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Here we are in 2010. The last decade has brought us a lot of great films, music, tech, and gadgets. Before we leave the last decade behind let's take a moment to remember the best of the decade, starting with film!
The last 10 years have given us films like the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Matrix: Reloaded and Matrix: Revolutions, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Departed, Pirates of the Caribbean Trilogy, Iron Man, Slumdog Millionaire, Sin City, Kill Bill, Star Trek, Spiderman 1-3, X-Men 1-3 and Origins, Transformers, and the list just goes on. There's been something for everyone and I think it's possibly one of the best decades we've had for big grossing, high quality blockbuster films.
With so much to choose from it might be hard picking favorites, but what are your top 5 films from the decade?
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Best of the Decade: Film Edition
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Posted 02 January 2010 - 11:18 PM
I always have such a hard time picking favorites from a decade. It's so much to consider. But, if I had to pick and choose my favorites from the last 10 years I'd have to go with:
(500) Days Of Summer
Watchmen
The Dark Knight
Almost Famous
Oldboy
I know a lot of these movies are more recent, with the top two being from 2009, but I'm going off of my favorites here, and that's the order. That is, it's the order from this decade at least.
(500) Days Of Summer
Watchmen
The Dark Knight
Almost Famous
Oldboy
I know a lot of these movies are more recent, with the top two being from 2009, but I'm going off of my favorites here, and that's the order. That is, it's the order from this decade at least.
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Posted 04 January 2010 - 07:33 AM
This is going to be tough, since I don't remember what all came out in the last decade. I just checked and a couple of movies I really like came out in '98 and '99, while a few others I could have sworn were made in the 90s came out in 2002-2004. It looks like fast food and the internet really have destroyed my long-term memory. Oh well, without giving it a whole lot of thought, here are five movies I really liked that I know came out in the last decade:
5: Master and Commander
This one drags a little at times, but overall, this is an incredibly entertaining film in a genre that seems to have been largely forgotten. When you talk about high-seas period action movies from the past decade, people seem to automatically go straight to the Pirates of the Caribbean films, but Master and Commander was a more thoughtful, emotional movie that offered a lot more in the way of character development and an intriguing plot in addition to the swashbuckling and epic navel battles. I like this movie so much, it actually makes me forget about what a douchebag Russell Crowe is for a few hours.
4: 300
Here's a movie that I adore for its honesty. 300 knows what kind of movie it is, it knows who its target audience is and what they want in a film, and it ultimately doesn't try to be anything more ostentatious than what it is. This film is about larger-than-life characters, incredible action sequences, and enough violence to desensitize a serial killer. This is action porn at its very best, and despite a huge budget and sky-high production values, ends up as one of most satisfyingly unpretentious movies I've seen in a very long time.
3: No Country For Old Men
Since nearly every critic in the business today has already said enough about this movie to compile a thousand-page novel devoted to how good it is, I'll simply say that I really enjoyed it. Finally, a thriller where you actually care about the characters and what happens to them! Why is this so hard to do on a consistent basis, Hollywood?
2: The Dark Knight
In my mind, the only bad thing about this movie is the wave of depression that hits you moments after the end credits begin to roll when you come to the realization that no one will ever make a better comic book superhero movie than this. Not too many films can say they've destroyed a genre, but TDK can make that claim without blinking. Then it laughs manically. And you love ever nightmare-inducing moment of it.
1: The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
I'm counting all three movies as one here because to give one more credit than the others feels a bit shortsighted. Much like the books, these are not three separate movies, but rather three parts to a single story. And what a story! Damn. People treat Avatar like hot shit because it's "so ground-breaking" and supposedly does things we as audience members have never seen in a movie before. How quickly we forget the acreage of ground broke by these three films, which not only wowed us with special effects that continue to be impressive more than half a decade later, but also had an amazing story to tell with universally sublime performances by a collection of some of the most talented actors working at the time.
Other movies I liked from the past decade include the first two X-Men flicks, Batman Begins, Casino Royale, Gran Torino, Ocean's Eleven, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And probably a couple others I can't think of at the moment.
5: Master and Commander
This one drags a little at times, but overall, this is an incredibly entertaining film in a genre that seems to have been largely forgotten. When you talk about high-seas period action movies from the past decade, people seem to automatically go straight to the Pirates of the Caribbean films, but Master and Commander was a more thoughtful, emotional movie that offered a lot more in the way of character development and an intriguing plot in addition to the swashbuckling and epic navel battles. I like this movie so much, it actually makes me forget about what a douchebag Russell Crowe is for a few hours.
4: 300
Here's a movie that I adore for its honesty. 300 knows what kind of movie it is, it knows who its target audience is and what they want in a film, and it ultimately doesn't try to be anything more ostentatious than what it is. This film is about larger-than-life characters, incredible action sequences, and enough violence to desensitize a serial killer. This is action porn at its very best, and despite a huge budget and sky-high production values, ends up as one of most satisfyingly unpretentious movies I've seen in a very long time.
3: No Country For Old Men
Since nearly every critic in the business today has already said enough about this movie to compile a thousand-page novel devoted to how good it is, I'll simply say that I really enjoyed it. Finally, a thriller where you actually care about the characters and what happens to them! Why is this so hard to do on a consistent basis, Hollywood?
2: The Dark Knight
In my mind, the only bad thing about this movie is the wave of depression that hits you moments after the end credits begin to roll when you come to the realization that no one will ever make a better comic book superhero movie than this. Not too many films can say they've destroyed a genre, but TDK can make that claim without blinking. Then it laughs manically. And you love ever nightmare-inducing moment of it.
1: The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
I'm counting all three movies as one here because to give one more credit than the others feels a bit shortsighted. Much like the books, these are not three separate movies, but rather three parts to a single story. And what a story! Damn. People treat Avatar like hot shit because it's "so ground-breaking" and supposedly does things we as audience members have never seen in a movie before. How quickly we forget the acreage of ground broke by these three films, which not only wowed us with special effects that continue to be impressive more than half a decade later, but also had an amazing story to tell with universally sublime performances by a collection of some of the most talented actors working at the time.
Other movies I liked from the past decade include the first two X-Men flicks, Batman Begins, Casino Royale, Gran Torino, Ocean's Eleven, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. And probably a couple others I can't think of at the moment.
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Posted 06 January 2010 - 02:56 AM
If you start from the year 2000 it is.
I'm not much of a movie person, so I'm not even gonna bother attempting to compile a list.
I'm not much of a movie person, so I'm not even gonna bother attempting to compile a list.
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