Can you believe the decade is almost over? It seems like only yesterday we were all singing along to Will Smith's hit record Will2K, preparing our computers for global meltdown and looking forward to long, thriving film careers for recent Oscar winners Helen Hunt and Cuba Gooding Jr. We were so young.
With mere weeks before we enter the teenage years of the 21st century, we thought there is no better time than now to look back upon the decade that was and decide which motion pictures were the best of The Noughties.
(Side note: Did we ever actually decide on a title for this decade? Was 'noughties' the official title? It's probably too late now, but someone really should have made the call on a name back in 2001).
Let us know in the comments section below your favourite films of the decade! Give us your number 1 film! Your top 10! Your top 100! It was a fine decade for cinema, so let us know which movies you will look back on fondly!
If you are looking for inspiration, check out the recent Academy Award Winners or the Highest Grossing Films of the Decade.
Finally, to kick off the proceedings, Quickflix critic Simon Miraudo (that's me!) compiled his 15 favourite films from 2000-2009. And they are:
2. Oldboy
3. Magnolia
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. There Will Be Blood
6. Ghost World
7. Adaptation
8. WALL-E
9. Superbad
10. Synecdoche New York
11. No Country for Old Men
12. Mulholland Drive
13. 500 Days of Summer
14. Up
15. Ratatouille
Alright, enough from me! Let us know in the comments section below what your favourite movies are! We shall debate and we shall argue, but mostly, we shall celebrate a damn fine decade!
Discuss: What, I gotta say it again? What are your favourite films of the decade?
9 comments:
Love the list, even though mine is almost completely different. I still gotta check out Ratatouille and Synecdoche
For my money, I'd rank 'em
1. Memento (2000)
2. The Dark Knight (2008) (I'm a fanboy - sue me)
3. City of God (2002)
4. Lucky Number Slevin (2006) (I always get crap about this)
5. Up (2009)
6. American Psycho (2000)
7. Gone Baby Gone (2007)
8. Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)
9-11. The Lord of the Rings (I can't separate them)
12. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
13. Grindhouse (2007) (yes, both halves)
14. Oldboy (2004)
15. The Mist (2007)
For some reason I'm limiting myself to Ten films, and I wouldn't say these are necessarily the best films, but they are definitely my favourites for the decade:
1. Kill Bill
2. Up
3. High Fidelity
4. Monsters Inc
5. Step Brothers
6. Grindhouse
7. Amelie
8. Shaun of the Dead
9. All the real girls
10. Secretary
Lots of Tarantino and Pixar in there, an odd combination yes, but damn it I am a kid at heart and love a bit of snappy dialouge and violence at the same time!
MY List!
1.The Dark Knight
2.Tropic Thunder
3.The Crow
4.Clerks
5.Wanted
6.The Departed
7.Inglourious Basterds
8.Superbad
9.Toy Story
10.Star Trek
Haven't ranked them, my top ten are:
Memento
Lantana
Brokeback Mountain
The Insider
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Children of Men
In the Mood For Love
Million Dollar Baby
Pan's Labyrinth
hate to break this to you Tom, but Clerks, The Crow and Toy Story are all 90's babies. Otherwise, good list!
1. 25th Hour
2. Spirited Away
3. Waking Life
4. Children of Men
5. Land of the Dead
6. Eastern Promises
7. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
8. Requiem for a Dream
9. The Fountain
10. [Rec]
(special mention to A Scanner Darkly, No Country for Old Men, Crash and Drag me to Hell)
What about Slumdog Millionaire? A lot more than meets the eye, an excellent movie. Its about time we saw what goes on in the rest of the world instead of just our spoilt western minority.
Just as one can be in two places in once, it’s also near impossible to see all the “really good” films that are out there. Hence, I’ve only seen five of the 15 favourite films listed by the unknown Quickflix critic. Mine are decidedly arthouse and often foreign.
1. The Lives of Others
2. The Wrestler
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. Summer Hours
5. The Class
6. Disgrace
7. The Savages
8. Milk
9. Capote
10. Samson & Delilah
11. La Vie en Rose
12. As Good As It Gets
13. Beautiful Kate
14. Jindabyne
15. Sideways
Mine are:
1. The Departed
2. Children of Men
3. City Of God
4. The Dark Knight
5. Shaun of the Dead
6. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
7. Downfall
8. REC
9. Spider-Man 2
10. Wall-E
11. Sunshine (The Danny Boyle film)
12. Cloverfield
13. The Incredables
14. Let the Right One In
15. 24 Hour Party People
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