A website I write for has asked for a "top ten films of the decade list". Not a huge list fan (they're insulting) and I've got half a mind to write some bullshit error-filled, pile-up that puts Casa Blanca number three behind Shrek and any Mastercard Ad. But, let's stick with the program and play by the rules, for no reason beyond I'm too lazy and I like movies too fucking much...
My top three is pretty much locked at:
1. The Royal Tenebaums
2. Punch Drunk Love
3. Borat
I'll fucking kill you if you don't agree with at least one of those.
Then there's a bunch of contenders for the remaining spots:
Kill Bill 2
O Brother Where Art Thou
Adaptation
25th Hour
Lost In Translation
Elephant (trailer below)
Sideways
There Will Be Blood
Black Hawk Down
Man On Wire (documentary)
No Country For Old Men
Away From Her (Canada)
Knocked Up
Wedding Crashers
Je rentre a la maison (I'm Going Home) (France)
Pan's Labyrinth
The Lives of Others
The Squid And The Whale
Ma femme est une actrice (My Wife Is An Actress) (France)
Almost Famous
What am I forgetting??????
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6 comments:
This decade is crap and this year is especially crap. Few interesting choices (aside from your obscure European crap ones) - Pan's Labrynth was good one. No Country for Old Man excellent choice.
Knocked Up was crap too. Squid and the Whale was not crap. Adaptation was another non-crap choice. Wedding Crashers was funny - but top ten of the decade? Crap choice. And get rid of your esoteric European artsy films - makes you look all crappy. Black Hawk Down was good too - all give you that. And Adaptation kicked the crap out of me.
True. If it's not made in the USA, it can't be good. It's the same with cars, literature and a lot of other stuff. Insert sound of voice clearing.
Laughed so hard at Wedding Crashers, I can only compare it to Borat. Laughter's the hardest emotion to illicit, so... But, not top 10 material...
Was I missing any?
It's interesting that you ask this question as we discussed it at the cottage a few weeks ago. If you are talking about 2000-20009 then I have a few that should be considered:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Traffic
the 3 Lord of the Rings movies
Gangs of New York
Crash
Babel
Little Miss Sunshine
Meet the Parents
Old School
American Pie
Sin City
Napolean Dynamite
Matrix
Talk to you boys in about 10 days.....take it easy
Barnesy out
A couple more from the 2000s to think about:
Memento
Donnie Darko
Snatch
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Requiem for a Dream
I thought Lock, Stock was better than Snatch. I think Old School was better than Wedding Crashers (by a hair). Interesting choice on Napolean Dynamite - lots of good stuff fellas. I'll try to think of some.
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