Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The 100 Best Films of the Decade

So I saw a link to a Times Online article listing The 100 Best Films of the Decade at the bottom of the IMDB main page and thought I'd examine it to see just how I do as a film connoisseur this last 10 years. The short answer: horribly. I took the list of films and made it more concise so that I could get a real visual representation of how many films I've seen (Check the original article for brief justifications on why any particular movie is on the list). Since the unseen movies ended up stacking up so much, I decided to give a sort of scale as to how likely I would see any given movie:

BOLD
Seen it
U
Unsure/Undecided
VL
Very Likely
L
Likely
NL
Not Likely

What do you think? Are there any films in my U category that need to move to another? Should I take this as a sign that I'm just not an avid modern film fan? How many have you seen (I came in at a paltry 36)?

The 100 Best Films of the Decade
U 1 Caché (Hidden) 2005

2 The Bourne Supremacy / The Bourne Ultimatum 2004/2007
VL 3 No Country for Old Men 2007
L 4 Grizzly Man 2005
NL 5 Team America: World Police 2004

6 Slumdog Millionaire 2008
NL 7 The Last King of Scotland 2006

8 Casino Royale 2006
L 9 The Queen 2006
U 10 Hunger 2008

11 Borat 2006
L 12 The Lives of Others 2006
U 13 This Is England 2007
U 14 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days 2007
L 15 Downfall 2004

16 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
L 17 Brokeback Mountain 2005
L 18 Let the Right One In 2008

19 United 93 2006

20 Donnie Darko 2001

21 Good Night, and Good Luck 2005

22 Far from Heaven 2002

23 Man On Wire 2008
NL 24 28 Days Later… 2002
U 25 Dancer in the Dark 2000

26 Minority Report 2002

27 Sideways 2004

28 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 2007
VL 29 Being John Malkovich 2000
U 30 Irreversible 2002
U 31 Iraq in Fragments 2006

32 Gladiator 2000
VL 33 Monsoon Wedding 2002

34 Finding Nemo 2003
U 35 Y Tu Mamá También 2002
U 36 Capturing the Friedmans 2004
U 37 In the Mood for Love 2000
NL 38 Mulholland Drive 2001
L 39 Lost in Translation 2003
L 40 Syriana 2005

41 Children of Men 2006

42 The Incredibles 2004

43 The Dark Knight 2008
U 44 Under the Sand 2000
U 45 Touching the Void 2003
VL 46 Traffic 2000
U 47 My Summer of Love 2004

48 Little Miss Sunshine 2006

49 Knocked Up 2007

50 The Lord of The Rings: The Return of the King 2003
U 51 The Son’s Room 2001
L 52 The Constant Gardener 2005
L 53 Milk 2008
NL 54 Bad Santa 2003
U 55 Chopper 2000
U 56 Volver 2006
U 57 The Consequences of Love 2004

58 Shaun of the Dead 2004
U 59 Être et Avoir 2002
U 60 The Squid and the Whale 2005

61 Spirited Away 2001
L 62 Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy 2004
VL 63 There Will Be Blood 2007
U 64 L'enfant 2005
U 65 Waltz with Bashir 2008

66 City of God 2002
U 67 Gomorrah 2008

68 Memento 2000

69 Persepolis 2007
U 70 The Class 2008

71 Monsters, Inc. 2001
NL 72 The Hurt Locker 2008
U 73 The Beat That My Heart Skipped 2005

74 Pan’s Labyrinth 2006
L 75 Talk to Her 2002
U 76 Control 2007
L 77 Bowling for Columbine 2002

78 About Schmidt 2002
U 79 Le Grand Voyage 2004
U 80 Me, You and Everyone We Know 2005
U 81 In The Loop 2009
U 82 Yi Yi: A One and a Two 2000
U 83 The Wind that Shakes the Barley 2006

84 Hotel Rwanda 2004
U 85 The Piano Teacher 2001
U 86 The Orphanage 2007
U 87 Time and Winds 2006
NL 88 The Royal Tenenbaums 2001

89 School of Rock 2003
NL 90 Wedding Crashers 2005
U 91 Lantana 2001
U 92 Dirty Pretty Things 2002

93 House of Flying Daggers 2004

94 An Inconvenient Truth 2006

95 Amores Perros 2000
U 96 Morvern Callar 2002
U 97 Sympathy for Lady Vengeance 2005
VL 98 Crash 2004
NL 99 Battle Royale 2000
L 100 The Devil Wears Prada 2006