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Re: Best Films of the 2000s
There Will Be Blood
Man On Fire
Insomnia
Notes On A Scandal
Before The Devil Knows You're Dead
A Tale of Two Sisters
Hard Candy
The Ring
No Country For Old Men
Rocky Balboa
In the Bedroom
Funny Games
Calvaire
Zodiac
Moon
Ma Vie En Rose
American Gangster
Shutter
Baise Moi
Eden Lake
I'm probably forgetting something....
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I remember seeing American Gangster and being incredibly disappointed. Now it's probably a slam dunk for a top 10 in that weak decade. I would have to go and take a look at my collection because I got few titles popping up in my head. Most of them underwhelming.
On the other hand, 2002 saw Attack of the Clones which might be my favorite movie of all time, so it was not all bad. A lot of titles are going to be early in the decade.
Hannibal
Attack of the Clones
Revenge of the Sith
Gladiator
Femme Fatale
Black Dahlia
Mulholland Drive
Rambo 4
No Country for Old Men
Melancholia
Not bad actually. A hell of a lot better than a 2010 list would have been (or this decade *shudder*).
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On pure enjoyment and rewatchable level I think this decade fared higher than I thought.
Battle Royale
Infernal Affairs
About a Boy
Collateral
Oldboy
In Bruges
Lost in Translation
Casino Royale
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (aka the one w/Gary Oldman)
Inside Man
Up in the Air
Kill Bill Vol I
Spirited Away
Femme Fatale
I need to watch In the Bedroom. Apparently, Wilkinson (RIP) got robbed of an Oscar that year for that movie. I came close to putting Mullholland Drive on there but I've only seen it once. I wanted to put in another Miike film but I wouldn't place Ichi the Killer over some of the other films. Late 90s- mid 2000s is probably his prime. He has slowed down the past 10 years or so. Also almost put the Prestige on there. It's probably the only Nolan film that I can kind of see his genius in. The other ones I just find good and not great. Oh, Death at a Funeral is also fun in that Brit comedy kind of way.
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Yeah it's not a very good decade. You can sense the trouble ahead for the industry.
Just curious but when did this change? I still remember in the early mid 2000s where it was similar to the 90s in that there were a lot of choices in the type or amount of movies that were in theaters. Yeah, there were still franchises like LOTR etc, but I remember seeing the Others, Gangs of New York, Lost in Translation and even something like Memories of a Geisha playing in the theater. As opposed to now where it's just franchises and maybe "message movies".
Did this change start developing in the late 2000s or the early 2010s? where you really see the creative bankruptcy take place. I took a look at some of the best of 2010s films, and shit my list is going to be a ton of foreign films.
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Around the time of Iron Man, The Dark Knight and the Avengers I would say. I remember thinking the Avengers would bomb because there had been some similar movies in the past that did not do so well. That whole "crossover superhero" type movie. When that was a smash hit I think they realized there was an untapped market for generic super hero movies. Before that you needed something special. A great actor and a great director. After Avengers suddenly every other movie was making a billion. So late 00s, early 10s.
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The first domino to fall was ushering in all the remakes.
It started with a shit ton of horror films getting remakes and as it caught on, all genres started getting remakes.
The mid 2000s saw TV dominated by reality shows and talent shows while Hollywood focused on remakes.
The late 2000s is when the Superhero madness kicked into high gear.
There was no coming back at that point. While there's definitely some good films in the 2010s, they're like finding needles in the haystack.
Scorsese is right....the party's over.
On top of the superhero shit still going,..and remakes too, we have the woke nonsense drowning the industry, ruining IPs, and so many streaming services creating an ocean of shit just so they can have content for their apps.
It's madness.
Another thing... comedies aren't funny anymore.
I wish Mel Brooks was 20-30 years younger and take a crack at showing how ridiculous this madness is....
A Harriet Tubman biopic starring Margot Robbie as Harriet Tubman.
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Around the time of Iron Man, The Dark Knight and the Avengers I would say. I remember thinking the Avengers would bomb because there had been some similar movies in the past that did not do so well. That whole "crossover superhero" type movie. When that was a smash hit I think they realized there was an untapped market for generic super hero movies. Before that you needed something special. A great actor and a great director. After Avengers suddenly every other movie was making a billion. So late 00s, early 10s.
Yeah, directing lately is just not good. I can't even name a modern director that I like that started from the 2010s and onward. Once the old guys die off it's going to be dire and just not creative or fun.
Now they just hire the guy "that knows" how to director superhero films. I guarantee a bunch of these directors don't have any successes outside of the superhero stuff.
On top of the superhero shit still going,..and remakes too, we have the woke nonsense drowning the industry, ruining IPs, and so many streaming services creating an ocean of shit just so they can have content for their apps.
It's madness.
Another thing... comedies aren't funny anymore.
Yeah, the remakes. They don't exist as totally diferent stories from the originals they ape from. Take for example the 1997 remake the Jackal. It takes the framework of the 1973 original but makes it it's own diferent and distinct story (complete w/suspect Richard Gere accent btw). I think I may have enjoyed the remake more than the orignal which is kinda dry and boring.
Now? I don't really see different stories . I see them substituting minorities into the lead roles but the story remains the same and is a copy.
Funny you should mention streaming. The industry is trying to kill off physical media. But you want to know where you can find interesting stuff (from the past and present)? Yep, those "niche labels" that distribute and sell discs. Want 70-80s horror? Multiple labels provide that. Indie stuff? Classic erotica? Foreign films? Mainstream stuff that was underseen? You can even find Looney Tunes all on disc now.
It's just as the years go by, I just can't "identify" with some of this modern stuff. And it's not because I'm reaching old fart level. Some of this stuff just isn't good to watch or they just get some of the basic stuff (like the cityscape part we've talked about ) totally wrong.
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Some that have not been mentioned:
The Pledge (starred Jack Nicholson; I think it was directed by Sean Penn) is a great film. Went under the radar a bit.
Traffic
Ghost World
Bad Santa
The Departed
The Prestige
Borat
Gran Torino
The Wrestler
The Sopranos is the greatest cinema of the era (and probably any era) although it's obviously a TV show...
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I'm probably forgetting something....
I definitely forgot something.....
Mystic River. Just watched it.
Amazing. Only thing I didn't like is how they don't show her murder during the climax...they simply describe it after the shit hit the fan.
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