My Top 20 Movies of the 00's

[mister_punchy]

20.

Comments

purely off the top of my head, mind you

[beketaten]

Organized by year!

-Buddy Boy (2000)

-Bully (2001)

-Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

-All About Lily Chou Chou (2001)

-Dancer In the Dark (2001)

-Fat Girl (A ma soeur!) (2001)

-Ichi the Killer (2001)

-Mulholland Drive (2001)

-Storytelling (2001)

-Visitor Q (2001)

-In My Skin (2002)

-Irreversible (2002)

-The Piano Teacher (2002)

-Gozu (2003)

-Oldboy (2003)

-Dogville (2004)

-Suspect Zero (2004)

-A Hole In My Heart (2005)

-Funny Games U.S. Remake (2008)

-Antichrist (2009)

Re: purely off the top of my head, mind you

[beketaten]

now that i think on it, a top 20 just can't do much of anything justice.

and whilst i do approve of many of your choices, there are many of them i simply haven't seen, and i'm sure very much so vice versa.

Re: purely off the top of my head, mind you

[mister_punchy]

Yeah, I've seen maybe 4 or 5 of the movies on your list, and I'm generally not a fan of Lynch, Von Trier, or Solondz. Bully is one that should be on more lists, though. Didn't even cross my mind. Reading the book it was based on, I found that pretty much everything in the movie, right down to dialogue, was exactly as it happened in real life. Which possibly makes it even more disturbing than it was in the first place.

Re: purely off the top of my head, mind you

[beketaten]

Yeah. Hot damn that was blood curdling. But then again, I live for disturbing movies, as you can probably tell.
but i do appreciate the input of all sorts of tastes, and i mean, "There Will Be Blood" is naturally one of the best recent things.

[mister_punchy]

It doesn't seem like it is, huh? I'm still adjusting to the millennium thing.

[beketaten]

yeah it just kind of didn't occur to me that anything dramatic like that was happening.
well, probably because it's not dramatic.

[libertina]

Your list is amazingly close to my theoretical one, including _Children of Men_ and _Wet Hot American Summer_! I don't recognize #5 (is that Elias Koteas [sp?] with Mark Ruffalo? Some hot intense-actor-on-actor action!) and I didn't see the one with Val Kilmer. Supposedly there's some very torrid sex in _In the Cut_, including a rather graphic mustache-riding scene. This is, of course, before Meg Ryan acquired the "trout pout".

[mister_punchy]

#5 is Zodiac and #14 is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Both great movies with Robert Downey Jr. being a smartass in 'em.

I wasn't sure who Elias Koteas is until I imdb'd him and saw that he was Casey Jones in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Yup, that's him in that shot. Along with Anthony Edwards and Norm Son-of-a-Gunderson from Fargo.

[ravynloony]

Mine:

20. The Aviator
19. Moulin Rouge
18. The Dark Knight
17. Kill Bill...s
16. Amelie
15. Finding Nemo
14. The Others
13. The Prestige
12. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
11. Quills
10. Big Fish
9. High Fidelity
8. No Country For Old Men
7. Almost Famous
6. Children Of Men
5. The Departed
4. Shaun Of The Dead
3. Closer
2. Pan's Labyrinth
1. Requiem For A Dream

[mister_punchy]

2000 is definitely getting overlooked in these lists-- High Fidelity and Requiem For A Dream hadn't even occured to me.

I really liked Finding Nemo too, that's probably my second-favorite Pixar of the decade. Although I haven't seen WALL-E yet.

I don't mean for this to sound as belittling as it probably does, but Almost Famous was one of my favorite movies until I watched it sober.

I'm working on a list right now about assholes I've known this decade. You are more than familiar with at least a couple of 'em and I'll expect your insights to fill in a few blanks.

[beketaten]

dude, i was totally torn about whether or not to include the Prestige.
I fucking loved Quills as well.

Wait...Was Pi: Faith In Chaos in the 00s?