Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
so for the decade that has just passed, which single year did you think had the most enjoyable movies in total? (going by initial release year in theaters, or if foreign, first release on DVD)
now, for me, i am going by how i initially felt in theater or rewatchability on DVD and the following have been watched more than any other in my collection since their DVD and/or theatrical release and ones i just really love and never tire of seeing. 2005: Serenity Batman Begins High Tension The Descent Sin City Four Brothers Hustle & Flow Sympathy for Lady Vengeance A History of Violence Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Walk the Line The 40 Year-Old Virgin |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
2007:
Sunshine No Country for Old Men There Will Be Blood Hot Fuzz Eastern Promises Zodiac Michael Clayton The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Shooter |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
2007. I remember sliding out of the "loop" in terms of films after 2005/2006 were such slow years for good films. Seeing Zodiac and There Will Be Blood in the theaters were the theater highlights of the decade for me. Didn't get to see No Country for Old Men at the theaters though....
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Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
It's not even close for me: 2007.
There Will Be Blood No Country for Old Men Zodiac The Diving Bell and the Butterfly The Lives of Others Once The Bourne Ultimatum Michael Clayton Gone Baby Gone Ratatouille Hot Fuzz Into the Wild The Savages The King of Kong The Assassination of Jesse James Control The Orphanage This Is England The Host Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Eastern Promises Persepolis 3:10 to Yuma Knocked Up Superbad |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
2007--easily: NCFOM, TWBB, Zodiac, Ratatouille, Hot Fuzz, The Lookout, Grindhouse, Knocked Up, Superbad, 3:10 to Yuma, Enchanted, Sweeney Todd.
ETA: Forgot Once, Into the Wild, and Persepolis. |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
I'd probably go with 2007 as well. Looking at the films others have listed, I realize that I went to the theater more that year than any other (had a lot of movie cash to use up).
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Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
2001 for me, almost by default since BHD, Mulholland, Darko, Spirited Away and Tenenbaums rank amongst my favorite of the decade --
Black Hawk Down Mulholland Drive Donnie Darko Amelie Spirited Away The Royal Tenenbaums Memento (says 2000 on imdb but was released in US theaters March '01) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship My Sassy Girlfriend (Korean) No Man's Land Brotherhood of the Wolf Ichi The Killer (Japanese) Frailty AI Hannibal (not a popular choice but still one of my most memorable movie going experiences, found the movie hilarious as well) Super Troopers Shaolin Soccer Bully |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
I like 2000. Gladiator, Memento, Snatch, American Psycho, X-Men
I like 2008 quite a bit too with Dark Knight, Iron Man, Taken, Forgetting Sarah Marshall |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
Originally Posted by Aegean2007
(Post 10087717)
It's not even close for me: 2007.
There Will Be Blood No Country for Old Men Zodiac The Diving Bell and the Butterfly The Lives of Others Once The Bourne Ultimatum Michael Clayton Gone Baby Gone Ratatouille Hot Fuzz Into the Wild The Savages The King of Kong The Assassination of Jesse James Control The Orphanage This Is England The Host Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Eastern Promises Persepolis 3:10 to Yuma Knocked Up Superbad Hard to argue with that. 2007 for me I guess. I would add 'Seraphim Falls' and 'The Lookout' and that would pretty much settle it for me. |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
The first thing that came to mind was 2007.
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Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
Poll? I'd need to also see little lists. So far, 2007 looks pretty good.
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Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
Originally Posted by dogmatica
(Post 10088014)
Poll? I'd need to also see little lists. So far, 2007 looks pretty good.
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Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
2003 hands-down. Why? KILL BILL VOL. 1.
Two great anime movies came out that year also: TOKYO GODFATHERS and, in Japan, POKEMON JIRACHI WISHMAKER (which didn't come out in the U.S. till the following year, and only on DVD). |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
2007 for me. A lot of flicks I loved seeing that year.
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Definitely 2007
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Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
2001
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Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
2000
Yi Yi Traffic Werckmeister Harmonies Dancer in the Dark Memento Amores Perros George Washington Animal Factory Battle Royale The Wind Will Carry Us Best In Show Magnolia Pollock Ghost Dog Faithless The Town Is Quiet Code Unknown Murderous Maids Devils on the Doorstep Shadow of the Vampire Mifune Requiem For a Dream In the Mood for Love |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
Originally Posted by Aegean2007
(Post 10087717)
It's not even close for me: 2007.
There Will Be Blood No Country for Old Men Zodiac The Diving Bell and the Butterfly The Lives of Others Once The Bourne Ultimatum Michael Clayton Gone Baby Gone Ratatouille Hot Fuzz Into the Wild The Savages The King of Kong The Assassination of Jesse James Control The Orphanage This Is England The Host Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Eastern Promises Persepolis 3:10 to Yuma Knocked Up Superbad I would also add: Elizabeth the Golden Age Sweeney Todd Across the Universe I'm Not There The Darjeeling Limited It's not just the greatest year of the decade, it's one of the greatest years of all-time. |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
Originally Posted by PopcornTreeCt
(Post 10088531)
It's not just the greatest year of the decade, it's one of the greatest years of all-time.
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Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
Hard to argue with 2007, although I also enjoyed 2000 and 2001 just as much.
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Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
Some favorites that come to mind :
2007 Dark Matter (Zheng) Flight of the Red Balloon (Hou) Snow Angels (Green) Before the Rains (Sivan) War Dance (Fine) Arranged (Crespo & Schaefer) My Father My Lord (Volach) The Counterfeiters (Ruzowitzky) Bad Habits (Bross) Brick Lane (Gavron) The Secrets (Nesher) Trade (Kreuzpaintner) Up the Yangtze (Chang) Le Tete de Maman (Tardieu) Lust, Caution (Lee) Mongol (Bodrov) The Orphanage (Bayona) 2006 The Bothersome Man (Lien) Tell No One (Canet) Babel (Inarritu) Eden (Hofmann) Avenue Montaigne (Thompson) I Served the King of England (Menzel) The Lives of Others (Von Donnersmarck) Dreamland (Matzner) Love For Sale (Ainouz) Four Minutes (Kraus) 12 : 08 East of Bucharest (Porumboiu) The Great Happiness Space (Clennell) The Education of A Fairy (Cuerda) Snow Cake (Evans) Offside (Panahi) Notes On a Scandal (Eyre) 2008 The Children of Huang Shi (Spottiswoode) Tulpan (Dvortsevoy) The Duchess (Dibb) Heaven on Earth (Mehta) Let the Right One In (Alfredson) Doubt (Shanley) The Reader (Daldry) Man On a Wire (Marsh) Frozen River (Hunt) Brideshead Revisited (Jarrold) Cherry Blossoms (Dorrie) The Class (Cantet) Wendy and Lucy (Reichardt) The Forbidden Kingdom (Minkoff) Last Chance Harvey (Hopkins) 2005 The New World (Malick) Cache (Haneke) The Promise (Chen) Water (Mehta) The House of Sand (Waddington) Broken Flowers (Jarmusch) L' Enfant (Dardenne) Lady Vengeance (Park) Aurore (Dionne) The Secret Life of Words (Coixet) Sabah (Nadda) Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (Zhang) Lemming (Moll) Le Petit Lieutenant (Beauvois) 2004 Campfire (Cedar) 3-Iron (Kim) Look at Me (Jaoui) Spider Forest (Song) 2046 (Wong) A Very Long Engagement (Jeunet) House of Flying Daggers (Zhang) Agata and the Storm (Soldini) Antares (Spielmann) The Motorcycle Diaries (Salles) The Beautiful Country (Moland) Bad Education (Almodovar) 2002 Zhou Yu's Train (Zhou) Ararat (Egoyan) Broken Wings (Bergman) Frida (Taymor) Japon (Reygadas) Marooned in Iraq (Ghobadi) The Hours (Daldry) Morvern Callar (Ramsay) The Pianist (Polanski) 8 Women (Ozon) 2003 Ginger and Cinnamon (Luchetti) Monsieur Ibrahim (Dupeyron) Swimming Pool (Ozon) Saraband (Bergman) Zatoichi (Kitano) Calendar Girls (Cole) Coffee and Cigarettes (Jarmusch) Warriors of Heaven and Earth (Ping He) 2001 Y Tu Mama Tambien (Cuaron) The Son's Room (Moretti) Beijing Bicycle (Wang) Baran (Majidi) A Girl at the Window (Leclerc) The Piano Teacher (Haneke) 2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee) The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Tran) Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (Farmanara) 2009 Sin Nombre (Fukunaga) Julie & Julia (Ephron) |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
I'm going with 2004 for the following samples:
Shaun of the Dead - my pick for Movie of the Decade in another thread Bubba Ho-Tep - You just don't see many geriatric hero movies. Strange that my two favorite films of this year are zombie movies, given that I've never really been big on the genre. Fahrenheit 9/11 - Politics aside, Moore asked some important questions of important people at a time when the media wouldn't, and it was nice to be reminded what it was like to be in a theater with an attentive audience Sideways - My favorite road trip movie ever. Rex Pickett's novel is still better, but Alexander Payne's adaptation still captures the cynical spirit of the novel's characters. Great performances, and because of the Californian landscape and the clever lighting and cinematography, it's one of my favorite movies to actually look at. The Aviator - For my money, DiCaprio completed his transition from movie star to actor with this nuanced performance as Howard Hughes. The Incredibles - Possibly still the greatest comic book superhero movie of the decade, and a bold entry in the illustrious Pixar canon. Shrek 2 - Haters might not like the sequels, but this is my favorite of the three to date. I responded more strongly to the Puss in Boots humor than the Donkey humor, and my inferiority complex identifies with the self-doubt of not deserving the woman you love. Plus, I love the "I Need a Hero" sequence. |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
^^Here we go...
Why not just cut and paste the list of every movie ever made since 2000? Maybe just cut and paste a list of every movie you've ever seen? My goodness those are some obscure titles, you are a REALLY advanced cinephile. Please post some more lists! None of us will be able to go on without this information! :grunt: |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
Forgot to list these for 2007 -wink-
On the Wings of Dreams (Biplob) The Knot (Yin Li) Satanas (Baiz) Persepolis (Satrapi) The Edge of Heaven (Akin) |
Re: Best single year for movies (2000-2009)?
Originally Posted by Dr Mabuse
(Post 10089489)
^^Here we go...
Why not just cut and paste the list of every movie ever made since 2000? Maybe just cut and paste a list of every movie you've ever seen? My goodness those are some obscure titles, you are a REALLY advanced cinephile. Please post some more lists! None of us will be able to go on without this information! :grunt: |
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