Bourne 2
Oceans 11
Man on Fire
Wedding Crashers

I could watch those 4 again and again and again

Although I couldn't watch it over and over, what sticks out for me as best film was seeing A Beautiful Mind in theaters. I went in with no understanding of the plot or character, but already had a rough idea of the illness through a family member who has it. No idea it was that destructive, I was immersed the whole way through. When it twists at the mid point and reveals what's wrong with him the compassion was off the charts. Mighta even shed a tear at the end, boys. Harold and Kumar was good too.

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Wait...which one... White Castle or Escape from Guantanamo?

Just skimming that list, though i am likely missing one or two biggies that ive forgotten about, my top 5 would be something like:
Cinderella Man (id probably put this first)
The Wrestler
Million Dollar Baby
The Departed
Sin City


Ive not seen a couple films here and there like Requiem and Gran Torino - i also dont rate Memento and Crash highly (Crash i consider a very average film in every single way).

Compared to the 90s, the 2000s has majorly sucked, with most of the "big films" being low quality scripts, high budget special effects and truly dreadful remakes. When its been good, its still not been amazing - for instance i love Batman Begins, but its a sad reflection of IMDB that people can rate it that highly.

I'm gonna throw out a black sheep nomination that nobody's going to agree with:

Sideways

Not because of the movie itself (it's good but not great) but because of it's effect on the industry. Both for what it's success did for independent films and for basically inventing the bromance which has led to a bunch of really enjoyable movies over the last few years (ie; 40 Year Old Virgin, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, I Love You Man).

Yeah, it wasn't the first Romantic Comedy aimed at men or with crossover appeal to guys (When Harry Met Sally, Tracy and Hepburn) but it's definitely the movie that started the current trend and arguably had a lot of influence on other non-bromance but more "intelligent" comedies (as opposed to your usual Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Jim Carey fart movies) intended for a male or mixed audience like Superbad or Tropic Thunder.

That's an interesting point. Not sure if I agree with it paving the way for the Apatow explosion (and films like his), I could be wrong though.

Wall-E was greatness, but not touching Eternal Sunshine or even There Will Be Blood to me.

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i mean, i enjoyed it...But good lord, people act like its the next Godfather or something.

Way way off topic, but I will never get over From Dusk Til Dawn in this regard. The first half of that movie was shaping up to be so ****ing epic.

I enjoyed the fun that the rest of the movie turned into, but everything up until after they got through the border scene was building up to be one of the best.

Kills me every time I think about it.

Then I go to fap it to Salma and the snake and I'm alright again.

another vote for eternal sunshine here

WALL-E - Second "half" is underrated. It's pretty interesting from an "upset the established order", "introduce a little anarchy" perspective. It isn't just kiddie action for the sake of kiddie action.

Bourne - Didn't like 2 that much when I first saw it, thought it ended really abruptly. It was better on the second viewing, but I think 1 and 3 are still better. The cell phone action sequence in 3 is ridiculously great.

Ocean's - 12 is so awesome in its goofiness.

Memento - The thing with this is that most of you were probably 14 when you first saw it, and at that age almost any kind of mind**** movie will trick you into thinking it's the best thing ever. It's okay but is mostly just a gimmick. It might not even be one of Nolan's top 3.

I'll probably go with No Country for now, but the Bournes and Dark Knight are the ones I want to re-watch over and over. I'd see TDK once a month if it still played in IMAX every so often.

Well, the Apatow clique may have happened anyway, it's such a huge "movement", but it's sort of like... If Bernard Sumner, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Mark E. Smith, Morrissey and Anthony H. Wilson weren't at that Sex Pistol concert would there have been a Joy Division/New Order, The Fall, The Smiths or Factory Records? Probably, but the fact that they were all there points to the importance of The Sex Pistols.

I think it's difficult to separate between being an influence and a harbinger. Certainly before Sideways, Romantic Comedies were movies you suffered through when it was your girlfriend's turn to pick. Now you have guys actually wanting to go see them. That would have been basically unheard of ten years ago. Maybe The Hangover would have happened anyway but Hollywood loves to follow trends and there's pretty clearly been a huge explosion in these kinds of movies and Sideways is at least the gatekeeper.

My favorite is the Orphanage, I think its one of the best.

yah, i'm obviously going over the top on the crappy part. i enjoyed it when i watched it, i'll never watch it again, and i don't even think it's top 10 animated movies in the past 10 years.

but to drive my point home, so overrated.

Moulin Rouge was fantastic but I don't see this forum siding with a musical on this one. I also liked Gangs of New York over There Will Be Blood and Wall-E was wayyyyy better than Up ainec.(Both great obviously)

My choice would be Pan's Labyrinth, although I probably don't see as many movies as most people ITT. I don't remember being so affected by a movie before. If you count Lord of the Rings as one film it is way up there also.

For comedies I thought Juno was the best, with an honorable mention nod to Ratatouille (obv) and 40 Year Old Virgin.

Pan's Labyrinth is way underrated.

Oh, and the 2nd half of Wall-E is crap.

I liked Lost in Translation a lot.

This is a good point.

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Meh, Clerks predated it by a full decade. American Pie predated it by half a decade. Its influence is tiny compared to those two films.

Whilst i think you could write Sideways out of time and have basically zero major changes to the industry, Clerks and American Pie (as two examples) are films you can point to as moving the industry off into areas where you dont need to repeat the same tired old bull**** stories and it lead to really fresh new comedies.

That film had zero influence on films coming from Apatow and Rogen - in fact Superbad and 40 year Old Virgin were written before Sideways was released and Dodgeball and Anchorman were released the same year.

Speaking of, Clerks 2 is probably my fave comedy of the decade, but Anchorman is close.

If we separated this into Genres it could also be very interesting.

For example, my favorite comedy of the decade is Knocked Up but it isn't even on my top 5 for the decade.

Porky's and Caddyshack, amirite?

As I mentioned, there've always been a scattering of these movies (When Harry Met Sally was a bigger deal than all of them) and I'll def grant you Clerks as a proto-bromance. However one movie every five years isn't a trend and now it seems like there's a new one every month. Either Sideways was the first one to jump on this bandwagon or they were a key piece in creating the bandwagon. Either way that makes it a significant movie.

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