Top Ten Films of 2000-2009

[Still Servant]

Believe it or not, we are coming to the end of the decade. There have been tons of great films released in the last 10 years.

As we get closer to 2010, I have noticed a lot of lists popping up all over the net.

I thought it would be fun to list some of our favorite films from 2000 to the present.

When I first had the idea for this thread, I wanted to make my list to 50. After jotting down a few films, I soon realized I would never be able to put them in order. I now have over 50. Maybe I will sit down one day and decide the order. For now, here they are in no particular order:

The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Dark Knight
The Bourne trilogy
The Departed
In Bruges
Donnie Darko
Million Dollar Baby
Gladiator
Memento
Children of Men
Gone Baby Gone
A History of Violence
American Psycho
Rescue Dawn
Zodiac
Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
The Inglorious Basterds
The Savages
Superbad
Knocked Up
The 40 Year Old Virgin
Slumdog Millionaire
28 Days Later
Up
Wall-E
No Country For Old Men
Minority Report
Hero
Doubt
Gran Torino
The Wrestler
Juno
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Oldboy
Them
Memory of a Killer
Michael Clayton
Tell No One
Tsotsi
City of God
Garden State
Collateral
Pan's Labyrinth
Open Water
Little Miss Sunshine
The Hangover
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Black Hawk Down
In the Bedroom
Training Day
Road to Perdition
Last Samurai
The Cooler
Mystic River
Letters From Iwo Jima
Jarhead
United 93
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
District 9
Crash
Tropic Thunder
Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl

I know a lot of people (including myself) has said that Hollywood doesn't put out as many good films anymore. I think my list proves us all wrong.

I think Hollywood is putting out more films in general, so it looks like there isn't as much good stuff. In reality, there's a lot to like here. Hopefully, the next decade will be just as good.

[Sam]

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen is my vote! NOT!!

Let me think on this one for a while.

[Seymour_Glass]

Dude, good list. I see some overlap. However, I, too, will need time to ponder.

[flaggwalkstheline]

I think my favorite films from the 2000s are 28 days later n 28 weeks later, there will be blood, oh brother where art thou?, idiocracy, hmmm lemme think up some more...

[Seymour_Glass]

There Will Be Blood
Punch-Drunk Love
The Royal tenenbaums
The Departed
Inglourious Basterds
The Dark Knight
...
shit.
Be back with moar later.

[fernandito]

Damn good list Mikey.

Give me a few days to come up with mine.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

Well here is a list, certainly incomplete. However, the last decade probably has very few of my absolute favorite movies. I guess it would take a while to make that list.

Shrek
40 year old virgin
Superbad
Snatch
Monsters Inc
Open Season
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Ratatouille
Idiocracy
No Country for Old Men
Gladiator
300
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Kill Bill 1,2
Apocalypto
Sweeney Todd
King Kong
Cold Mountain
I Robot
I am Legend
Big Fish
Pirates of the Caribean
Ray
Walk the Line
Oceans 11/12/13
LotR trilogy
The Blind Side
Friday Night Lights
Knocked Up
Blood Diamond
The Terminal
Coraline
The Mist
Meet the Parents/Fockers

[stone, rose, unfound door]

The Wind that Shakes the Barley
The Last Samurai
Final Fantasy Advent Children
Surely a few more but I can't think of them now.

[pathoftheturtle]

The Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Dark Knight
...
Slumdog Millionaire
...
Gran Torino
...
Oldboy
...
Pan's Labyrinth
...
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
...
Crash
...

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Punch-Drunk Love
...

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Snatch
...
Apocalypto
...
Big Fish
...

...I know a lot of people (including myself) has said that Hollywood doesn't put out as many good films anymore. ...

"...That's the problem with the American cinema: Can't handle any complexity. 'Whoa! Don't make me think!' ..."

~ "White Goodman"
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)

[Heather19]

Mike, you put Them on your list

I'll put mine up shortly. I just need to think about it for a bit.

[Still Servant]

Mike, you put Them on your list

I'll put mine up shortly. I just need to think about it for a bit.

Heck yeah! I really enjoyed that film. Probably one of my top 5 horror films of the last decade.

[razz]

Nothing memorable. decade 2k, I am disappoint.

[IWasSentWest]

i liked hellboy for some reason

law abiding citizen was really good.

nobody has listed spider man? wow

and meet the robinson's was one of the best disney movies i've seen in a while

[turtlex]

Okay, my highlights for 2000-2009 :

( movies that I saw in the theater )

01/02/2000 - Magnolia
01/14/2000 - Girl, Interrupted
02/18/2000 - Boys Don't Cry
02/19/2000 - Pitch Black ( a great sci-fi / horror film )
04/02/2000 - High Fidelity
04/17/2000 - American Psycho
07/15/2000 - X-Men
09/23/2000 - Almost Famous
04/08/2001 - Blow ( probably my favorite Johnny Depp film )
06/15/2001 - Lara Croft:Tomb Raider
12/19/2001 - LOTR: Fellowship
05/04/2002 - SpiderMan
12/18/2002 - LOTR: Two Towers
04/19/2003 - Bend It Like Beckham
05/02/2003 - X-Men 2
11/02/2003 - Mystic River
12/16/2003 - LOTR Trilogy Special Editions
01/31/2005 - Million Dollar Baby
05/20/2005 - Crash
06/03/2005 - Lords of Dogtown
11/11/2005 - Capote
11/21/2005 - I Walk The Line
11/23/2005 - RENT
12/25/2005 - Brokeback Mountain
12/29/2005 - Narnia / Lion Witch Wardrobe
02/11/2006 - Imagine Me and You
02/11/2006 - Munich
03/20/2006 - V for Vendetta ( one of my all time favorite movies )
11/24/2006 - The Queen
03/02/2007 - Breach
10/06/2007 - Into The Wild
10/31/2007 - Gone Baby Gone
07/24/2008 - The Dark Knight
01/26/2009 - Doubt
05/01/2009 - Wolverine

2000 looks to be my favorite year of the decade.

[pathoftheturtle]

It's Spider-Man, Pam. Remember the Friends episode where they joked about using the Jewish pronunciation if it were spelled "Spiderman"?
Probably the quintessential superhero movie, I agree, though it never could have existed without Singer's timely and remarkable X-Men.

High Fidelity

OOoo... good point! Hadn't thought of that.

Gives the nod to Blow.

And I do love Rent, but, you know, it's tricky to decide if the film was a great film. Enjoyable, certainly, but what did it really contribute to the particular art?

Narnia, on the other hand... Yeah. Great succession into the ground broken by the surprisingly good LOTR films.

(Nobody wants to name the Star Wars prequels, or the sequels to 1999's The Matrix? ...
Right, as if! )

[flaggwalkstheline]

I just remembered what may be my favorite film of this decade!
Pans Labrynth

[Melike]

I just remembered what may be my favorite film of this decade!
Pans Labrynth

Absolutely! Pan's Labyrinth would be one of the movies on the top of my list.

[ICry4Oy]

I'd have to add Shaun of the Dead and Death at a Funeral to any list.

I'd have to remove any Tarantino film from any list.

Superbad really was super bad.

[turtlex]

As a real film geek - I actually keep a log of the films I see, so it was kind of easy for me to look through and figure out the one's I liked the best from the last 10 years or so.

Yes, Spider-Man !!!

And of course, I'm a huge comic fan - so I've seen, about, every comicbook film, but they weren't all favorites of mine.

Oh, for sure I don't consider all those films great. Actually, very few of them - but they are definitely my favorite filims of the decade.

And RENT is one of my favorites, but frankly - it's not that great a film. It's sort of cheesey and it was made way past it's time, but I love it - so it's there.

The Star Wars movies - you know, I did enjoy them, but they weren't my favorites. I had fun, but when I saw them on my list - they didn't jump out so I didn't include them.

I would have others, films I caught only on cable or DVD, but I needed a way to keep the list manageable.

[Heather19]

Pam you should do another list of films you didn't see in the theater.
There are quite a few good foreign ones, or ones that didn't get a wide release, and I'm quite curious what your other favorites are.

[turtlex]

Heather - There's not a spreadsheet out there that could track that. I see, literally, hundreds and hundreds of new movies every year - DVD, on demand, and cable. I would be dizzy with tracking it all.

I actually put the limit on myself, just the one's I see in the theaters!

[Sam]

Here's just a few from my list of the best of the decade.

The Last Samurai
Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
The Dark Knight
Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith
Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones
V for Vendetta
The Incredibles
Finding Nemo
Ratatouille
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Identity
Shooter
Shaun of the Dead
300
Shrek
Shrek 2
Kung Fu Panda
Iron Man
28 Days Later
Blade II (nothing like the stories, but a good film)
Casino Royale
Clerks II
Sky High
Miss Congeniality
Lilo & Stitch
Legally Blonde
and that's going to close it out for me. Just a few of my favorites of the decade.

[Still Servant]

Nothing memorable. decade 2k, I am disappoint.

You didn't find any movies from this decade memorable?

I find that hard to believe. You must go into more detail. I am honestly offended by that statement. I don't want to make a big deal about this, but I just find that impossible.

I know everybody has different opinions on movies and that's great, but to say that you didn't find any films from this decade memorable just seems crazy.

Either you have not seen enough films or you are a really hard critic. Or maybe your taste is really...different.

[Sam]

None of the above dude. We all know Razz just isn't human, he's Mr. Grey in a Razz suit.

[turtlex]

razz...... I know at least one you enjoyed... V for Vendetta.