Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far? — Page 3

#51

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/4/07 at 12:33pm

I've admitted the unfortunate reference, and changed the posting to remove it.

Getting my facts straight about the correct spelling of DOWN'S SYNDROME or DOWN SYNDROME (I've seen it spelled both ways) is one thing, but I'll not apologize for thinking that CHICAGO is the worst film ever released by a major studio, a vile monstrosity with little if any redeeming value.

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#52

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/4/07 at 1:54pm

So, Chicago was worse than "From Justin to Kelly"?

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#53

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/4/07 at 2:00pm

Million Dollar Baby
Chicago
Babel
Crash

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#54

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/4/07 at 2:03pm

Dreamgirls
Chicago
Million Dollar Baby
Pans labyrinth
Brokeback

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#55

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/4/07 at 3:07pm

How in the world can you say CHICAGO is a bad movie. The music enough makes it a marvelous film. Not to mention the lavish sets and costumes, perfect directing, and spot on performances.

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#56

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/4/07 at 4:24pm

Nobody listing High School Musical?

#57

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/4/07 at 6:08pm

no order, and not 10 cause i have a headache and not enough time to really think about it


Donnie Darko
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Cidade De Deus
Chicago
and i realize it's a mini series but
Angels in America

#58

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/4/07 at 10:44pm

I forgot about some, so here's my updated list:

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Brokeback Mountain
3. Lost in Translation
4. Capote
5. Pan's Labyrinth
6. The Pianist
7. Munich
8. The Dreamers
9. The Hours
10. Far From Heaven

11. Little Miss Sunshine
12. United 93
13. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
14. Good Night, and Good Luck
15. Gladiator
16. Mystic River
17. Y Tu Mama Tambien
18. Finding Nemo
19. Maria Full of Grace
20. Million Dollar Baby

21. Vera Drake
22. Chicago
23. Finding Neverland
24. The Queen
25. Letters from Iwo Jima
26. Sideways
27. Volver
28. King Kong
29. Cinderella Man
30. Requiem for a Dream

31. Babel
32, A Prairie Home Companion
33. A Beautiful Mind
34. Gosford Park
35. Mean Girls

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#59

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 1:54am

"2. Brokeback Mountain

Good movie, but wouldn't even put it in my top 10 of the last 2 years.


"8. The Dreamers"


A truly TERRIBLE film


"28. King Kong"

A Joke of a movie.

#60

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 11:47am

My choices in no order

1. Brokeback Mountain
2. Gosford Park
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. Dreamgirls
5. Chicago
6. The Dreamers
7. Donnie Darko
8. Requiem for a Dream
9. The Lord of the Rings
10. Babel

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#61

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 11:56am

The movies of this decade people will not forget:

MULHOLLAND DRIVE
THE PIANO TEACHER
MOULIN ROUGE
CHICAGO
IRREVERSIBLE
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH
ALMOST FAMOUS
LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY
SPIRITED AWAY
THE INCREDIBLES

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Updated On: 3/5/07 at 11:56 AM

#62

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 12:42pm

Some of the movies that did things a bit differently or at least come to mind in the sea in redundancy that gets churned out-- ranked in no particular order:


Mulholland Drive
Moulin Rouge
Memento
Adapation
Y tu mamá también
Sin City

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#63

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 12:57pm

No order really:

Nine Queens
Sexy Beast
Royal Tenenbaums
Tokyo Godfathers
Dogville
Fog of War
Amores Perros
Mulholland Drive
City of God
The Incredibles


Probably would put Amores or Fog at the top.

#64

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 1:54pm

English Language:

Moulin Rouge
Requiem for a Dream
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Traffic
United 93
Little Miss Sunshine
Best in Show
Brokeback Mountain
The Hours
Mulholland Drive

Foreign Language:

Talk to Her
Pan's Labyrinth
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Amelie
All About My Mother
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Sea Inside

Animated:

Finding Nemo
Shrek
The Incredibles

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#65

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 2:01pm

lildogs, Fog of War was really great. If you liked it, I bet you'd really enjoy "Iraq in Fragments", too. I actually preferred it to Fog of War.

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#66

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 2:09pm

ewwwww, another vote for The Dreamers? What is it that people liked about that movie? It was so void of anything redeemable. Even the normally capable Pitt was flat.

#67

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 2:18pm

I almost put THE DREAMERS on that list--i think it appeals to a certain type of film fan--it's not really about performances--it's about being a movie lover.

Matt--I would have included ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER too--but I thought it was a '99 release...

It's gonn have to be GREAT to beat FOG for me, touchme. What I think is so great about that film is that (to me) it's endlessly entertaining and beautifully scored. It's almost incidental that it's a doc.

#68

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 2:33pm

I really enjoyed The Dreamers, too. I wouldn't put it on a best of the decade, but it was still a very good film. The dialogue is a little stilted and heady -- not my cup of tea.

Fog of War does have a beautiful score. Iraq in Fragments doesn't have that same beauty to the score, but it does have a wonderfully interesting documentary feel to it. Like Fog of War, it doesn't intrude on the storytelling with commentary, but rather allows a story to be told void of comment -- leaving an audience open to hearing a point of view. Something most documentaries don't do these days. It was my favorite documentary this year -- very close second was Jesus Camp (mostly because I lived in Jesus Camp as a child).

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#69

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 2:37pm

I talked about Jesus Camp before, but yes, it has many of FOG's qualities.

I agree about THE DREAMERS, I think it's a "sentimental" choice--not like SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN sentimental, but Sam Fuller sentimental.

I love the way it's cut with old film footage--which is the main reason I liked the film--plus it was very sexy.

#70

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 2:49pm

Yes, it doesn't get much sexier than Mr. Pitt, for me.

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#71

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 3:07pm

"it's not really about performances--it's about being a movie lover."


Well, at least you have COMPLETELY divorced yourself from logic now.

That statement doesnt make any sense. So you admit the performances are bad? Well, when you put that with the terrible script then the movie obviously TERRIBLE. And what does liking a TERRIBLE movie have to do with being a movie lover? I'm a movie lover, and found this movie insulting.

#72

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 3:10pm

I didn't say the performances were bad--I said it wasn't ABOUT performances--it's a cinematic essay about a small period in cinematic history--it's not made for the general public.

I'm sorry if you were offended as a movie lover, I'm sure that was not Bernardo's intent.

#73

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 3:11pm

i wasn't offended as a movie lover, i was offended as someone with brain cells. The movie was an insult to thinking human beings.

#74

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 3:15pm

liverpool, it's one of those where you had to be there.

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#75

re: Top 10 Movies Of The New Millenium So Far?

Posted: 3/5/07 at 3:17pm

Where? paris in the 60s? or in the theatre clearly drugged out of my mind?