Top 10 Best Movies of the Decade

[Mudcat]

According to the guys from At The Movies.

Michael Phillips

10) Minority Report
9) Gosford Park
8) Mulholland Drive
7) United 93
6) Zodiac
5) Y Tu Mama Tambien
4) Once
3) Climates
2) Ratatouille
1) There Will Be Blood

A.O. Scott

10) Million Dollar Baby
9) 25th Hour
8) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
7) 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
6) The Best of Youth
5) Where The Wild Things Are
4) The Pianist
3) Brokeback Mountain
2) A.I.
1) WALL-E

[Sledge187]

I would add Freddie Got Fingered, Borat and The Hangover.

[paco]

Casino
blood in blood out
carlitos way
braveheart
belly
Bronx tale
in too deep
Donnie brasco
city of god
lord or war

[Bread]

Pan's Labyrinth
The Fall
The Sixth Sense
Saving Private Ryan
Braveheart
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Atonement
Requiem for a Dream

[Deuce]

A decade is a period of ten years. Although all of their selections are whore shit.

[DwightShrute]

My top 10 in no particular order

The Departed
Apocalypto
No Country for Old Men
Million Dollar Baby
Hard Candy
The Incredibles
The New World
40 Year Old Virgin
The Air I breathe (great gambling part in it)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Anchorman

[BGS 9.5]

A decade is a period of ten years. Although all of their selections are whore shit.

[jackpot269]

AT least 1 of the borne movies

[bighank33]

ANCHORMAN!!!!!!!

[katstale]

How can one honestly view current state of America and not put Idiocracy in that list. Visionary work

[DwightShrute]

shit forgot Anchorman! , gonna add that to my list now - great movie

my favorite clip

[geebert74]

Both of the Transformers movies... Made me feel like a kid again!

[Mudcat]

Yes, by decade they mean 2000 - the end of 2009. Many movies you guys have listed aren't from the decade.

It's pretty easy to pick apart lists like those (fukking Spike Lee?) but overall they don't seem too bad to me.

It kind of makes me reflect on how bad the Oscars are sometimes. At least some of the bad Best Picture choices from the decade aren't on the lists.

Lord of the Rings?
Chicago?
Crash?

[DwightShrute]

Yes, by decade they mean 2000 - 2010. Many movies you guys have listed aren't from the decade.

2000-2009 actually, including 2010 would be 11 years.

[Bread]

yes adding Anchorman. I quote that movie at least 5 times a day, every day.

[pavyracer]

Here is my list:

1. Saw
2. Saw II
3. Saw III
4. Saw IV
5. Saw V
6. Saw VI
7. Saw VII
8. Saw VIII
9. Saw IX
10. Saw X

[90 Proof]

I would add Freddie Got Fingered

That was arguably the worst movie of the decade:

http://www.reelviews.net/php_review_template.php?identifier=1485

Before I embark upon an extended streak of name-calling and Tom Green-bashing, let me say a few words about the subjective nature of comedy. Everyone has a different opinion of exactly what constitutes good humor. For some people, its Victor Borga. For others, it's Monty Python. And for still others, its Tom Green. (Hopefully, those in the latter category aren't numerous.) I like to think that I have a fairly broad-based sense of humor (I suppose everyone says the same thing). I can laugh equally hard at Mark Russell, This Is Spinal Tap, American Pie, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Green, however, doesn't do anything for me. On those rare occasions when my channel surfing has brought me to his MTV show, I have rarely stopped for more than a minute or two before moving on. I'm sure Green fans, inasmuch as there are Green fans, will delight in the cesspool that is Freddy Got Fingered. The film probably delivers what they are expecting.

Having said that, however, I have to report that this motion picture is arguably the worst piece of cinematic crap I have ever experienced theatrically. Hyperbole, you wonder? I looked through my list of zero-star movies and couldn't find one entry (except the immortal Zombie Vs. Mardi Gras, which was a straight-to-video release) that ranked as more difficult to endure. Words like abomination and travesty don't do this movie justice. Sitting through Freddy Got Fingered was one of the most depressing experiences in my 10 years of reviewing films. It's not even enjoyable on a campy level. It's just bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.

Freddy Got Fingered takes gross-out humor to a new low. In the process, it uncovers another layer of the MPAA's inconsistency. How could anything this foul be granted an R-rating? Eyes Wide Shut, Requiem for a Dream, and The War Zone were all awarded NC-17s in their original cuts, but Freddy Got Fingered is given an R? What are the members of the ratings board inhaling?? And it's not as if the humor is so subtle that they could have missed something.

At any rate, Freddy Got Fingered is so awful that it turns the likes of Battlefield Earth and 3000 Miles to Graceland into pretenders to the label of a bad movie. It makes American Pie appear like a representation of high brow comedy, and fools us into thinking that Pink Flamingos is a bastion of good taste. Most depressing of all, as I was sitting through Freddy Got Fingered, the idea occurred to me that it might be preferable to sneak into the theater next door to watch Josie and the Pussycats a second time.

Is there a plot? I suppose, although it's just a flimsy excuse to allow writer/director/star Tom Green to spend time mugging for the camera and doing his X-rated comedy sketches. Green plays Gord Brody, a loser who goes to Hollywood to become a star cartoonist. When things don't work out, he moves back in with his Dad (Rip Torn - whose reputation gets both ripped and torn) and Mom (Julie Hagerty), but a running feud develops between him and dear old Dad. Meanwhile, Gord gets a girlfriend, Betty (Marisa Coughlan in a career-killing performance), who's confined to a wheelchair and is obsessed with performing oral sex on him. In the end, everything turns out all right - especially for those who have long since escaped the theater to do something better with their time.

I don't understand Tom Greens appeal, nor do I comprehend who comprises his target demographic. Infants? (The silly expressions and incessant repetition of words would go over well with them.) Teenage boys? Drew Barrymore? People who are drunk, stoned, or both? Maybe the criteria is that you need to be two of the above. There is nothing here about Green that I find funny (although I liked him in Road Trip). Maybe it's that he tries too hard for laughs, or that his few potentially funny bits are far too obvious. As I said, comedy is subjective, and watching this guy do his shtick makes me feel like I'm being subjected to some form of inhuman torture. He's the most irritating and repugnant thing to come from MTV since Pauly Shore. Check that... Shore never made anything as bad as Freddy Got Fingered. In fact, Ed Wood never made something this unwatchable.

In his attempts to introduce movie-goers to things they have never before viewed inside the hallowed halls of the local multiplex, Green gives us some cinematic moments that seem destined to become classics. For example, there's the time he parks his car by the side of the road for no apparent reason, then runs over to a nearby horse and masturbates it. Or later, when he does the same thing to an elephant so he can use its ejaculation as a weapon. Or when he licks the exposed bone in his friend's leg injury. There is also a running joke about child molestation, and a young kid who is constantly being knocked down, hit in the face, or smashed in the head (with the result usually being copious amounts of blood). It has been said (and rightfully so) that any topic can be the fodder for humor, as long as the treatment is funny. However, just because something is shocking and offensive doesn't make it worthy of laughter. No none involved with Freddy Got Fingered learned that lesson.

The screenplay has an obvious love of the word ****. It is used in all of its permutations: noun, verb, adjective, adverb. I think every actor (except perhaps Julie Hagerty) has to say it more than once. Those intrigued by the versatility of the word may want to investigate this film (there's no other reason to do so). On one occasion, the picture actually puts it to good use. About five minutes before the end credits, during a crowd scene, one extra holds up a placard reading When the **** is this movie going to end? It's something I'm sure just about every audience member was wondering. The answer: about two hours too late. At any length, Freddy Got Fingered would be too long. I'm just sorry there's nothing nasty enough that I can write in this review to suitably repay everyone involved in the ruination of 90 minutes of my life. I have gotten better entertainment value from a colonoscopy.

[lakerboy]

Havent seen a good movie this whole decade. 2009 has to be the worst year of them all

[Mudcat]

It's hard to make a list. It's hard to remember everything.

If I just go by the ratings I have given at imdb - and take out the documentaries because I rated a lot of those highly but no one probably heard of most of them - I come up with something like this:

10) Almost Famous
9) Charlie Wilson's War
8) Memento
7) Sin City
6) The Kite Runner
5) Seabiscuit (I loved that damn horse)
4) Mystic River
3) Monster's Ball
2) The Departed
1) Michael Clayton


That doesn't look right though. Either it was a bad decade for movies or I am forgetting some stuff.

[Nicky Santoro]

boy, to show you how much i really like movies.. i swear to god, out of the original 20 movies of 2009 listed on 1st post here, i swear i've ONLY heard of 2 of them.. million dollar baby and brokeback mountain. and i nver saw them either. but goes to show how much i follow movies as i can only name 2 movies in the whole decade. And i watch a lot of late night tv talk shows and TMZ and i still can name you only 2.. that's how i heard of them, from the talk shows.

boy does this gambling stuff take you away from life. i need to find a new occupation..

[DwightShrute]

boy, to show you how much i really like movies.. i swear to god, out of the original 20 movies of 2009 listed on 1st post here, i swear i've ONLY heard of 2 of them.. million dollar baby and brokeback mountain. and i nver saw them either. but goes to show how much i follow movies as i can only name 2 movies in the whole decade. And i watch a lot of late night tv talk shows and TMZ and i still can name you only 2.. that's how i heard of them, from the talk shows.

boy does this gambling stuff take you away from life. i need to find a new occupation..

Ya and Brokeback Mountain actually won some awards. I saw this movie. I wasn't worthy of any award. It was nothing special, expect it was about 2 homo cowboys. Nothing against gays but just shows that it doesn't take a lot these days to win film making awards.

[daneblazer]

AT least 1 of the borne movies

I second that. That was a damn good series

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

how can you not add the great movies Denzel washington made this year?

Training day
A man apart
Out of time
John Q
Inside man
American Gangster
The Manchurian candidate
Remember the titans

[Jonah]

Paco, it's not best movies you've seen this decade. Blood in Blood Out? Came out a while ago.

[Jshap1515]

Superbad anyone?

[Cougar Bait]

Here's my list. Would have loved to include Million Dollar Baby, Crash, Gran Torino, and Grandma's Boy...but had to turn it into a TOP 10 somehow.

#10 There Will Be Blood



#9 Napoleon Dynamite



#8 Super Troopers



#7 Lord of the Rings

Since everyone has seen this one, I had to add this clip.



#6 No Country For Old Men



#5 Mulholland Drive



#4 Requiem For A Dream



#3 Memento



#2 Sideways

Trailer does this movie no justice...



#1 American Psycho

[Bread]

It's hard to make a list. It's hard to remember everything. If I just go by the ratings I have given at imdb - and take out the documentaries because I rated a lot of those highly but no one probably heard of most of them - I come up with something like this: 10) Almost Famous 9) Charlie Wilson's War 8) Memento 7) Sin City 6) The Kite Runner 5) Seabiscuit (I loved that damn horse) 4) Mystic River 3) Monster's Ball 2) The Departed 1) Michael Clayton That doesn't look right though. Either it was a bad decade for movies or I am forgetting some stuff.

Watched The Kite Runner the other night. Great film. Loved it.

how can you not add the great movies Denzel washington made this year? Training day A man apart Out of time John Q Inside man American Gangster The Manchurian candidate Remember the titans

You leave out Man on Fire? Or is that what you meant by A Man Apart? Man on Fire was good stuff.


Cougar...Super Troopers was fantastic. Everything those guys have done since has sucked tho.

Don't ever trip and watch Requiem for a Dream. Just trust me and my #3 ghost on this one.

[jackpot269]

Both of the Transformers movies... Made me feel like a kid again!

Saw pt.2 at the I-max It was great !!!!!!!

[Dunder]

Last King of Scotland
The Departed
Ocean´s Eleven
Kill Bill

and for the kids................Finding Nemo

[Cougar Bait]

Bread...agreed on Super Troopers...did you watch the trailer I posted on Requiem? If not, check it out. It's a re-cut by a YouTube poster. Actually really good. Gets really f'd up at 1:05...and yeah...do not watch this movie tripping. Very good advice.

[Killer_Demo]

gran torino was a great movie of this decade

[UntilTheNDofTimE]

You leave out Man on Fire? Or is that what you meant by A Man Apart? Man on Fire was good stuff.

Yea Man on fire was actually my favorite movie of his, i was just naming off the top of my head the movies i knew. Left that one out.

[teaserpleaser]

40 year old virgin

[Grandmaster B]

My top 10 in no particular order

The Departed
Apocalypto
No Country for Old Men
Million Dollar Baby
Hard Candy
The Incredibles
The New World
40 Year Old Virgin
The Air I breathe (great gambling part in it)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Anchorman

[Robyn]

Bread...agreed on Super Troopers...did you watch the trailer I posted on Requiem? If not, check it out. It's a re-cut by a YouTube poster. Actually really good. Gets really f'd up at 1:05...and yeah...do not watch this movie tripping. Very good advice.

Excellent cut to Requiem. I love that movie and the music is insanely powerful. I like your taste in movies, Cougs.