What's the best movie you saw this decade?

Whoops ... don't post while drinking. I meant agreement, obviously.

Personally, I think "Syriana" was a truly great performance by Clooney.

 

Damn... I thought it was a really cool, incongruent manner of being on the same side.

That's cool.

Happy New Year.

 

In no order:

There Will Be Blood
Inglourious Basterds
City of God
Royal Tenenbaums
The Wrestler
The Departed
Dark Knight
Knocked Up
Dig!

 

Sirs, Madames,

The Lives of Others
Zodiac
The Fog of War
City of God
There Will Be Blood
Donnie Darko
Trouble the Water
Hunger
A History of Violence
Wall-E
The Aviator

(I saw The Limey in 2000 and it would be No. 3 on my list.)

Notable: Eternal Sunshine, The Counterfeiters, The Mayor of Sunset Strip, Capturing the Friedmans, Bowling for Columbine, Big Fish, Monster's Ball

o-<

 

It's really not Clooney's fault that Grant was born first, and got to work with Sturges and Hitchcock.

 

I't much more than that, but point taken.

It's not about "fault", though.

 

You know who I can't stand? Hugh Grant. I used to like him, but man, he's mailing it in these days...I can't remember the last really good movie he starred in. Love, Actually perhaps? About a Boy was good.

 

Shaun of the Dead for comedy.
The Departed for serious.

 

Frankly, a better parallel to Clooney isn't Grant . . . but Gable.

Another handsome guy -- who was absolutely one-note. Every one of Gable's best pictures, from GWTW, to Boom Town, to San Francisco, and on and on . . . Gable was playing Gable. Very good at it, too.

 

Haven't seen many, but here's a few I enjoyed:

Fight Club
The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Thank You For Smoking
Punch-Drunk Love
Sideways
Little Miss Sunshine
Superbad
40-Year-Old Virgin
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

 

I think Bogart is a good comparison as well.

 

Fond of Bogie, but he had greater range than Gable . . . though their parallel
progression from bad-guy roles to good-guy roles was interesting . . .