Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far? — Page 2

You and the Oscar voters, dear.

They nominated the deathly boring Ray, didn't they? From that, I can't help but posit that they didn't particularly care for Eternal Sunshine but decided to give Charlie Kaufman a Lifetime Weirdness Award.

*gag*

1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Hedwig and the Angry Inch
3. Requiem for a Dream
4. The Barbarian Invasions
5. The Believer
6. No Man's Land
7. Gosford Park
8. In the Bedroom
9. Syriana
10. Mulholland Drive

If I went further:
11. Shortbus
12. Frida
13. Babel
14. Finding Nemo
15. Before Night Falls
16. Amores Perros
17. Finding Neverland
18. Talk to Her
19. In America
20. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
21. Far From Heaven
22. The Hours
23. Letters From Iwo Jima
24. Bowling For Columbine
25. 21 Grams
26. Tsotsi
27. House of Sand and Fog
28. Little Children
29. The Queen
30. Tarnation
31. Half Nelson
32. Elephant
33. Secretary
34. Passion of the Christ
35. Junebug
36. Borkeback Mountain
37. Munich
38. Pollock
39. The Pianist
40. United 93

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IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:

1. CHICAGO

2. SEABISCUIT

3. DREAMGIRLS

4. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

5. THE QUEEN

6. THIRTEEN

7. ELECTION

8. MOULIN ROUGE

9. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

10. MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING

There are obviously others (like GLADIATOR, A BEAUTIFUL MIND, ALMOST FAMOUS,etc.). However, these are my picks!

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Updated On: 3/3/07 at 11:20 PM

Mulholland Drive struck me as a masterpiece. Nothing else in the last six years has come even close. Admittedly, though, I don't see many films anymore. I used to see a lot and now I don't.

Okay I figured I'd make my list, but in no particular order:

1. Pan's Labyrinth
2. Eternal Sunshine
3. Almost Famous (Only Film of the last twenty years to crack my all time top 5 too)
4. Children of Men
5. Capote
6. The Departed
7. Mystic River
8. Mulholland Drive
9. The Pianist
10. Talk to Her

I realize that 3 are from this year, but I feel like the Departed will go down as one of the all time great crime classics. Pan's Labyrinth is a genius work of magic realism, and Children of Men was my single favorite film of the year. The fact that it was not nominated for best picture, nor was Cuarón nominated for best direction is absurd, in my opinion.

Also, I don't feel like Chicago is quite as good as everyone says it is. I love it and all, but to say that it is one of the ten best of the last 6 years is crazy to me. Yes it won the oscar, but I think we all know that that is not the best barometer of something's merit. I just feel like everyone was so surprised that a good Musical movie had been made that it has become vastly overrated. Again, Just my opinion.

I don't know if I could rank them yet, but here are ten that stand out to me, and that I can watch repeatedly:

Gosford Park
Moulin Rouge
Chicago
Dreamgirls
Lord of the Rings Trilogy (I'm cheating and listing it as one big fat trilogy)
Far From Heaven
Peter Pan
The Incredibles
A.I.
The Triplets of Belleville

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I stand by referring to CHICAGO as the worst film ever released by a major studio. Even Adam Sandler comedies, as lame as they are, are made with a degree of sheer minimal competence and edited with something approaching professionalism. CHICAGO looks as if it was made by blindfolded Chimpanzees and edited with a weed whacker.

There is room for some re-shuffling on my list of ten best, in a different mood I might include THE INCREDIBLES or Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN. If I was feeling really generous, I might include WAR OF THE WORLDS, if it didn't mean including that idiotic tacked on happy ending.

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Updated On: 3/4/07 at 10:06 AM

Me, too... Only a 'tard would think Chicago sucked.

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Updated On: 3/4/07 at 10:27 AM

"Well, I still don't care for what you said, Roscoe, but WHATEVER."

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in no order

little miss sunshine
eternal sunshine
dreamgirls
finding neverland
chicago
pirates of the caribbean
united 93