Best Films of the 2000s: Q1 • Page 3

Darjeeling Limited is probably his most underrated film. People around that time were starting to mock his style and accuse him of just making the same film over and over again. It's the first film I ever drove an extended distance to see.

The Wind That Shakes the Barley has gotten a lot more attention recently. It felt mostly forgotten after it came out.

 

Wet Hot American Summer and 28 Days Later are really good picks.

 

how far did you drive?

Children of Men is the most overrated movie in this thread

 

Orlando, about 75 minutes. They get a lot of better movies overall.

Children of Men is the tenth best film of the century so far.

 

Why?

 

It is about why we continue and why we endure, despite every reason to give up. Why did we make skyscrapers and the Mona Lisa and put people in space? Even among those of us who have chosen to not have children, the idea that we are building toward a better future persists. How would we act if that was taken away from us? Why shouldn't I put a brick through the other guy's windshield?

 

Only 8 lists so far. Not nearly enough to determine a winner. Making the thread and then refusing to make your own list is cowardly.

 

I said I need time!

 

Fine:
1. The Master
2. Spring Breakers
3. There Will Be Blood
4. The Irishman
5. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
6. Wet Hot American Summer
7. American Psycho
8. House of 1000 Corpses
9. The Tree of Life
10. Holy Motors

 

Honorables:
The Act of Killing
This is Not a Film
Good Time
The Rules of Attraction
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
First Reformed (just watched)
The Jackasses
Superbad
Punch Drunk Love
Synecdoche New York
In Bruges
Royal Tenenbaums
It Follows
The Fabelmans
In a Violent Nature (too new)

 

Act of Killing was in consideration for my list

 

I have never understood what people see in In Bruges, but the rest is pretty great.

 

Agreed, I liked it when I first saw it as a teenager but was disappointed when I revisited

 

What was the last year in film thread? 2020? Could spin it back up.

 

The film year threads and the brackets were the golden era.

 

1. Mulholland Dr
2. The Tree of Life
3. There Will Be Blood
3. Synecdoche New York
4. The Master
5. Dogviile
6. The Wailing
7. Children of Men
8. Fish Tank
9. Certified Copy
10. Moonlight

So many I still need to see. Really feel like I’m not thinking of some great foreign language films I’ve seen.

 

Never heard of The Wailing.

The Master looks like it could win.

 

I'm starting to overthink this, so I'm just gonna roll with the below. Lots of tough cuts obviously.

20. The Grand Budapest Hotel
19. Mad Max: Fury Road
18. Burn After Reading
17. Under the Skin
16. Punch Drunk Love
15. Moonlight
14. Boyhood
13. Manchester by the Sea
12. The Social Network
11. Uncut Gems
10. Aftersun
9. Spring Breakers
8. Zodiac
7. No Country for Old Men
6. The Irishman
5. Synecdoche, New York
4. In the Mood for Love
3. There Will Be Blood
2. Mulholland Drive
1. The Master

 

Let me know if you check it out, it’s great. It’s horror and a lot more.

 

The Wailing is great

 

Boyhood is such an achievement it probably deserves a spot in the top 10

 

@jkauf seems to be a fan too. If it is good enough to make your list I will try to get to it by spring break.

 

I find comedy is extremely localised, much more than any other genre. Comedy often doesn’t translate very well, even in English.

A lot of the mid-00s American comedies that people love on here don’t work for me at all, I find them very unfunny, same with a lot of American sitcoms. If I were to make a list of my favourite comedies, they’d pretty much all be British, Irish or from New Zealand, and it’s not that I think we’re funnier people or that everybody should love these shows / films.

It’s pretty rare I see a subtitled comedy that I think is really funny too. I think so much verbal comedy (as opposed to visual comedy, which does translate) is just heavily reliant on the specific culture it’s made in, whereas a melodrama or a love story or whatever can be more universal.

 

without a ton of thought and using a bias sorter

1. Zodiac
2. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
3. Avatar: The Way of Water
4. No Country for Old Men
5. The Irishman
6. Punch-Drunk Love
7. Moonlight
8. Good Time
9. Dune/Dune Part Two
10. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
11. The Darjeeling Limited
12. Mad Max: Fury Road
13. Children of Men
14. Manchester by the Sea
15. Synecdoche, New York
16. Shithouse
17. Collateral
18. Parasite
19. Adventureland
20. Everybody Wants Some!!
21. Nope
22. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
23. Gone in 60 Seconds
24. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
25. Casino Royale

 

I will never forget the Hollywood Video clerk who warned my mom not to rent Punch-Drunk Love because it was stupid and not a regular Adam Sandler movie. One of the handful of movies in high school that blew my mind.