The Fast and The Furious! ...nuff said :)

Almost Famous

And I also haven't seen Reqiuem For A Dream.

ah yes.. animes fans are awesome.. :)

Almost Famous

My #1 film of 2000
 

How did you see it?
Is there a dvd available?
playable in Region 1 NTSC?

No DVD, but it's been playing on the Sundance Channel.

You Can Count On Me

Traffic is a close #2

CTHD remade the genre. For a martial arts film, it took chances and on the whole succeeded. Martial arts flicks have been stagnant for years, and CTHD was able to reshape it into something new and pretty entertaining. It's not that easy to make a great martial arts flick; look at the confused mess The Legend of Zu, which seemed to have been rushed out in the hope of emulating CTHD's success.

I'm looking forward to what Zhang Yimou can do in his attempt to tackle the martial arts movie, but that's for another thread... ;)

Almost Famous

with You Can Count on Me and High Fidelity close behind.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Traffic

1. Chuck and Buck
2. Panic

Can't narrow it down to one. But here were my FAVS.

TRAFFIC
REQIUEM FOR A DREAM
CAST AWAY
UNBREAKABLE
MELENA

Did you happen to see MELENA (from director of Cinema Paradiso)? Another great coming-of-age story by the great filmmaker. Not better thaan CP, but it gets my nod.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Almost Famous

My pick: Almost Famous

This is hard.

Unbreakable I guess... Requiem is close, but it's just too disturbing for me to enjoy. It's probably a better film, but it's not my favorite... so best goes to Unbreakable... because I liked it as much and I can rewatch it more... I also thought Gladiator was pretty good. American Psycho was very good (but also suffers a bit from the disturbing thing) and State and Main, Wonder Boys, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? are also enjoyable.

I saw pretty much every mainstream movie in 2000, god, I'm never going to do that again. I only saw about 4 in 2001 as a result!

It's actually called Malena, but no, I didn't bother seeing it. It seems like a rehash of every Italian coming-of-age film that has ever been made. And since I was never big on the genre, I gladly passed on it.

I guess I'm the only person in the whole
world who liked Chocolat. Crouching Tiger would be my second. I have not yet seen Almost Famous. It's on my to do list.
Did everyone hate Chocolat?

Chocolat's about the last semi-mainstream film on my list from 2000 that I still haven't seen... I was waiting for it to be available for enrollment from CH, and it finally became so a week or so ago... it's been ordered and I'll see it soon.

But as far as films nominated for best picture, I've hardly ever read more negative things (with no really positive reviews (I use this disclaimer b/c some critics gave really high marks to Titanic and Gladiator even though many people have bashed them both)) than I have about Chocolat. I hope that makes since.

MEMENTO

Don't agree it was a 2000 release?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...373184-9381432

it was released overseas in 2000. 2001 in the US. I don't care what year any of you technically consider it to be released, I'm putting it down. It beats everything else hands down.

The best of 2000:
CHICKEN RUN!!

Closing this thread because the result is pretty obvious and we don't want to clutter the board too much.