What's the best movie of the decade?

[Chainsaw]

25th Hour

I like character driven films with actors who "get it" as to the vision of the screenwriters, directors, artistic contributors and particularly when the film conveys something essential of the times.

The best film to do this in the last decade which I've seen is:
25th Hour.
Ed Norton, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Rosario Dawson and supporting cast do a wonderful job of conveying the times, post 911 in NYC. It's Spike Lee's best and I think will be remembered in time.

 

[BryceC]

NOW, we're talking about a good movie. Very good character development. Plus the moviemaker toys with the viewer and seduces them into liking the character and enjoying a fairly pedestrian movie.

Phaedrus, just admit you are a massive snob. :wink:

I liked pretty much all of the movies on your "crap" list and on your "good" list. It's possible to like a movie for the bubble gum aspect. You don't have to make it sound like a disability.

And Finding Forrester? Clearly you're a writer if you thought that was a great movie. To me it's just another pop piece that's been done a million times.

However I agree about Batman. Way to long and the ending with Dent is drawn out too much.

 

[BryceC]

Spirited Away

Were you able to enjoy this without dropping acid? I took my wife to this in the theater and she thought I was on crack for being so excited about going.

 

[Mr Janny]

Spider Man 2 might be the best super-hero film made..up to it's release other than Superman II...

Wow, the best super-hero film! Even if that were true, it's still like being the tallest midget: Good for you, but you still have to sit on a booster seat at Denny's.

Comic Book films as a genre rank right above Video Game films on the moviemaking scale as far as I am concerned. Since the material is a known quantity, you have built in fans, and you have a known universe from which to draw your story. And even so, most of them are terrible.

 

[Tarbox]

Other than the obvious Marvel/DC/Image/Etc.. Properties, these are all great adaptations from the funny books:

300
Road to Perdition
Men in Black
Unbreakable (kind of)
Sin City
Watchmen
Howard The Duck
Ghost World
Dennis The Menace
Constantine
Annie
Creepshow
Popeye
Heavy Metal
From Hell
Mystery Men
Ghost in the Shell
**** Tracy
The Mask
Barbarella
Flash Gordon
V for Vendetta
Akira
Oldboy
American Splendor
A History of Violence

 

[Frak]

Pan's Labrynth was an awesome movie. Borat was easily one of the funniest films of the decade.

 

[Tarbox]

Were you able to enjoy this without dropping acid? I took my wife to this in the theater and she thought I was on crack for being so excited about going.

There is enough.....enhancement?...floating around in mah guts that most things of this nature are enjoyable...and it helps a metric-s___ ton that my better half likes cool stuff....I came home from the station the other day to find her watching The Last Dragon...previous to that she had spent all day watching Sonny Chiba movies...

 

[mtowncyclone]

kung pow: enter the fist, hilarious

 

[LeBron]

8 Mile? 8 Mile. Are you serious?
Borat? Seriously?

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Borat from a comedic standpoint, but that was by NO means a good movie. Neither was 8 Mile.

8 mile was a great movie

 

[CYKOFAN]

1. Gladiator 2. The Guardian

 

[BryceC]

There is enough.....enhancement?...floating around in mah guts that most things of this nature are enjoyable...and it helps a metric-s___ ton that my better half likes cool stuff....I came home from the station the other day to find her watching The Last Dragon...previous to that she had spent all day watching Sonny Chiba movies...

Don't get me wrong, any movie that involves a kung fu fight with a guy in football pads and chucks is a win win.

 

[Al_4_State]

Pan's Labrynth was an awesome movie. Borat was easily one of the funniest films of the decade.

Borat was brilliant from a comedy/satire point of view. From developing the character, to flawlessly executing it, what Sasha Baron Cohen did was amazing. I've never laughed so hard, and it was so damn funny because the people on film were really reacting to him like that. From the old racist at the rodeo to the car salesman advising him how fast he would have to go to kill people, it's just a great job of pointing out how people really are...

 

[Mr Janny]

kung pow: enter the fist, hilarious

I agree, it was absolutely entertaining if you could accept the fact the movie did not take itself seriously at all, and was much more about taking an old film and adding ridiculous new dialog/characters/context. Taken at face value, it is horrendous, because the movie only really works if the viewer is "in on the joke," so to speak. Like the random scene where the two guys are singing about being ventriloquists. On the surface it makes no sense, but upon closer inspection, you see that in the original movie, their characters had very little dialog, so dubbing in a voice when they are obviously not talking would be stupid. However, if you set it up that they are ventriloquists, then you can have them say whatever you want, and it doesn't matter that their lips don't move. Something like that only works if the audience is on board with it.

 

[akclone]

Pirates and Pirates 2: Stagnettis Revenge

LOL

 

[Cydkar]

I'm gonna have to say The Dark Knight

Most overrated, maybe.

 

[akclone]

Grandma's Boy

 

[Angie]

Most overrated, maybe.

I have to agree that the movie itself is largely overrated (although it's the first blockbuster I enjoyed or would call "good" in a looooooong time). What was phenomenal in that movie was one performance - Heath Ledger's. That doesn't cover up some of the problems with it - I love Christian Bale, but he sounded ridiculous when he talked as Batman. Maggie Gyllenhall was just horrid, and totally unbelievable as his love interest. None of the other acting performances were phenomenal besides Ledger. The story doesn't stand up quite as well as Batman Begins, either.

 

[IcSyU]

I'm way too important and way too busy to scroll back and see who poo-poo'd on Borat and 8 mile but they are both important and good for many different and sexy ways.

I just read this, and I was the person, and those movies, from anything but a pure entertainment standpoint, sucked. The plots on both were horrible, the acting was horrible, but I did enjoy them.

 

[Tarbox]

kung pow: enter the fist, hilarious

Time to one-up you, son...

Kung Fu Hustle - vastly superior in every conceivable way...in fact I might go back and add that to my last ten years list...but that would entail me going back through all those posts and we all know how handsome, busy, and important I am....so is there a mod that can do it?

 

[Tarbox]

I just read this, and I was the person, and those movies, from anything but a pure entertainment standpoint, sucked. The plots on both were horrible, the acting was horrible, but I did enjoy them.

That's fine....I'll bet if you wish hard enough Hollywood will roll out a sequel to Timecop or Paul Blart.