Top 20 films of the decade...

[IronFingaz]

On this list critics were asked to rank the top 10 films of the decade. The list took the films with the most top 10 mentions, added them up to get the following.

1. No Country For Old Men
2. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
3. There Will Be Blood
4. The Departed
5. Wall-E
6. Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King
7. Brokeback Mountain
8. Almost Famous
9. Pan's Labyrinth
9. Sideways
11. YiYi
12. Kill Bill 1/2
13. 25th Hour
13. United 93
15. Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
15. Mulholland Drive
17. The Dark Knight
18. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
19. City OF God
20. 4 Months, 3 Weeks And 2 Days

I can agree with most. A couple i havnt seen and the rest just shouldnt be there. There are better options.

Laughable list - Kill Bill ahead of TDK? It's a bad joke.

No joke, it's the truth

 

[wofford29]

Hmm... I skipped your entry line and assumed this was YOUR personal list. What was the group of critics that was polled for this?

David Germain - Associated Press
Christy Lemire - Associated Press
Gary Wolcott - AtomicTown
LA Film Critics Circle
Peter Ranier - Christian Science Monitor
Al Alexander - Patriot Ledger
Kirk Honeycutt - The Hollywood Reporter
Mike Ward - Richmond.com
Anne Thompson - Indiewire
Shawn Edwards - Fox-TV
Matt Goldberg - Collider.com
Mark Krzos - NewsPress
Marshal Fine - Hollywood and Fine
Chris Vognar - Dallas Morning News
Richard Roeper - Chicago Sun Times
Scott Sawitz - Pulse
Michael Stickings - The Moderate Voice
Zac Oldenburg - Review: St. Louis
Gary Sundt - JackCentral
David Theis - Houston CultureMap

 

[IrishJedi]

David Germain - Associated Press
Christy Lemire - Associated Press
Gary Wolcott - AtomicTown
LA Film Critics Circle
Peter Ranier - Christian Science Monitor
Al Alexander - Patriot Ledger
Kirk Honeycutt - The Hollywood Reporter
Mike Ward - Richmond.com
Anne Thompson - Indiewire
Shawn Edwards - Fox-TV
Matt Goldberg - Collider.com
Mark Krzos - NewsPress
Marshal Fine - Hollywood and Fine
Chris Vognar - Dallas Morning News
Richard Roeper - Chicago Sun Times
Scott Sawitz - Pulse
Michael Stickings - The Moderate Voice
Zac Oldenburg - Review: St. Louis
Gary Sundt - JackCentral
David Theis - Houston CultureMap

Yikes.

 

[IronFingaz]

For me it was all the sex and nudity.

That's not There Will Be Blood, That's There Will Be Boner: She Drinks Your Milkshake

 

[King Darkness]

 

[wofford29]

Yikes.

Here are those individual top 10s. Surprisingly not as horrible as you'd expect.

Atomictown:
1 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
2 Hero
3 The Lives of Others
4 Standing in the Shadows of Motown
5 The Station Agent
6 O Brother Where Art Thou
7 Pirates of the Caribbean
8 Mystic River | Million Dollar Baby
9 Wall-E
10 Once

Christian Science Monitor:
1 Before Sunset
2 4 Mos, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
3 No Country for Old Men
4 The Pianist
5 Sideways
6 Spirited Away
7 Time Out
8 Waltz With Bashir
9 Y Tu Mama Tambien
10 The Wind Will Carry Us

Collider:
1 Lord of the Rings
2 Pixar Movies
3 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4 Shaun of the Dead
5 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
6 The Fountain
7 Pan's Labyrinth
8 Children of Men
9 The 40 Year Old Virgin
10 No Country For Old Men

Pulse:
1 The Departed
2 American Beauty
3 Moulin Rouge
4 Brokeback Mountain
5 Gladiator
6 Frost/Nixon
7 Good Night and Good Luck
8 Michael Clayton
9 There Will Be Blood
10 Milk

 

[SOLIDSNAKE]

Laughable list - Kill Bill ahead of TDK? It's a bad joke.

HAHHAHAHAHAHA!

where is AVATAR, IRON MAN, TRANSFORMERS 1 AND 2 ?

what a joke.

 

[IrishJedi]

What's amazing is how any type of "Top xxxx [Whatever] of [Whenever]" list instantly sparks passionate debate. There's no wonder most publications do it all the time.

 

[IrishJedi]

HAHHAHAHAHAHA!

where is AVATAR, IRON MAN, TRANSFORMERS 1 AND 2 ?

what a joke.

Okay, you're not fooling me anymore. I'm onto your act now. Good one.

 

[wofford29]

HAHHAHAHAHAHA!

where is AVATAR, IRON MAN, TRANSFORMERS 1 AND 2 ?

what a joke.

Off the list where they deserve to be.

 

[IronFingaz]

HAHHAHAHAHAHA!

where is AVATAR, IRON MAN, TRANSFORMERS 1 AND 2 ?

what a joke.

Your kidding, right?

 

[wofford29]

Films that just missed the top 20 in order...

Once
The Fog Of War
Memento
Far From Heaven
Children Of Men
Spirited Away
Traffic
Zodiac

There was only one other comic film mentioned out of the 100+ films mentioned.


Batman Begins.

 

[Darth Vader]

Moon and district 9 should be on that list.

 

[DinoLast]

There are some good films on the list, but I think it's a little pretentious.
I guess they thought Gladiator was enjoyed too much by the plebs of society

 

[Bannister]

There are some good films on the list, but I think it's a little pretentious.
I guess they thought Gladiator was enjoyed too much by the plebs of society

It's not like they listed a bunch of obscure foreign films. There is plenty of mainstream stuff on there.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I still dont understand the appeal of There Will Be Blood

yeah really...that movie was a big WTF? for me

 

[DinoLast]

It's not like they listed a bunch of obscure foreign films. There is plenty of mainstream stuff on there.

I still stand by my opinion of the list.
Kill Bill Vol 1 for sure should be on the list, but Vol 2?

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

HAHHAHAHAHAHA!

where is AVATAR, IRON MAN, TRANSFORMERS 1 AND 2 ?

what a joke.

really?

you must be joking.

I love ironman, but GD...the other 3?

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

I still stand by my opinion of the list.
Kill Bill Vol 1 for sure should be on the list, but Vol 2?

I didn't like kill bill 2 either

 

[SnakeDoctor]

There are quite a few of those I haven't seen ... and I generally don't pay much attention to movie critics (generally self-important snobs anyway) ... but ...

No Gladiator? No Fight Club?

Looks like a pretentious critics list rather than an actual ranking of the best movies.

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