What's the best movie you saw this decade?

Yes!! For the exact reasons you mentioned. Are you referring to Garner's monologue at the dinner table? And absolutely right on with the scenery. This movie also introduced me to Timothy Olyphant, which led me to Deadwood. All good things.

 

OK, so I see this point, and I think Adams is a fine actress, and I clearly think she made the choices you outline.

But at the end, I'm still left with the overall feeling that I would have MUCH preferred a full 90 minute biopic on Child with Streep doing, let's face it, her otherwordly job, and just leave off the frame reference entirely.

It just didn't add enough to make it worth how much I loathed the character. And I did loathe her.

 

Yes, Care Bear, the monologue at the table. Just so out of the blue. I have the movie and watch it sometimes just for the lead-up, and execution of, that monologue. Just so funny. I really wish she'd left her lips alone. Not that she isn't still pretty. But those new lips just don't do justice to her face.

 

Very good list.

I'm baffled by all the mentions of The Hangover. I enjoyed it, but it's a throwaway comedy. Best movie of the decade? Really?

 

The last great Hackman performance, it seems. He's only been in two films since then (The Runaway Jury and Welcome to Mooseport), and hasn't appeared in anything since 2004. Royal's quasi-racist exchanges with Danny Glover were hysterical, as was his ability to tell lie after bald-faced lie without seemingly feeling a hint of regret.

Favorite line of the film (from Baldwin's voice-over): "Immediately after making this statement, Royal realized that it was true."

Royal O'Reilly Tenenbaum, 1932-2001. Died Tragically Rescuing His Family From The Wreckage Of A Destroyed Sinking Battleship.

RIP, Pappy.

 

I've been derelict in my movie-going in the last few years, so I've only seen bits and pieces of most of the films mentioned so far. "Shaun of the Dead" joined "Holy Grail" and "Blues Brothers" in the list of films I can watch again and keep enjoying (love me some Simon Pegg, and a good zombie flick is always welcome in my collection).

Seeing "Up" and the "Star Trek" re-imagining back-to-back was great fun, as were "Dark Knight" and "Kill Bill". I doubt anyone here saw his work, but I really got into the films of Makoto Shinkai ("Voices of a Distant Star", "Place Promised in Our Early Days" and "5 Centimeters Per Second") this decade. The way his works look, especially his use of light, and the stories of loss just resonate with me for some reason.

I also really want to see "Let the Right One In" before too long.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Right_One_In_(film)

 

Agreed with Rescue Dawn. Bale, again, was fantastic.

 

1. Eternal Sunshine. I watch it at least once a month. I hate Jim Carrey, yet he was perfect in that role. I still expect to see Clementine on the street.

2. LOTR. Quite possibly the best series of movies ever made.

3. The Bourne Identity. I didn't like the other two as much (probably because they killed off Franke Potente's character), but it finally gave Matt Damon a defining role outside of Will Hunting.

4. Star Trek. I'm not a Trek fan. In fact, I always found Trek to be a little, well, idealistic. Loved, loved, loved the reboot. The casting was perfect, and I still cry when Kirk's father dies and cheer a little when the Enterprise pops up out of Saturn's rings.

5. Juno. It's one of the few comedies that still makes me smile on the 20th viewing.

 

I am probably in the minority here, but I thought Crash was a vastly superior to Brokeback Mountain.

The hatred that so many people have for Crash, which I would add to my list as one of the best films I saw of the decade, baffles me. I really think people just hate solely it because it beat out Brokeback, they have no other reason for hating it.

Mizzou, you and CI are right on about 25th Hour. One of the most amazing films I have ever seen, every performance in that film, Barry Pepper, Hoffman, Norton, Brian Cox and even Rosario Dawson, who is really hot, but I don't think is much of an actress, were all great.

 

I thought Crash was better too, Bodie. I liked both films, but Brokeback was really just another case of two lovers who were kept apart by family and circumstance. We've seen it several times before, but it just happened to star two men instead of a man and a woman in Brokeback.

 

That was the first thought that entered my mind when I finished Brokeback for the first time. Matter of fact, I said to the girl I saw it with, "That was great, but if it was a film about a man and a woman, it never would have been made."

 

It wasn't a film about a man and a woman. And it was fantastic.

Alphabetical order:
Apocalypto
Borat
Brokeback Mountain
Crash
Gladiator
Gran Torino
Kill Bill, Vol. 2 (The sequence from the time Daryl Hannah walked into "Budd"s trailer until Uma Thurman left it is my favorite section of movie ever, probably.)
Passion of the Christ
Tropic Thunder
Wedding Crashers