Top Films of the Decade: The 2000s - Voting Thread

[LMP]

Hey all, this was being tossed around in the Top 50 Films thread for a bit and it sounds like it would make another fun contest, so what the hell, let's do it. This time around, it's of the Top Films of The Decade in decade increments (as you can tell, we'll be starting backwards with The 2000s). You'll submit your Top 15 picks of what in your opinion were the BEST movies of said decade, instead of strictly favorites. You're more than welcome to revise your list as many times as you want as long as you tell me which one you want me to count; you can also put more than 15 movies on your list, I'll only count the Top 15. The films will be assigned a point value according to their placement on the list (15 points for #1, 14 points for #2, etc...). Films also get credit for being on multiple lists, I'm not sure how to figure that into the ratings though, that'll come later, I guess.

The main purpose of this thread is to provoke discussion about these films and each others' tastes... and most importantly for fun.

Please submit your list in the format provided below, it makes compiling and adding up votes 100x easier, trust me. No awkward spaces or reverse order lists, please. I cannot stress this enough.

1. Children of Men
2. The Man Who Wasn’t There
3. Lost in Translation
4. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
5. Almost Famous
6. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
7. Batman Begins
8. Sin City
9. Spider-Man 2
10. The Royal Tenenbaums
11. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
12. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
13. Shaun of the Dead
14. Grindhouse
15. The Prestige

(Honorable Mentions: A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, Big Fish, V for Vendetta)

Also, voting ends October 5th, 11:59 PM EST, so please submit your lists by that time. Hopefully this will be more successful than the last contest.

 

[monkeyskin]

Thanks for setting this up. Picking what I think have been the best films of this decade is going to a tough one though. I don't have a problem with it, it'll just take a bit more time than favourites

But yes, should be fun

 

[joyfulgirl]

I can't possibly come up with 15 at one time but I can throw in a couple as I think of them if that wouldn't be too annoying (and from your instructions, I'm guessing it might be). So someone should add The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Lives of Others (the best movie I saw this year) to their nicely organized list.

 

[LMP]

I can't possibly come up with 15 at one time but I can throw in a couple as I think of them if that wouldn't be too annoying (and from your instructions, I'm guessing it might be). So someone should add The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Lives of Others (the best movie I saw this year) to their nicely organized list.

Maybe you could put them in a Word doc and come back to them later, then submit. Would that help?

 

[Canadiens1131]

1. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
3. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

 

[MrPryck2U]

1- Kill Bill 1
2- Kill Bill 2
3- Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
4- Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
5- Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
6- Gladiator
7- The Departed
8- Batman Begins
9- Mystic River
10- 40 Year Old Virgin
11- Spider Man 3
12- Spider Man
13- Spider Man 2
14- Star Wars Episode Three: Revenge of the Sith
15- Shrek

 

[lazarus]

wait, didn't we just do Best of the 2000's a couple weeks ago in one of these threads? I could have sworn I just made out a list.

 

[LMP]

I think so, just copy and paste it over then.

 

[lazarus]

Hopefully this is close enough to what I did last time...

1. Spirited Away (Miyazaki, 2001)
2. Gangs of New York (Scorsese, 2002)
3. Cold Mountain (Minghella, 2003)
4. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000)
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004)
6. The Man Who Wasn't There (Coen Bros., 2001)
7. 2046 (Wong, 2004)
8. The New World (Malick, 2005)
9. Solaris (Soderbergh, 2002)
10. Royal Tenenbaums (Anderson, 2001)
11. The Princess & the Warrior (Tykwer, 2000)
12. The Aviator (Scorsese, 2004)
13. Lost in Translation (Coppola, 2003)
14. Millenium Actress (Kon, 2001)
15. Traffic (Soderbergh, 2000)

 

[WinnieThePoo]

1.Layer Cake
2.Sideways
3.Ghost World
4.City Of God
5.Snatch
6.28 Days Later
7.Irreversible
8.Kill Billi Vol1&2
9.40 Year old Virgin
10.Broken Flowers
11.The Fountain
12.Scanner Darkly
13.The Bourne Ultimatum
14.Zodiac
15.Munich

 

[FitzChivalry]

Okay, here we go, so far (I keep changing the order, but this is it for now). i'm trying to balance: films i've actually seen, films that broke the mold/forwarded cinema, major entertainment feats, character studies, etc.:

1. United 93
2. Lost In Translation
3. Memento
4. Mystic River
5. Syriana
6. Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers
7. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
8. Million Dollar Baby
9. Brokeback Mountain
10. Finding Nemo
11. 28 Days Later . . .
12. Sideways
13. Munich
14. Shaun Of The Dead
15. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban

 

[monkeyskin]

Argh this was tough, but here goes:

1. City of God
2. Memento
3. The Downfall
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
6. United 93
7. Spirited Away
8. This is England
9. Sideways
10. Dogville
11. Pan's Labyrinth
12. Punch-Drunk Love
13. Amelie
14. The Proposition
15. The Man Who Wasn't There

 

[MrPryck2U]

Yay, one of my movies was on IFC last night: Kill Bill 1. I can see that movie anytime its on.

 

[intedomine]

I haven't seen 15 films this decade, but I hope someone includes 24 Hour Party People. That was golden.

 

[LMP]

I haven't seen 15 films this decade, but I hope someone includes 24 Hour Party People. That was golden.

Are you not that big into watching lots of movies or current ones? I'm not trying to sound like a jerk, but less than 15 movies in 7 years is a little paltry.

 

[SeattleVertigo]

Alright, I'd like to give this a shot. Tough choices! And I have a feeling Into The Wild may crack this list when I see it. I'm sure I've probably forgotten some movies.

1. United 93
2. Rabbit-Proof Fence
3. Mystic River
4. Lost In Translation
5. House of Sand and Fog
6. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7. Before Sunset
8. The Good Girl
9. Hotel Rwanda
10. Maria Full of Grace
11. Broken Flowers
12. Omagh
13. Sideways
14. Whale Rider
15. Amelie

Other movies that earned consideration, because I rated them 5 stars on Netflix:

Babel
The Closet
Garden State
Good Night and Good Luck
North Country
Notes On A Scandal
Runaway Jury
The Sea Inside
The Secret Life of Words
Skins
Syriana
Thirteen
Walk The Line
Chocolat
The Last King of Scotland
Minority Report
Bobby
World Trade Center
Insomnia
Garden State
Cold Mountain
Notes On A Scandal
The Pianist

 

[LMP]

keep 'em comin' folks!

 

[Lancemc]

Oooh, fun shit.

1. Punch-Drunk Love
2. Spirited Away
3. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Lost In Translation
6. Children of Men
7. Brokeback Mountain
8. The Royal Tennenbaums
9. Little Miss Sunshine
10. Spring, Summer, Winter, Fall... and Spring
11. Road To Perdition
12. Spiderman 2
13. Almost Famous
14. V for Vendetta
15. Memento

 

[Screwtape2]

I went with my top 15 movies that will get little to no mention. No need for the same movies over and over again.

1. Mulholland Drive
2. Talk To Her
3. Phone
4. About Schmidt
5. Half Nelson
6. R-Point
7. Y Tu Mama Tambien
8. The Dreamers
9. Save The Green Planet
10. Acacia
11. The Dancer Upstairs
12. The Mothman Prophecies
13. Marebito
14. Three…Extremes
15. Intimacy

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

14. Three…Extremes

This one was supposed to be pretty brutal, how did you find it?

 

[Lancemc]

12. The Mothman Prophecies

Ooof.

 

[Screwtape2]

This one was supposed to be pretty brutal, how did you find it?

It is pretty brutal.

The Independent Film Channel shows a lot of Asian horror films like it.

 

[lazarus]

Ooof.

Yeah, but that was more than made up for by listing The Dreamers (very close to making my list) and Talk to Her.

 

[Screwtape2]

Yeah, but that was more than made up for by listing The Dreamers (very close to making my list) and Talk to Her.

Foreign films FTW!

 

[powerhour24]

Traffic (Soderbergh, 2000)
In America (Sheridan, 2002)
25th Hour (Spike Lee, 2002)
Mystic River (Eastwood, 2003)
Gangs of New York (Scorsese, 2002)
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Jackson, 2001)
Big Fish (Burton, 2003)
Zodiac (Fincher, 2007)
The Constant Gardener (Meirelles, 2005)
Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002)
United 93 (Greengrass, 2006)
Adaptation (Jonze, 2002)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001)
Requiem for a Dream (Aronofsky, 2000)
Children of Men (Cuaron, 2006)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen Brothers, 2000)
I Heart Huckabees (Russell, 2004)
Kingdom of Heaven (Ridley Scott, 2005)
A History of Violence (Cronenberg, 2005)
Atonement (Wright, 2007)
Insomnia (Nolan, 2002)

That's off the top of my head, I need to take out a few and put them in some sort of order, but I gotta, run. Editing later on. I also need to decide on which Spielberg, Eastwood, and Ridley Scott films to be there, so tough this decade has been quite strong. I've seen plenty of strong films that aren't going to make my list as these are ones that are also very much worth repeat viewings for one reason or another, there are films that are mind blowing experiences but just aren't something you can do again or get the same satisifaction from on repeats.

 

[monkeyskin]

Amen, Screwtape2.

Loved Y Tu Mama Tambien btw, that nearly made my list.

Long takes and sex ftw!

 

[powerhour24]

I forgot Road to Perdition (I really need to watch that again, it's been years), wow 2002 was a strong year.

 

[powerhour24]

1. United 93
2. 25th Hour
3. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
4. Traffic
5. Mystic River
6. Big Fish
7. The Constant Gardener
8. Minority Report
9. In America
10. Zodiac
11. Kingdom of Heave (DC)
12. Gangs of New York
13. Requiem for a Dream
14. The Royal Tenenbaums
15. Atonement (after one viewing)

I'll leave this, I don't know how happy I am with this, or how representative it really is, especially after such a long day, and besides new movies in theaters I've been kind of in a drought lately because I don't have time to watch anything

 

[LMP]

Has anyone ever attended a major festival, like Cannes, New York, Sundance, Toronto, SxSW, or Venice?

I really want to hit SxSw or Toronto someday.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

I've been to Toronto, It used to be ok but now that it's become popular it's a pain in the ass to get tickets...