12.17.2009

the decade in movies

Slate posted a list of the movies critics have commonly cited as being the best of the 00's. Instead of trying to remember all of the movies I've seen, I'm going to cherry pick their list for the ones I have seen. They are: 

  • Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
  • There Will Be Blood
  • No Country For Old Men
  • Grizzly Man
  • The Royal Tenanbaums
  • Lost In Translation
  • Slumdog Millionaire
  • Borat
  • Lives Of Others
  • Children Of Men
  • Pan's Labrynth
  • The Dark Knight
  • The Queen
  • Knocked Up
  • Capturing The Friedmans
  • Punch Drunk Love
  • L'Enfant
  • American Psycho
  • Man On Wire
  • Farenheit 911
  • Bourne Supremecy
  • Donnie Darko
  • Kill Bill Vol 1 
  • Kill Bill Vol 2 
  • Oldboy
  • A History Of Violence
  • Juno
  • Half Nelson
  • Traffic
  • Squid And The Whale
  • Capote
  • In The Loop
  • Good Night And Good Luck
  • I Heart Huckabees
  • Inglorious Basterds
  • Sideways
  • Being John Malcovich
  • Irreversible
  • Little Miss Sunshine
  • Waking Life
  • An Inconvenient Truth
  • The Departed
  • Moulin Rouge
  • Syriana
  • Hotel Rwanda
  • Audition
  • High Fidelity
  • 40-Year Old Virgin

10 Awesomest Movies They Forgot:
  1. King Of Kong
  2. Sexy Beast
  3. House Of Sand And  Fog
  4. Anvil: The Story Of Anvil
  5. Little Miss Sunshine
  6. The Wind That Shakes The Barley
  7. Monster
  8. Catch Me If You Can
  9. The Hangover
  10. The Wrestler
The 3 Worst Movies Listed:
  1. The Dark Night 
  2. Waking Life
  3. Moulin Rouge

7 Good Movies, But Terribly Overrated:
  1. Eternal Sunshine
  2. Juno
  3. Donnie Darko
  4. Half Nelson
  5. Slumdog Millionaire
  6. Lost In Translation
  7. Sideways

2 Most Disturbing Movies:
  1. Irreversible
  2. The Audition

10 Best Performances Of The Decade:

  1. Daniel Day-Lewis - Gangs Of New York
  2. Peter Capaldi - In The Loop
  3. Daniel Day-Lewis - There Will Be Blood
  4. Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
  5. Charlize Theron - Monster
  6. Jeff Daniels - Squid And The Whale
  7. Helen Mirren - The Queen
  8. Christian Bale - The Machinest
  9. Philip Seymour Hoffman - Capote
  10. Christian Bale - American Psycho 
And finally, the moment you've all been waiting for, The Ten Best Movies Of The Decade:
  1. The Departed
  2. Kill Bill (1&2)
  3. No Country For Old Men
  4. The Squid And The Whale
  5. There Will Be Blood
  6. The King Of Kong
  7. In The Loop
  8. Sexy Beast
  9. 40-Year Old Virgin
  10. Anvil: The Story Of Anvil 
 Feel free to disagree in the comments. What did I miss?

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