Top 10 Movies of the Decade

[Drin Kizael]

Forgive me if this was done, I didn't see a thread. Now that the first decade of the new century is about to come to a close, the web is awash in top ten lists. What were your favorite movies of the 2000's?

Mine (sort of but not really in order)...

Memento
Star Trek
Spider-Man (forcing myself to name only 1 superhero movie)
Shaun of the Dead
Snatch
The Wrestler
Juno
Underworld (only the first one)
District 9
Lord of the Rings (collectively, but Two Towers especially)

[Yog]

Not really decided on this one, but here are some in non specific order:

LOTR movies (collectively)
No Country for Old Men
There Will Be Blood
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Gladiator
A Beautiful Mind
The Pianist
The Dark Knight
Requiem for a Dream

[Darth Turbogeek]

There's another year left of this decade :-p

[Jedi Master Carr]

This is impossible for me right now. i would have to really think about it.

[CMJ]

There's another year left of this decade :-p

We're counting 00-09 apparently with things like Gladiator on the list.


I'll probably throw something together after I get a preliminary best of '09 list and take a look at the entire decade.

[Lilaena De'Ville]

I have an idea for a series of polls now... :D

[Gabriel Rodermark]

I can't even begin to think what my list would be. There are just too many to choose from.

[CMJ]

After much handringing, this is the list I came up with - with their US release years). I wanted to fit in about 10 more films at least.


1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
2. There Will Be Blood (2007)
3. United 93 (2006)
4. Memento (2001)
5. Children of Men (2006)
6. The Aviator (2004)
7. Gladiator (2000)
8. Wall-E (2008)
9. No Country for Old Men (2007)
10. Road to Perdition (2002)





Next ten best(in alphabetical order)
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Black Hawk Down (2001)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Minority Report (2002)
Munich (2005)
Return of the King (2003)
Revenge of the Sith (2005)

[Captain Untouchable]

We're counting 00-09 apparently with things like Gladiator on the list.

That's generally how decades are counted, y'know - it'd be a bit weird if "the seventies" included 1980, but didn't include 1970. ;)

[CMJ]

We're counting 00-09 apparently with things like Gladiator on the list.

That's generally how decades are counted, y'know - it'd be a bit weird if "the seventies" included 1980, but didn't include 1970. ;)

On the other hand if you figure the original decade of the Common Era didn't start at 0, but 1 - all the decades would run from 1-10, or 10-20 and so on till now. I believe that is what our Australian friend was getting at.

[Captain Untouchable]

That makes the assumption that decades have to align to a rigidly defined structure that starts at 0, 1, or whenever. If you were talking millennia then fair enough... but when most people talk about "a decade", it is widely accepted that they refer to a 0-9 span. Arguing otherwise just seems needlessly anal to me - sometimes convenience and convention needs to be allowed to trump cold hard logic. ;)

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I'm still not convinced by my list. I was going to pick the movies I rewatched the most, but I felt that District 9 at the very least deserved a mention. In terms of which ones resonated with me the most when I saw them, there are some really good movies that I didn't see on the big screen, or was only half-paying attention when I first saw them... so it's something of a scatterbrain list, I'm afraid; a mix of movies I enjoyed, watched dozens of times, or was wowed by, etc.

A Knight's Tale
Avatar
District 9
Gladiator
Hero
Iron Man
Lord of the Rings (trilogy)
Monsters, Inc
Star Trek
The Dark Knight
The Incredibles

I was tempted to include The Last King of Scotland, 300, Serenity, Men in Black II, and a bunch of others; I only wanted to include on Pixar movie as well, but I'm not sure there's a Pixar movie I don't enjoy, so I had to lump for two in the end. :\

[CMJ]

I agree with you...I was just surmising what Mark was getting after.

[Carré Inirial]

In pondering this while at work today, I've scrawled a list of the ten movies that have stuck with me the most from the past decade, that I can truly say I absolutely loved:

300
The Bourne Identity (adore all three, but the first is still my favorite to rewatch)
The Departed
District 9
Gladiator
The Perfect Storm
Hotel Rwanda
Return of the King (easily my favorite of the trilogy)
Troy
V for Vendetta

Also deserving of mention because I enjoyed them:

21 Grams
A Beautiful Mind
Harry Potter (the series)
The Manchurian Candidate
Memento
Munich
The Patriot
Pirates of the Carribean (the series)
Serenity
Star Trek
Training Day
Underworld (the series)

[Captain Untouchable]

V for Vendetta! How did I manage to forget that? >_<

[Carré Inirial]

You should be ashamed! :twak