What's the best movie you saw this decade?

Affleck's best work was in Dazed and Confused. It's been all downhill since.

 

I liked Affleck in Jersey Girl and Chasing Amy and State of Play and Paycheck.

I walked out of Extract, but not because of him. Just didn't like the movie.

He directed Gone Baby Gone, which was one of the best movies that year.

 

I should have walked out of Extract. What a colossal piece of shit that film was.

 

Affleck did a tremendous job with Gone Baby Gone ... and his acting work is very similar in my eyes with Mark Wahlberg's. They have charisma; you want to like them. Very hard to quantify or explain, but they grow on you -- sometimes like a well-worn T-shirt; other times like a fungus.

 

This decade I walked out of:

Extract

Love, Actually

What's the Worst That Could Happen?

Superbad

 

Very good.

 

These same words could be said of many we consider greats - Gregory Peck, Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda and Cary Grant to name a few.

 

I didn't see Love, Actually or What's the Worst That Could Happen?, but Superbad sucked something awful.

 

I just went to Netflix and pared down the list of movies that I gave 5 stars.

Here's my top 25, in alphabetical order ...

Almost Famous (2000)
Borat (2006)
The Bourne trilogy (2002-07)
The Contender (2000)
Crash (2005)
The Departed (2006)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Garden State (2004)
Gladiator (2000)
Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle (2004)
High Fidelity (2000)
A History of Violence (2005)
Into the Wild (2007)
Juno (2007)
Kill Bill (2003-04)
Ocean's trilogy (2001-2007)
Old School (2003)
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Super-Size Me (2004)
Superbad (2007)
Thank You For Smoking (2005)
The United States of Leland (2003)
V For Vendetta (2005)
Wedding Crashers (2005)

And to show you how awesome 1999 was, here are my favorites from that year ...

American Beauty
The Boondock Saints
Cruel Intentions
Dogma
Fight Club
The Matrix
Office Space
SLC Punk
Varsity Blues
Virgin Suicides

 

Definitely. It's hard to put your finger on what makes some people like that. Then you look at Brad Pitt, who's every bit as attractive and charismatic but somehow seems to be able to be able to slip into a broader range of characters.

 

"Ray"
"Almost Famous"
"Million Dollar Baby"

 

I still never forget that it's Brad Pitt. All these men are movie stars. The ones that disappear into characters tend to be character actors, a whole different kettle of fish.