Your Top Five Films for This Decade... so far?

[Fix]

Good thread! Strange that nobody has mention it yet. I have to add The Departed to all these great movies. This flick is, in my opinion, Martin Scorsese's biggest hit since Goodfellas from the 1990's. The timing between the shoots and the clever posing is almost.. to good, and the dialogs... Truly a masterpiece.

 

[Desert Rune]

So no one remebers a film where there's a scene with a young asian boy with blue paint poured over himself lying on the floor while staring at a goldish flopping around? I remeber the scene to be the exact way I described it.

The Scent of Green Papaya? :bleh:

 

[Eddie]

A Fish Called Wanda...:detective2:

 

[Alexander Nikishin]

That's Cyclo! If Three Seasons has the same prostitute/driver conceit, it stole it from the earlier and better Cyclo. No buzzers, please.

You're probably right krd. I've seen Cyclo but not for some time now, I'm sure you're right though, thanks!

 

[Alexander Nikishin]

The Scent of Green Papaya? :bleh:

Is it any good btw?

 

[Jason Murphy]

So no one remebers a film where there's a scene with a young asian boy with blue paint poured over himself lying on the floor while staring at a goldish flopping around? I remeber the scene to be the exact way I described it.

Cyclo. Definitely Cyclo. Scent of the Green Papaya is pretty good, not great, but Tran Anh Hung's third film, Vertical Ray of the Sun, is really wonderful. Great cinematography by Mark Li Ping-Bin, too.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Vertical Ray is on my to-see list.

 

[Keith Alan Morris]

1. Beijing Bicycle - if you havent seen it, see it NOW! brilliant!
2. Beijing Bicycle
3. Evil by Michael Hafstrom - like fight club in a boarding school - but better!
4. Eternal Sunshine
5. tie - Rushmore / the Departed

and dont forget nic cage was perfect in Raising Arizona...

 

[Fix]

and dont forget nic cage was perfect in Raising Arizona...

Nic Cage was hilarious in Raising Arizona, a very funny movie indeed! don't forget John Goodman smashing the car roof when he realized they forgot the kid :blink: .

 

[Weston Ford]

The Village
The New World
Lord of the Rings
Kill Bill
Unbreakable

and probably the Fountain.

 

[Thor Wixom]

Wow, no one has mentioned "The Science of Sleep"?

Goodness. I must be off the deep end.

How about worst movies of the last decade that the studios thought everyone should like?

-Thor

 

[Yannick Hagman]

-Lilja for 4-ever
-Lost in Translation
-Donnie Darko
-The Dreamers
-L.A. Crash
-21 Grams
-Elephant
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
-Festen
-American History X

Sorry.

 

[Adam C Lubkin]

Wow, no one has mentioned "The Science of Sleep"?
-Thor

I also don't understand why "The Science of Sleep" doesn't get more love (not necessarily on this list, but on the boards in general). The cinematography on it is also worthy of mention - just about perfect IMHO, especially in the way it serves the story and never calls attention to itself.

 

[Tom Lowe]

I don't think anything coming out this year will make my decade list.

 

[Cüneyt Kaya]

1:goyas ghosts
2:chopper
3ldboy
4:Adam's Apples
5:hero

 

[Nils J. Nesse]

The lists are always fun..

1. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)
2. Mulholland Drive (David Lynch, 2001)
3. Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005)
4. Hable Con Ella (Pedro Almodóvar, 2002)
5. Stellet Licht (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)

 

[John V]

What is it with all these artsy films? Please help me...

 

[Nils J. Nesse]

We are artists, we are not accountants.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Nesse, can you tell us more about Stellet Licht?

Glad to see New World at #1.

 

[Brian Broz]

I can't rate them in order, but here are my top 5 (that I can remember):

Requiem for a Dream
City of God
28 Days Later
Death Proof
The Last King of Scotland

Worthy mentions are Layer Cake, Kill Bill 1&2, Hot Fuzz, Maria Full of Grace, Fight Club, Babel.