Wait, is this films you’ve SEEN in the last decade or films MADE in the last decade? Cause some of guys are posting some old stuff.
[quote]Ghost22 wrote:
Wait, is this films you’ve SEEN in the last decade or films MADE in the last decade? Cause some of guys are posting some old stuff.[/quote]
I think it means films released from 2000-2009.
My problem is I’m WAY behind with seeing a lot of these. For example, I just watched Unforgiven (a damn good movie) for the first time last night and it’s from 1992! Half the movies mentioned here I have yet to see. But, here’s my preliminary list:
The Incredibles (yup, BIG surprise there given my screen name and avatar)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
300
Batman Begins (Much as I liked Heath Ledger as the Joker, the first one was better)
Man on Fire
The Score (with Robert DeNiro)
The Prestige
The Illusionist
Fight Club (definitely belongs on my list, but it may have been from 1999.)
For comedy movies, I’d have to say Team America and Tropic Thunder. Both were hilarious!
One that I might give special mention to is Lucky Number Slevin. Maybe not the best movie, but very interesting and visually unique. And, speaking of Bruce Willis, 13 Blocks was surprisingly good too. I’d put it on my runner-up list, along with the Italian Job and the X-Men movies from this decade.
One more movie that LOOKS promising from the previews and that I think will be released just in time to make the decade cut-off is Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. I usually love Tim Burton’s movies, especially when Danny Elfman does the music.
Some of you have the shittiest taste in movies.
Lucky Number Slevin? Are you fucking kidding me?
[quote]bluefingas wrote:
Some of you have the shittiest taste in movies.
Lucky Number Slevin? Are you fucking kidding me?[/quote]
What movies, specifically, did you think were shitty? I haven’t seen “Lucky Number Slevin” myself, and the only other movie you mentioned was “The Departed,” which I didn’t find to be amazing. More than anything else, watching Leonardo Dicaprio act within it made it worth it. The Batman movies were good, but I definitely don’t think they belong in the top 10 movies of the decade. Another movie I really enjoyed was “Thank You For Smoking.” Has anyone seen it? Also, has anyone seen “Amelie?” It’s French, but really interesting.
Speaking of Leonardo Dicaprio, “Catch Me If You Can” was also really great.
Napolean Dynamite is way up there on my list, simply because it violated almost every screenwriting convention and still got made into a movie.
Liked City of God alot.
Thought The Departed was way, way overrated.
American Gangster was good. Lacked some of the punchy dialogue of other successful crime movies, but told a great story about a crime figure forgotten by most people.
[quote]FlameofOsiris wrote:
[quote]bluefingas wrote:
Some of you have the shittiest taste in movies.
Lucky Number Slevin? Are you fucking kidding me?[/quote]
What movies, specifically, did you think were shitty? I haven’t seen “Lucky Number Slevin” myself, and the only other movie you mentioned was “The Departed,” which I didn’t find to be amazing. More than anything else, watching Leonardo Dicaprio act within it made it worth it. The Batman movies were good, but I definitely don’t think they belong in the top 10 movies of the decade. Another movie I really enjoyed was “Thank You For Smoking.” Has anyone seen it? Also, has anyone seen “Amelie?” It’s French, but really interesting. [/quote]
Thank you for smoking was decent. It just didn’t seem to stand out to me.
I’ll probably be flamed for this, but I thought 300 was awful.
Oscar bait movies are underrated on the whole.
I’ve honestly only seen the first 10-15 minutes of “300,” but I didn’t really like what I saw.
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
[quote]FlameofOsiris wrote:
[quote]bluefingas wrote:
Some of you have the shittiest taste in movies.
Lucky Number Slevin? Are you fucking kidding me?[/quote]
What movies, specifically, did you think were shitty? I haven’t seen “Lucky Number Slevin” myself, and the only other movie you mentioned was “The Departed,” which I didn’t find to be amazing. More than anything else, watching Leonardo Dicaprio act within it made it worth it. The Batman movies were good, but I definitely don’t think they belong in the top 10 movies of the decade. Another movie I really enjoyed was “Thank You For Smoking.” Has anyone seen it? Also, has anyone seen “Amelie?” It’s French, but really interesting. [/quote]
Thank you for smoking was decent. It just didn’t seem to stand out to me.
I’ll probably be flamed for this, but I thought 300 was awful.[/quote]
Jay and Silent Bob (I’m a kevin smith fan, but this is just a stupid average movie)
13 Blocks
Lucky Number Slevin
These were the ones that shouldn’t belong anywhere in this thread.
And really, what is so bad about The Departed? It had a good story, good dialogue, and good acting.
[quote]bluefingas wrote:
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
[quote]FlameofOsiris wrote:
[quote]bluefingas wrote:
Some of you have the shittiest taste in movies.
Lucky Number Slevin? Are you fucking kidding me?[/quote]
What movies, specifically, did you think were shitty? I haven’t seen “Lucky Number Slevin” myself, and the only other movie you mentioned was “The Departed,” which I didn’t find to be amazing. More than anything else, watching Leonardo Dicaprio act within it made it worth it. The Batman movies were good, but I definitely don’t think they belong in the top 10 movies of the decade. Another movie I really enjoyed was “Thank You For Smoking.” Has anyone seen it? Also, has anyone seen “Amelie?” It’s French, but really interesting. [/quote]
Thank you for smoking was decent. It just didn’t seem to stand out to me.
I’ll probably be flamed for this, but I thought 300 was awful.[/quote]
Jay and Silent Bob (I’m a kevin smith fan, but this is just a stupid average movie)
13 Blocks
Lucky Number Slevin
These were the ones that shouldn’t belong anywhere in this thread.
And really, what is so bad about The Departed? It had a good story, good dialogue, and good acting.[/quote]
Cinema is art, and beauty is always in the eye of the beholder.
I thought Departed was a pretty flawless movie in terms of directing and acting. However, I didn’t much care for the screenplay/script(as I don’t for many scorsese films) which makes it hard for me to consider it as one of my top movies of the decade.
I did really enjoy “The Good Shepherd”. Many people found that movie as boring and a movie that dragged on for to long with no pulse.
[quote]bluefingas wrote:
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
[quote]FlameofOsiris wrote:
[quote]bluefingas wrote:
Some of you have the shittiest taste in movies.
Lucky Number Slevin? Are you fucking kidding me?[/quote]
What movies, specifically, did you think were shitty? I haven’t seen “Lucky Number Slevin” myself, and the only other movie you mentioned was “The Departed,” which I didn’t find to be amazing. More than anything else, watching Leonardo Dicaprio act within it made it worth it. The Batman movies were good, but I definitely don’t think they belong in the top 10 movies of the decade. Another movie I really enjoyed was “Thank You For Smoking.” Has anyone seen it? Also, has anyone seen “Amelie?” It’s French, but really interesting. [/quote]
Thank you for smoking was decent. It just didn’t seem to stand out to me.
I’ll probably be flamed for this, but I thought 300 was awful.[/quote]
Jay and Silent Bob (I’m a kevin smith fan, but this is just a stupid average movie)
13 Blocks
Lucky Number Slevin
These were the ones that shouldn’t belong anywhere in this thread.
And really, what is so bad about The Departed? It had a good story, good dialogue, and good acting.[/quote]
“13 Blocks” was okay, but I definitely don’t think it deserves a top 10 spot. I think the guy was just saying that it’s what he saw recently, and that it wasn’t bad. There was absolutely nothing wrong with “The Departed.” It’s one of those movies that did everything right, but that I’ve never been compelled to re-watch. Sort of hard to explain, but as someone said, beauty IS in the eye of the beholder. I also agree with Anonymity regarding “The Good Shephard.” I thought it was a fantastic movie. I don’t think it was slow at all. Just because a movie doesn’t have an explosion or gunshot every couple of minutes doesn’t mean it’s boring. It also doesn’t mean it’s not. No one’s said it as of yet, but I have a feeling that someone is going to say “Transformers,” both of which I thought were pretty dumb. First one was kind of entertaining, yes, but the second one was just bad. Way too much action.
They’ve written books about all the hidden meanings of The Matrix. Basically its a story of many different world religions told on the only medium people today will pay attention to - lots of violence mixed into techo music.
[quote]spyoptic wrote:
They’ve written books about all the hidden meanings of The Matrix. Basically its a story of many different world religions told on the only medium people today will pay attention to - lots of violence mixed into techo music.[/quote]
The same can be said about “Lord of the Rings” being an allegory for the atomic bomb, but J. R. R. Tolkien has denied ever writing the books around that subject.
I think sometimes people try to overanalyze the true meaning of a writers work.
the dark knight
batman begins
up
bourne trilogy
casino royale
old boy
40 year old virgin
no country for old men
finding nemo
the matrix
300
there will be blood
ironman
inside man
flags of our fathers/letters from iwo jima
fearless
borat
apocalypto
lord of the rings trilogy
master and commander
spring, summer, fall, winter…and spring
man on fire
kill bill vol 1 & 2
napolean dynamite
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
[quote]spyoptic wrote:
They’ve written books about all the hidden meanings of The Matrix. Basically its a story of many different world religions told on the only medium people today will pay attention to - lots of violence mixed into techo music.[/quote]
The same can be said about “Lord of the Rings” being an allegory for the atomic bomb, but J. R. R. Tolkien has denied ever writing the books around that subject.
I think sometimes people try to overanalyze the true meaning of a writers work.[/quote]
Theres too much in the Matrix for it to be coincidence, literally every name in the movie and every scene can be applied to a religious story. haven’t found many good web sites about it but the book “Taking The Red Pill” is pretty good.
[quote]spyoptic wrote:
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
[quote]spyoptic wrote:
They’ve written books about all the hidden meanings of The Matrix. Basically its a story of many different world religions told on the only medium people today will pay attention to - lots of violence mixed into techo music.[/quote]
The same can be said about “Lord of the Rings” being an allegory for the atomic bomb, but J. R. R. Tolkien has denied ever writing the books around that subject.
I think sometimes people try to overanalyze the true meaning of a writers work.[/quote]
Theres too much in the Matrix for it to be coincidence, literally every name in the movie and every scene can be applied to a religious story. haven’t found many good web sites about it but the book “Taking The Red Pill” is pretty good.[/quote]
Do you have to really like “The Matrix” series in order to get into all that symbolism stuff? Or is it just interesting to you?
I liked Apocalypto after I read on Wiki that it was supposed to compare the Mayan Empire to ours with their massive destruction of their environment (deforestation), the huge gap between the elites and the poor, the political corruption; everything that is an issue now was happening to them.
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
[quote]spyoptic wrote:
They’ve written books about all the hidden meanings of The Matrix. Basically its a story of many different world religions told on the only medium people today will pay attention to - lots of violence mixed into techo music.[/quote]
The same can be said about “Lord of the Rings” being an allegory for the atomic bomb, but J. R. R. Tolkien has denied ever writing the books around that subject.
I think sometimes people try to overanalyze the true meaning of a writers work.[/quote]
True. Tolkien specifically said that he pretty much detested allegory, so LOTR was definitely not that. That’s not to say that there aren’t references to the “real world” strewn around in there. There’s a fair amount of Christian symbolism and the whole undercurrent of concepts of good and evil in LOTR.
As I said before, I am WAY behind in watching movies from the last 10 years - so my picks are going to be limited. As for Lucky Number Slevin and 13 Blocks - they didn’t make my list, I mentioned them as runner-ups.
Very few movies transcend genres to function on multiple levels. I think the Matrix came really close (just the first one, which was like '98 or '99.) Fight Club is another one, IMO.
With those rare exceptions, most movies are good at only one or two things. It’s almost unfair to compare a blockbuster action pic to some Oscar contender or just a really funny comedy. For example, I like the whole X-Men franchise but I wouldn’t put any of them on my top ten list. Now, another Brian Singer directorial effort - The Usual Suspects - is one of my all-time favorites, but it’s from the '90s.
[quote]spyoptic wrote:
[quote]Anonymity wrote:
[quote]spyoptic wrote:
They’ve written books about all the hidden meanings of The Matrix. Basically its a story of many different world religions told on the only medium people today will pay attention to - lots of violence mixed into techo music.[/quote]
The same can be said about “Lord of the Rings” being an allegory for the atomic bomb, but J. R. R. Tolkien has denied ever writing the books around that subject.
I think sometimes people try to overanalyze the true meaning of a writers work.[/quote]
Theres too much in the Matrix for it to be coincidence, literally every name in the movie and every scene can be applied to a religious story. haven’t found many good web sites about it but the book “Taking The Red Pill” is pretty good.[/quote]
Personally I’m very suspicious of this kind of thing. I remember when Star Wars first came out (yes, I’m that old) I excitedly bought some book that explained all about The Force. Even as an 8-year-old kid, I soon realized I was reading some kind of Fundamentalist Christian tract that was trying to glom onto the movie’s popularity! I wasn’t happy about being played for a sucker.
Some of the Matrix references don’t really add up. For example, Morpheus was the mythological god of sleep. But in the movie, Morpheus is the one waking people up. Also, while it’s true that the ship Nebuchednezzar shares the name of a biblical figure, the Wachowski brothers have said they took that name from a large liquor advertising sign on the wall of this restaurant where they frequently had lunch.
It’s easy to read too much into things.