Snatch came out in 2000... That's it. Cut everything from my list and replace it with that.

And actually, I've only really gone on actual "dates" within the last ten years.

They're rubbish.

Juno (suck it, haters)
Garden State (same deal)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Adaptation
American Splendor

1. Amelie
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Almost Famous
4. Stranger Than Fiction
5. The Spongebob Squarepants Movie. seriously.

AHHHH Cidade de Deus! That will bump Stranger Than Fiction. Even though Maggie Gyllenhaal looks damn sexy with all those tats.

Shaun of the Dead
Finding Nemo
The Royal Tenenbaums
Anchorman
Love Actually

Ah, phaedawg beat me to it.

In no order:

Eternal Sunshine
The Royal Tenenbaums
28 Days Later
High Fidelity

The fifth is still open...

I also happen to love The Spongebob Squarepants Movie, so don't feel bad.

I'm sorry, but I love the extended version of the Lord of the Rings movies (except for leaving out the scouring of the shire). Peter Jackson captured exactly what was in my head when I read the book (except for the fact that Frodo is supposed to be 50, but I like Elijah Wood, so I'll let it pass).

I thoroughly enjoyed Mama Mia!... Bought the cd, bought the karaoke game, bought the limited edition box-set, bought the posters, bought a copy of the script, bought the board game, bought the Scene-It! edition, bought the Happy Meal toys, bought the commemorative plate, bought the pewter Christmas ornaments, bought the playset, bought the action figures, bought Meryl Streep's underwear, bought a swatch of Amanda Seyfried's hair, had a key-grip get me some of Brosnan's pubes, bought a bottle of rotgut hooch, bought a shotgun and I'm watching it on an endless loop as soon as I finish this sentence...

In no particular order:

- 21 grams

- The Station Agent

- Amores Perros

- Serenity

- What the *&^$ Do We Know?

- 28 Days Later

- and the Bourne Trilogy (3 for?)

The Dark Knight
Slumdog Millionaire
Milk
Wall*E
Little Miss Sunshine
Iron Man

Can you please stop the damn pop-up ads?

Oh shit, High Fidelity came out in the last decade? I thought it was 1998/1999? My bad, add it to my list.

Me likey these five, in order:

1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Once
3. Before Sunset (whatever, shut up -- great ending)
4. Best In Show
5. In Bruges

Honorable mentions: Sideways, Little Children (the book was better), Bowling for Columbine

Hmm, late to the game.

No particular order:

Brokeback Mountain

Stranger than Fiction

Little Children

Love Actually

You Can Count On Me

I don't believe that Brokeback could have been made, nor viewed, as well as it was in this decade. It may be the most beautiful love story I've ever seen on film.

Children of Men
Snatch
In Bruges
Wedding Crashers
Bourne Identity

My votes would go to:

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Children of Men
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. WALL•E
5. Dancer in the Dark

But I think a different and more interesting list is what films from this decade do you think will be considered classics thirty years from now?

5. In Bruges, LOTR: The Two Towers, The Host (three way tie because I already had enough trouble getting it down to 7)
4. Hot Fuzz
3. Dark Knight
2. Prestige
1. Cidade de Deus

In order:

1. Finding Nemo
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. The Dark Knight
4. Spirited Away
5. 28 Days Later

I was going to add one of the LOTR movies, but I couldn't budge any of the ones on my list. I think each of those was a wonder of their genre and completely original, memorable and will surely remain classics for a very, very long time.

T-Bone>> Don't feel like you need to defend Before Sunset. Great film!

FUCK. I forgot about Pan's Labyrinth. I think I've still got too much of hard-on for Dark Knight, so I'm not sure how it'll hold up in years to come. But I'll keep it in there for now.

In Bruges: (just, wow)

Napoleon Dynamite: (if you never, ever, ever, quoted this movie then feel free to bitch about this as a nomination (however if this is the case something is just plain wrong with you (Tina, you fat lard, come get some DINNER!)))

Layer Cake: (daniel craig at his best)

City of God: (I want my nickname to be Rocket. and this movie is TITS...)

L'Auberge Espagnole and The Russian Dolls: (Counts as one movie. Love them both to pieces)

you know, I never did quote Napoleon Dynamite and I didn't even hate it... I did really dislike this guy in my dorm that quoted it nonstop... before the movie even hit theaters.

Pan's Labyrinth, Spirited Away, The Dark Knight, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and the entire LoTR Trilogy. I don't care what anyone says. I love LoTR. I would hapilly pay to see Ian McKellan kick ass any day!...la la la la la la la I'm NOT listening!!!!

I've never seen "Napoleon Dynamite", plus the filmmakers deny that they stole the name from Elvis Costello. Hosers!

The Departed
Finding Neverland
Seabiscuit
Milk
The Incredibles

Ooh! I can't resist a top five. So I'm going to say:

There Will Be Blood
In The Mood For Love
Bad Education
The Son's Room
Far From Heaven

Runners-up: Mysterious Skin, Punch Drunk Love, Hidden, Kings and Queen, You Can Count On Me.

The Squid and the Whale

Walk The Line springs to mind

1. Letters from Iwo Jima
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. The Lost City
4. Joyeux Noel
5. The Lives of Others

There Will Be Blood
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Mulholland Drive
The Pianist
Pan's Labyrinth

The 20 best of the decade I've seen:

20. Dawn of the Dead (It was just fun, too bad about it being a remake.)
19. Frost/Nixon
18. Revenge of the Sith
17. Milk
16. Slumdog Millionaire
15. No Country for Old Men
14. The Incredibles
13. Coraline
12. Knocked Up
11. Dodgeball
10. The Two Towers
9. Superbad
8. Toy Story 2
7. Persepolis
6. The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Wall-E
4. Iron Man
3. The Return of the King
2. Finding Nemo
1. The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight is the best film I've seen in theaters in my 16 year existence. It will go down as the best superhero movie ever, and regardless of what my Dad says, it deserved a best picture nomination.

And now, the fun part, the worst of the decade, but not counting direct to DVD films:

20. Spy Kids 3D: Game Over
19. The Love Guru
18. Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer
17. Napoleon Dynamite
16. Ballistic: Eks vs. Sever
15. Balls of Fury
14. Pokemon: The Movie 2000
13. Home on the Range
12. Delta Farce
11. Ghost Rider
10. Norbit
9. Daddy Day Camp
8. Scary Movie
7. Date Movie
6. Meet the Spartans
5. Superhero Movie
4. Little Man
3. Deuce Bigallow: European Gigolo
2. The Heartbreak Kid
1. Epic Movie

Epic Movie, oh Lord do I hate that film. It's the worst film of all time. It's completely devoid of any merit, as is every film on the list. But Epic Movie was so painful, it transcended reality. Jeremy C. Fox's review on this site of that abomination was a thing of beauty. I highly suggest you read it. In fact, the worst thing about this site is that Epic Movie was robbed of it's number 1 spot as the worst film of 2007. It's the Mind of Mencia of movies, so painful and terrible, it causes puppies to go on killing sprees. It should be thrown into the Amy Winehouse face crag Dustin mentioned in his famous Superhero Movie review. Seriously, who the hell watches this shit!

Motherfucking cocksucking whore! Fuck the universe!

On a positive note, go read my best of the 2000's again, and feel better that some gems came out this decade. I'd be happy to guest review some of these if you guys will let me. Just comment if you want some, and I'll send them to you via e-mail.

i see the dark knight mentioned way too much. completely mediocre film buoyed by a spectacular performance.

best
eternal sunshine
stranger than fiction
lotr
hot fuzz
royal tenebaums
memento

WORST
indiana jones and the crystal shit
sideways
supersize me

1. Anchorman.
2. The Dark Knight.
3. Jersey Girl. Fuck you.
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? They cast a bunch of people I knew growing up in Mississippi, so I have to claim this one.
5. An Evening With Kevin Smith. Yes, it counts.

This is just making me feel old and confused. I'm looking at a lot of these titles and thinking they HAVE to be older than the aughts, they have to be from the 90s. But they're not!

The 90s are a big blur to me, anyway. A big blur of getting married, graduating college, starting a career, then having a baby. In about a week. Then no sleep forever. Moving. Career changes. I don't even know what the hell was going on in the 90s, except apparently everyone was getting rich except me.

Then the first half of the aughts I spent watching kid's flicks (small child). Now I hardly go to any movies at all and the kid is old enough that she goes by herself. To see stupid shit.

God. Where am I? What is this place? I need some pudding and a nap.

In no particular order:
1. The Dark Knight (der)
2. The Departed
3. The Royal Tenenbaums
4. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Yes, I know nobody agrees -- No, I don't care)
5. There Will Be Blood

Ooh, ooh -- now do the worst movies!

In no particular order:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Hot Fuzz
Pan's Labyrinth
Letters from Iwo Jima
Children of Men

Never actually commented before but I thought I'd weigh in on this one.

Stranger Than Fiction
High Fidelity
The Incredibles
Letters from Iwo Jima
The Departed

Runners up: X-2, Iron Man, Dark Knight, Lost in Translation, Hot Fuzz, Pan's Labyrinth

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
There Will Be Blood
Punch Drunk Love
Atonement
Solaris
Vanity Fair
Garden State
The Forty Year-Old Virgin
Amelie
Monsoon Wedding
The Good Girl
Lost in Translation

DAMN! Forgot Secretary. What does that make, 8 for me? 9? Whatev. TPTB can deal.

Here's my five in no particular order: WALL-E, Happy Endings, Lady Chatterley, Milk, The Departed (Any movie over two and a half hours which manages to keep my narcoleptic mom riveted from start to finish is worthy of inclusion in this list)

ESOTSM
The Fountain
Wall*e
Vanilla Sky
High Fidelity

Serenity
The Dark Knight
Gladiator
Charlie Wilson's War
Casino Royale
Spiderman 2

Little Miss Sunshine
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Stardust
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Assassination of Jesse James
Pride and Prejudice (Shut up.)
Penelope

(Note: I was present at the premieres of the last three movies. Watching a mildly confused, British director self-deprecatingly introduce his own film basically guarantees a seal of approval. And, in the case of the last two, Simon Woods is the shit.)

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Million Dollar Baby
3. The Constant Gardener
4. Juno
5. Moulin Rouge!

My personal favourites Are Eternal Sunshine and Zoolander, but even I know it doesn't make the top ten of the noughties. Damn shame - freaking hilarious. Honourable mentions to The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Knocked Up, Love Actually, The Aviator, Capote and Burn After Reading, my favourite film last year :)

Allow me to add Amazing Grace - closing night of the film festival, yet another flustered Brit.

I've missed a lot of highly-rated movies, as I hardly every hit the theaters, but
1)Eternal Sunshine
2)Lost in Translation
3)Clue (yes, I know it was actually made in the 80's, but it is so badass that it counts for three decades, bitches)

There Will Be Blood
Sideways
Little Children
Gosford Park
Lost In Translation

1)Billy Elliot
2)Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3)Little Miss Sunshine
4)Amelie
5)Children of Men

I got a couple of questions for you Rowles.

1) Do you like musicals and if so name your favorite musical.

2) Have you ever made any type of casserole?

3) Do you own a pair of white pants?

4) Prince Planet or Space Ghost?

5) Aisha Tyler or Judd Apatow?

Glancing back, maybe I did it wrong. I picked what I thought were the five BEST films of the decade, that I've seen. I didn't pick my favorites. If I had done that, I'd have been here all evening.

AbeVigodaLives: Run Lola Run was late nineties, so you can bump Donnie Darko up on to your top five. :-)

I have been disappointed with the aughts so far, and even more so by the choices made here. Not because they are unworthy choices, but because they ARE worthy choices. But I just don't see the level of quality that we saw in the 90's and even more so in the 70's. I guess you need to go back to the 80's to find a decade of similar quality to the aughts. I now have high hopes for the next decade.

Best of the aughts (in no particular order)

Return of the King
Moulin Rouge!
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Incredibles
Ratatouille

Apologies to Brokeback Mountain and There Will Be Blood which I haven't seen.

Oh shoot, and Rocket Science.

1. Wall-E
2. The Royal Tenenbaums
3. Spirited Away
4. Oldboy
5. Brick

...6. The Assassination of Jesse James

? Really? I didn't even make it through half of that movie before being bored to death. Maybe I should give it another go?

"Toy Story 2" came out in 1999.

Children of Men. That movie just ripped out my soul and made my heart bleed. Probably the most spiritual experience I've ever had in a movie theater. I couldn't stop crying for the last 5 minutes.

I also vote for "300". I know I'm the only person who LOVES this movie but the amount of testosterone induced badassery combined with the most romantic love story ever (no sycophantic codependency in sight!) and a soundtrack that actually makes we want to go triumph over eveeel (or get off my ass and exercise - whatever) I freaking love this movie. It's my 'aughts' "The 5th Element". And I don't care if you make fun of me...again.

City of God
United 93
The Constant Gardener
In America
Traffic

Anchorman
Incredibles
Dark Knight
Pans Labyrinth
Gladiator

I love me some Wall-E, but Incredibles was the overall better movie.

It's been a while, but I gotta get in on this...

1) Secretary
2) Traffic
3) No Country for Old Men
4) Death Proof
5) Elf

Also...whoever put Pulp Fiction as an aught movie needs to fade away in shame. Shame.

1. Sin City
2. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
3. Little Miss Sunshine
4. Friday Night Lights
5. Jarhead

Where oh where is the love for Bubba Hotep?

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
3. Lord of the Rings
4. Brokeback Mountain
5. Lake of Fire

1. The Departed

The rest are in no kind of order.

Napoleon Dynamite
28 Days Later
Gosford Park
40 Year Old Virgin

These 4 could very well be replaced by Casino Royale, Planet Terror, The Ring or Dodgeball, but I'll stick with my original picks. Or Crank or Gladiator. Damn top 5 lists!

city of god
bad education
dogville
spirited away
there will be blood

Shaun of the Dead
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Bubba Ho-Tep
SuperTroopers
The Incredibles

1. I heart Huckabee's
2. Almost Famous
3. Eternal Sunshine
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Hot Fuzz

(subject to change, haven't seen several of last years best films yet, I wait for cable, I one lazy #$%$%^^&**)

I can't actually number my top five- they just all kick a whole lot of ass.

Snatch
No County for Old Men
28 Days Later
Kill Bill, Vols. 1 & 2
and yes, Slumdog Millionare

also, City of God should maybe be there

I learned this news in another place. A hot debate heats up at -Richromances.com-"". Let us check what pinions other celebrities and wealthy guys' opinions are about this story. I am so excited about it...

gforcetwo's favorite movies of the aughts

5. anchorman: the legend of ron burgundy (2004)
4. kiss kiss bang bang (2005)
3. children of men (2006)
2. brick (2005)
1. amélie 2001)

Amelie
Brokeback Mountain
You Can Count on Me
LOTR
Half Nelson

Late to the party here. Since I haven't seen quite as many as a lot of the others here, I didn't think I should participate, but I'll weigh in anyway, just for shits and giggles:

My top 5 in no real order:
No Country for Old Men
Amelie
Hot Fuzz
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring
Children of Men

Should be considered:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
The Pianist
Spirited Away (I know Dustin will take issue, but whatever)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Goddammit! I forgot a lot:

Pan's Labyrinth
2046
Talk to Her
The Prestige
Memento
Wit (Except that's a TV movie...crap... It's so good!!!!!)

I did like the LOTR trilogy, but more in a "Film of the Year!" kind of way, as opposed to "One of the Best Films of the Decade!" kind of way. Same goes for Howl's Moving Castle, WALL-E (yes, I'm sorry) and a couple of others I'm too lazy to think up right now. In other words, don't count the last few I just mentioned.

Good thing this isn't the 1970's. Yeesh. We'd be here for centuries.

Road to Perdition
Sin City
A Tale of Two Sisters

...

just wanted to say, not ONE of you people mentioned "Waltz with Bashir".

Not ONE.

are you *that* retarded, or only *that* ignorant?

1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Eternal Sunshine
3. LOTR: Fellowship
4. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (wow, hard to believe it qualifies, soooo long ago)
5. WALL-E

I'm going to throw these out there:

1) The Illusionist
2) Kung Fu Hustle
3) Layer Cake
4) The Departed
5) Snatch
6) Memento
7) Stardust

late nomination:

the wind that shakes the barley