THE TOP 100 FILMS OF THE OUGHTS NOMINATION + DISCUSSION THRED

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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

ya burnt

sb'd dr casino for winged migration

Interesting. Clearly our opinions differ. However what makes your opinions more important or "true" than mine? They are all simply opinions, right?

Pretty sure mine are true, actually. Sorry.

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Caek, I challenge you to prove your opinion to be true and mine false, using evidence other than your own... opinions.

max says my opinions are correct.

All of my opinions are false, I'm pretty sure.

And I say mine are my opinions, and therefore not provably correct or incorrect. So express your own opinions clearly rather than just slagging someone else's. Or be quiet.

whose sock is this?

going to the trouble of drawing up a top 50 like that. bravo.

sock 50

I am no one's sock puppet. I'm my own self, and have been posting here for four years or so - very sporadically. As to going to the trouble to make up the list, I saw this thread, thought it looked interesting, and decided to make my own list of favorites, just for fun. To do this, I looked up all the links of "Best of" included in this thread and also checked the year-by-year releases from Wikipedia.

I didn't include any movies that have opened since Thanksgiving, since I've seen none of them. I fully expect to appreciate The Road and Up in the Air, and I'm looking forward to The Princess and the Frog.

And I laughed all the way through The Men Who Stare at Goats, for what it's worth.

I don't denigrate your opinions, and I'm just intrigued that you seem to enjoy harshing on mine. THat's all.

caek doesn't like chris morris u don't have to him ~seriously~

Correction: The lists of Best Of are in a different but quite similar thread. Sorry for the misinformation.

hey jude i just think u r missing one impt fact: caeks opinions are facts, proved using astrophysics, on a transaltantic flight

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

BARAKA NOM RESCINDED

I suspect I'd best retire from this lack of discussion.

nominations thread, dude! relax.

dont make it bad

take a sad thread, make it better

if that wasn't a real nomination for The Boys of Baraka then I'd like to nominate it

i guess i'll nominate Match Point

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

I was only joking, but it is kind of terrible. Serviceable enough as a tv-procedural-grade detective story, but ooooh, that ending with the flag. I wanted to destroy things.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

According to what I can find online, When the Levees Broke screened in New Orleans before it aired on HBO, so that counts as a movie, right? Paradise Lose 2: Revelations, however, premiered on TV, and only later screened at fests. I'm all for counting both.

is it me or is that pretty much EVERY movie that came out in the 00s

Seems true of all the best-of decade nomination threads. Works out okay, I guess.

ppl will still show up once noms close and be like wtf 'the flower that drank the moon' wasnt nominated

well i mean at least we have a beautiful mind

Right. I meant to say, "Works out okay so long as my preferred choice wins the resulting poll."

And so opinions differ. The ending of In the Valley of Elah, with the flag, seemed perfect too me. So much lost.

Only including films with US Distribution, so a good handful of my fav docs are screwed:
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist
Mysterious Skin
Manda Bala (To Send a Bullet)
Billy The Kid
American Teen
The Monastery
Alpha Dog
Forbidden Lies
Summercamp!
Order of Myths
The Pool (Chris Smith)
Iraq In Fragments
Paper Heart
Frownland
35 Shots of Rum
Up the Yangtze
Workingman's Death
Wit (Mike Nichols)
Gerry
The Brown Bunny
The Girl Next Door
Blue Crush
Darwin's Nightmare
The Strangers

Agreed with upthread, When the Levees Broke is some difficult and amazing stuff. I saw it after I put together my original list (thanks, Netflix).

Manda Bala (To Send a Bullet)

this is a cool movie

Took a break from studying to throw this together:

Best love story:
Before Sunset (2004)
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Sweet Land (2005)
Secretary (2002)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

Best demystification of love:
Cast Away (2000)
Solaris (2002) (remake)

Best romantic comedy:
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
Down with Love (2003)
Dan in Real Life (2008)

Best buddies:
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Sideways (2004)
Made (2001)
Wedding Crashers (2005)
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
Knocked Up (2006)

Best Christmas:
Elf (2003)
Bad Santa (2003)
Love, Actually (2003)

Best family comedy:
The Royal Tenenbaums (2002)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

Best movies about child abuse, neglect, or growing up wrong:
You Can Count On Me (2000)
The Woodsman (2004)
Mystic River (2003)
The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Sherrybaby (2006)
My Architect (2003)
Big Fish (2003)

Best movies about adults caring about kids:
About a Boy (2002)
School of Rock (2003) [a.k.a. The School of Rock]
Martian Child (2007)
Half Nelson (2006)
Role Models (2008)
Freedom Writers (2007)

Best case for benign authority:
Black Snake Moan (2007)

Best movies about addiction:
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2003)

Best high school movies:
Superbad (2007)
Juno (2007)
American Pie 2 (2001)
Bring It On (2000)
Crazy/Beautiful (2001)
You Got Served (2004)
Get Over It (2001)
Strangers With Candy (2005)
Real Women Have Curves (2002)

Best detective-of-self stories:
Broken Flowers (2005)
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
The Human Stain (2003)

Best WWII:
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
U-571 (2000)

Best movie about the Holocaust:
The Pianist (2002)

Best socialism:
The Take (2004)
Sicko (2007)

Best anti-communism:
North Korea: A Day in the Life (2004)
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)

Best post-Soviet capitalist blues:
Eastern Promises (2007)
Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Power Trip (2003)

Best anti-anti-communism:
Good Night and Good Luck (2005)

Best anti-war/anti-Vietnam War:
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003)
Tigerland (2000)
Sir! No Sir! (2005) (subtitle: The Suppressed Story Of The GI Movement To End The Vietnam War)
Why We Fight (2005)
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)
What American Needs: From Sea to Shining Sea (2003)
Red Barn (2003) [short documentary in progress]

Best movies about violence, for and against:
A History of Violence (2005)
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
In the Bedroom (2001)
Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (2002)
Rambo (2008)

Best costume epic/Western:
Gladiator (2000)
The Last Samurai (2003)
Open Range (2003)
Cold Mountain (2003)
The New World (2005)
Shanghai Noon (2000)

Best ship opera:
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

Best wishful metaphor for American power:
The Bourne Identity (2002)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)

Best movies about American power and the right in Latin America and the Caribbean:
The Agronomist (2003)
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2002) (a.k.a. Chavez: Inside the Coup)
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002)
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Machuca (2004)

Best movies about immigrants/internationals:
Fast Food Nation (2006)
The Visitor (2007)
Gran Torino (2008)
Babel (2006)
Spellbound (2002)
Dirty Pretty Things (2002)
Al Otro Lado (2004) (a.k.a. To the Other Side)

Best drug war:
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Training Day (2001)
Traffic (2000)
City of God (2002)
Narc (2002)

Best movies about the "conflict of our time":
No End in Sight (2007)
Gaza Strip (2002)
Munich (2005)
Syrianna (2005)
W. (2008)
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds: No Friends But the Mountains (2000)
Asurot ("Detained") (2001)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) (remake)
Burn After Reading (2008)

Best anti-Bond:
Casino Royale (2006)

Best Africa:
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Stander (2003)
The Constant Gardener (2005)
Lumumba (2000)
Red Dust (2004)

Best India:
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2000)

Best Ireland:
Billy Elliot (2000)
Bloody Sunday (2002)
The Boys from County Clare (2003)

Best greed/obsession:
There Will Be Blood (2007)
The White Diamond (2004)

Best anti-corporate:
The Yes Men (2003)
The Corporation (2004)
In Good Company (2005)
Mondovino (2004)
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
Sunshine State (2002)

Best legal:
Legally Blonde (2001)
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)
Michael Clayton (2007)
Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003)
Monster (2003) (really should see those two together)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Runaway Jury (2003)
Longford (2006)
Fracture (2007)

Best movies against the gender double standard:
North Country (2005)
Personal Velocity (2002) (a.k.a. Personal Velocity: Three Portraits)
Far From Heaven (2002)
Whale Rider (2003)
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
The Contender (2000)
Charlie's Angels (2000)
Chicago (2002)

Best movie about gender transition:
Venus of Mars (2004)

Best movies about looksism:
Shrek (2001)
Zoolander (2001)
Shallow Hal (2001)

Best electoral politics:
The Green Bus vs. the White House (2004)
Head of State (2003)

Best Katrina documentaries:
Trouble the Water (2008)
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
Tim's Island (2006)

Best evocative epochal worst-case-scenario/end-of-world/dystopia/alien invasion:
Children of Men (2006)
War of the Worlds (2005) (remake)
Dawn of the Dead (2004) (remake)
Idiocracy (2006)
The Core (2003)
The Invasion (2007)

Best monster horror:
The Host (2006) (a.k.a. Gwoemul)
30 Days of Night (2007)
Slither (2006)
28 Days Later (2002)

Best ghosts:
The Ring (2002)
The Others (2001)

Best Star Trek:
Serenity (2005)
Star Trek (2009)

Best sports:
The Wrestler (2008)
Run Fatboy Run (2007)
Seabiscuit (2003)
The Rookie (2002)
The King of Kong (2007)
Go Tigers! (2001)
Leatherheads (2008)
Remember the Titans (2000)
Miracle (2004)

Best boxing:
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Girlfight (2000)
Cinderella Man (2005)
Rocky Balboa (2006)

Best going off the grid:
Into the Wild (2007)
Grizzly Man (2005)
Dark Days (2000)

Best subculture:
A Mighty Wind (2003)
Best in Show (2000)
Krumped (2004, short documentary) (precursor to Rize)
24 Hour Party People (2002)
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)
Rize (2005)

Best stand-up:
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
Comedian (2002)

Best metal:
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
The Atlas Moth (2003)

Best non-metal music:
Westway to the World (2000)
Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)
The Filth and the Fury (2000) [a.k.a. The Filth and the Fury - A Sex Pistols Film]
Biggie & Tupac (2002)
Eight Mile (2002)
If I Should Fall From Grace (2001)
Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
Dig! (2004)
Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback (2006)
Cuba Feliz (2000)
Lost in Translation (2003)
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005)

Best movies about radio:
The Ladies Man (2000)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Best movies about journalism:
Shattered Glass (2003)
Robert Christgau: Rock 'n' Roll Animal (2000, short documentary)
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Veronica Guerin (2003)

Best movies about writing:
American Splendor (2003)
Adaptation (2002)
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)

Best movies about artists::
Pollock (2000)
How to Draw a Bunny (2002)

Best super-heroes:
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Batman Begins (2005)
Iron Man (2008)
X2: X-Men United (2003)
Unbreakable (2000)

Best suspension-of-disbelief-at-movies-as-faith:
A Serious Man (2009)
The Village (2004)
The Night Listener (2006)
The Prestige (2006)
Doubt (2009)

Best back-to-the-future horror:
Memento (2000)
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Donnie Darko (2001)

Best movies about movies:
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

Best movies about pornography:
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001)
Auto Focus (2002)
The Notorious Betty Page (2005)
Indie Sex (2007) (a.k.a. Indie Sex: Censored)
The Fashionistas (2002)

Best sex:
Team America: World Police (2004)
Kinsey (2004)
Where the Truth Lies (2005)
Young Adam (2003)
Libertine (2004)

Best raunchy comedies:
Waiting (2005)
Clerks II (2006)
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)
How High (2001)
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

Best new-awkward:
Meet the Parents (2000)
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) (remake)
Blades of Glory (2007)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

Best dreamy/meta-action:
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
The Way of the Gun (2000)
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Bad Boys II (2003)
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Crank (2006)

Best action/suspense/thriller:
Cellular (2004)
Red Eye (2005)
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Taken (2008)
Vantage Point (2008)
What Lies Beneath (2000)

Best heists:
Inside Man (2006)
Ocean's 11 (2001)
Flawless (2007)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

Best catch-the-killer/threatening other:
Grindhouse (2007) (released separately on DVD as Planet Terror and Death Proof)
Zodiac (2007)
The Pledge (2001)
Insomnia (2002)
Cache (2005)

Best movies about living closer to the end of life:
Iris (2001)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
Savages (2007)
Synecdoche, New York (2008)

Best movies about mourning:
Forever (2006) (documentary)
Garden State (2004)

Bonus:

Best '00s movies disqualified because they opened in the '90s:
Office Space (1999)
Galaxy Quest (1999) (December 25 release; international release in 2000)
Spring Forward (1999) (2000 general U.S. release)
Crazy (1999) (Heddy Honigmann doc)

Don't want to be snarky but what does Billy Elliott have to do with Ireland?

No, it's not snarky at all to point out a mistake that dumb. That's what I get for listing a movie I haven't seen for nine years! Make that "Best UK" or some other face-saving correction.

are you nominating _all_ of those?

Best action/suspense/thriller:
Cellular (2004)
Red Eye (2005)
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)
Taken (2008)
Vantage Point (2008)
What Lies Beneath (2000)

dude, this is just a list of action/suspense/thrillers. 'vantage point' probably wasn't even the best action/suspense/thriller released that week.