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Re: Best Films of the 2000's
« Reply #30 on: August 03, 2009, 10:52:15 AM »
I think this is why I have left Rescue Dawn up at the top of my netflix queue but keep bumping it down in favor of something else ... I loved Dieter so much that I sort of want to leave it there. It doesn't make any sense.

Same reason I never watched it.  It may be really good but I couldn't see it improving on Little Dieter, although I may eventually get to it.  

I'm glad to see a few people listing The 25th Hour. I thought that was great and it doesn't seem to get mentioned much. Barry Pepper, what's up with that guy's career?

Yeah, it really flourishes at the end, which is fairly rare.   Pepper was good in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which would be in my top 50.  

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Re: Best Films of the 2000's
« Reply #31 on: August 03, 2009, 11:23:09 AM »
Haven't seen "Burials"! It's on my to see-list.

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« Reply #32 on: August 03, 2009, 12:27:25 PM »
I think this is why I have left Rescue Dawn up at the top of my netflix queue but keep bumping it down in favor of something else ... I loved Dieter so much that I sort of want to leave it there. It doesn't make any sense.

I'm going through the same thing with Grey Gardens.

Chopper and The Fall both deserve a hearty mention on any top 100 of the '00s list, I think.

But the correct answer to this thread is The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford.
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Re: Best Films of the 2000's
« Reply #33 on: August 03, 2009, 02:09:22 PM »
I think this is why I have left Rescue Dawn up at the top of my netflix queue but keep bumping it down in favor of something else ... I loved Dieter so much that I sort of want to leave it there. It doesn't make any sense.

Same reason I never watched it.  It may be really good but I couldn't see it improving on Little Dieter, although I may eventually get to it.  
  

Me, too on Little Dieter.

I think Lives of Others is tops of 2000's.

I really liked Love Liza -- the Philip Seymour Hoffman gas-huffer movie.

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Re: Best Films of the 2000's
« Reply #34 on: August 03, 2009, 02:28:50 PM »
I'm going through the same thing with Grey Gardens.

Me too. I don't really hate Drew Barrymore or anything but I just don't think she can pull this one off. Has anyone here seen it?

Chopper and The Fall both deserve a hearty mention on any top 100 of the '00s list, I think.

But the correct answer to this thread is The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford.

Loved Chopper a LOT but I squirmed and fidgeted thru Assassination of Jesse James.

That list has made me realize how many movies I've missed this decade.
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Re: Best Films of the 2000's
« Reply #35 on: August 03, 2009, 07:27:17 PM »
Haven't seen "Burials"! It's on my to see-list.

Burials was great, you got to love the Levon Helm scenes.

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Re: Best Films of the 2000's
« Reply #36 on: August 04, 2009, 04:06:12 AM »
No one liked The Fountain much?

It had its faults, like the tai chi in space, and some of the more cheesy moments like that near the end, but I found it ridiculously endearing and sweet. And, of course, it was beautifully shot and acted. A close friend of mine died a little before the movie came out, so that might have made it a little more cathartic for me.
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Re: Best Films of the 2000's
« Reply #37 on: August 04, 2009, 11:08:00 PM »
Good lists.  I would add  Divine Intervention, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, and Big Man Japan

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« Reply #38 on: August 05, 2009, 12:44:25 AM »
I just remembered Taxidermia, grotesquely amazing!  :D

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Re: Best Films of the 2000's
« Reply #39 on: August 05, 2009, 04:44:06 AM »
No one liked The Fountain much?

It had its faults, like the tai chi in space, and some of the more cheesy moments like that near the end, but I found it ridiculously endearing and sweet. And, of course, it was beautifully shot and acted. A close friend of mine died a little before the movie came out, so that might have made it a little more cathartic for me.

The space tai chi kind of made me... well, turn it off.

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Re: Best Films of the 2000's
« Reply #40 on: August 05, 2009, 08:51:13 AM »
SHATTERED GLASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Darjeeling Limited
Ratatouille
The Station Agent
Zodiac
Ghost World
The Devil's Rejects
There Will Be Blood
Punch-Drunk Love
Ginger Snaps
Mean Creek
Maria Full Of Grace
Old School
Dawn of the Dead
This Is England
You Can Count On Me
The Man Who Wasn't There
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
No Country For Older Men
Burn After Reading
Adaptation
25th Hour
George Washington
All The Real Girls
Snow Angels
Lost in La Mancha
Capturing Nem Friedmans
Stuck
Stevie
Stone Reader
Before Sunset
Twentynine Palms (the Bruno Dumont, not to be confused with 29 Palms)
Control Room
Keane
Dallas 362
Training Day
Mulholland Drive
Dogtown and Z-Boys
Lords of Dogtown
thirteen
Dancer in the Dark
United 93
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Idiocracy
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
Down in the Valley
Hostel: Part II
Ocean's 11
Bubble
Sideways
Spider
The Brown Bunny
Memento
Head-On
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations
Mutual Appreciation
Funny Ha Ha
Ratcatcher
Small Time Crooks
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Comedian
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Jackass The Movie
Jackass Number Two
Jeepers Creepers
Sexy Beasts
Adventureland
Dig!
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Josie and the Pussycats
Monster-in-Law
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« Reply #41 on: August 05, 2009, 09:25:30 AM »
Monster-in-Law?

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« Reply #42 on: August 05, 2009, 10:24:55 AM »
Seriously, Monster in Law?
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Re: Best Films of the 2000's
« Reply #43 on: August 05, 2009, 10:53:29 AM »
I would have replaced Jeepers Creepers with Jeepers Creepers 2. Going with the original makes me want to rethink my whole position on Omar.
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Re: Best Films of the 2000's
« Reply #44 on: August 05, 2009, 10:58:39 AM »
I would have replaced Jeepers Creepers with Jeepers Creepers 2. Going with the original makes me want to rethink my whole position on Omar.

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