Jun 21, 2020 0:46:50 GMT thereallt said:

While i enjoyed Gladiator very much #2 movie of the 2000's is WAY too high for it. The film's effects don't hold up very well in certain scenes and some of the writing is cringeworthy.

Apparently you and I watched different Gladiator movies.

Honestly shocked that Two Towers, the best LotR movie, misses while Fellowship makes it...as there's no way TDK isn't #1.

Gladiator was my #5.

Jun 21, 2020 2:03:46 GMT iron maiden said:

Jun 21, 2020 0:46:50 GMT thereallt said:

While i enjoyed Gladiator very much #2 movie of the 2000's is WAY too high for it. The film's effects don't hold up very well in certain scenes and some of the writing is cringeworthy.

Apparently you and I watched different Gladiator movies.

You can see the green screen a mile away in many of the shots of Rome and the Coliseum and a bit of the dialogue is rather cliche and forced.    The sctors really are the ones that make this movie work.   

Jun 21, 2020 2:28:07 GMT thereallt said:

Jun 21, 2020 2:03:46 GMT iron maiden said:

Apparently you and I watched different Gladiator movies.

You can see the green screen a mile away in many of the shots of Rome and the Coliseum and a bit of the dialogue is rather cliche and forced.    The sctors really are the ones that make this movie work.   

Or like that air compressor in the flipping chariot, right!?

Assuming TDK is #1, this was my top 10 list. Mind you, I would’ve had TDK at #4 if it didn’t slip my mind. Yeah I had Notebook at #4, FIGHT ME! Hangover should’ve been ahead of Notebook though TBH and honestly how the fuck didn’t Hangover make the list? The best comedy of the decade! Shocked City of God and Million Dollar Baby missed the list to be honest.

MY LIST:
1- The Departed
2- Training Day
3- Gladiator
4- The Notebook
5- Hangover
6- SAW
7- Million Dollar Baby
8- City of God
9- Slumdog Millionaire
10- Superbad

01 Step Brothers
02 Joe Dirt
03 Napoleon Dynamite
04 Juno
05 Casino Royale
06 Saw
07 The Dark Knight
08 Revenge of the Sith
09 Mean Girls
10 Clerks 2
11 American Psycho
12 Meet the Parents
13 Legally Blonde
14 Departed
15 Iron Man

Well if everyone else is blowing their loads already...

𝓹𝓲's:
1 .) Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
2 .) Matchstick Men
3 .) Mean Girls
4 .) District 9
5 .) Superbad
6 .) City of God
7 .) It's Complicated
8 .) We Were Soldiers
9 .) Black Hawk Down
10 .) Wedding Crashers
11 .) The Incredibles
12 .) The Notebook
13 .) The Dark Knight
14 .) The Hangover
15 .) Iron Man

I'm banking on Twin Towers winning. Chaos, babay!!~ Da Jokester would approves.

1. Big Fish
2. Almost Famous
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Memento
5. Mulholland Drive
6. There Will Be Blood
7. No Country For Old Men
8. The Dark Knight
9. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
10. Amelie
11. Pan's Labyrinth
12. Hot Fuzz
13. Inglorious Bastards
14. Oldboy
15. Brick

1. Batman Begins
2. Kill Bill Vol. 1
3. Road To Perdition
4. Mullholland Dr.
5. Requiem For A Dream
6. Spider-Man 2
7. The Dark Knight
8. The Prestige
9. Spider-Man
10. American Psycho
11. Saw
12. Cast Away
13. Iron Man
14. Training Day
15. Bowling For Columbine

For UT this is the role that almost surpasses Shooter McGavin in the Christopher McDonald cannon. He nearly steals the show in Requiem For A Dream.

My list:

1) Pirates of the Carribbean - Curse of the Black Pearl
2) Gladiator
3) Stardust
4) Love Actually
5) Lord of the Rings - Fellowship of the Ring
6) The Mummy Returns
7) Iron Man
8) The Prestige
9) Star Trek
10) A Knight's Tale
11) Anchorman
12) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
13) Amelie
14) Dodgeball
15) Up

I thought Almost Famous was Big Pete's favourite movie ever. Only #2?!

1. Training Day
2. Oldboy
3. The Departed
4. Matchstick Men
5. Collateral
6. In Bruges
7. Django Unchained
8. Memories of Murder
9. Spirited Away
10. Memento
11. Layer Cake
12. Inglorious Basterds
13. Million Dollar Baby
14. No Country For Old Men
15. American Gangster

Almost Famous is so rooted in the 70s that it kind of knocked it down a peg. Plus, I thought Big Fish needed more help and I was a big Tim Burton fan in the 00s. Of course that turned out to be a disappointing decade for him, with really only Big Fish holding any sort of candle to his work from the 80s/90s.

Almost Famous will out-rank Big Fish in my Top 100, but I don't think it will be my #1.

Holy shit, Shootist, totally forgot about Shooter being in Requiem. Good shout!

Also, Big Pete loving Big Fish AND Almost Famous in 1-2 order has me thinking he and Wife would get along famously. Perhaps even better than UT and Wife? Good thing UT is already settled down. Gonna have to make sure I keep Big Pete away from Wife.

Although... Considering how much I like Big Pete too, perhaps a lil threesome wouldn't be the absolute worst thing in the world...

:suspic:

:eyebrows:

Lastly, gotta love and respect Dr. Emperor for reppin' Matchstick Men with me! My brotha in arms!

:lol:

I was trying to remember what I saw Shooter McGavin in earlier. I couldn't get over Biff in Freaks and Geeks but of course Requiem - the greatest movie I'll never seen again. It's right up there with Dear Zachary and Dancer in the Dark in terms of soul destroying movies.

Joining the premature blowing of the load...

. Pirates of the Caribbean Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
2. The Dark Knight (2008)
3. The Fast and the Furious (2001)
4. Walk the Line (2005)
5. Iron Man (2008)
6. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001)
7. Saw (2004)
8. Snatch (2000)
9. Resident Evil (2002)
10. Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)
11. Troy (2004)
12. Constantine (2005)
13. Romeo Must Die (2000)
14. The Patriot (2000)
15. Love Actually (2003)

Damn, my movie taste is amazing af hahaha. I will honestly be surprised if the dark knight isn’t number 1. Surely it’s a give in at this point!?

Looking through everyone’s list, I am disappointed in the lack of Departed. Was happy to see 🤯 put up Notebook but then ruined it by not putting in Departed.

Jun 21, 2020 13:31:19 GMT KING KID said:

Looking through everyone’s list, I am disappointed in the lack of Departed. Was happy to see 🤯 put up Notebook but then ruined it by not putting in Departed.

I assumed you'd be submitting a list with it as your #1. You failed us both.

Honestly outside of my top 5 they aren't in any sort of order. They might even be in chronological order for all I know. I simply wanted a few comedies to get pointage and the rest is just there to be there. I don't put too much thought into these things. Good to great is all the same to me.

Put together a very quick guess at what my top ten would’ve looked like. This is really my decade of loving movies, so all ten of these I really love.


Eternal Sunshine
Almost Famous
Kill Bill Vol 1
Brokeback Mountaim
Oceans 11
Superbad
Adaptation
40 Year Old Virgin
Walk the Line
Paranormal Activity

1. The Dark Knight 

Why so serious? ~ Joker 

Released 

2008 

Credits 

Director: Christopher Nolan 

Screenplay: Jonathan Nolan 

Screenplay: Christopher Nolan 

Cast 

Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne)

Heath Ledger (Joker)

Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent)

Michael Caine (Alfred)

Gary Oldman (Gordon)

Critical 

#4 Rated Movie of All Time (IMDB)

9.0/10 (IMDB)

94% (RT Critics)

94% (RT Audiences)

Box Office 

Domestic: $533,345,358 

Worldwide: $1,003,045,358 

At the Oscars 

- Winner for Best Supporting Actor 

- Winner for Best Achievement in Sound Editing 

- Nominated for Best Cinematography 

- Nominated for Best Film Editing 

- Nominated for Best Art Direction 

- Nominated for Best Makeup 

- Nominated for Best Sound Mixing 

- Nominated for Best Visual Effects 

Why did you LOTR guys fuck up so bad? #2 clearly is NOT the best one.

This really confuses me, unless those other 2 movies got voted in for different reasons.

No surprise or swerve. Blah.

I had a blast with this countdown when the LOTR stuff started happening and people were freaking out. It was fun to sit back and watch the world burn knowing that a third wasn't really coming. It's what makes these lists fun.

Sometimes I wish I had the surprise of not knowing what's coming but knowing and watching reactions is just as good. Keeping quiet is tough too.

So where did the missing LOTR movie place?

Not enough love for Collateral in this thread. Absolutely phenomenal thriller, with Tom Cruise killing it in a rare villain role, and Jamie Foxx killing it as the intelligent civilian cab driver who's forced into a situation way over his head. The story is phenomenal as well, and pretty believable apart from a bit of a contrived plot point near the end of the film. Plus it has Mark Ruffalo in a minor role, who is awesome in everything.

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. The Dark Knight
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The Live of Others
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
6. Batman Begins
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
8. In Bruges
9. Lost in Translation
10. Ratatouille
11. No Country for Old Men
12. Pan's Labyrinth
13. Moulin Rouge!
14. American Psycho
15. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

This was a fun list.

First of all, loving the In Bruges love from Emperor. Thought I’d be the only vote for it. It’s a wonderfully black comedy that everyone should watch in time for the top 100 list. It’s one of the most rewatch able movies I think.

As far as the Lord of the Rings go, I’ve covered my thoughts in that they’re so hard to separate. The second is great with the Gollum set piece and the best battle in cinema history, but the other two feel like more complete stand-alone films for me.

We’ve talked about Batman to death here, but I have to say I’m surprised Batman Begins didn’t make the list - I thought people were starting to prefer it over The Dark Knight. It may be a boring number one, but it’s fantastic so I can’t complain.

Is this the first decade list we’ve done with no animation featured? I’m guessing Pixar split the vote with people having very different favourites from this decade.

Also hugely surprised by The Departed not winning. But it’s second tier Marty for me for sure.

Jun 21, 2020 14:46:26 GMT Emperor said:

So where did the missing LOTR movie place?

#18 

16 - The Prestige 
17 - Superbad
18 - LOTR - The Two Towers 


To be fair to what Ness is saying , a few people just put Lord of the Rings without clarification - so I marked that up to the original. If they are now saying Two Towers is the best that could be why the weirdness is the rankings. I'm not sure. 

Jun 21, 2020 14:50:13 GMT PB said:

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. The Dark Knight
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. The Live of Others
5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
6. Batman Begins
7. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
8. In Bruges
9. Lost in Translation
10. Ratatouille
11. No Country for Old Men
12. Pan's Labyrinth
13. Moulin Rouge!
14. American Psycho
15. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

This was a fun list.

First of all, loving the In Bruges love from Emperor . Thought I’d be the only vote for it. It’s a wonderfully black comedy that everyone should watch in time for the top 100 list. It’s one of the most rewatch able movies I think.

As far as the Lord of the Rings go, I’ve covered my thoughts in that they’re so hard to separate. The second is great with the Gollum set piece and the best battle in cinema history, but the other two feel like more complete stand-alone films for me.

We’ve talked about Batman to death here, but I have to say I’m surprised Batman Begins didn’t make the list - I thought people were starting to prefer it over The Dark Knight. It may be a boring number one, but it’s fantastic so I can’t complain.

Is this the first decade list we’ve done with no animation featured? I’m guessing Pixar split the vote with people having very different favourites from this decade.

Also hugely surprised by The Departed not winning. But it’s second tier Marty for me for sure.

Mainly Incredibles. People love that movie. 

Finding Nemo is loved by me , I think it's elite Pixar but others seem to be hot or cold on it. 

Thankfully Wall-E or Up didn't make it. 

Jun 21, 2020 14:48:52 GMT Emperor said:

Not enough love for Collateral in this thread. Absolutely phenomenal thriller, with Tom Cruise killing it in a rare villain role, and Jamie Foxx killing it as the intelligent civilian cab driver who's forced into a situation way over his head. The story is phenomenal as well, and pretty believable apart from a bit of a contrived plot point near the end of the film. Plus it has Mark Ruffalo in a minor role, who is awesome in everything.

I love Collateral , but it missed my list by a hair. This was a tough list for me in not having a super elite top of the list but a bunch of movies that felt they belonged in my 10 - 20 range. 

Jun 21, 2020 14:51:33 GMT UT said:

Jun 21, 2020 14:46:26 GMT Emperor said:

So where did the missing LOTR movie place?

#18 

16 - The Prestige 
17 - Superbad
18 - LOTR - The Two Towers 


To be fair to what Ness is saying , a few people just put Lord of the Rings without clarification - so I marked that up to the original. If they are now saying Two Towers is the best that could be why the weirdness is the rankings. I'm not sure. 

And Notebook?!

Thats the million dollar question. 

I, too, love Collateral and forgot to include it in my list.