Top 25 movies of the 2000s

We have done the 1930s through the 1990s. I wasn't sure if I could come up with 25 from 2000s that I love. It's my least favorite decade so far, but a few all time favorites.

1. The Pianist
2. Mulholland Drive
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Best in Show
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
6. City of God
7. Mystic River
8. The Aviator
9. Kill Bill 1/2
10. Eastern Promises
11. Spider
12. Small Time Crooks
13. No Country for Old Men
14. In Bruges
15. The Pledge
16. Blow
17. Borat
18. Adaptation
19. Inglourious Basterds
20. Moon
21. Inland Empire
22. A History of Violence
23. The Departed
24. Let the Right One In
25. The Reader

 

Rating your list/films I’ve seen.[QUOTE="palisantrancho, post: 22375483,
1. The Pianist 7/10
2. Mulholland Drive 8/10
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 8/10
4. Best in Show 7/10
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 9/10
6. City of God 7/10
7. Mystic River 7/10
8. The Aviator 7/10
9. Kill Bill 1/2 10/10
10. Eastern Promesse 9/10
11. Spider 8/10
12. Small Time Crooks 7/10
13. No Country for Old Men 10/10
14. In Bruges 9/10
15. The Pledge 7/10
16. Blow 7/10
17. Borat 8/10
18. Adaptation 9/10
19. Inglourious Basterds 7/10
20. Moon 7/19
22. A History of Violence 8/10
23. The Departed 8/10[/QUOTE]

 

Lots of good films in that decade...

Almost Famous
The Aviator
The Dark Knight
The Departed
The Incredibles
Inglorious Basterds
Iron Man
Kill Bill
Memento
No Country for Old Men
Open Range
Zodiac

I loved the way Avatar looked, but the story was very corny -- still an important film of this period. Brokeback Mountain I liked but didn't love. Minority Report was a terrific film in some ways that didn't completely come together for me. I included Open Range mainly because I worked on it but also because I thought it was a terrific take on a traditional Western with some unexpected twists... and I generally don't like Westerns.

 

Open Range?
Didn’t like the maudlin romance story. But the swiss chocolate scene and shootout in the end made up for it. Pity the director /actor Kevin Costner can’t make another western he was excellent at it.

 

That was a good decade in my book. Let's see...

American Psycho
Wet Hot American Summer
The White Sound
Caché
Good Bye, Lenin!
Downfall
The Lives Of Others
The White Ribbon
The Counterfeiters
A Beautiful Mind
Catch Me If You Can
Fish Tank
Valhalla Rising
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Oldboy
The Aviator
Swades
Hard Candy
Adam's Apples
Little Miss Sunshine
Hot Fuzz
Into the Wild
Revanche
Loft (the belgian original)
Up In The Air

Lots of runner-ups, too! Many great films were released in those ten years.

 

No order

Memento
It’s Such a Beautiful Day
Oldboy
Rabbit
Werkmeister Harmonies
Songs From the Second Floor
Battle Royale
Mulholland Drive
Cat Soup
Ichi the Killer
CityOf God
Dogville
The Triplets Of Belleville
A Tale Of Two Sisters
Primer
The Assassination Of Richard Nixon
Grizzly Man
Munich
Borat
Taxidermia
There Will Be Blood
My Winnipeg
Man On a Wire
Synecdoche New York
Mary and Max

 

10/10
9/10
Only ...
Kingdom Of Heaven 10/10
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 9
Kill Bill 1/2 ..10
Eastern Promises 9
No Country for Old Men 10
Zodiac 10
There Will Be Blood 10

 

1. There Will Be Blood
2. Almost Famous
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Royal Tennenbaums
6. Zodiac
7. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
8. Mulholland Drive
9. Adaptation
10. Anchorman
11. The Departed
12. Kill Bill
13. Bubba Ho-Tep
14. About Schmidt
15. Synechdoche, NY
16. Cast Away
17. Elf
18. Vanilla Sky
19. High Fidelity
20. American Splendor
21. Tropic Thunder
22. The Prestige
23. Punch Drunk Love
24. The Illusionist
25. The Mist
26. Death to Smoochy

 

1. Wonder Boys
2. The Station Agent
3. C.R.A.Z.Y.
4. Almost Famous
5. The Shipping News
6. Good Bye Lenin!
7. Zodiac
8. Notes on a Scandal
9. Laurel Canyon
10. Gosford Park
11. Amelie
12. Me Without You
13. The Safety of Objects
14. Ghost World
15. Insomnia
16. One Hour Photo
17. The Dreamers
18. Something's Gotta Give
19. The Best of Youth
20. Mysterious Skin
21. Ladies in Lavender
22. Lonesome Jim
23. The Interpreter
24. The Bourne Identity
25. Lars and the Real Girl

 

[/QUOTE]
Pretty close to how I would rank them with a few exceptions.
Pianist- 10
Best in Show- 9
City of God- 9
No Country for Old Men- 8
In Bruges- 8
Adaptation- 8
History of Violence- 7

 

Nice list. I haven't seen about half of these.

 

Pretty close to how I would rank them with a few exceptions.
Pianist- 10
Best in Show- 9
City of God- 9
No Country for Old Men- 8
In Bruges- 8
Adaptation- 8
History of Violence- 7[/QUOTE]
I like ranking films it gives you a better evaluation. Some like the 1/10 rank order some prefer 1/4 ranking system.

 

A few of these I also haven't seen in awhile and I am most likely being generous on a few of them. I have recently started rating on IMDB right after watching a movie so I can look back and see what I thought. Certain films I have seen many times and know they are a 9 0r a 10 in my book. Ratings can also change over time. Sometimes a film doesn't hold up as much as I thought and sometimes it's better than I gave it credit for. My lists are not really in order, but usually the first few I list are top favorites.

 

I’ve ranked over 6000 films on IMDb (miss the message boards). But ..yeah, I’ve occasionally gave a film new to me 5/10 only to watch the film a few years later and give it 7/10 upgrade.

 

Wow! Nice! I wish I did this years ago! I only have a couple hundred rated so far. I agree about the message boards. I loved them. It doesn't make sense that they got rid of them. That was the main reason I visited IMDB.

 

Major gripe re; the loss of the message boards.

 

Personal favorite movies of the 2000's:

Memento (2000)
Final Fantasy The Spirits Within (2001)
Moulin Rouge (2001)
Vanilla Sky (2001)
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (2002)
28 Days Later (2002)
Lord of the Rings Return of the King (2003)
Lost In Translation (2003)
Primer (2004)
Shawn of the Dead (2004)
The Descent (2005)
The Proposition (2005)
Sin City (2005)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
The Prestige (2006)
Big Man Japan (2007)
The Nines (2007)
Sunshine (2007)
Superbad (2007)
1408 (2007)
The Dark Knight (2008)
Let The Right One In (2008)
District 9 (2009)
Star Trek (2009)

 

Wow! At least someone liked it! I have never seen it. I only know of its awful reputation with a 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. I have always been intrigued. I will have to watch.

 

Completely disagree about it not being that great of a decade. I have spent the last couple of days preparing for this. I still can't narrow my 90's or 80's list down to 25, I was only able to make a list for 2000 - 2009 by cutting off some of the popcorn flicks, like Talladega Nights and the first Fast and the furious movie(the only one I like of the franchise). I also had to cut some lesser known films like Talk to me: the story of "Petey" Green and most of my foreign films. I tried to go with films I love that I have actually had conversations with people about. It really hurt cutting Takeshi Kitano's Dolls.

Here's my list;

Blue Spring (Aoi haru) (Japan)
Battle Royale (Japan)
Traffic
Gangs of New York
Old Boy (South Korean film)
Bad Santa
Kill Bill
Mystic River
The Aviator
Collateral
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Sin City
Blood Diamond
The Departed
Children of Men
Apocalypto
Casino Royale
3:10 to Yuma
American Gangster
No Country for Old Men
Body of Lies
The Dark Knight
Tropic Thunder
Gran Torino
Public Enemies

There was no way I could cut Blue Spring, as it is one of my all time favorite films.

 

The Pianist
Frequency
Gladiator
The Zodiac
A Beautiful Mind
The Devil's Backbone
The Fast and the Furious
From Hell
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Ocean's Eleven
The Ring
Lilo & Stitch
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Spirited Away
Vanilla Sky
Frida
Kill Bill: Volume 1
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Kill Bill: Volume 2
The Incredibles
Amazing Grace
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Darjeeling Limited
Inglourious Basterds

**honorable mention to Asian horror fad of this era

 

Hmm. If you split 2000 to 2019 in half, the large majority of movies mentioned are from the first half. Not a promising trend.

 

Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings- Two Towers
Lord of the Rings - Return of the King
Elf
Gladiator
Remember the Titans
Oceans 11
Bourne Identity
About a Boy
The Pianist
About Time
Midnight in Paris
The Terminal
Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightly)
The Holiday
The Savages (Laura Linney/Phillip Seymour Hoffman)
Lars and The Real Girl
Erin Brockovich
Serendipity
3:10 to Yuma
The Rookie (Dennis Quaid)
Spotlight
Legend of Bagger Vance
Saint Vincent
Miracle

 

You're all crazy. Frozen is easily the best film made this century.

#2? Up

 

Adaptation
American Splendor
Amores Perros
Best in Show
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Dogtooth
Far from Heaven
Fish Tank
Ghost World
Gosford Park
Hidden
I’m not There
In the Mood for Love
Last Resort
Lost in Translation
The Man Who Wasn’t There
A Mighty Wind
Moolaade
Morvern Callar
Mulholland Dr.
Persepolis
Pieces of April
Requiem of a Dream
A Scanner Darkly
The Secret in their Eyes
Spirited Away
The Station Agent
Talk to Her
2 Days in Paris
Volver
White Material
The White Ribbon
The Wrestler
Y Tu Mama Tambien

A few more than 25 ...

 

About a Boy
Almost Famous
American Psycho
Casino Royale
An Education
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ghost World
Hot Fuzz
Låt den rätte komma in (Let the Right One In)
Little Miss Sunshine
The Lives of Others
Lost In Translation
Man On Wire
Midnight in Paris
Mulholland Dr.
Napoleon Dynamite
No Country for Old Men
Open Range
The Royal Tenenbaums
El secreto de sus ojos (The Secret In Their Eyes)
Shaun of the Dead
Swimming Pool
Up
Zodiac
Zombieland