THE TOP 100 FILMS OF THE OUGHTS NOMINATION + DISCUSSION THRED

good call

i think we already have?????

only the first 2! and as any armond stan knows, it’s been a long time since a new movie has been as spiritually and aesthetically exhilarating as transporter 3.

transporter recalls the moral uplift of spielberg's 'always' and the aesthetic daring of godard's made in usa. it literally transports us into a new form of cinema.

Shotgun Stories

well then:

transporter 3 (2008)

the dancer upstairs
i like killing flies
hannah takes the stairs
ghost town
unknown white male
district b13
infamous
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
mutual appreciation

I think at this point that it might be easier to just copy and paste all of the movies released this decade directly from IMDB. Except I guess it'd be hard to filter out of the Tittays of Passion IVs and CB Radio Hero (VG)s.

don't let's filter out the passion tittays

it's way too soon.. nominations should be extended until february IMO

Don't you know, billstevejim, that anything unlucky enough to get released towards the end of a given year always gets the shaft on year/decade/century-end polls? It is as Darwin would have it.

you convinced me.

I find it so hard to believe I'm one of few people who liked "2 Days in Paris" that I'm forced to assume I was just one of few people who saw it.

Everything I would've nominated is here already.. except for these..

Palindromes
Requiem For A Dream
Ken Park
The Fall
Paradise Lost 2

Grindhouse

What Is It

forgetting sarah marshall
talladega nights (i am apatow stan yes)

I find it so hard to believe I'm one of few people who liked "2 Days in Paris" that I'm forced to assume I was just one of few people who saw it.

I'm a fan.

i would like to nominate TEAM AMERICA please

My favourites are already here, but here's a few others:

Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
Vanilla Sky (well, I liked it)

yeah, you ppl like anything that moves on a screen.

that is certainly my criteria

Snatch

another important criteria

the nomi song

^^^^ yes yes yes that movie is incredible

and totally heartbreaking

you could tell how guilty everyone felt with their recollections about the end of his life.

infernal affairs
infernal affairs II
infernal affairs III

i was just thinking about 'triad election' (election 2)....that scene with the dogs is gonna bug me out for all time.

Running Scared
The Devil's Rejects
The Core

i got your back on infernal affairs upthread, but i have not seen II or III. assuming i should rectify this

21 grams

that was a terrible move i denominate it

came across the last 90 minutes or so of gangs of new york on tv tonight, and i still love it. yes, it's not "good," but it's got enough energy to make up for it.

that was a terrible move i denominate it

― Lamp, Thursday, December 3, 2009 3:16 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

gangs is the only movie since goodfellas if not earlier where scorsese let himself be crazy. the man was not born to make biopics (much less bloated remakes). and just because someone else made mad max before him doesn't mean he shouldn't make it too.

also, the twin-towers nod at the end of gangs feels way more justified to me than it does at the end of munich.

it's like a pantomime that thinks it's a serious film. or maybe it doesn't think it's serious. i dunno....but it sucks.

Stay The Same Never Change
Black Dynamite
Drag Me To Hell

morvern callar (2002)

Snakes On A Mothafuckin' Plane
Grandma’s Boy
The Believer

it's like a pantomime that thinks it's a serious film. or maybe it doesn't think it's serious. i dunno....but it sucks.

this is otm up til the "it sucks" part. the first time i saw it i remember about 10 minutes in thinking 'omg how am i supposed to believe anything in this movie,' and then i realized i didn't need to believe any of it, and after that it was pretty much wall-to-wall entertainment. cameron diaz is terrible, leo is sort of just acceptable and ddl eats everything around him like pac-man, but there's some kind of core reactor at the center of the film that just rolls it straight through all of that and feeds off it. scorsese really gets off on the whole thing. the climax is totally bananas, and it has some half-cocked/fully-loaded ideas about america kicking around in it that seem visceral and intuited to me, despite or because of their incoherence.

Morvern Callar is a good call. I don't know that it would be high on my list, but it might be on it.

in general i dig big sprawling entertaining messes! but i think i took the incoherence for clumsiness, not visceral intuition. and the characters & revenge plot were just too corny to stomach. you almost make me want to give it another go though..

Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004)

gangs is the only movie since goodfellas if not earlier where scorsese let himself be crazy.

Disagreed! Scorsese-craziness is part of the reason I love the much-maligned Bringing Out The Dead.

i guess we can all have a favorite "bad" scorsese. i'd gladly take either over the departed or the aviator.

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hannah takes the stairs
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― johnny crunch, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 11:56 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

you gotta be fucking kidding me.

yes u have picked up on my elaborate ruse on u

idk, it's pretty much the worst film i saw in 2008, have no idea how you got there.

ah now come on. you saw the oxford murders and son of rambow, right?