The Onion AV Club, my go-to source for movie reviews, put out their list of the top 50 films of the 2000s today. There's a lot of huge surprises on there, and it got me to thinking about a personal list - the 2000s have had some great films, but nothing iconic; i suppose 'iconic' status is given to films well after their release date. Nonetheless, I decided I would come up with my own top ten list, as well as five others which I really liked.
10. The Fellowship of the Ring, Jackson, 2001
9. City of God, Lund, 2002
8. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gondry, 2004
7. There Will Be Blood, P. Anderson, 2007
6. The Wrestler, Aronofsky, 2008
5. Oldboy, Park, 2003
4. In Bruges, McDonagh, 2008
3. 25th Hour, Lee, 2002
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2. No Country For Old Men, Coen Brothers, 2007
1. Mulholland Drive, David Lynch, 2001
Notes on the above list:
I don't watch that many new films, e.g. I've still not seen Kill Bill, Batman Begins, and many others.
The line notes the two films I think are the best - there's a significant dropoff after that, and the 8 above those two are pretty much interchangeable.
Five favorites which don't belong on that list for one reason or another:
Funny People, Apatow, 2009
Big Fan, Siegel, 2009
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, McKay, 2004
Amores Perros, Inarritu, 2000
The Dark Knight, Nolan, 2008
Anyway, I'm curious what the 3 or 4 loyal readers think - what am I missing out on?
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being basically stupid, i need something to remind me which movies made in this decade i've seen. i'll review the AV's top 50, maybe try to cull 10. initially, no arguments that mullholland drive and no country for old men will be high on the list. but you should be immediately pilloried for putting a piece of trash like eternal sunshine of a spotless mind in ass sniffing distance of any of your other picks, including anchorman. what a pointless pretentios piece of garbage. being john malkovich and adaptation were better, if that's your kind of thing, and neither of those are top ten either.
ReplyDeletestill, your list is overall hard to hate.
eternal sunshine has a ton of flaws which i will not discount. spoiler alert: it's #1 on the avclub list, which is pretty hateful. i think being john malkovich was 99, and adaptation is a meta-film which while it is interesting, i don't think it's particularly lasting or great. eternal sunshine has some poor scenes, it's overly sentimental, the characters are all pretty terrible, etc., but it attempts to ask and then answer a question about love in an interesting and entertaining way.
ReplyDeleteif i hadn't've put eternal sunshine on there, i likely would've gone with lost in translation, so be glad i took that.
I'm not going to try to make a top 10 list because I'm terrible at that, but without any research here are some of my favorites that you didn't list:
ReplyDeleteThe King of Kong
School of Rock
Borat
Napoleon Dynamite
Almost Famous
The Hurt Locker
Changeling
Letters from Iwo Jima
Big Fish
Secondhand Lions
Memento
Little Miss Sunshine
Also, I didn't like Eternal Sunshine at all and absolutely hated Lost in Translation. I'm willing to give Eternal Sunshine another chance at some point, but not that piece of [censored] Lost in Translation.
jesus "eternal sunshine" are you kidding me? not a top ten movie. i like that you threw in wrestler. have not seen old boy. fellowship of the ring? haha ok frodo
ReplyDeleteking of kong was really good, had i put a documentary on it would've been that or man on wire; i thought borat was very funny. hurt locker i kind of want to see but am naturally disposed against war movies, why this is, i don't know. memento i think i would've thought was great had i not known anything about it (almost saw it in theaters), but alas i saw it for the first time in 2008.
ReplyDeletelot of hate for eternal sunshine, i get why people hated that (and lost in translation), but damn. my list is like the most guy movies ever, i need at least something with a strong female presence.
off john g's list, king of kong, memento, big fish, little miss sunshine, in that order, all solid picks. but almost famous? you deserve most the horse whipping triumph deserves for picking eternal sunshine -- although it is mitigated by your righteous and rightful hatred of both eternal sunshine of the spotless mind and the uber-garbage lost in translation. if you want a lovelorn bill murray, why not broken flowers, which is at least several thousand times better than sophia coppola's meglomanically bush rubbing. have you seen her marie antoinette movie??? have you seen her act in the godfather part iii??? that woman should, like lavinia, have her tongue cut out and her hands cut off -- nay, her whole fucking arms!
ReplyDeletewow, anonymous commenting is very freeing. i can say, fuck you, heavens! and god can't say shit!
you should be warned, mr. anonymous who is probably still drunk, that jtg is not john gerard, nor do i think john gerard's list wouldn't include eternal sunshine...
ReplyDeletei liked lost in translation a lot. you should switch it out with eternal sunshine
ReplyDeleteSome I haven't seen listed:
ReplyDeletePan's Labyrinth
American Psycho
The Man Who Wasn't There
Also, I like eternal sunshine :-(
all very good. i was flipping through the channels and saw the man who wasn't there on PBS recently, couldn't switch off it.
ReplyDeleteamerican psycho is just a little too much for me, although it does of course have two phenomenal scenes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1mSJpOBXFU
I don't know why I didn't respond to this earlier...
ReplyDeleteDon't let you dislike of war movies keep you from seeing The Hurt Locker. It's the best movie of the year so far, and I really doubt anything that comes out in the next week will top it.