THE TOP 100 FILMS OF THE OUGHTS NOMINATION + DISCUSSION THRED

24 Hour Party People
24hr party people

dupes

Also, I want to nominate Shortbus

speaking of crotch bleeding: Cabin Fever

Wendy and Lucy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUMPLINGS!_%28film%29

no Twilight Samurai, no cred

no Dude, Where's My Car? Figures you'd miss the one good dumbass comedy of the decade!

Ten
Crimson Gold
Bad Education
Volver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ63t7Kaa2Y

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

― history mayne, Thursday, December 3, 2009 2:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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

― caek, Thursday, December 3, 2009 2:07 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

to be clear, this wasn't a nomination of those films.

lolol at two crimson gold mentions in two days

twilight samurai was great

films I gave 1/5 in 2008:

oxford murders, son of rambow, persepolis, the happening

― caek, Thursday, December 3, 2009 3:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and that wasn't a nom for the happening ; )

no Twilight Samurai, no cred

Fuck Tom Cruise, etc..

never did see the follow up

Pieces of April
The Station Agent

crimson gold was kinda ok but um hello we don't even have man of fire or the hangover yet.

Domino

crimson gold was kinda ok but um hello we don't even have man of fire or the hangover yet.

This post is all-time.

man ON fire i meant.

Audition
Batman Begins

Some Kind of Monster

crimson gold was just so slight is the thing, why is it even a consideration for a best of 00s poll

exactly.

of the iranian films i saw, i guess maybe i'd rate 'the circle' highest. but that's based on pretty sketchy memory of what i've seen.

morbz is right that all the films people oscarbated over like 'crouching tiger' are pretty much forgotten, but it's true also, isn't it, of things like the dardennes brothers or almodovar

$5 for baiting, plz

i own in the bedroom on dvd and still think its p good but i dont have a blog so

I Own In The Bedroom is finally out on DVD? Sweet.

away from her

so sad how pedro almodovar has just completely forgotten

just been, i mean

Oops, a couple omissions I made:

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
in parts, the most wretched looking period film ever, in parts the most beautiful
The Man from Earth (2007)
low-budget conceptual sci-fi conversation piece, sorta My Dinner with Andre the Immortal

And I watched Devils on the Door Step (2000), a banned Chinese movie about the Japanese occupation, again tonight. Still sharp, still funny, still deserving of a lot more eyeballs.

El Custodio
Tony Manero.

So many of the films listed I have felt to have been so mediocre that I would consider nominating Half Nelson, which has great performances but is so indie-by-numbers I would never rate it as one of the best films of the 00s. Perhaps it should be in contention just to be acknowledged then ignored, an 'honoured just to be nominated' sort of thing.

With more conviction, I'd throw Friday Night Lights into the mix, a film which has the unique difficulty of being bettered by it's television adaptation, but is pretty great nonetheless.

Actually, I see that Half Nelson has already been nominated anyway. Still, my point stands.

Also:

Adventureland
Waltz With Bashire

Bashir*

The White Ribbon.

The Heart of the Game, the documentary on high-school basketball player Darnellia Russell, will be in my top 10.

My top 50 favorites of the past nine years. Presented by an educated, artistic, liberal, but not monocled movie twee, ordinary moviegoer.

13 Going on 30
A Beautiful Mind
A History of Violence
A.I.
Alatriste
Best in Show
Brokeback Mountain
Burn After Reading
Cast Away
Children of Men
City of God
Dan in Real Life
Dark Knight
Donnie Darko
Elf
Finding Nemo
Frozen River
Gladiator
Good Night, and Good Luck
Hidalgo
Hotel Rwanda
I Am Legend
In the Valley of Elah
Juno
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship
Michael Clayton
Minority Report
Mystic River
No Country for Old Men
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ocean’s 11
Pan’s Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean
Shrek
Spirited Away
Stop-Loss
Syriana
The Fountain
The Perfect Storm
The School of Rock
The Visitor
Tropic Thunder
Up
V for Vendetta
Wall-E
War of the Worlds
Whale Rider
When the Levees Broke
Where the Wild Things Are
Why We Fight

And a great big hearty "I'll never get these hours of my life back" vote of Absolute No Confidence for:
The Passion of the Christ
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
There Will Be Blood
The Royal Tenenbaums
Lost in Translation
The Wrestler
300 (does it count if I've never gotten more than a half-hour into it before having to find something more interesting? Like a lint collection?)

In the Valley of Elah means disqualification, right?

Baraka was released in the early 90s. maybe kclu meant The Boys of Baraka?

jeez you guys didn't list Bad Education

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A Very Long Engagement
The Ladykillers
Red Road
Tell No One
Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Winged Migration

finisterre

hey jude did you really nominate "dan in real life" and "a beautiful mind" and spit on "there will be blood"... did that really just happen

Nine Queens

Yep, slocki, I really did do that. I found Dan in Real Life to be unexpectedly charming and A Beautiful Mind to be well made and performed - and a bit surprising, on first viewing. Bottom line: I liked them both very much, and this is a list of My Favorites.

As for There Will Be Blood - I found it boring and interminable, totally lacking in any character with a shred of likeability/identifiability, and as much as I like Daniel Day-Lewis, I'm about tired of his scenery chewing. Bottom line: I found it tedious and distasteful and immediately regretted the time I'd spent subjecting myself to it.

And to The Devil's Advocate... Why would In the Valley of Elah suggest disqualification? Inquiring minds would like to know.

Dan in Real Life was so fucking terrible.

So was A Beautiful Mind, and I like Ron Howard and maths!

a beautiful mind, more like, a beautiful piece of shit which is not even beautiful, except jennifer connelley