What's the best movie you saw this decade?

According to his imdb page, his first TV role was as Village Extra in a 1978 mini-series called "Centennial." His first speaking part was on "Riptide" in 1984. Then came a 22-episode run the original E/R (the Elliott Gould one), a full year before Facts of Life.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000123/

 

Oh, that ER. My apologies, dools.

 

You just had to go find facts, didn't you?

 

Ya take the good, ya take the bad ...

 

I remember watching "Facts" when Molly Ringwald was in the original cast.

 

My medal podium, admittedly flawed because I don't watch a lot of movies:

Comedies:

GOLD: "The Hangover"
SILVER: "Anchorman"
BRONZE: "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"

The Hangover was brilliant, mostly because it was so unpredictable. Anchorman gets even funnier to me because of all the people in media that I know that kind of fit into some of the stereotypes. And there is just so much to like about "40-Year-Old Virgin." Proof that you can go the raunchy route and still wind things up with a good heart.

Sports:
GOLD: "Miracle"
SILVER: "The Blind Side"
BRONZE: "Talladega Nights"

History has a lot to do with it, but the way Kurt Russell portrayed Herb Brooks (particularly in the AGAIN! scene was just excellent. As it is, an AD in my coverage area was cut in those tryouts at the Springs. Blind Side might have been a little formulaic, but I felt it was just good all the way around - good story, good acting and even a little eye candy. Granted, it wasn't a brilliant piece of work, but the savaging that is done to some of NASCAR's ills in that movie (in particular, the mid-wreck commercial break) had me rolling in the aisles.

I liked Invictus, but I really disliked the way Eastwood shot some of the action scenes, especially the end, where the final kick takes about five minutes to go through the uprights. Didn't like the action scenes in "Cinderella Man," either.

DRAMA:
1. Hotel Rwanda
2. WALL-E
3. The Last King of Scotland

Hard to believe I haven't seen Hotel Rwanda mentioned anywhere on the thread thus far. I thought it was just gripping. So much to like about WALL-E, particularly in that first act when they say so much without dialogue. And just an excellent performance by Forest Whittaker as Idi Amin.

 

Finally saw "Basterds" today, and I gotta say... will someone please walk up to Tarrantino and kick him in the balls for me? I hate, hate, HATED the Kill Bills and pretty much swore of his hacky tributes to 70s schlock for life before the runup to the "Basterds" this summer. It looked good. It looked interesting. I fell for it. And what did I get? Typical horse-faced QT's bullshit. A good story mangled by a half-assed director.

About the only saving grace for it was my surprise that he actually killed Hitler. I, like most moviegoers I presume, fell into the trap of film-making tenets that you can't kill off an historical figure if he in fact did not die at that time. So - BOOM - we get a bullet-riddled Adolf. Nice. Other than that? Thud.

 

Love Actually
Wall-E
Up
Juno
Remember the Titans
V for Vendetta
Chicago (hated Moulin Rouge with every fiber of my being)
The Lord of the Rings trilogy
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (haven't seen this one mentioned. Michael Constantine was amazing as the father.)
Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy (basically solidified Johnny Depp's arrival. Cannot wait for Alice in Wonderland)
Ray (OPENLY BAWLED IN THEATERS. Dear god this one was a tear jerker)
Little Miss Sunshine
Catch Me If You Can (Leo was pretty much spot-on in this film)
Bridget Jones' Diary
The Aviator
The Terminal
Brokeback Mountain (once again, openly bawled in theaters)
Elizabethtown


Superbad was the dumbest movie of the last decade. Bar none. I don't really watch any recent comedies, especially those that involve the frat pack. Napoleon Dynamite put me to sleep all three times I tried to watch it.

 

only read to page 3 and was stunned to see "mystic river" mentioned only once -- and even then it was just 47 on someone's top 50. has to be in my top 5. also liked "gone, baby, gone" by same screenwriter. great direction by oft-hated here ben affleck, brother of much-loved casey. another personal fave was "25th hour."8) 8) 8)

most overrated, imo: "the wrestler." very disappointing after all the hype over rourke's comeback.

outstanding decade for comedies of the "tropic thunder," "pineapple express," anything judd apatowesque.

 

Wenders, interesting that you mentioned "bawling" directly after applauding Johnny Depp -- without mentioning the one movie that left me truly weeping in the past 10 years: Depp and Kate Winslet in Finding Neverland. That wasn't a tearjerker, it was a punch to the gut.

 

One movie that has to be nominated for an honorable mention is 2000's "The Way of the Gun" ... strictly because of it's amazing opening scene.

I've only seen the whole movie twice, but I've watched the intro about 20-30 times. Whenever I have friends over who've never seen it, I often pop the DVD in just to watch the intro multiple times.

If you've never seen it, enjoy ...

 

Good film...