Thursday, March 11, 2010

Top 100 Movies of the Decade



These are my top 100 movies released between the dates of January 1st, 2000 and December 31st, 2009 (a brief lament for These are my top 100 movies released between the dates of January 1st, 2000 and December 31st, 2009 (a brief lament for Galaxy Quest, released December 25th, 1999). No pictures or blurbs, because that would take forever, just a straight list. For series in which every movie was filmed concurrently (i.e. Kill Bill and Lord of the Rings) I went ahead and collapsed the whole series into one slot each; if anyone thinks that's bullshit cheating, my bad. I threw this list together in less than five minutes so it's super rough and super unofficial and if I did a second draft movies could easily rise or drop by as much as twenty ranks, so don't take it too serious.

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. The Dark Knight
3. Memento
4. Minority Report
5. Superbad
6. Casino Royale
7. Batman Begins
8. City of God
9. Collateral
10. The Departed
11. Spider-Man 2
12. The 40-Year-Old Virgin
13. Children of Men
14. Better Luck Tomorrow
15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
16. Ratatouille
17. Funny Ha Ha
18. No Country for Old Men
19. The Rules of Attraction
20. Kill Bill
21. WALL•E
22. The Wrestler
23. Dungeons & Dragons
24. Gangs of New York
25. The Incredibles
26. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
27. Good Night, and Good Luck
28. Downfall
29. Star Trek
30. The Last Samurai
31. Knocked Up
32. Slumdog Millionaire
33. Adaptation
34. Brick
35. Up
36. Oldboy
37. Before Sunset
38. American Psycho
39. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
40. Serenity
41. District 9
42. There Will Be Blood
43. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of Black Pearl
44. Observe and Report
45. Shaun of the Dead
46. In Bruges
47. Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
48. Catch Me If You Can
49. Iron Man
50. Amélie
51. Inglourious Basterds
52. Hero
53. Rocky Balboa
54. Kingdom of Heaven
55. Friday Night Lights
56. Y Tu Mamá También
57. Hot Fuzz
58. Spider-Man
59. Ocean's Eleven
60. 25th Hour
61. Gran Torino
62. Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
63. United 93
64. Adventureland
65. Sideways
66. Zodiac
67. Planet Terror
68. Enchanted
69. Burn After Reading
70. Avatar
71. Moon
72. Mutual Appreciation
73. X2: X-Men United
74. Brokeback Mountain
75. Sherlock Holmes
76. Requiem for a Dream
77. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
78. The Girl Next Door
79. Syriana
80. In the Loop
81. Where the Wild Things Are
82. Match Point
83. Letters from Iwo Jima
84. Finding Nemo
85. Mean Girls
86. Let the Right One In
87. Stardust
88. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
89. The Bourne Identity
90. Gone Baby Gone
91. 3:10 to Yuma
92. Bad Santa
93. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
94. George Washington
95. Sex Drive
96. Eastern Promises
97. Tropic Thunder
98. Stranger Than Fiction
99. Once
100. Transporter 2

Runners-up: Thirteen Days, Into the Wild, Battle Royale, Hannah Takes the Stairs, Extract, Rambo, The Pianist, Watchmen, High Fidelity, Milk, Zombieland, Hot Rod, Munich, Pan's Labyrinth, Frost/Nixon, Charlie Wilson's War, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, Freddy Got Fingered

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